the romances in hatchetfield fuck me up so bad like. every time. like youve got:
the most normal couple of all time, except one of them always seems to understand when the world is going to end and they inevitably are driven apart by something out of their control.
two grungy teens/young adults who will never get a happy ending so long as theyre together
a woman who everyone forgets and the man who falls in love with her every time he meets her again and again and again.
high school sweethearts haunted by their pasts and sometimes their futures, too.
a nerd and a 'cool kid', who just keep trying to sacrifice themselves for each other despite something interrupting them every time.
romance is not dead in hatchetfield! except for the fact that it usually ends up dying horribly and tragically.
Alright. This may be a controversial opinion but Paul is not the Wet Cat character of Hatchetfield. Neither is Ted, neither is Richie. No it doesn’t matter that Paul is an actual cat. Nor does it matter that Ted went through hell and back a thousand times then realized he lost his house keys. Nor does it matter that Richie talks like that. Because wet cathood is about a very specific vibe. And not even Jon Matteson’s big sad eyes can earn him top spot because he’s not Starkid’s only pair of big sad “buy them brown contacts” blue eyes. That’s right, In this essay I will explain how Charlotte Sweetly is THE true Wet Cat of Hatchetfield …
in tgwdlm when Hidge tells the group to sing the beginning of moana, Paul is the only one who knows it. Like, they're all singing but Emma is joining halfway through each sentence and Ted is just jumping in with "ho ho" and Bill has made up an entirely new song.
it's actually really funny to watch them each individually so I captioned the video but also why does Paul know it???
I know that, in canon, the Latte Hatte is Zoey, but my headcanon is that Ted is actually referring to Nora because he's a pathetic wet cat of a man with a Type. There is no actual "Latte Hatte" because everyone just imagines whichever of the three Beanie's workers they like and rolls with it.
Ted's goes "ah, yeah, the Latte Hatte (Nora)" and Paul nods sagely "indeed, the Latte Hatte (Emma)" while Bill's like "Don't talk that way about her (Zoey); she reminds me of my daughter!"