Gustholomule bullshit get ready this post gunna be long af (its also very out of order)
Matts parents suck (maybe im projecting so what) like they never actually hit him but yk gambling addictions, mom always drunk, dad doesn't really give a shit about him
Matt has a really poor family, they live in the bad part of town really dirty run down apartment
Steve moved out with the emperor's coven and never looked back once, Matt still holds some bitterness towards him about this, like he always looked up too Steve but he's bitter that he left him alone in that trash household
Ok so Steve would have gotten him out if possible but Steve was 16 when he left and Matt was 6
Like Steve still visited and called Matt all the time to check up on him and make sure if he's ok but he would only ever visit when their parents weren't there
I think Matt had an ED for a bit, probably already ate very little due to his family being poor but then Bria and others enforced it and made things worse to where it developed into an ED
I think both Matt and Gus got SA'd
Matt by Bria (i might delve into this more in a diff post) and Gus by Adrian Grey listen that man was seriously predatory but its 12am and i don't have time to discuss that rn
I think both Gus and Matt are asexual due to trauma WHICH IS STILL VALID (yes im projecting the asexual part shut up)
Matt calls Gus August most of the time and then Augustus when he's either pissed or trying to be dramatic
Gus mostly calls Matt Matt and calls him Matty when trying to tease him
Matts nicknames for Gus: dweeb, dork, loser, squirt, nerd
Gus's nicknames for Matt: asshole, jerk, loser
Gus only ever curses with Matt, everyone else freaks out when they hear him talk to Matt and curse cuz he's "the baby" of the group
Matt curses HELLA (im projecting shut up)
Matt snorts obnoxiously loud when he laughs really hard (im projecting but he would also do this)
Matt when he laughs super hard is really loud and kinda off putting like a really loud cackle and he's also snorting in general most would not enjoy hearing his laugh (yes im projecting leave me be)
Matt covers his face when he laughs, not cause he's insecure of the sound but more so insecure about how he looks while laughing (lets just assume for most of this im projecting ok)
Gus hates that he thinks Matt's laugh is cute, he likes objectively knows Matt's laugh is weird and unpleasant but he sadly thinks its adorable
Gus has the most god awful taste, in both men and women, just horrid judgement -crush on Bria then dating Matt
Gus is biromantic cuz he's asexual
Gus hates that Matt covers his face when he laughs
Both of them are horribly insecure but in different ways
Matt usually doesn't laugh really big he usually just sneers and laughs really smug so the first time he actually laughed for real was when Gus fell for him, literally as he realized this he was thinking to himself "what the hell is wrong with me why is he cute"
Matt fell first, he liked Gus ever since the looking glass graveyard it was like a slow decent into realizing "oh fuck he's pretty"
Gus fell harder, it was a random day like 3 years after the defeat of belos and it just hit him like a truck when Matt laughed at something stupid
Both of them pined for YEARS Matt for like 6 years and Gus for 2 years
I think they don't actually even get together till Gus is 18 and Matt is 19, neither of them were really emotionally ready for a relationship nor were they mature enough to maintain one healthily till then
Matt is such a heavy overworking like he works himself into the dirt its really bad
Gus is a severe over achiever, he will sob his eyes out if his essay is one sentence too short
Matt never went to college he got a job in construction as soon as he turned 16 and he just worked a bunch of illegal odd jobs before then while still in school
Matt attempted moving out of his house earlier but he was still broke so it didn't happen till he was 18, and even then it was because he was kinda kicked out. Like he finally started to fight back against his parents and they were like "if your gonna act like that you can leave" and he was like "fine im sick of your ass anyways" so he left. However he was still broke. Gus was walking by at the time and witnessed part of this so he let Matt live with him and Perry for a while.
Matt lived with Gus and Perry for like 3 months but he felt really bad about leaching off them so after that he moved in with Steve for a while till he could afford an apartment
For a while Matt hated Gus because of how "perfect" he was, because he tried so hard to be that good and Gus just seemed to do it effortlessly and everyone liked him and Gus was also super nice to him too. The jealousy eventually turned to love and obsession after TLGR. Think the song Lacy by Olivia Rodrigo
Matt and Amity are unironically friends
Matt when he was younger after Steve left used to call him a lot more than Steve would call Matt.
Matt is a lot like his parents and he despises it, he says he's nothing like them but he definitely is. His dad was really distant and not all there and Matt acts really distant and ignores people when he's upset. His mom was an alcoholic and yelled a lot and was super manipulative and she threw things when upset. Matt tends to lash out and yell at people when upset and he will trash whatever room he goes to calm down in
Matt totally has a bunch of unresolved anger and it shows up constantly
Matts parents never physically hurt him or Steve but they would threaten them and their mom would punch doors and walls
Steve was the one who mostly argued back against their parents so he was treated worse than Matt for a while
Steve feels really bad about leaving because he knows his parents haven't changed and Matt is probably struggling but he's also super glad he made it out
Matt got blamed a lot for stuff Steve did, it was always contradictory, "why can't you be more successful like Steve" "Why are you being such a brat you're worse than Steve" "you don't want to end up like Steve" and none of it made any sense
For Matts backstory think the song bloodstream by Alyssa Grace and the song Family Line by Conan Grey
Gus in the beginning before TLGR really wanted to like Matt and wanted to think he was secretly a good person but Matt took one of the things he prided himself on (the HAS) so it was very difficult to try and see past that, occasionally thought Matt was pretty until he opened his mouth.
Knew Matt was unsure of himself and sometimes he seemed afraid of something but then Matt opened his fat mouth and said something rude and stupid (all before TLGR) Gus often got pissed at him because Matt would tell him to listen and then didn't have anything to say - think Too Close by Sir Chloe
Matt in general feels like the song Boys Will Be Bugs by Cavetown
Matt definitely decided to be extra mean at 14 (he already knew Gus then) and besides Gus his only friends are bugs, he def punches walls, def decides to ignore messages on purpose sometimes and stays out late, he is a dumb teen boy and he probably wants to quit a lot of the time, also has trouble crying because of time at Glandus, and he does think he knows everything
See what i mean he's so incredibly that song
Ok i need to make a part 2 this is getting insane
Its finished @matty-the-ratty
