I hate hate HATE all those 2edgy 4me theories about kids shows. Like Angelica dreaming up the rugrats, or the ed, edd, and eddy children being ghosts, or literally anything that takes a lighthearted and fun kids show and has to turn it into some tragic take of rape or murder or misinformed mental illness.
So you know what? From now on I’m gonna do the exact opposite. Every cool grim-dark show is now because of a bunch of children. To get us started:
Game of Thrones: A middle-school DnD campaign with the most angry, vindictive DM who has promised to kill everyone’s player characters (and their family) by the end.
The Walking Dead is actually a bunch of kids playing zombie apocalypse in their neighborhood and every time someone “dies,” it’s because their parents called them home for supper.
Breaking Bad is actually just a fanfic the students in Mr. White’s class write about him because no one has any idea what he does with his free time and the running jokes about it got wildly out of hand.
These are all officially my headcanons for the actual shows now
some friends wanted to RP, but half of them wanted to do FBI crime fighting adventures and half of them wanted to do mad scientist sci-fi. eventually one of them said ‘why not both?’ and Fringe was born.
timeline shenanigans and duplicate characters happened because some people played other people’s oc’s while they were busy or out of town, and then didn’t want to give them back. the big timeskip happened because they got stuck on plot and decided to do a future au to loosen up, with precisely the sort of results that decision usually gets you.