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Girl help I’m getting emotional about how much Munkustrap admires Gus the Theatre Cat again. 
#extemporize back chat#and like honestly in some versions of the show tugger too depending on how involved he gets#that's his hero - that's who i felt like - at one time - munk wanted to be more than anything#because i always see like 'munk is a better storyteller than even gus is' and i'm like *no hang on a sec*#gus is a master at his craft - cats admire and respect him for a reason#munkustrap himself would be like...yes i'm good but i wish you really understood where i got it from#because by the time he's up and about telling his own stories and taking over that role gus has started to fade out#it's hard to understand how good he really was because the proof isn't much there anymore#and all munk really remembers is listening to gus with his chin perched on his knee and looking up at him#like he's the most phenomenal cat in the world#like wow this is who i want to be when i grow up#and that's all he sees when he looks at him - when he's around him he's just little kitten munk again#with his speech impediment and social difficulties and big daydreams#who gus would talk to like an adult and encourage that whimsy and skill clumsy and stilted as it started#who opened up *entire worlds for him* that he held onto even as he struggled to be something he wasn't#who was the only one who would peer at his face and remark how much he looked like his mother when every other cat#would say he looked like Deuteronomy#gaH#that's why i really don't like the bway revival version where they make that...joke? i guess#because munk working alongside his hero in a grand flourish to show him how much he loves him is really just something#that needs to be done out of love#and not..tolerance i guess?#you know?#anyway
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