#askiing

You come up to my shoulder...what the heck...you are actually pocket sized...

teehee's m3

Hi that’s so sweet you seem really cool too 🥺👉👈

IMG WAIT LMAO I RECOGNIZE UR URL

it’s stupid and I didn’t draw the overseer right but whatever…:,3

I also. formally apologize for the high amount of rain world. long story short it’s a special interest that appeared out of nowhere and that I can’t get rid of even when I try sssso:,3

giggles evilly

OKAY OKAY SO.

first and foremost: before the fights, they fucking HATED each other. like, truly, genuinely god-i-wish-you'd-die hatred. cuphead hated mugman because they were (seemingly) everything IT couldn't be; mugman hated cuphead because it (seemingly) had everything they wished THEY had. that, along with a mix of a generally dysfunctional family dynamic (ya can blame the elder kettle, for that one) – where cuphead got more attention, if bad, for being 'the troublemaker', while mugman got more eyes, if pressuring, on them for being 'the good child' – borne a hatred that was damn-near deadly, at times.

(the kettle was – according to my headcanon, mind – too obsessive over Something Else to truly pay the attention both children were due to either of the twins: thus, cuphead started acting self-destructively [getting into fights & making sure he'd lose, breaking things without regard to self-injury, generally acting recklessly] to get it; thus, mugman started neglecting themself [going without food so the kettle wouldn't complain as much about food costs/not asking for meals to be made for themself, ignoring the need to sleep to help the kettle with his potions & foraging, generally disregarding their own health & wellbeing to 'serve'/help the kettle] to get it.

safe to say, by the time both of them were 14 and a year off from going to the casino & crossing the traintracks, they utterly despised each other.)

and then cuphead watched mugman die.

and then MUGMAN watched cuphead die.

yeah. bit hard to hate someone after that, after holding their soul in your hand and having to shove it back I N .

timeskip to after the kettle's death: cuphead & mugman are attached from the hip, and so codependent they genuinely cannot go more then a hour separated without panicking – after all, their elder has just died, and they watched each other die, how could they not get attached? – and, ah, well. they're both young. they're both together. so, they think, why not just… go to the next level?