specter was originally a white monkey that performed at the monkey park in a juggling act. somehow a beta peak point helmet ended up inside his trainer's tent and out of curiosity he put it on, gaining super intelligence and an evil will almost instantly.specter escaped his tent before releasing the rest of the monkeys, causing a massive riot that followed him all the way to the professor’s laboratory. busting in, the monkeys under specter’s control proceeded to tie up both the professor and his granddaughter, katie, while inspecting how the time machine works.it was then that spike and buzz walked in accidentally. specter ignored their presence and ordered the time machine to be activated. within moments everyone except for katie and the professor were dragged back in time to different periods.specter contacted katie and the professor soon after finding out spike was trying to damage his plans, and that the original creator of the monkey helmet was aiding spike with gadgets.introducing himself, specter told the three of his plans and threatened that if they didn’t back off, he would not hesitate to deal with them. specter showed off his improved helmet and revealed that he had somehow brought buzz under his control, turning him into a mindless follower. when spike finally caught up with specter and buzz, the albino ignored the boy’s presence and teleported away in his battle cruiser, leaving a large robot with an ax behind to discard of spike.spike survived and returned to the present, taking out the power reserve and the factory specter had been using after being instructed by the ai casi to do so. the professor and katie had been kidnapped by specter and were held there. spike once again attempted to face specter at the tv tower the apes were using as a base, finally getting on specter’s nerves. he attempted to kill spike with the large mechanized battle cruiser he possessed but failed. retreating once more he contacted spike later on, telling him to come to the remodeled monkey park to find his friends before something “terrible” would happen.after saving the professor and katie from their death-trap filled rides, spike fought with buzz a final time and freed him of specter’s control. now awknowledging that spike was indeed a threat, specter urged spike to come to his castle for a “talk”. soon after spike arrived in the castle, the huge fortress lifted off of the ground and the security system activated, revealing a trial to reach specter.despite the challenging security system and the dangerous passageways outside the castle spike was forced to take, he eventually reached specter’s throne room where the albino tried to brainwash spike the same way he did buzz. now, in canon, this failed (please note after describing canon, i will describe my au version of this.) and after a desperate battle with spike, specter finally caved and had a mental breakdown before teleporting away.nowhere to be found, spike went back through the previous time periods to capture any monkeys he missed in order to make sure specter could not muster up his forces in retaliation to try anything else. once that was done, the professor located specter and spike confronted him a final time.for the only time in the entire series, the albino admitted to caring about his old trainer, the only one who had been kind to him at the park, although he still had no plans to return on his own and entered a final battle with spike. losing, he was finally captured and was last seen as a normal monkey being held by his trainer at the park.MY AU ENDING: when specter was captured by spike, instead of removing the helmet and returning him to the state of a normal monkey, the professor altered the helmet to remove the madness it caused, and specter realized the wrongs he had done.

01. INTRODUCTONS. hi! name’s tommy and i’m the mess of a mun running this blog. i’m above age (born in ’94, so i’m currently 27 as of last updating this.) i go by he / him, though they/them is also fine. i have avpd (anxious / avoidant personality disorder) so i’m probably more afraid of you than you are of me! anyways, let’s get into the rules! (and apologies in advance if they sound strict or intimidating, i really don’t mean them to.)02. SMUT / SHIP FREE. i will not write romantic or sexual relationships between specter and yours. one, because as a mun who’s aroace and on the repulsed spectrum, it makes me uncomfortable, and two, specter is not human, he is a monkey, and we don't do bestiality on this blog. i also ask that you please do not bring up anything romantic or sexual related in ooc conversations with me when it comes to our muses, as this makes me feel like i’m being pressured into shipping our muses.03. ACTIVITY. just going to put this out here right now. i have been on this hellsite since 2012. i'm old enough to know to prioritize my real life over writing on here. if you think that slow replies / moments of being selective = lack of interest, then this is not the blog for you. i have near 50+ muses overall across all my blogs, and interact with a fair share of people, and there's only so many hours in a day, and i'm also trying