#Gar's Bodega

[rscroogedraws]

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…

[sonic-takeover]

Sonic, Tails! I know I asked a similar question to Dr. Robotnik, but do you plan on checking back at Gars Bodega?

Oh man, we haven't shopped there in forever.

Yeah, it's a bit of a drive, even in the Tornado. But it's always nice to see our friends there!

Ooh we should bring Knucks next time we go! He'd love Rad.

Totally! Rad is the best. Mr. Gar scares me though.

Me too, buddy. Me too.

[plaza-prom]

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

[mystycalypso]

Your au is super! I was wondering how TKO plays into it? If he exists at all.

Im very curious abt how Laser would react to him.

Oooh baby I've been waiting to go more into detail on this every since I wrote the little blurb under the T.K.O screenshot edits (of which I did more just for this ask, oopsie daisy)

There's a lot of differences between Carol and Laser in general, and I think T.K.O (the episode and the character) highlight these very well.

Knowing the type of abilities his kid could inherit, patience is intertwined with the idea of self-control just as thoroughly. The ability to take a moment, even when stress surrounds you, breathe, and most importantly, think, is vital to him. When your power requires channeling energy from your opponents, or matching your teammates like Silverspark once did, thinking and processing the world around you can be the difference between victory and destruction.

However, as a very reckless young hero, he also understands how important taking that time to learn who you are, and how you use your abilities and hone them. The downside being this makes him supportive to a fault.

When seeing this new phase in K.O's hero life, while he doesn't appreciate his antihero eyeshadow being stolen, he tries to bond with him over it. How he went through a period of loner brawler heroism and joking about how awful he thinks his suit from that time looks compared to the more general edgy look T.K.O has gone for, and even trying to remember to call him T.K.O.

He wants to be involved in Kaio's hero journey, be there to guide him along and know what he's going through is normal, and simultaneously let him sort through it without forcing him to accept help. Something I hope carries that same inexperienced awkward dad experience Venomous has. And more importantly, one that makes sense for a man who at the end of the day, was not ready or expecting to be a single father.

"You know, I think this'd be a great time for us to do some training together!"

"I don't need training, especially not with you, Dad."

"...Alright, well I'm here if you need anything."

"Tsk. I don't feel like talking right now."

Now, admittedly like Carol, he doesn't have the most major focus/role through the main part of the episode, but when T.K.O is destroying the plaza, what do you do to stop him?

"Nah, I just told your dad."

"Kaio, how could you? You know I'm always here to support your choices, but this phase has gone too far."

"IT'S NOT A PHASE, DAD! This is WHO. I. AM."

Now, here's where another major difference. After the whole joke of Box-Gar telling K.O. he loves Laser and failing to actually talk to him, Laser doesn't just take the hit when seeing T.K.O about to attack.

They share a powerset, he can understanding what's about to happen, even if it's quick, and he tries to brace for it.

And what's scary?

He falters. Their domes clash and he cannot hold up against it, against his kid.

"Any last words?"

He can't look him in the eyes, can't brace himself for it, too stuck in shock and disappointed.

Only to watch his kid deck himself in the face instead.

And when he wakes up again?

"Are you okay?" His eyes are unfocused as he takes in the destruction around them, "Oh no, Daddy I-" he melts into Laser's arms, sobbing. "I'm sorey! I-I don’t know what happened! There was this kid… He looked just like me, and I…"

He shushes him, running his hands over his hair. "Hey, it’s okay. Shh. Shh. It’s okay. I’m just glad you’re back to normal. Or, Well- sorta." He digs into his pocket, handing him a new sweatband.

The rest of the bodega stands around them. Asking understandably about where this power even came from. Laser admits that he'd begun to assume K.O. hadn't gotten his powerset, let alone a version so powerful.

"And I certainly never taught you how to channel it."

"No, I learned it from this lady" he hands his father the card, as it glitches from level 8 to -8.

" What the heck? K.O., don’t follow a stranger no matter who they say they are!"

"...that seems obvious now"

The episode would end as normal, but I do think there would be a callback next time K.O. is getting dropped off, once he's had a couple of episodes to get more used to his power fists.

"Y'know, I'd love to learn how to do something like that. Think you'd could teach me kiddo?"

