Cootie Patrootie

**Cootie Patrootie** is the main protagonist of *Cootie Patootie* and *Cootie Patootie Extend*.

## Appearance

Cootie is a slim young girl with pure white skin and blue eyes wearing a pink dress with a skirt and heart on the front. She also wears yellow bracelets on both her arms along with a large red bow on the top of her head.

## Biography

Cootie is a curious girl who longs to feel the emotion of "love". Having never felt love before she tries to find it by going on an adventure to Scribblez Patribblez, The Tunnel of Love.

### *Cootie Patootie*

Cootie arrives at the entrance to the cave and begins her adventure into the heart of the earth. Almost immediately Cootie notices that the cave begins to shape-shift around her and begins to feel butterflies in her stomach. She kept moving thinking about feeling love for the first time. While crossing a bridge she spots another "Cootie" who is a bit strange looking, but she shrugs it off and enters a room with a box and some notes. The box says to "find love's true purpose," and the notes have descriptions of various stereotypes for boyfriends. Cootie picks one and writes it down on a scrap of paper to place in the box.

Suddenly a bridge appears leading to a beach. As she approaches the beach, Cootie wonders if this cave's heart was hurting like her own. On the shore she spots two people she recognizes. The girl comments on her actually showing up to the beach while the boy tells her to go with the tides saying it's nothing personal. Cootie then sits by the sea staring into the moon lit waters questioning why contempt exists. She states that she has never felt love, but can't understand hatred either. Cootie wants to feel love, but not other people's contempt towards her.

Cootie presses on and finally reaches The Heart of the Earth. Though she is relieved to have reached her goal, she feels no different (aside from being a bit hungry). Feeling no love at all she smashes open the wall behind the heart and decides to head home in sorrow. In the room beyond she finds more "Cooties" that laugh at the poor and distraught Cootie. She then wanders in a maze full of flesh monsters that resemble the earth's heart. After escaping Cootie remembers no matter how hard she tried nothing could replace the hole in her heart.

As she begins to leave, it starts to rain and a giant heart bearing large teeth attempts to chase her down. However Cootie scrapes by unharmed and exits the cave once and for all. Upon some reflection, Cootie realizes that she must love herself in order to love others. But being too overwhelmed with sorrow and depression Cootie resorts to hanging herself.

### *Cootie Patootie Extend*

(*This plot was introduced in Found Horror Game 11.exe. All events that take place occur after completing the original segment in Game 3.)*

After hanging herself, Cootie miraculously wakes up in a room with 2 doors and some shape like symbols on the wall. She remembers those shapes are similar to the statues she lit up in Scribblez Patribblez. The door bearing a question mark attracts her attention and she opens it revealing a solid white room with a note on a blue door for the new attendant. She steps outside and sees a bunch of windows and statues from before. Upon staring into one of the windows she reappears outside Scribblez Patribblez. Inside the cave there are some differences from before including a heart statue in the entrance and a puzzle in the right room. Further back in the cave is an underground lake with a weird creature that follows her for a bit. Cootie begins to think about what she wants, but has no answer. She wants to feel love, yet from her previous visit Cootie learned she can't handle it.

Back at the beach she notices the boy standing in the water without his trunks. The other girls including the girl she met earlier begin to taunt him as he tries to shield his crotch from view. They also begin to taunt Cootie as this boy defended her feelings. Cootie already feeling down trudges on through the cave. She finds a cavern full of "Cooties" and sees a demonic creature in the end of the tunnel. The creature reveals themselves as Cootie's boyfriend that she chose on her first visit to the cave. Cootie stands afraid and tells them why she is. The boyfriend then says they should break up stating Cootie is already broken.

Cootie returns to the Heart of the Earth full of sadness and defeat seeing a noose placed there. Once again giving up she puts the rope around her neck and commits suicide. In her final moments she thinks about why no one wants her and why she can't help herself. She wanted to be worth something and asks for forgiveness. Cootie begs for someone to love her and make the loneliness go away before finally succumbing and disappearing forever.

### *Red Haze*

In Red Haze Cootie's lifeless body is found hanging in the closet of the West Wing Entrance. Inside the closet Rockette finds a glass heart laying on the floor. When she sticks the heart into the cadaver in the operation room, Cootie's body regains life and she takes Rockette to Scribblez Patribblez.

## Trivia

* Cootie Patrootie is one of three protagonists that has been featured in a Ludum Dare submission by Yai Gameworks.
	+ The theme for Cootie's game was "*Shape-shifting*".
* The blue tongue-like object coming from Cootie's mouth is actually drool.
* Cootie's voice is done naturally by AestheticGamer without any modification via software. On rare occasions he will speak in her voice range.

## Gallery

Cootie's In-game SpriteCootie at the BeachCootie at the Heart of the EarthCootie Hanging
## References

* https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1/status/1199633603501551616?s=20