Phonegingi

Phonegingi/Typegingi (or whatever name you happen to gift this wretched wittle kreeechur) is the main playable character of Dialtown, an enigmatic "cryptid". Their font is Grenoble Antique-Regular, and their associated color is a bright green (#66CC40), matching their color scheme. They describe themselves as 'ageless' due to not remembering how old they are.

Note: they are referred to as Phonegingi throughout the wiki and with they/them for consistancy, but "whatever you refer to Gingi as is always going to be correct. There's no wrong answers" because of "it's strange biology and lack of coherent personal identity", as quoted from the character sheet.

## Phone-/Type-gingi

* Phonegingi
* Typegingi

## Physical description

### Eye color

At LEAST one.

**WARNING: THIS WIKI PAGE FEATURES GIGANORMOUS SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE GAME, YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.**

## Appearance

Phonegingi's appearance consists of either a rotary phone or a typewriter, stitched together with various tones of flesh. As a typewriter, they have the words "Nectar", "Dogman", and "Dodo" as well as various unicode symbols on their keys with some representing the dateables; as a phone, they have numbers in random order, with the 6 being replaced with an F as the last letter.

They have a slim figure with pale green skin and a dark bruise on their left shoulder due to a gorilla bite. Stitching is present down their chest, their wrists, and along their back. They got six whole nipples, too! They are occasionally seen with bracelets and a ring. During Chapter 3, they are shown to have a fully grown tail due to the year-long time skip.

## Biology

What a joke of a section. Useless thing to theorize about specifically, but quick facts:

* They also have at LEAST one eye and a long tongue under their stitch-head (sheath).
* They have blue blood like a crab, and are also veinless ("mainly") and use passive transport.
* They have red urine.
* They have mole vision and can only see 10 feet in front of them.
* They can shut off their brain to retain energy, both like a reptilian and like a phone going into low-power mode.
* They frequently "squirt", sometimes being completely controllable while at other times being done out of self defense or response to sudden emotion.
* They have half a dozen nipples, but I'm not gonna be the one to ask if they can... lactate.
* They can regenerate their tail, presumably being painless to shed.
* They have keratin-tipped phalanges (finger- and toe-nails). Their toenails are overgrown and disgusting, which they refer to as claws.

## Information

### Chapter 1: The Funfair Date!

After waking up one day in their tent and realizing they were pregnant, they decide to sneak into the funfair so they can lay their eggs in safety. When Jerry tells them about the 2-for-1 Valentines' Day deal, they opt to try and find a mate and thus, be allowed entry (like a parasite). From there, at least four choices would present themselves; pathetic swan-wrangler Randy Jade, the sarcasm-blind banker Karen Dunn, usher and wannabe director Oliver Swift, or the elusive cryptid Bigfoot.

#### Randy Route: To assist a bum

Trying the Sex Phone Hotline, they would meet Randy Jade, who agrees to go with them to the funfair. Jerry, upon seeing Randy's pathetic state, lets them in out of pity, and Gingi lays their eggs after several rides. However, they also see Randy acting strangely in front of a fortune telling machine called Madame Mediocre before leaving to go home.

Tracking down Randy the next day to the dumpster behind Bunny's Burgers, they soon learn how the machine cursed him, and soon became a bum due to a string of unfortunate accidents. Upon realizing he was late for swan-wrangling, Gingi suggests they take the subway, only for Randy to be held up at gunpoint by a mugger. On Gingi's suggestion, Randy tries to stand up for himself, only to immediately fold and give up what he has left, and then learns that the mugger's gun wasn't even loaded, furthering his embarrassment. At the park, as Gingi convinces Randy to quit swan wrangling due to how dangerous they are, the same mugger calls him on the Sex Phone Hotline, which Gingi convinces him to also quit as its degrading, which allows him to embarrass the mugger due to his pants being off at the time. After this, Gingi lets them into their tent, where they make love before falling asleep.

The next day, Gingi arrives at the ticket booth, where they learn from Jerry that the machine was never cursed, but just broken due to drunken coding. Upon hearing this, Gingi runs inside to confront Madame Mediocre (who could talk thanks to Gingi being high off of cough syrup), and learns that the true source of Randy's misfortunes was his lack of confidence in himself. Gingi then decides to give Randy that confidence by faking a ritual to cure him of his bad juju, complete with candles and expired meat.

