#jon matteson family tree

[honeyspawn]

Some ideas about Paul's family:

Option 1: Jon Matteson Fmily Tree - full-transparency, the Jon Matteson family tree has never really been my personal favorite, or at the very least, the idea of Paul specifically having a big chaotic extended family has never felt very "Paul" to me. Paul has always struck me as such a solitary entity in Hatchetfield, or at least until Emma shows up. That being said, I won't deny that the idea is fun. That being said, I think if we're gonna go with the whole Paul is Richie's uncle thing, I don't think he's literally the brother of one of Richie's parents. I think "uncle" in this case is used in the general way a kid refers to an adult relative, and he's more of a distant cousin. I don't really know how to explain it, but I simply cannot picture Paul with siblings. Overall though, to me, I think I prefer the idea of Gary and Boy Jerry being Richie's uncles, and Paul is just kinda separate.

Option 2: Generic Retirees - I've mentioned this in another post, but something about Paul having no relatives in Hatchetfield even though he's lived there his whole life there feels very "Paul" to me. I suppose you could conclude from this that his parents are dead, but seeing as he's only in his early 30s and that implies his parents probably died kind of young (probably somewhere in the 50s-70s range depending on how old they were when Paul was born and when they died), I like the idea instead that the explanation is the most boring one possible; they retired in Florida. Their names are Arthur and Martha Matthews, or something similarly generic. They are the most boring 60 year old couple imaginable. Arthur likes to garden. Martha likes bird watching. They have no other hobbies. They visit Paul a couple times a year. They are constantly trying to convince Paul to move to Florida. They are the Matthews family. They are boring.

Option 3: Crack Theory Time - This is insane, and I don't really believe this theory, but the idea came to me one day and I the thought wouldn't leave my head, so I need to share it. So the idea behind this is Paul is such a singular entity that it's almost enigmatic, or at least it would be if anyone cared that much. Paul never talks about his family to anyone. He never really thinks about his family, and he feels like he's been on his own for a long time. That's not to say he doesn't remember having a family. He had a mom. She was nice. It was a shame she passed away 15 years ago. And when he starts dating Emma and she asks about his family, that's all he has to say. "I had a mom. She was nice. It was a shame she passed away 15 years ago." He remembers having a mother, but he doesn't really remember anything that specific about her. He's not sure why. He never thinks too deeply about it. He's not sure he can properly recall her face unless he's looking at an old scrapbook. It's strange, though. As soon as he puts the scrapbook back on the shelf, it's like he forgets again. All that really sticks is he had a mom. She was nice. It's a shame she passed away 15 years ago. It's not like he didn't love her, of course he did, she was his mom. And she was a good mom too, he's sure of it. One thing he does remember though, is before she died, she had a long talk with him. He can't remember about what exactly, but he knows it was important. He's pretty sure she was saying goodbye. If you've watched nightmare time, you may have guessed where I'm going with this. I don't really know where this idea of mine that Miss Holloway is Paul's mom came from, it just kind of seemed like Paul being a mysteriously solo entity in Hatchetfield makes sense, and this seemed like an interesting explanation. It also would tie into the fact that Paul might have a slight latent resistance to the LiBs. In tgwdlm, Paul has a whole musical number where he resists the Hive while being infected, while the only other times anyone gets infected on stage, it's a matter of seconds. Paul is also one of the only adult characters who sees through Tickle-Me-Wiggly; even Emma thinks Tim would want a Wiggly "more than anything." Do I think this is all some insane foreshadowing? Absolutely not. This seems extremely unlikely to me, and a product of my own over-thinking, but it sure is fun to think about anyway. (Also, I've never seen anything about this online before, but if this is an existing fan theory, please let me know. The Miss Matthews theory, if you will)

Option 4: He Doesn't Have One - Paul does not have a family. He is just Paul. It's not important for Paul to have a family because they are not relevant, and therefore, they simply do not exist. This also seems very possible to me, and tbh feels appropriate, both for Paul, and for Hatchetfield. I mean heck, according to Curt Mega his shopper character in Black Friday is literally named "Shopper No. 4". Paul just straight up not having a family because he's Just A Guy™️ feels right.

Wow, this was a lot, actually. If you read this whole thing, thanks for letting me infodump, and I'd love to hear what you think.

