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Do you have any general headcanons for Hellen Gravely? Like how she was before she died, how she died, and what she thinks of the other ghosts in the hotel?
I got an ask like this on my other sideblog, and was gonna answer it over there, but decided to answer this one here because it didn’t really relate to what was posted there, but I’ll probably reblog it there as well, anyways-
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Hellen in her life was, shock of all shocks, a hotel owner- Though it wasn’t the Last Resort, that came later into her afterlife. She owned a rich and expensive hotel which fell into disrepair after she died and was demolished soon after. She lived close by to this hotel with her cat, Misty (AKA Polterkitty, before Polterkitty died she was this beautiful gray cat)
Hellen died in a car crash; She was returning home from the vet with Misty because she had to have her vaccines updated and she was hit by a drunk driver and her, and little Misty were killed on impact (So was the driver if you were wondering).
After she passed she left the town she lived in and created the Last Resort with the money she took with her after death, and the residents of the Last Resort slowly came about; with Steward, Chambrea, Clem and Chef Soulfflé being the first to occupy the place, though people like Kruller and Morty (And Amadeus) followed quickly after.
Hellen has an ok relationship with her staff. She doesn’t completely hate them, but she doesn’t care too much for them. She’s got the mentality of -
“They’re idiots, but they’re MY idiots!”
Same could be said for the little Goob staff as well, but she’s got ‘closer’ relations to the boss ghost themselves.
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Also related to this, the face Hellen has when she doesn’t have enough makeup? I don’t think that’s her real face. Her real face is the one we see, just with a little less makeup (And a couple of wrinkles, I think she was 44 when she died). All her life Hellen thought she was ugly compared to the other women around her, so she used makeup to cover up and hide her ‘real face’ and hid her true emotions and ideals so that she would be accepted by society. And these thoughts and mentality carried over when she died, and it manifested into a real thing as a ghost.