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[Oct 13] [Beetlejuice] Reasons of His Own
Title: Reasons of His Own
Day/Theme: 13. fool for love
Series: Beetlejuice
Character/Pairing: BJ/Lydia
Rating: PG
Why did he do this? He was one of the most powerful beings on the Other Side. He could alter reality. He could turn either world on its head. He could tear through the barrier of the living and the dead, unleashing departed souls back into the physical realm, and the living into the neither realms. Why did he lower himself to stupid puns and dirty jokes and filthy fingernails?
He could take any shape. He could be your worst fear, or the next to the worst one, to build the suspense. He could abandon his physical self entirely and release the power pinned away in his shabby form. He could become a true entity of energy and chaos. That’s what they were afraid of. That’s why they had bound him in chains of his own name, mired him down with rules, to keep him too hindered to be the threat they all knew he could be.
He hadn’t made any effort to cast off his tangible form though, no attempt to become all powerful. He stayed as he was, a little too old, and far too unwashed, paunchy, unkempt and ridiculous. Was it possible, as powerful as he already was, that he didn’t really want to destroy the worlds? Why, since he was that powerful, did he limit his goals to just tearing around the living world, playing juvenile pranks and feeding on individual fears?
He could have anything! Be anything! And instead, he haunted a remodeled farmhouse and the dark-eyed, dark-souled girl inside. He teased and lightly tormented her, when he could’ve broken her utterly, left her mad or dead or worse. He tolerated her returning that teasing torment, when he could’ve answered it with violence and bedlam.
If he had really unleashed, he could’ve crushed and ruled the living world. Instead, he played the jester, and the only explanation for it seemed to be the girl.
Day/Theme: 13. fool for love
Series: Beetlejuice
Character/Pairing: BJ/Lydia
Rating: PG
Why did he do this? He was one of the most powerful beings on the Other Side. He could alter reality. He could turn either world on its head. He could tear through the barrier of the living and the dead, unleashing departed souls back into the physical realm, and the living into the neither realms. Why did he lower himself to stupid puns and dirty jokes and filthy fingernails?
He could take any shape. He could be your worst fear, or the next to the worst one, to build the suspense. He could abandon his physical self entirely and release the power pinned away in his shabby form. He could become a true entity of energy and chaos. That’s what they were afraid of. That’s why they had bound him in chains of his own name, mired him down with rules, to keep him too hindered to be the threat they all knew he could be.
He hadn’t made any effort to cast off his tangible form though, no attempt to become all powerful. He stayed as he was, a little too old, and far too unwashed, paunchy, unkempt and ridiculous. Was it possible, as powerful as he already was, that he didn’t really want to destroy the worlds? Why, since he was that powerful, did he limit his goals to just tearing around the living world, playing juvenile pranks and feeding on individual fears?
He could have anything! Be anything! And instead, he haunted a remodeled farmhouse and the dark-eyed, dark-souled girl inside. He teased and lightly tormented her, when he could’ve broken her utterly, left her mad or dead or worse. He tolerated her returning that teasing torment, when he could’ve answered it with violence and bedlam.
If he had really unleashed, he could’ve crushed and ruled the living world. Instead, he played the jester, and the only explanation for it seemed to be the girl.