Barhambots (Group)

The Barhambots are a group of animal robots who are citizens of Barhamsville, Virginia, United States.

## Etymology

The term "Barhambot" comes from the first half of the word "Barhamsville" (their hometown and place of manufacturing) and the last three letters of the word "robot" combined to make a descriptive play on words. It refers to any anthropomorphic animal who is a robot and a citizen of Barhamsville, Virginia, United States.

## History

During August 2015 AD, Connor Banjoper had stumbled upon images of a pre-existing franchise whose characters were animatronic animals from a pizza restaurant in an unspecified location. Banjoper took inspiration of this and decided to make his own animatronic animals. His first attempts were taking pre-existing characters and modifying them to resemble those of animatronics with open-and-close mouths (similar to mouths of marionette puppets). Among those designs was a recoloring of Marine the Raccoon from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise (because Connor Banjoper's favorite animal is the raccoon) who he named Rags. In September 2015 AD, had the idea to create a completely original character with a new design style - a cat named Lucy. After Lucy was designed, all of Banjoper's other designs - with the sole exception of Rags the Raccoon - were scrapped, and Banjoper then started designing even more animatronic animals.

Over the course of Connor Banjoper's 9th grade year (September 2015 AD to June 2016 AD), he designed several characters for his animatronic franchise, including Nyazik the Mouse, Gertorn the Bear, Flora the Raccoon, Samarium the Chinchilla (later renamed to Samar), and Yvonne the Fox. During the Summer of 2016 AD, he designed Luan the Fox, Molly the Raccoon, and Veronica the Wolf. During his 10th grade year (September 2016 AD to June 2017 AD), he designed Josefina the Squirrel, Faina the Cheetah, Roxane the Arctic Fox, Edith the Cheetah (Faina's mother), Ruby the Weasel, Emma the Skunk, Vanadium the Porcupine, and Oswald the Leopard. He also designed Doris the Fox to be Luan's little sister who she would receive as a Christmas present.

During Spring and Summer 2017 AD, Connor Banjoper attempted to get his animatronic characters created as addons for Garry's Mod. He posted a thread on the discussion board asking for help, hoping his dreams would come true that same year. Unfortunately for Banjoper, the Steam Community users did not take it well, and they decided to launch extreme backlash on him by trolling on his threads, creating hate art about him, and accusing the animatronics of being "Five Nights At Freddy's" fan characters (which they were not, and still are not). Banjoper tried to mediate the situation and stop the uproars by calling them out on their actions, reporting them to the moderators (who were no better than them, mind you), and reassuring them that the animatronics had nothing to do with "Five Nights At Freddy's". No-one listened to him, and the predicament slowly escalated into the ongoing feud between Barhamsville and the Steam Community that still continues to this day.

In 2018 AD, he created 3 characters specifically to be in Ruby the Weasel's life - Stacy the Weasel (her mother), Frida the Weasel (her little sister, made entirely of Samarium), and Tomas the Wolverine (her lover). He also designed Randa the Raccoon, the 62nd animal robot to ever be created by Blazembu (the factory that makes the Barhambots), as well as Davide the Cheetah (Faina's boyfriend, who lives in Chicago, Illinois, United States), Domingo the Squirrel (Josefina's lover), and Sharon the Cat (Lucy's mother).

Somewhere in 2019 AD, Connor Banjoper figured out that there was a difference between animatronics and full robots, as animatronics had preset functions and limitations (mainly for entertainment purposes), while robots were capable of doing much more tasks and interactions. Upon realizing this, Banjoper decided that his animatronic characters were too advanced to be considered animatronics, so they would no longer be referred to, on a regular basis, as animatronics. He then thought up a name for his group of animal robots who are now known as the Barhambots.

In the early 2020s (again, AD), Connor Banjoper decided he needed to cut back on the number of Barhambots there were, as he feared there would be way too many of them for one group of robots. He then decided to recreate some of his characters as either inflatable animals or mannequinimals. The characters who remained Barhambots were Lucy, Luan, Doris, Rags, Randa, Faina, Ruby, Gertorn, Samar, Tomas, Edith, Stacy, Frida, and Sharon. Nyazik, Flora, Molly, Veronica, and Oswald would end up becoming inflatable animals made by a factory named Pamontarc. Josefina, Emma, Vanadium, Domingo, Roxane, and Yvonne would end up becoming mannequinimals made by a factory named Fanetikras.

Also in the early 2020s, a few more Barhambots were designed: Erin the Mouse, Evie the Deer (who was actually from the late 2010s, but joined the main cast in the early 2020s), Greta the Cheetah (Faina's younger sister), Jade the Chipmunk, and Ricardo the Rat.

Connor Banjoper's dreams came true in the mid-2020s, when his hit song "Christmas Eve In Barhamsville" earned him a lot of fortune, and he was able to create each Barhambot one by one (or sometimes two by two), as well as the hit TV series we come to know today.

## Trivia

* Although the "Five Nights At Freddy's" franchise was a MINOR contribution to the inspiration of the Barhambots in Summer 2015 AD, the Barhambots are in no way related to it, and any resemblance to the "Five Nights At Freddy's" franchise is merely a coincidence, and should not be misinterpreted. (Even if the generators say "FNAF OC Generator" or something like that, ***do not*** misinterpret it, as "FNAF" is merely a suggestion.)
* The Barhambots were originally intended to be living restaurant animatronics who worked at several restaurants in Barhamsville (again, no relation to FNAF), while still having the same rights and freedoms as first-class citizens. Connor Banjoper eventually scrapped that idea after finding out the significant difference between a robot and an animatronic, and decided to let the Barhambots be regular citizens of Barhamsville (again, first-class).
* There are at least 62 animal robots who are citizens of Barhamsville, Virginia, United States; the series, however, only focuses on 19 of them.
* The Barhambots (and all other Blazembu-made animal robots) are ***NOT POSSESSED***! They are all independently alive with absolutely no external influence whatsoever.
* The Barhambots are fully self-aware, and knew from the start that they are robots, and they're even aware of the television show that they're on.
	+ What they don't know, however, is *when* they are on the show (at least until they watch it for themselves).