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AU WORKSHOP - APRIL
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CHARACTER: Mettaton
CANON: Undertale

AU NAME: Matthew "Matty X" Block
AU AGE: 27
AU OCCUPATION: Musician
BLURB:
• Grew up in a rural area on a farm owned by his decently-sized family. Was a music and pop culture nerd.
• Started a band in high school with a cousin or sibling and a couple of their friends, of which he was frontman, lead singer, and guitarist. (He wasn't actually very good at guitar.)
• First moved out to Recolle for college - studied theater.
• Stayed for a little while to pursue jobs in acting and modeling. Didn't get as far as he hoped.
• Headed back to his hometown, got the band back together, switched from its singer/guitarist to its singer/bassist (in contrast to the guitar, he is a fairly groovy bassist), and actually started making some ground with them as a serious project. New wave and glam rock influences - I'm thinking the Ark meets the Killers meets the more recent 1975. They're not chart-toppers or anything on that level, but they've got a cult following.
• To distance himself from his unremarkable background and a family he was drifting apart from, Matty started calling himself "Matty X" shortly into his musical career - and started pronouncing the "X" as a Roman Numeral "Ten" to make it seem like a little less of an obvious, cheap alias.
• When their paychecks started coming in, Matty moved the band onto its own record label, based in Recolle.
• Band has only had one or two consistent members other than Matty, those probably being the relative and/or one of the school friends; he can be a bit of a demanding creative control freak.
• He's still a huge pop culture junkie - esp. when it comes to music, since it is an area that pertains to him financially. Does some talent scouting
• Also a clotheshorse and a foodie.
• All over social media.

LOOKING FOR: Fans, anti-fans, bandmates or ex-bandmates, other musical/entertainment/business associates, creative types who he might not work with necessarily but who he might be aware of and have an opinion on, immediate or distant relatives, former classmates, anyone else who might've known him pre-career, anyone who might run hip 'n hot establishments in Recolle or who he otherwise might bump into while painting the town - anything goes!

METTATON....

i could offer jade as a potential fan, and probably super talkative at him on...twitter and social media - she actually has her own youtube channel with dave strider where they blow up things for views (i wish i could explain, they are unexplainable) so maybe he could have an Opinion on that? idk. she plays ukulele though and grew up in a musically inclined family so if you'd like to work out a way for him to be aware she's a musician too i can work with that! THE 1975 JUST PINGED ME HAHA since they're one of the bands jade listens to in game.

IT IS HE.

And haa, that all sounds like a lovely start! If he does get in, ha, his first act is probably going to post around that he apparently now has a Retrospec account, so ha, get hype for probably-less-scattered chatter there - and more room to talk about music! Another thing that'll probably happen if he gets in: a mock-up of his band's discography with short-and-sweet "this is a disco-y song about X", "this is a riff-y but also shimmery song about Y", etc. descriptions, in case any details however small end up being good for finagling anything extra out of!

Also I love Jade and her family's whole AU setup here.

time for frisk to lead his fan club

by which i mean hello!!! i am excited to see you here and i am down for pretty much any type of cr??? i will take it

Hello again to you! And 'ey, if that happens, he will certainly not complain.

Ahh, so am I! Are you thinking it might be a good old-fashioned "throw them at each other and see how things pan out from there" case? Because I am A-okay with that.

slides in here, did you say a musician

since for one reason or another i managed to make both of my characters' au's heavily feature music SOOOOOO THERE'S THAT

i'm bringing in Xion who will be a youtube star, and Yu here is a singer/songwriter who does nothing of his own work but writes songs for his friends who sing. he might know xion due to her youtube celebrity! alternatively, she might know him through his band/music and be a huge fan and get kinda starry eyed about it. I'M OPEN TO ANYTHING REALLY i just really love this au for mettaton.

Ahh, man, I'm glad if you do like it!

And whether Xion'd be a fan is completely up to you but MTT knowing and/or keeping up with a popular YouTube musician sounds mmmmost legit - hobbyist singer/songwriter's also a hook I'll definitely keep in mind!

another eccentric artiste. kasen had a band, himself, mild success, mostly of the "eleven minutes of arrhythmic noise" prog rock variety. but for the most part he is multi-media and patronizing other artists.

Ha, sounds fun - and ahh, I can't view Kasen's in-journal info! To check, does he get much exposure as an artist, or is he more in-certain-circles/on the DL? If it's the former, his name might at least ring a bell to MTT (he's not as actively into the visual arts, alas), but even if it wouldn't, heh, it sounds like they could have plenty to talk about!

wanders in a full fashionable week late

i'm just trying to collect all the musicians here, okay. If Matty has played at local indie venues in Recolle in the past year or so James/Bucky here has probably been to at least one of his shows. He probably pretends to hate it while thinking it's actually kind of good, James likes to think himself an emo/punk purist even when he likes other things too.

How would Matty feel about some asshole teenager trying to start a music rivalry with him for no damn reason and no clout/fanbase to actually make it a decent rivalry

Oh, my god, that sounds priceless. And he probably would find it kind of funny, if in a little of a "well now who do you think you are" sort of way!

Also that username is fantastic.

how dare you ask him who he thinks he is, HAVEN'T YOU EVER HEARD OF A LYRICAL ASSASSINATION??? come on man get your head in the rivalry game. meet him in the pit man. FIGHT HIM, BATTLE OF THE BANDS STYLE!!!! (he'd lose but he'd go down fighting the whole way. or perhaps you could say....sugar he's going down swinging?)

and thank you, i'm very proud of it! it took me like three journals to find the perfect username hahaha

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