K.O. would gasp at the idea, "Me? Teaching you?"

"I mean, if you're willing to take your old man on as a student!"

And even a second follow-up after that where their training and improvements are mentioned again before we see Laser using the move himself. Also showing how his defeat against T.K.O has only encouraged him to keep training unless his son needs help again.

(I know this shot is from CarolQuest but idea remains the same)

During the season finale, he would have the same hesitancy to K.O. going turbo, but when he finally does, rather than disappointment and fear, he sighs softly, with an "I hope you know what you're doing peanut..."

In general, he's less cautious about T.K.O than Carol, especially post "T.K.O" The episode, he has confidence in K.O, probably more than he should. And sees this potential alter ego at its worst as a reason to continue his training properly. After all, while he doesn't seek out power like his normal version of self, he does strive to have the strength and resilience to help in case his family and friends ever need it. And sees his son's growth as another avenue to keep learning about and honing his own abilities.

[rottenbullet]

Was thinking about that OK KO game that didn’t get super popular and thought (awhile ago, albeit) “what if ok ko was a fighting game” so ofc I had to get on that. Don’t mind the clunky sprites, they were from before I even had tumblr so my art changed a bit. But the one of Ven and Box together I just finished today-

Also! Ideas I created for moves -

KO -

Special move 1: “Inner Rage”: Unleashes T.K.O for a limited amount of time to zip across the stage trampling over enemies in a ball (almost like a sonic spin dash) form

Special Move 2: “Bodega’s best boy”: K.O temporarily stuns enemies with his cuteness (Certain Enemies are Immune, I.e Boxman.)

Enid -

Special Move 1: “Icy heart”: The stage freezes over causing all enemies to freeze- then shatter, causing a large amount of damage but depleting Enid’s energy

Special Move 2: “Stealth Log”: Enid disappears, turning into a log- causing the enemy to be distracted and for her to sneak up behind them.

Rad -

Special Move 1: “Box Bash”: Using his Beam, Rad causes a hoarde of Bodega stock Boxes to fall from the sky, causing damage.

Special Move 2: “Van the Radical”: Rad’s Van drives across the screen, running over every enemy in its way (in the line of its path), though leaves a trail of exhaust, causing damage to both parties

Gar -

Special Move 1: “El-Bow grease”: Gar slams down into all enemies on the stage after jumping up, stuck in the floor by the elbow for a limited time.

Special Move 2: “Sandwich Smash”: two halves of a sub-sandwich come in on the top and bottom half of the screen and slam in on the enemy- stunning them momentarily and causing damage.

Carol:

Special Move 1: “Motherly Love”: Heals self and anyone in party or duo by giving a hug (if solo, hugs self.)

Special Move 2: “Dojo Lesson”: Carol flings wooden boards and other objects at the enemy, bringing them to the floor and causing a great amount of the damage, but depleting half energy.

Villians -

Darrel -

Special Move 1: “Blaster Canon”: Darrel transforms his arm into a canon and rips it off, setting up the canon in the middle of the stage- launches self aiming energy balls at enemies. Melee move temporarily unavailable

Special Move 2: “Dress-Up Party”: Darrel gathers up a bunch of costumes and combines them into one ball- throwing them at the enemy, binding them in the costume-straight-jacket, trapping the enemy.

Shannon -

Special Move 1: “Buzz saw”: Shannon transforms into a giant buzzsaw, setting a path across the stage- zipping from one end of the stage to the other, causing damage into all enemies in path

Special Move 2: “Cut-throat Chatter”: Shannon insults the enemy, sending the words literally flying their way, causing damage. Shannon ends up tongue tied and stunned for a moment.

Raymond -

Special Move 1: “Time out”: Raymond grabs the enemy and rolls them up into a ball, sends them flying with a drop-kick- though depletes half of current energy.

Special Move 2: “Fashion extraordinaire”: Raymond Suddenly changes into a fashionable outfit, paparazzi flood in and trample the enemy from the opposite side of the screen, causing damage.