#starkid #team starkid #tgwdlm #black friday #npmd #nightmare time spoilers #nightmare time 2 spoilers #nightmare time #nightmare time 2 #paul matthews #jon matteson family tree #richie lipschitz #miss holloway

[southernambrosebassford]

Its hard being a hatchetfield fan because how do I explain that yea I think this lawyer this kid with superpowers this anime nerd this sex hating camp counselor this theatre kid and this completely normal guy who likes coffee are all related but not because they all look the exact same ... just because I said so

#im TELLING YOU #I spent an hour one day figuring out the family tree #then had to redo it twice #bc it didnt make sense. #hatchetfield #jon matteson #paul matthews #richie lipschitz #boy jerry #stopwatch #gary goldstein #and wiggly just watches them ominously in the corner #hes not even in the family he just watches.

[acutemushroom]

My version of the "Jon Matteson's characters are related" family tree

Sorry for the bad image quality, I tried to keep every character the same size without making the page too big

I know the popular headcannon wants Gary to be the father of the twins, but the surnames didn't match. So, to keep it coherent with the ages, I placed him as Paul's cousin on the tree. The twin's father not being Gary, then, I assumed he would be Paul's brother-in-law. Making him Richie's uncle from the maternal side.

As for Boy Jerry, there was nothing saying he had to be Paul's brother, but there was also nothing saying he couldn't. So, yeah, little Jerri is also Paul's nephew.

#hatchetverse #team starkid #nerdy prudes must die #the guy who didn't like musicals #nightmare time 2 #jon matteson #jon matteson's characters are related headcannon #paul is richie lipschitz's uncle #paul matthews #richie lipschitz #trevor npmd #gary goldstein #black friday #boy jerry #girl jeri #the lumber axe starkid #headcanon #family tree

[loooongfurby4444]

What I think Paul’s family tree looks like

Also Gary would totally take his partner’s last name.

#paul matthews #richie lipschitz #gary goldstein #boy jerry #Rowan Murray #hatchetfield starkid #hatchetfield universe #hatchetfield series #Paul family tree #jon matteson

[blondephenobarbitol]

I've been trying to figure out Jon Matteson Character Family Tree theory

after all of my limited research, here's what I've come up with:

Wallace is using his military powers to keep Lumberaxe hidden.

Richie is unhelpful to this cause and once told Pete "did you know my second cousin is the hatchetfield axe man."

'Uncle Paul' drives Gary's kids to school. One day they got in the car and there was a whole seven year old child back there also calling him 'Uncle Paul.'

Also Paul's been offering the kids money in exchange for dirt on Ted.

Gary knows one of his kids likes anime and the other likes superheroes but he can't really tell the difference. Paul has seen one episode of sailor moon and thinks he knows everything ("who do you kin? Who do you ship? You know who I kin? ... you.")

Gary also went out of his way to join the Wiggly cult because he knew it would piss off Jerry.

Daniel is surprisingly close with his cousin Wallace. It turns out having psychic abilities can be really useful to the Secretary of Defence.

Also Daniels been buying a lot of stuff recently with money that came from...the 'stock market.' He got himself some new roller blades and got Richie some anime pillows. Gary pretends not to notice but already is writing up a case for Daniel incase he gets in trouble.

Aunt Emma has secretly been buying Richie blue hair dye for like a year. Gary has no idea where it's all coming from, but he keeps finding the empty boxes and Richie's been wearing a lot of hats recently.

(Which really confuses him because he never told Richie he couldn't dye his hair.)

#jon matteson #starkid #hatchetverse #hatchetfield #paul matthews #gary goldstein #boy jerry #richie lipschitz #stopwatch #nightmare time #black friday musical #npmd #tgwdlm

[celestetcetera]

the jon matteson family tree is so funny to me if you go for daniel/stopwatch & richie as brothers & paul as their uncle. bc the image of paul trying to awkwardly be an uncle for the kids that have, respectively, the power of god and anime on their side, is so funny. does paul know one of his nephews moonlights as a psychic wrestler on the side. does he know he can bend the flow of time

#starkid #hatchetfield #npmd #tgwdlm #nightmare time

[tht1guys]

I totally get why some people don't like the whole Jon Matteson family tree idea when it comes to Paul, cause he is like the resident normal guy of hatchetfield and he would be the last person to have this massive chaotic family. But I feel like that just makes the whole thing even funnier.

