god's favorite psyop

1. If [x] had the power to hurt anyone without punishment, who would they hurt?

mat: he doesn't like, want to torture him or anything. but he would be legitimately happy if his dad died. i don't think he would kill him though, like this is just a normal guy not a fantasy character who does violence regularly. that said, vampire mat? there's some higher up camarilla guys and shitty artists he's forced to platform that he would be evil to. i could also answer kaz but he is hurting him without punishment

kaz: there are a bunch of guys who he would never wrestle in good conscience, but if he could shoot fuck them up, well... maybe that would even out being on the same card. this isn't a question w named characters as an answer yet, i'm just thinking about all the abusive rapist misogynists that get to stick around, esp on the indies.

2. Who is the most important and influential member of [x]'s family (including chosen or extended family), for good or ill?

mat: his dad for sure. i don't think i gotta explain why

kaz: this is a hard question to answer actually, because for him it's definitely just his mom. his broader family, it used to be his grandma before she died. now it's probably his aunt shelly

3. What's one time [x] has helped someone against their better judgement?

mat: this is smth that will happen in the future, finn's sister ananke gets in a car accident and finn moves back to help his mom take care of her. he reaches out and mat is like ok, um, i guess i can help you get furniture, this is a weird request to start with when it's been 4 years but whatever. finn is very quickly not normal about it

kaz: probably eric, right? like lying for him that they weren't a thing to the detriment of his entire social life. he's surely had moments with productions where he helps out bc maybe the owner isn't as bad as they say, and then the owner is as bad as they say

4. Is [x] a blanket hog?

i regularly repost that lil comic - mat is 100%. kaz never moves

5. What was something that [x] did or had happen to them as a child that they're embarrassed to talk about to this day?

mat: .... so much .... top is probably the birthday party invites thing. i'm not gonna pick an instance of child abuse for this lol. this is hard, mat is embarrassed about everything about himself forever. getting excluded from games. begging a teacher to let him use the library computer instead of having to go out and get ignored during recess. you can probably make some up

kaz: it wouldn't really come up outside of a very specific conversation and he's mostly over the compulsion, but he used to check laundry labels very very carefully and specifically do smaller loads of stuff that matches, because of a time when he was still learning (teaching himself to try and be helpful) and he accidentally fucked the whole thing up horribly. to be fair the machine was old and fucked up anyway, but he not only overloaded it and the belt snapped, but he put bleach into colors, which would have maybe been fine if the machine hadn't broken and he didn't panic and stick it all wet and unrinsed in a garbage bag lol. he was 7, it's ok

6. At what age did [x] first work, and what was their first job?

mat: his first job was work-study at the library at his university, at like 18

kaz: he worked at a dollar store when he was 15

7. When [x] was a child, what did they overhear the adults around them arguing about?

mat: him, money, how his mom needs to stop hanging around those gossipy church bitches, how she's not keeping the house up, how much she fucked up their son, etc