#Gar's Bodega

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Moments before Mr. Gar demands Cupid and his villain rival Scrooge take their squabbling somewhere else. Boxman's shenanigans are more than enough trouble for the Plaza…

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I got to meet the original voice actress for KO from the Lakewood Plaza Turbo pilot today! She was very nice!

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TV ANIMATION: Red Action (OK KO! Let's Be Heroes) - Amputee, Prosthetic Leg User

OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes is set in the retro-futuristic year of 201X. The series follows the titular character, K.O., and his efforts to become the world's greatest hero while working at Gar's Bodega, a hero supply shop in Lakewood Plaza Turbo. [wiki]

Red Action came from the future year of 301X. She come back to the year 201X, the present in the series, due to her breaking the Prism Crystal in the future, an important crystal her former group, Hue Troop, uses to prevent disasters. She has since made amends with her old troop, but decided to stay in this year nonetheless. She is Enid's girlfriend.

Her right leg below the knee, is artificial as her original limb was amputated due to a undisclosed injury she got in the future. [wiki]

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Join me as I celebrate and post about different Disabled Characters throughout the month. Tracking #dcotm

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Carol Kincaid, the Master of Mediation, Mom of the Century, and a Lifelong Student in the School of Life

Carol Kincaid is introduced as K.O.'s friendly, approachable, and laidback parent. She's supportive and encourages her son to explore himself, what he wants for any number of potential futures, and the wide world around him. She's open-minded. If K.O. wants to try putting on makeup or even something as extreme as a day in the life of a villain, she might have reservations or be hesitant, but she believes in giving K.O. autonomy over his life and decisions. She only steps in or gets strict when she absolutely has to. K.O. understands what rules she sets and respects her enough to follow them. This is tempered by Carol actively talking with K.O. and checking in to make sure he feels comfortable coming to her with his own concerns and thoughts. While Carol tailors her approach to K.O. partly because of his age or inexperience, its the same thoughtful and direct conversations she has with anyone else regardless of their age or background.

When problems or conflict arises, her go-to tactic above everything else is trying to talk things out. She's more of a tactician and problem solver with a high emotional IQ than someone that uses only her fists or brute force. In her hero days as Silver Spark, she used her sharp mind and powers to take notes on and remix the best fighting moves and techniques into tools in her arsenal. As an older woman, she dialed back the emphasis on fighting knowledge and leaned more into studying and practicing philosophy. She meditates often and speaks like a wise old martial arts master in classic fighting movies. In a nutshell, Carol believes the power of empathy, compassion, and humanity is just as important if not more so than how hard someone can hit or what super powers they may have.

She's a very warm, affectionate person. K.O. is a cuddler and a lovebug because Carol both leans into these gestures as well as initiates these overtures herself. Carol is a very beloved, admired person both in her interpersonal life and with the larger Plaza community because of this kind, gentle openness. In a way, Carol was the popular kid that remains popular throughout her life because of how genuinely likeable she is and how earnest she tries to be with everybody.

Granted, the more grounded and patient side of Carol was very hard-earned and something she actively works on. She has moments like her power battle with Chameleon Jr.'s dad where someone managed to find the crack in her armor and her resolve slips. Here, it was Chameleon Jr.'s dad insulting her son. She trusts her son enough to handle most problems and make mistakes, but she does have a mama bear trigger. If it looks like he was hurt and doesn't have the Bodega crew nearby, Carol is entering the fray with the mindset that its better she was there and can clean up the mess later vs K.O. facing odds stacked too overwhelmingly high and gets hurt when she could have intervened. Given what she thought happened to Laserblast, she exercises a surprising amount of restraint from being too hands-on or smothering in K.O.'s life.

Laserblast's 'death' is a key part of what led to Carol's current persona. Her initial reaction to grief was anger and resentment. She directed the lion's share of the blame and hurt feelings towards her teammate El Bow. As she says herself, it felt right and even cathartic in the heat of the moment. Then Foxtail, Rippy, and POINT at large direct the same sentiments towards him with an even higher intensity. POINT unceremoniously boots El Bow and sets him as the scapegoat for the sake of strengthening their image and public relations. Foxtail, the leader of POINT, nurses a personal grudge against Mr. Gar for close to a decade after the event. That grudge becomes stewing, festering bitterness and the foundation for her extreme measures in forcibly taking the Plaza in the Dark Plaza special. Unfortunately, Foxtail's reactions were what made Carol start to regret giving her friend the cold shoulder and reevaluating what direction her life was headed after such a heavy loss.

She'd already cut her hair shorter and traded in her silver costume for a black unitard. What steps Carol takes afterward are off-screen and intimated through her later conversations with Mr. Gar and Rippy Roo respectively. Carol let herself grieve but sat with and thoroughly unpacked her emotions so she could see the full picture of the donut shop tragedy. What happened was an accident. If she had rushed in, she would be missing or possibly dead too. Laserblast was gone, but so was El Bow, one of her best friends and teammates. Then her other teammate Rippy became distant and left too. Two of her close friends and a huge chunk of her support system were gone. She reflects on how much it hurt to work through her grief in a way that was painfully lonely. She needed close-knit connections and the space to be honestly, fully vulnerable to heal. She learned the importance of having a good friend and molded herself into the exact person she wished had been in her corner when she was younger.

