Matty

Matty is a major character and the secondary antagonist in Mystic's People's Project series. He made his debut in Season 5 of the People's Project and was the main antagonist of that season as well as the main protagonist anti-hero of Season 6 before he was replaced by Karel.
== Appearance ==
Matty's default appearance is that of a young effeminate male with medium length brown hair, dark blue eyes, fair Caucasian skin and is average height and weight. He dons multiple different outfits throughout the series. He dyes his hair, wears contacts and wears makeup to match his outfits. 
== Personality ==
Matty has been described in many ways, both positive and negative. But mainly negative.
* Narcissistic and Egotistic: He can be incredibly vain and inconsiderate towards others around him, often doing things for the benefit of himself, while at others' expense.
* Wrathful and Vindictive: He's often seen as rage induced, vindictive and vengeful. As well as incredibly petty, trying to gain some sort of "justice" or revenge on others for small things done to him.
* Bossy and Manipulative: Matty will do anything to get what he wants and will manipulate anyone in most ways possible, whether it be through charisma, coercion, victimization or negotiation; he will do what he must to whoever he must to fulfill his goals.
* Coercive and Intimidating: Matty's main strength comes through his ability to intimidate those around him, most people fall for his manipulation because they're too afraid to stand against him. This is on account of Matty's strength and wrathful nature.
* Charming and Charismatic: Matty captures the love of the crowd and some contestants with his looks and charm, having been able to gain people who were once his close enemies, into allies or friends, whether it be temporary or not.
* Insane and Psychotic: Often doing things that can be considered immoral or unethical, Matty has done some seriously unethical things, such as committing arson, murder, assault, animal abuse and extreme manipulation. And when confronted about these acts, Matty feigns remorse and guilt, but in reality, only does this to gain the trust of potential allies.
* Caring and Overprotective: Matty cares for those he considers friends, allies and love interests. Doing anything to protect them, please them and avenge them if he feels they have been wronged. This can make him come off as incredibly possessive and simpful.
* Lustful and Dissatisfied: Matty is always in search of a romantic and sexual partner, having had a crush on Ruby in Season 5 & 6. As well as on Cyber in Season 6. He also managed to date Emoji in Season 7, as well as Duarte in Season 8. He does seem genuinely in love and compassionate towards his love interests and is willing to change for them to gain their approval or to please them.
* Emotional and Impulsive: Matty often acts on impulse and anger, causing him to hurt others around him or himself. He also frequently cries and expresses sadness through his tears, often being called a crybaby or child.
* Intelligent and Strategic: Despite his many irrational behaviours, Matty has been shown to boast high intelligence, formulating strategies and tactics. As well as using logic and reason in situations instead of emotion or impulse. This is what also allows him to manipulate others around him so easily, as he observes people and sees how he needs to adjust himself to get on their good side.
* Competitive and Stubborn: Matty will play the game and push forward to win, he has extreme persistence and determination and doesn't give up easily.
* Loyal and Trusting: Matty never betrays his allies and puts all of his faith into his allies, as if they would die for them. This always proves to be his downfall, as he usually relies on his allies to carry him to the win or use him to carry them.
== Character Story ==
=== Season 5 ===
Matty makes his debut in Season 5 on the BRUH Tribe. He immediately establishes himself as a stereotypical gay and flamboyant male. Constantly calling himself "A queen" and trying to draw as much attention to himself as possible with all his flamboyant and self-talk. He proceeds to start a confrontation with Ruby after Ruby calls him "Beauty Nerd". Matty retaliates by attacking Ruby's clown getup and makes fun of him for it. Displaying his headstrong and defensive personality.
Matty would spearhead the campaign to get a tribe leader, revealing in his confessional that if he can successfully establish a tribe leader, then he can put all the blame on them if their team were to lose, securing him in that night's elimination. He manages to establish TK as the tribe leader despite the tribe's insistence that they don't need a leader.
Regardless, the tribe would thrive with multiple members fulfilling duties such as hunting, collecting, gathering and crafting. However, Matty remained in the main area, taking on a janitorial type of role, cleaning and organizing it. The tribe saw this as lackluster work and after losing the first challenge, the team gunned for Matty, trying to blame their lack of functionality on his failure to bring something meaningful to the tribe. Matty, refuted and pointed at TK for poor leadership. Saying he failed to motivate them enough to win the challenge. Despite this, at the elimination ceremony, BigZ is voted out for inactivity and failing to bring anything to the tribe in any way. Securing Matty's place in the competition as of now. 
