Jan 2024 Edit: There may be a weird glitch where not all of the Werepoodle Diaries may pop up normally through the usual way of looking through older posts. There has been a post made to correct that so they can all be viewed in order easier. Also, please check out the weebly version for these as I had issues setting them up on blogger but the weebly counterpart makes them look in the more preferable and less “messy” manner. The DA links also do not work anymore, reasons explained later on the blog, and only stick around simply because I do not feel like editing it.
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(The copied text for this really glitched out for this one for some reason, so sorry if anything makes it look weird. I spent a while trying to fix it as much as I could and spent way too much time on trying to fix it than I would have preferably liked.)
Betty Boop’s Werepoodle Diaries: Ghost Huntin'
Dear Diary, Betty Boop here to say me and my pals are on another mission. Another mission you may ask? What is this? Well, while me and my friends, Bimbo and Koko are part time actors appearing in things such as obscure and cult classic films, part time musicians who love playing some sweet jazz and having different other part times of our own, we are also part time monster/baddie hunters!
Now, I gotta mention it is a known fact that being a monster hunter pays very good money in this world filled to the brim with them, but unlike some, we wanna make it known that not all monsters are bad monsters and we focus on going after bad guys of any kind too! Even those who may use and abuse monsters for their own evil gain! While Bimbo is just a dog-boy, me and Koko are both monsters of different varieties! As you know I am a werepoodle after all but Koko is like this weird but cool clown sorta goo liquid monster mixture sort of thing. I find it awesome!
Grampy, as a both renowned inventor and scientist, is often making many machines and weaponry and may send it out to people, who either ask or commission them, to make more dough. He's made quite a fortune off of many of the wacky inventions he's made but he often has to use the money to make more stuff. He has several colleagues and associates, such as those in the monster hunting business, and has trained me and Bimbo as his proteges as we both got good skill and guts to be in it. While he may at times be more focused on his clown career, Koko joins in for additional support, cause he's our good buddy and his monster abilities are pretty helpful.
Grampy gathered us all at his hideout to announce our next mission. "Alright boys and girl! Today there have been several requests to look into a certain creepy home, down at this avenue, because it's been infested with ghostly foes who keep killing a bunch of people but no one had the guts to kill 'em yet nor responded to the request. Since you fellas have what it takes, are ya willing to go on this mission?" He said while pointing at one of his super cool high tech screen thingies. "Yeah sure thing! You can count on us Grampy!" I said with confidence and Bimbo and Koko nodded in agreement.
"Good. Now remember kids, reports say these ghosts are semi-tangible. Just to be safe, Bimbo, since you're the multi-weapons guy here, I'm gonna ask you to carry the ghost capturing device. When they aren't tangible you need to grab 'em with the device but when they are, be sure to whack em." Bimbo gladly took the device. "Okay, Colonel!" He replied with his usual phrase. "Now Betty, Koko, I want you to use any monster abilities you've got to combat the supernatural influence of the ghosts. Ain't sure what types of ghosts we're dealing with, but they sure ain't pleasant." Both of us gave a thumbs up.
"Great, now the bounty on them is a total of around $5,000-" "FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS?" We all shouted. "Let me finish! Yep $5,000 but you're all gonna have to split it to hmm… lemme see here…$1666.66666667 each." "Aww." We all pouted but were still up to take the job. "Anyways now, hurry up and go take the bounty! I got some work to do and a little pet here to feed." Pudgy was rubbing against Grampy to ask him for food, he was so cute. I picked him up and kissed him on the forehead. "Bye Pudgy, mama's out on another mission. I hope you eat some good food when I get back home!" He replied with a little "ruff" and me and the gang went out.
Like a cool action scene, like really cool, Bimbo got out several of his weapons hidden under his sweater, Koko got out some clown equipment… infused with his deadly goo, and I got out my weaponized microphone. It was once just a normal microphone I use for my singing career, but Grampy upgraded it to be more cool and weaponized. I use it like a staff or naginata! "Alright fellas, let's take these ghosties down." I said and we walked off all cool and awesomely.