K.O. tries to emulate who present-day Carol is without a full understanding of what she went through or processed to reach that point of her life. Carol's inner voice is the friend that she wanted but didn't have that loves and cares for her the same way she does for others. Without his own version of Carol's carefully crafted part of her self-image, K.O. adopts figures like Chip Damage and comes up with a mold for what he thinks a hero is like. Heroes, according to K.O., are brave, physically and emotionally strong, and founts of the best morale judgment. They can face any challenge with a kind smile, a blunt fist, or disarm even the worst opponents with the right words. He embraces the world with starry-eyed enthusiasm and a default belief in everyone's better nature. Any nugget of goodness should overpower even the most angry, outwardly malicious person.

Though his unrelenting and stubborn attachment to the idea that everyone is good deep down leads to bullies abusing his naivete and escalates as far as outright evil people like Shadowy Figure manipulating him. While K.O. learns how important boundaries are and that he can stand up for himself, he commits to the idea that the best heroes are always happy, always helpful, and will do whatever in necessary even at the sacrifice of their own mental and emotional health. T.K.O. is the result of K.O. refusing to give himself the same grace, patience, and bend-over-backwardness empathy he offers everyone else. Or more accurately, K.O. doesn't know how to give himself these things or how to express his feelings on getting too stressed out or overwhelmed. Because of refusing to acknowledge these feelings, they become bottled up. T.K.O. is the 'explosion.' He enjoys punching, destroying, and letting his environment get messy. K.O. has no healthy outlet for stress. He doesn't have a constructive, cathartic outlet for actually expressing himself. Everything is work and a concentrated effort to fill the mold he made for himself and to meet both Mom's and everyone else's expectations. Of course T.K.O. wants the contrarian opposite; he's the repressed side of K.O. that has to scream to be heard.

Originally, K.O. creates T.K.O. in the hopes that anthropomorphizing the parts of himself that he doesn't like would be as effective as talking things out with a sympathetic bully. This happens around the same time that K.O. learns how difficult talking things out with some people can be as well as that some people can't be talked to or reasoned with because they don't want to do so. Villains are the exception; they're nasty just because they can be. Setting that exception means its okay to hit the eject button and close the door in some circumstances where patience and space might be the better approach. Communication is a two-way street. Both parties have to be open to hearing each other out. K.O. refuses to fully listen to T.K.O.'s complaints and perspective on things. T.K.O. wants to take full, 'my way or the highway' control with little to no room for compromises. In contrast to Carol giving her inner self a sympathetic friend, K.O. positioned himself as the one that needed to be the sympathetic friend without the full toolset and long-haul plan needed to be that person.

When T.K.O. becomes too much to handle, K.O. tries to tame him or lock him back up. He loses what personhood K.O. assigned him long enough that its okay for K.O. to return to his previously tried and true attempts of bottling up 'bad' emotions. Similarly to how Carol started her own rough self-love journey from watching Foxtail give in to bitterness, K.O. sees the results from years of bottling everything up in the form of Professor Venomous' chaotic, destructive spiral. Shadowy Figure was born from very similar circumstances to T.K.O. Venomous compartmentalized his feelings to the point that Shadowy became a dissociative Mr.Hyde adjacent entity. Stopping Shadowy Venomous necessitated K.O. making amends with and accepting T.K.O. to make sure he didn't follow in his father's shaky footsteps. K.O. had the support system and friends that Carol didn't have but the final step was including himself as part of that support system. He had to give himself permission to be vulnerable and lean on others, not just as teammates or battle support, but the same confidant he tries to be for them.

A stickier part of Carol and K.O.'s dynamic is that K.O. learned to be and insists on being self-sufficient to some extent. Carol usually pushes back on this when it comes parts of his life where she can and should be present. Though, K.O. is able to fake a resilience to feeling upset, disappointment, or stress that Carol can take for granted. He reassures everyone that all he needs is a hug and a smile then he can get right back to mopping the floor or fighting the bad guy. T.K.O. is an extreme enough, unexpected reaction that Carol isn't sure how to approach this side of her son. He's cold, he can be prickly, and he's mean. It's a dramatic shift from the K.O. that wants hugs and smiles. Carol's reactions such as "this is a bad phase" or "not this again" stem from uncertainty and personal frustration from how unreachable K.O. seems. Its new. Its a deviation from the norm and requires a solution that Carol has yet to figure out and isn't easily accessible.

It's one thing to work through her own issues and be able to talk most people through their issues. She knows herself and she's able to draw up a decent enough mental blueprint to read when it comes to understanding others. K.O. is still growing and a work in progress. There's still a lot that can change about him in what he wants, how he interacts with the world, and otherwise. Part of getting to know and better understand K.O. is making room for these potential changes. Carol will readily do so but its understandable for her to feel intimidated or ill-prepared. She already had a long personal journey of tackling hard concepts about both her own shortcomings and the world around her. Helping K.O. learn to navigate those similarly rocky shores is like looking at these same challenges but with the extra hurdle of developing new techniques and tools specific to K.O. She can reference her own journey, but their success still relies on K.O. reaching goalposts and addressing obstacles unique to him. Even the most patient parents have to face the obstacle of wanting to help their child but having moments where they'll feel stung, shut out, and waiting until their child comes to them ready and wanting help. It a collaborative effort that requires extra steps of K.O. figuring out how to articulate his needs in a way that both he and Carol can understand.

