fat space ❚ pongo, from space!
character informationFull Name: Pongo.
Series: Original Character (fatspace).
Canon point: See History.
Age: 15.
Species: Human-alien (approximately 2/3 human).
Appearance/PB: PONGO, IN SPACE!!
Having some alien blood in him, Pongo seems to be a little stuck where it comes to growth - he's barely over 5'4" feet, even though he is already fifteen, also maintaining much of his boyish features. He has sandy brown hair, which seems to stand on its own and he has a tiny scar that breaks his right eyebrow. One of his prominent features is definitely the gap right at the two front teeth and the dimples that pop up every time he smiles. Though he seems skinny even for a tiny guy like him, he does have a little bit of belly fat around his stomach, usually easily concealed, not having much muscle mass. His eyes are differently coloured, the right one brown, the left one blue. He always wears a jacket with its sleeves rolled up to his elbows, a blue turtleneck shirt, black fingerless gloves and some black pants with kneepads tucked inside his race boots. He carries a hi-tech headset that he uses to receive calls or to listen to music or even take snapshots - on Splendor, the headset becomes his Seal. He wears it over his left ear, which conceals the deformity he has since birth.
Appearance upon arrival: -
History: IN THE BIG, FAT SPACE IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR, FAAAARRR AWAY... A little boy was born and then shipped off to an orphanage.
That's the boring part. Raised in said orphanage until the age of four, Pongo was adopted by a Snookumpook*, Mrs. Wunnykins. She already had a large family with three kids of her own (twins and a baby), all girls, and had another adopted son - and would eventually adopted a pair of twins - and so Pongo grew up in a safe, warm household with all of his six siblings. There was Schnookumhead and Moopsiekins, the twins, and the baby Kissiekin. The oldest was Oramushi, the first son adopted by Mrs. Wunnykins. When Pongo was ten, the twins Ksathel and Yijash, a boy and a girl respectively, were adopted, thus completing one big happy family. Mrs. Wunnykins lived with her husband, Mr. Wunnykins, on planet Endolia, where thousands of species lived much like you would expect your everyday regular urbanized planet live.
When Pongo was about eleven, his interest in racing and speedbikes began to spark and Mrs. Wunnykins, ever the indulger, took him and his siblings to a racetrack for his birthday. From that moment on, Pongo knew that he wanted to be a racer when he got older.
He ended up working for a "food delivery throughout space" company, which was, well... Food delivery throughout space. It was a start for him, really. He began to work part-time, but ended up getting full-time after graduating from high-school at the age of fifteen (school works different on space, shut up). He quickly began to rise up in his career and his boss began to give him tougher works, riskier spots, given how good the kid was with the vehicle he drove. During that time, he began to get a regular client, a mail delivery service where he would meet Cameron and his sister Daneen. He quickly developed a sort of fanboy fascination for Cam - Pongo thinks he's "super-awesome-mega-cool" and because of that he wants to try and become a mail delivery man himself once he is of legal age.
One of his riskier missions (because of the asteroid path he'd have to take) involved going to a neighbour planet for a peculiar food delivery and there he met a young couple that revealed themselves as his parents. At first, Pongo didn't believe in them, but he then started to warm himself up to the idea and would sneak every once in a while to visit them. They ended up revealing themselves as shapeshifters that ate kids. They managed to trap Pongo, along with many other kids, and threw him in a basement, which seemed to be their fridge. Gross. Being who he is, however, the boy quickly cooked up a scheme to get himself out of the situation and with a lot of teamwork, all the kids managed to get out and get the two shapeshifters in prison.
Pongo spent some time back home after that episode, learning that his sister Moopsiekins decided to get married and Schnookumhead was working at the orphanage from which he had been adopted. Oramushi was finally enrolling in college to get a major in biotech-chemistry. The three youngest where just about to get into school. Through Schnookumhead, Pongo discovered his real parents whereabouts. He didn't go after them without talking to his mother (and the person who he would always regard as such). Mrs. Wunnykins was very understanding of his desire to know more about his parents and consequentially, himself, so he left with an easy heart.
He found out that his parents had separated not long after he was born. His biological mother was married to an alien businessman and they had one baby and his father was missing. It was through his biological mother Adayea that he discovered that he was part alien himself (which would explain a lot of things, like why the heck was he able to be underwater for so long) by his father side. However, the Adayea didn't like him to be there because he was a reminder of a "past mistake" so she asked him to leave and please not to come back - she didn't want her current husband to find out about a life she wanted nothing to do with anymore. And that was okay for Pongo, he understood and didn't take to heart what she had said. He did ask, however, if she had any pictures of his father and much to his surprise, she had - only two, hidden in a box. It had some deep meaning to her that he didn't ask for sake of privacy, but she did make him two copies so he could try and look for his father to ask him questions about his alien blood.
On the way back home, the signal of his radio/headphone/communicator device got jammed and he wasn't able to listen to the space-updates about a fast moving alien asteroid wall that was blocking the route he was taking. Pongo avoided a considerable amount of space rocks, but eventually, there were so many blocking his way that not even a professional could have avoided them all. He got thrown off course and crashed. When he came to his senses, Pongo waited for the visor-screen of his helmet to indicate good breathing conditions and he tumbled out of his broken vehicle. He was alone on that planet for two days. It was a mostly wild planet, with a lot of hostile beasts and colossal bugs and the boy was forced to find a hideout or be literally stung to death.
