Matthew Napoleon

Matthew is the chef in Camp Here and There. Menus contains a list of the food he makes each episode.

## Identity

### Aliases

ENTITY7 (FILE 2-3) ENTITY8 (FILE 11-present)

## Appearances

### Voiced by

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## Physical Description

Mayfield describes him as not really looking like a person, rather like someone whose head is just a cloud of scribbles. However, Mayfield has also gone on to say that he "...doesn't really have a design", and that it is ambiguous what he looks like. Mayfield has also described him as a “clean” man.

## Relationships

* Sydney O. Sargent states he would trust Matthew with his life. It is unknown if Matthew reciprocates the sentiment.
* Mila sometimes likes to help him in the kitchen.

## Character History

### Season One

In The Beginning of the End, Matthew serves a newly invented dish named "It's A Special Secret, Baby!" for lunch.

In The End of the Squall, the penguins raid Matthew's kitchen.

In The Squall of Prophecy, Matthew makes a concoction that he calls Apocalypse Stew, and Rowan mistakenly interprets a vision of it as an incoming apocalyptic event. Matthew apologizes wholeheartedly for this mistake. He also makes a special tea for Sydney in an attempt to keep him from having any upsetting dreams.

In The Reversal of Norms, Matthew does *not* have his kitchen raided by campers, and does *not* have the dinner he made sucked into a black hole that the children somehow spawned. He then does *not* report this black hole directly to Lucille.

In The Norms of the World, Matthew reminds the campers that his door is always open to any of them that are feeling called by The Meat.

In The World of Goo, Matthew informs Sydney that he has learned his lesson, and there will not be any real lava with the evening's molten lava cake.

In The Enemies of Labor, the kids from Cabin Dungbeetle steal the food that Matthew was preparing specifically for the counselors, and distribute it amongst themselves.

In The Labors of Love, the prize for the cabin that wins the tower-building contest is a special dessert that came to Matthew in a dream. In the evening, he comes into Sydney's office to explain what the dessert is over the announcements, and describes it as "Ë̷̱̱̬̼̞̣̹́̌̽̊̉͛̓̄̆̚ͅY̴̤͇̫̤̱̺͈̰̲̾̓͊̌̍̽͐̃̔͝G̵͓͖͉̩͛J̴̳̭̝̖̯̖̳̻̈́̓̒̉͛͝V̷̨̢̢͇̠̫͇͔̭̯̭̼̰̏̃̍̀̅͛̒̆̎̎͑̿̕͝D̶̗̭͈̎͋͂G̷̢̭̞̺̰̝̬͔̱̦̏̀͑̈́̾͆̚V̷̠̹̫̬̩̬̠͌D̶̡͖̗̜̝̯̯͍̳̟̼̝̠͚͓̎͝͠V̷̡̢̡̮̻̙̯̱͉̲̩͔̣̀͑͝ͅY̵̡̞̹̱̰̅̊́̊͋I̷̠̗͓̬͚̩̯̩͑̾̕G̶̰͚̗͙̫̘̰̬͆̀̃̀̓̊̿͗̋̆͊̚͝S̶̺̻̟̘͖̯̞͕͍̮͓̖̥͊͋Ȉ̶̮́̋́̑̔͗Ỵ̴̢̧̧͍͇̞͑̂͆͂͌G̵̺̱̈́͌̉͆̽̃̽͒̐̄̀ͅṢ̶̢̧̜̟̪̠̝̹̙́̊͑̓͗̾̄̊̈́̌̉̚ͅͅ."

In The Love of Mother, Matthew is one of the counselors that does not need to participate in the Counselor Olympics, as he behaved normally during the tower-building contest.

In The Mother of Stones, Matthew spends the day making slow meals, since he tired himself out the day before making an extremely memorable dessert.

In The Hallucination of the Hive, Matthew has Sydney relay a warning from HarmlessMart about their 300th Anniversary oranges. He also receives treatment from Sydney, as attempting to cook with these oranges left him with a sense that there was "more empty space inside his body than before."

In The Hive of Anxiety, Matthew is one of the counselors that stays with the campers during the camp-wide staff meeting. He later interrupts the meeting, collapsing on the floor of the administration building as soon as he enters, clearly overwhelmed by the hypnotized children and buzzing hive.

In The Boys of Secrets, Yvonne mentions that the day before Matthew came knocking on her door, asking for toothpaste.

In The Wood of the Caskets, the dangerous mold infiltrates Matthews food stores, so he is unable to make breakfast or lunch for the camp.

In The Hunt of the Clock, Joshua interferes with Matthew's cooking process, at first just pointing out small things, like that he was adding arsenic instead of paprika, but then beginning to micromanage every single ingredient added and action taken. This leads to Joshua being dragged out of the kitchen kicking and screaming.

In The Meantime with Eggs, Matthew takes the day off to hike the local mountains in search of salt, the rarest ingredient in Ohio. Sydney cooks the meals for the day in his stead.

## Trivia

* Mayfield states that the only music he attributes to Matthew are the following lines from Will Wood's *Suburbia Overture*: "smell those teenage screaming sweetbreads on the fourth of July grill, smile and wave boys, kiss the cook."
* He likes to include fun colors in the food that he serves, and "...considers himself something of an artist"
* Matthew has extra cones in his eyes, allowing him to see more colors than a typical human. They are different than shrimp colors because Sydney cannot see the same colors.
* His favorite food is cinnamon.
* He aims to create a new color by combining blue and yellow gelatin. It is unknown whether or not the color green either exists, if Matthew is simply unaware of the color green, or if green is created by mixing colors other than blue and yellow.
* Matthew has been described as a bear

## Sources

1. ↑ Season 1 Episode 1: The Beginning of the End
2. ↑ Season 1 Episode 6: The Norms of the World
3. ↑ Season 1 Episode 8: The Goo of Friendship