As we got down to the haunted place we looked around. "Heh, this whole block looks disheveled. Guess these ghosts got to people really bad or scared 'em off and left their places to rot. Well, nothing we can't handle right guys?" I said with confidence. "Ah-huh, just… one thing…” Bimbo said, rather concerned. “How the hell are we going to get up all the way there?” He said while pointing up at a door at a really really large height. “Oh…” I replied. “Don’t worry guys I’ll just stretch us up there.” Koko said as he grabbed us both and used his stretchy liquid physiology to get us up and open the door. “Thanks pal!” Me and Bimbo shouted. “You’re welcome.” Koko said as we walked in and his form became more solid.
It was a bit dark inside but we still walked in. “Haha perks of having some good ol’ night vision.” I said while stupidly closing to blink my eyes and then opening them again. “Wait now, I can’t see.” Bimbo tried to take out his flashlight but it wasn’t working and then it shattered. “Fuck.” He said angrily. “Uh guys? I think we’re about to-” Koko said as several luminescent ghosts grabbed us and shoved us down like several stories below. Of course, we all went “AAAAAAAAH!” then stopped as we got down. It was like the building was larger on the inside as the world looked more like the size of an entire street than even a large hallway. Many ghosts were flying everywhere and many dead bodies were scattered around.
“Hey look, some truly DISGUSTING looking fleshies!” One of the ghosts said while glaring at us. “Actually, and well technically, I’m not made out of what one may call flesh.” Koko said calmly, correcting the ghost. “Silence! We don’t care! You’re all gonna be dead meat when we’re done with you anyways!” We all sorta gulped but kept our composure cause we weren’t all that scared just a lil worried what would come next. The ghosts gathered a bunch of silverware such as rusty spoons and sharp knives. “First, we’re gonna cook ya! And then we’re gonna eat ya! And the non-fleshy dude’s gonna become smoothie!” They all gathered around us.
The ghosts went a bit tangible as they were going towards us. “Alright, I’ve had enough of this shit, I just wanna be done with this and get my dough.” Bimbo said frustrated as he turned on the ghost capturing device. “No wait Bimbo it’s probably too soo-! Ah too late.” I said, trying to reach out at him. As it turned on it made a bit of a loud sound and then a bunch of the ghosts started quickly angrily swarming around us and looking more angry and demonic. It was like a storm of screaming banshees. It was absolutely chaotic.
As I’m still writing this I am trying to keep my grip on my diary as well as my pen and ink. Me and the others are currently ducking while covering our heads as we’re trying to see how to get out of this one. “Betty! What the fuck this isn’t a time to be writing in your diary right now you can do that later!” Bimbo shouted at me. “I’m sorry Bimbo but this is currently so scary and entertaining I wanna write it now!” Bimbo rushed towards me. “Ah, give me that! I’m sorry but you’re gonna have to write in that later!” He tried to get my book from me. “Ah, Bimbo NooOooOoOo!” I said still writing and now with my pen scratching on my paper a bit as he was tugging at me.
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Betty Boop here again, much much later. Luckily we’re still alive but it took me maybe about 24 hours, I dunno I can't tell how long it's been, to get back to writing this because a certain SOMEONE decided to take my book from me. “Hmph. You know I was only trying to help keep us all focused.” Bimbo said, hearing me shout as I wrote, then pouting and crossing his arms. So on one hand, it seemed the ghost capturing device actually worked and we managed to capture all the ghosts. Yay! But on the other hand, it seems we all got knocked out by a giant rock and now got abducted by and are stuck on the web of a giant spider. Not so yay. “Mwahaha, I’m going to eviscerate ALL OF YOU and feed you to my several babies hahaha.” The spider said disgustingly. “Ew.” I simply replied.
Bimbo took his knife out that he hid in his sleeve to cut himself free. He fell a long way down, as it was a big web, but luckily landed on his feet. “Shit, sorry I’ll get to you guys sooner or later!” He shouted at us. “No worries!” We yelled back. “You fool, what are you doing walking around when I have hundreds and I mean HUNDREDS of babies to feed?” The spider looked down. “What babies?” Bimbo said after stabbing a bunch of them. “Ah not the babies, they were so cute!” I said frowning. “GAAAAAAH, MY BABIES! Stupid mutt, you’re gonna get eaten first!” The spider quickly grabbed Bimbo about to chomp his head off. “Welp, here you guys catch!” He threw his knife at us and I caught it and set me and Koko free. Bimbo then got one of his guns to shoot at the spider. “Aaaaaah!” The spider shouted while dropping Bimbo as he shot one of her eyes.
