#joxter you are so so so iconic <3

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and now, a break from our normal schedule for my Favorite cat dad and his lovely vagabond son

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Muddler please :3

EEEEEEEEEEEE okay let's do this!!

First impression: "Oh wow I can't believe the 90s series missed up his name- OMG BEST BOY"

So it all started back when I joined the fandom in September of 2020 and I was doing some very rudimentary research on the characters to make fanart and such, and that involved looking up wikifandom articles on the characters, including Joxter and Muddler. I clicked on Muddler's name from Sniff's wiki and read through it and I was very hooked until I read this line:

“However, he is a very enthusiastic person filled with love for both his belongings and others.”

- Muddler's fandom wiki

And I metaphorically slammed my hands on the metaphorical table and declared Muddler my best boy, and that's why the obsession got rolling and how I came to be as the first and active Muddler simp of the Moomin fandom.

I personally latched onto Muddler very hard and I was in a bad place at the time so I picked him up, held him above my head and ran with him beyond the desert horizon, into the orange sunset while howling and yodeling gleefully with mania.

Impression now: "M. What have I done."

He is both my baby boy and my husband but I don't like saying it that way because it sounds super weird without context or fandom mindset, but it's the most apt way of describing my relationship with him as a character.

I'm sure my content of him and my unhinged ramblings in the tags of those drawings tells you alot about how I feel about him but in case you need a summary: I need a hug from him and him specifically, I crave it, in fact, but I also wanna pat him and kiss his forehead gently to say that everything is going to be alright.

He is my number one favorite character, he is my Joxter as much as Juddler is my Snufmin.

Favorite moment: Hoooo gosh how do I pick... I haven't really thought about a favorite moment with him as much as I think about him alot, weirdly enough. I guess my favorite canon moment with him is from the 90s series where Joxter as asks M- Fuddler, how he sleeps on all his "useless junk" and he simply replies:

"These are all my valued possessions!"

And it's really iconic to me, it's like, his version of Joxter's "I don't understand signs!"

It barely answers the question posed to him, it's said so casually, and it characterizes him very straight-to-the-point.

Idea for a story: Oh body I'd be here all day to list all of the story ideas I have. My first one I ever had about him has a buddy-roadtrip adventure between him and Joxter on their way to Moominvalley for the epilogue of Memoirs.

But one story idea that I guess would really push his character would be one where Sniff makes a deal with Stinky or something, it turns into a monkey's paw situation where Stinky steals other people's stuff, it gets to Muddler and Muddler goes absolutely insane trying to find the thief going as far as to create a very elaborate trap for the thief and when he is just very irrationally angry and erratic. When he finds out why Stinky's been stealing he is absolutely pissed at Sniff but rather than taking it out of Sniff he takes it out on Stinky by kicking him out and telling him to give everything back or else, and then Muddler sits on a cliff to have a mental breakdown about his behavior.

Unpopular opinion: I think Muddler suffers from the same infantilization problem that alot of anxious or autistic and nice. Like yes of course he's cowardly, of course he would run away from danger, of course he's not the brightest bulb in the box, of course he would cry at any slight perceived against him, but his cowardice and disposition of being overly emotional comes from a place of deep trauma and fear of pain or rejection rather than the childish naivety.

Favorite relationship: I'm stuck between his relationship with Hodgkins and Joxter for this one. One is a very sweet but somewhat upsetting story of an orphan getting adopted by an emotionally distant and neurodivergent uncle and partially failing to take care of his nephew and the other is a love story that makes me soft as the woolen clouds that covered the deck of the Oshun Oxtra.

Favorite headcanon: Muddler is intersex. It's an original headcanon I came up with and it's mostly baseless aside from his terrible posture, layers of clothing and ability to reproduce with a woman, I just think it creates alot of possibilities and interesting facets that would explain some things and make things more interesting.