Boyfriend

Pico's School: Love Conquers All (cameo)

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> **Boyfriend**, *Friday Night Funkin'*

**Boyfriend** is the protagonist of **Friday Night Funkin'**. He is on a mission to gain approval to date his **Girlfriend**, but must sing-off against her evil ex-rockstar father **Daddy Dearest** as well as the many other **characters** that stand in his way.

## Appearance

Boyfriend is a young, light-skinned man with spiky cyan hair. He wears a white t-shirt with a red prohibition sign on it, blue baggy pants, red sneakers and a backwards red cap with a dark blue brim. He holds a microphone in his right hand while keeping his left hand in his pocket.

During **Week 5**, he wears a red parka, light blue pants and brown snow boots.

During **Week 6**, his regular appearance is rendered in a 32-bit style.

During the **last track** of **Week 7**, he holds **Girlfriend** up by the waist with his left hand.

## Trivia

* **ninjamuffin99**, **PhantomArcade** and **Kawai Sprite** have all stated that Boyfriend's name is simply Boyfriend.
	+ An official t-shirt created in collaboration with **PKettles** and **Shark Robot** refers to him as Boyfriend.
		- Additionally, there are currently two opening lines in the intro sequence that de-confirms two names: "**His name isn't Evan, silly TikTok**" and "**His name isn't Keith, dumb eggy lol**."
			* ninjamuffin99 has made a Tiktok pleading with people to **stop calling him Keith**, saying "His name, his name isn't Keith, it's not Keith. I'm, I'm sick of seeing everyone calling him Keith." He has also **confirmed his name** to be Boyfriend on Reddit.
				+ The lyrics "*boil 'lil boyfriend,*" in **Winter Horrorland** refer to Boyfriend by name.
* At the moment, Boyfriend doesn't have an official name. ninjamuffin99, the game's programmer, has been intentionally confusing the community by spouting out random names on his Twitter and TikTok accounts. There has been several attempts to figure out his name (names in bold have been **de-confirmed**)**,** including:
	+ **Keith** (on Twitter, has been confirmed several times to **not be his name!**)
	+ **Evan** (on TikTok, based on misheard lyrics from the song **Monster**.)
	+ **Luis** (on **Twitter**, named after **Luis**.)
	+ **Cam** (on Twitter, ninjamuffin99's nickname, it was commonly used after becoming the first result when searching for Boyfriend's name on Google.)
	+ Jack (on TikTok, not de-confirmed so far.)
* Boyfriend has the most unused animations in the game.
* Boyfriend's vocaloid-sounding vocals were provided by **Kawai Sprite**, the game's composer.
* Boyfriend makes a cameo appearance in **Sr Pelo's** animation "**Spooky Month - Unwanted Guest**" as a plushie. The "Spooky Month" series is also where the characters **Skid and Pump** originate from.
* **Bopeebo** used to be the the only song to use Boyfriend's V-sign pose during gameplay.
	+ With the release of the **Week 7** update, Boyfriend strikes this pose during **Tutorial** as well.
* Boyfriend lacks a "danger" icon in **Week 6**.
* Boyfriend knows a lot of fingerboard tricks, and **it's one of the reasons** he won Girlfriend's heart.
* Boyfriend's favorite Newgrounds game is **Newgrounds Rumble**.
* Boyfriend's hair is not dyed and is **naturally cyan**.
* Boyfriend is canonically **19 years old**.
* A popular headcanon within the FNF community was that **Pico** is Boyfriend's ex. This headcanon gathered so much traction that **Tom Fulp**, the creator of Pico, tweeted jokingly that "**this is official Pico 2 canon**," leading people to believe that it was true. **ninjamuffin99** has stated that **this was a joke**, but later changed his mind and confirmed it was **canon**.
	+ ninjamuffin99 and PhantomArcade have **confirmed that Pico and Boyfriend are exes** on **Reddit**, **Twitter** and **Twitch** several times.
		- This also means that Boyfriend is bisexual.
			* On the 1st of April, 2021, Tom Fulp updated the original Pico's School game for April Fool's day, ending with Pico revealing to Casandra that he and Boyfriend are a couple and everyone at his school accepts them. The day after, this version would be released as separate game set in an alternate timeline called "Pico's School: Love Conquers All."
* Boyfriend is canonically so reckless and overconfident that he's essentially **fearless**.
	+ PhantomArcade also clarifies that, just like Girlfriend, Boyfriend is **far too dumb** to be afraid of a lot of things.
* Boyfriend loves pepperoni pizza from Dominos.
	+ Boyfriend also **loves donuts** the most out of any character in the game.
		- Boyfriend likes BRISK iced tea and milk, as confirmed in a reddit **AMA**.
* Boyfriend appears to be afraid of lightning, much like **Girlfriend**, as shown in **Week 2**. Whenever lightning strikes, Boyfriend will briefly wince and shudder.
* **ninjamuffin99** has stated that Boyfriend's voice is not any sort of language, but just **random sounds** he makes.
* Not much is known about Boyfriend's parents. The only information released about them is that they **work in accounting**.
* **Ritz** is **confirmed to be Boyfriend's brother**, described by **ninjamuffin99** as a **Stuart Little** situation.
* Boyfriend is neurodivergent, as he has ADHD, confirmed by PhantomArcade during a livestream.
* Boyfriend likes to listen to Kanye West music, confirmed by **Ninjamuffin99** during a **reddit AMA**.
* There is a possibility that Boyfriend's signature red prohibition sign t-shirt and blue pants were inspired by a character from a **Flash animation** of the **Italobrothers'** song, **Stamp on the Ground**, by Newgrounds user **Zarla** at the 1:52 mark.
	+ The submission was posted in 2009 and has amassed 1 million views since then.
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## Gallery

*View Boyfriend's full gallery **here**.*

BOYFRIEND.pngBoyfriend's V-sign pose used during the Tutorial and Bopeebo.Boyfriend's singing animations.DO BETTER.gifBoyfriend's miss poses.BoyfriendMiss.pngBoyfriend's miss sprites.Grrrr...gifBoyfriend is afraid of lightning, as seen during Week 2.Throwmike.pngUnused frames of Boyfriend throwing his mic.Prepare yourself.gifBoyfriend preparing to attack.Mic Throw Animated.gifBoyfriend's unused attack animation.Dodge.gifBoyfriend's unused dodge animation.V-signposeweek4.gifBoyfriend's V-sign pose used during Week 4.BfChristmasIdle.pngBoyfriend as he appears in Week 5.Bfchristmas.gifBoyfriend's Week 5 singing animations.Badplayerbfchristmas.gifBoyfriend's Week 5 miss poses.BfChristmasVpose.pngBoyfriend's unused V-sign pose for Week 5.BfChristmasMiss.pngBoyfriend's miss sprites for Week 5.BLUE BALLS HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA please laugh.pngBoyfriend's appearance on the Game Over screen.BfPortrait.pngBoyfriend's character portrait used during Week 6.Game Over (Week 6).pngBoyfriend's appearance on the Game Over screen during Week 6.BfandGfnotes.gifBoyfriend's singing notes while holding Girlfriend in Stress.BfandGfmiss.gifBoyfriend's miss notes while holding Girlfriend in Stress.Boywanda.pngBoyfriend as he appears on the Gitaroo Man easter egg Game Over screen drawn by Wandaboy.Boyfriend 16bit Icon.pngThe Friday Night Funkin' AVI featuring Boyfriend.Boyfriend FNF Icon.pngThe Friday Night Funkin' application icon featuring Boyfriend.

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