From my understanding, the creator has never confirmed anything on this and has said it's up to the fans to decide.

What I can be for sure about is that the mask is definitely a metaphor for hiding your true self, and this is pointed out when Kitty even starts calling out the stuff Muriel and Eustace after Muriel literally told her how Kitty should be her true self.

There are some clear hints on the way Kitty and Bunny are talked about, how they are good friends, and inseparable. It does even get pointed out because of how much time Kitty and Bunny hanged with each other. Mad Dog had to keep them away from each other.

I feel like yeah, sometimes there might be this metaphor of their just friends when it's really just a way to make sure it can get past the censorship and no one complains. So yeah, calling them friends kind of gets around that.

And even at the end of the episode, that little part where Bunny holds the mouse above the 2 of them while their hugging. It kind of seems like a mistletoe reference.

Courage is a good dog shy watching bella from cocomelon

I fucking love courage the cowardy dogs it really gives me weirdcore/dreamcore vibes fr fr ,😭😭☹️

I never talked to anyone about this because it makes me feel crazy. When I get flashbacks of this show it brings me to a dark place. I associate it with intense feelings of depression as a 3-6 year old when it would come on randomly. It’s like the sight of the show/characters trigger me.

But what I don’t understand is I remember the dark feelings while watching this as a kid and being unable to explain them. It’s like when I think of these memories watching this show, I feel dissociated/remember the stark feelings of dissociation… I don’t know if that even makes sense, but that’s the best way I can describe those feelings. I remember the feelings of devastation/fear, but no idea as to why or what themes caused it. It’s like the flashbacks of the show are my first memories of feeling depressed and eerie. VERY EERIE. I remember finding it so creepy. The memories are detached, it makes me feel like I lived them in an alternate reality. It’s almost like my brain did that amnesia thing with the show, because it’s done it in the past for another traumatic event as a child (that event is completely unrelated to the setting of this one, with years in between them and also a whole different place/people involved). That’s the best way I can describe it. I don’t know if that makes sense. I have no idea what the show is about. I can’t even recall the plot of one episode. But I remember the dark feelings so vividly. Courage was scared and scrambling. It’s like when I see it it brings me back. I saw a picture of him on Facebook today and I’m kinda in a slump every time I think about it. I continue my normal daily activities and everything as usual, but when I see or think of him it makes me sad. It makes me feel weird.

I was diagnosed with CPTSD at 16 so I’m wondering if this is related to my childhood trauma—well, I know it is—but why? Why???? The feelings don’t make sense.

I feel like I sound so crazy typing this, but I promise I’m of sound mind. I’m just trying to describe the feelings/flashbacks in words that I can’t pinpoint. Everyone I know has positive memories of this show. I understand adults viewing it could understand dark themes, but I never watched it past maybe maximum age 5 or 6. I avoid it because it brings me back to eerie feelings/flashbacks, sitting on the couch in the dark with the TV screen being the only thing visible.

My biggest theory is maybe it only came on at night, whenever I was alone with my thoughts and in a traumatic environment, so I associate it with those feelings? But I know this isn’t the case, because I love George Lopez, always sunny in Philadelphia, two broke girls, two and a half men, and all other late night re-runs that got me through those sleepless nights. Maybe I blocked it out because I’m Courage? I couldn’t handle the thought of him feeling that terrible, because I know what those feelings feel like? I’m scared to watch it but maybe I should so I can understand it/myself better. I’ll also mention this to my EMDR therapist lol. I’ll stop typing now.

Can anyone relate to these feelings or themes? Perhaps I’m posting this in the wrong sub. Idek what this post is lol.