Matty would continue to bump heads with the tribe after TK steps down as leader. Continuing to insist on a tribe leader, it backfired, as the tribe tried to force him into the leadership position, he quickly refused the position and successfully got Stan to continue leadership. During this time, Matty managed to secure an alliance with A and Ruby. Where he would control their votes and decisions. He would also overhear TK badmouthing multiple members of the tribe, wherein Matty would spread the news to Airi and the rest of the tribe members in order to put a target on TK's back. The tribe would find out about this and would turn on Matty (with the exception of his alliance members). After being at risk of elimination, his tribe would decide to eliminate another inactive member instead of him. Deciding that although he isn't bringing too much to the table, he is still more useful than others.
After multiple more losses for their tribe, Matty would finally decide to step up as tribe leader, encouraging, motivating and ordering around the tribe members. Where he particularly got along with Airi and arranged the tribe in an orderly manner. This would lead to them winning their first challenge. This victory would reward them with the Comfort Zone and immunity from elimination for the first time. This, however, didn't make the tribe like Matty.
After Stan and Scooby find the magical stones, it causes conflict within both the BRUH Tribe and Pondering Pandas Tribe. While Matty was sleeping, Ruby would get his hands on the Greed Stone where the whole tribe would turn on him and attempt to steal it from him, Ruby would run to the comfort zone and would give Matty the Greed Stone. Matty would take the stone and attempt to calm down the tribe so as to avoid any cracking in the foundations he had built for success. This failed however, for his team would accuse him of choosing sides because of Matty's crush on Ruby, which he swiftly denied to no avail. 
The Greed Stone would continue to subconsciously corrupt Matty with greed and control, as his team would start to become more and more aggressive towards him until he decided he had finally had enough and would destroy all the stones. He believed they were tearing the team apart. He runs to the forest to destroy the stones, but is intercepted by Stan, Airi and Zay. As Airi would try and take the stone away from Matty, he would lash out and hit her across the face, but after seeing how he's changed, he would fall to his knees and start to break down in tears. After being returned to the tribe, he would reveal in his confessional that his tears were fake and were a way to get his team off his back. It worked, as the team shifted their eyes towards other people in the tribe, such as TK, Stan and Ruby.
Matty insisted that Stan had an unusual obsession with the magical stones and accused him of allying with the other tribe due to his constant interaction with Scooby. Matty's tribe naturally took Stan's side and told Matty he was just being paranoid. This would infuriate Matty, and in an attempt to vent, asked Ruby to take him hunting so he could take out his frustration on animals, showcasing Matty's unstable emotional state and anger issues. Here we also see Matty's athletic abilities, because as of recently, he's been shown to be lazy and/or inactive. He vaults and leaps large distances as well as demonstrating his precision knife-throwing capabilities, being able to hit a deer square between the eyes. He and Ruby to the tribe with the food and cook it, not before establishing a mutual bond between the two of Them. Their team ended up winning the challenge and he was safe from elimination.
The next day, after a team switch, Matty would introduce Cyber to the tribe and categorize him into a role in the tribe. Then, he would once again get into a heated debate with his tribe over Stan's obsession with the stones and some shenanigans regarding Ruby. This is also where Matty can be seen spending more time with Ruby, as he felt safe around him and whenever his leadership was challenged, as Ruby would threaten them with violence, and they would comply. The tribe felt uneasy about Matty's power in the tribe and wanted to eliminate him, but they decided they would get rid of Ruby instead, after a tie between Ruby and NotFound, Matty's vote was able to secure Ruby and eliminate NotFound instead. 
The next day, chaos ensued, as a large, heated argument between all of the tribe members broke out in regard to the stones. Matty's original plan was to eliminate TK, but he was moved to another other tribe right before elimination, as the elimination ceremony came early that night. Matty was confident that with his alliance as well as his tribe's reliance on his leadership, he would secure Stan's elimination that night. Shockingly, Ruby and Matty ended up being in the bottom two of that elimination. Matty let his crush on Ruby overpower his game sense and he decided that he would forfeit the tie so that Ruby could continue in the competition. Matty was eliminated. He didn't accept it, as he had secured enough votes to eliminate Stan. He called Mystic and Production out for rigging the votes, as nobody was supposed to vote for him or Ruby. He proclaimed that his team were traitors and needed him for his organizational skills as well as his leadership, but he was taunted by his tribe members and by Mystic, before being dragged away by security. 
