Handle with care
Cuphead: "Prepare to have your face rearranged, pal." He says as he pulls a blindfold down over his eyes in the middle of the living room.
Mugman: "You're messing with the wrong mug, buddy." He reports as he too pulls down his blindfold over his eyes
Cuphead: "Three..." he says as he grabs and fluffs up a pillow in his hands.
Mugman: "Two..." he also grabs and fluffs up his own pillow.
Cuphead: "One, go!" He says before he begins to yell as he rushes forward blindly with the pillow raised over his head as runs blindly towards Mugman, who too rushes forward blindly swinging his pillow around as he yells.
They rush toward each other screaming but unbeknownst to them they run past each other as Mugman swings wildly in a circle.
Cuphead: "Take this! And that! And some more..." he says as he is beating up the couch blindly in the background thinking it was Mugman.
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Cuts to the backyard where Elder Kettle is watering his granddaughter's garden with a hose in the backyard with a peaceful smile as Y/n is planting some new seeds into her garden with an also peaceful smile as her hair was in a high bun while in the house the boys were screaming at each other and knock over a lamp that crashes onto the floor.
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Cuphead: "Take that! Take that! Take that!" He says he tries to hit his brother but unknowingly was hitting the ground as his brother spins past him.
*SMASH*
Cup brothers: "Uh-Oh." They said as they both froze.
Mugman: "What was that?" He questioned as they took off their blindfolds Cuphead turned around to his brother.
Cuphead: "Ooh!" He says with wide eyes causing Mugman to turn toward him showing what was wrong.
Mugman: "What is it?" He questioned as Cuphead looked down to the floor a bit away from his brother, his handle had broken off.
Cuphead: "Uh...Nothing, at all. Nothing. Why? Why? Why?" He nervously says as he sweats at Mugman's stare at him as he narrowed his eyes at his brother who looks nervous.
Mugman: "Oh, it's something." He says as he turns and walks up to a hanging mirror "Hmm" he mutters as he checks his teeth, under his nose, as he tilted his head to the side in thought, before jolting in surprise to see in the mirror he has no handle.
He turns around slowly to see his handle on the floor behind him, he pokes at the leftover pieces of the handle that were still there on his head feeling that it was short, and realized it was not a trick, screams in a panic.
Y/n comes bursting from the back door with a slam as she ran into the living room, she looks around holding a pitchfork threateningly.
Y/n: "What happened?! Where's the danger?!" She yelled to her brothers as Mugman ran straight to his oldest sister screaming as he held onto his sister scared.
Y/n: "Mugsy? What's wrong?" She questioned as she placed a hand on his head before noticing his handle was no longer there.
Y/n: *Gasp* "Oh Mugs..." she says before she leaned down and picked him up with her free hand as her other hand that held her pitchfork stabs it into the ground.
She holds her baby brother close to her with both hands as he hugs her around her neck.
Cuphead: "Can you feel this?" He questioned as he picked up Mugmans handle and tickled one of the broken ends causing Mugman, in Y/n's arms, to laugh hysterically as Y/n looked over towards Cuphead.
Y/n: "Hey! Give me that Cups!" She said as she walked over and snatched the handle as she held Mugman against her, who looked over and sputtered at the sight of his broken handle in Y/n's hand.
Cuphead: "Bubby, relax. Well handle it." he says as stands next to where Mugman is being held, causing Mugman to glare at him from the wording his brother said, causing Cuphead to chuckle nervously as Y/n looks over with a raised eyebrow.
Cuphead: *chuckles* "I mean, take care of it." He says as Y/n puts down Mugman.
Cuphead: "Easy as pie." He says as he spins Mugman around so that his face is away from him as he licks the ends of the broken handle and places the handle onto Mugman.
Cuphead: "See."He says as Mugman notices the handle is sticking as he looks back happily, Y/n looks questioningly at it.
The handle falls off but just before it could fall to the floor a flame hand quickly catches it as Mugman screams before he cuts himself off.
Mugman: "Boy, that never gets easier." He says as Cuphead walks up with tape in one hand and takes the handle from the flaming hand from Y/n.
