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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Norville “Shaggy” Rogers
Age: 17 or 18
Canon: Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated
Canon Point: On his way to military school, post S1 finale
Character Information: Before we start, two things: firstly, I'm recycling parts of my application for Shaggy in The Games in this section and the next. Secondly, the Scooby Doo wiki isn't that great for the Mystery Inc iteration's history, so you're getting a summing up in the application.
So! Norville, or, as he would later be know, “Shaggy” was born roughly seventeen to eighteen years ago in Crystal Cove, California, to Colton and Paula Rogers. It's unknown what exactly the Rogers family does for a living in this iteration of the Scooby Doo canon, but whatever it is, it's enough to afford a fairly swanky house and to keep Shaggy and Scooby in food, which is not the easiest thing in the world as you may guess.
When Shaggy was a young boy, his family adopted a Great Dane puppy known as Scoobert “Scooby” Doo. Scooby and Shaggy grew up together as the best of friends. Around the start of high school, Shaggy fell in with a group of meddling kids who would eventually become his best friends and the most important people in his life: Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, and Velma Dinkley. Together, the five of them—the meddling kids and Scooby Doo—devoted their time to solving all the strange little mysteries that seemed to haunt their town.
This endeared them to absolutely no one. You see, Crystal Cove was known as “The Most Haunted Place on Earth” and having a bunch of meddling kids prove that the various spooks and monsters were actually people in masks was really doing a number to the ghoul-based economy. Shaggy's parents absolutely disapproved of his friends and the way he and Scooby spent their time, but Shaggy ignored that disapproval and kept hanging out with the rest of the gang, still solving mysteries together and traveling around in Fred's van together after he got his license.
Eventually, near the start of his junior year of high school, he started secretly dating Velma, although that relationship would crash and burn some months later when Scooby and Velma forced him to chose between the two of them.
Another thing, however, that was more important than the relationship drama of these meddling kids happened Shaggy's junior year of high school. That was when Daphne found a locket in the shape of a magnifying glass inside one of the Crystal Cove caves. Once that mystery had been solved, the meddling kids received a call from a mysterious character called Mr E who knew they had the locket and all five of them got sucked into some weird bullshit involving “The Cursed Treasure of Crystal Cove” and another group of mystery solving teenagers from decades ago who'd called themselves “Mystery Incorporated,” a name which the meddling kids took on as their own.
It all ended with Fred's dad, the mayor, being hauled off to jail for fraud and kidnapping, and the five members of the second Mystery Incorporated going their separate ways. After all the trouble that Shaggy, Scooby, and their friends had been involved in, Mr and Mrs Rogers felt it was time to take action. Scooby was sent to a “nice farm” to live while Shaggy was being shipped off to military school. It's at that point in his canon that I intend to grab Shaggy.
(After that, Shaggy would eventually bust out of military school with the help of Scooby Doo (who'd got his hands on a tank somehow) and return to Crystal Cove, where Mystery Incorporated—both iterations—would reform as a group before everyone got pulled into even more bullshit, this time involving an eldritch abomination named Nibiru. It would all end with history being rewritten and Mystery Inc riding off in the sunset in the Mystery Machine on a cross-country road trip on their way to attending college that fall at Miskatonic University, leading into the events of Scooby Doo, Where Are You?)
Personality:
Shaggy Rogers is the perfect portrait of someone who's trying his best not to try at all. Authority figures have the tendency to call him a slacker and a hippie and honestly? It's kind of true. He seemingly lacks all ambition that doesn't involve feeding his voracious appetite. Oh, there's the whole solving mysteries thing he does with his friends and he's sort of vaguely all for that, but one gets the impression that a lot of time Shaggy's just along for the ride. He's certainly nowhere near as proactive about investigation as Fred, Daphne, and Velma.
He has a tendency to freak out and over-react, often publically. He's a self-declared coward. Whenever he and his friends get into trouble, his first reaction is to grab Scooby Doo and run like hell. He's not exactly stupid, but his totally lack of ambition leads him to not using his brain nearly as much as he should. One would wonder why his friends keep him and Scooby around when he's a potential liability
Shaggy is an unabashed glutton and can focus heavily on his stomach at times, to the detriment of what he's supposedly. He'll happily chow down on the weirdest food, especially if it's unhealthy, and for some reason has a “Ten Second Nose Rule.”
He doesn't bathe very often. He doesn't shave either, which has led to him being in possession of a scruffy goatee on his chin. He goes around every day in a baggy tee shirt with a baggy pants and probably doesn't change it every day either.
Shaggy has own unique way of speaking, which is immediately identifiable by his use of the word “like” as punctuation. He also favors the word “Zoinks!” as an exclamation.
But the thing about Shaggy is that he's got hidden depths. Depths so hidden, in fact, that even he isn't quite aware of them (and his friends wouldn't see the true extent of them until nearly a year after I'd be taking him from his canon.) But the truth is that as big as a coward as Shaggy Rogers is, he's also capable of pushing past that fear and committing acts of true bravery when motivated by what is truly most important.
And what's truly most important to Shaggy isn't, as it turns out, food or slacking off. What's most important to Shaggy is the bond he shares with Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Scooby. They're more than just friends. They're family. It feels like they're soulmates, destined to be together, and when the group parts ways things don't feel right anymore. When they get back together, it's a relief.
He dislikes confrontations, which is probably why he tried to keep dating Velma a secret, so he wouldn't have to disappoint Scooby by letting a girl—even a girl who was their friend—get in the way of their epic man-dog bromance. Of course, hiding it just made the eventual confrontation about ten times worse but Shaggy has never really shown much of an aptitude for long-term planning. As mentioned before, he kind of drifts through life.
Shaggy's loyal. He's incredibly loyal. It should be noted that while Fred left Mystery Inc to go on a journey to find his real parents and Daphne quit because she was disillusioned with Fred's deserting them and Velma keeping secrets from them, the only reason Shaggy left the gang after the Freak of Crystal Cove incident was because his parents were literally forcing him to.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
HUNGRY
GLUTTON
NON-CONFRONTATIONAL
EASYGOING
LOYAL
COWARD
LAZY
UNAMBITIOUS
FRIENDLY
BAD HYGIENE
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