Chatterbox: Inkwell

Finkleberries

I created the Finkleberries in my Backstories thread. Then I figured maybe the Finkleberries were big enough to deserve their own thread. To get us started, here are reproductions of the three comments I wrote about them.

Comment 1, dated March 9, 2013 - 11:43 am: 

Okay, everyone, here I go! I'm going to make up a new character, for us to write backstories for.

Name: Harry Finkleberry

Occupation: Comic book enthusiast

Home: An RV, in which they travel a lot so he's homeschooled, but that's on hold while he tries to figure out how to get out of the comic book he somehow got sucked into

Pet: A lizard named Apocalypse

Relatives: His mom and dad and an older brother named Jerry

Age: 14 and a half

Let's begin writing a backstory for him, everyone! 

Comment 2, dated March 9, 2013 - 8:45 pm:

Okay, no one seems interested in Harry's backstory, so I'll do a backstory for him myself.

Here's my story: 

Harry was born to Mary and Gary Finkleberry. He already had a brother named Jerry, who was three years older than him.

Not much interesting happened in Harry's early years, except for him choking on LEGOs when he was three. And that time he jumped out a four-story window into the trampoline in his backyard when he was six. And that time when he went to the aqaurium and fell into the stingray tank.

Yeah, his life was pretty uneventful. Years later, he was 14 and a half. It was his 14th half-birthday party, and he was reading a comic book called Looped End. It was a sci-fi thriller about a man from the present-day era named Dexter Ash stuck in a time loop in a post-apocalyptic future. It was a really good read.

So he was sitting on his bed, reading his comic book, when something strange happened. The comic book starting glowing. "What-" he muttered, then realized that the comic book was HOT! "Ah! Burns, burns, burns! Yeoww!!" he screamed. Then, the comic book, with its weird green glow, turned inside out and became a hole, into another world. And it sucked everything in Harry's room - his bed, his dresser drawer, his collecter's edition poster-sized covers - into the void.

Now, have you ever heard of petrified materials? They are materials that got really old and dissolved, and minerals took their place, creating a replica shaped exactly like the original material. This was similar because the portal sucked in all of Harry's things, and then sent out a bunch of atoms. The atoms flew into place, creating EXACT replicas of all Harry's things. The only thing not reproduced was Harry and the comic book that had turned into a portal. Why all that happened I truly have no idea. (Or maybe I do. I'm not telling you, cause that would be spoiling the story.)

So, then, after all that occurred, the portal disappeared. Then, Mary Finkleberry, Harry's mother, entered the room. "Harry?" 

No response.

"Hmm, well, I'll check on you later. Don't get into any mischief!" And Mary left the room, also leaving Harry trapped with Dexter Ash in a time-loop in a post-apocalyptic future.

Like I said, Harry Finkleberry's life was pretty uneventful.

Okay, that's my story. It's not so much of a backstory, but it's a nice read, isn't it? Comments please!

Comment 3, dated March 10, 2013 - 6:55 pm:

I have a better backstory to write about one of Harry's relatives. Here I go...

Finn "Scary" Finkleberry was Harry's uncle. His brothers were Larry, Mary, and Perry Finkleberry. All those names rhymed with "berry". But his name didn't. When he was six, he asked his mother why.

"We were going to have six kids," she said impatiently, flipping the pancakes she was preparing for breakfast on the griddle. "Your father was going to name three of them, and he preferred names that rhymed. Along came you, the fourth, and it was my turn. I named you Finn." While flipping a pancake, she flung it behind her and it landed on the framed photo of her dad, Finn's grandfather, that was hanging on the wall. She went to get it off.

Wiping batter off her dad's face, she continued, "So then, we were going to have two more, but I told your father, 'You know what? Four is more than enough. Let's just stick with what we've got.' And so we did."

Finn didn't like his name. He wanted a rhyming name like everyone else. So he conceived the nickname "Scary".

But every nickname has to come with a reason, something as to why the nickname is asocciated with the person. So Finn, or "Scary", as you may now think of him, declared, "Call me Scary Finkleberry, cause I'm gonna have the scariest costume Halloween night!" This was the middle of March, and everyone laughed. Finn was the center of several mean jokes for months, but he lived up to his words, spending months preparing his costume for Halloween night.

And the months later, Finn/Scary seemed to have given up his phase, and everyone had forgotten about it. So they all just prepared their costumes like normal. If he had made the announcement, say, a week, ahead of time, everyone would probably be trying to beat whatever he might have up his sleeve.

And so Scary came out of his house, and he had the SCARIEST costume of all! You wanna know what it was?

Well, I'm not going to tell you!

And so, Scary Finkleberry is still known among the family by his nickname, and every year, he always has the SCARIEST costume of all!

Comments?