Michelin Man

**Michelin Man** was an Adipose (PROSE: *The Complete Story of My Life (So Far)*) who was among the ten thousand created by Miss Foster in London 2009. (TV: *Partners in Crime*) He joined another Adipose, Mrs Stay Puft, when the Adipose were beamed up, and travelled with the rest of the Adipose to their new home. (PROSE: *The Complete Story of My Life (So Far)*)

## Biography

The Adipose originated as a layer of fat in a man, before he popped out, "as happy as [he] could be"; he waved and greeted the human, who called over a lady. The man named the newly born Adipose "Michelin Man", and the woman couldn't quite understand what she was seeing. Michelin Man shook his human's hand, and they became friends, in that moment. Suddenly, Michelin Man heard a high pitched whine, (PROSE: *The Complete Story of My Life (So Far)*) that belonged to an Adiposian nursery ship, (TV: *Partners in Crime*) which beckoned him, so Michelin Man climbed on top of the man's desk and onto the windowsill, and he looked back at his human one last time before leaving, who was tearing up.

Outside, Michelin Man ran after the "soothing" sound, to an open area where a crowd of humans were looking up at the sky. He saw the saucer beaming up many other Adipose, so Michelin Man launched himself off a post box towards one of the beams of blue light. He collided with another Adipose, Mrs Stay Puft, and they introduced themselves while floating up weightlessly. In a moment, he thought over his, so far, short life. Mrs Stay Puft had overtaken Michelin Man and was waving to a couple of humans, (PROSE: *The Complete Story of My Life (So Far)*) the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble, (TV: *Partners in Crime*) and he caught up to her, as they neared the saucer.

In the saucer, the duo was greeted by a humongous Adipose, who informed them that they were on a flight to their home. Inside the cold saucer — although Michelin Man wasn't cold due to his composition — he and Mrs Stay Puft spent hours playing on fun slides and ball pits. The voyage ended when the saucer arrived at a snowy planet, and while Michelin Man was concerned that the ship would crash for a second, he was reassured by the safe landing. Outside, their new family hugged them as best they could, despite their arms sticking out to their sides. The family turned to face King Adipose the 42nd, who welcomed the children of the Adiposian First Family home. (PROSE: *The Complete Story of My Life (So Far)*)

## Behind the scenes

* Michelin Man was named in reference to the Michelin Man, the tire mascot of Michelin.
* In the original release of the short story, no images depicting events in the story were included, but upon the release of the story of Toby Price's blog, it was accompanied by a specially-taken photograph of an Adipose stuffed toy to depict Michelin Man.
	+ This was not the first time a stuffed toy had been used to depict a character in *Lockdown* media, the first being Strax in WC: *Strax Saves the Day*.
	+ It also followed the trend of using stuffed Adipose toys to represent Adipose in-universe, as the Official *Doctor Who* Tumblr used the toys to represent the Adipose that were running the account.

## Footnotes

1. ↑ Retroactive; one of the dozens of Adipose during the March of the Adipose scene