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HAHAHAHA THATS HILARIOUS OH MY GOD I LOVE THAT
Okay i lied, I'm gonna keep spamming your inbox with bbc/hc ghosts (if that's alright with you)
I JUST WATCHED THE EPISODE WHERE THE PREHISTORIC GUY LEARNS ABOUT THE MOONLANDING AND. I WAS SO EXCITED AT FIRST CAUSE I THOUGHT ITD BE RLY CUTE, BUT THEN HE LEARNED ABOUT CONSPIRACY THEORIES????
I feel like thatd fit bdubs so well too. Just like in the show, hed watch some sorta conspiracy, and then ends up obsessing over it. Or something supernatural. Maybe he'll start thinking that etho is a vampire or something and get scared.
Or... Or mumbo gets into the conspiracies. Im thinking of the no-sleep moon club in hc s8 specifically. Either bdubs goes down the rabbit hole first, then tells mumbo about it, who gets terrified and almost has another heart attack, or mumbo finds out about it first and believes it, even tho he really should know better considering he died so recently. (idk why but I feel like mumbo would definitely fall for a conspiracy. Not bc hes silly, just because hes so anxious, even the possibility of it being true makes him freak out so much he just HAS to make sure nothing happens.)
Either way, mumbo ends up refusing to sleep, either bc he has nightmares, or bc he like. Heard about some moon big conspiracy from Bdubs and now thinks the moon will get jealous if he sleeps-
wait. The moon getting jealous? Isn't that just. The my little pony plot. Is. Is hermitcraft season8 a my little pony au??? Wait what.
(if i sound insane ive just been writing a historical paper for 10 hours straight, just pretend this makes sense if it doesn't)
Honestly. Real. I could see some shit like this happening. I'm half imagining Cleo being involved somehow. Like. Actually I can imagine Joel watching some wacky conspiracy show for shits and giggles. Bdubs, Cleo, and Mumbo are all watching over his shoulder. Bdubs who has been largely unexposed to a lot of things happening outside the UK over the years is a little gullible about it, and Mumbo, the know it all that he is, has to keep correcting things. Cleo, who just wants to enjoy the show, makes up something ridiculous about the moon to fuck with them and scare them off for awhile and things get. Incredibly out of hand over the span of a week. Cleo tries to tell them she lied but they're in too deep to believe her. They all end up having to stage some kind of ritual to appease the moon to get the two of them to shut up about it and go back to normal
OH MY GOD THATS AMAZING!!! I LOVE YOUR IDEA!!!
I hope you dont mind me rambling about bbc ghosts in your inbox, but i just watched episode 5, where a rich guy tries to get them to pay him money bc a small part of their land belongs to him
And… i feel like u could use sth like that for mumbo. Like have someone he knows get involved with them somehow and some problem arises that he ends up helping them with, by giving them some sorta info about the person
I love the idea of Mumbo just knowing like. so many people. that he ends up being useful when Grian and Joel end up in random situations. I'm half imagining him being like Tahani from The Good Place, where he's like constantly name-dropping famous people casually, but like less intentionally. He was running a big tech startup back in the late 90s early 2000s he's just met a shit ton of famous people, and half of them weren't famous yet when he knew them.
Now I'm laughing at the idea of him having weird personal connections to modern tech bros, just. "What, Elon? That prick from paypal? HE DOES /WHAT/ NOW???"
But yeah I could totally imagine him like recognizing some real-estate mogul or contractor or something they end up in business with and saving them some headaches. As bad as he was at business he's got to have at least known enough to earn his success before everything fell apart
OHHHH OH NEW IDEA. Mumbo had to have some kind of financial staff who allowed for all the finance crime he accidentally did to happen without warning him. Maybe for their own gain. Now I'm imagining Grian and Joel hiring a financial advisor or consultant or something to help them try to handle the house and it's the same guy that fucked up Mumbo's finances and kind of indirectly led to the heart attack that killed him. Mumbo is happy just to warn them and sulk about it a bit, but Grian cooks up some scheme with the other ghosts to get back at him to try to cheer Mumbo up. Chaos ensues.