A revised, updated version of the previous character bio I made for Bob, now that I have the lore is figured out and I have a better idea of how I want things to be. Now 10% less cringe! Credit to @RDash75 for the template I re-remixed this from Extra notes: Bob is meant to represent Scratch's green flag button. The flag part of him is detachable, as seen in flap direct's animated 4.0 trailer. Surprisingly, this fact was written as part of his original character bio, long before flap direct was even an idea. I just never found the opportunity to show it until that trailer. But seriously I completely forgot that I wrote that there, I thought the detachable flag thing was a complete surprise in the trailer but I really just came up with the same idea at two separate times I guess In 3D, he's kinda pizza-shaped (also seen in the 4.0 trailer). i designed him to be cute because i like cute characters and they help restore my faith in humanity, but i don't want him to be dumb because that's usually a flaw of cute characters. He isn't literally the green flag and can't reset projects like the green flag can, though that was part of an early idea I had for flap's game lore. That lore idea felt dark and kind of psychological horror-esque which I didn't really like, and I thought of something I liked a lot better, so it was retconned lol. The idea was that Flap is trapped in an endless cycle of death. The player makes Bob reset the game every time the flag is clicked, and the characters are aware that it's resetting and their memories persist. Flap assumes the resetting is all Bob's doing, but he's too scared to speak up about it. All of this was canon for a while and was hinted at in Flap's original character bio and one of Flap's random dialogues (which has since been removed). A now-deactivated Scratch user named @toonfraud gave me the idea as a joke and I just ran with it for a while because it was the first time any kind of lore was actually considered for the game, and it feels plausible. I filled in the blanks but didn't change much about the premise. This lore was the subject of "Flap Fanart again again (It's 4:00, Why am I tired?)" by @Nuclear_Melon: (...which was created after I told him the lore in the comments of his previous fanart, which depicts Flap as a terrible eldritch creature with a bit of fan-written lore) Bob is a few weeks younger than Flap. His birthday is the update when I added him to the game, which was a little while after the game's inception (i forgot the original share date, a few updates were reshares at first). Bob is an agnostic theist, which means he doesn't believe in a particular religion but he still believes in a God of some kind. Flap sometimes tells him of Christianity, which Bob is receptive to. He's warming up to the idea. On that note, something personal is that I really wish I could find a relevant way to represent Bob's agnostic worldview in the game. The point of him being agnostic is to kind of be a foil to Flap, and it's meant to emphasize that you don't have to be a Christian to seem like a good person. In a lot of Christian media, there are only Christian characters. The ones that aren't are usually the bad guys. I want Bob to be different than that. Another reason is because I'm friends with quite a few people with very different worldviews, and I want to represent them in a positive way. (The idea of Flap sharing bits of Christianity with Bob is very much based on my experiences with my non-Christian friends, and Flap giving a bible to his opponent during a fight collab is inspired by parts of my life, too). Of course, I've also talked with lots of nice non-Christians on Scratch, too. Point is, I don't want flap as a game to be another piece of Christian media that forgets that people of other religions can still be represented, and also in a positive way. You shouldn't have to make other religions/worldviews look bad in order to make Christianity look better by comparison. Part of following Christ is reflecting his character and his love for others to see. Bob's also the star of a flap spinoff game I made called Green Flag Clicker, which is a short clicker game that revolves around clicking Scratch's actual green flag button. It was a pretty novel concept, and it was interesting to code around. A lot of the things I added to give Bob more of a personality in that game ended up getting ported to his character in flap (the game) as well (like blinking and double-blinking, more expressions, etc.). Notably, his beeping sounds when he talks are ripped from the clicking sound in Green Flag Clicker. flap (the game) is canon to GFC, but GFC isn't really canon to flap. For an explanation as to why that is, I recommend reading the lore section of Flap's Revised Character Bio. Here's a link to Green Flag Clicker if you wanna play it, it's super short and not there's no grind:
