Thinking About The Time When, Around A Week After Tender Treats Came Out, A Candy Store Almost Identical

Thinking about the time when, around a week after Tender Treats came out, a candy store almost identical to candy club, but smaller, opened down the street from my house and the one time I went in there the only employee there was basically a female Kevin and as I left I noticed a windowless white van parked across the street.I saw said van around the neighborhood until it vanished in January. The store shut down in January. I am not making any of this up.

It also makes Roy dressing up as a rapper weirdly wholesome. My boy is a theater kid and just doesn't know it yet. Love him. Cherish him. Give him all the good vibes.

On the topic of secret endings, it pisses me off that no one cares that, in the photo on John's cork board, Roy's uncle is holding an award that looks kind of like and Emmy (hope I spelled that right), which confirms to me that Roy's family are in show business.

Yeah I remember that reward! I low-key didn't think about it being show business, my thoughts basically stopped at "Huh this dude who's a disgusting evil monster also seems to be well accomplished and charismatic, guess that fits with the rest of Roy's family"

Now that I think about it I love the idea of Roy's family being like, rich snobby theatre people or whatever, that's awesome

So me and @the-spooky-children were talking about Roy's family being in showbizz and the idea of Carmen being an actress gave me the idea of her having her own wellness brand and, considering i HC their last name being Levinson, if she went the Gwenyth Paltrow route and named her brand her initials with 2 o-s then it would literally be called COOL.

Anyways, I think I've got the spooky brain worms.

I saw your ask to @the-spooky-children about John having lollipops in his mouth bc he was copying CD, and it reminded me of a lil headcanon I have that the Candy Dealer used to smoke, but quit and uses suckers/lollipops as a replacement

Combining both would make a cool parallel between them I think

What a coinicidink, yeah, that would be a pretty clever mirroring for them. If you got any other hcs for the candy dealer, feel free to send em in, I fucking love that gangly freak

Thanks, I'm not sure what this info could tell us in terms of theory crafting, but I still feel it's worth keeping in the back of the community's collective mind.

I just realized that we don't know exactly when the secret ending to Tender Treats takes place and that there's no date on Dexter's file from the ARG. Why does this matter? Because there is still a missing person alert for him as we see during the episode. This means one of two things. Either the secret ending and ARG file take place much later than we thought OR they take place shortly after the ending and the mayor is trying to prevent panic by making it seem like they're still looking for Dex

I was literally just thinking about the secret endings earlier, and that's a very smart and interesting observation!

I think, considering that Pump is rich and loves burning things and breaking things with hammers, Roy would probably see him as the little brother he never had.

I also ship Roy and Susie and I love the idea that, after they start dating, Roy starts joking calling Pump his "loser-in-law".

One more thing, both Roy and Susie absolutely watch Team Starkid musicals.

On the topic of secret endings, it pisses me off that no one cares that, in the photo on John's cork board, Roy's uncle is holding an award that looks kind of like and Emmy (hope I spelled that right), which confirms to me that Roy's family are in show business.

Yeah I remember that reward! I low-key didn't think about it being show business, my thoughts basically stopped at "Huh this dude who's a disgusting evil monster also seems to be well accomplished and charismatic, guess that fits with the rest of Roy's family"

Now that I think about it I love the idea of Roy's family being like, rich snobby theatre people or whatever, that's awesome