now that i can see your face (i can stand up to anything.)
is a Scooby-Doo rewrite.
The story is an origin story of Mystery Incorporated, but they also end up in a poly relationship. The story also plays up the 1969 setting more than the original canon.
This fanfic provides examples of:
- Adaptational Wealth: Shaggy's parents aren't wealthy anymore. Instead, they own a small diner.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Shaggy's hair is darkened from light brown to dark brown/black.
- Adaptational Nonsapience: Scooby-Doo can't speak.
- Age Lift: Sugie is lifted from a baby to a school-aged child.
- Dead Fic: The link no longer functions and the story appears to have vanished from AO3.
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: The story contains some period-typical racism.
- Disappeared Dad: Shaggy's dad died five years ago.
- Mythology Gag: Shaggy's sister Sugie is from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.
- Patchwork Fic: The story is predominantly based on both Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!.
- Period Piece: The story is set in the 1960s, more specifically 1969.
- Polyamory: The end-couple is Velma, Daphne, Shaggy, and Fred all together.
- Race Lift:
- Shaggy is Lebanese-American.
- Velma is at least half-Japanese. Her mother is from Japan.
- Daphne's at least half-black on her mom's side.
- Fred's father is Chippewa.
- The '60s: The fic takes its 1969 setting and rolls with it. It features a lot of references to 1960s culture.
- Titled After the Song: The title comes from "I Can Be Scared With You" from Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins.
