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Plasma Ball

Plasma Ball went through a goth phase in her childhood.

Plasma Ball was a whiny kid, often getting put into timeouts or throwing tantrums at school.

Plasma Ball has anger management related issues and had to switch elementary school.

Plasma Ball used to keep up a mask of toughness, hiding genuine care and kindness behind apathy and mean comments.

Plasma Ball is Demisexual.

Plasma Ball often chooses to focus on any issues others are having before she can deal with her own internal issues.

Plasma Ball is the daughter of Light Bulb and Paintbrush from ii. She has much of her appearance from her mom, and personality wise, she's like her Pama. (Pama is what she calls Paintbrush.).

Plasma Ball can be dependent on others and fears losing people she loves.

Plasma Ball used to wear face paint during her goth face. (Inspired by Clarissa Bakery's Humanized Plasma design).

Plasma Ball's favourite music is metal like Metalica.

If she could choose an ideal date location, Plasma Ball would pick a close, cheap cafe.

Plasma Ball is 17 at her debut of PPT2.

Plasma Ball caught feelings for Knight Helmet sometime in “Dungeons and Dimwits”. By the time he had been eliminated in “A Rotten Egg” she had fully realised her feelings for him.

Plasma Ball fell harder.

Plasma Ball was also a clumsy child, so he would often fall hard. This caused her glass to toughen up considerably.

When Milk threw the bean bag too hard in “Hole Hearted” that was the first time something actually truly broke her glass in years.

Plasma Ball found and kept the eye patch Knight Helmet and Caramel Cube made for her after she died in “King of Wishful Thinking”.

Plasma Ball took time to repair Knight helmet's sword because she felt a bit bad for him. While he didn't truly mind the ruined toy, he did appreciate her for it.

Plasma Ball spent the night of Caramel Cube's elimination crying and blaming herself, with Knight Helmet comforting her.

Plasma Ball spent the rest of the day after Knight Helmet's elimination crying and blaming herself, with nobody to comfort her.

Plasma Ball's bulb can light up in quick bursting flashes of light if she gets into a crying fit.

Plasma Ball will often resort to emotional blankness after a meltdown.

Plasma Ball doesn't like flowers.

Plasma Ball is scared of bees. What's worse is her tesla coil humming can sound like a Bee, and it freaks her out at times.

Plasma Ball can be very stubborn.

Plasma Ball holds people she genuinely cares about very close to her heart.

Plasma Ball once ate a whole can of sun cream when she was five because she didn't want to wear it, so she thought her mother wouldn't be able to make her wear it if she ate it all.

After PPT2, Plasma Ball has regular nightmares about losing her team and friends, especially Knight Helmet and Caramel Cube.

Plasma Ball doesn't like watching shows/movies where a character she likes sacrifices themselves for others.

Plasma Ball will bottle up her emotions.

Plasma Ball feels much happier and more comfortable around her friends.

Plasma Ball's favourite food is her Pama's Braised Beef Stew

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Firey

Firey was mute from the ages of 3 to 5.

Firey often enjoyed playing by himself as a child.

Firey is the younger half-brother to Match. Both share a dad.

Firey's full name is “Firey McConnel”.

Firey was born when his dad, “Match Box”, spent a night with a woman named Oil Lamp.

At the start of BFDI, Firey was 15. By the end, he was 17.

In modern TPOT, Firey is 25.

Firey's body will smoke if he's embarrassed or frightened, similar to goosebumps.

Firey's flame varies for his mood. Orange is natural and often neutral. Blue means he's feeling intense emotions. Red means he's got low energy, is very tired, and is often mentally fatigued.

Firey goes to sleep at night, blaming himself for everything bad that happened to Leafy.

Firey doesn't think he deserves others' kindness due to how he treated his best friend.

Firey developed romantic feelings for Leafy sometime in early bfb, but was too stubborn to act on it.

Firey also developed romantic feelings toward Coiny between IDFB and BFB. As of TPOT, these are currently wavering.

Firey thinks Leafy is dead ever since Dreamier Island got destroyed by One's Storm. He blames himself for her death, as he does for the misfortunes of her life.

Firey is Trans FTM.

Firey is bisexual.

Firey once had feelings for Pen, back before BFDI.

Firey can consume fuel for energy like food.

Firey's favourite food is between dry, autumn leaves from an oak tree, or mustard oil.

Firey and the others would play LMG sounds in the WTF to wind GB up.

Firey's fursona would be a cat.

Firey is a cat person. He enjoys kitty company.

Firey often has to deal with moths coming around him at night time in cities.

Firey wears a fire blanket when he sleeps.

Firey has abandonment issues.

Firey struggles to trust himself with tasks or situations.

Firey will interline his issues.

“Stranger” is a trigger word for Firey.

When he takes those  “Are you Gay?” tests, it's a conflict between straighter than a line and more homo than a home.

Firey uses his fingers to count.

Firey is better at physical activity than written activity.

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Taco

Taco loves eating lemon flavoured things as a remnant of when she could cough up Lemons. 

Taco's favourite movie character is Amanda Young from Saw.

