#mason pendleton

Mason looked up from whipping down the counter to see Abigail Winslow walking through the door. "Are you here for pie?” He asked, half teasingly as he was almost certain that she -- the other piemaker of Walcott -- was not there for that purpose. “Can I take this as a sign of surrender?” He asked, raising an eyebrow. 

He whipped his hands on his apron and rested them firmly on the counter. He felt uncharacteristically calm and cool in her presence today. He didn’t know what was the cause of this bout of confidence (perhaps that award winning blackberry pie that was moments away from perfection, because it certainly wasn’t the last minute haircut he’d tried to give himself last weekend), but he decided not to question it.

He held up a figure as he turned to get the pie out of the oven, but he moved around too quickly and knocked over several coffee mugs and all he could do was watch in slow motion as they fell to the ground and smashed. 

awkward idiot pie-maker 

“i’ve never seen any ever advertise pie, that’s how good it is.” ~ mason, probably

pie is the best thing 

he will probably fight you on this

mason made his first pie at his mom’s side when he was six years old and he’s never stopped tbh

since he was little, his father expected him to follow in his footsteps

(idk what mr. pendleton did tina??? but insert ~attempted training montage here w/ mason trying but failing~)

mason spent all of his time in the bakery instead and it became clear that he was going to follow in his mother’s (rather than his father’s) footsteps

this caused a lot of tension between mason and his dad and for a long time they weren’t on speaking terms

mrs. pendleton had died and mason knew that someone needed to keep making pies for walcott but mr. pendleton is like ??? why????? 

to make matters worse, cameron didn’t take up after their dad, either, and mr. pendleton was super angry about this

mason tried to repair his relationship w/ his dad but mason isn’t good at words and mr. pendleton wasn’t good w/ emotions and so while they started talking again, nothing was really resolved and their interactions were always strained and uncomfortable 

mr. pendleton has recently been murdered tho and mason’s regretting never actually fixing things w/ his dad

despite everything, he would never, ever choose a different life for himself

he loves his job so much

making pies and seeing ppl smile (you do not eat pie w/ a frown c’mon) is literally the greatest thing

he’s super friendly and helpful 

altho he’s super awkward

he never had much of a social life

he gets up really early to start baking and then goes home and collapses at the end of the day and it starts over again the next day

he sometimes tries to be witty and charming but of the time ppl are like ???? .... okay .... ~forced laughter/backs away slowly~

he does know he’s awkward and will be internally cringing after he tries to be cool 

he’s that guy that does think of the perfect response to things two hours later in the shower and tries to resist calling you up to get you the perfect comeback (even he knows that would be lame)

can be something of a klutz

he LOVES this town SO MUCH

the only thing he’d change is the passing down of careers through the generations

he thinks people should be able to choose what they want to do

but tbh that’s the only drawback and he does think that (for the most part) this system has worked pretty well and he sees why it was put in place but he doesn’t think there should be so much pressure to follow your parents

the town council meetings are generally the most socialization mason gets 

even tho he’s pretty quiet during most of the meetings and only talks when he has to 

when it comes to witches, however, he’s surprised everyone by telling them that THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS WITCHES

and if there were witches, they would not hang out in walcott

“this place is so picturesque, it’s not their style.” ~mason, probably

mason really loves his bro 

~dad!max thumbs up @ him for following his dreams~

doesn’t understand why he wanted to leave town and he def missed him but he’s glad he’s back (even if the circumstances are less than ideal)

mason gets nervous easily

doesn’t like halloween