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Silver Spark starts out a starry-eyed optimist with an energetic attitude and unabashed enthusiasm. Her equivalent to K.O.'s binder of POW cards are reams of sticker sheets filled with POINT members. She's a walking repository of knowledge on every hero or scenario she's researched. She approaches her teammates with the same eager readiness to learn more about their abilities and who they are as individuals as she does her books or technical work. Her super powers reflect her voracious appetite for knowledge: She can recreate any power or technique that she's seen other heroes or fighters do with enough effort and practice.

Looking at how she fights alongside El Bow showcases how she uses her abilities alongside other heroes. She learns how El Bow performs his signature aerial strike and they create a move that involves going back to back, pressing their forearms together, and delivering an elbow focused strike with twice the amount of force and power. Silver Spark tailored her moves in such a way that she works most effectively as part of a team or a duo vs by herself.

Out of POINT's established senior staff, Carol's personal favorite is Laserblast. She has a big, dorky crush on him mixed with whatever reverence and admiration she has for POINT in general. Where K.O. modeled some of his perspective of heroes and manliness from Chip Damage, Carol is inspired by how cool and cavalier Laser seems to be. She is more reckless and go-getting as a junior cadet than as a careful, experienced older fighter. Younger Carol matches this borrowed go-getter attitude with her own unashamed self-confidence and candidity. There's only a handful of scenes between Silver and Laser to extrapolate from what they were like as a romantic couple.

Laser gets handsy the minute he gets a green light from how she reacts to his light touches. If El Bow's reaction to the news they're dating has any implications, they are very physical often; just not in public. Outside of PDA, Silver is patient, supportive, and tries to convince her partner that he's good enough as he is. She wants a substantial relationship and had plans to get more serious if her reaction to finding out she was pregnant indicates anything. Even if it was unplanned, the fact she was excited and kept momentos of Laserblast speaks volumes; she'd gladly progress to marriage and domestic life if she had the opportunity.

Laser is a showy, confident smooth talker. His hero name is based on his helmet, which redirects attention from his actual powers to his favorite gadget. He has major self-esteem issues attached to how his powers actually work: he drains power from others but he collapses along with them. The consequence of his ability makes him feel weak and inept; he invents more potent weapons and researches means to beef up his powers in secret with the mindset of 'ask for forgiveness later instead of permission now.'

While Silver sees him in the light of he could hang the moon, Laser is envious of her powers. He views everything and everybody through a lens of such intense self-deprecation that he doesn't appreciate how supportive she is. When she says he wouldn't be powerful enough to survive the donut shop event, it hits a really sensitive trigger. He doesn't stop to evaluate what Silver actually said; as in, think about what she meant in relation to the person she is vs the biased vision of her in his head. He retreats and runs away because he's so convinced that Silver and everybody else view him as the same pathetic weakling he convinced himself he is. He has difficulty maintaining any deep personal relationships period because he doesn't look at what things are like from the other person's perspective.

A rough sketch of the differences between Carol and Professor Venomous fit the philosophy of yin and yang. The imagery for yin and yang are drawn on for illustrating the split between K.O. and T.K.O. in a younger K.O. flashback. When Carol is teaching young K.O. how to meditate, there are a white and black fish in the pond nearby. Also, K.O. has the strongest attachment and visual ties with Carol while T.K.O. has those with Professor Venomous. The surface level reading of Carol and the Professor are lightness and darkness or good vs evil. Applying the idea of yin and yang reinforces that K.O. benefits from interacting with both parents, regardless of how crappy Venomous becomes later. He needs a balance and harmony between K.O. and T.K.O. to be a more healthy, cohesive person. On Wikipedia, yin is described as 'retractive, passive, and contractive,' and yang is described as 'repelling, active, and expansive.' A very general overview is that yin and yang are complementary opposites that are both part of each other and contradictory to each other.

Carol is yang. When she loses her friends and has to rebuild her life, she actively seeks out means for broadening her perspective and working on self-improvement. Venomous is yin. His problems come from his continued look inward to the point of obsession and self-destruction. He starts to find fulfillment and self-improvement because of what new connections and life he stumbles into. Carol had to look inwards and cultivate her inner world. Venomous has to look outwards and focus more on what to do to understand, maintain, and improve his new support network. Again, this is a very general overview using yin and yang as a base. Both concepts and taoist philosophy as a whole are complicated and nuanced. The point of playing any kind of compare and contrast here is to illustrate that Carol and the Professor benefit from maintaining a better balance of their respective inner worlds as much as K.O. does from balancing his own. They're exes but fantastically complementary thematic foils to exploring the differences between what K.O. needed and what T.K.O. needed. K.O. needed permission to let himself feel negative emotions. T.K.O. wanted to be acknowledged and validated. Once he learns how to balance the needs of both, he is able to better navigate the waters of his own yin and yang.