When she was created, Taco was 17. In Inanimate Insanity s2 Finale, she's 19. In s4, she's 20.

Taco sometimes lets others (like Microphone, Suitcase and Toilet) put stuff in her shell. This ranges from ketchup to their phones to flour bags.

Taco is a Lesbian.

Taco loves dogs. Her favourite is Saint Bennard 

Taco listens to Classical Music. Her favourite is usually Mozart.

Taco also sucks at playing the piano. She is good at Tuba, though.

Taco can disassociate from situations if she isn't stimulated enough/engaged enough within them. She'd regularly do this in s1.

Taco likes hanging around with Microphone more than she can admit.

Taco can be oblivious to her own feelings.

Taco focuses on logical outcomes more than emotions.

Taco is terrible at swimming.

If Taco is picked up like a cat and she will go completely docile.

Taco likes to set up pranks around the hotel with Cheesy. Especially on OJ.

Taco is the third smartest person in the hotel, besides Knife and Test Tube.

Taco struggles with directionL audio if she's unable to see.

Taco still keeps Mepad's bootie, and she visits his grave.

Taco blames herself for Mepad dying.

Taco often stays with Microphone at night because she suffers nightmares.

Taco likes to ragebait Paintbrush with Fan. This usually ends Paintbrush screaming over small things.

Taco was scared of Bot when she first met them as she thought they were Bow.

Taco's favourite colours are Black and Purple.

Taco enjoys picnic dates. She enjoys them more when something goes wrong in a funny way.

Taco still has scars along her shell from when she literally broke down in “Truth or Flare”.

Microphone's words, “Is that what you said to Pickle?” from “Hatching the Plan” still haunts Taco.

Taco will follow trails of money.

Sometimes Taco wonders what her life would have been like if she had won season 1.

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Pencil

Pencil likes savoury over sweet.

Pencil doesn't like tomatoes.

Pencil's eraser head squeaks when it rubs on a hard surface like a wall or paper.

While Pencil can wipe out nearly anything on a wall or floor using her eraser head, the pressure gives her a bad headache, and eraser specks get into her eyes.

Pencil is a lesbian.

When BFDI began, Pencil was 19. When it ended, she was 21.

As of BFDI: TPOT 19, Pencil is 29.

Pencil wears miniature versions of the "Gearings" she wore in BFDIA 8.

Pencil has a picture of FreeSmart on her person at nearly all times.

Pencil blames her inability to keep FreeSmart together as the reason why the alliance fell.

Pencil often sees things as competition, including value, respect and love.

Pencil is the eldest sibling among herself, Pen and Marker.

Pencil's full name is "Pencil Well".

Her parents are Ink Well (Father) and Feather Quill (Mother).

Pencil has had a crush on Match since the first day she was sent to the Exit.

Ever since BFB, Pencil has trust issues with hosts.

Pencil believes other people to be a danger or opposition to her, unless proven otherwise. This differs from how she was in BFDIA, where she didn't care what others thought of her or said about her.

Pencil wants her old friends and life back.

At the same time, she struggles to believe she deserves something as good as that.

In the days leading up to TPOT 19, Pencil stayed in the clubhouse alone for entire days, without food or interaction with others.

Pencil is the second-tallest of all the original BFDI cast members.

Pencil used to have a crush on Bubble back in BFDI.

Pencil has a distaste for numbers.

Pencil didn't like sweet treats. Then, she met Match and decided she did.

Pencil didn't like being adored. Then, she met Ruby, and she did.

Pencil didn't like being paid attention to. Then, she met Ice Cube and Book, and she did.

Pencil went to a cheerleading club when she was younger.

Pencil met Match when she was 13, at her cheerleading club.

Pencil has nightmares about the Exit.

In the days leading up to the Exitor Rejoin, Pencil promised Match that if they did or didn't get in, so long as both of them stuck together, then she wouldn't mind.

Pencil talks to herself in the clubhouse. She pretends she's the different members of FreeSmart.

Pencil often disassociates in TPOT.

Pencil prefers to think about the past. Because of this, she rarely learns anything about other people on TPOT.

Moreover, she assumes the people she does know from before are just like they were before.

Pencil dated Needle between BFDIA and IDFB. They split up because Needle didn't really feel that much of a connection anymore. Pencil still mourns the loss of this relationship.

Pencil's worst fear is losing Match as a friend.

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Pin

Pin can be quite competitive to an extensive degree. She'll unintentionally turn mundane things into competition, which others won't know about, and then become upset when she “loses” in the system she's tricked herself into believing.

Pin has a fear of bugs.

She likes baking a lot, having improved over the years.

Pin makes such good pancakes that her friends often fight over who gets the first one.

She had a crush on Leafy in BFDI that slowly faded over the course of BFDIA and IDFB.

Pin had a crush on Coiny sometime in BFB, after their conversation in “Four goes too far” and admitted her feelings for him sometime in TPOT. She didn't fall first, but she fell harder.

Pin's the kind of person to miss when someone is flirting with her.

Pin also can struggle to tell if someone is being sarcastic with her.

She sees a lot of similarities between Coiny and Leafy.