After the ritual, Gingi then tells Randy that he needs to be more confident in himself, and the first step is to get a new job. The interview goes well, as the funfair fired Jerry for letting Gingi get by, and the next day, Gingi sees Randy as the new ticket operator, and it turns out Jerry has been given a job as shepherd to make up for costing Jerry his old job. Just then, the mugger returns, this time actually loaded, having searched all over town to get revenge on Randy for leaving him on hold with his pants down. When he threatens to kill Gingi as revenge, Gingi initially tries to be at peace with their imminent demise, but upon realizing that their life was crap, and is about to let the mugger kill them when the swan Randy fed comes back and attacks the mugger as thanks. Gingi then has Randy step outside so they can give him a gift; a new bandage with the words "Sweetheart" or "Tough Guy" to cover his "Fuckface" mark. Randy then thanks Gingi for helping him get his life back together.

#### Karen Route: So, So Dunn

Typegingi first meets Karen when they go to the bank and ring for a teller. Karen arrives, and after some convincing, she agrees to go to the funfair with Typegingi at 6:30pm. (As long as they have a typewriter head and do not piss on the floor, or beat their chest in an ape-like manner.) At the funfair, Typegingi either arrives an hour late, or six hours early, depending on whether they decided to go home and drink their nectar, or bother Ticket-Jerry until Karen arrives. Either way, Karen still decides to enter the funfair, and together, she and Typegingi ride the carousel, (or the "horsey wheel," according to Typegingi.) During the carousel ride, "the horse romance shakes Typegingi's gut", so they flee to a nearby ditch to lay their eggs. After the laying, Typegingi covers their eggs with topsoil just before Karen arrives, and she gets upset with Typegingi. When Typegingi fails to explain why they ran off in the middle of their date, Karen leaves.

The next day, a bored Typegingi returns to the bank to ask Karen to entertain them, she attempts to have them leave. However, Typegingi convinces her to forgive them and leave with them to have fun either by saying she hates her job, or that she loves them. However, she misinterprets "ditching" as outright quitting her job, and to buy for time, takes her back to their tent. From there, they head to the zoo, where they encounter Theoroar, who tries to take them back. Typegingi then learns of Karen's possessive side as she chases him off. Inside, the two have a chance encounter with one of Typegingi's roommates; a giraffe. When they invite Karen to ride the giraffe with them, she refuses as she sees the giraffe as trying to take Typegingi away and demands that they choose her over the giraffe.

After that episode, out of ideas of what to do, Karen reluctantly lets Typegingi into her home, where its revealed of just how big her horse-obsession really is. She explains that she hid her horse-obsession out of fear that no one would ever love her, and admits that she initially went with Typegingi because she wanted an excuse to leave her banking job before coming to actually care for them. Wanting to help with Karen's joblessness, Typegingi realizes that her horse art could make money if they could find the right audience. After an unsuccessful attempt with Randy, a drunk (whose actually its curator, but alcoholic due to being forced to see pretentious art everyday) points them towards an art expo in the hopes of gauging what people want. While there, Typegingi decides to sneak a peak at an art piece named "greg", but upon seeing how cursed it is, destroy it to prevent anyone else from viewing it. When the alarms go off, Karen replaces "greg" with her horse art, which is a smash hit. Sadly, Karen, while getting the job from the previous artist, means she must leave Typegingi and Dialtown behind due to her job demanding she go out to see the world. Typegingi tells her to go on ahead as they must keep the eggs safe, and that she deserves to be happy. Karen thanks them, and promises to send hieroglyphs and gravel as Typegingi notes how bittersweet the good ending for her route is.

#### Oliver Route: What the Dickens?

Entering the movie theater and calling for a worker, usher Oliver Swift asks them out should they have a phone head, much to Phonegingi's surprise. Oliver then reveals that he wants Phonegingi to be apart of a movie he's producing for the sake of the theater, which is super haunted and shoddy. At the fun fair, Oliver takes them to a spot that has already been set up, which creeps Phonegingi out enough that they nearly refuse when their eggs are about to come out, which Oliver manages to record. He then reveals the truth; the real reason he's trying so hard is for Mr. Dicken's sake, as her fears his mentor and father-figure would not survive in the modern era. Phonegingi allows Oliver to use the recording, and Oliver then drops them back at their tent with his bike due to the laying leaving their legs limp.