Boxman -

Special Move 1: “CHILDREN!!”: Boxman calls for his children, causing two Boxmore boxes to drop into the scene with random bots inside that fight until destroyed (though they have a low HP)

Special Move 2: “Desk Dash”: Boxman uses his remote to call in his desk, he hops on top of it and it unleashes a bomb attack down onto the stage

Professor Venomous -

Special Move 1: “Plague Professor”: Venomous snaps on a gas mask, and tosses a virus-grenade, it explodes and infects enemies, stunning them and causing mild damage (Does extra damage to Rad)

Special Move 2: “Lab Rat”: Venomous lets Fink out of a metal cage, causing a short rampage- Fink will jump at and attack enemies- though will go for Venomous if he is not out of the way.

[disabledcharacters]

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

[lovely-rays]

lowkey a okko sona and a truesona at the same time-

he's just a little punk that goes out of his way to be dick when he can.

he likes to find people who are napping and eat their dreams which makes their current dream get kinda...weird.

don't ask about his ear teeth he will bite you and leave.

lowkey tea spiller, its almost like his ears were made for eavesdropping. (his left ear watches/listens from around the corner, his right whispers back exactly whats being said.)

he's actually a vampire dragon but everyone thinks he's a bat and he doesn't care to correct them anymore and lets people believe it unless he wants to make em look stupid.

ok ko stuff

he sometimes comes and graffitis on gars bodega before getting his ass kicked so he has to come back the next day and pay them for pain killers or something-

thinks raymond is actually cool epic and sigma- he falls over his tail like half the times he's there to try and impress him.

he tries to be homies with a lot of the boxmore bots actually but friendship don't fly that well with em so...

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: March 5…

When KO has to head out for the day to visit his grandmother, Dendy decides to fill in as a substitute over at Gars' Bodega and tackle everything that she wrote down including fighting enemies. “OK Dendy! Let’s Be K.O.!” premiered on this day, 7 Years Ago.

[haveyouwatchedthiscartoon]

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)

[rscroogedraws]

Dream O.K. K.O. crossover: Rikochet, the Flea, and Buena Girl spend a day at Gar's Bodega and get to team up with the legendary luchador El Bow!

[dustbunnyzonyay]

OKKO OC’s yap sesh.. (featuring Merged!KO)

My oc’s I love them <3 This actually took forever and I’ll prolly upload a speedpaint later so have a very small infodump

Lilith (blond) usually hangs out in Noelle’s (blue) store all day. She’s an ex-detective with a power similar to Dynamite Watkins (makes people compulsively and uncontrollably speak the relevant truth with a key phrase) she was fired from her job because of her.. Unorthodox and overly aggressive methods. She usually carries around a yellow notepad and pen and finds joy in interviewing people.

Fun fact their hair colors are the others reversed :3

Noelle’s thinks she’s powerless, however her power is that the universe, time, and space all bends to her will. Unknowingly. When I say her will, I don’t mean she’s like “dang I really want 20 bucks” and then all of a sudden there’s a crisp 20 dollar bill in her pocket, it’s more like she’ll think “huh, I’m really hungry, but I can’t afford to get food from the bodega nextdoor as of now.” And a strange series of events that would actually happen (a boxmore fight maybe) would lead to the sale price of her favorite food being lowered.

If she wants something (to be happy for example) but also has an idea of how to get that goal, her power will prioritize the way to get there, regardless of if the road will lead to the destination or not.

I did this solely so I could write angst

For context, Noelle rents from Gar an art supplies store at the plaza. Her pow card says “1” but sometimes has a weird glitch where it shows “20”.. weird. It always fixes itself before somebody can show her though.

yes they end up dating, but for like 2 years Lilith didn’t know they were dating. Ok let me explain uh so Lilith had been accidentally dropping “hints” that she was interested in Noelle. Lilith actually just wanted to get to the bottom of Noelle. She seemingly has no power, yet she gets every damn thing she wants.

this eventually leads to Lilith saying something like “so let’s move in together, huh?” And Noelle goes “yea” and she’s just like. “Damn guess I have a gf now” and it’s like this whole thing GOD i love them so much.

[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

[two-of-tails]

Gars Bodega is basically a convenience store for heroes. It’s located in a place called Lakewood Plaza Turbo, in Original County. It’s pretty far tho, but from what I’ve heard, the employees are nice. :]

Oh I see! I guess I can keep an eye out for it if I ever visit there! :D

[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.