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When Carol opens the Fitness Dojo at the Plaza, her motives are twofold: hope that she can reenter Mr. Gar's life after what happened at the donut shop and use her position as a POINT agent to protect the Plaza from POINT interfering. She wants to talk to and befriend Mr. Gar again but she doesn't want to initiate. Of course Mr. Gar holds resentment towards POINT and wants absolutely nothing to do with them. Besides that, Laserblast's death is the elephant in the room. Neither one will discuss the details unless one or the other readily brings it up and shows a willingness to unpack the sensitive details and heavy baggage attached to that particular topic. Carol is ready to have that conversation. The next step is that she's waiting for Mr. Gar to start that conversation if only to set the initial tone and circumstances in a way that feels comfortable to him. She's also very aware of Mr. Gar's feelings towards her. Her approach to this topic is also a waiting game with a few gentle nudges or attempts at giving him a decent opening for expressing his feelings.

After Mr. Gar and Carol actually have that all-important conversation, it opens the proverbial floodgates. Mr. Gar has an easier time saying hello and making small talk. As he becomes more comfortable around her, he gains the confidence to make bigger and grander romantic gestures. He's wanted this romance for so long and so badly that he overcompensates out of not quite knowing the best approach or what is appropriate. Carol feels overwhelmed too. She's flattered by all of these gestures and appreciates how warm, sweet, and affectionate Mr. Gar is. Instead of facing walls or giving constant support like she would with Laser, Carol is met with similar if not bigger overtures than she voluntarily delivers. She never expected anything like this but it brings so much extra vibrancy and joy to her life that she wants to nurture this relationship and see how it grows. Once Mr. Gar and Carol agree that simple but meaningful gestures are the perfect fit, they become a healthy couple with a solid foundation that can openly talk things out.

Said foundation is strong enough to weather Mr. Gar learning her secret that she was still involved with POINT. He understandably felt betrayed and it gutted him in such a way that it could have ended whatever relationship they had romantic or otherwise. Instead, they learned how to talk to and understand the other effectively enough that Mr. Gar empathizes with Carol's rationale about keeping her secret agent status secret and what her intentions were. Revealing her secret could have shattered the spinning plates balancing act she had going that successfully pushed POINT away from the glorb tree for so long. Mr. Gar would definitely have demanded to fight Foxtail and pushed away POINT operatives enough that the big POINT invasion would have happened sooner. He's a take-action person after so many years of feeling meek, unheard, and defenseless in the face of someone more commanding or a bigger personality. Carol has always been self-confident enough that she can handle most people and situations with discretion and finesse; exactly why she can handle all of the spinning plates.

Mr. Gar takes time to find himself and regain his bearings. Interestingly, the process plays out with him reclaiming his old mask and El Bow moniker. Since he refuses to surrender Lakewood Plaza, then he's strong enough now to embrace the past and integrate El Bow as part of who Mr. Gar is now instead of letting him remain an echo. El Bow is joined by Carol joining the fray with a purple sash and accents that call on old-school Silver Spark. Like Mr. Gar reclaiming his luchador heritage, Carol is rewriting who Silver Spark is. She's no longer a complicit secret agent for POINT or the scared, lonely woman grieving Laserblast. This is the penultimate version of the bright-eyed, well-meaning hero Carol always wanted to be when she was younger and finally realizes as an adult fighting for her values. It's Silver Spark's moment; a moment for her and the people she loves instead of the cold, authoritarian force POINT became.

When El Bow and Silver Spark meet on the battlefield, it's the final reconciliation of what happened after the donut shop and promises for a brighter future. The version of Carol Mr. Gar is dating can own up to her mistakes, goes out of her way to grow and become a better person, and genuinely wants him in her life. This version of Carol will listen to what he has to say and keep the door open for him no matter what. She's proven that she's more than worth a second chance and whatever life they could build together. She's worth the risk of being vulnerable; she helped him start to address and live with his trauma. Hopefully, he can do the same for her and it becomes a team effort vs the wedge that was keeping them apart.

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Carol is just as much an active character and important thematic player in her own right vs just 'K.O.'s mom.' Too many other cartoons or stories feature a mom character that usually stays in the background unless she needs to give her kid some advice or there's an odd, outlier episode that actually focuses on her. American culture has a tendency to demonize single mothers and define her by just that role. There's no sympathy or insight around what circumstances or even deliberate choices led to this hypothetical woman becoming a single parent. The title is met with harsh judgment and pity for someone not meeting the unspoken cultural mandate that a 'proper' family is the nuclear model featuring a heteronormative couple with 1.5 kids.

O.K. K.O. spotlights that Carol's partner possibly died in a tragic accident. Besides that part, Carol doesn't express any active interest or need for a romantic partner. She has a full life, history, and motivations beyond just her role as a 'parent.' She owns and operates her own dojo. She has friends she makes active plans with and others she wants to reconnect with. In general, she's satisfied with her life and her biggest goal is to continue growing as a person, learning, and living life to its fullest. She's a proactive, loving parent that gladly sets aside time and space for her kid. She also recognizes the importance of trusted adults and extended family figures in K.O.'s life besides just a parent. Even when a kid has two parents, their life is arguably improved by the presence of an older sibling, a mentor, or friends they can talk to and glean insights from that they can't learn from just their parents. Both Carol and K.O. find and build found families among the other characters they meet and befriend around the Plaza.