Like, resident normal guy happens to be related to that weird camp counselor (jerry) , one of the best (or only if you like that idea) lawyers in hatchetfield (gary), the fucking secretary of defense to the PRESIDENT. Its even more hilarious if you make Linda Monroe of all people somehow related to him through roman. The guy who you expect to be an only child has a distant older or younger sibling who had twins who he now takes care of (richie and trevor) and maybe another kid with superpowers (daniel).

Paul Matthews is the last person you would expect to be related to all these people, and yet somehow he is. Through the odds he somehow manages to be the most normal person you could ever meet while simultaneously having the most chaotic family ever. Not to mention how these eldritch gods have some sort of attachment to him to the point one of them made him the main character of a musical.

#richie lipschitz #jon matteson #gary goldstein #starkid #hatchetfield #paul matthews #npmd #tgwdlm #black friday #team starkid

[nabwastaken]

Go absolutely wild with your headcanons, I wanna hear what you've got!

- @starpirateee

sure thing! just putting a few of my favorites-

Dan and Donna's relationship in each of the universes varies a LOT. In Time Bastard, they're married. In TGWLDM, they're dating. In NMPD it's a case of the two of them mutually pining for each other but acting like total tsunderes about it

The Sweetly's have NO clue about the other's infidelity despite it being so obvious. It's never crossed their minds. Everyone other then Charlotte and Sam is completely aware and tries to give them the most OBVIOUS signals.

Transmasc Dan. That's it that's the headcanon.

He overheard Pete talking to Ted about Pete's transition, and then proceeded to give the most helpful advice ever, leaving the Spankoffskis completely and utterly confused as to what just happened and why the hell Dan knew that due to him not being out yet.

While Hatchetfield High is your stereotypical small town football school, Sycamore does basketball and has surprisingly won more tournaments than Hatchetfield High. They don't care less about that, though.

The kids who went to Sycamore are, in no particular order... Paul Matthews, Stanley Nolastname, Gary Goldstein, Jerry Matthews (Paul's older brother), Jeri Nolastname, Dan Reynolds (he went to Hatchetfield High pre transition but moved to Sycamore the year after), Douglas 'Duke' Keane and Melissa Nolastname.

All of them are now completely different people but are still united in the fact that they HATE Sycamore.

Sam and Charlotte were high school sweethearts (pun intended) and kinda rushed into marriage soon after graduating

Barry Swift is fully, completely, absolutely, 100% gay and in denial about it. He married Helen and later Sheila Young to fit into society's heteronormative standards

Gary, being everyone's laywer, has probably slept with half the town.

That includes Mayor Lauter. No, I will not elaborate.

The Starlight Theater put on a production of Spies are Forever one summer. Duke Keane played Agent Curt Mega

Similarly to the Jon Matteson family tree, most of Hatchetfield's Jeff Blim characters are also related. They differentiate each other at family reunions through the length and style of their hair.

#starkid #hatchetverse #team starkid #dan reynolds #donna daggit #sam sweetly #charlotte sweetly #hatchetfield universe #nerdy prudes must die #the guy who didn't like musicals #black friday musical #hatchetfield headcanons #barry swift #gary goldstein #Trans Peter Spankoffski #duke keane

[m0th-h]

My thoughts on the Hatchetfield Jon Matteson family tree (including some other headcanons):

Paul and Gary are brothers (twins possibly)

Gary is Richie's dad

Paul and Richie ARE close, Richie stays with Paul when Gary is too busy with a case

Ok this one is a bit iffy, so feel free to disregard it, but Roman could be Gary and Paul's father (Separate mother from Linda, but they have the same mother)

which like- think of the implications

Boy Jerry is Paul and Gary's cousin

No one really talks to him

Stopwatch (Daniel) is Richie's twin

Paul does not know that Daniel has powers, nor does he know where all this money keeps coming from

Secretary of defense is a distant cousin to Paul and Gary

Trevor and Richie are canonical brothers!!

