Beetlejuice The Musical Headcanons Pt 2
Hi again, guys!! This is a second part of my headcanons about the Broadway musical Beetlejuice.
Beetlejuice didn't harass Lydia, because she was able to get away from him because of that.
Even though Beetlejuice was very inappropriate with the Maitlands when he first met them and seemed to have a preference for Adam, he genuinely doesn't know personal boundaries, but it doesn't mean he doesn't know that what he did was wrong...
We can agree that Lydia was the person who hurt Beetlejuice the most for the entire duration of the show. She is the only one who managed to betray beetlejuice THREE TIMES IN A ROW!
I honestly believed that in a way, he would also do something very small to Lydia, I mean make her uncomfortable in some way, you know, what Keaton's Beetlejuice did to Ryder in the original movie.
My theory is that Beetlejuice knows that touching people without their consent or invading their personal space is wrong, but being so lonely, he does it to vent his painful loneliness... But he knows that's wrong, and he knows that the Maitlands despise those inappropriate touches and despise him for doing so, too.
That's why I firmly believe that Beetlejuice refrained from touching Lydia in the same way as the Maitlands, (Even if we're talking about the person he loves the most) and he didn't make any inappropriate comments to her, because he didn't want to give Lydia reasons to abandon him or hate him.
I don't think Beetlejuice's clones are distorted representations of himself.
I think Beetlejuice has ADHD to some degree, but I don't think that's why all of his clones are physically different.
I agree that maybe Beetlejuice doesn't have the proper physical recognition to know every part of his being in detail. But I don't think ADHD makes you look like you're another race, or a different physical build...
It would be very strange if Beetlejuice never crossed the veil into the Netherworld, it is very likely that he has done so many MANY times, and he has encountered all kinds of people. Like Lauren Boebert, from whom he contracted Herpes, but perhaps, he found people who really liked him. But it is likely that they have abandoned him and as a sad reminder, Beetlejuice formed his clones based on these strangers who cheered his immortality at least a little.
Lydia is and was Beetlejuice's ONLY choice to get married.
Because even though Lydia had already betrayed him once, Beetlejuice immediately looked at her, but once she left with her father, Charles, there was only one last woman left alive, Delia...
In fact, his plan could have gone better, since he could go after them. Beetlejuice may have threatened Delia to marry him, and bring Lydia and Charles back.
But when he feels that Lydia has betrayed him again, he immediately cries: "Why does everyone keep leaving me?!"
I think he could have chased her to the Netherworld, but for fear of meeting his mother, he didn't want to go.
But he didn't, Beetlejuice didn't use the absence of the father and daughter to extort Delia, I have a theory that, even a little, Beetlejuice came to love Lydia too much to suddenly accept her: "I don't want to go through life alone".
Well, I also want to emphasize that, he did believe Lydia, but not Charles, so Adam had to intervene.
I mean, Beetlejuice was willing to believe everything Lydia told him (and I'm pretty sure if Lydia told Beetlejuice that the moon is cheese, he'd believe her). But, yes, Beetlejuice could only believe Lydia.... Not Charles....
Adam had to intervene to make the charade make more sense...
Plus I feel like if Beetlejuice believed Lydia for all of her lies, he didn't believe Charles because BJ may have thought Charles had a plan to take her away from him. Not knowing that the whole plan was made by her...
And although Lydia became the most beloved person by the pinstripe suit demon, and she'd take every opportunity to hurt him....
he's going to want to keep trying.
Lydia was able to make Beetlejuice give up the urge to murder.
We all know that Lydia has some power over Beetlejuice, being, apparently, the first person to "genuinely love him as a friend" and may have actually manipulated him into doing more things for her.
I'm sure that if Lydia had shown interest in helping him reform, he wouldn't have refused.
Beetlejuice isn't as bad as we think.
From the beginning, Beetlejuice wanted Lydia to agree to release him, but he NEVER lied to her.
Beetlejuice told him that they are a great team, and in the song "That Beautiful Sound", he really believed that they were kindred souls, and he believed that because of that they were already friends.
But think for a moment, if Beetlejuice had wanted to manipulate her, he would have inquired into the reasons why Lydia wanted to commit suicide and there he would have discovered that she wanted to see her mother again and there he would have tricked her into saying his name three times and maybe even marrying him in order to bring Emily back.
But no.... As soon as Beetlejuice knows that Lydia wants to see her mother again, he is completely honest about it... And at least we know that he never lied to her, and while the way he convinced her to marry him was mean, at least it wasn't a lie.
He kept his word to get everyone out of the house and save Barbara.
Beetlejuice really holds Lydia in high esteem and we know that she is very special (because she can see and understand him), so BJ held her back as much as he could to keep her from leaving.
Even after being betrayed THREE TIMES IN A ROW, he was willing to face his worst fear by confronting his mother, just to save Lydia...
He was willing to sacrifice himself to prevent his mother from touching a single hair of the girl.
And that says a lot more than the manipulation he did out of desperation...
Well, that's all for now... Maybe I'll get a third part, but I'd have to watch the musical again to get more information.... Maybe...
(You can update this post regularly, because I keep adding a lot more)
If you made it this far, thank you enormously for reading my writing again...
Merry Christmas to all!! 💖💕
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