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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.

Do you have any more headcanons on Hellen Gravely? Like after the events of LM3 and if she ever gets on semi ok terms with Luigi?

I have two very different headcanons as to what happens, though I strongly believe in one of them. I’m gonna state the other one anyways because I think it could be an interesting story idea (that I’ll probably never write ;v; )

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The headcanon that I strongly believe in is that after the events of LM3 Hellen is locked up and kept away from anyone and anything for a long time- (Until she somehow manages to escape because let’s be real here E. Gadd sucks at containing ghosts and they’ll all escape eventually) and she will forever hate Luigi and there is a slim to no chance she’ll ever be redeemed of given the chance at redemption.She hates Luigi because he didn’t get captured and he ruined her chances of impressing/getting with King Boo, and to top it all off he ruined her beautiful hotel and now that old coot runs the place and in her opinion, the hotel looks like garbage now that she’s not in control of the place.

Now in her inevitable escape, she’ll go after Luigi again (Though whether she’s still tagging along with King Boo or is working independently is up in the air) though she probably wouldn’t show up as frequently as a villain as opposed to King Boo because all of her hotel staff most likely wouldn’t follow after her and she doesn’t have any minions outside of maybe a few common ghosts who didn’t want to stick around after they were freed when the hotel collapsed.

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Now my second idea is that-

Hellen is given a second chance to redeem herself because “Everyone deserves a second chance!” and she’s allowed to live “””Freely””” in the hotel, but she is not allowed to run it, and no one has to listen too her. She’s at first upset about this, and pretty much fights for control over the hotel, but is forced into submission or she’ll go back to her glass prison, so she begrudgingly hands over control of the hotel to E. Gadd. 

At first she struggles immensely to adjust to these chances as she’s so used to everyone doing everything for her and she gets pissed when no one does her stuff anymore, and it’s not helped by the fact that most of the ghost staff doesn’t like her, and don’t see the point to letting her out in the first place so honestly, no one’s having a good time.

But Luigi, being the nice guy that he is, tries to help at least get Hellen on good terms with the other ghosts, and hoo boy, she resist this notion HARD. But after lots of convincing, talking and maybe some bribery involved, Hellen is at least neutral to the ghost staff. And her relationship with Luigi? Oh, she still hates him. But at least she doesn’t try to immediately murder the little puke as soon as he enters the same room she’s in.