# Ghostbusters: Long Dog Novella Character Sheet, Main Charac. **URL:** \ **Category:** Fan Fiction\ **Created:** [January 28, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/ghostbusters-long-dog-novella-character-sheet-main-charac/20286 "2009-01-28T02:51:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TAPS\_Family\_Anthony](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@TAPS\_Family\_Anthony](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/TAPS_Family_Anthony)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/ghostbusters-long-dog-novella-character-sheet-main-charac/20286/1 "2009-01-28T02:51:11Z")
_For those of you who have been reading my Ghostbusters novella, [Real Ghostbusters](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/games/the-real-ghostbusters-activison): Long Dog, I wanted to make a personae dramatis, aka, a character sheet. I am posting the main character sheet here, which summarizes the four Ghostbusters, Janine, Ecto-1A and Officer Frump. I am not going to post the remaining main characters to avoid any spoilers but what do you think about what I have here? Please note, I did take liberties and created a new backstory for our favorite Ecto-1 to give it a more fleshed out background. Hope its ok. Comments welcome!_ **Ghostbusters Long Dog Character Sheet:** **(Main Characters)** **Dr. [Egon Spengler](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/characters/egon-spengler):** The brains and “egg head” social reclusive genius of the Ghostbusters. He is brave, logical and calculating to a fault, he is a walking human computer, he lacks social skills and tends to hide his emotions which can cause awkward situations when dealing with other people. He is responsible for the main theoretical framework behind the Ghostbusting equipment. He is the “brain” of the team. Egon has had a long on and off again relationship with the beautiful and sassy [Janine Melnitz](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/characters/janine-melnitz), the Ghostbusters’s secretary since day one, but is reluctant to admit his feelings because he cannot control emotions in a lab and is naturally uncomfortable with such emotional states and his lack of social skills, coming from his father stressing education and objectivity and science all of his life. His mother, famous for her disgusting yet highly effective cold remedies, while not as strict as his father, still held Egon to high standards, though she did show more affection and her feelings than did Mr. Spengler, which gave Egon a bit of skewed view on the world but deep down, he cares deeply for his friends, and especially for Janine, but tries to hide it, though even he can’t hide it all the time . **\*\*Dr. Raymond “Ray” Stantz: \*\*** The heart of the team, Ray is a perpetual child in many ways. He has a wide-eyed approach to anything supernatural or scientific or technical. He shows a great enthusiasm for his work and often heads into dangerous or even lethal situations full of excitement about the phenomenon being witnessed, despite the fact that he is often risking his own life in the process. He is not deliberately ignorant of the danger, but rather is pre-possessed by a thirst for knowledge that is unsurpassed by anyone on the team except for perhaps Egon or Winston. Ray does the actual construction of the equipment the team uses from day to day, and works closely with Egon in designing new gadgets and progressing the theoretical frame work behind the science of the paranormal. While easily excitable, Ray does know when to cool it and he can be focused and mature when the time calls for it. With [Slimer](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/characters/slimer), Ray treats the little green ghost much like a pet or a little brother, and even though Slimer can get on everyone’s nerves, including Ray’s, Ray most likely has the strongest bond to the goblin. **Dr. [Peter Venkman](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/characters/peter-venkman):** The mouth of the team and perhaps the most complex of the four men, Peter tends to take a more relaxed pace to life. He is a natural con man, though he does not con for cruelty but rather to find ways around doing real work. He has sharp business acumen, but an even sharper tongue and a dry sleepy wit that often leaves his verbal opponents gasping for breath as they try to retort. Peter believes that if you pay money for something you should get quality service, which is something he does bring to the Ghostbusters business, though on the whole he can be more lazy than active in day to day affairs. He is frequently a ladies’ man, and tends to chase skirts, mostly beautiful women, with which, he doesn’t have a chance. Peter, while on the outside appearing lazy, and somewhat stupid in advanced scientific matters, is actually very intelligent and holds multiple PhD degrees, including ones in psychology and parapsychology. He is not very skilled with mechanical issues, but from time to time, does create useful items which soon fall apart thereafter their first use and as he doesn’t keep notes (he isn’t the most reliable of scientists) finds it impossible to recreate the device and often gets frustrated as his own inability to re-create said items. Under his rough exterior, Peter has a big heart, and when it calls for it, and lives are on the line, he is a dedicated team member, who remembers and takes care of the human concerns first, such as having tea with old ladies who are lonely and feeding Slimer the ghost’s favorite treats behind the team’s