Benjamin Fairest

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**Benjamin Fairest** is the protagonist of the mod. He wants to be a painter instead of a musician, and runs away from his parents with his boyfriend Pico.

#### Appearance

Benjamin has dyed cerulean blue hair. His natural hair colour is blond. He wears a red beanie with green, red, and blue polka dots on its rim. He wears a periwinkle hoodie with a pale red caution sign on the center, navy blue jeans, and red sneakers with black laces. In his right hand, he holds a paintbrush. You can also see cigar burns on his neck in some of his dialogue portraits.

During Chapter 5, he replaces his hoodie with a red winter coat with white fur trim, and his sneakers are replaced with brown winter boots. He also wears dark brown mittens.

During Chapter 6, he leaves behind his beanie to show his long hair. He also replaces his hoodie with a gray shirt with a purple button on it and a white undershirt with the caution sign.

#### Gallery

Benjamin's V-pose.

Benjamin scared by thunder.

Benjamin's scream in Genesis.

Benjamin's poses.

Benjamin's miss poses.

Benjamin's poses, Chapter 4.

Benjamin's miss poses, Chapter 4.

Benjamin's poses, Chapter 5.

Benjamin's miss poses, Chapter 5.

Benjamin's poses in Hope and Genesis.

Benjamin's miss poses in Hope and Genesis.

Benjamin's sprites.

Dialogue portraits.

Dialogue portraits, Chapter 5.

#### Trivia

* He was originally named Aaron Fairest, but his first name was changed to Benjamin.
* Benjamin is gay.
* Unlike the original Boyfriend's personality of fearless, stupid, and overconfident, Benjamin is soft-spoken and nervous.
* A lot of his character is based off of Tama, the mod's creator.
* If he sees a bit of hair drying off, he dyes it blue as soon as possible.
	+ While it is unknown why he dies his hair, it can be assumed that his parents forced him to do so.
* Benjamin calls Pico "Toughie", while Pico calls him "Softie" due to how they both act.
	+ It was later confirmed that they gave each other these nicknames long before they began dating.
* Benjamin's favorite drink is hot chocolate.
* Benjamin enjoys singing somewhat, but only in private or with Pico *willingly* out of fear.
* Benjamin is sensitive to loud noises, explaining his fear of thunder.
* Benjamin's favorite color is green.
* Benjamin is friends with Neo Boyfriend and B3 Boyfriend and goes out with them for hamburgers every Saturday night.
	+ The group would later be expanded with all 3 versions of Minus Boyfriend.
* Benjamin enjoys pizza rolls.
	+ Another one of his favorite foods is sea salt popsicles.
	+ He also likes chicken noodle soup and making lasagna.
* Benjamin hates pickles.
* Benjamin genuinely cares about Grace and understands it's not her fault the ways she is, and wishes he could love Grace so he could make her happy. However, he knows that it would hurt for both of them.
* Benjamin has PTSD, ADHD, and anxiety with depressive episodes.
* The arrows represent the colors on Benjamin's pins, except for purple.
* Despite Soft BF being the first character ever designed, he was one of the last to be finalized and made into a sprite.
* Benjamin and Pico's ideal date is McDonald's.
* Benjamin and Pico take turns feeding the alleyway cat named Trashi almost every night.
	+ They adopted the cat as their own.
* Benjamin was put into home school when he reached sophomore year of high school.
* Benjamin hates when he looks at his reflection in the mirror, as he sees his own parents on it.
	+ To add fuel to the fire, in the banner for Chapter ???, his reflection seems to be that of the original BF, or in this case, what his parents wanted him to be.
* Benjamin gets easily frustrated and worked up, but rarely partakes in arguments. In order to blow off steam, he screams into a pillow.
* Benjamin often forces Pico to look at memes he finds on his phone.
* On Twitter, it has been teased that Benjamin and HD Boyfriend would possibly have a chaotic friendship.
* Benjamin and Pico's first fight was supposedly from playing *Among Us*. This is because Pico got Impostor and killed him.
* His Chapter 6 attire concept art drew comparisons to anyone from *Danganropa*. However, this was quickly deconfirmed by one of the devs.
* He doesn't like a lot of people talking at once.
* He eats and/or drinks paint water. He does so either in a cup or from the whole can.
	+ Sometimes, Pico has to swap out the paint water with actual water when Benjamin is focused on his artwork.
* In Chapter 6, Benjamin leaves his beanie behind so that he can look nice for the double date.
* Benjamin uses L'Oreal Women's hair conditioner.
* Benjamin's little ahoge on his hair wiggles when he's happy, flustered, or excited.
* Benjamin has a tendency to get paint everywhere, such as the paint splatters on Pico's gun.
* Benjamin does not play Fortnite, even when asked to by B3 Boyfriend and Neo Boyfriend.
* Benjamin almost died doing the "[Character] Eats A Lemon & Dies" meme.
* Benjamin knows French and can read it well, but struggles with using it in conversations.
* He has to rely on tone indicators in order to translate Pico's Polish.
	+ He does his best to act like he knows the language.
* If Softie were to be a soda, he'd be his favorite soda, Ramune. He'd either be normal or blueberry.
	+ For every Ramune bottle he drinks, he adds one marble to his marble plastic bag. He stores said bag in Pico's backpack. Pico helps him get the marbles out with brute force.
* He would be the type of person to celebrate small victories.
* His hands are smaller than the original Boyfriend's hands.
* Benjamin's favorite video game is *Animal Crossing*.
* Sometimes, he wears reading glasses.
* Benjamin's hair supposedly smells &/or tastes like cotton candy.
* Benjamin loves Cookie Run.
* Benjamin and Pico babysit Skid and Pump on Sundays as a way of making extra money.
	+ They even accompany them when they go trick-or-treating.
* Benjamin is noctoriously bad at making decisions to the point where Pico sometimes just doesn’t bother asking him things because it’ll turn into a 30 minute ordeal.
* Benjamin hates NFTs.
* Benjamin always knew about Grace’s struggles in loving her body due to just observing her habits, especially at family dinners and talks in private. He drew her a lot and gave her the artwork in hopes of making her feel better.

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