Cuphead: "Don't worry just relax." He says as Y/n who has a lightbulb alight above her head she turns and pats Mugman on top of his head.
Y/n: "I'll be right back. I'll have to go find something for that handle." She says as she quickly walks into the kitchen to look for something while Cuphead tapes mugman's entire face with the handle to keep it steady.
Mugman: "How do I look?" He questions muffled by the tape.
Cuphead: "Good as new." Cuphead says just as the handle falls off causing Mugman to scream but is once again muffled.
Cuphead snaps his fingers as he thinks before looking up with a sudden idea.
Cuphead runs out of the house into the woods as the little sunflowers of the window seal look on in curiosity the boy soon comes running back into the house with a honey bee hive in hand. He dumps the sides of the handle into the honey before placing the handle once again on Mugman.
Cuphead: "And voila!" He says as Mugman looks back with a smile.
Mugman: "Thanks, Cuphead." He says as he shook hands with his brother before a few droplets fall onto Cuphead's head causing them to look up to see a giant black bear looming over them.
The bear growled before lunging toward the boys causing them to run screaming causing Y/n to run into the doorway in between the living room and the kitchen as she stared at the scene happening in front of her before her eyebrow starts to twitch.
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It cuts to the outside of the house where the sunflowers on the window seal look inside the house through the window as blows we're landed along with screaming and growling from the bear before the front door slams open causing the flowers to whip around to look at.
Y/n: "AN GET OUT!!!!" She shouted as she grabbed the bear and threw him out the front door he landed outside the white fence a few feet away as he lay in a daze, with little birds flying above his head, as he was beaten up by the older sister who dusted off her hands.
Y/n: "You guys okay?" She questions gently towards the sunflowers, Briar, Poppy, and Lotus who whip their heads to her from where she threw the bear as they look up at her.
Lotus: "We're okay ma!" He says with a smile to their adopted mother who smiles down at them.
Y/n: "That's good~," she says as looks towards where she threw the bear over the fence and stares intensely at the bear who whimpers at her stare and runs into the woods.
Briar: "Are we going to visit Father soon?" She questioned.
Y/n: "Soon little ones," she says as she pats their heads.
Y/n: "Do y'all want to come inside now?" She questioned as the sunflowers looked at each other before looking up at her with a nod as they reached up towards her as she picked all three flowers from the dirt, showing the flowers have little leaf legs to walk with.
She carried the trio inside the house as her brothers were hiding behind the couch before walking around it and noticing their sister got rid of the bear.
Cuphead: "If only there were some substance that could stick one item to another item that didn't attract bears." He says as he pondered an idea.
In the background Y/n sets down the sunflowers inside the living room on the carpet as she pulled out some toys from a medium-sized chest near the coat rack with her flame hands as they placed them near the Sunflowers.
They began to happily play with their toys as Y/n sits down near them with her legs tucked underneath her as she looked down at the sunflowers with a fond smile.
Mugman sniffs before he drops to the floor and begins to sob causing his brother to look over at him.
Cuphead: "Hold on there, Mugsy. This ain't over till we say it's over." He says with his hands on his hips causing Mugman to look over with tears in his eyes.
Mugman: "It's over." He says as a flaming hand pats his head in a gentle and soothing manner.
Cuphead: "You're getting worked up over nothing."
A flaming hand slaps the back of his head.
Cuphead: "OW?!" He cried as he looked towards Y/n who looked at him with a glare on her face as Poppy sits in the candles lap playing with a stuffed blue bear Lotus playing with his little train in front of Y/n, as their sister Briar brushes her dolls hair sitting right next to the woman on the carpet.
Mugman: "Oh, really? Why don't we snap off your handle too then?" He says angrily as he tries to swipe at the Cuphead handle.
Cuphead: "NO!!!" He shouts as he jumps back causing the Sunflowers to be startled from the shout as the flowers whip their head to the cup brothers.
Cuphead: "Uhh I mean... no?" He says.
Mugman: *Sighs deeply* "What if it never sticks back on? A mug without a handle is just a bowl! I'm a mug! I'm Mugman! Not Bowlboy!" He shouts before realizing something.