Carol's romance with Mr. Gar was an unexpected and pleasant surprise rather than a shoehorned mandate that 'she needs a man to be happy.' The cartoon even pokes fun at the idea of a potential Gar-Kincaid baby with a scene where Carol is holding a wrapped-up baby shaped bundle that's actually just a stack of pancakes. Mr. Gar's transition into his role as K.O.'s step-dad happened organically. It's not that Carol having another kid would be a bad move narratively. It's more that its refreshing that Carol is allowed to have a romantic partner and the story briefly touches on how exciting that is for her personally. There's as much emphasis on Carol is having fun dating again rather than just K.O. has a father figure. In short, Carol is a fantastic example of a cartoon mom that's a three-dimensional, fleshed out, and enjoyable character to see in action.

She's a role model. She's presented as someone that has their shit together but viewers get a peek behind the curtain at the work she had to do to get there. Carol still has to work on parts of herself, is still learning, still growing as a person. She's not the star of the show but she's an example for how to become an older adult that can roll with the punches and makes room for changes and evolution in her life whether they're good, bad, extreme, mundane, or neutral.

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Day in Fandom History: November 10…

An old foe from Mr. Gar and Carol’s P.O.I.N.T. past shows up at the Bodega and attacks, causing him to have an open flashback of the guilt-inducing “sandwich incident” that caused Carol to hate him. “Let’s Take a Moment”, premiered on this day, 7 Years Ago.

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OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes (2017)

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Personal: In my opinion, OK KO is one of the best modern cartoons of our time. The animation is WONDERFUL using a style that was also used in Steven Universe where the animation team prioritize the storyboards over the model sheets. This gives the animation a really fun bounce and life to it that not a lot of cartoons have. The story is also amazing though I will warn that it was cancelled during the production of season 2 so the ending is kinda abrupt and the last episode or so is kinda a fuck you to the network and a hopeful word to the audience. Even then, the story is amazing and is very heartfelt and full of love. The characters themselves are also so full of charm and the cartoon as a whole really reminds me a lot of CN's earlier stuff. As an animation autistic who literally does nothing but watch cartoons this show is definitely on the top of my recommendations list by far. It's fun, it's full of love, it's funny and heartfelt at all the right times. Please watch this show I'm so fr

Google: "In the future year 201X, naive youngster K.O. aspires to be a superhero in a video game-inspired world set in Lakewood Plaza. Luckily for him, he's the newest employee at Gar's Bodega, the go-to spot for hero supplies and a bonding place for K.O. and his co-workers/best friends, human Enid and alien Radicles. While Radicles, or Rad, is known as a bit of a slacker, Enid has a reputation as a level-headed big sister-type, although she seems to lack motivation to actually help people. The bodega's owner, Mr. Gar, does his best to keep the threesome on their toes by testing them with a variety of tasks."

[hita-bae]

Darrell, Shannon and Raymond outside Gar’s Bodega for the fourth (4th) plaza attack of the day

[stupidousie]

Ask anything !!

Facts about Erodin -

She is 6-11 years old

Her birthday is June 16

She works at Gar's Hero Supply and Bodega because she didn't wanna work at her dad's Laundry Matt forever

She used to be girly and a cutie, now she's edgy (Her turbonic form is as edgier and destructive)

Her turbonic form goes by "TimeBomb".

She loves dogs and cats. (Mostly any Bulldog and Persian Cats cus they look goofy)

Rules -

No illegally weird questions you could ever ask to a minor.

One or two questions are allowed in one day.

If you're Adorkable Marina, Nonconformking, etc. DO NOT INTERACT.

Feel free to ask about personal stuff (ex: Why do you only have a dad? ex 2: What happened to your mom?)

Other than that, have fun !!

(some are comics, feel free to voice them)

[k4pp4-8]

any particular OK KO headcanons you have? I love your art, btw!!

Thank you!!!💞💞 I actually had alot of headcanons (most of them are about boxmore of course🤭) so here's a lil' list of the ones I can remember :

•the reason why we barely see mikayla is because she's very lazy and spends most of her time sleeping :3 she falls asleep in the most random places in the factory so the others always have to watch their steps bc if you wake her up you WILL regret it

•also her hobbies include watching anime and chasing random ppl on the street

•fink doesn't call veonmous her dad because she was scared that he doesn't see her as his "real" kid, that's also why she hates KO so much

•after darrell saw a pic of young boxlad in his sailor uniform he begged his father to buy him one so he could dress like boxman

•darrell and fink both love halloween for different reasons. Darrell loves the costumes and fink loves scary things (she always makes the bots watch horror movies)

•jethro, shannon, raymond & darrell love karaoke

•compared from ernesto and darrell, the robots dont really do alot of work in the factory

•darrell got a harmonica for christmas but he's terrible at playing it so the others always try to get rid of it but he somehow always find it

•after sibling rivalry raymond & shannon started bonding bc they realized they have alot in common. This actually made darrell jealous bc he's used to being the one who hangs out with shannon the most

•darrell can't swim!! if you take his floatie away he'll sink like a rock

•venomous enjoys talking with ernesto the most because he's much more calm and mature than his siblings

•fink called boxman "boxdad" by accident, he cried

•fink and darrell are still sharing a room

•foxtail is like an aunt to KO, she often comes to the plaza just to see him and she tells him stories about his mother's hero days at P.O.I.N.T

•shannon dyed KO's hair blond once (he looked even more like carol than usual)•darrell kept the bodega vest (that's one more costume for his collection!)

