Patches Ito

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 is one of the seven main characters of the series, the main antagonist of Purrfect Apawcalypse: Love at Furst Bite and Purrfect Apawcalypse: Purrgatory Furever, and the main protagonist of Purrfect Apawcalypse: Patches' Infurno. He's introduced as a charming dalmatian attending Hachiko High School when the apocalypse occurs, but eventually reveals himself as a manipulative murderer. For the majority of the trilogy his body is swapped with his ex-boyfriend Angel Grimalkin.
==Appearance==
Patches appears as a beige dog with black spots all over his body and white wavy hair with black streaks. His floppy ears and tail are of medium length and his eyebrows change between black and white depending on how they overlay his hair. His eyes are a gull gray. In PA1 he wears a dark purple blazer over a blue sweater vest and white button up, a pink tie with a yellow star and purple pants. In PA2 he possesses Angel's old body which has its guts hanging out, an arm de-gloved, a bleeding eye, and is wearing a white sailor style shirt and purple shorts. By the end of PA2 he is bandaged up and given a dark button up shirt, dark blue shorts and a magic red collar. He wears this at the start of PA3, and when attending school wears a white eye patch, white sailor style shirt and purple shorts. He regains his dalmatian body at the end of the game which has had its fur grown out while under Angel's possession. Patches starts wearing it in a ponytail at the end of the series. Post-canon art as well as his Cool Kid Cody counterpart imply that it stays this way past graduation.
==Personality==
Patches introduces himself as a charming and well-behaved dalmatian with a genuine care for others, especially cute cats. His facade cracks whenever others fail to be taken in by his charm. At his core he is vengeful, spiteful, lonely and violent, taking whatever love he can get and lashing out at anyone who refuses him or worse yet, crosses him. Much of the cast sees him as a simple sociopathic murderer incapable of reason, but deep down he is a wounded dog whose only defense is being manipulative and cruel. After befriending Olive and being given chance after chance to reform (and depending on the player's actions), he either continues harming others and is confined in Infurno, or changes his ways. By the end of the series he tones down and is simply frustrated with and distrusting of others.
==Biography==
Patches' parents passed away a few years prior to the events of the game, likely contributing to his unruly behavior. He enjoys reading and joined the Literature Club of which Luna Puddleton, Holly Melita, and Doug Pugg are members of. He even became Vice President of the club. Outside of school hours he'd read under a leafy tree at the edge of Kemono Woods where he'd meet Angel Grimalkin. They bonded over an interest of reading and developed romantic feelings for each other, though it was incredibly one-sided. As time passed their relationship grew strained as Patches became more "clingy" and "joked" about killing Angel if he ever left him. Eventually Angel left Patches a letter telling him to never speak to him again. In response, Patches gouged out one of Angel's eyes and killed him. This is the catalyst for the events of the games.
==Relationships==
*Angel Grimalkin: Angel is Patches' ex-boyfriend. Their relationship started nicely but wound up toxic due to Patches' possessiveness. Patches kills him after he tries leaving the relationship, and in return Angel steals his body. Patches steals Angel's old cat body to torment him and his new friends but is eventually reigned in by Coco's magic. Angel is completely disinterested in having any relationship with Patches, but if he shows an interest in changing then maybe one day they can be friends.
*Olive Higgins: Olive is Patches' foil, and later on becomes Patches' best friend (a low bar, given he had no friends and literally everyone is Olive's best friend). They are the one character who constantly gives him the benefit of the doubt, and as a result, is the character with the most amount of deaths caused by Patches in any given run. Patches finds their need to love everyone to be disgusting, whilst Olive finds Patches sad and lonely at times.
*Ginger Claret: Ginger is Patches' romantic partner and later on, just a friend. Ginger was charmed by Patches into using her magic to escape Infurno and terrorize Angel and his friends. She's unaware that Patches is using her, but is later convinced by Sparky and Olive to turn against him. She betrays him but still has some compassion for him afterwards.
*Brownie Pembroke: Brownie hates Patches' guts. She finds his behavior creepy and takes any opportunity she can to remind him of this. He enjoys terrorizing her as much as anyone else. The two are forced to team up for home ec class in Patches' Infurno, after which Patches can either poison and kill her or behave himself.
*Luna Puddleton: Patches is the Vice President of Hachiko High's Literature Club of which Luna is President. The two have been in the club together for a few years now. She feels as though he'd sabotage her if given the chance, but believes deep down that he's kind, misunderstood and philosophic. She believes this even more so now that Angel has taken over his body.
*Coco Grimalkin: Coco is Patches' ex's sister. After he murdered Angel she spends the first game going on a manhunt for him, killing anyone who gets in her way. She hates him with a passion. He enjoys taunting her with the murder of her brother and often compares her to himself, she hates knowing she's a murderer just like him.
==In-Game Appearances==
===Purrfect Apawcalypse/Purrfect Apawcalypse: Love at Furst Bite===
Patches is the secret antagonist of the first game, at first appearing kind and charming, later on revealing himself to be the indirect cause of the apocalypse. Olive meets him alone at the library and is asked to enter the basement in search of a cat. If they agree, they become companions and explore the school together. Upon entering the basement with him he kills Olive and additionally Coco. If they refuse him he follows them in secret. If Olive meets him at the library with another companion, he will want to stay alone in the library, but will follow the group after they leave. If Olive trusts him over their friends, he will kill them. If everyone tries to outrun him but fails, he will kill them. If everyone tries to outrun him and succeeds, Olive will make a pact with Angel and Coco, promising to find Patches. This results in Angel taking possession of Patches' body. Patches' soul however, is sent to Infurno where he meets Ginger Claret. He employs her magical abilities to wreak havoc in the next game.
