#I'm in an awful mood so I might as well deflect it onto something pointless

[moved-to-piersgender]

Seriously, the way the peak fandom treated Mettaton just because he's a feminine guy with no obvious love interest was FUCKED UP. He was usually written with all the depth and subtlety of crepe paper because his canon characterization is too Problematic I guess. Not every P/apyton shipper treated him as just Papyrus' Love Interest and nothing else but…so many did.

It's a bit funny I guess that most people that ended up with strong negative feelings about P/apyton (the ones that weren't being straight up homophobic about it at least) did so because they feel like Papyrus deserves better than someone as messy as Mettaton can be when in my case it was VERY MUCH the opposite. A fair few people overcorrected for the infantilization by turning Papyrus into a creepy stalkerish horndog and it's just like…no. Restraining order now please.