Trevor is the older brother to the twins

Trevor was held back a grade, and that's why we still see him in npmd even though Richie is a senior

Now, for funzies, let's try to add Wiggly to the mix:

So, obviously, they are in no way blood related

But Wiggly is a little shit and likes to fuck with people

I think he'd start with Paul first, forcing Paul to interact with him

I think he'd gind it fun to see some normal ass guy completely resistant to him

He'd just bug Paul until Paul finally caves and responds to him regularly, deciding it's better than drawing out Wiggly's annoyance

It gets to the point where he makes Paul congratulate him every time he overthrows a Earth

Paul is not a fan.

I can't see Wiggly interacting with any of the others

Maybe Richie, but that's mainly just to scare the shit out of him

Wiggly would more or less leave this Paul's world alone, keeping his brothers away too

This is his Paul. They can have the other ones

#This should in no way be taken seriously lmao #if anyone makes a fanfic based on this family tree please tag me #no one makes gary and paul brothers and that is a CRIME #starkid #hatchetfield #nerdy prudes must die #hatchetverse #npmd #starkid black friday #starkid npmd #nightmare time #tgwdlm #the guy who didn't like musicals #nmt2 #nmt s2 #paul mathews #gary goldstein #boy jerry #black friday #lords in black #the lords in black #wiggog y'wrath #wiggly #jon matteson #jon matteson family tree #abstinence camp #honey queen #uncle paul #trevor lipschitz #trevor npmd

[thearcanecat]

Here is my take on the Jon Matteson character family tree! Under the cut because it got very long. I spent way too long on this. Random headcannons I came up with below.

Jon’s Nighthawk is not actually related because he is a bird, but he always shits on Carl Metzger. Louie always said it was good luck to to make his brother feel better about it.

Bob’s first two children were taken by Blinky, so now he keeps a very close eye on the rest.

Bob is long-lived because of the magic in the Witchwood. (I was trying to get him to be around the same age as Emma’s great grandfather. If I did ages I could make it work but the generations messed me up.)

Everyone in Hatchetfield hates Carl Mason for no reason. They refuse to listen to his broadcasts, which led to more people getting hurt on Black Friday.

Wallace always has to field questions about his brother, who is not a great man. The Northville Actor’s wife left him and took Trevor back to Hatchetfield. Sidenote: If anyone has the link to the primary source of the Secretary of Defense’s name, please let me know or add it to the wiki.

#starkid #hatchetfield universe #hatchetverse #hatchetfield #richie lipschitz #paul matthews #gary goldstein #roman murray #boy jerry #jon matteson #the arcane cat can talk

[natureismynature]

Update on my Jon Matteson Hatchetfield family tree-

Roman Murray is Paul's enstranged father (yep, he's a bastard child ig). Roman has two other siblings who are the parents of Gary Goldstein, the Secretary of Defense, and Boy Jerry. Gary and the Sceretary are brothers. Jerry is an only child. These four all still very much hate each other-

Richie and Trevor are twins and the children of Paul's deceased cousin from his mother's side and had no one else to take them in so Paul became a single dad of two teenagers at 28 or something. Daniel (Stopwatch) is the Secretary's son who likes to sneak out of their house because he's often left alone by his busy parents, they don't know he participates in an underground fighting ring or the fact that he has powers. These three love spending time with each other very much, they are bros for life <3

They are descendants of the Waylons who Wiggly favors and maybe... probably... most likely, put a curse on their bloodline to see them suffer because he likes that.

(I'm an only child Paul [from his mom] believer, which technically makes Richie and Trevor immune to the Wiggly curse... Richie's just unlucky as fuck lmfao)

#timb talks #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #paul matthews #roman murray #gary goldstein #boy jerry #richie lipschitz #trevor lipschitz #daniel (stopwatch) #jon matteson #the guy who didn't like musicals #black friday starkid #nerdy prudes must die #nightmare time

[honeyspawn]

Listen, as cute and funny the whole "Jon Matteson's characters are related thing" is, can we please leave Roman out of the family tree? Linda and Gary being related is so cursed.

#promise me you'll think about the implications #starkid #tgwdlm #black friday #npmd #roman murray #linda monroe #gary goldstein

[lastwiltedflower]

I love the "all of jon's characters are related" thing because like. we don't get enough familial background on any of them so it works so well. BUT if all of them are related, that means Roman is related to them. which means if all of jon's characters are related, Gary and Linda are related. I need a Jon Matteson Hatchetfield family tree cause dang... I might make one

#everyone has been forgetting roman :( #but i won't. #now i have to think about the implications #jon matteson #team starkid #hatchetfield #black friday starkid

[acutemushroom]

My " 'Jon's characters are related' tree" corrected

So....upon first posting it, I've realized that I've forgotten Roman and Wiggly. But that's not all, I can do better. Yesterday, I've realized that I also forgot Daniel/Stopwatch... So, here is a corrected version of the family tree. Though, I still deliberately did not include Wiggly and cie. for my sanity's sake. I could have added the Emma and her family to the tree, but since her and Paul don't have children together, let alone children played by Jon, I chose otherwise.