Mugman: "I don't wanna be Bowlboy!" He weeps before he suddenly looks at his brother "I never shoulda let you talk me into this!" He angrily states.
Cuphead: "WHAT?! You were the one begging for a blindfolded pillow fight!"
Y/n: "What?!" She says as the sunflowers kept looking back and forth between the three people speaking.
Mugman: "This is hardly the time to point fingers!" He says as he points to Cuphead.
Y/n: "Stop pointing fingers!" She says as she sets Poppy on the ground next to her as she stands up.
Cuphead: "Well, don't get mad at me!" He says as he pushes Mugmans hand away.
Y/n: "Don't push your brother!" She says as she walks over
Mugman: "Well, don't get mad at me!"
Y/n: "Both of you stop yelling at each other!"
Cuphead: "I'm the one racking my brain trying to remember what glue is!" He shouts, causing Y/n to look down at the boys.
Y/n: "I just remembered what I was looking for?!"
Cuphead: "Hey! That's right!"
Cup brothers: "Glue is Glue!"
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Y/n: "Here we go." She says as she pulls open a drawer where she spots the glue but as she grabs it she instead pulls the stuff around the glue with it, which she realizes the glue was open and stuck to everything.
Y/n: "Ah great..." she says as she throws the stuck pile into a trash can as Mugman drops to the floor in sadness.
Mugman: "I'm never gonna fix my handle. Maybe I am BowlBoy."
Cuphead: "Aw, this ain't nothing." He says as he stands next to his brother with a smile
Y/n: "We can just get some new glue from Porkrind's." She says as picks up Mugman and puts him on his feet as the Sunflowers hold his hands to steady him on his feet.
Mugman: "But I can't go out looking like this."
Cuphead: "No one's even going to notice." He says as the Briar and Lotus nod their heads at what Cuphead was saying while Poppy was shaking her head no just as he said that they suddenly heard screaming and everyone quickly looked towards to see Elder Kettle screaming at Mugmans handle being broken off before running away.
Mugman turns around and glares at his brother as Y/n places a hand on her hip and rubs her eyes with the other as she sighed to herself.
While the sunflowers looked with wide eyes at where Elder Kettle ran off to.
Poppy: "Well, he saw it"
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Cuphead: "Mugs, I get that you don't wanna be seen, but why do we gotta do stuff?" He questions as the group walks along the dirt path as Cuphead and the sunflowers walk behind Mugman holding baskets of different colored petals.
They walked behind Mugman who wears a big puffy white dress with a white veil ice ring on his face as he holds a bouquet of flowers Y/n walks behind the group of kids to keep an eye on them.
Mugman: "Just pipe down and scatter those flower petals." He says as he flips his veil to speak, showcasing the makeup his sister did for him before flipping the veil back down.
Cuphead sighs before the rest of the children in the group start to scatter the petals.
Briar: "This is so nice!! Thank you for taking us along mama!!" She said as she skipped alongside her sister Poppy and Cuphead ahead of Mugman scattering petals.
Lotus: "Hey ma?" He questions as Y/n looks down at him as they walk behind Mugman.
Lotus: "When are we gonna do this at your wedding?" He questions as Y/n blushes a bright red at the question.
Y/n: "I-I.... Let me get back to you on that, little one." She says quickly as the group passes by a group of people waiting at the bus stop, they gasp and Awe as they see Mugman dressed as a bride.
But just as they passed by the people at the bus stop a sudden gust of wind blows off the wedding dress and veil showing that Mugman wearing his usual clothes along with his broken handle.
The group stops their walking and stares in shock at what just happened.
The onlookers gasped as they stared at Mugman "A broken handle!" A man says, "It's hideous!" An old woman says but before any of the onlookers say anything.
Y/n: "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!" She screamed as she whipped her head around to look at the onlookers as she conjured fire into her hands before throwing it at the onlookers.
They screamed in fright as they ran away from the raging candle who gave chase.
Mugman: *dejected sigh*
???: "Well, I think he looks swell!" Says a boy their age who was a bowl with a few ladles in his head wearing a green bow tie as he stood happily in his black and white shoes as he smiled with his bucktooth on display as he smiled.
