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Corporeal Cousins is the familyship between Mettaton and Mad Mew Mew from the Undertale fandom.
Canon[]
As detailed in Mettaton's secret diaries, the Ghost inside Mad Mew Mew used to live with cousins Mettaton and Napstablook, before Mettaton called himself that. However, one day, the ghost had decided to become corporeal, choosing the body of a training dummy. Both Mettaton and Napstablook were fairly bummed about that, since they only have each other for company now. When Napstablook asked Mettaton whether he wanted to become corporeal as well, sounding especially resigned in that moment. Mettaton told his cousin that he would never leave them behind. However, in his diary he admitted that he hadn't found a body he wanted yet. When meeting Alphys, who had designed a body that suits his needs, Mettaton breaks his promise and becomes corporeal just like their other cousin.
However, if the child had killed a certain amount of monsters before meeting the Mad Dummy, it is revealed that the ghost inside hadn't even properly fused with the Dummy yet, unlike Mettaton, indicating that they weren't all that happy with their new body anyway. In the Nintendo Switch version of the game, a door in the basement of Sans and Papyrus' house is added, which can only unlock when defeating Mettaton in his EX form. Behind that door is the new body of the Mad Ghost, a life-sized Mew Mew Kissy Cutie doll, so the ghost inside goes by the title of "Mad Mew Mew" from that point onward. The Xbox version, Mad Mew Mew can't be fought, she merely takes Sans' place on the poker table after Mettaton is defeated, probably hinting that Mettaton helped inspire Mad Mew Mew's choice for a new body.
Though Mettaton and Mad Mew Mew never actually interact on-screen in the game, they have multiple interactions in official supplementary material. In Undyne's dialogue, Mettaton nonchalantly reveals that Mad Mew Mew is a virtual streamer now. In Mettaton's dialogue for the scrapped alarm clock app, he talks about how he was invited to Papyrus' Christmas party, only to spot a "pink-haired hussy" and claiming that she wasn't invited. He made a scene when the guest poured Napstablook some "ghost juice" and made a mess on the floor, with Mettaton verbosely telling her to just leave. The guest then stood up to Mettaton by challenging him to a chainsaw duel, but Mettaton refused (if nobody wanted to film the whole thing). So she resorted to further escalate the situation by tossing juice in his face, which Mettaton offended Mettaton solely because it was a juice he didn't like. So eventually they settled it "like adults" doing something involving bombs and bullets, with Mettaton not remembering many details besides getting dizzy and Alphys and Undyne having to intervene and then peel them off the floor (he doesn't elaborate if he meant that literally). Alphys tells Mettaton when he regained consciousness that Napstablook had to leave the house because they couldn't stand to see them fight, with Mettaton and the other guest both staring at them crying outside in the snow. Finally, Mettaton confirmed that the pink-haired guest was indeed Mad Mew Mew, who shared a moment with Mettaton after the situation de-escalated, they both reveal that they're envious of Alphys' and Undyne's relationship and share the pain by drinking ghost juice that neither of them could taste.
Fanon[]
Given the game presenting the idea of ghosts becoming corporeal as the fantastic equivalent to transitioning, many fans like to present Mettaton and Mad Mew Mew as an example for transmasc/transfem solidarity. Oftentimes, they are presented as getting along far better than their only canon interactions would indicate.
Fandom[]
- FAN FICTION
- Mad Dummy & Mettaton tag on AO3
- Mad Mew Mew & Mettaton tag on AO3
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Undertale Ships • Undertale Characters | |||||||
❤SHIPS | het | Alphore • Asgoriel • Dogamyressa • Dunkin Donuts • Mettalphys • Muffgore • Soriel | |||||
slash | Asgorudy • BouquetShipping • Bowsgore • Papyton • Royal Guards • Sansgen • Sansgore • Sansmaeda | ||||||
femslash | Alphiel • Alphyne • Bratcat • Mewdyne | ||||||
non-binary | Annoying Tem • Asrid • Chans • Charisk • Chasriel • CocoaPowder • Frans • Frisk Kid • Friskriel • Red Justice • Shyblook | ||||||
poly | MewAlphyne | ||||||
family | Blook Cousins • Chasgore • Clovgore • Corporeal Cousins • Dreemurr Family • Fallen Humans • Ghost Cousins • Goat Dad • Goat Mom • KFC • Skelebros • Smad Cousins | ||||||
friend | Boneheads • Bones N Pellets • Flowisk • Frisemmie • Friskablook • Friskaton • Friskdyne • Kidyne • Nyechtar • Papyrisk • Undertale Trio • Undyrus • WesternFlowers Duo | ||||||
CHARACTERS | male | Asgore • Asriel • Flowey • Mettaton • Papyrus • Sans | |||||
female | Alphys • Mad Mew Mew • Toriel • Undyne | ||||||
neutral | Chara • Frisk • Monster Kid • Napstablook |