Todd is considerably hyperopic, and requires glasses. Big, nerd-style, green-framed glasses. They’re inconvenient to wear while fossil hunting, so he generally sticks to contact lenses. Regardless, as long as he’s got something in his eyes (other than tears), once out of the dig site, he’s by far the best cleaner of the main crew of Champions. For comparison: Dina is clumsy, and Rupert’s spent his life relying on machines to clean for him, so he’s hopeless with the hammer himself. Pauleen can clean fairly well, but Todd is an utter automaton when it comes to excavating fossils. Occasionally, he can be seen wearing his glasses in the cleaning room. These occurrences merit boundless teasing from Dina, who always needles him about how nerdy he looks. That said, she respects his abilities - at this point, every member of the gang (on his advice) will simply take their wondrous and miraculous fossils to him, as he’s the least likely to damage whatever’s put in front of him.
In spite of this cleaning skill, Todd tends to freeze when put on the spot, hence why he began with such a losing streak in battle. However, as he matured, he learnt that when strategy disappears, having vivosaurs five ranks higher than the opponent is a sure-fire way to victory. And as soon as he bought his fossil chips, he was never again outranked. This bought him enough confidence to erode his nervous shell, thus allowing him to think more clearly and eventually grow as a fighter.
(For the record, he now doesn’t take vivosaurs into battle unless he’d cleaned them up to rank 8.)
