Betelgeuse

## RP Status

### Status

Deceased  (in mortal plain) Active  (in land of the dead, but is able to be summoned to the real world)

### Current Player

Henry\_the\_idiot#3499

> *"What are your qualifications?"*
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> *"Ah. Well... I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during THAT. I've seen the EXORCIST ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY SINGLE TIME I SEE IT!! NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT YOU'RE TALKING TO A DEAD GUY! NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK?! You think I'm qualified?"*
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> *―Adam and Beetlejuice*
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**Beetlejuice** (less known as his actual name: **Betelgeuse**, which is pronounced in the same way) is a trickster and mischievous ghost. His true name is unknown, having been dead for at least 500 years it is neigh impossible to trace back his true origins.

Beetlejuice is usually a Bio-Excorcist, however in general he enjoys tricking people into saying his name 3 times allowing him to enter the real world and cause havoc. He tends to do this by giving promises to people and only half-going though with keeping them.

## Biography

### Pre-Death

#### Education and Travel

Betelgeuse attended Julliard, is a Harvard Business School graduate, has travelled widely, and has lived during the Black Plague, according to Betelgeuse (and had a pretty good time during that). He's already seen "The Exorcist" 167 times (and it gets funnier with each viewing, not to mention the fact that they're conversing with a dead man). Parts of his credentials, such as his attendance at Julliard, Harvard graduation, and frequent travel, are also real-life achievements. It's likely that Betelgeuse was lying to the Maitlands about some aspects of his past for comic effect.

#### Factual Life

What is known for certain, is that Betelgeuse was once Juno's assistant (which implies he committed suicide in life since working for her counts as being a civil servant.) but he was a troublemaker. He went out on his own as a freelance bio-exorcist, claiming he could get rid of the living, and got into more trouble. Also ironically, he is "Living-Buster"--a ghost who exterminates the living by scaring them away.

### Post-Death

To get the Maitlands, a dead family he met who'd had their house bought by a family known as the Deeztes, to employ him as a "bio-exorcist" to get rid of the Deetzes, Betelgeuse used ads (such as posters, business cards, and a commercial in which he said some questionable things about chewing and swallowing). They found the lack of an address or phone number on the business card and flyers was strange. The Maitlands summoned him when they learn that he can be summoned if his name is said 3, this didn't have to be in a row or in any particular order.

Things soon went downward when Betelgeuse started scaring the Deetzes in ways that seriously harmed them, and even worse, plans to marry Lydia (the Deetzes' 15 year old daughter) as his way of "escaping" the Neitherworld so he can wreak further havoc. Fortunately, saying his name 3 times can also be used to get rid of him, which was done by Lydia to trap him back in the Neitherworld.

### Present Day

Betelgeuse currently lives in the Neitherworld, causing havoc for it's inhabitants and still has plans to escape and cause trouble in the real world, being willing to do anything and everything to accomplish this goal.

## Personality

Betelgeuse is a very rude, crude, and perverted ghost. He also gets a little crazy at times. I is clear he is not a pleasant person to have around in real life, as he constantly invades people's personal space (even to the point of sexual harassment), does disgusting things like spitting in his own coat and makes rather rude gestures. Also, he likes to use vulgar language in nearly every sentence he speaks. Not only that, he seems to love to scare people pull pranks on them. He also seems to be quite selfish, as his main goal being to lift his curse and escape no matter who gets hurt in the process. He has the attitude of a sleazy used car salesman. Ironically, he is a corpse who eats insects, including flies and beetles.

Beetlejuice could be 600 years old as derived from his line after scaring the Deetzes (a family he's met) as a snake implied “I'm feeling a little anxious, if you know what I mean, It's been about 600 years.” Although his age has never been officially confirmed this line could be the best approximation of his age, which would make his birth at the time of the movie somewhere around mid 1300 A.D if he died in his 30’s.

## Physical Appearance

Betelgeuse, in his standard form, is a 5 foot 10 inch tall, 158 pound, male. Due to him being dead, the ghost has formed moss around the edge of his face and his hands, a dead white skin tone and large black marks around his eyes. Betelgeuse also has bright green hair, however sometimes it can look darker depending on where he is. The man, however, can change his form to anything he wishes, although he usually sticks to his regular form when with people.

In terms of clothing, Betelgeuse can change his appearance to anything he likes, however he appears to usually wear his signature white and black striped suit along which a white shirt, black skull tie and black boots.

## Powers and Abilities

Betelgeuse has a vast number of abilities, his powers being more or less endless. However the ones that are known for sure are:

* Reality warping
* Invulnerability
* Levitation / Flight
* Regeneration
* Shape-shifting
* Teleportation (Himself and others)
* Can conjure / summon objects
* Possession
* Can mimic people's voices
* Ventriloquism
* Telekinesis

## Weaknesses

Betelgeuse's only known weakness is the fact that he can be just as easily summoned as he can be cast away back into the underworld, meaning if you say his name 3 times in a row he shall be sucked out of the mortal world. Other than this fact, he is seemingly unstoppable.

## Equipment

Betelgeuse uses no permanent equipment, only using what is to hand around him or anything he conjures. The only thing he technically owns is his own Grave Stone, marking his grave where his body slumbers.

## Relationships

### Friends

Betelgeuse has no close friends on record as of yet.

### Enemies

* Juno - The previous boss of Betelgeuse
* Most of the Mortal World

## Trivia

* Betelgeuse is said to have attended Julliard University.
* Betelgeuse has also lived though the Black Plague.
* Betelgeuse has said to have travelled a lot in his prior life.
* Betelgeuse committed suicide when he hung himself over a woman when he was drunk - and that he botched the job and ended up suffocating painfully instead of a quick snapped neck.
* Betelgeuse has seen an exorcist 167 times and according to him: "it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it.".
* It's implied he was involved before as there's a severed finger with a ring in his pocket. He remarks, "I'm tellin' ya', honey! She meant nothing to me! Nothing at all!".