She takes insults about her intelligence and capabilities as a leader figure very seriously.

Pin worries about not being good enough.

Pin used to sharpen her point, believing it would make her look “stronger”. She stopped doing this after bfdia.

Pin looks back on her days as Mecha-Pin with disdain, even fearing becoming like that version of herself again. 

Pin loves berries. Blueberries, Backberries, YoyleBerries, any Berry.

She also loves sweet foods.

She is bisexual.

At the start of BFDI, Pin was 16. By the end of BFDI, she was 18.

As of modern TPOT, Pin is currently 25.

Pin's favourite colour is burgundy.

She used to be silent in her childhood. Then, one day, she met Leafy in and became a lot more talkative.

Leafy was Pin's first friend. They met when they were assigned as partners on a field trip to a zoo when they were both 11.

She's been a vegetarian since IDFB.

She doesn't enjoy eating meat, but she does like fish.

She holds onto compliments for a long time.

The first time she baked was when she was 9, and she tried to microwave a packet of sweets in a foil wrapper. The fire department had to be called.

Pin will sometimes wear key chains and/or little tags on her point. When she's bored, she shakes her head to spin these trinkets around her.

Pin tried ballet when she was young and sucked at it.

Pin tried singing when she was young. She also sucked at this.

Pin speaks with an accent that's always been with her. Words like “Penalty ” or “Leafy" become “Pen-Al-Ty” and “Leaf-Fy.”

She loves Autumn the best.

Pin's favourite food is pumpkin pie.

Pin's least favourite food is black coffee.

Pin sometimes overtakes and has to go around to her friends to see if they want any of her treats.

Pin can make surprisingly good bread. Even Two likes it with some butter.

Pin sucks at cooking if she doesn't know what the measurements are. She owns at least 10 different measuring cups, spoons, and scales.

Pin often has to keep people like Coiny, Tear Drop, Blocky, and Leafy away from cakes she's just baked.

Pin is scared of being alone/others leaving her. Due to this, she can become very co-dependent with someone she trusts.

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Paintbrush

Paintbrush's ideal kind way to spend free time would be to watch a movie, usually alone. But, they do like to watch with other people they care about, so long as said people aren't disruptive.

Paintbrush is the kind of person to act all tough while watching horror movies, but then ends up cowering behind a pillow at the first jump scare/death.

Paintbrush's typical breakfast is soft-boiled eggs.

Paintbrush takes at least half an hour to fix their hair up in the morning, and another half an hour to fix it up before they go to bed.

Paintbrush prefers writing to painting. However, they still enjoy occasionally painting.

Paintbrush had proofread Fan's writing so much that by this point, they're not only accustomed to fandom things, but even partially active in them.

Paintbrush would be called "Pama" if they were a parent.

They are very quick to anger, and had to take therapy for it.

Their bristles have erupted into fire so many times that the lower part of much of their hair has become a darker, almost coco-brown in colour.

Paintbrush prefers savoury things to sweet.

At the start of Inanimate Insanity, when they were "created", they, like everyone else, didn't have an actual age. However, from ii2 ep 12, " they put themselves at about 19.

And, as of ii IV, Paintbrush is 20.

Paintbrush's two favourite colours are purple and yellow.

Paintbrush would get headaches whenever Silver Spoon spoke back in III. Heck, at one point, they even began to miss Fan.

Paintbrush can cook well, but they can't bake for their life. They'll make phenomenal Braised Beef Stew, but if they try Muffins or something, they'll turn the kitchen into a fire hazard.

They can multitask quite well, often working on multiple things at once on a project.

 Paintbrush is a perfectionist.

They will not continue onto the next step of a task unless they're already doing so, or if they haven't finished the current task.

Paintbrush regularly has nightmares relating to when Lightbulb got Mephone-X'd.

As of ii IV, ep2, they also have nightmares of her being shattered.

Paintbrush caught feelings for Lightbulb sometime around III 12, "Home is where the Heart is".

They confessed their feelings to Lightbulb after the ii2 finale.

As of II IV, Paintbrush and Lightbulb have been a couple for about 7 or so months.

They don't like bugs.

When Plasma Ball was born, Paintbrush almost choked on their tears.

Paintbrush and Lightbulb are Plasma's parents. She takes after her Pama, which not only makes them feel better (because of how much of their confidence, boldness and no-nonsense attitude that she has) but also worse (because she also happens to have much of the same temper and instability issues they have).

Paintbrush was the most opposed to Plasma Ball going onto Paper Puppets Take 2, due to their own personal experiences of being hurt on Inanimate Insanity. This caused an immense strain on their relationship.

They happened to be sceptical of her new boyfriend when they first heard about him, but after learning that he was similar to Lightbulb when she was younger, they figured he was absolutely the best person for her. If anything, Paintbrush was more excited that Plasma had Knight Helmet than Lightbulb.

Paintbrush and Plasma would do finger painting when she was younger, often as a way to help her calm down.

Paintbrush hates wearing ties and can't tie bows, so Lightbulb has to tie one for them.

Despite how much he drives them up the wall, Fan is their best friend, and they care about him to a far greater extent than they would like to admit.