===Purrfect Apawcalypse: Purrgatory Furever===
Angel's dead body, originally buried in the yard, reanimates alone with the zombie bodies of a thousand dead dogs. Angel's body traps Olive and their friends in Coco's room and reveals itself to be Patches, back for revenge. He steals Coco's wand and helps another soul get possession of Sparky's body by tranquilizing him. The two plan to go on a killing spree but their plans are thwarted when Olive and Coco gain the favor of the zombies and steal back the wand. He turns his back on Ginger and steals the wand back at the cellar. Having wronged every single person at the party, he is consequentially banished to Infurno, but when Olive interrupts the two are sent to Purrgatory instead. There he has some semblance of a genuine conversation with Olive, revealing that he misses his old body, felt betrayed by Angel, equates murder to removing toxicity from his life and feels completely othered by Olive and society at large. Olive can leave him in Purrgatory furever, or they can return him to the living world where he's kept under control by a magic collar. The latter is what canonically leads into the events of the next game.
===Purrfect Apawcalypse: Patches' Infurno===
Patches, reigned in by the magic collar, is forced to participate in the Hachiko High School Kemono Woods Communal School Day. He's shepherded from class to class where he's expected to behave himself until the end of the day. Should the player choose to, he can remove his collar, kill Brownie, kill Angel, injure Sparky, kill Ginger and generally be a little shit to everyone he comes across. By the end of the game he can summon Bapawmet to kill everyone at the school. If he does so, one week later he will meet some tragic end and wind up in Infurno again. Bapawmet will punish him by chaining him to the underworld forever. If Patches instead decides to behave, inadvertently helping the other students along the way, he will be granted some forgiveness and understanding from Brownie, Coco, Sparky, Ginger, even Angel and as always, Olive. He can have Bapawmet heal everyone instead, resulting in a successful day between cats and dogs. He is slightly less lonely and miserable by the end of it. What path feels most accurate to his character is up for interpretation.
==Trivia==
*Likes: Revenge, loyalty, control, creative killing, reading, genuine companionship.
*Dislikes: Losing, bad manners, bad hygiene, talking about his feelings, betrayal.
*Patches' surname Ito was inspired by Junji Ito, a Japanese horror manga artist.
*To this day, Patches' sudden turn from outright villain of the first 2 installments to anti hero/nominal hero of PA3, and the finesse of it's writing, continues to be debated by fans.
*Patches, despite/because of his antagonist to protagonist status, appearance and personality, has become the most popular character in the PA series, having received the most fanart of all the characters. However, this following for the character, known as "Patches Simps" has become an occasional source of controversy within the fandom.
*Patches comes from an average middle class household.
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==Character Sprites (Dog)==
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==Character Sprites (Cat)==
Patches Cat Casual Explain Talk.png
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Patches Cat Healed Explain Talk.png
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Patches Cat Zombie Explain Talk.png
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==Character Sprites (Demo)==
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==Other Sprites==
PA1 Patches Blep Sprite.png|Patches shows off how he cleans his uniform.
PA1 Patches Librarian Sprite.png|Patches holding the head of the librarian.
PA1 Patches Stab Sprite.png|Olive stabs Patches in an attempt to defend Sparky.
PA2 Patches Dead Sprite.png|Sparky tears Patches' head off after briefly regaining control of his possessed body.
PA2 Patches Fire Sprite.png|Patches sets himself on fire, along with Olive, Coco and Sparky.
PA3 Patches Eye Sprite.png|Coco pops Patches' remaining eye.
PA3 Patches Gutted Sprite.png|Mittens uses their magic to gut Patches.
PA3 Patches Head Bash Sprite.png|Sparky bashes Patches' head in after he sabotaged the baseball.
PA3 Patches Shock Casual Sprite.png|Patches is shocked by his collar.
PA3 Patches Shock Uniform Sprite.png|Patches is shocked in uniform.
PA3 Patches Slice Sprite.png|Angel breaks off Patches' head using his own locker.
PA3 Patches Stitch Sprite.png|Ginger loosens Patches' stitches.
PA3 Patches Sliced Stitch Sprite.png|Ginger tightens Patches' stitches.
==Other Images==
PA1 Patches Ending Sticker.png|Patches' happy illustration that shows up in Love at Furst Bite.
PA2 Patches Sticker.png|Patches' happy illustration that shows up in Purrgatory Furever.
PA3 Patches Trapped in Infurno.png|Patches, trapped by Bapawmet in Infurno for eternity.
Tiny Patches Uniform.png|Tiny Patches from the backgrounds of Purrgatory Furever.
Tiny Patches Ghost.png|Tiny Patches as a ghost.
Tiny Patches Casual.png|Tiny Patches, patched up and in casual wear.
Patches Cat Casual Standing.png|Cat-Patches in his casual outfit.
Patches Cat Uniform Standing.png|Cat-Patches in his school uniform.
Patches Dog Uniform Standing.png|Dog-Patches in his school uniform.
Patches Icon.png|From the Purrfect Apawcalypse sticker sheet, doesn't appear in game.
Patches Eyepatch Icon.png|From the Purrfect Apawcalypse sticker sheet, doesn't appear in game.
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Category:Dogs
Category:Cats
Category:Body Switch Characters
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