Thermometer

Oral

Neat freak

Therma

Thermo

Thermy

Thermometery

**Thermometer** is a female object student seen in the *Virtually Gifted*cartoon series. She nervously but surely competes on the Laser Tag team, but tries to stay as clean as possible while doing so; this isn't always possible though. This bossy and clean freak character is played by.

## Appearance

Thermometer is a clear glass oral thermometer with red ethanol inside used to read temperatures. She has a slightly abnormal shape compared to real world thermometers, though this discrepancy can simply be explained away as done via the power of cartoony logic.

Thermometer's facial expression is generally read as being dignified and slightly arrogant, or angry at times. These negative emotions can be easily read from the audience, as the medical device also does certain patronizing gestures whenever she's showcased on screen, like pointing up with her right hand and crossing her left hand behind her back.

## Personality

In the series, Thermometer is portrayed as a rather paranoid hypochondriac and an obsessive neat freak. She likes having things perfectly in her favor and idea of social order, even if doing so interferes with the idea of common sense and the grasp of logic of commoners seen around her. Thermometer's tendency to overreact to certain problems and inflating of situations to be larger than they actually are, combined with an unstable perfectionist attitude makes it hard for her to make friends and get certain things done, which can cause some problems for her in the contests and competition as a whole. Thermometer's the kind of person to start a project and never finish it due to demanding everything to be perfect on it, and this makes her suffer from long lasting procrastination. Thermometer is slightly aware of this trait making her hard to work with, but recognizes the difficulty in changing herself for the better, and sometimes quits out of frustration and lack of motivation.

Thermometer is also known to be rather easy to anger whenever criticized or talked down to; she can and will lash out at people who give her the right kind of grievances, showing her as a person who has a low level of self esteem and someone who is emotionally sensitive. This negative quality of snapping at people makes her one of the ruder characters that's seen in the series, but Thermometer isn't really depicted committing intentional acts of malice to hurt others, but she does have the weakness of letting anger cloud her judgement.

Although there is the whole negative quality of being a controlling neat freak and possible bully towards other people, Thermometer is not completely terrible and useless to the dichotomy to the show in question. She does exist to provide some level of conflict, and she even has some good in her to make her a bit sympathetic to the audience; not sympathetic to the point of being a big baby, but a bit to explain her methodology and point of reasoning. Thermometer's shown to have a level of interest in various disciplinary fields such as science and health, showing her to being somewhat of a intellectual and nerdy person in the narrative. Thermometer isn't really considered an inventor or engineer, but she does seem to occasionally carry some knowledge on various things relating to science and technology, and even knows how to be a medic and tend to the needy, so she's considered helpful to some people around her. However, sometimes people talk over her, being a bit too stupid to see that she's made a good point that can help her. This ignorance sometimes frustrates her.

Overall, Thermometer is a seemingly smart and wise character that's unfortunately plagued by possessing some strong fears surrounding illness and filth, which causes her to act out in an inappropriate and cruel way towards the people around her, and this hurts her relationships with the community, and her image. People view her as a girl who is just scared to exist. As such, this image of being a "bossy bitch" is kind of her fault, and it makes her one of the least loved students in terms of ranked popularity. Will Thermometer give in to the fear of germs taking over the world and go crazy, or will she grow a backbone and some much needed common sense and understanding of the world around her? Find out in coming episodes that will air on Virtually Gifted.

## Abilities

* **Reading Temperatures:** Her body acts as a temperature reader, obviously, so she is the first person would know how hot or cold things are. If dipped into a liquid or gassy substance, she gives accurate readings in mere seconds. Talk about convenient...or really stupid.
* **Medical Knowledge:** Being a medical instrument, she knows how to heal people who are hurt or sick. She also knows how to disinfect things with the various cleaning supplies she carries with her.
* **Makeshift Weapon:** If shattered, she can be used as a deadly implement that can stab weaker objects. Attempting this would kill her, though.

## Trivia

* Thermometer is noted to be one of two medical-related objects who compete in the Virtually Gifted series. The other student that is themed around doctors happens to be Pill Bottle.
	+ Sharing this theme, the two characters have more of an "understanding" for each other, but aren't friends.
* Thermometer is strictly noted to be an oral thermometer in practice; if she were to be called a rectal thermometer by someone, she'd feel insulted at that, considering how gross that is in reality. Relating to this particular aspect of her, Thermometer apparently has a younger sister who's a rectal thermometer and is, in Thermometer's words, "an asshole", which is just a stupid pun.
* Thermometer's fear of germs vaguely echoes Soap from Inanimate Insanity. That being said, it's done even worse here and with more exaggeration to make Thermometer look like someone who's lost their marbles, so to speak.
* If she were to shatter, the ethanol (a substances that's a type of alcohol) stored inside of Thermometer would splatter a lot like blood as a dark humored joke. She is the only contestant with this strange and dark-looking quality, although Salsa could also fit the bill sort of due to her salsa innards vaguely looking like guts and giblets to an outsider (given the color and consistency of the salsa bits).
* Thermometer and Salsa are the only two students who are made mostly out of glass. Coincidentally, they are both on the same team. Due to this, Thermometer is relatively easy to kill, should anyone decide to do that.
* Thermometer's fear of germs and sickness could be a reference to her being a medical instrument.
* Thermometer is considered straight/hetero in the narrative.
* Thermometer is somewhat aware that Straw likes her, but doesn't seem to feel the same way, and is often annoyed at his come-on attempts.
* Thermometer originally had a masculine, deeper pitched voice.
* As a student, Thermometer's academic performance is regarded as being alright, with a GPA of 3.3.
* Thermometer tries to learn about health and science stuff when she is not doing work at Mcfinny Public School.
* Thermometer has a thermometer of her own that acts like a "doll" for her, as an absurdist surreal effect. It even looks vaguely like her, just smaller and lifeless. She's attached to this "doll" for unknown reasons.
* Thermometer hates Thursdays for completely unknown reasons that are never explained.
* Thermometer hates eating anything that is organic because she feels that the pesticides not being on those foodstuffs make the germs have a party, and loves processed stuff.
* Thermometer being afraid of germs kind of echoes Woody from BFB being afraid of everything, as this paranoia seeps into a lot of things normal people would find fun or okay, and this damages her rep.