While being dragged away he states that he will return under any circumstance and that Mystic would be hearing from his legal team. He got 35th place in his elimination. With Matty gone, the tribe lacked any orginisation and leadership, and because of this they would lose more and more challenges. Along with this, Matty's departure also outraged Ruby, causing him to destroy the confessional and assault many of the tribe members in a hate fueled rage, this is in part due to Ruby seeing Matty as his only ally and friend on the team. Especially after A's betrayal of the alliance. The BRUH Tribe would be disbanded into the Pickle Gang Tribe and Pondering Pandas Tribe.
=== The Twist ===
After a long time with no drama and silence between the three tribes, a shocking twist was introduced. A contestant would return in the Final 27 and was put on the Pondering Pandas team. This contestant was Matty.
In his return, Matty brandishes a new look and personality. Sporting a different appearance and an aggressive attitude. He states that he filed a lawsuit against the producers of the show as well as Mystic for wrongful dismissal of competition, getting Mystic to admit that the votes against Matty were tampered with. After receiving negative disdain towards his presence and getting into an argument with the tribe, Matty would show the tribe that he's not to be messed with. He assaults Airi by pulling her hair and shoves Silver's face into the ground after he tried standing up for Kemelle. Naturally, the entire team dislikes this new version of Matty and gangs up on him, he notices that he's outnumbered and flees up into the trees, leaping amongst them to get away, too fast for the others to catch up. He finds a cave on top of a cliff and establishes his hideout there. This new development cements him as a prominent threat and antagonistic force in the tribe. This showcases Matty's newly worked on athletic capabilities and strength. He also shows that he picks his fights and knows when to stand back.
Matty expresses his anger and frustration in the confessional, saying that he would get revenge on the others by destroying something meaningful to them. He does this by burning down the tribe's treehouse, which also kills the tribe's mascot animal, Sparky the Owl. This sparks outrage in the tribe as everyone looks for Matty and in an attempt to apprehend him. Airi and Stan comfort Emoji after the death of his owl, before Matty appears in the treetops. Matty taunts Emoji and the rest of the tribe regarding the treehouse and the deceased bird. Causing them to get furious with him and call him psycho. This shows Matty's psychotic tendencies. 
After multiple negative encounters with his tribemates and being outcasted, Matty would begin to regret his behaviour and actions towards his tribemates. After a particularly devastating argument, Matty would retreat to his hideout, as he would begin to tear up and sob, revealing in the confessional that he doesn't want to act this way, wishing that things could just return to how they were in the BRUH tribe and wishing he could be back with Ruby. He decides to overshadow this sadness with anger, stating he will get revenge on the others and show them why they shouldn't mess with him.
Pondering Pandas would continue to win challenges with Matty's help, despite his antagonism towards the team. In this time Pickle Gang would find out about Matty's return and his actions on the Panda Tribe, Ruby would seem excited by this news. However, Cyber would find out about Matty burning down the treehouse. Enraged, he challenges Matty to a showdown. Airi and Emoji would attempt to lead Matty to the connection of the four tribes so that Cyber could attack him, but Matty, originally falls for this, but feeling something was off, he uses his Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) that he won in his lawsuit to access all of the islands' cameras. In doing this, he sees the very aggressive looking Cyber and chooses to avoid confrontation, knowing he doesn't stand a chance.
He continues to abuse his privileges, such as his two immunities won from the lawsuit, and most importantly, his PDA. Using the PDA to stalk and observe the other contestants, gaining as much information on them as possible. It was also used to keep in contact with his legal team. He also uses it to see the confessionals and the other contestant's thoughts. It was also a way to deter the others from the location of his hideout. However, after Stan, Airi and Emoji located his hideout, he would pack up and leave his hideout with all his things, setting up boobytraps within the cave. Once Stan and Emoji entered the cave, the traps were triggered and two Molotov's were dropped, exploding and sealing the exit to the cave with a wall of fire. Around this time Emoji's alternate ego would begin to take over, this caused Emoji to push Stan into the fire, using his body as a bridge over the fire and out of the cave. 
Matty and Airi witnessed this, as Airi would manage to extinguish the fire, but noticed Emoji about to jump off the cliff, so she ran to him and grabbed him before he could. The injured Stan would crawl out of the cave and into the middle of the forest. Matty goes to find him and stands over Stan's burnt body. Matty taunts Stan and laughs at his idiocy. Not wanting to be charged with negligent homicide, Matty gives Stan an aloe vera plant for his 3rd degree burns, before leaving him and alerting Airi that he needed medical attention.
