Norgatha

Norgatha is the family ship between Norman Babcock and Agatha Prenderghast from the ParaNorman fandom.

Canon
Norman lives in Blithe Hollow, Massachusetts, one of the many towns that prides itself on being the main location of witch hunts some 300 years ago. Norman refuses to comment on such, being ostracized himself for his ability to see ghosts. Norman's relationship with his father is strained, as he cares a lot about outward appearances and sees Norman's "madness" as a thorn in his side. His mother however is very supportive of him, believing Norman to have a rare gift that was passed down in her family. This further causes friction between his parents as Norman's father fears that Norman would end up just like his great-uncle Mr. Prenderghast, a socially shut-off lunatic who only has "apparitions" to talk to.

At school, Norman is treated as a freak due to similar superstitions, but he at least finds one friend in classmate Neil Downe, who thinks Norman's ability is cool. Neil is present when Norman's uncle tells him about the curse placed upon the town, every year, a member of the Prenderghast family has to go to the witch's grave and banish her soul, else the worst could happen. Though Neil also assumes that Prenderghast is crazy, Norman is still unnerved by his uncle's words. When it comes to having a school play in honor of the puritans who executed the witches, Norman ends up having a vision when playing an incidental. He finds himself in a forest, some 300 years ago, being chased by men with torches. He is then grabbed by a tree who warns him that the dead will rise again. In shock, he breaks character on stage, warning everyone about the dead, embarrassing his family yet again.

When Norman gets grounded for his mishap, the ghost of his great-uncle appears before him, right after he had died and tells him to finish what he started. He tells him that he needs the book he held in his hands when he died, but since he's dead, he doesn't have it with him. So he tells Norman to go to his house in the woods, grab the book, take it to the cemetery, read it before the sun ghost down to banish the witch for another year. His great-uncle's soul then disappears with all of his businesses in the mortal realm finished, leaving Norman very confused and terrified. So Norman does what any kid his age would do and disobeys his father to travel to the house of a creepy dead guy on bike before the sun goes down. Though he does bump into his bully, he does manage to retrieve the book after much hardship and goes to the cemetery to read it in front of the dead puritans. However, his bully Alvin shows up at the worst possible moment and takes the book from him, preventing Norman from stopping the dead from rising. One of them, a judge named Hopkins in life, grabs Norman and doesn't bite him, instead he whispers into his ear that he must find a way to end this.

Norman and Alvin are then picked up by Norman's sister Courtney and Neil's brother Mitch, who help them escape the zombies. After calling Neil's other friend Selma, with Norman telling her that he didn't see the witch's grave with the others, so the book wouldn't have done much anyway, she tells the group that the witch's grave should be registered in the town's archives. So the group makes their way there while the zombies are causing civil unrest in another part of town.

Making it to the archives, the group is overwhelmed by the sheer amount of reading they would have to do just to find the witch's grave, but Norman tells them to get to reading, desparate to fix his mistake. When the townspeople corner the zombies in town square, where the archives are located, the group is trapped by the fire they caused, with the townspeople not caring if Norman dies if they get rid of the zombies. Trying to reason with the townspeople, Norman's companions all leave him, so he gets the desparate idea to try and pacify the witch's ghost on top of the clock tower. However, when he starts reading the book, he finds out that it's just an old copy of Sleeping Beauty, with the witch hitting the book with lightning burning it from the inside out rendering it useless anyway. Norman falls back into the archives, but has another vision of the past before hitting the ground.

This time, he's in a courtroom, with Judge Hopkins accusing him of witchcraft while addressing him as "Agatha Prenderghast". When Norman tries to defend himself, he hears the voice of a girl behind him and turns around, finding a scared little girl no older than him, telling the judge that she did nothing wrong. The judge accuses her of dishonesty, saying she spoke to the dead and sentences her to be hanged without a verdict. As the puritans approach Agatha, Norman tries to fend them off, but Agatha's innocent soul is corrupted by vengeance and she curses the puritans with eternal suffering before they get the chance to take her.

Back in the present, Norman wakes up with the dead puritans watching him. Neither side makes a move, but Norman is furious, yelling at them for killing a little girl and telling them that he will never forgive them for it. Judge Hopkins explains to him that they were scared and didn't know what to do, offering a chance to make up for the atrocity. Norman realizes that letting the puritans remain undead isn't fair either, so he joins forces with them and is backed up by his four friends when he calls the townspeople out for trying to kill everyone. Norman finally manages to get the townspeople to listen to him and tells his family that they need a ride to the Agatha's grave to fix everything. Judge Hopkins ends up serving as a navigator, telling Norman where they had buried Agatha all those years ago, with Norman translating for the rest of his family. As they make it to Agatha's grave, the trees grow in such a way that would only let Norman in, so he reassures his family as he tells them that he has to do this alone.

Though Agatha allowed Norman entrance, she's not happy to see him, viewing him as yet another distant family member helping the wicked in trying to get her to sleep. Agatha makes it clear to him that she doesn't want to sleep anymore, she wants to show the world how rotten the puritans were and if Norman stands in her way, he might as well perish. Though Norman is sympathetic to Agatha, he sees her as a huge hypocrite as she uses her new powers to torment people long after they had learned their lesson. In the end, Norman improvises a new bedtime story, telling Agatha her life story and making her realize her own mistakes. Agatha has a meltdown that causes a shared vision between herself and Norman. They are once again 300 years in the past, standing under the tree that Agatha loved to play at in life. Agatha remembers her family's nickname for her, "Aggie", remembering how happy her life was before her being wrongfully hanged. With the slightest bit of anger remaining, she asks Norman why he doesn't want the wicked to suffer, but Norman tells her that they had already suffered enough. With nothing left, Aggie cries as she remembers how much her mother loved her, wishing she could be with her once again. Norman tells her that her mother is gone for good, the only way she could see her again is by resting in peace. Aggie understands and Norman helps her find a comfortable spot under the tree, then he watches her doze off and her soul dissipate as she's ready to move on.

Norman wakes up under the same dead tree, reunited with his own living family and had finally earned the respect of his peers.

Fanon
Norgatha used to be a popular ship in the ParaNorman fandom, as people really like Agatha/Aggie and wanted to ship her with someone, with Norman being the only character she had any positive interactions with. However, the two of them being technically related posed an issue for people who couldn't stomach incestuous relationships, especially since Norman would most likely have a problem with it even if Aggie didn't.

These days, Norman and Aggie are far more likely depicted as platonic cousins, with crossover ships involving Aggie (with Kaggie being the most popular) overshadowing Norgatha.

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