#anyway yeah i'm really salty over how sidelined mettaton was

[susielesbianism]

NOBODY TALKS ABOUT METTATON SEEMS TO BE ONE OF THE ONLY CHARACTERS TO BE AWARE OF THE PLAYER’S EXISTENCE.

This fucker set up the news segment to fool you, the player, into thinking it was a standard news broadcast. Frisk wouldn’t have known that. They’re the one inside the news segment.

In his opera segment, he referred to the player dying over and over again and using their determination to respawn (”It’ll suck, and then you’ll die a lot”) and talked about us having seen the tile puzzle over a hundred “rooms” ago. I don’t think any other character in Undertale refers to those little locations as “rooms.” 

AND LET’S NOT FORGET THAT MOTHERFUCKING ESSAY IN THE MTT EX BATTLE.

He says, “I hope you brought a keyboard” before the essay starts. Confusing enough on its own, yes. BUT THE PS4 AND SWITCH VERSIONS MAKE IT EVEN MORE CONFUSING!! Since there’s no physical keyboard, he instead says, “Have fun with that on-screen keyboard!”

He knows there’s a screen separating us from the world of Undertale!

Other characters seem to display varying degrees of fourth wall awareness, but I think Mettaton has the most of it, to the point where he just STRAIGHT UP KNOWS HE’S IN A VIDEO GAME. IT FUCKS ME UP WHENEVER I THINK ABOUT IT.

This is a big reason why I’m mad that he was boxed into a comic relief role while someone like Sans, who at first glance seems to be ONLY comic relief, seems to be a deeper character. Toby Fox better make up BIG for that in Deltarune. Mettaton better come out of his damn house and reveal himself to be a REALLY important character because THIS WON’T LEAVE MY MIND. WHAT THE FUCK.