Mugman: "Nobody asked you, Bowlboy!" He shouted before walking away in the dark pink high heels he borrowed from his sister.
With his nose in the air as the sunflowers copied Mugman by turning their noses up at Bowlboy as they walk behind Mugman as Cuphead grimaces at Bowlboy as he walks past him from behind the group.
Bowlboy: "Gee, what's eating him?"
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Announcer: "It's Frenchy's Dream and Granny's Whiskers! Neck and neck! It's Frenchy's Dream! It's Granny's Whiskers! It's Frenchy's Dream— Oh, no! Granny's Whiskers wins by a hair!" He says.
It shows Porkrinds shop where it shows a humanoid pig that is chubby, in his late thirties with a curled mustache with a black eye patch over his right eye, wearing a forest green overalls with a gray long sleeved shirt that is rolled up above his elbows as underneath with a pencil resting behind his ears looking at a paper book before he turns off the radio and angrily writes in his book.
Porkrind: "Ganny's Whiskers..." he grumbles to himself before looking up as the bell rings out as the door to his shock is opened.
Cuphead: "Knock-knock!" He says peeking his head inside alongside Briar who peaks around the door, then Lotus peaks around just below Briar then Poppy looks around the door just below Briar.
Mugman: "Porkrind! We've got a problem!" He shouts as he bursts open the door knocking over Cuphead and the sunflowers.
Porkrind: "Do you now?" He says before noticing something amiss.
Porkrind: "Where's your sister, Y/n?" He questions the brothers and the sunflowers who walk up to the counter he's behind.
Cuphead: "She's currently beating up some people down the street, but she sent us up ahead to get a tube of glue, we REALLY need it badly." He answers to the pig.
Mugman: "Real bad." He pleaded as he looked up at Porkrind.
Sunflowers: "Can you do it? Can ya? Can ya? Can ya?" They questioned together as they leaped to the counter and looked up at Porkrind who looked back at the group.
Porkrind: "Well-" he says before he gets cut off as the door opens again as Y/n walks through while dusting off her dress.
Y/n: "I'm so sorry kids, got a little distracted..." she says as she addressed the kids before looking towards the man behind the counter "Hi Porkrind~ how's business doing?" She says as she walks up to the counter and leans against the counter with her arms crossed under her chest as she smiles down at him who blushes as she gets closer to him.
Porkrind: "Business is doing so well these past few weeks, I might even upgrade the shop!" He says as he smirks proudly at his accomplishments as Y/n hums to herself in surprise.
Porkrind: "How have you been?" He questions the candle.
Y/n: "I'm doing great! Oh, as much as I would love to continue to talk with you, I need to buy some glue real urgently." She says as she boops his snout with a giggle and he blinks before he chuckles to himself as he signs dreamily at her.
Porkrind: "It's gonna be really expensive." He says, staring at her as she goes to respond she is interrupted.
Mugman: "We'll pay anything, Porkrind!!!" He shouts tearfully "Not anything." Y/n quickly butted in.
Porkrind raises an eyebrow at her.
Y/n: *Sighs* "I'll get you Elder Kettles's famous soup this month." She says Porkrinds smirks.
Porkrind: "Well, la-di-da. Someone knows the magic words." He says as he puts down the book and pencil as he looks at the group.
Porkrind: " So, what are we flying?" He asks with a wide grin.
Y/n stands in between her brothers as her sunflowers stood in front of her as she dug into her purse before pulling out and showing him Mugmans broken handle Porkrind holds his hands against his mouth as his face turns green.
Mugman: "Of course! He's disgusted by my disembodied handle." He says tearfully as Porkrind swallows back his throw-up before he addresses Mugman.
Porkrind: "Nah. I don't care about you or your handle." He said as Y/n gave a quick look at him as he pointedly did not look in her direction. Porkrind: "I just ate a rank fish sandwich." He points over at a bucket in a corner where a fish sandwich was thrown in as a bad smell emanates from the bin.
