#mb talk

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hey so i saw that chainey has terrible eyesight and that little chainey has glasses and i gotta ask... can chainey see?

Not great! Flashback Chainey wears contacts pretty much exclusively because he’s convinced himself zeke won’t like him in glasses (false) and undead chainey doesn’t know any different and just assumes the slight blur is part and parcel of having fucked up milky undead eyeballs

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hey! i jsut recently jumped into th maggot boy rabbithole n i was wondering if the characters had canon ages? (specifically chainey/davey/pj/owen/baz/sam but anyone elses canon ages wld b super appreciated!!!)

ey! I tried to find the last post I made about this so I don’t do any dumbs but I couldn’t sob. so if this contradicts anything ive said before im sorryyyy!Chainey - 19Davey - 17Sam - 17PJ - 15Owen - 15Baz - 18Lazaro - 26Noah - 31

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How do the MB characters feel about children?

my IMMEDIATE URGE is to say all of them love kids because i adore children and saying otherwise hurts my heart buuutChainey doesn’t like kids, he isn’t a huge fan of loud noise in public spaces as a rule and isn’t very naturally nurturing or understanding of them. When forced to interact with children he’s generally visibly uncomfortable and stiffSam likes kids but isn’t great at looking after them responsibly or policing her language/the things she talks about to them so isn’t generally trusted with themNoah is EVERYBODY’S DAD he is absolutely the kind of guy who misses his stop on the subway because he won’t stop making faces at the toddler across from himLazaro actually likes children up to a certain age; precocious brats between the age of 2-8 who are ripe for moulding and have no filter are fantastic, but anything beyond that he stops giving a shit (unless it’s Claire, who is always the most important person in the room) Lazaro is far, far more critical of overindulgent/underattentive parents than he is of misbehaving childrenOwen is relatively ambivalent to kids in general but he’s an absolute sucker for an underdog and would immediately gravitate toward talking to the most miserable looking extended fam child he saw at family gatherings (until their folks ushered them away bc weird cousin Owen is a /bad influence/)from Elliot: “DAVEY LOVES KIDS OK HE LOVES THEM i imagine he gets on really well with kids and they tend to like him? bc he’s silly and fun and lbr similarly mature sometimes”“PJ maybe likes little kids ok, like five and under, likes helping them with stuff and teaching them things? but honestly i’m not sure he’d be as patient with the kinds of endless illogical questions kids ask”

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Are you okay with people shipping Chainey and Sam? My friend says he had an ex boyfriend and I don't want to erase his sexuality if he's gay

Super cool of you to ask! As a bisexual writer it’s pretty safe to assume all my characters are bi by default unless proven otherwise. The only 100% for sure definitely no exceptions gay characters I can think of in MB are PJ, Reth and Micah, but since there’s no canon indication of that I wouldn’t sweat anyone making m/f ships for any of them anyway. Like, it’d be strange for me (and probably Elliot also) knowing personally where their preferences lie, but you can’t honestly call erasure on something that isn’t canon confirmed.

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Yo I just wanted to say that I think you've handled everything about Owen's character extremely well! TBH I've wanted to know Owen's deadname for a long time but after ruminating on it for a while I've realized that since my reasons for wanting to know are basically fanart/fanfiction fodder, there's no reason it's essential knowledge (and I could always sub in a headcanon anyway). That having been said, it's a great thing that Owen won't have a canon deadname! It means you've respected who he is

Anonymous said:first and foremost and expect others to do the same. I think it’s a fantastic writing decision!

Ah, thank you :) tbh it was actually Elliot’s call in the end to avoid actively deadnaming Owen in canon, though the subject is absolutely going to come up. Despite Owen’s emotional experience being heavily influenced by my own highschool career I’m also so far out of my lane writing a teenager with gender dysphoria it’s not funny. but I’m going to work with Elliot and an outside source to sensitivity check as much as possible; can’t promise i’m going to do 100% right, but i can promise i’ll try.

(i also wanna note that i’m absolutely not bothered by the concept of people headcanoning their own deadname for him or including it in any fan content, this is very much a boundary we’ve set for the source material, NOT for any external take on it)

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what nationality are Casper and Donnie?

Casper’s Mexican, Donnie’s Scottish

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can i marry chainey, he's so precious

This article says maybe!

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Kind of a weird question but is Chainey the type to feel jealous? And if so, how'd he act?

UMMM Chainey isn’t as naturally prone to jealousy as Davey is but he still feels it sometimes? Normally it manifests in the form of him potentially losing something he has rather than wanting something he doesn’t have, so it’d come more from a place of anxiety than anything else, like if Davey or Sam started hanging out more with and talking about a different really close friend in front of Chainey there’d be a quiet little gut twisty unhappiness that he’d swallow down REAL hard because he’s better at recognising and handling that sort of feeling than Davey is as well :O