“Haha! Take that stupid bitch!” Bimbo said while running with us as we were trying to find an escape. Just then another hoard of many babies kept lunging at us, but even though I didn’t want to harm them, I took out my microphone staff and kept whacking them on their little heads. “Sorry, oof, sorry. So sorry! You guys are SO cute. Vicious but cute.” Koko threw things such as juggling tools and pies at them that exploded on command as he can sort of control them remotely as he can even move his goo around when it’s not attached to his body. “Heheh, that should teach these fuckers not to mess with-“ Bimbo said confidently as we finally defeated all the babies… only to get his head chomped off. “Bimbo!” Me and Koko shouted.
Absolutely furious I was, I went into my werepoodle mode and angrily lunged at the giant spider mother claws out and all. “How dare you do what you just did! I’ll kill you!” As I was aiming for more of her eyes, her giant hands caught me. “How funny, I should say the same to you for being involved in harming my babies!” Just as she wasn’t looking, Koko was sticking a bunch of explosive equipment on her legs and detonating it, causing her to fall. “What? Woah!” As she fell she accidentally let go of me and I ended up slashing at all her eyeballs causing her to no longer be able to see. After some time, her legs were gone from all the slime. “Never wanted to taste spider, yuck.” Koko said after having to remove her legs himself, sometimes he may taste or sense things his goo may touch on accident. He still kept the slime around her to keep her from moving and being tricky.
As I kept beating the crap out of her, I finally chopped her head off after a few minutes, cause she was very big, and she finally died. “Woah, that was a lot.” I said panting. I managed to retrieve Bimbo’s detached head from her corpse. “Poor little guy, well, thank god for his curse that he has or else I’d probably have been angrier enough to kill that lady quicker.” Koko looked at me trying to retrieve all the slime. “What was his curse again specifically?” He asked. “Well, whenever Bimbo dies… he doesn’t really die. Not in the way one usually should. Each time he dies on Earth, his soul gets transported to Hell and he remains there for random amounts of time before going back up. He should either come back in a few hours if not tomorrow. Poor little guy, has to go through eternal torment.” I grabbed his head and his body and the ghost capturing device. “*sigh* At least we got our bounty. Unfortunately Bimbo won’t be able to share it with us since he’s currently, y’know. I hope we can make it up to him next time. Let’s go and find an exit.”
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Took a break from writing again cause I was a bit too upset to write for a bit but wanted to get back to finish. After we found an exit, we went outside and it was like the entire block crumbled behind us as we went out. “Well that’s a coincidence.” I said. As we got back to my home and got our bounty, I had to explain to Grampy all of what happened. “Aww, well that’s a shame. Y'know Betty and Koko, instead of splitting it by $2,500 you can still have it be split by, $1666.66666667 and just wait for Bimbo to come back.” Me and Koko thought for a bit then a lightbulb came over our heads. “No, I think we got a better idea." I responded.
After burying the previous corpse of Bimbo… alongside his many others we could even gather, and trust me he dies a lot and it’s not even that easy to retrieve most of his dead bodies, we waited until his new body would spawn. As Grampy watched over us while waiting, me and Koko decided to play some stupid mobile game with each other. It was stupid in a fun way. Some minutes passed again and we heard footsteps finally walking up to us. “Ah shit, what the hell happened when I was dead and did we get the bounty? Don’t even ask me what happened this time I spent in Hell, it wasn’t even fucking funny. I mean it usually isn’t but you know what I mean.” We then put down our phones and all looked at and walked up to Bimbo.
I was holding something behind my back. “Well Bimbo, we kinda thought, since me and Grampy do pretty well financially, Koko’s clown job is pretty stable, and not only did you suffer the most out of us today by literally dying, but are the most poor compared to us, we decided to give all of the bounty money to you. You and your mom could surely use it, we heard she’s recently sick.” I said as I gave him all the money. He took it. “Oh geez, well thanks guys. Well you know I ain’t THAT poor, just a little low on cash, but still thanks.”