The next day, a bored Phonegingi heads over to the theater to help Oliver with his movie, and after chasing Little Billy away, Oliver asks them to lie to Mr. Dickens about the progress of the movie, as his mentor thinks its almost completed. When Mr. Dickens sends Oliver to fetch his pocket watch to speak with Phonegingi privately, he asks them to look after Oliver, wanting them to help finish the film by any means necessary. After leaving the theater, Oliver reveals their next step is to get "lore" on Phonegingi, and the green cryptid opts to take Oliver to their tent. At the tent, Oliver tries to get some "actor-commentary" for the press release, but Phonegingi eats the mic. They try to do other things as well, but it becomes a directionless mess. Oliver suggests Phonegingi start later in their life, but their memories are a blur, and can only remember being trapped at the zoo thanks to Theoroar. When they go to the zoo, Theoroar come by and talk with Oliver about being in the movie, Phonegingi quickly pulls them away to talk with them and threatens with leaving if Oliver adds Theoroar. Throwing some ideas around for who Phonegingi's antagonist could be, Oliver decides to add an exposition dump in the beginning of the film and have footage of Phonegingi's escape. Due to Phonegingi having blocked the security camera with silly putty before leaving, Oliver has Phonegingi choose one of two enclosures to jump in for the footage. Choosing the emu enclosure, Phonegingi punches an emu in paranoia when it blocks the way out.

After collecting the footage, Oliver prepares to finish the movie without sleeping, while Phonegingi allows Theoroar to the premier. Phonegingi then asks Oliver if the cinema is haunted, and learns about "Big Bertha", a film projector that has harmed and killed several people by rolling over them, before heading back. At home, the Narrator warns Phonegingi that the movie will be a flop and that they should try and let Oliver down gently. On the night of the premier, Phonegini meets with a disheveled Oliver and tries to talk to him about the movie failing, only to be distracted by Dickens, Theoroar, Little Billy, and Randy before heading over to the Projector Room. While there, Phonegingi realizes Big Bertha is sentient and convinces Oliver to release it. Afterwards, Oliver asks Phonegingi if the movie will save the theater, and after a short spat with the Narrator over telling the truth, Phonegingi convinces Oliver that even if the movie fails, he and Dickens will live. Following the movie's disastrous premier, Phonegingi heads over to see how Oliver is doing, only to see the theater now destroyed. Oliver then shows up and explains that he did it, under Dickens' orders, as while the movie may have bombed as a cinematic art piece, it was such a twisted train-wreck that people came anyways to see, allowing them to make bank. Oliver explains that the movie made bank as a horror flick, he's tearing down for it to become the site of his brand new "Dickens and Son's Scareshack", a (literally haunted) horror attraction. As Oliver thanks Phonegingi for allowing him to follow his dream, he reveals that he can throw Little Billy out without remorse due to the attraction being +18 only. Phonegingi states this is the best ending ever.

#### Bigfoot Route: Oh God, You're Really Trying to Domesticate Bigfoot, Aren't You?

Having an "idea" against the Narrator's judgement, Gingi opts to walk aimlessly into the woods, where footprints convinces them that Bigfoot was nearby. After setting up a trap and having another argument with the Narrator over Bigfoot's existence, Bigfoot himself appears munching on the bait. Gingi then tries to give him a banana, but accidentally scares Bigfoot away when yelling at the Narrator. He comes back and Gingi give him the banana, allowing them to engage in "first contact". When they're about to leave, Bigfoot reveals that he's all alone, having lost his wife and child, and Gingi gets the brilliant idea to domesticate Bigfoot, which will give them the money needed to enter the fairgrounds. However, the plan hits a snag when Bigfoot eats the registration papers required to have a job, and then runs away. Gingi tries to asks Dialtown's mayor, Mingus, for more papers, but is quickly shooed away.

