Casper the Friendly Ghost

## Casper

### Personalities

Friendly (of course), pure-hearted, loyal, honest, empathetic, generous and helpful

## Physical Information

### Powers and/or Abilities

Flight, invisibility, hollow transportation, shape-shift, intangibility, formation, some forms of magic, like spirit blast for example

### Talents

Music (includes singing and playing instruments), dance and almost anything else

## Student Information

### Least Favorite Subject

Scare education (SE)

Casper is the very first ghost ever whose goal is to be friendly towards everyone he sees. But every time he tries to do so, everyone gets scared and runs away from him because of his appearance. This has been going on for 2 centuries after his tragic death. Luckily for him, he has already made friends with **Wendy**, **Hot Stuff**, and others. Not only that, he has also been recognized as a hero and misidentified as something or someone else mainly by children. Heck, every time he shows up, Richie Rich thinks that he's asleep and dreaming. Well, maybe it's best not to tell him he's not really dreaming and asleep. The same exact result Casper deals with all the time will happen if Richie was told that.

Anyway, he's a little ghost of many talents, but he can only do several things he's capable to do. At Harvey Monster School, Casper has been casted a lot of times by **Mr. Spooksfear**, the drama teacher, featured as an instrumental soloist by **Mr. Stepp**, the band teacher, and **Mr. Schwaltz**, the orchestra teacher, and a vocal soloist by **Mrs. Song**, the chorus teacher. He's that special. He's also a straight-A student, like Wendy, **Zelda** and **Allisen**. He has been known as the teacher's pet because he cares about how he does in school and always tries his hardest to please the teachers and staff.

## A Free Spirit

When school was out for spring break, Casper couldn't take any more of being bossed around and expected to participate in scare raids by the Ghostly Trio. He put his foot down and called his nice aunt named Softy for help and asked her if he could live with her since he was getting sick and tired off the terrible abuse he had to put up with every day. Willingly, Softy was able to get a restraining order against the Ghostly Trio for domestic violence toward him for a long time. A few days later, justice was served and Softy now has full custody of Casper. Thank goodness Casper is not expected to become a mean little ghost by the Ghostly Trio anymore since he is in Softy's tender and loving care from now on. He's now living in another abandoned house except that it's bigger than the last one he moved out from.

As for the Ghostly Trio, they are forbidden to visit Casper ever again for how they were treating him all these years, so they already found another abandoned house to haunt not too long ago. It feels funny that he isn't living with them anymore.

## Star of the Show

Before attending at Harvey Monster School, he dealt with being given mean pills by the Ghostly Trio at least twice. He pretended to be extremely mean to them by doing very mean things, mainly to teach them a lesson: never try to change his friendly ways. It fooled them really well since he never took those mean pills. It happened the same exact way but he was under a mean spell by the same three ghosts. They got the worse results than the mean pill incident. Casper might have been truly affected by the spell instead of acting it out. Anyway, he is one heck of an actor when it comes to dealing with mean pills. He sure is no stranger to that situation. Now that he's a student at Harvey Monster School, the way he uses his mean pill acts immediately puts him in drama class. The reason why is that Mr. Shakesfear would definitely want Casper to use his mean pill acts as an acting method when it comes to playing a part as an antagonist or a wild and crazy type of character, but both Casper and Mr. Shakesfear make sure he doesn't overdo it. In musical numbers of some plays, Casper sometimes uses a little bit of that method while singing one or a few of them.

Mr. Shakesfear often casts him in the main roles of different plays. One of the famous examples is that he played the role of the Opera Phantom in *The* *Phantom* *of* *the* *Opera*. Even though the character he played was originally very vengeful, Casper tried to improvise it by requesting a permission to change the personality a tiny bit to make it not too frightening for the audience to handle. It changed from vengeful to misunderstood with Mr. Shakesfear and Mrs. Song's approval. Anyway, his performance was outstanding, especially when he sang in a few musical numbers. After the performance, he was given a bouquet of roses by Mrs. Song, and was asked to give out some autographs for the super excited audience. And ever since, his impressive talents along with his friendly personality, he's the most famously popular student in Harvey Monster School.

