Pen

**Pen**, labeled **The Manipulative Brother**, is a male character and is one of the ***six primary characters*** and one of the ***two mascots*** on the online animated series **Animated Diversity** created by DigBio on *YouTube*.

## Appearance

Pen is an anthropomorphic ballpoint pen with a blue cap. His early design depicts him with six fingers on each hand. He wears yellow shorts.

In **ADS**, his hands resemble more like mittens, and his legs are relatively shorter. Like his brother, Pencil, Pen now has heterochromia, having blue and purple pupils, but the color on each eye swapped as opposed to his brother - blue on the right, purple on the left. Like the changes to his brother, Pen wears a dog tag and shoes, white in color.

In **AD**, Pen has shading and lighting. His pupils appear to be larger.

## Personality

Pen seems to be a manipulative brother towards Pencil, always commanding him to do as what he says, even when his brother suffers a great pain. Both of them often times disagree with one another, with Pen arguing for the sake of his own benefit, and Pencil arguing for the sake of goodness and equality among the people around him. He also uses insignificant traits to put him in a higher level compared to his brother, seeing that he will never do what Pencil tells him just because he's "2 seconds older than his brother". Pen also seems to be an attention seeker towards Pencil, and wouldn't let him be with or near anyone other than him. This trait is demonstrated in Terms of Getting the Keys, when Pen has a shocked look on his face after Pencil admitting that Atlas is "a better friend than Pen" because he wouldn't take him home. And that leads Pen into peer pressure, and leaving him with no other choice than to do as what Pencil commands just to keep their friendship tight. This mentality is further made clear in the same episode, when Pen is (presumably) jealous at Sushi for rescuing Pencil from the rolling boulder.

## Episode Appearances

* **Shorts:**
	+ The Atmosphere Brings Nothing New
	+ Character Is Something That You Own
	+ Heirlooms on the Nailed Furniture
	+ Flavorless Feelings on a Snow Cone
	+ Anything Wrong with the Dining Table
* **Series:**
	+ Terms of Knowing Everyone Around
	+ Terms of Getting the Keys
	+ Terms of Healing the Wound

## Trivia

* He is one of the 14 characters to be based off of real life people that DigBio knew in real life. The others are Pencil, Atlas, Mouse, Handkerchief, Grass Block, Micro, Domino, Photo, Peach, Dictionary, Calculator, Dynamite, and Buzzsaw.
* Pen is one of the two mascots for the show. The other is Pencil.
* Despite being the mascot of the show, Pen and Pencil are actually not the first duo characters to be created and grouped. That title belongs to Strawberry and Turnip.
* Him and Pencil are the only non-food duo characters.
* He, along with Pencil, Atlas, Mouse, Handkerchief, and Grass Block are the six primary characters of the show.
* He is one of the few characters who have colored pupils. The others are Pencil, Handkerchief, Photo, and Sushi.
* Pen and Pencil are the only male duo characters who don't wear gloves.
* There's a little bit of controversy surrounding him as a character, as many people assumed he was the same character from the series Battle for Dream Island taken into the show verbatim. The creator of the show has stated in a Q&A that both characters were completely different, as the similarities are merely surface level.
* Pen holds the record for having the shortest name, at only 3 letters.