Happy Boy

"Happy Boy", a Horrorbrew created by CariSmant, is the Anti-Villain of the Happy Boy Arg, currently consisting of 3 Twitter threads and a website. He is an entity residing in a ROM of a real bootleg, "Super Boy 1", a bootleg developed by Zemina.
==APPEARANCE==
While his appearance varies, Happy Boy usually takes the form of a short, fat Mario lookalike with a huge head, although his proportions changes a lot, he has a huge mouth, two eyes that each look in different directions, no overalls and no shoes, his body just melding together into one weird shape.
His color palette only consists of two colors, staying in line with how the colors were on the original super boy sprite.
His body does not have organs, being only comprised of a skin suit filled to the brim with writhing maggots.
==PERSONALITY==
Happy Boy is a very childish and whimsical being. He obsesses over his friends, or who he calls his friends at least, and his thought process is very... unstable, frequently misspelling words and always wanting to play "games" that he makes up.
Usually these "games" are complete nonsense, having stock Mario renders plastered all over them, or are just not very engaging.
Happy Boy doesn't mean any harm, usually loving anybody he encounters, even people who hate him. That being said, Happy Boy doesn't understand the effects his mere presence has on the people who meet him, the games getting intense or freaking the player out. He also has no understanding of his body rotting, usually freaking the player out.
He also doesn't understand that the longer he's around the player, the more their body rots while they are still alive.
==BACKSTORY==
Not much is known of Happy Boy's origin, we know he was an employee of Zemina, that he owed people money, and that those people killed him in a forest in 1991. He also had at least one daughter, who was 12-13 (in her own words) when he died.
The start of the story began when Millie, a 23 year old woman, got a DM on discord from a now deleted account. Said DM included a zip file that contained the game that Happy Boy inhabited. Bored, she downloaded it and played the Super Boy 1 ROM inside, and the rest is history.
==ABILITIES==
-Game Manipulation-
Happy Boy is able to manipulate the ROM he inhabits. It's unknown how far he can manipulate the ROM itself, and he might even be able to manipulate files on the computer the ROM he inhabits is on. However, the possibility of him being able to manipulate computer files is unconfirmed.
-Rot-
Anyone who is in presence of Happy Boy directly will begin to decompose while they are still alive. This is more of a symptom of his presence than a deliberate choice on Happy Boy's part.
-Clones-
While it is easy to kill one of his bodies, Happy Boy has a seemingly infinite number of clones that work in unison like a colony of ants or termites, although they are all pretty stupid.
==WEAKNESSES==
While not having many weaknesses, it's basically impossible to anger Happy Boy or make him fight someone else, as he just wants to be friends with everybody.
You can also just turn off the computer at any time and walk away.
Eventually, after months and months, he will give up and leave, although by then he wouldn't consider you his friend anymore.
==Series==
Thread 1: https://twitter.com/CariSwump/status/1760108184629305793/photo/1 
Thread 2: https://twitter.com/CariSwump/status/1772789833045356970/photo/1
Thread 3: https://x.com/CariSwump/status/1792064545323712734
ARG Website: https://zemina.neocities.org/
==TRIVIA==
*He has really bad memory, forgetting most details, like his name or the color of the sky.
*He REALLY likes this one video, "Funny Chap Singing", which is also the hashtag for Happy Boy art, #funnychapsinging
*He can inflate and deflate his head at will.
*He can do many little jigs and dances.
*He was created on February 9th, 2024, when Cari was really bored and messing around with the Super Boy sprites. Ironically, it was also 2 days after his birthday.
*He is Cari's most powerful horrorbrew, unironically.
*He goes splat when you throw him against a wall.
*His favorite food is spam musubi, although he hasn't had it in a long time.
*In the second thread, the images of Millie and Happy Boy's past "friends" from the Zemina Neocities site are heavily recolored, each matching with one of the off-putting Marios in the "Find Millie" game.
**As Millie's photo has the same color as her character, it means that most of the characters seen were the past avatars (i.e Jacob's Mario being the green one, Kim's being the yellow one, and Larry's being the blue one.
**In the first level of the minigame, there is a fifth character that's colored purple. A similarly colored hat appears at the end of the trivia minigame. Oddly enough, it has no images with a matching color, leaving its player's identity unknown.
*Millie is canonically trans :).
==Gallery==
File:Jappybypo.png|Happy Boy
File:Happyboyandhappyswarm2.png|Happy Boy Swarm
File:Inisdehappy.png|Inside of a Happy Boy
File:Stupidcomic3.png|Happy Boy with X.nes
File:Happys64.png|Happy Boy doing the Mario 64 Render
Marvinhappy.png|Happy Boy as Marvin from SML
File:Emkay approved.png|Damien Lee of Emkay approves of happy boy
==?????==
W OW!!! THIS PAGE IS ALL ABOITU ME!!! THAT IS SO FARKIN GN COOL!!!!11 
I F Y OU LIKE M E- THEN Y YHOU WILL ENJOPY MY F RIEND!!!!!!!!!
https://zemina.neocities.org/millieupdates 
Category:Mario-Based
Category:In-Game
Category:Bootleg
Category:Male