After all of that, we all went to our respective homes. Once I got back to my home I sat down and talked with my Grampy. “What you and Koko did back there was such a generous thing Betty, it’s nice that you decided to not even just split the money but give all of it to someone who needed it more and realizing the circumstances you both were in where you needed it less.” He said to me. “Thanks grandpa, well, it’s not like we recently needed all that cash anyways, besides, I hope it serves Bimbo and his mother well.” As I got a ring on my phone a message appeared. “Hey Betty, can you please come quick?” It was from Bimbo.
“Sure thing Bimbo, but why?” I replied. “Er, my stupid ol’ step-dad is coming over to try and give us more money because uh, um. Well. I used most of it to buy a new flashlight… and a bunch of cool tech and weapons I found online cause they looked so cool. That and I used up most of my mom’s remaining money and now she’s sicker and super pissed at me, but because she’s so sick she can’t even get up to beat the living crap out of me. Please uh, help Betty.” “Bimbo what the FUCK!” I sighed then I told Grampy what happened now and got my stuff to try and go help. Maybe I’ll write what happened once I get home cause I know I’m gonna have to brace myself. See you again soon.
Your’s truly, Betty Boop
(DA Description below)
So here is the third installment of the werepoodle diaries. Finally introducing Koko the Clown into the mix and to have something focusing on the classic trio. I wanted to finally get into some more action and show what occupations I mainly had planned for the characters, one of them being monster hunting that is playing a major role here.
First of all, you already know by now Betty is a werepoodle. Bimbo is just a “normal” (by their world’s standards) anthropomorphic dog. Now with Koko, when it comes to the original version of Koko his species is… ambiguous at best according to what I know. He is clearly humanoid, but sure while some may think or question if he even is a human, it is also a common headcanon among many fans to think of him as some sort of monster. Whether that be a monster of some sort of clown species or liquid species, it seems to vary. While sure, maybe I could have left his species ambiguous or mysterious, given how much of a main character he is supposed to be and I don’t see the point in keeping it a secret, he will be a clown liquid/slime monster sort of mix and I do think the character is cooler if viewed as a full monster who just looks human and acts friendly rather than being another human or of some questionable species.
Grampy here is not a man I would call rich, let alone absolutely loaded, in fact in this version his financial status quite fluctuates, but his job(s) and those who he becomes associates with gives him a well off load of cash to work with when needed. By proxy of being his supernatural granddaughter with useful abilities and her boyfriend being a bit of an aggressive little ruffian who loves the idea of using cool weapons and fighting people, Betty Boop and Bimbo become his protégés or apprentices. In this, Betty Boop and Bimbo have the same amount of main jobs as each other, music and acting, given how the people at Fleischer Studios viewed the characters as “animated actors” and their characters are into singing and jazz and shit, but Koko has the additional job of clowning so I felt like with him having more he wouldn’t *need* to join in on monster hunting as much out of necessity but just to be with his friends. Koko also has a larger family in terms of who he lives with, and they are all a clown family with different clowning jobs and are pretty financially stable because of it. For the classic depiction of the characters, it seems that Koko has a larger “immediate family” than Betty and Bimbo and all of them are clown people which is why I made this choice here.
I may explain the whole lore on the financial differences between the characters and the reasons why in the future. For now, let’s talk about something else I brought up, Bimbo’s curse. So, Bimbo’s most famous animations are him getting tortured constantly, one of which is him being a sinner who literally goes to hell. He is known for having a quite impish and mischievous personality and if you know his actual history, he was considered the black sheep among the gang at Fleischer Studios. So I thought him being this sinner who is cursed to have cycles of constantly suffering and dying and going between Earth and Hell would be fitting for his character. It became such a running gag in my head that I thought to make sure to bring it up early on. Of course he doesn’t die all the time but he surely dies a lot.
All other potential inquiries about what I currently wrote and have in store, I may answer either through comments or in the future. For now, I wanted to get some of the obvious mentionable things I added out of the way. I certainly hope you enjoyed this story as I hoped you enjoyed the previous and hopefully the next. (Originally posted to DeviantArt on September 19 2023)
