Pico

*Were you looking for the **song** or the **week**?*

> Society sucks, but you don't have to kill your classmates to stand out.
>
> **Pico**, *Pico's School*

**Pico** is the antagonist of **Week 3**. His tracks include **Pico**, **Philly** and **Blammed**.

He was teased alongside **Tankman**, **Cassette Girl** and **Hank J. Wimbleton** on the 15th of November, 2020. He was added to the game with the release of Week 3 on the 11th of December, 2020.

He is the second guest character introduced to **Friday Night Funkin'**, with the others being **Tankman** and **Skid and Pump**.

## Appearance

Pico is a young, light-skinned man with rounded ginger hair and distinctive white eyes with no pupils. He wears a green shirt, beige pants and a pair of maroon sneakers with orange laces. He wields a gun in one hand and holds a microphone in the other with his thumb pointing out.

During the last track of **Week 7**, he is seen crouched on top of the speakers that **Girlfriend** normally sits on. He now wields a pair of guns which he twirls around in a flashy manner.

## Origin

Pico originates from **Pico's School**, a point-and-click Flash game created by Newgrounds' founder **Tom Fulp** in 1999. Due to the game's popularity at the time, Pico quickly became a fan favorite around Newgrounds.

Since then, Pico has been appointed the site's first mascot and has made other cameo appearances in many Newgrounds Flash films and games, and continues to remain a popular character on the site to this day.

Newgrounds also has a Holiday named after him known as "Pico Day," a day centered around celebrating not only him but other popular figures in the Newgrounds community. It's typically celebrated on the 30th of April, which also happens to be Tom Fulp's birthday.

## Personality

Before the events of Pico's School, Pico was described as popular, curious, confident and friendly by his peers, being the first one to raise his hand in class and often speaking up whenever possible. During the destruction of his school, he is shown to act quite reckless and takes action immediately despite the danger he could be running into.

After the events of Pico's School, Pico has developed an aggressive and homicidal side to him, rarely showing any fear and ruthlessly fighting anyone standing in his way. He is an exceptional gunman and is usually seen dual wielding his weaponry with great proficiency. His weapons of choice are automatic weapons such as the MAC-10, UZI or the M16 Assault Rifle. He also has tremendous skill in unarmed combat, seen in media such as Newgrounds Rumble and Pico's Unloaded. He is also shown to be quite paranoid as he isn't too trusting of others and is always armed.

## Story

Set many years after Pico's School, Pico is hired by **Daddy Dearest** to kill **Boyfriend** for humiliating him after their sing-off in **Week 1**. Unbeknownst to him at the time, Boyfriend is actually somebody Pico once knew, and once Pico finds him, he decides to spare him and instead challenges him to a rap battle.

## Trivia

* Upon his creation, Pico was originally named "Pogo" by Fulp, but later changed his name to Pico after discovering the website Pogo.com was taken.
	+ Pico's name was inspired by a character from the 1991 RPG **Cosmic Fantasy 2**.
* Pico is confirmed to become a playable character in the future.
	+ He can currently be played if you select him from the **Debug Menu**.
* Pico was added into the game as a collaboration with **Tom Fulp**, creator of popular Flash animation and game portal Newgrounds.
	+ This may be in response to the game being **promoted** on Newgrounds' official YouTube channel and that the game's programmer, **ninjamuffin99**, and Pico's creator, Tom Fulp, are good friends.
* Pico has untreated **schizophrenia**. This causes him to keep his weapons on him at all times due to his fear of being attacked.
	+ It is very likely he developed it after the events of Pico's School as it would have traumatized him severely.
* There is a possibility that Pico's voice may have been based off of a line from ENDLESS HANDBAG, Newgrounds' old background music, around the **1:50** mark.
* Pico makes a small cameo appearance in the background of **Week 5**.
* Pico returns for **Week 7's** final track **Stress**. During the cutscene, he leaps down from the sky, killing the 2 **Tankmen** that were holding **Girlfriend** at gunpoint. For the rest of the song, he guns down many other approaching Tankmen on top of the speakers while **Boyfriend** holds Girlfriend.
	+ He is described by **Tankman** during the cutscene as Boyfriend's "sexually ambiguous, angry little friend."
* Confirmed in a **livestream** by **PhantomArcade**, Pico was hired by **Daddy Dearest** as a mercenary to kill Boyfriend after the events of Week 1, but he doesn't go through with it.
* Pico used to be the mascot of multimedia site Newgrounds, but was slowly phased out of the role by **Tankman** in 2006.
* A popular headcanon within the FNF community was that Pico is **Boyfriend's** ex. This headcanon gathered so much traction that **Tom Fulp**, the creator of Pico, tweeted jokingly that "**this is official Pico 2 canon**," leading people to believe that it was true. **ninjamuffin99** has stated that **this was a joke**, but later changed his mind and claimed it was **canon**.
	+ ninjamuffin99 has **confirmed that Pico and Boyfriend are exes** on **Reddit**, Twitter and **Twitch** several times.
		- It is debated if Pico is bisexual or gay as he has no relationship history within his canon.
			* On the 1st of April, 2021, Tom Fulp updated the original Pico's School game for April Fool's day, ending with Pico revealing to Casandra that he and Boyfriend are a couple and everyone at his school accepts them. The day after, this version would be released as separate game set in an alternate timeline called "Pico's School: Love Conquers All".

## Gallery

*View Pico's full gallery **here**.*

Pico, the Newgrounds poster boy.gifPico as he appears in-game.Pico FNF Animations.gifPico's animations uploaded to Newgrounds by PhantomArcade.Pico's singing animations.Commit self blam.gifPico's currently unused miss animations.Pico (Song).gifGameplay featuring Pico VS. Boyfriend.Pico Pico Nii.pngPico as he appears in the background of Week 5.Murder.gifMurder.Static-assets-upload11567629444742919812.gifOne of the animations of Pico's skillful gunfire in Week 7's Stress.Static-assets-upload1470860358500875506.gifAnother animation of Pico firing away at any opposing Tankmen in Week 7's Stress.

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