Matthew Corbel

A friend of Wybie's, Matty quickly befriended Coraline when he was introduced to her. He is the central character in the story, Coraline: Tales of 3 Friends.

Personality
Matty is described as a intelligent, but lazy, person. He loves anything but school, even if he has the best grades out of his class. He has a carefree side, and won't mind when his baby sister, JJ Corbel, calls him "Ew", instead of Matthew. While he wants to be called Matt, his friends and others call him by Matty, which slightly bothers him. He does have a courageous side, and will do anything for his friends.

He has been known to drink a little alcohol to calm himself down in situations where he doesn't know what to do, but on the request of Coraline and Wybie, he doesn't.

History
Matty has been friends with Wybie Lovat and Coraline Jones since he met her during her first day of school (he had known Wybie when he was four and he was two). Since then, they've been inseparable. They've told each other their secrets, until one day, when they were visiting an old magic shop in town, Matty found out about Coraline's adventures, and didn't particularly believe her or Wybie. He refused to believe them until they suddenly disappeared, without a trace. Frantic, Matty ran into the forest, searching for them, until dark. He then remembered about an earlier report that week about 8 other children that went missing, and broke down, crying, since he thought he'd never see them again.

He had given up hope, when he spotted a door in a hill that wasn't too far from him. Curiosity taking the better of him, he decided to see what the door led to. He opened it, and found himself in a place out of this world. It was large, but was still small. The inhabitants were dolls, which were horribly disfigured. Matty kept his cool, and wandered around, until he reached a house, far larger than the hill he thought he was in.

That house was the home of the Spindlier, an old, ugly creature who matched the description of the Other-Mother's true form, from what Coraline told him. The Spindlier revealed that the Other-Mother was, in fact, his younger sister, who had been consuming souls of children she lured into her world, while the Spindlier collected the dreams of children to keep his existence from fading. He had been in this world, creating dolls, but finds them imperfect, since he cannot find the right things that could go together. The Spindlier despite the people of the Real World, who had rejected his works, and continues to work in solitude, and silence. He could care less about his sister's (who he refers to as the Beldam) life, nor did he care that she had been recuperating during the years after Coraline came, and had been kidnapping children again.