back. As the mouth of the team, he frequently ends up in hot water because he often doesn’t quite know when to shut up. His relationship with Slimer is especially wild, because while professing a strong dislike of the spud, Peter actually cares for him very much and is very protective over him when pushed, despite their sibling rivalry like relationship. He is the most skeptical member of the team besides Winston but believes the phenomenon once witnessed firsthand. Peter frequently gets irritated with Egon or Ray’s tendency to explain events in supremely complex jargon. **[Winston Zeddemore](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/characters/winston-zeddemore):** The logic to the team, Winston provides a unique look at the three scientists from an every-man’s point of view. Winston is the only team not be a scientist, but he does not let that stop him. His intellect rivals Egon’s, though with a more rational and based approach, tempered by heart though without the jargon and long winded explanations that Spengler comes up with. Winston sees the world from a logical, level headed view, and often proceeds with caution rather than bumbling into situations. He is a supremely skilled shot with the [particle throwers](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/equipment/particle-thrower), often able to hit moving targets at nearly impossible distances and his Navy combat training backs up his already formidable brain with smooth brawn and the skills needed to stay alive and keep his team mates alive in any situation. Winston is a fan of classical music and loves to read mystery novels, especially ones by the late Agatha Grisly, who dedicated her last work to him before crossing over to [the Other Side](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/publications/comics/ghostbusters-the-other-side). He is so good at solving mysteries, that when a movie is on, the other team members often have to resort to tying him up to keep him from solving it before they do. Winston sees the other team members as his family and his brothers, even Slimer. He and Janine get along very well. Winston, along with Ray, is the team’s mechanic, and his skills with a wrench and socket driver would make Picasso weep with jealousy. He is frequently seen driving the old ambulance, the Ecto-1, not because he is forced to, but because the car is his pride and joy, his baby and he can coax the old car to do things Detroit never intended it to. He is known to keep it spotless and those who have muddy feet are subject to his wrath. Winston is descended from a powerful African bloodline and his direct ancestor is was the awe inspiring shaman, Shima Buku. He is also an avid scholar of all things Biblical. **Janine Melnitz** : The beautiful, sexy, somewhat bookish, red head secretary of the Ghostbusters. Janine is at the same time calm and collected, cool under pressure, and possesses a dry sarcastic wit to be able to stand on even ground with Peter during verbal sparring matches and then some! She does have a love hate relationship with Peter, as he often grates on her nerves, and as much she cares for all the team, she does not mind telling them what she thinks and has been known to insult the team to their faces and behind their backs as needed. She is not afraid of strapping on a [proton pack](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/equipment/proton-pack) and has more than once stepped up to be a reserve Ghostbuster, something she has shown an aptitude with, although she does prefer the quiet of her office at the Firehouse. Janine keeps the Ghostbusters business running in ship shape and Bristol fashion, like an expert Swiss watch ,without fail. From organizing the library and the lab, to collections, bookkeeping, and customer service, Janine is an expert office manager and the few times she has taken a vacation, the office has quickly fallen into disorder and chaos. She is a valuable and irreplaceable member of the Ghostbusters staff. She and Slimer get along perhaps best after Ray, but at times the ghost has gotten so on her nerves she has threatened to trap him herself! While she can be abrasive at times with her sarcasm and grating Brooklyn accent, Janine is also another voice of common sense to the craziness that surrounds the Ghostbusters operation. She is hopeless and tirelessly in love with Egon and tries to get him to notice her, to almost no avail. She is unaware he feels the same way about her. She frequently wears loud colors, miniskirts and large hoop earrings with her horn rimmed glasses. **Slimer:** A class 5, non terminal repeating phantasm, according to Ray, Slimer never walked the earth in human form. In fact, he never lived at all. Egon and Ray both theorize that he is a unique form of paranormal life. Research into their first case has uncovered that Slimer is actually an ecto-plasmic byproduct of black magic rituals carried out in the basement of the [Sedgewick Hotel](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/locations/sedgewick-hotel) in the late 1940s by [Ivo Shandor](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/ivo-shandor) and his deranged cult of followers who worshipped the Babylonian demi-god, Gozer. Slimer possesses the naïve nature of a young child, and the average intelligence of a ten year old. He is a tremendous glutton of anything not nailed down. He cannot speak clearly, and often what he does say comes out as rapid unintelligible gibberish, although Ray does seem to be able to understand it, thanks in part to his spending his childhood watching