## The Sound of Boo-Pahing

In band class, Mr. Stepp has chosen the main instrument for Casper which is the tuba. That's because he believes that little guys can do big things too, and that's true. He's sometimes assigned to play other instruments, like the euphonium, the French horn, the trumpet, the clarinet, the flute, and some of the percussions like the piano, the xylophone and the other mallet instruments. That's a lot of instruments for a little ghost, and he's kind of overwhelmed by it. Looks like Mr. Stepp has overdone his instrumental assignments for Casper without realizing it. He tends to do that to him quite often. Anyway, he has more than 9 decades of experience in tuba playing. Since that instrument itself is the anchor of the band, he has the most important part to fill in. He's the perfect role model for a few other tuba players who are in band class.

Casper loves to play joyful songs on his tuba and other instruments. He has several favorite songs to play when playing each instrument. For example: he likes to play "You Are My Sunshine" on the clarinet, "Pop Goes the Weasel" on the xylophone, "Over the Rainbow" on the flute, "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" on the euphonium, "When the Saints Come Marching In" on the trumpet, and other songs on different instruments. His favorite is his signature friendly song on the tuba.

## When the Friendly Ghost Comes Marching In

During marching band season, he plays the sousaphone, which is exactly the same instrument as the tuba but in a circular appearance. Despite being a little ghost compared to it by size, it's for the exact reason Mr. Stepp believes. Surprisingly, Casper has enough strength to carry it on his left shoulder, especially while playing and marching on the football field during halftime or competitions. Even though most marching bands don't usually have sousaphone solos in their shows, this marching band sometimes does because of his tuba playing skills. He actually never wanted to take any part of marching almost all the time. But since he didn't wanna let Mr. Stepp and the whole band down, he agreed to do it.

The last time he had a sousaphone solo was when three students were drum majors. The whole band won several times in competitions due to Casper's sousaphone solo.

Though the sousaphone is the main instrument for Casper to play during marching band seasons, he sometimes plays other instruments too.

Overall, Casper prefers to play the tuba on stage instead of the sousaphone on the football field. He feels more comfortable sitting down rather than standing up and marching around while playing. He doesn't mind playing the sousaphone, as long as he isn't instructed to march to and fro too frequently. That may cause him to tire out in any minute. The only thing he likes about playing it is that he only gets to stand still and play it.

## Watching His Fingers Fly

In orchestra class, Mr. Schwaltz has assigned an instrument for Casper, which is the violin (sometimes the viola, the contrabass and the cello, but mostly violin) because he believes that he would help his fellow string mates form a flowing sound as a team. And that's also true since he likes to help others in any way. He has more than 6 decades of experience in violin playing, which explains his fast-flying fingers being extremely fast depending on the tempo. Casper has played many solos throughout most of his school after-years and won many competitions.

The most memorable moment of his violin playing is when he was requested by Mr. Schwaltz to play for the famous ghostly conductor (who is now retired), Mr. Gustav Geistro, on his death-day. That took place at the abandoned opera house. The song Casper played for him was "Death at Dawn" since **Mr. Geistro** did die in his sleep one morning. Several white roses were tossed to Casper after the honorary performance, even Mr. Schwaltz and Mr. Geistro loved it.

## The Voice of an Angel

In chorus class, Mrs. Song says that his singing voice is like a celestial angel whenever he sings, and his notes are in perfect pitch (well, there are some times when it's not quite perfect). She seriously admires the quality of his musical toning of his voice.

The most memorable moment of his singing is that Casper sang a song that was requested by Mrs. Song's husband (who happens to be the Phantom of the Opera's descendant and a vocal professor) named Christopher Song. The occasion for that was the 10th anniversary of the Song couple's marriage. The song Casper sang for them was "I Sing My Song". Mr. Song was deeply impressed by the quality of Casper's singing voice. He says that it was impressive enough for Casper to have a highest possibility to become the next Phantom of the Opera, but a friendly one. That was a remarkable compliment he was ever given from someone other than his teachers and friends.

When it comes to singing, his love interest named **Lou**, looks up to him for guidance and advice since her voice isn't exactly as pitched as his. Together, they sing very well in unison. They also sing great in parts, but they're still working on it since Lou still has a little bit of some pitch issues. Casper and Lou's first duet ever performed on stage was when they sang "The Dove of Love" after **Spooky** and **Pearl** sang "It's a Boo-tiful Night" on the Valentine's Day event of some sort.