Holy shit he REALLY does have the biggest Jonathan van Ness energy. How did I never make this connection lol. God, that one Queer Eye clip with the fab 5 talking about a dude having no job and staying home all day and how the hell can he not cook for himself and Jonathan going "Maybe he's depressed??" hits WAY too close to home now lol. On a similar note, when I first played Undertale, I mentally assigned voices to most of the characters and after meeting Mettaton for 1 minute, I assigned him Suzy (Eddie) Izzard. In hindsight, the reason why I sucked so bad at the Mettaton EX fight was just bc I couldn't stop laughing at myself and MY JOKE GUESS I HAD NO IDEA.
And also damn your mind. I don't know why it never occurred to me that "this is taking place in the mid-00s" was probably the most accurate answer for a lot of the background worldbuilding in Hometown, especially when my almost 38-year-old ass grew up during then. Meanwhile, I'm over here writing my fic and just writing it off as "maybe it's a small country town with limited funding/resources and there's probably commentary there about the power dynamics between the Holiday family and their wealth vs everyone else, but let's be real - everyone came here to eventually read about Mettaton blowing out Tenna's circuits". Regardless, I LOVE this and thank you for bringing it up!
Also also this tumblr link is solid! I don't really keep up with a lot of the updates/newsletters/whatever that Toby Fox puts out, so I had no clue about the extended Power of NEO song. That alone made my day omg it's beautiful.
> Anyway I think he and Tenna should kiss.
YES. YES THEY SHOULD. OMG YES.
I swear for the past week or so I've had multiple friends ping me to say something along the lines of "so I thought the gay robots thing was just a crack crossover pairing you were going crazy over, then I discovered the actual in-game context and wow they fuckin'" and I will never not grin like an idiot over this.
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Date: 2025-06-24 12:46 pm (UTC)And also damn your mind. I don't know why it never occurred to me that "this is taking place in the mid-00s" was probably the most accurate answer for a lot of the background worldbuilding in Hometown, especially when my almost 38-year-old ass grew up during then. Meanwhile, I'm over here writing my fic and just writing it off as "maybe it's a small country town with limited funding/resources and there's probably commentary there about the power dynamics between the Holiday family and their wealth vs everyone else, but let's be real - everyone came here to eventually read about Mettaton blowing out Tenna's circuits". Regardless, I LOVE this and thank you for bringing it up!
Also also this tumblr link is solid! I don't really keep up with a lot of the updates/newsletters/whatever that Toby Fox puts out, so I had no clue about the extended Power of NEO song. That alone made my day omg it's beautiful.
> Anyway I think he and Tenna should kiss.
YES. YES THEY SHOULD. OMG YES.
I swear for the past week or so I've had multiple friends ping me to say something along the lines of "so I thought the gay robots thing was just a crack crossover pairing you were going crazy over, then I discovered the actual in-game context and wow they fuckin'" and I will never not grin like an idiot over this.