Spark

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Spark the Electric Jester is the titular character of the video game of the same name. He's a professional jester who, after being replaced by a robotic recreation of himself, he sets out on a mission to get his job back.
Later on, Spark goes on a quest to stop the Fark Force.
==Appearance==
NakedSpark.png|Sparks anatomy.
Sparkofficialart.png|Spark, from Spark the Electric Jester
Spark3.png|The appearance of Spark after Clarity assimilates him, seen in Spark 3
Spark is a yellow Formie with short, spiky hair and an average build. He wears a red scarf, white gloves, and red boots with black tongue and soles. His signature jester hat has two strands, the left red and the right blue with white dots. The trim of the hat and poms at the end of either strand are white.
Under his hat, Spark has two antennae. It is unknown what color the orbs on the ends are canonically, but they are shown in concept art to be light blue. Concept art also shows Spark's feet as being flat with no toes.
Sparks replica in Spark the Electric Jester 3 has the same design, though with the addition of a brown jacket, and brown and yellow additions to his boots.
==Personality==
Spark is usually a friendly, easy-going person, though he can be easily annoyed. He's down on his luck due to his job being stolen by Fark, and can also often be snarky. He's incredibly impatient, and doesn't care about taking things the easy way out, he'll takes things the hard way out if it means he can save some time.
==History==
===Background===
Spark went to a university for an electrical engineering degree. During this time, he created his jester hat as a side-project. Afterwards, he got a job as an electrician maintaining low-quality robots for a whole year, before being fired and replaced by a robot. Spark then tried performing on the street, and was noticed by a circus owner, who then took him in as a performer. This job lasted for a month, before he was replaced by Fark (for safety reasons). After this, Spark laments being unable to pay rent, when he notices robots running amok. Curious as to what's going on, he heads off to investigate.
===Spark the Electric Jester===
Spark's Story
Starting off in F.M. City, Spark investigates the cause of the robots going haywire. After dealing with some of them robots, he makes his way to a cliff, where he meets Fark. Still angry about losing his job, Spark lashes out at the metallic counterpart, calling him a faker and a disgrace. Fark mocks him back before taking his leave, prompting Spark to chase him through F.M. Mountain.
Spark makes his way through F.M. Mountain ending up in a tropical area. There, he deals with more robots, as well as a pirate ship controlled by some rebels. This ends up working in his favor, however, as they accidentally destroy a robot attacking Spark at that moment. He enters a pipe nearby that takes him to the sewer system of Smog City, then finding himself in Smog City itself. Making his way through, he finds two robots talking with each other. The first robot, named Romalo, pretends to take Spark's wallet. Spark realizes he's been tricked when the other robot, named Tropos, states the same thing happened to him earlier. Tropos then takes on Spark, only to end up defeated as the jester heads off to Sunset Heights.
Spark gets through Sunset Heights (being attacked along the way by Fark), and meets up with Fark at the top of Efilare Tower. Spark asks Fark why he's trying to take over the world, with Fark only warning him that he's stepping into dangerous territory. Spark refuses, so Fark sicks Metal Crow on the jester. After defeating them, Spark jumps onto a hovercraft to chase after Fark, but it spins out of control and crashes in Lightoria Bay. Spark meets up with Romalo at the end of the amusement park, and after a brief conversation (and Spark getting tricked again by Romalo), the two fight. Romalo eventually escapes, however, and Spark chases after him, ending up in a forest. There, he's attacked by a green archer, but manages to her off of his back and continues on. He arrives at the exit of a nearby factory, and Romalo flies over to Spark and mocks him. At that moment, a giant lumber-cutting machine attacks both Spark and Romalo, sending Spark into the sky. Spark ends up destroying the robot, and crashes down into a desert.
At the end of the desert's abandoned base, he meets up with another robot, called the Prototype, this one not attempting to attack Spark at random. Spark then realizes from the conversation that the invasion must be coming from Megaraph, but the Prototype says that Megaraph hasn't been built yet, despite it being built at the time the story is taking place. Spark corrects him, and the Prototype claims Spark is lying. This initiates a battle, but it's cut short when a robot called Freom destroys the elevator the fight was taking place in, as well as most of the other robot's body. Spark witnesses Freom destroy the Prototype, and Freom gives a warning to Spark before leaving. Spark chases after, making his way out of an underground base and into Caria Valley. He takes a military train towards Megaraph, and encounters Seam, who hijacked the train. Spark attacks Seam, thinking he's an enemy, and they fight. Spark defeats both Seam and his dragon, and the train crashes into Turbulence Plains. After making his way through there and Reynol Complex, he meets up with a robot called Megagram, who, after propositioning a fight, tells Spark to go to the forest and go up a tower. Spark beats Megagram, but follows his advice, going to Sunfire Forest.
Spark arrives at the Tower of Eos not long after, and after beating Romalo twice, Romalo, being rid of the Freom Virus, teleports Spark to a secret base, where he meets up with Seam, Kerana, and Megagram again. He also meets with Dr. Armstrong, who gives Spark a mission to destroy Freom. Romalo takes Spark to Freom's fleet, where he meets up with Fark again. Spark now knows that Fark was meant as a secret agent to expose Freom, and thus doesn't have harsh feelings towards him anymore. But Fark, fed up with Spark chasing him, attacks. Even with Fark going Super, Fark was no match for the jester. Spark falls down towards Megaraph Fortress, and heads on inside to take care of Freom.
