Gift of One-Liners
Okay. So hey. I'm Venom. Venom Skellington, the Pumpkin Prince of all Halloween Town and heir to the Pumpkin King, to give the full title but I always think that makes me sound a bit pretentious. And it is a bit of a mouthful now that I think about it. So, yeah I'd be happier if you were just to call me Venom. You're probably thinking it's an odd name considering what my parents names are but I'm supposedly named after my great great grandfather. Who wasn't exactly the greatest ruler of Halloween Town so I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel about that.
Right, now this essay is about Halloween Town. Or more to the point, Halloween Town from the view of the young royals. All the kid's whose parents are in charge of the different holiday towns have to write one, part of this whole 'cultural experience' thing our parents think will be so good for us to experience. I just realised that the above sentence will make no sense unless you happen to be me so I'd better explain. After my dad, Jack Skellington, you've heard of him most likely, everyone's heard of him. Anyway, after he made a mess out of Christmas (note: NEVER let Dad read this - he'll...re-kill me) all the holidays started to pay attention to each other. This circle of holiday leaders was created so that nothing like Dad's mess (note - seriously Dad is not to get his hands on this essay) would happen again.
After the leaders created their circle they got it into their heads that it would be a good idea for all their kids to interact. Which, I will admit, in theory is a fantastic idea. Gets the bonds started when their young so that when it becomes the kids turn to take over, there's already good relations. Pity they never include bloody Romeo in their theory. But I'll get to him later. First, I wanna explain about my home.
Halloween Town, despite its connections with the dark and dangerous, is actually a cool place to live. Although it's filled with - and believe me I loathe this term - creatures of darkness, it's a pretty friendly community, and everyone seems to get along alright. Well, there is always a problem with Boogie's Boys (kinda oddly named considering one of them is a girl) but most of the time they're alright. Well, Shock and Barrel are. Lock has a tendency to be slightly sadistic. Dunno how they put up with him, but I guess its one of those unbreakable bonds of friendship.
As its name suggests, Halloween Town is concerned with the holiday of Halloween. According to my dad, it used to be a lot more solemn, as people used to pay their respects to their dead relatives. All Hallows Eve it was called then. According to both my family history, and the history books, Halloween originated under the name Samhain, who was my great, great, great, great, great grandfather, give or take a couple of 'greats.' It was supposed to have come from Ireland and according to Dad we have Irish family so I'm guessing that bit's probably true. It used to be quite a religious thing - celebrating all these past people. It's become a lot more...popular though. Influenced by a lot of what people call 'pop culture' but some still celebrate it the old way. In Halloween Town we try to include all the ways that Halloween is celebrated into our annual Halloween celebrations. Which is why they take so long to plan. But that's left mostly to the officials, the rest of the population have jobs to do.
So yeah, that's the Halloween Town I know. Of course, as the Pumpkin Prince I have a lot of royal duties to do, which include helping to plan each and every Halloween. It's a little tiring sometimes, mostly because the Mayor always seems to lack new thoughts, but in the end its worth it because Halloween is a holiday that a lot of people enjoy.
Another one of my royal duties, and one of my duties as heir to the throne, is to attend all 'future holiday leader' meetings. We're holding out for a better name, but so far we've not really had any luck. The meetings take place in a different town once a month, and they're usually pretty boring. We just sit and discuss the plans for the upcoming holidays. Or we talk about whatever we can think of. Being part of the 'Future Holiday Leaders' means that you get invited to a lot of events. The majority of which seem to happen in Valentine Town, hosted by Cupid's only son Romeo Casanova, just referred to as Romeo by most.
I hate him.
Literally, he's an arrogant pompous jerk who seems to thrive off of all his adoring fan-girls. And, despite his town's reputation for being all peaceful (yeah - massive lie. How many fights have been started over love? Too many) Romeo seems to delight in bullying anyone he doesn't like. Guess who he doesn't like? If you guessed me then you're dead right. Me and Seamus (son of Patrick - and you guessed it from St. Patrick's Day Town.) He picks on Seamus mostly cos Seamus has that whole Irish charm thing going for him, which Romeo's fan girls seem to like. And the reason he bullies me is pretty obvious - I'm a skeleton. He doesn't really seem to like Halloween, could be because it is really easy to scare him. Pity this year the Holiday Leaders and their families comes to Halloween Town to celebrate Halloween with us. I'm sure I can think up something fun for him to do. Something to repay him for all the...kindness he's shown me.
So...erm...yeah. Think that's my essay done. Let's see, I've explain a bit about me. A bit about my town and its people, as well as how we celebrate our holiday. And I've put in a bit about the whole Future Leaders thing. That should do it. Right, now back to planning revenge plan against Romeo...