Kids: "Urgh!" They all said as they stared as Y/n looked at him in sympathy.
Porkrind: "Yep. Anyway, I'll sell y'all the glue. Be back in a jiff." He says as he walks behind the curtain to walk to the back of his shop leaving the group at the register.
Cuphead: "You see, Mugman? Nothing to worry about. " he says as he leans against the register counter right next to Y/n, who smiles gently at Mugman.
Y/n: "The handle will be back on soon sweetie." She says as she stretches her wax arm towards Mugman and gently pets his head.
Cuphead: "That is if you even want it back." He says as he grabs a jar lid and looks at the shape of the handle as a flame hand pushes the jar with the skull on it away from Cuphead.
Cuphead: "Maybe it's time for a little change." He says as he walks towards his brother who stands next to the Sunflowers.
Mugman: "Change?"
Cuphead: "Think about it," he says as the sunflowers tie a white apron on Mugman as Cuphead brings a stool for Mugman to sit in.
Y/n: "Well... You could have any handle you want." She says as she pushes the stool Mugman was sitting in towards a dresser with a mirror on it.
Y/n: "If you want I'll pay for it, ok? Any that you like on yourself, don't worry about the price." She says.
Poppy: "What about this one?" She questioned as she held up a golden handle next to Mugmans head.
Mugman: "Nah. Too fancy." As it's replaced with a wood handle held up by Lotus.
Mugman: "Too industrial." He says as he turns his head to the side as Cuphead places a toy chomping teeth on.
Mugman: "Uh, too 'sticky'." Before it's replaced by a bicycle handle held up by Briar.
Mugman: "No." he says as a candle handle was held up next by Y/n.
Mugman: "No." It's replaced by a shoe horse held by Poppy.
Mugman: "No." as Lotus squeezes a horn.
Mugman: "Nope." As a magnet was connected to his head by Briar.
Mugman: "Hmm." He mutters as Y/n places a toilet handle on his head and yanks on the handle flushing down all the liquid from his head. "Nah."
Mugman: "Nope." He says as a telephone handle was held up by Poppy.
Mugman: "No." as Cuphead placed a boomerang next to his head.
Mugman: "No." he says as Lotus struggles to hold up a saxophone.
Mugman: "NO!" He screams as Cuphead holds up a rattlesnake causing Y/n to grab the snake by its neck and throw it out the window of the shop.
Mugman: "Maybe." He says as Briar holds a half-eaten donut with pink icing with sprinkles. *Sighs* "No." causing Briar to give the donut to Cuphead who eats the donut.
Mugman: "Listen, I don't want any of these other handles." He says towards his sister. "I just wanna be me again." He says.
Cuphead: "Ah yes. The old classic. We'll stick with the original." He says as the Sunflowers carry the broken handle to Cuphead.
Mugman: "Right!" He says with a smile as Y/n pats his head.
Porkrind: "Wrong. I'm outta glue. I will get the next shipment in three months." He says as he turns on the radio and looks back into his book at the counter.
Mugman: "THREE MONTHS?!"
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It cuts open to Y/n opening the door for the kids to walk in as Mugman walks sadly to the couch as throws himself onto it as a blanket falls over him.
Cuphead: "Aw, come on, Mugsy." He says as he walks over to his brother as Y/n lifts Mugman a bit off the couch before sitting down with Mugman.
Y/n: "Three months will go by very quickly." She says to reassure him as the Sunflowers look up at Mugman as they peered over the couch.
Cuphead: "And you can still go outside. People just need to get used to it." He says as he sits on the other side of his brother as peaks up from the blanket.
Mugman: "Really?" He questions as lifts his head up from the blanket causing Cuphead and Briar to scream and fall off the couch as the other two sunflowers duck under the couch in fear.
Y/n simply looks down at Mugman with only a sympathetic look on her face.
Cuphead: "Sorry. We're still getting used to it." He said for himself and the Sunflowers.
Mugman glares at his brother before pulling the blanket over himself as he lays in Y/n's lap in sadness.
Elder Kettle: "Oh, Mugman!" He called out before spotting Y/n and the children in the living room.
