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[kaontic]

Aw, who’s a distinguished gentlemech?

You’re a distinguished gentlemech. 💚☺️💚

[yourpalmickeymouse]

Hello again, Mickey! Wasn't planning on asking a question again so soon, but there was one in particular on my mind that has me curious. I'm not sure if anyone has asked about it before, so apologies if you've talked about it, but how exactly did you meet Mortimer Mouse? In other words, what's the origin of your beef?

Hiya angrysausage,

It's always great to get a question from you.

You wanna learn more 'bout Mortimer huh? Mortimer...

I think I already shared 'bout my feelin's on him, but I only briefly brushed on how we met in the first place. I s'pose I could give a l'il bit more detail, just for you fellas. 😉

Well, it started many years ago, back when I... was in Mouseton Middle School. Oh boy, was that a time of hormones and high emotions🙄. Now I know for many people middle school was a bit of a tough time. And it was. But it wasn't like that for me... at first.

I wasn't super popular, but I remember bein' generally liked by everyone. I was kinda the class clown of my year and fell into the role of keepin' everythin' fun and makin' everyone feel good and laugh. Sure, I got in trouble once or twice for goin' a bit too far, but nothin' too bad and my teachers even seem to enjoy havin' me 'round. Now, Donald was still in Duckburg and Goofy, Horace, and Clarabelle went to a different school in Mouseton. So my inner friend group during school mostly consisted of Minnie and... Gosh, who else. There was another kid. He was my partner in crime when it came to pranks. Chucky? Chester? I dunno. I'll have to ask Minnie. The point is things were good. That is... until HE arrived.

Ya see, halfway through my first year, my class was introduced to a new kid who moved here with his family. You can take a guess on who that kid was. But he was actually really different at first. He was shy and nervous. He sorta kept to himself and ate by himself durin' lunchtime. Though, it didn't help that he tripped when introducin' himself in homeroom, which probably hurt his first impression with the other kids. But of course, Minnie and I felt really bad for the guy and decided to invite him to our group to hang out. Which ended up bein' a HUGE mistake.

Now the problems didn't start immediately. For the first couple of weeks, we actually were a solid friend group and I really thought that we were friends. But then like a switch, he just suddenly changed overnight. Mortimer just started to treat me differently. What was once playful teasin' turned into targeted bullyin'. Things that I told the group in secret, ended up at every corner of the lunch room. Mortimer even just straight stopped hangin' out with me and the other kid (Chidi?), cold turkey, and would only hang out with Minnie and a couple of other snobby kids.

And that's not bringin' up every single time I would do somethin', he would immediately try to upstage me, which was really easy givin' how much money he had. I remember when I drew a sketch for Minnie to help her feel better, he hired a professional artist to paint her portrait. He would humiliate and make fun of me constantly. And downplay all my achievements. And try to convince all my friends to leave me. And... actually, everything he still does now. Before I knew it, I felt less like a class clown and more like the butt of the joke. Middle school went from an okay experience to a nightmare. Luckily by high school, I was able to have more friends 'round like Donald, Goofy, Clarabelle, Horace, and even Clara who had my back.

I, to this day, am still at a loss for what happened. I don't think I said anythin' hurtful or did anythin' to upset him. Maybe it was hormones, but he still acts the same way as an adult. Maybe it was all part of his nefarious plan to begin with. The only plausible thing I can think of is that maybe he saw me as a threat when it came to Minnie. He seemed to get along with her the quickest. But we weren't datin' at the time. I don't even think I had a word for what feelin's I had for her. But maybe he sensed somethin' and pulled every trick in the book to get Minnie to date him before she could even date me. It didn't last very long. But it still hurt givin' how awful he was to me... and Minnie didn't seem to take that into consideration.

Well, I feel like I'm startin' to get into a weird territory 😅. I think I'm gonna stop here before we go too deep. But I hope this reveals at least a little bit more detail on what happened.

- M.M.