On his third day, he heard some music and intrigued, he followed it, in hopes that perhaps friendly lifeforms would be the ones making the sounds, only to find a pretty music box, which he picked up carefully, curiously.
And then he blinked and he was somewhere else.
*A rather plump and frog-like humanoid alien species, generally very nice and fond of candy. They usually adopt a lot of kids.
Personality: If you had to use a cliché to describe Pongo, it would be that one energetic kid that while sweet invokes an inexplicable urge to trample. Either that, or smoother in hugs. He's very much a person of extremes, never being one to hide his feelings. While not the Sensible Guy™, Pongo is definitely a kid with a heart of gold and he's the kind of person that would probably cross the road to help an old lady cross it - only the road would be space and the old lady would be an alien, but you get the general idea of it. But while he is a sweet kid, he can be a little dense. He's not very careful of the things he says, usually talking before thinking, and he'll end up messing up a situation when he could have avoided so by keeping his big fat mouth shut - he has... troubles doing that
He has the terrible habit of knocking things over or dropping them or generally be a klutz. Surprisingly, this does not translate into his driving: he's extremely well gifted in that particular area and even graceful.
Pongo is a very practical kid. He's not the type to think through things - not that he is unintelligent (though he's not exactly the brightest bulb in the box), but he's a very impulsive kid that has the tendency to disregard logic and reason over instinct. While it generally gets him into big troubles, this attitude of his has saved his ass more than he can count with his whole ten fingers. He's the type of guy that can make a key for handcuffs out of barbed wire. At the same time, he's an impressionable person, which means if he likes it, he tends to overreact about it. And if he likes it, it might not be so good. Especially if it's food. He's one big fat eater.
Don't feed him candy.
One mustn't forget, however, that Pongo is still a kid and he is not one of those 15-years-old that go off on a big, great adventure and are forced to "grow" (and later on end up angsting in various episodes over it). No, not him. He's the embodiment of "boys will be boys". A prankster, always ready to play, with short attention span and a memory that does not occupy itself with holding grudges. He can have a very annoying type of humour and can be exhaustingly inquisitive, always pushing buttons that he shouldn't and trying to solve problems better off left on someone else's hands.
Character Abilities: Since he's partially alien, Pongo has the ability of holding his breath for thirty-minutes (in effort, one hour if not doing much). He's an amazing racer and he can run pretty fast, though not for that long. Because of his gap in his front teeth, he can actually whistle through them, pretty loudly. He has an amazing sense of direction and can, almost always, point North without the help of a compass.
Possessions: Besides the obvious (clothes), he carries his hi-tech headphone (turned into a Seal). He also has a little pouch at his leg that carries his radio, which is dead, a small pen-like flashlight. The headphone, in its original use, works as a radio, communicator and camera phone. In Splendor, it will serve as the Seal.
Anything else: He's partially deaf of his left ear (which is badly deformed).
samplesAction/Communication thread/post sample: In which Pongo talks and talks and talks...
And also caught with his finger inside his nose and not caring.
Log/Prose sample: As he grew up, Pongo never once lost his dream of becoming a racer - star racer, even, cover of Space Race magazine and all - but for the time being, he kept it real, because to get to the top you gotta climb your way up and that was what he was doing: climbing from the bottom of the chain as a food delivery boy throughout space (which, really, was exactly what it says: he delivered food to any corner of space). Hey, he wasn't going to complain, after all it was a fun job, he was good at it and because of his skills, he was always sent out to other places he would otherwise never have the chance to go to. Like Do'En'Saf planet, where he currently was trying to give the food delivery to the msodygn that was eying him. Trying being the keyword, since the msodygns where the most distrustful creatures in all universe. Or something.
"No, see," said Pongo, his voice already an octave higher because it was the eighth time he was trying to explain, shaking the food box in front his client's beak-face. "You ordered this. It's food. Look, look inside!" Pongo opened the box, showing some... pretty distasteful looking goo that apparently made the msodygn's eyes gleam in hunger. "Please take it. I'm running late already."
"Then why don't you eat it?" It asked, voice full of suspicion.
Pongo made a face of disgust, looked horrified at the goo that moved slightly and was in a very unorthodox color of neon green, and then back at the guy.
"I can't eat that! I'm only part alien, I'm mostly human. Look at that. It'll eat my stomach!"
The creature clicked its beak-like mouth, peeked into the huge box (it was three times bigger than the boy himself) and gave a little grunt, deciding that, alright, he had made the order and that wasn't some poisonous thing, finally letting Pongo back into his vehicle so he could go back home.
Flopping down onto the driver's seat, he took a long sigh and put on his helmet, turning the radio on. "Hey, Cam, you there?"
From the other side came a disgruntled voice, topped soon by a weird whine/moan like sound of something, then there was a shut up! and some more noise until finally he got his answer, "Pongo, where the hell's my food?"
"Hey, man, sorry, don't blame the messenger! This damn msodygn wouldn't believe me. Anyway, long story, I'll tell you once I get there." His tone was a little too excited. Cameron was something of an idol to Pongo and he loved to just follow him around like an annoying little brother does, a tone met with a groan from the other side. "So, gimme your coordinates, I'll be there in a zap. You know my motto: your food, anywhere, anytime, throughout space!"