Ingrid Wicksworth

## Physical information

**Ingrid Wicksworth** is a character in *Technopunk*.

## Description

*"The local baker in the Shorthorns' neighborhood. **Ingrid Wicksworth** is as sweet as her apron implies, but as hard-working as her creations, simple yet complicated. Before everyone wakes up for the day, Ingrid is already mixing dough and allowing the smells of sugar and cooked wheat to flood the bakery. When she asks her older brothers to oversee the place, she likes to shop for cute things and get inspiration at cafeterias."*

## Character

### Physical appearance

Ingrid is a woman with Hispanic skin and a chubby build. She has a rounded head, rounded eyes with fuchsia irises, middling droplet eyebrows pointing inwards, and puffy auburn hair with braids on the sides. The rubber bands holding them are carnation pink.

#### Default outfit

She wears a white baker's hat, a white blouse with a petal-like collar and rounded wrists, white pants, a white apron with seafoam green edges and fuchsia sprinkles printed on it, and carnation pink laced loafers with fuchsia soles.

## Development

Ingrid was designed in Mid-Late 2021 and revealed in February 2022. She was originally a *CRiTORA* character named **Ingrid Sprinkandle**, and she was an Abrosexual Birthday Cake Slug CRiTORA resident of the Food District, and one of the protagonists of the first revision of *CRiTORA: Abnormal*.

Ingrid used to run a cake parlor in the Food District, posing a friendly competition against Elise Rattleberry and Josera Cocobean. She was extremely friendly and caring for her customers, as well as hard-working. It all was until the Infestation Invasion happened and ended up at the Abnormal District, losing her home, and forcing her to team up with two faces she never met before; Darrell and Osmehel.

As the first version of *CRiTORA: Abnormal* got canceled during LastyGhost and Daydreaming Birdie's temporary separation, Ingrid was never further developed.

Between the many characters that were reconceptualized when LastyGhost temporarily stopped helping on *CRiTORA* was Ingrid. She was originally a *Stardew Valley* fandom character during 2023, but as LastyGhost hardly develops any fan-made characters of hers, and she did not want Ingrid to go to waste, she turned her into a *Technopunk* character in Early 2024.

On April 3rd, 2023, it was announced that Caroline Cakepod will take Ingrid's place, both as the Cake CRiTORA, and as one of the protagonists of the *CRiTORA: Abnormal* reboot.

### Design

When conceptualized, Ingrid was designed as a cupcake with gastropod traits. She was colored after the Abrosexuality pride flag, and one of her primary inspirations included Birthday Cake Cookie from *Cookie Run: OvenBreak*. In Late 2022, she was given more details to match LastyGhost's updated art style.

In 2023, like most characters LastyGhost designed for *CRiTORA,* Ingrid was redesigned entirely. In her case, she was redesigned with the use of Hero Forge. Her color palette was lightly altered, but mostly preserved. In Early 2024, she was redesigned again to match her color palette with her CRiTORA aspect should she have been designed in 2023.

### Name

Her last name is derived from *Wick*, referring to a candle's wicks.