Hello everyone! I'm Ender Sparkle, a big Minecraft lore fan, though I also like a lot, and I mean A LOT of different stuff too! That come mostly from the video games medium, but I also like to read some books too (no, not these average Booktok books, I read mostly fantasy, science fiction and whatever school assigns me to read). Sorry if I don't draw too good 😔😔
I'll try my best to not forget to add alt texts/image descriptions to my posts, though on things such as text wall screenshots or posts of little to no importance these may not appear.
I have an OC that's named the same as my common username, if you get confused about who's who, let me explain:
The Creator: A pink ghost-like entity. This is the persona of the person behind the account (me).
Ender Sparkle: An ender dragon in cool clothes. This is an original character, after which I name every single account I make. She is my Minecraft skin, and basically an in-game avatar everywhere it is possible.
My other blogs:
@host-apo
A blog dedicated to my Minecraft post-apocalypse AU where Hosts played quite the role, and Steve needs to find a way to survive along with his extradimensional companion...
for anyone not caught up, bizco was one of the original seven humans trapped in the circus. after the release of episode 8, the artist who designed him provided us with a full character sheet! look at that silly little face!
given that he gets no lines of dialogue, is never mentioned by name, and isnt even referred to as an individual at any point, we know literally nothing about him, which leaves him as a blank slate for all of us to write however we want!
what we can infer from canon
we know from kingers loredump in ep8 that the original troupe were all part of a work team (“it was good groundwork for something the rest of the team could wrap their heads around”). whether everyone there was a programmer like kinger and scratch or if some filled other roles, we were never told. kinger never went into detail about any of his teammates aside from scratch, so were given zero information about bizcos personality or contribution to the caine project, but given he ended up in the circus, he clearly did something. the only other thing we know for sure about bizco is that he abstracted at some point after scratch but before queenie.
his circus form
bizco is a jester (obviously) with a giant clock on his belly, floating hands, spots all over, spiral pupils, and a split upper lip like a cat (fun fact, thats called a philtrum!). his hat is noticeably different from pomnis, having jagged horizontal stripes instead of smooth vertical ones, along with being much smaller. he seems to also have some frog inspiration going on, with the body shape, the big eyes jutting out of his head, and the long tongue in his door icon.
(obligatory note: bizcos belly clock is only shown in one of the four sketches, and is never seen in the show because hes facing away from the camera in his only appearance, but i choose to believe the clock made it to the final design because it makes him look WAY more interesting. that, and the sketch with it is fully coloured, unlike the ones without it.)
by the archetype theory, hed fit comfortably into the clown category with pomni, kaufmo, and the unnamed yellow clown, though given his inspiration from 90s toys, he could also fit in with zooble in the toybox — though given this is (to my knowledge) just a theory, i wont be considering it much in my analysis.
an interesting thing about tadcs character design is that the characters circus avatars are supposedly perfect encapsulations of their mind files, but this does not mean it creates a body that will make them happy — its actually usually the opposite, as it results in things like zooble, a character with body dysmorphia, having completely interchangeable body parts but none that feel right, and gangle, a character whos very mentally fragile, having a body made of ribbons and emotions that literally switch on a dime depending on what mask shes wearing.
this seems to imply that caines mentality about fixing the humans problems bled into the avatar creation program — on paper, the solution sounds like it should work, but it fails to address the underlying issue, and sometimes actually incorporates it into the avatar design, creating a fatal flaw that makes the human despise their new form. a great example of this would be gangles comedy mask — gangle has a difficult time staying happy, so the program gave her a mask that long as she wears it, will make her happy! but because happiness is so difficult to maintain for her, that mask is extremely fragile, unlike her default tragedy mask, which seems nigh unbreakable, surviving countless impacts and even a fucking sniper bullet directly to the forehead without so much as cracking.
of course, not everyone has avatar gimmicks and flaws quite so obvious, but you get the picture. from this knowledge on how the avatar creation program works, we can infer things about bizcos personality and mindset based off of how he looks.
the :3 mouth is usually given to characters with very silly or mischievious personalities. swirly pupils and bright colours also typically imply a zany or silly character. this could be an inference of bizcos actual personality, or an inference of his insecurities about not being taken seriously, much like pomni. given the sketches, im leaning towards the latter. jesters and clowns in the circus seem to be the types that have quite a lot going on under the surface, but are underestimated by those around them, which also gives credit to a less silly disposition for bizco. not to say he wasnt friendly — everyone in the circus is to some degree, even jax when hes in a good mood — but he may have had issues with his intelligence or independence being downplayed.
the way he holds his hand up in that first sketch implies hes left-handed, which ties into a later segment, and the second sketch of him looking absolutely fucking knackered seems to imply that his hat works almost like a pair of ears, moving with his emotions (i fucking love how done he looks there, look at him!!!). the jagged stripes on said hat also imply, to me, a level of instability or fragility that pomni doesnt have.
