Taiyō

**Taiyō** is another one of the humans trapped in the digital circus. They used to be an active circus performer until they were "corrupted," and they now wander the circus.

# Appearance

Taiyō appears as a tall, slender human like figure with white skin. She has fluffy salmon pink hair fading to light lemon yellow to mint green with an antenna fading from salmon pink to icy blue that has a green to purple leaf attached on the end. Taiyō also wears glasses with both shades being mostly white, but having two different designs, with the left one being a pink swirl, and the other one being green zig-zags. She has a purple and pink bandage on her face, and dots resembling braces on their teeth in the colors hot pink, lemon yellow, and yellow green. They wear an icy blue and neon green shirt with yellow green, lemon yellow, and hot pink dots. The sleeves of their shirt have two different designs, one being all dark gray, and the other one being black and white checkered. She also wears a white and a pastel teal glove. Taiyō's pants and shoes also have different designs. One side of their pants is hot pink with neon green stripes, and the other is violet with multiple dark purple swirls. They also have one black shoe, and one yellow green shoe. Taiyō also has a light yellow angel wing and a dark purple devil wing.

After Taiyō's "corruption," they tended to glitch a lot, which added on to their appearance, as they are usually seen glitching.

# Personality

Taiyō is notably very careless. When socializing with the fellow performers they would tend to be rude and not even realize it. She would also flee from every little problem instead of helping out. Taiyō can also be very dramatic and makes things seem more than they are, which is part of the problem that lead to her "corruption." She makes problems worse before they even begin out of fear of what could happen. Taiyō could also very self absorbed and tended to make things about herself very often.

# Biography

Taiyō arrived at the circus shortly after Gangle. Upon their arrival they panicked and broke down in front of the other performers. They got theirself back together with the help of a performer named Dwight. Dwight comforted Taiyō and promised to help her settle into the circus, although it was clear to see Taiyō was still uncomfortable. When Caine asked Taiyō her name, Taiyō, like everyone else, couldn't remember. Caine used the name generator for Taiyō, and got "Taiyo." She approved of her new name. While getting used to her new name, she started writing the line over the O, and it just stuck.

Sometime after being in the circus and shortly after Zooble's arrival, Taiyō noticed Dwight wasn't out of his room at all. Taiyō went to check on him, knocking on his door multiple times. After a bit, Taiyō walked away to try and find someone to help them unlock Dwight's door, but an abstraction broke the door down and rammed right into Taiyō and ran off. Taiyō realized that she started glitching and started screaming for help, but there was no one else, as they were presumably on a quest. Taiyō eventually got herself up and ran off, and told nobody, and that was the last time anyone saw them.

Eventually, Taiyō got used to the glitch and found really nice areas in the digital circus that they haven't seen before, and their file got corrupted, which gave them more immunity to abstractions and the glitching, and they had access to more areas, and it was as if they were a "glitch" themself.

# Relationships

## Dwight

Taiyō and Dwight were best friends, usually spending most of their times in the digital circus together to drown out their own feelings of disassociation. Occasionally, Taiyō still thinks about Dwight, and how much he helped her to stay calm, and feels guilty she couldn't do the same.

## Kinger

Taiyō and Kinger barely talked before Taiyō's corruption, because Taiyō found him as weird due to his erratic behavior.

## Ragatha

Taiyō thought Ragatha was nice at first, but then started to think of her as attention seeking, and stopped talking to her. Ragatha still doesn't know why.

## Jax

Taiyō never liked Jax, and the feeling was mutual for Jax. Taiyō didn't like his sarcastic and insulting remarks upon her arrival or towards the other performers, nor did Taiyō like him pointing out their arrogant behavior.

## Gangle

Taiyō found Gangle very annoying due to her mood swings and crying, them and Gangle didn't talk much.

## Kaufmo

Taiyō found him very annoying and always told him the truth about his jokes not being funny, which caused Kaufmo to dislike Taiyō. Taiyō didn't really care when they found out about Kaufmo's abstraction.

## Zooble

Taiyō didn't get a chance to get to know Zooble, and they barely talked. Before Taiyō's corruption they didn't seem to mind each other, and Zooble just eventually forgot about Taiyō.

## Pomni

Taiyō and Pomni have never met, but Taiyō knows about Pomni joining the digital circus, and sees themself in Pomni when they first arrived and feels sympathy for her.

# Trivia

* In Japanese, Taiyō is the pronunciation of **太陽** , which in English translates to "sun."
	+ However, even with the Japanese origin of their digital name, Taiyō's nationality in the real world was **British-Canadian.**
* Before arriving in the circus, Taiyō was **21 years old.**
* Though Taiyō's gender is unspecified, their pronouns are **She/They.**

* Taiyō's leafy antenna on top of their head is based off of the antenna of a Pikmin in the *Pikmin* franchise.
	+ Taiyō was also supposed to have the ears of the other characters in *Pikmin*, but that was scrapped.
	+ This implies Taiyō having a hobby of gaming in the real world and most likely having an interest in *Pikmin.*
	+ Taiyō can control the antenna.
		- Taiyō has hit other performer members with it before and had to be addressed by it with Caine.
	+ Taiyō's green glasses lens and purple end of their leaf glow like a Glow Pikmin.
* Taiyō hated Christmas music in the real world.
* Taiyō went through multiple name changes while being developed by the creator.
	+ Taiyō's first name was Lou, based off of Louie from the *Pikmin* franchise.
	+ Taiyō was then going to be named Nikkō (日光), but that was scrapped due to the thought of problematic comments.
	+ Taiyō was then going to be named Kora, but the creator scrapped that because it was too feminine.
* Taiyō speaks an a British accent.
* Taiyō's favorite food is Asian Garlic Noodles.
* Taiyō's braces may represent her having a dental problem in the real world and the fact they have **dentophobia**, which is the fear of dentists.