•shannon secretly has a deep love and appreciation for darrell (THIS ONE IS CANON I JUST WANTED TO POINT IT OUT!!!)

•the "oldest" to "youngest" robots according to me based on vibes : mr.logic > ernesto > raymond > darrell(barely) > shannon > mikayla > jethro > boxman jr

•rad's parents & enid's parents are literally bestfriends. They hang out together, they always call each other, and they always show baby pictures of their kids to each other.

•Ofrang & theodosia often babysit boris and icky

•bernard's a house-husband

•enid & rad play a shit ton of dance dance revolution

•boxman & mr.gar used to be childhood bestfriends who had a falling out and became sworn enemies (ok this one is based on nothing i just thought it would be a fun and interesting concept (also I wanted an excuse to draw gar and boxman as kids)

•darrell was a surprisingly great employee at the bodega (especially for someone who spent every day of his life trying to destroy it)

•he actually doesn't hate the plaza, he doesn't even dislike it he's just attacking it to make boxman happy

•boxman & venomous rebuilt boxman junior

•all their kids actually really like jr except fink and darrell who absolutely hate him. They often conspire to get rid of him.

•Junior hates KO more than anything in the world

•The boxbots wanted a pet so boxman built them double beat so they'd stop annoying him, he actually became the one who loves her the most and he spoils her alot

•drupe and raymond became besties after season 3

•the first time shannon worked at mr.logic hair salon she tried to cut a customer's hair with her buzz-saw

[gfanz4ever]

I was thinking about the Lakewood Plaza Turbo (as one does) and realized that outside of OK KO, I've never really heard people use the term "plaza". It's always a "shopping center" or a "strip mall".

Similarly, I've heard the word "bodega" before, but always to describe a small corner store in the city--if I hadn't heard the term used in the show, I would describe Gar's as a "convenience store" or "corner store".

Then I saw the finale, and pieces started fitting together.

Mr. Gar--who founded the plaza in the first place--is Hispanic. Hence the Spanish loanwords for his shopping center and store.

[digital-roots]

Fellow Ok ko fans help me out

Im making a reverse au where the boxbots work in the bodega while enid and rad are bots sent by mr gar (fink is the ko of this au)

Venomous is basically Carol in this au, and im thinking of changing the fitness dojo into something else, cause i dont think he'd run one. Im thinking of something that could connect to him being a bioengineer, but i have no idea what. Any suggestions?

[here-to-cause-suffering]

What if in the Grounded!AU the boxbots got like...very tiny cameras installed so they can watch everyone they captured like a reality show?

Do you think they have individual bets on who'll live the longest?

I think the main three boxbots would be the most engaged, with Raymond's betting on Rad, Shannon's betting on Enid, and Darrel is betting on KO/TKO. This has caused...many petty squabbles.

Mikayla and Jethro honestly don't care. Ernesto pops in every now and again but it takes a bit to catch him up to speed (he still doesn't understand how TKO has spider eyes). He's rooting on Dendy tho.

And for Boxman, he pretends he doesn't care, but he absolutely does and is rooting for Dendy.

Oooh maybe!

At first they don't actually know about them being tiny and in their yard (this does become relevant later on when Boxman and PV do find out 👀) but after they realize what's happening I can see the bots betting on their survival to some degree, though I doubt they'd actually want anyone to die (thankfully, no one does............ permanently...)

It'd likely be their best attempts to make a absolutely horrible situation less... horrible to deal with? The reality that they could've actually killed them by just... stepping on them accidentally and never knowing would eventually set in, so making some light of the situation would probably be needed? Boxmore is not the villain here they just happen to be a witness to the situation!

I like to imagine they'd actually be fairly concerned at first when the bodega crew just disappears after everything with Plazamo, cause as far as they're aware, that's what happens. Especially with the surplus of POINT soldiers that would still be there as the resistance did technically lose with them being captured.

There's also a possibility that there are some older boxmore bots like the junkfish we see in the dumpsters at Gars that got shrunk too, but that doesn't mean they're aware of what's happening now

[findurfuture]

In the animated series OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes, Enid Mettle (voiced by Mena Suvari and Ashly Burch) is the main character. At Gar’s Hero Supply and Bodega, she works as a cashier alongside her friends Radicles X and Kaio Kincaid. Enid has brown textured skin with purple hair tied in a spiky bun. She wears a crop top in blue with longer bandages style white sleeves in her arms. To recreate her look, you need a blue-sleeved crop shirt with white shrugs, brown boots, and black shorts. Collect all the accessories of the Enid Mettle costume from OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes for Halloween and cosplay.

[adventuresofwolfieandham]

Adventures of Wolfie & Ham:

Chapter 1 - Summer Love

[Heavy breathing fills the spaces between the doldrum of the ticking clock]

Wolfie tosses and turns as the light pours in through the window.

"Oh no, what time is it?" [01:21 PM] the clock reads, hardly through blurred vision. Another restless night. Late night gaming was starting to take a toll on their sleep schedule, but Astarion is a man of many needs, and Wolfie has every intention of meeting them. A loud crash and whimper clamors through the still air as Wolfie skims the nightstand for their glasses, accidently rolling Ham off the bed.