to work on my mental health + getting through school. be patient, and you shall receive! equally, you are always welcome to take literally as long as you want with replies. heck, i've picked up threads a year later bc ppl have been too busy to be on and i've been just as excited as when we left off.04. SELECTIVITY. i am mutuals only, meaning i will only interact with people who follow me that i also follow back. other than that, when it comes to muses, i'm not selective at all. regardless if your muse is canon, an oc, whether they're from a fandom i'm familiar with or not, animated fc or live action, no icons, no formatting, heavy formatting, it's all fine with me! (that said, if you use double small text i'm gonna have to edit it to single small for the sake of reading it without straining my eyes too much. you're in turn welcome to turn my replies into double small text if you want tho!) if you're a multi, just sign me up for all your muses tbh! as for anything else... as long as our rules mesh and our writing mesh, i'm not selective with anything else either. the only thing i ask is that you cut your posts.05. TRIGGERS. specter is from a child's game so i will generally not write anything too triggering, however, there will be general violence, guns, my muse trying to take over the world kinda stuff. that being said, if you need anything tagged, let me know, otherwise i'll probably just tag the typical triggers i know about if they're very heavy and/or in gifs / image form.06. UNFOLLOWING / NOT FOLLOWING. if your blog contains vague / callout / drama posts, or you support any of this, i will not follow / unfollow. i am not here for it. same goes if you tag photos etc. of fcs / actors as “wanted connections” as this gives me the impression that you’re more interested in a “hot” fc than your partner's actual writing and characters. if you have a dni, i'm less likely to follow, but if i do, i'll still make my own decision on who i interact with. the block function and the ability to blacklist people's urls are there for a reason. lastly, if i ever do anything you have a problem with, please just come talk to me like an adult so i can correct my mistake, or if that's too hard, just block me.07. REBLOG KARMA. please reblog from the source. one occasional meme reblogged from me every now and again is fine, but if i can tell you're just use me as a resource, i'm sorry, but i'm gonna unfollow you. i know anxiety can make it hard to send memes (it's why i always post meme calls myself so if ppl want me to send them memes, they can like the post and i will!) but at least reblog from the source if you don't plan on sending anything, ever.08. PURPLE PROSE? i'm not a native english speaker, and while i consider myself fairly fluent in english, when it comes to purple prose, my brain just kinda shuts off and it takes a lot more effort for me to read. this means if you write heavy purple prose, it might take me a while to respond, a) because it takes me a lot more time and effort to read, and b) i kinda get intimidated bc my writing is so "plain" in comparison lol.09. MEMES. you're always welcome to continue memes when you send them in! you don't have to of course, but if you want to? go for it! on the flip side though, if you constantly send me memes and never continue a single one of them and we don't have any interactions going, i'm not going to continue replying to memes until you either reply to them, or we have plotted, because if none of the meme replies i've made have worked for you, just come plot with me instead, because there's only so many "first interaction" ideas i can come up with between our muses all on my own.10. STARTING INTERACTIONS / OOC COMMUNICATIONS. whether you want to start an ic interaction or just talk to me ooc, try to write a little more than just 'hi' and 'we should rp' when you are messaging me. i already struggle enough with holding a conversation when there is a topic of conversation, much less when people don't give me anything to go off of. you'll probably find that if you message me with super short messages like that, that i'll just reply with short responses back, and the conversation, i find it, ends up dying out. if you put some effort in, i will do the same, if not, i probs won't either. i'm not saying you have to write super long messages or that you can't ever give me short responses, just especially if you want to start interactions, don't give me two-five words from / at the very start of a conversation, y'know? let me know what you're interested in etc. and for ooc convos, at least give me more than 'hi' because small-talk isn't really my thing tbh.11. DISCLAIMERS. the psd i'm currently using is called 'space is the place' and can be found here. the theme on my blogs does not have a credit on it, but the base code is by neonbikethemes. the pop up code is by str-wrs that i found some customizing help with thanks to octomoosey’s tutorials on how to edit popups (i also got the code for bouncing images / links from octomoosey) and the tabs code is by valcntines / alyofrp. one of the fonts on my blog is called "nightingale" and was found here