Shaggy Rogers

## Background

### 1996 - 2012: Shaggy Rogers

Born to Sheriff Samuel Rogers & his wife Wendy on a winter night, Norville "Shaggy" Rogers is the only son from the two. His younger years were mostly uneventful. His father was the sheriff of their hometown, Coolsville & his mother stayed home with Shaggy. When he was nine, his mother suddenly abandoned the two & left divorce papers with Shaggy to give his father after school one day. Shaggy's father began to overcompensate for his wife's disappearance & allowed Shaggy to do as he pleased to make him happy. A few years after his mother left, his father married Janet Nettles, a member of the city council. Shortly after the two married, Janet gave birth to a son. Shaggy quickly became jealous of his brother, believing he was taking all of his father's attention. In return, his father went to the Knittingham Puppy Farm & adopted a dog which Shaggy named Scooby.

### 2012 - 2014: Shaggy Rogers

Scooby quickly became Shaggy's best friend & essentially his only one. After his parents had another son, Shaggy fell into a group of no-do-gooders & became using drugs to ease his mind. Other than the occasional weed use, Shaggy was a good kid. He got decent grades, ran on the track team & was a top member of the gymnastics team. But after his father caught him with his friends one night, he shifted in his father's eyes from golden boy to a blemish on his career.

Things got worse between the two until Shaggy ended up in detention, where he made some new friends with the quarterback, the kid genius & the popular girl. After helping two hunters solve a ghost mystery, the four of them & Scooby began solving mysteries. Shaggy's father saw the good influence they had on his son & he encouraged him to hang out with them. When Shaggy constantly went on road trips with his new friends, his father wouldn't bat an eye. For the next two years, Shaggy came to consider his newfound friends to be his family. But the family was broken up when the gang graduated. Fred, Daphne & Velma were going off to college while Shaggy elected to take a year off.

### 2014 - 2017: Shaggy Rogers

Shaggy stayed in town for another year, working various odd jobs around Coolsville. But when it was time for school to start back up, Shaggy decided he just didn't want to go. After a particular bad argument with his father, he got in the Mystery Machine & drove off with Scooby in the passenger seat. What started as a simple escape from an argument turned into a long term road trip. The two saw many cities, tried different foods & worked random jobs to keep some money in their pockets. By sheer luck, Shaggy ended up crossing paths with the Hex Girls, a popular all female band. Upon meeting him, the three woman could feel his magical potential & made him an offer: come on tour with them as their roadie & they would teach how to use his powers. He quickly accepted, finding this supposed "potential" to be intersting.

After some months with him & many magical accidents, the girls knew they didn't have what it took to teach him what he needed. So after they finished a concert on the east coast, they dropped Shag & Scoob in Gotham to visit their old teacher, Zatanna. Though older than the other students at Mystik U, Zatanna agreed to take him on. Shaggy spent the next months learning under the likes of Zatanna, Constantine, Xanadu & Faust. But despite all these amazing teachers, he still lacked the focus to become a great sorcerer. Feeling defeated, he decided to leave Gotham.

### 2017 - Present: Shaggy Rogers

Before he left, he (literally) bumped into a woman named Rachel Valentine. She was a reporter for the Gotham Gazette that was coming to interview Zatanna about her upcoming show but quickly became more fascinated with Shaggy. The two hit it off & Shaggy postponed his departure for a day to go on a date that night. Shaggy continued to postpone his departure for the next year until he received a call from Fred, asking him if him & Scooby could come down to St. Roch to surprise Daphne for his birthday. Hearing from his old friend made him remember why he wanted to leave town in the first place. When Shaggy went to go tell Rachel & break up with her, she beat him to the punch as she met someone new. Though crushed, Shaggy & Scooby packed their bags to head down south.

Meeting up with old friends & solving a mystery case felt so good that the gang decided to stick together & make it a permanent thing again. For the last few years, the gang has driven around the country to find & take care of any monsters they come across. However, Shaggy & Scooby may need some Scooby Snacks to do so.

## Romantic Relationships

* Hex Girls (Thorn, Dusk & Luna): Lovers (2016 - 2017)
* Rachel "Googie" Valentine: Girlfriend (2017 - 2018)
* Crystal Milo: Girlfriend (2020 - )

## Powers & Abilities

* **Homo Magi Physiology:** While Shaggy has a massive potential in the world of magic, he has yet to actually master many things other some rituals. He is able to manipulate energy to a variety of effects but usually needs a spell book to help him be precise with these skills. Though he has the potential to do many things, he mostly uses them to shoot energy bolts, form energy shields with high durability & levitate.
* **Acrobatics:** Shaggy is quite athletic & was actually known as the best gymnast in school.
* **Aviation:** He is able to fly a plane.
* **Disguise:** Shaggy has disguise & ventriloquism skills. He has dressed up as Daphne & Scooby on at least one occasion. He is also capable of doing certain vocal impressions
* **Extreme Metabolism:** Shaggy also has an enormous appetite, being able to eat in tremendously large quantities at a time.
* **Investigation:** Over time, Shaggy has also developed some impressive solving skills while working with with Mystery Inc.
* **Music:** He is a skilled musician, having picked up on some things from his time with the Hex Girls. He knows how to play the electric guitar, the drums & the keyboards.

### Weaknesses

* **Gluttony:** Shaggy is perpetually hungry. Fred likes to say that Shaggy has the matabolism of a speedster.
* **Navigation:** He has a terrible sense of direction & is terrible with geography.
* **Scooby Snacks:** Shaggy will do just about anything for a scooby snack.
* **Combat:** Shaggy is the least adept in hand to hand combat, resulting in the rest of the gang having to occassionally save him.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Strength:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Speed:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Occult:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Weapons:** 2 - Impaired / Below Average
* **Range:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Strategy:** 2 - Impaired / Below Average
* **Combat:** 2 - Impaired / Below Average
* **TOTAL:** Unknown

## Trivia

* Him & Velma have never officially dated but have hooked up various times.
* He has his own personal sandwich called the Super Shaggy Sandwich. It is a double triple-decker sardine & marshmallow fudge sandwich.
* Velma is currently helping him with his powers as she is quite knowledgeable in the field of occult.
* Shaggy has said that his time with the Hex Girls was some of the best times of his life. He was engaged in relationship with all three of the women, which is not uncommon the magical community.

## Notes

* Shaggy Rogers is a character from Scooby Doo & its related media.
* Crystal is a character from the movie *Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders*. Her last name comes from her voice actress, Candi Milo.
* In most continuities, its clear that Shaggy is somewhat the "weak link" of the group. Velma is the brains, Fred is the brawn & Daphne is skilled in combat. To not make it as much of gap between their abilities, I've decided to follow in roysovitch's steps & make him a member of the homo magi line.
* Rachel "Googie" Valentine is composite of two of Shaggy's exes, Rachel & Googie. The last names comes from the episode, *A Scooby-Doo Valentine*, of *What's New, Scooby-Doo?*
* His father is a composite with Sheriff Bronson Stone from *Mystery Incorporated*.