Ham is built different. Sturdy. Loyal. The best little French bulldog with an aura that could take out a strike team. Rescued from a breeder, Wolfie and Ham became besties over the course of their many adventures. They've traveled across worlds, dimensions and most recently state lines. In a matter of seconds he leapt back onto the bed, tongue out, belly rumbling. Like clockwork, Ham was ready for his afternoon breakfast; wet salmon slop, his favorite. Yeah, he rips major ass and it smells like salmon. That's just how it is.

"Ham! Come here sweet boy!" Wolfie calls from the kitchen as Ham comes barreling in, ready to feast like a king. After inhaling his salmon kibble water delight, Ham was strapped in for their next adventure. The Bodega. You know. Coffee. Egg and cheese on a roll. Same place. Same time. A breakfast fit for a force of nature. Nothing out of the ordinary. Wolfie was settling in and longed for comfort and a change of pace. Life back home was nice. Peaceful. Something to calm the soul. Something familiar. They finally felt like themselves again and with Ham by their side, they were ready to start this new chapter of their life.

Honking taxis, crowded bike lanes and awe-inspiring skyscrapers presumably filled the scene. I've never been, so of course I'm going off of assumption and definitely not utilizing my minimal film knowledge of scenes in New York to write this scene. Freshly dyed black hair and eyeliner sharp enough to slice the tension between Wolfie and Astarion, Wolfie was looking like a true emo. Big ol' beautiful brown eyes with hues of jade glistening in the hot New York sun enchanting enough to turn anyone with a pulse into a puddle. Dressed in all black with nails to match and My Chemical Romance blasting in their earbuds, just loud enough to drown out their thoughts for a time. Ham, pissing on every tree in sight, was making his rounds, claiming his territory when Wolfie noticed a shimmering light from behind their shoulder. Without pause, purple glimmers shone through ripples forming in thin air as a floating entity the size of an apple materialized.

"Ahhhhh!!!! Who the fuck are you?!" Wolfie yelped. Ham stood at the ready. Stanced up and ready to protect his best friend. Red glowing eyes and a sardonic grin painted onto a round purple body stared back at them in an eery silence. It lifted its stubby arms over its spiky purple hair and let out a puff of breath with a pungent aroma of rotten garlic, sticking its tongue out that was almost as big as its body.

"Gar!!!!!" it boistered itself up to seem more menacing, but instead of the expected aggression, it winced its eyes and let out a soft cough as it started to fall. Wolfie caught the creature in their hands as it lay motionless, tongue flopped over the side of their slowly dimming corpse. "Well, sweet boy, looks like no coffee for us today. This little guy needs help and the homie has experience with stuff like this, so let's go before anything else shows up." Ham sat looking up at Wolfie with doe eyes and his signature tongue sticking out face. Oh how they grew to love that face. No matter what struggles life threw at them, Ham was always there to make sure everything was okay.

Breaking into a light jog, Wolfie held Ham under one arm with the creature softly tucked into their zip up hoodie. They didn't know it then, but this creature was about to change the course of history. Secrets to be revealed. War to be waged. This was deeper than any of their previous adventures. No one could predict the importance this seemingly innocuous creature held for their future and the future of the multiverse at large. Rushing into a moderate run, Wolfie knew deep down that something was wrong. They felt a deep bond to this creature. Coming from a long line of spiritual ancestors, Wolfie was no stranger to the ancient secrets of the universe. They may not present themselves to the world as such, but they are one of the most powerful beings to ever exist. Spiritual abilities that could give all of the ancient gods a run for their money. Not many saw the world like them. Of all the people in the world, they know what it means to survive. Stronger and wiser than any to walk the Earth. Compassion, empathy and mental acuity that gave them the upper hand in every situation. Divine in all forms.

Like a flash of lightning, Wolfie slammed into someone as they were rounding the corner sending Ham, the creature and both of their bodies in all directions crash landing into the surrounding bushes. Legs twitching and body contorted, the mysterious figure lay face down in the bushes, groaning as they struggled to pull themselves out. "Omg are you okay?!" Wolfie gasped, slowly reaching a hand out to pull them out of the bush as Ham and the creature, now slightly conscious, watched in curiosity. "No yeah, agh, ouch, I'm okay I-"

"No no, I'm so sorry I should've looked where I was going, I didn't mean to run into you like that!" Wolfie cut them off as they pulled them slowly up and out of the bush. Without missing a beat they stumbled to their feet and immediately fell mute, entranced by Wolfie's beauty as they held hands. They shared a moment of silence. Both at a loss for words. It's as if time itself froze around them. Silence took over as the horns became a low hum, the air filled with electricity as the two locked eyes for what felt like an eternity. They shared a knowing stare as if they'd met before in this life and every life. None could say how long this lasted. Minutes? Hours? Years?

Everything around them was moving in slow motion. Cars and people alike were appearing as apparitions, their forms trailing softly behind as the two stared deep into each other's eyes. Visions of lives past flashed in shared memories. Ancient Egyptian gods and counterparts of all creeds coarsed through their minds in a series of images and swells of emotion. Love. Joy. Peace. Desire. Pain. Loss. Reuniting once more to experience the love of a lifetime as they had in every life prior. Feelings of elation and deep soul affirming love transferred between them without a single word.

Reality set in as everything returned to normal. Like a waterfall, sound and motion rushed back into their normal state. 