On the way out of the building, they un into Theoroar, who offers a bounty of 50 dollars if they turn Bigfoot over to him. After checking the theater, they find Bigfoot at the bank, and gets jealous of the fact he has more rights than them. Back at the woods, they try once again to domesticate him, only for no progress to be made. Gingi then realizes that they were forcing Bigfoot to be something his not, and instead gets naked with him, where they re-realize their feelings for the monkey. At the ticket booth, Gingi makes a bet with Jerry that if they can prove Bigfoot's existence in the next 5 minutes, he has to let them in. Bigfoot's appearance then promptly causes Jerry to "reevaluate his life" as Gingi and Bigfoot enter the fairgrounds to lay the eggs.

### Chapter 3: Well, shit-

Apparently, Phonegingi had somehow managed to preform them actions of all previous four routes (despite continuity issues), which angered Mayor Mingus enough to have them exiled from Dialtown for being a freak. After having Shooty and Stabby drug them, they would then be sent off near the pastures where Jerry now runs inside of a portable crate. After breaking out, they soon encounter Jerry again, who then reads them the note, which calls them out for being a monster for all their selfish, vulgar, dangerous actions and becomes disheartened afterwards. Thanks to a pep-talk from Jerry, they decided to head back to Dialtown and fight for their rights and for the eggs, and soon learns of someone who can help; the last person with an organic head; Sgt. Norm Allen.

While Norm is initially uncooperative due to being a paranoid, "shoot first-ask later" kind of guy, waiting for a full year until his supplies run dry allows them to finally enter Norm's abode and convince him to follow them back to Dialtown with the help of everyone Phonegingi had helped. Along the way, they defeat Mingus's minions, and Norm sees firsthand how they touched so many lives, and even become friends. Upon convincing zoomaster Theoroar to stand down and return the eggs, his destruction of the zoo causes a big enough rampage for a furious Mingus to come down and confront the duo. Just before Norm and Mingus can kill each other, Gingi manages to broker peace by first convincing Norm not to shoot her, and then (despite being illiterate) read what was written on the back of Mingus's postcard of Callum; "All are welcome here in Dialtown." This allows Mingus to realize her mistake, stand down, and lift both Norm and Phonegingi's exiles with Norm being taken on as sheriff so they could work towards a better Dialtown. Gingi's eggs are then shown to finally hatch, only for Phonegingi to be repulsed by their appearances and bemoan how everything they've been through has been for naught.

## Personality

Phonegingi is stubborn and childish. Often preferring to yell and shout. *or their dialogue is in caps.*

## Backstory

About 21 years ago, Randy discovered Phonegingi's fetal form as a prize in a cereal box. Randy has not yet realized that this memory was of Phonegingi. Phonegingi being much much smaller and had a few extra sets of limbs which it later shed upon realizing that he no longer needed them, like an angsty caterpillar. They cannot remember their past altercation with child-Randy as Randy's just not a very memorable person.

As a child, they would eat centipedes. By the time Theoroar would capture them, they would be well into "adulthood". According to the Oliver route, they escaped one night after blocking the camera with silly putty. From there, they would make home at the park near the funfair, regularly causing disturbances due to their appearance and feral personality. They would at one time employ "child labor", but Little Billy got them arrested, and now has a 25 foot rule when approaching playground.

## Trivia

* Phonegingi used to be an exhibit at the Dialtown Zoo, although they have escaped their imprisonment. They have a notable hatred of the zoo and the zookeeper, as shown by the hostile dialogue options when visiting the zoo.
* However, they were given the k-word pass (slur for kangaroos) after giving jerky to a neighboring kangaroo when they were imprisoned in the zoo.
* They used to hunt and eat centipedes as a child.
* They have a notable hatred for clowns, and has some (maybe fabricated) memories involving them.
* Phonegingi's tail in Chapter 3, when waiting outside of Norm's shack, is random.
* Their hatchlings at the end of chapter 3 are based on the dateables;
	+ Raccoon = Randy; Stromboli was found in the phone-booth prior to Randy's route.
	+ Emu = Oliver; An emu was punched by Phonegingi to get the good ending of Oliver's route.
	+ Eagle = Norm; Norm is associated with American patriotism.
	+ Monkey = Bigfoot; Bigfoot cryptid are Ape-men.
	+ Horse = Karen; Her niche obsession with horses.

## Gallery

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