the fact that he shares floating hands with kinger and queenie is not lost on me — itd be easier to draw a personality connection between them if we knew more about what queenie was like before she abstracted. what we do know about her is that shes “funny, creative, and really into entymology”, so shes a quirky type, much like kinger. she also seems to be quite supportive, as even when she believes kinger to be a stranger, she approaches him to comfort him. maybe bizco was similar in personality to them, whether that means he was a pillar of support for those around him or he was just a fucking weirdo. the roman numerals on his belly clock (a very cool detail, by the way) also lead me to believe hes a quirky guy.
the c&a cubicle
during ep8s intro sequence, we get snapshots of the c&a office, which most notably includes a shot of kingers workspace, but we also get this shot of a different one, which is clearly in use, but its occupant is never specified.
i believe this is bizcos cubicle.
first off, the mousepad, which i actually missed in my initial analysis of this desk due to the colour blending in with the stack of papers — the mousepad is on the left, so this cubicles occupant was left-handed. bizco was likely left-handed given the sketch on the bottom left of his character sheet. even his keyboard looks different from kingers, someone who uses his computer right-handed — notice how the arrow keys are on the left, something i have never seen on any keyboard ever. seems like c&a was pretty good about accessibility.
second off, the colours. this shot is almost completely devoid of colour except for some green and blue folders — the colours of the pompoms on the ends of bizcos jester hat.
you mightve noticed i never went into detail about bizcos most notable feature in my analysis of his design: the giant clock on his belly. i would like to draw your attention to the fact that this desk is a fucking mess for how small it is, with papers and coffee cups everywhere. maybe bizcos biggest character flaw was a lack of effective time management — the coffee cups could be left over from all nighters spent at the office to catch up on work he was falling behind on. given the note about being a pillar of support earlier, maybe he spent so much time helping his coworkers with their projects that he fell behind on his own. the absurd amount of coffee he evidently drinks could also explain his swirly pupils in the circus.
i pointed out when i first analyzed this space that compared to kingers desk, this one is completely unpersonalized. kinger had a photo of a butterfly, a chessboard, a photo of his dog, and even a photo of who i can only assume to be queenie. but bizco has no photos, no personal affects, nothing. he doesnt even have utility items like a binder holder or a calendar, everything is just out in the open. by the clutterbug system, hes a butterfly, and a very messy butterfly at that. it could explain why his avatar is so chaotic, with so many bright colours and spots everywhere. maybe he was so swamped with all the work he kept mismanaging that he never had time to set anything up, or maybe he spent so much time helping his coworkers at their desks that he never thought to personalize his own.
conclusion
my interpretation of bizco goes as follows:
hes a very supportive member of his team, to the point of damaging his own performance during the day and having to stay late to make up for it. as intelligent as he is, his repeated close calls and failures to meet quotas and make deadlines leads to being severely underestimated and seen as a slacker, an insecurity that runs deep enough to define how his avatar is generated when hes trapped in the circus. his caffeine dependency, sleep deprivation, and work stress lead to him being a bit jittery and even unsettling at times, but hes quick to solve almost any problem and his team enjoys having him around, though they wish he would take better care of himself — he wont even organize his desk, insisting that he likes it this way, with everything within reach. nobody believes him, but they dont want to throw off his groove by organizing it themselves as an attempted gesture of kindness, so they leave him to the mess hes used to.
after his team is trapped, hes freed of all responsibility and pressure placed on him by his bosses, which lets him unwind a little and show a sillier side more befitting of his new jester body, though he even feels insecure about that, worrying internally that the higher ups were right and hes nothing but a clown wasting everyones time. despite this internal conflict, hes actually getting quite comfortable in the circus until scratch abstracts, at which point its all downhill from there. he was the last to abstract before queenie. kinger remembers him fondly as someone who always had bright ideas to fix any problems except his own, and as someone he wishes he realized was suffering sooner.
Meet the Antagonists, the eight unseen Toons of Gardenview capable of withstanding harshest of Floors... At the cost of some drawbacks.
I hope you like this concept, it's meant to be something to achieve as an advanced player, yet the journey of acquiring and players to not be too hard, but challenging in a fun way, granting you unique, maybe kind of overpowered gimmicks along with some drawbacks to balance them.
Once you license your first Main Character, a "cutscene" similar to the one showed to the advanced players joining the first time after the implementation of the Dandy's Buds system plays, where he says that there's one more class of Toons he didn't tell you about as they have arrived only recently and he didn't want to say everything at once because they didn't trust anyone just yet. After the cutscene ends, Antagonist Toon licenses appear in Dandy's Shop stock just like those of any other Toon.
if u ever find a genie and you’re really craving a dessert that looks like this:
do NOT say “i’d like a lifetime supply of raspberry crowns”
while this is, in fact, the name of the pastry, it’s ALSO the name of a species of wasp for some reason. the genie, being a nasty trickster, will no doubt give you a bunch of wasps.
