YAY okay. So it's set in the 1970's, in the fictional town of Crystal Cove. The exact coastal state in which it is located is deliberately ambiguous (in Scooby tradition). This is an origin story.

Cast:

Fred Jones: The golden boy of Crystal Cove Prep! Everyone knows him, everyone loves him. Fred is a popular and eternally-cheerful student everyone can look to for guidance; he's level-headed in any crisis and has led the football team to multiple victories. He is also heavily masking undiagnosed autism; at home, he is obsessed with Rube Goldberg-esque machines and traps, a la several of his famous incarnations before this. His parents, the mayor and his wife, look down on his "hobbies" and ensure that he is very aware that his acceptance in the family hinges on his ability to perform his role as the all-American guy he's meant to be.

Daphne Blake: The it girl, the queen, the star. A dead ringer for Lola Falana. From a young age, she was a girl of contradictions: she wanted to be an actress (which her parents approved of) and a detective (which her parents disliked immensely), and she pursued both. Despite seeming to have it all in Crystal Cove (a relatively liberal town for the 70's), Daphne feels great pressure to perform well in everything she does as the daughter of an old money family that had to fight desperately to keep what it earned. She is Creole by ancestry.

Norville "Shaggy" Rogers: The class clown and total burnout. Shaggy is a third-generation Japanese citizen in America. He is enrolled in Crystal Cove Prep, which does not allow him to bring Scooby to class, much to his chagrin. Shaggy trained Scooby in much the way a service dog would be trained, as Shaggy deals with chronic pain and Erb's palsy that makes moving his left arm and upper body difficult; Scooby retrieves items for Shaggy and follows him unleashed, and the two have a deep bond. Shaggy is also known as the school's pothead; despite this, he maintains good grades with the help of his friend, Velma, because he loves his parents and wants to make them proud.

Velma Dinkley: The nerdy scholarship kid. Everyone cheats off her tests when they're not pretending she doesn't exist. Unlike other kids at Crystal Cove Prep, she's the child of a single mother who lives paycheck to paycheck as a local librarian. Velma herself is an aspiring private detective whose cases haven't exactly made the papers -- she's usually finding lost cats, not tracking down murderers. She shrugs off the bullying and cold shoulders she gets at Crystal Cove Prep with the help of her only close friend, her fellow bottom-of-the-social-ladder student Shaggy. He tags along on her detective work, because he likes to feel like he's a part of things, and she lets him because he's a damn good cook. Velma is also Jewish, and is one of the only Jewish people in Crystal Cove.

The plot: Two attractive, popular girls at Crystal Cove Prep go missing, and the police are strangely quiet about the case; they're giving the public the runaway excuse, and Velma isn't satisfied with it. When Daphne narrowly escapes a terrifying attack by a "monster," she enlists Velma (and by extension, Shaggy) to help her investigate the culprit: Fred's popular, enigmatic older brother. Something something hijinks ensue.

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