"Uh-thank you for-I mean sorry for running into you I didn't-"

"Wolfie! My name is Wolfie and it's totally fine. I'm just in a rush and I'm just trying to get somewhere. I'm having a bit of a problem and I-" Wolfie paused, trying to catch their breath after running for blocks with a beast under their arm and a creature in their pocket.

"Hey now, relax. Everything is okay. I'm okay. You're okay. Your cute little dog and-wait is that-okay wait first things first; Thank you first of all for helping me up and secondly my name is Ryan. Thirdly is that uhhh, what is that exactly?" Ryan stammered, still jittery with nerves in the presence of the most beautiful person they've ever seen.

Ryan's metal plugs shimmering. Matching diamond double nose rings. It's like they were a match made in heaven. They knew deep down that there was something familiar about Wolfie. They had been searching their entire life for a feeling like this. How could they deny what they felt? Even if it didn't make sense at the time, Ryan knew that they would be spending their life with Wolfie. They knew that from that point forward, they would do absolutely anything to stay in their life.

"Yeah, that's what I was trying to tell you. I don't fucking known what's going on, man. I was just on my way to get coffee with my dog, Ham, and this little guy just appeared outta nowhere! Fell right into my hands and-wait, do you hear that?" Wolfie spoke with their Jersey accent getting thicker with the exhaustion setting in.

Everything around them went silent. It wasn't like what the two just experienced. Something about this silence was different. Eery. All of the sounds around them blended into muffled rushing water as their surroundings started to blur around a glimmering beam of light that shot down from the now darkening sky with hues of autumnal oranges and royal purples. A figure dressed in white ceremonial garb decorated with ornate gold designs with alchemical symbols appeared as the beam of light dissipated.

"I need you two to come with me. Now!" they shouted.

"Dude we don't even know you who do-"

"NOW!!!" the figure cut Wolfie off as they were teleported along with Ryan, Ham and the creature into a sterile, chrome room decorated with a small armchair, a coffee table and viewing window. Still in shock, they all stood silently as the figure fumbled around in their pocket. Clanking and rattling yielded two delicately engraved rings that they shoved in front of their faces.

"I don't have much time to explain, do you two remember these?" the figure beckoned in desperation as though they expected them to know what they were without question.

"Well, no? I mean we literally just met I don't-" Ryan stammered.

"Fuck, no! Not again. Okay listen. You two know each other. You've known each other for years. You really don't remember any of this? The ceremony? The house in Manhattan? Don't you remember what happened on your honeymoon?" they became exasperated, voice growing hoarse.

"Okay dude, look, WE just met. Actually, we ALL just met." Ryan pressed. "I was just on my way to grab coffee and this beauti-ahem I mean this uh very... kind person just ran into me."

"And? What else happened?" the figure provoked, slightly more amused. Stroking their chin as their silver hair sheened under the fluorescent overhead lighting.

"Everything slowed down, or at least I think it did. Sound kinda just... stopped? I mean who knows we were both

in a rush so we could've just been stressed right?" Wolfie softened, still trying to piece the experience together.

"I meannnn, I don't know about you but that shit was tight as fuck. Regardless of whether it was stress, I know you felt that too. We literally stared into each other's eyes for I don't know how long and you didn't seem to wanna let go of my hand." Ryan flirted, clearly falling deeper in love as they started to relax.

"Me?! You were the one holding onto my hand!" Wolfie retorted, blushing and flustered as the romantic experience slowly returned to them. They felt it too. That wasn't an everyday experience. They both knew it. They both knew that whatever it was that happened was the start of something beautiful. Something long lasting that would lead them into old age together. They both knew it was love at first sight. Something deep within them spoke to their souls telling them that this was meant to be. It just felt right.

"Okayyy, lovebirds! You two clearly have some catching up to do. I have to get back to the lab and run some numbers. Take these rings, take this magnifying glass and take a seat. I'll have my assistant bring you some... what do you like? Water? Coffee?" the figure inquired.

"Coffee please!" Wolfie and Ryan startled at their timely response.

"Jinx you owe me a... date?" Ryan smiled kindly, looking lovingly into Wolfie's beautiful brown eyes.

"Just like me for real. I'm down for a lil' coffee date. Can you bring Ham some water too? And I'm guessing the little guy here could use some water too please." Wolfie replied, still blushing and trying to hide their excitement.

"Of course. I'll have my assistant bring it right out. I'll see you two in a few hours!" the figure let out a quick sigh of relief, clearly unphased by the sequence of events they've witnessed hundreds of times.

"Oh and by the way! I'm guessing you've forgotten, but my name is Dr. Ion, but you can call me Astar. We've known each other for a while actually. I must say. You two look cute together! It's nice to see the duo back in action. Toodles!" Astar rushed out of the room, robes swaying behind them as the door slammed shut, leaving a shell shocked group of funny little guys to their own devices.

[yahoo201027]

June 18: Happy Birthday to the protagonist of the series, an employee working for Gars’ Bodega alongside his co-workers and friends Enid & Rad, best friend and classmate of Dendy, son of Carol and Venomous (formerly Laserblast), and Runner Up/Bravo Party Nominee in the 2018 Battle of the Week Voting Tournament, the OK KO character of KO, full name Kaio Kincaid.