So... here is some explanation on how I connected the Murray and Monroe families the the Matthews one :

Again, Roman doesn't share the same surname. And Roman being the leader of Nibbly's cult, I wouldn't be surprised (and HC) that he is much older than he looks like. Probably around Sheila's age actually... So, it's through his sister that he is connected to Paul ! But again, the ages wouldn't have fitted that well if he was his great-uncle. So, I went down a generation below. Roman's niece is actually the Matthews' matriarch, Paul's grandmother.

Which makes Linda Paul's second (degree) cousin, despite them being around the same age. I partially explain that by the fact that, at least in my HC, her mother was something around 30 years younger than Roman (yeah, yikes) .

In the same order of ideas, her children are Paul's father's cousins, his first cousins then, despite them being younger than most of Richie's generation. In fact, I don't think Trent is much older than little Jerri... Talking about them, I know Gerald isn't the biological father of at least half of Linda's children. But because we don't know who their fathers actually are and that Gerald's name most probably is on the birth certificate, I am going to put them as his children. Not that it changes anything for the sake of relating each of Jon's characters.

Stopwatch is Gary's son. No real reason if why not ?

Also, here's some HCs about the dynamics in the family !

The twins know for Daniel's power, but not for the fighting ring. Richie's been so overexcited to learn that, that Daniel feared he would spill the beans. Thankfully, he didn't. Under oath not to. All the family think Daniel has martial art classes, only his father knows the truth about the fights.

Daniel calls Paul and his siblings uncle and aunt. Jerry did try to break him out of the habit, he's their first cousin not their nephew. But it just made it worst. Now, Jerry is suspecting Gary to bribe his son to purposefully call him that just to piss him off.

Girl Jeri knows that Jerry has nephews and a first cousin. But not at first ! When she saw them for the first time, walking pass them on the street, she legit stopped in her track and searched for a solid minute why they looked so similar to Jerry. He had to clarify why later.

All the men are made from the same mold in the family ! No seriously. If Little Jerri had actually been raised by his parents, instead of being left in the woods as a baby, he'd look like his father's exact copy.

When Paul brought Emma to a family reunion for the first time, she did make a joke/comment on the fact they all look like clones. Which was particularly hilarious in the "Forever an always" timeline...

Linda has no idea that she is related to the Matthews.

#hatchetverse #team starkid #jon matteson's characters are related headcannon #the guy who didn't like musicals #nerdy prudes must die #nightmare time #black friday #family tree #headcanon #I have the memory of a goldfish #now...to tag each characters 😭 #roman murray #linda monroe #gerald monroe #trent monroe #seaton monroe #jordan monroe #river monroe #gary goldstein #stopwatch #paul matthews #trevor npmd #richie lipschitz #boy jerry #girl jeri #the lumber axe starkid

[starcanwrecked-confessions]

Jon Matteson family tree is overrated.

I feel like I have to get this out or else I'll explode but- idk. it bothers me a lot. And if we go based off of the "same actor same family" law we get a bunch of stuff that DOESNT work out and I just don't wanna fuck with it as a whole.

God that feels good to say.

~~~

#confession #starkid #hatchetfield

[blondephenobarbitol]

Revised Jon Matteson Character Family Tree

*Clones are not human and therefore not included* *Wiggly is also not human but likes to show up and torment the rest of them every now and then* *Roman and Carl have families in canon and therefore are not included* (also we all decided Linda and Gary boned so we can't include Roman because we can't have both)

Everyone has different last names because we respect our mothers in this family, goddamit...

no one has heard from Paul and Gary's brother since he got a job down at Watcher World.

#jon matteson #starkid #hatchetverse #wallace mcneill #boy jerry #paul matthews #gary goldstein #richie lipshitz #daniel stopwatch #nightmare time #npmd #tgwdlm