Matty finds Emoji, realizing that he could use Emoji's lack of control of himself to his advantage. As Matty tries to manipulate Emoji into an alliance, Airi interrupts, to confront Emoji about pushing Stan into the fire. Finding an opportunity to make himself look like the hero, Matty ties Emoji up to a tree in order to drill information out of him. Emoji's alter ego takes over in an attempt to preserve itself and maintain secrecy, knocking himself out and causing him to remain unconscious. This angers Matty as he attempts multiple different physical and psychological torture methods to get Emoji to spill, such as slapping him, stabbing him and using smelling salts to bring him out of an unconscious state. Failing to get any pivotal information, Matty retreats to his hideout. Allowing Airi to untie Emoji and give him medical attention.
A few uneventful days pass, with Matty merely intercepting Airi's attempts to acquire the Magical Flowers by stealing them and burning them before she can grab ahold of them. In doing this Matty comes across Stan wandering through the woods alone. He proceeds to leap down from the tree above and present the flowers to Stan so that he can observe them. Stan is naturally hesitant, but Matty sets the Flowers alight and shoves them into Stan's face. This causes Stan to be set into a hallucinogenic state. Taking this opportunity to kick dirt onto Airi's name, Matty would contact his lawyers on his PDA and orders them to photoshop and edit the footage to replace him with Airi. He succeeds and waits for Stan to exit his hallucinogenic state. After Stan comes around, Matty shows Stan the footage, and with Stan suffering from memory loss due to the Flowers' effects, he somewhat believed it. 
Naturally, the Tribe rejects this "evidence" and jolts it up to Matty photoshopping the footage. Some members, although not believing Matty, remain skeptical of Airi. Airi claims that she has an alibi in Scooby, as she was with him during the drug trip. To which Matty discourages Scooby's approval of her alibi. Stating that he was on another Tribe, and he should not attempt to meddle with internal Tribe affairs. Nobody believes Matty and it causes him to fly into an intense state of pure delusion. Convincing himself, he in fact did not drug Stan and that it actually was Airi. And for the rest of the season, Matty remains within this delusion, and he never admits to his drugging of Stan.
Matty finds Emoji alone in the woods and comforts him for his loneliness and for being an outcast due to his alter ego. Matty successfully manages to manipulate Emoji into an alliance, with him once again placing his full trust within Emoji, expecting him to follow his every command when tasked to. They find a certain comfort in each other, but Emoji displays a hint of distrust within Matty and questions his morals. Matty tasks Emoji to lead Airi to the cliff where his base his is. With Emoji distracting Airi, Matty "sleeps" in the Comfort Zone, but secretly sets it ablaze. The Tribe gathers around the blazing Comfort Zone, and they rush to extinguish the fire. Emoji rushes into the Comfort Zone and pulls out an unconscious Matty. Everyone surrounds him and nurtures him until he awakes. Matty expresses confusion and disorientation towards the situation. Stan and TK explain the scenario, which causes Matty to show "genuine" fear and concern for once. Matty pulls up the footage and reveals it was Airi who did it. With Emoji under Matty's control, Airi doesn't have an alibi as Emoji doesn't cover for her. This causes Airi to call Emoji out of being a rat that gets trained in a laboratory and that Matty was the scientist, before storming off.
Matty calls Emoji out to the forest to discuss their next plan, but Emoji retorts by exclaiming that he's tired of being used by Matty. Telling Matty that he removed his alter ego and that Matty can't control him anymore. Emoji then proceeds to push Matty into the river, causing Matty to get upset and call Emoji out for using him and being a fake friend. Emoji feels terrible for suddenly assaulting Matty and runs off crying. Matty gets up out of the river and goes to the campsite to dry off. But he comes across Emoji there. Emoji attempts to apologize, but Matty storms off in an attempt to escape Emoji, but Emoji grabs his arm. Matty slaps his wrist off of him and runs away, with Emoji is swift pursuit behind him. Matty runs towards the waterfall's edge and jumps off. Shocking Emoji and prompting him to jump after Matty to save him. Emoji falls down the waterfall and severely injures himself. And it is revealed Matty grabbed hold of a branch that protruded from the cliff. Climbing up, Matty assumes his new status as "Dead" or "Missing" to avoid elimination.
(To be added.)
== Trivia ==
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* Matty is the secondary antagonist of the People's Project series.
* Matty is one of the most hated or controversial characters in the series.
* Matty has been charged with multiple accounts of varying crimes throughout his time on the show: 
**He is yet to be sentenced for his crimes:
 According to the sentencing of America, Matty would be sentenced to 12 years, 7 months and $31,500 in fines.
* Matty was originally supposed to debut in Season 4 (Hell's Kitchen). But he couldn't make it and was replaced by Karel.
