koholint | The Amazing "What the Actual What, Kaito?" Test Drive

This is a general test drive post for two (2) characters from The Amazing World of Gumball.

...Yes, really.

.....I know.........

I wanna see which one is flowing the best before doing further, more specific tests.

The characters are:

Carrie Krueger, 12 (for all intents and purposes). An emo ghost enrolled in junior high school who likes horror, punk rock, and scaring or otherwise trolling people. She can be kind of gloomy and snarky, though she does have a soft spot or two that she (usually) tries to hide. In spite of this, Carrie seems to get along with most people easily enough. She has several powers, abilities, and limitations as a ghost, and the rules for them are super inconsistent.

Rob, 13. Just Rob. A cyclops and former junior high school student who now looks like a broken, glitchy 3D model due to some rare Gumball Spoilers. He's been forced to become the villain even though he didn't really want to be, but his feelings about that have helped him do all right in the part. Rob has been through a lot of suffering and is often in a bad mood. He's the only one who knows he lives in a TV show.

As for prompts:

1. The Plot — Time to be sneaky! With Carrie, you're probably trying to execute some sort of prank, weaseling your way to something you want, or possibly even trying to help someone behind their backs. Whatever it is, having a ghost on your side sounds like a big benefit. She can cause spooky things to happen, use spells, make potions, warp places and take people with her, pop in front of people, possess them, and what she doesn't know she'll look up online. Just be warned that she has a bad habit of binge-eating junk food while possessing someone if given the opportunity.

Rob is more suited to things that are elaborate and with darker goals. Even if your final intentions are good, the path there is nefarious. You'd probably like to destroy someone, get revenge, manipulate people to your benefit, or just change something. He's used to planning things by himself, but he'll help you out this time. Just...remember that he's not always great at this and many of his plans are cartoony and ridiculous. Also his conscience occasionally gets in the way.

2. The Mall — You're out for some shopping, food, a movie, whatever! Maybe you even meant to go there with one of these two, maybe you ran into them. Since the Elmore Mall seems to have about every type of non-"adult" commercial establishment out there, from grocery and hardware stores, to diners, to arcades and more, numerous possibilities will not seem weird to either of them at any shopping establishment. Try to make Rob have some fun! Try to figure out what a ghost needs to shop for! Or do whatever!

3. The Cliché — You know those totally ridiculous problems that make for great humorous test threads? Kitchen mishaps, problems understanding technology in a new world leading to disaster, losing someone's treasured possession, animal antics, etc.? Yep, one has happened to your character and, as it goes in these situations, you need some help. Luckily, either of your options are from the same world as the Watterson family, so this just Thursday to them. It probably doesn't even border what they know as crazy, so lending a hand isn't out of the question.

Or, do your own thing! They are from a notoriously nerdy, censor-pushing, silly animated sitcom set in the modern world which happens to be full of literally all types of characters, but these two in particular are also featured in some of the darker episodes.

I have a toplevel for each of them to ~~spare my inbox~~ organize things.