Erniejoe Freckler

## Element(s)

* Being asked what he is.

**Ernest Joseph "Erniejoe" Freckler** is a Meetup District CRiTORA.

## Bio

**The Purple Jerk CRiTORA.** Erniejoe is a strange-looking Lemon Ball jock who makes rude comments about CRiTORA while claiming to be the best Lemon Ball player in CRiTOPiA. However, asking him what he is will make him run away, looking for answers!

## Physical Appearance

Erniejoe is lavender and bright purple in color. He wears a bright purple jacket with dark lavender accents and a white zipper in the center. His head is boxy and lavender in appearance, has a puppet-styled mouth and has eyes that are positioned like a frog's with dark lavender eyelids. His hair is colored bright purple and is very scruffy in appearance. His arms are thin and white and end with lavender and dark lavender mitten-like hands. The legs are white and dark lavender and have bright purple sneakers with white accents. At the rear of his body, he has a tail with a single, five-fingered hand at the end.

### Known alternate accessories

* **Winter outfit:** Erniejoe wears a black sweater with gold accents and two white clouds on the front, one on each side. The sleeves are gold with black stripes, and he wears black sneakers with gold accents, with the circles present in his default sneakers being replaced with diamond shapes.

### V-Erniejoe

When infected by a ViRUS, Erniejoe's main skin colors are now sky blue. There are black and blue binary codes exposed on the lower left and upper right corners of his head. His hair is now navy blue, reduced to having only three spikes sticking out and blue and black binary codes exposed on two of the strands. His eyes are now colored black and his irises are now replaced by green "X"s. One of the eyes are now blocky and the green "X" is rotated like a "+" sign. His mouth is now black and his tongue is now blue.

V-Erniejoe's jacket is green and instead of the usual zipper, there is a large black hexagonal opening and features a little black phantom-like creature with a green face on it. There are also black and light green binary codes exposed on the lower torso. The shoulders are now light green with black and blue binary codes exposed on the centers of it. The arms are now colored black and severely crooked. His hands are now colored sky blue and navy blue with black and blue binary codes exposed on a portion of the hand and the fingers on the other.

One of the hands have been severely reduced to just a single finger while the other remains unchanged. His left leg is now colored light green with black and blue binary codes and his sneaker is now colored green with black accents, just like his jacket. The right leg sports a navy blue joint and has the same binary code colors as the other leg. However, the right sneaker is now blocky in shape and is navy blue, black and blue in color. The tail also sports black and blue binary codes, the hand on it is colored like the skin and has pointed fingertips.

### Abilities

* **Ernie Kick** - Erniejoe kicks ViRUSES with his feet.
* **"Here comes the Erniejoe CHARGE!"** - Erniejoe runs and charges himself to hurt ViRUSES.
* **Slappy Tail** - Erniejoe slaps the enemy with the hand on his tail.

## In the series

### Minor appearances

* In *CRiTORA: abnormal*'s Prologue, Erniejoe appears in Isaac's origins, reminding him that it was a week since he promised him a challenge through the gravity ropes.

## Trivia

### Design origins

While Erniejoe Freckler's design origins are uncertain, the appearance of his head may take inspiration of a frog; In addition, his mouth's overall appearance could also be a nod to a puppet, particularly with *Muppets*, a type of puppet originally created by the late Jim Henson.

The human-like hand on the end of his tail is inspired by the Latin American mythological creature, the Ahuizotl.

### Name origins

His nickname is a shortened version of his first and middle names.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* Sky-Flying Frenzy
* BONUS Bonanza
* Meetup Mayhem (Part 1)