* Matty is one of the few contestants to return to the competition in the same season they were eliminated in, the others being Cyber, Emoji, Stan, Nat, Silver, Drama and Epic.
* It was confirmed by Mystic that Matty was supposed to win Season 6 and Season 7, but due to unforeseen circumstances, was unable to.
* Matty's eyes turn red when he is extremely mad. 
* Matty's villain archetype is the "Wrathful Abuser".
== Appearances ==
List of Appearances (Competing Episodes Only):
Season 	Episode Count	Character Role 	Team(s) 	Placement(s)
Five (Survivor) 	25 Episodes 	Main Antagonist 	BRUH Tribe
Pondering Pandas
Merge	35th Place (Returns)
8th Place
Six (Big Brother) 	13 Episodes 	Main Protagonist (Anti-Hero)	Pickle House
Panda House
Merge House	6th Place (Replaced by Karel)
Seven (All-Stars) 	24 Episodes 	Supporting Antagonist 	Sadie Tribe
Big Brother Merge House	16th Place
Eight (Amazing Race) 	17 Episodes 	Main Antagonist 	Just "Friends"	8th Place
Twelve (The Sims / Fallout)	5 Episodes 	Supporting Character 	N/A 	26th Place
== Gallery ==
=== Outfits ===
#Outfit (1) was the outfit Matty debuted in. Matty brandishes dyed medium blonde hair with pink highlights, pink contact lenses, a grey and pink sweater, a pink collared shirt underneath with rolled up sleeves and grey rolled up jeans. As well grey and white sneakers. He can also be seen wearing a light pink blush.
# Outfit (2) was worn temporarily during Matty and Ruby's hunting exposition. The same as outfit (1) but with black and red colours to replace grey and pink. His hair was also dyed back to brown, and he has red contact lenses and a red hunting visor.
# Outfit (3) was worn for the remainder of time before Matty's initial elimination in Season 5. He wore it to celebrate being tribe leader. It was temporarily worn in Season 7 before Matty was eliminated. The same as outfit (1) but with light brown dyed hair, light blue contact lenses, a darker grey sweater, white shirt and brown jeans. He also sports white sneakers this time.
# Outfit (4) is Matty's most commonly worn outfit. It's the outfit wore throughout the rest of Season 5 after his return. He also wore it for his whole stay in Season 6 and wore it at the start of Season 7 before switching to outfit (5). He also wore it for large parts of Season 8. This is Matty's most natural look, sporting undyed hair (excluding the highlights), his natural dark blue eye colour, a black leather jacket, pink t-shirt underneath, brown pants and black designer leather combat boots. In Season 8 he wears a black choker.
# Outfit (5) debuted in Season 7 after Matty got outfit (4) dirty. He wore it throughout the remainder of the season until he temporarily switched to outfit (4) before he was eliminated. Matty's hair is longer and more curled, once again dyed blonde with a pinkish hue, he also sports pink and blue contact lenses, a pink turtleneck sweater and rolled up magenta pants. As well as pink and white sneakers.
# Outfit (6) debuted in the first episode of Season 8 after Matty went shopping with Knox and he also wore it in the Hollywood Challenge. Much like outfit (4), instead it's a blue leather jacket, magenta t-shirt, rolled up blue jeans and white sneakers. He also has pink star-shaped shades on his head.
# Outfit (7) debuted when Matty wanted to match outfits with Duarte and was switched back and forth with outfit (4). His hair is longer and curlier, he's wearing black shades, a black crop-top, black jeans, a black gold buckled belt, black boots and black spiked wristbands. He also sports a black choker and necklace with a gold jewel on it.
# Outfit (8) debuted in the first episode with a white collared shirt with rolled up sleeves, a black tie with a golden tie clip, a golden tie pin with an M on it, a bade with an M on it, a black belt with gold buckle sporting an M on it, long sleeve khaki pants and black dress shoes. He also has gold bracelets around his wrists and a black choker around his neck with an M on it. His hair is its natural brown colour and his eyes remain its natural dark ocean blue colour.
File:Matty Outfit 4.png|Matty's full body sheet. He's wearing Outfit 4.
File:Matty Outfit 7.png|Matty in Outfit 5.
File:Matty Outfit 6.png|Matty after buying Outfit 6.
File:Matty Outfit 6 (1).png|Another image of Matty in Outfit 6.
File:Outfit 7 full body.png|Matty wearing Outfit 7.
File:Matty Outfit 4 (2).png|Matty in Outfit 4 with two different variations.
File:Matty x Duarte.png|Matty standing next to Duarte with matching outfits.
File:Matty S12.png|Matty in his Season 12 appearance.
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