Matthew (Mac) 🧀

✩Basics✩

♂ | Adolescent

✩Occupation: Baker's apprentice (Babalicious Bakery)

Various other jobs (Part-time)

Student (Sweet Melody Academy)

✩Species: Mantibab

✩Body Type: Jack

✩Personality: Obliging | respectful | humble | soft-spoken | easily flustered | jumpy | anxious

✩Bio✩

A young bab that works harder than most his age, Mac strides to reach his short and long term goals soon. He juggles school along with multiple jobs, and has very little time to make that many friends. Even if he had more time, he has a difficult time interacting with others, so he prefers to just focus on his studies and work.

It's astonishing to people when Mac says that his dad is Macdad because of their opposite personalities, though his dad's "name" can be a big give away. His dad can be... quite the dad, especially with the amount of jokes he likes to tell when Mac's friends are around. Sometimes the jokes have gotten so bad, the school bullies pity him and leave him alone. Mac doesn't know whether to feel relieved or incredibly embarrassed about it, but most of the time he's left embarrassed about many things his dad does.

Mac is thankful for any work he can get, mainly because he's gotten himself fired for the silliest things. His has the opposite of butterfingers, which his dad calls "cheesy fingers", where Mac accidentally holds onto an item for too long or too tightly. At work this can lead to customers thinking he refuses to give them their items, dishes accidentally being dropped, or Mac being accused of theft when he forgets something was in his hand. The amount of times a customer, or his boss, has yelled at him over this makes Mac always on edge when working for anything involving customers.

This is quite an unfortunate thing as his dream is to be a waiter to wear the aprons he often loves dearly. He used to have waiter jobs, but after all the mishaps that happened, he now finds himself working in the background. To get pass this, he plans to open his own restaurant someday just so he can have his own waiter aprons to wear and serve people the best of food.

For now he works at Babalicious Bakery where everyone has been kind and patient with him. While it's very pleasant to work there, he's still bothered that he accidentally worked at the same bakery as his dad does, making his dad his boss.

✩History✩

✩Mini Backstory

As a little babling, Mac was adorn with love and affection from both his parents. Macdad would try to teach him how to cook in the kitchen, his first dish being an omelet. (many egg puns were made during this lesson...) For a while Mac hoped to be a legendary chef just like his dad, and was edging towards being confident.

While Mac was still young, confusion and frightening events struck when his parents split up. Although Macdad tried his best to shield his son from all that was happening, Mac was able to catch on enough to know his mom was moving away from them. Shook by this, Mac blamed himself for his mom moving away, even though he had no idea why this was truly happening. He kept these thoughts and feelings to himself, leaving his dad unaware of the feelings building up inside of Mac.

One night, Mac had woken up being carried by someone in the night. He realized it was his mom, and at first he was delighted to see her. She brought him to the new city she had moved to and tried to bond with him without explaining all that was happening. After a few weeks, Mac started wondering when he would see his dad, but given the expression on his mom's face whenever Macdad was mentioned made him nervous to even ask. Some months passed without word from his dad or any sign of him going back to his dad's home.

Very panicked by this point, Mac could no longer hold it in anymore and went to ask his mom what was going on. Amidst heading towards the front door, he heard his dad's voice and listened in on the argument between Macdad and his mom. "... What's the big idea?! You know I would have let you see him and even have him stay with you willingly..." was what Mac could manage to hear. It was then he realized his mom had took him without his dad knowing, and this brought him to tears. Bursting out the back door, Mac ran away not knowing where he was headed nor did he care.

After a day's time, Mac got himself lost and even in a whole another city without any idea of how to get back to either parents' home. He wandered the streets, afraid and frighten by all the sights and scary sounds surrounding him. Wandering into an alleyway, Mac ran into a mantibab by the name of "Frosty" at the time. Frosty asked what a kid like him was doing all alone in the dangerous city, and telling Frosty what happened, Mac stayed with him until Frosty returned him to the last city Mac was in.

Upon arriving there, his dad saw him and came running up to him and hugging him tightly. "Let's go home, son," his dad said with tears in his eyes, and Mac has been living with his dad ever since. Til this day, Mac suffers from anxiousness of all that happened, and he has no idea where his mom disappeared to after she took the blame of him getting lost. However he cherishes his time with his dad, and one day plans to save up enough to go and find his mom.

✩Full Backstory