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Tak
Tak is a live traffic light with serious bugs/hacks that was made to replace broken traffic lights and sometimes help with street signaling, be it constructions, accidents, etc. She should be completely responsible and serious, but because of her bugs/hacks she is someone super energetic and a prankster with a questionable sense of humor. She is also very reckless and sometimes acts without thinking (like throwing the sign at a fugitive's head). Sometimes this way of being is not the best for her since most of the time she has to stay still in one place without moving. Because of her bugs, Tak also has 100% control over her signs and even electronic street signs, which makes her have a lot of fun hacking them with funny phrases or making jokes with the signs when her superiors aren't looking
At some point she also took a side job at the races, but there she tends to act shy and anxious/nervous, feeling like she doesn't belong there with all the colorful and amazing runners besides not being used to the amount of attention, making her having a different behavior from her animation and pranks that she normally does on the streets. She is doing her best though!
Profile
- Make fun with the signposts
- Interact with people in traffic, the calms and the angry ones, she thinks its fun
- Take a break from time to time, she works a lot
- Traffic cones!
- Colors
- Rent payment day
- Her scar, she doesn't think much about it, but it bothers her
- "The idiots who ignore the signs on pupose!"
- Being alone
- Very loud noises
Trivia
- To not overshadow the plates she was made with the body all black, so when went to the races she started to wear more colorful clothes to match with the racers
- Usually wear different clothes depending on the exact job is doing (for exemple orange for buildings/Work on road, yellow for warnings, red for prohibitions and etc)
- The plate is shapeshifter and is part of her body. It is always in the form of an accessory if she is not using it (any accessory, but she likes to make it in reference to traffic signs)
- She has a screen on her back, when she is working replacing traffic lights she likes to put funny texts on her back for anyone on the other side of the street to see
- Almost never have enough money to get things done, don't count on her if you need to borrow money (She is terrible managing her own money, she tends to buy on impulse)
- Has a super good memory, so she can decorate license plates and faces when issuing tickets
- Doesn't deal with noise very well, which is considered a huge problem in all of her works, so most of the time you'll find her using sound-muffling headphones. She customizes them herself and has several in different colors!
- She fidgets a lot with her tail and plate, her tail is almost always curved in on itself, and she keeps fidgeting with the plate when it's in the form of an accessory, or even turning the plate in her hands (maybe has hit some people more at once with this, she tries to control herself ;w;)
- Has lots of random traffic and traffic cones facts
- Loves traffic cones! Tak has a collection of them at home and little toys/ornaments of them (she also has the habit of putting them on her head when no one is looking). She also really likes buttons, has a lot of them
- Is prone to accidents, is constantly injured and bandaged (she likes colorful bandages/bandaids)
- During the night she is not visible, especially if she turns off the lights on her body (she has already scared some people with this, she thinks it's funny) All her lights shine, in addition to her eyes, tongue and colored part of her frills
- Her racer costume is alive and in addition to helping her in the races (physical support), it also works as emotional support when she is overwhelmed
- frills puff up with very strong emotions
- Got the scar in a road accident, her vision is very bad in that eye. She got a visor to help her see better
- Sometimes she wishes she was more colorful, but others she really likes the way she looks, depends on the day-
Design Notes
- She use big gloves to get a boost when running (like when you use your hands to accelerate the skateboard)
- Is very skinny and tall, she is a slender
- her tail is long and straight, but she curls most of the time. The lights can be any of the 3 colors or all of them
- When she's not working she usually hides the lights and the screen in her back. She also dont wears the visor
- casual clothes can be any that is big and confortable (and she loves the ones that had funny text in it)
- Wheels and headphones can be any color
- Frills on the head can be red, orange/yellow, green or black. They can also have written text
Background
Tak was created for a company that takes care of street safety with the aim of working on the streets, replacing broken traffic lights, street signs undergoing maintenance and sometimes even in pursuit of fleeing criminals, being the second one of this style (the first being her superior who already worked at the company) but something happened during the process and she came with some bugs and 'defects". It wasn't exactly what the people who asked for her wanted, but the moment she arrived as the little thing she was they ended up getting attached to her just the way she was. She really loves the people in the company and considers them like her family, but that doesn't stop her from pulling pranks from time to time. She really loves being around other people and tends to talk a lot, starting to hate being alone
When she was little she worked as an apprentice with the "work ahead" signs accompanying some of the other employees, and when she was old enough she started to replace some of the broken traffic lights accompanied by her older coworker, who took on the role of her mentor. She thought this job was really cool because she could stay up there and see a lot of the city, but the lack of movement made her bored easily. It was at that age that Tak realized something was "wrong" because she noticed that she could control the screen on her back without the censorship that her co-worker had, she could write anything she wanted, and when testing it on her plates she was surprised to see that it worked too. That was when she understood her bugs, but it wasn't something she complained about, for her it was incredible, and it allowed her to do several pranks in her spare time, but even with the occasional prank she is still very competent at her job and can be very serious when necessary
She continued working as an apprentice in several different types of work and interacting with the various employees, it was during these moments that she began to memorize and learn various facts about traffic that she can talk about for hours if someone was willing to listen and also when she discovered her love for traffic cones, even causing some of the employees to stop her from stealing the cones from the street (they started giving her keychains and toys related to that later x) Furthermore, she also loved pestering her older coworker, who despite being distant and not having much patience with children, started to have a soft spot for the little thing following him everywhere. When she reached adulthood she started to work most of the time alone, even though she still saw some of the other employees during some of the work, which makes her quite bored most of the time, bc of that Tak interacts a lot with people in traffic when she can
It also happens rarely that some cases of fugitives pass by where she is, and given the opportunity she has already chased and apprehended some or kept car signs and faces that arrested many, and it was during one of these chases that she ended up attracting the attention of a racing agency. She was surprised and very excited, at the same time super nervous and didn't know what to do. Given this, the employees encouraged her to at least try and see what she thought, and if it wouldn't interfere with her main job she would be free to try, so she started this secondary job and started to enjoy it a lot, even with all the conflicting emotions and feelings she feels there (the excessive attention to someone who is used to going unnoticed and was made to go unnoticed was a big factor in that) but it's been fun, and a good place to spend the accumulated energy of standing still so long
Currently she lives in an apartment rented by one of the employees of the company, Cala, who she has a very close friendship with (and many arguments too, but the two have a great affection for each other X) and sometimes Tak also works as a babysitter for her friend's daughter, who is her goddaughter, so she can pay a little of the VERY late rent. They tend to get together a lot to watch soap operas or movies, or even meet at work when it has accidents. Little by little she has also made friends with some of the runners and has allowed herself to be a little more free
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