The Haunted House Assignment, OR How I Made An Assignment About Organization Rosters Into A Humorous Horror Parody

Characters:

• Foxcrow
• Mr. Bones
• PumpKin
• Honky the Clown

Inspirations For The Spooky Characters:

• Foxcrow: Foxcrow was just a funny image I found online while looking for pictures of scarecrows, and he really decided the tone of the rest of the assignment. While most of his bio was made up on the spot, the aspect of him being possessed by one of the founders of the "company" was inspired by William Afton, the main villain of the Five Nights At Freddy's horror franchise.
• Additionally, the "levitating cyan orbs" it mentions are Hitodama, the Japanese equivalent of ghosts, who are often depicted as taking the form of or being surrounded by glowing ghostly orbs.
• The Fire of '92 is a reference to the Bite Of '87, a pivotal event in the aforementioned FNAF series where a person was bitten in the head by a rogue animatronic, with many of the finer details being left vague.
• Mr. Bones: Mr. Bones was where I started nailing down the tone of an organization which will deny things with a comical degree of specificity. While Mr. Bones himself doesn't really get much character outside of being a totally-not-Tulpa, I feel as though the site wouldn't be the same without him.
• The "Insectoid Vampires" mentioned in the line about the haunted house are an idea I had once for vampires based on mosquitos instead of bats. Not the most pleasent of ideas, but an interesting one nonetheless.
• The American Paranormal Research Association, or A.P.R.A. for short, would definitely get fleshed out more if this were a web series or something, which would probably be hilarous.
• PumpKin: PumpKin is heavier on the denail side of the theme than the humor, since his description is 70% disclaimer. I wanted to give the feeling of a seemingly benign plant creature that has to be constantly trimmed and fed to keep it from overrunning and consuming the entire park.
• His name is a pun on "Pumpkin", the big orange ball plants, and "Kin" a word that denotes some sort of familial or biological relation. He is essentially a "nasty big brother" to the common pumpkin.
• His "afterfact" also mentions a co-founder again. To hammer home that something is not right with this establishment.

• Honky The Clown: Honky is a special one, since I (technically) made him. With an AI art generator. Neat, huh? Again, like Bones, Honky isn't really that star of his section because I was being lazy and wanted real short descriptions. It mostly focuses on the "Mirror Creatures", which I think would be a cool idea for a horror thing featuring a house of mirrors.
• And also again, we see some kind of whiplash to very specific denail. Especially since the exorcism bit implies the Mirror Creatures are some kind of demonic entity or entities. Spooky stuff.
• If this page is for 2023, than either Honky is 58 at least or immortal, and I don't think we'll ever really know.