• She met Julie and Carrie in kindergarten, because Flynn started a revolution about color-coding crayons; Carrie totally backed it up and Julie made a song for the movement
• They instantly bonded because music and revolution
• Flynn learned how to sound mix with Carrie and how to write songs with Julie (and Rose)
• She has all of Halsey songs memorized
• Flynn is the first one to download tiktok, she masters all the dances and receives all the attention (carrie is jealous)
• She has Ray’s phone number memorized. for emergencies.
• Flynn knows every single allergy Carrie has and every candy she hates and the recipe of her favorite foods
• that means that she replaced all the normal chocolate Carrie received on Valentine’s Day for vegan ones
• (she left one more)
• (Carrie pretended she didn’t notice)
• Flynn helps Luke to write a full-on album for Julie - and she’s pretty proud of it
• (Luke is eternally grateful)
• Flynn watched the entirety of On My Block in 2 days, and she scored Euphoria in less than a week
• (she still managed to ace her geometry test anyway)
• Reggie gets on her nerves every single day, especially when he has problems with his cellphone - “it’s exhausting ✨”
• With time, she becomes fond of Reggie and she helps him comes to terms with his sexuality
• (And, in some way, he helps her too)
• Reggie is also the one who realizes that Carrie and Flynn like each other
• (Flynn is too ashamed to deny it or confirm it)
• (and Reggie completely gets it, because reasons)
• After the whole mess that is the greatest ex-friends to enemies to lovers on this fandom…
• Willex constantly invites Carrie and Flynn to double dates
• Flynn gets really close to Willie and they bond because he has half of a brain cell and, in her situation, that’s practically gold
• Also, Flynn starts to host seminars to teach the ghosts about human stuff, Julie is the co-founder and Willie helps in special occasions
• (reggie is a regular in these lessons)
• thats it

Hocus Pocus (1993) // Julie & the Phantoms (2020—)

• the phantoms can’t sleep. it’s a side effect of death they hadn’t anticipated - sleeping is for your physical body to rest and reload. no body = no sleep
• at first it didn’t bother the boys, they did all the things 17 year olds wanna do when they have literally no limits, especially at night - they went to an 18+ rock concert, stayed up and watched the sun rise together, went to a bar, explored a strip club for like 5 minutes (they immediately realised that it was a lot mustier and more depressing than they’d hoped)
• soon they just kind of resorted to the comfort of their, now julie’s, garage at night time
• luke took his couch, reggie took the untouched vintage bathtub in the back, and alex took the attic
• that’s when they realised how much they missed sleep
• alex stared at the stars through the sunroof that was still attached to the garage roof - the small square in the ceiling that had made the attic feel as big as the sky above it and lulled him to sleep when he was alive, now only amplified his anxieties. 
• the stars seemed to taunt him about everything that was taken from him - if felt so much stronger than it did when he was with julie, alex and reggie. 
• it was all so invasive; how he didn’t get to go to college, or share a beer with his dad on his 21st birthday, or see his little sister graduate, or perform as headliners at a sold-out arena, or see the love in his parent’s eyes ease back when they looked at him, fully accepting him for who he was. he didn’t get to live a life that was fulfilling and complete - a life where he got to achieve his dreams and feel completely whole, completely happy. 
• all of it seemed to add weight to his head and knock the air out of his lungs. he had to cling to his jeans to try and get his fingers to stop trembling. the fact that the crippling sadness he felt was the only thing that made him feel alive and real again made him want to smash a hole into his drums. 
• it’s what he would’ve done if he was alive - but death had stolen when he could play from him too. so he just sucks it up and continues looking at the cloudless sky, tears falling from his eyes and hand gripping his still heart
• luke was never one to do much thinking, and if he’s being honest, he still tries not to do it, his motto is always to take it easy and be rad enough to just chill and rock out 
• but ever since he saw his parents again, he couldn’t stop playing the different ways he could’ve gone back home to them the night after the orpheum
• he just wants to so desperately turn back time and replace the police sirens that his mom heard for the familiar reeling of his bike wheels and just see the relief set into his mom and dad’s face
• he doesn’t talk about it to anyone, but the image of his mom ageing 30 years at the message of her dead son is something he can envision so well that it just haunts him now
• every time there’s a quiet moment when he hangs out with the rest of the band, every time he closes his eyes, every time he strums the last note on his guitar - he can’t help but feel the weight he burdened his parents with
• he tries to rationalise his death, tries to convince himself that death is unpredictable, unexacting and impatient, that there’s no way he could’ve known
• but all he ends up feeling is the crashing guilt he’s been carrying with him for the last 25 years
• reggie never really talked about his family that much other than joking about his parent’s failed marriage
• but when it’s 3am and all he can hear is the grasshoppers and the swaying wind outside, he can’t help but think about his brothers and sisters
• he hopes that his elder brothers stepped up and slept with his younger twin sisters when his parents were in a screaming match in the next room. he desperately hopes that in the past he couldn’t live through with them, his brothers played sinatra on their grandfather’s old beat-up vinyl that always lulled his sisters to sleep, muting the arguments he stayed up to when he was alive
• he hoped that his brothers went to college and found love like they’d always joked about. he so desperately dreamed that they had kids and didn’t get too sad when they remembered how badly reggie had wanted little nephews and nieces, he prayed, to whatever deity or god that was watching over his family, that they were living happy and full-filling lives
• and the last thing he hoped for was hidden away in the deepest and darkest part of his mind. a part of him couldn’t help but wish that the death of their child knocked some sense into his parents - to keep fighting, to keep hoping in themselves and their relationship - to see the best in themselves and their marriage that reggie had always seen
• but really he knew better - his fantasies of a healed family was fractured in the truth that his death wasn’t as important or nearly enough to fix his broken family
• so the three of them began to dread nightfall, tried to keep themselves as busy as they could to avoid the inevitable
• but soon, they realised that ghosts had ghosts to deal with too