Elder Kettle: "Oh, there you are, boy." He says as he walks up to the couch. "Excuse us for a moment, kids." He says as he lifts Cuphead to the side away from the couch Sunflowers walk quickly to where Cuphead was as they came up from their hiding spots as Elder Kettle sits on the other side of Y/n and Mugman.
Elder Kettle: Mugman, I'm sorry I screamed in horror at the mere sight of you, but it just took me by surprise." He says as Mugman peaks from the blanket.
Elder Kettle: "Oh, but gosh, you boys are just growing up so fast. Your bodies are just going through changes." He says before he quickly gives a look toward Y/n who noticed quickly.
Y/n: "Oh! Yes, I should've known! It is around that time."
Elder Kettle: "That's right, your baby handles fell off." He says as Mugman leaps from the couch.
Mugman: "Baby handles?" He says as Cuphead and the sunflowers appear from behind the couch.
Cuphead: "Baby handles?!"
Sunflowers: "Really?!"
Elder Kettle: "Why, yes. Your baby handles." He says as he gets off the couch Y/n stays seated as the sunflowers jump from behind the furniture onto Y/ns lap.
Elder Kettle: *chuckles* "I still remember the day I lost my baby handle. Back when I was but a wee little kettle."
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Flashback.....
As the elder kettle recounts the time it happened to him as it shows a bathroom where a little kettle was brushing his teeth wearing a little sailor's outfit.
Elder Kettle: "I was in the middle of brushing my tiny little toothie, when to my surprise, it happened."
As the little kettle was finished brushing his teeth his little handle started to shake and soon fell off.
Elder Kettle: "Darn it, if my baby handle didn't just pop right off! Like all good boys, I knew that when your baby handle falls off, why, that means you're getting a visit from the Handle fairy!"
Elder Kettle: "So, I put my baby handle under my pillow and waited."
As little Kettle puts his handle under his pillow as he gets under the covers in his red pajamas as a lullaby plays out as a little silhouette of a little fairy flies in from the open window.
Elder Kettle: "In the morning, I ran over to my bedroom mirror, and there it was. My shiny, new..."
the little kettle rushes to his mirror as he looks at his new handle.
Elder Kettle: "Man handle" he says in a gruff voice.
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Elder Kettle: "Ah, youth." He says fondly as Mugman cheers as he runs past him towards his siblings and the sunflowers who fell asleep from the story in Y/ns lap.
Mugman: "Boy! Hear that, Cuphead? I'm getting a man handle!" He says smugly.
Cuphead: "Hey! I want a man handle!" He says before slamming his handle into the wall causing his handle to break off as he smiles wide at his sister and Elder Kettle.
Y/n looks wide-eyed at her brother.
Elder Kettle: "Well, I guess that saves the Handle Fairg a trip." He says as everyone started to laugh except for the sunflowers who were soundly asleep.
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The brothers placed their handles under their pillows before quickly climbing into their bunk beds they quickly fell asleep snoring.
It pans over towards the open window as it turns into the next day.
Cup brothers: "Elder Kettle! Elder Kettle!" They shouted as they ran down the stairs towards him.
Y/n walked slowly down the stairs in a fluffy rope with a sleeping mask above her eyes she had her hair up in a high bun as she walked down the stairs holding her Sunflowers who sleepily rub their eyes.
Elder Kettle: "Oh, uh..." he says as he quickly tries to hide what's behind the closet door which was a blue fairy costume he holds a tube of glue behind his back as Y/n gives him a knowing look.
Cuphead: "The Handle fairy came! Get a load of these man handles!" He says as the brothers turn to show Elder Kettle.
Elder Kettle: "Oh! Looks like he-" he says as he throws the glue into the closet and closes it with his foot.
Elder Kettle: "Uh, I mean, she did a great job." He says as he chuckles as he walks into the kitchen as Y/n follows him as she yawns, making the Sunflowers yawn as well.
Mugman: "To our man handles!" He says as he and Cuphead raised their heads off their bodies.
Cup brothers: "Cheers!" They said as they clinked their heads causing their heads to crack and break apart as the broken pieces of their heads fell to the floor.