too many Lassie movies. He by and large, a coward, but from time to time risked his [afterlife](https://www.gbfans.com/shop/ghostbusters-afterlife) to save the Ghostbusters and Janine, and even by standers from certain death at the hands of nasty demons and monsters. Slimer can show a temper when angered and he idolizes Peter, though why, we are left to wonder because for the most part, Peter treats Slimer as pond scum. Slimer goes on calls from time to time, but not very often, preferring to stay at the office and guard the refrigerator. While it may seem strange that the Ghostbusters would keep a ghost for a pet, it is actually not very strange at all. Slimer was the first ghost ever captured, and was in the [containment unit](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/equipment/containment-unit) for quite some time before EPA Agent [Walter Peck](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/characters/walter-peck) in an act of abysmal stupidity, shut down the power to the unit, causing it to go critical and explode with unnatural force, freeing the entities in side, Slimer included. Slimer, unlike the other ghosts, hung around the firehouse, not because he wanted free food and board, as Peter often suspects, but as Janine thought correctly, because the guys are the only ones who ever paid any attention to him. Although at times irritating beyond comprehension, he is loved by all the Ghostbusters. **Ecto-1A:** A white (originally dark green) 1959 Cadillac Miller Meteor combination ambulance/hearse, the 21 foot long car spent the early days of its life as a carrier for the dead, ferrying bodies for a major New York funeral home before being decommissioned and then bought by New York General Hospital in 1965 and converted into a full time ambulance. During the majority of its days, it saved many lives, its powerful V8 engine roaring and its unique siren wailing, before finally being retired in 1978 after serving the city dutifully for almost twenty years. It was purchased by a mechanic for 400 dollars in 1979 and the mechanic, a man named David Anderson, planned to restore her and sell her off to the highest bidder. Unfortunately, before David Anderson could begin his pet project, he hit a spot of rotten luck and the ambulance sat, lingering in the elements for the next five years, rusting and nearly crumbling away until in 1984, Anderson was approached by [Ray Stantz](https://www.gbfans.com/wiki/characters/ray-stantz) who purchased the old heap for 4800, much to Peter’s shock and dismay. Before long, Ray spent his mechanical genius restoring and upgrading the old car to pristine like new condition, inside and out, making many interior modifications, including the addition and reorientation of a secondary and primary rear seat, a bench seat on the driver’s side and a proton pack rack re-designed from the original stretcher, able to be pulled out for quick access, and a trap storage compartment, all in record time. She is equipped with super sensative [PKE meters](https://www.gbfans.com/shop/mattel-pke-meter) ecto-plasmic displacement field sensor arrays, ecto-contaminate storage tanks, and a brilliant set of bright blue front and rear police bar and spot lights, and once again, with her gleaming white body, sweeping rocket-ship like red tail fins, whitewall luxury tires and engine and siren screaming, Ecto-1 has retaken the streets of New York, once again a symbol of hope and ingenuity that is truly unique among cars. In the long history of its existence, Ecto-1 seems to have a life of its own, not quite aware, but still, after many years of carrying the dead, facing the unknown, and saving lives, the old car may very well have developed a quasi spirit of its own, and is frequently quirky and surprisingly agile and powerful for a car her age and size. **Investigator C. Frump:** An overweight, overbearing special investigator with New York homicide and special crimes unit, Frump is a man of prodigious proportions, both physically and attitude-wise. He is a ten year man on the force, working his way up over the years from a rookie beat cop up to his current position in SCU. He is a rational one track mind thinker and has the tactfullness of a rock. He is known for always collaring the culprit. As distasteful as his personality is, he is a good cop, and a fantastic investigator, often showing a sharp wit and mind for finding clues. He frequently pretends to be a stupid lummox to get his opponents to lower their emotional guard and spill their guts to him. He is a by the book cop, but his methods for getting confessions can be called “tough” at best, violent at worst. He tends to intimidate his quarry and is usually right in doing so. He can hold his own in a fight, and often one punch from Frump and you do not get back up without being in traction for some time. He is a fairly skilled shot with his standard issue .45 caliber Glock which he keeps hidden under his trench coat in a pancake holster slung over his shoulder. He is doggedly persistent, and hates to let a guilty man go free. He frequently clashes with the Ghostbusters and openly dislikes them, especially Peter, because in part, he sees them as reckless vigilante wackos, and secondly, Peter hates him just as much for several past indiscretions, including being one of the major board witnesses after Gozer was defeated in voting against the City paying the Ghostbusters fee for their help during the crises. From time to time, he and the Ghostbusters have had to work together, and the truce is always uneasy and fraught with tension.