Spark scales the supercomputer, and meets up with Freom at the top. After detailing his plan to crash the fortress into the planet's orbital rings, he starts launching the fortress and chases Spark with a mech. Freom attempts to fight Spark with said mech, but Spark destroys it, leaving Freom to try and kill the jester himself. He loses, but powers up into a more powerful form, and captures Spark. Spark almost dies, but at that moment, Fark sends his spear to Spark, turning him into Super Spark. Freom runs away, and Spark chases after him. They both make it to the very top of the tower, and engage in one final duel. After an intense fight, Spark ends up winning. Spark then kills off Freom with a laser beam, and lands back to the planet.
====Fark's Story====
In an alternate universe... Spark, having saved the world, got a blank check from Dr. Armstrong, and using that, he takes a vacation to the Bahamas. Thus, he is absent from the story. Though at the end he is seen sitting on a chair as Fark finishes telling him his adventure.
====Spark's Challenge====
Spark tries out the VR game that was made from Fark's adventure, and sets the pain meter to maximum. As such, he goes through Fark's Story.
===Spark The Electric Jester 2===
Spark only makes a cameo here as he is mentioned as the one who took down Freom.
===Spark The Electric Jester 3===
====Pre-Assimilation====
Spark talks to his subconscious and recaps the events of the megagraph incident, he also mention the Fark Force's mission to stop Clarity, with this, Spark informs that a bank check that he had received from Armstrong was suddenly missing, Spark states that he went to the bank to go get it but, the lines were egregiously long, having fed up with the current situation, he informs his subconscious that he wants to stop the Fark Force once and for all, with that, he heads off to stop the force...
Later on, whilst eating a burger, Float's replica approaches Spark and asks for a spare burger. Spark then questions why Float has breasts (this is is due to the fact female formies don't actually have breasts). Then he questions who she is. Float explains to Spark her current situation at hand, and how she also wants to take down the Fark Force. Float explains to Spark why she's willing to help, Spark decides that he will allow Float to tag along.
After entering mech robots, Spark and Float fight off the guardian, who is after the battle revealed to be Flint. Float then saves Spark from getting killed by Flint. Flint then tells Spark to back off, and stop trying to stop the Fark Force. Upon Flint leaving, Spark figures out fully why Float's after the Fark Force, dismissing Flints advice, Spark continues to chase after the force.
Arriving at Utopia Shelter, Spark leaves Float, and at some point while in the shelter dies and gets assimilated and Clarity takes control over his body, causing his main body to die, and the "pre-assimilation" sequence to repeat over and over again for thousands of years at different paces.
==== Post-Assimilation====
In one of the loops, Spark manages to beat Flint, and successfully go through the rest of the shelter without dying. He then meets with Fark, and Fark explains to Spark the truth of his situation, and how he has been stuck in a time loop. Spark grows horrified while hearing of this, after Fark finishes explaining, Clarity arrives and tells Spark her vision. Upon getting ready to assimilate Spark again, Sparks panic attack settles in, and he lashes out at Clarity. Spark then starts to slowly get assimilated, Fark quickly tries to explain to Spark his plan but, it's too late, Spark gets fully assimilated and turned into one of the linework beasts.
After Spark is saved by Fark, he compliments Fark being reset back to his basic form. Fark then realizes that Spark has regained some control over his body, and Claritys system as a whole. Spark then explains to Fark Claritys "Centralis" form, he also explains that if he manages to take control over Centralis, he should be able to control the full system, Spark then uses Fark to gain the Sfarx jester power.
Upon beating Centralis, Spark finally gains control of the system. However, Spark decides that he's going to destroy Claritys whole system, and take his own life away with him. Fark grows anger with this, and decides to save Spark from ending his own life. Spark questions why Fark did what he did, Fark says "for your own good" to which Spark panics and states that all of this is his fault. Fark yells at him and tells him "we're doing this together". Spark finally agrees with Fark, and they thus destroy Claritys system for good.
==Powers and abilities==
During university, he developed a jester hat that allows him to control electricity. This can be further augmented using several Jester Powers.
==Weaknesses==
==Relationships==
==Trivia==
* Spark was based upon 3 characters: Ristar (the face and general color), Sonic (body shape), and Kirby (the ability-change mechanic).
*By the opening sequence, it is implied that "Spark" isn't his real name, but just a nickname given to him by his friends.
*Spark went through several redesigns, eventually just going back to the first design after being drawn by Andy Tunstall.
*According to LakeFeperd, Spark was originally going to snap at some point in the game's story. However, it was scrapped rather early on in the game's production. The only concept art of this plot point is of a sketch of a proposed pose change for Spark. He would've been hunched over, with curled fists and a devilish grin. Due to being cut so early on, it is unknown what would've exactly caused this change in Spark, only a vague mention of his pose being changed halfway through the game, however it is possible that this was related to another scrapped plot element involving Spark meeting up with a family member of his.https://sparktej.tumblr.com/post/89768740673/does-spark-have-friends-or-is-he-just-always-an
*Spark, along with many other indie game characters, makes a cameo in the platform fighting game, Indie Pogo, as a trophy you can obtain through a Gachapon machine.https://indie-pogo.fandom.com/wiki/Spark 
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