Smoke

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* Signup Art

**Smoke** is a female character currently competing in the first season of *Hats On Some Trip*.

## Personality

Smoke is fairly confident and very strong-willed in how she acts. Although a lot of Smoke's actions could be perceived as morally grey [and/or violent], she genuinely does want to help others. Smoke sometimes neglects to consider how others would react to different things, but she would immediately feel bad if she unknowingly and unintentionally hurt someone (Emphasis on unintentionally).

## Appearance

Smoke is a yellow fire extinguisher with an unusually long black hose and discharge horn, which is usually clipped up on clip that is attached to the back of the plastic black band that goes across her forehead(?). Her lever is equipped with a pressure gauge on her left side. She also has a label that reaches up to between her eyes and mouth and goes completely around her body.

## Challenge Coverage

### **Challenge 1**

**Rank: 6th/25 contestants**

While Smoke was re-freezing the souvenir shop's lock (so it would stay in place since she broke it earlier), Hatsy approached and told Smoke to help find the shopkeeper so they can get inside, to which Smoke begrudgingly agrees to do despite the fact she could much more easily break into the souvenir shop again. After thinking about how it might be easier to try looking from high places, Smoke is approached by the perfect person to help with that: Lighthouse! Smoke climbs on top of Lighthouse and they begin their search. A little while later, they spot an unidentifiable figure wearing something covering their face. Before they can ask if they're the shopkeeper, the figure pulls out a welding gun as if challenging them to a fight. Smoke is ecstatic and jumps off Lighthouse, who tries to grab Smoke to stop her (but fails to do so). Less than five minutes pass and Smoke already has the unknown figure tied up with her hose. Upon unmasking them, Smoke recognizes them as **Welder**, someone who she has fought (and won) against in the past. Welder reveals that he is the shopkeeper and that he's working here because his match with Smoke caused him enough injury that he is still recovering and has to wait to see if he even can go back to fighting normally. This concerns Lighthouse, and Smoke claims that she was getting back at Welder for nearly gouging her eye out.

### **Challenge 2**

**Rank: 1st/5 teams**

This challenge was a team challenge where contestants were given a picture grid with 50 different characters/people and tasked to guess who they were and what franchise they are from. Team Seethe got 32 out of the 50 spots on the picture grid, which was the most out of all the teams.

### **Challenge 3**

**Rank: 1st/24 contestants**

The challenge was to play *Prom Queen Sim* and obtain the highest score. Smoke managed to get a score of 21,310.

### **Challenge 4**

**Rank: 3rd/23 contestants**

An art challenge where each contestant was assigned a character and color palette to draw with. Smoke was assigned to draw Ottace.

### **Challenge 5**

**Rank: 4th/22 contestants**

Challenge five was a game challenge where the contestants played *Flirting On School*. Smoke scored 135,850 points.

### **Challenge 6**

**Rank: 1st/21 contestants**

The sixth challenge was a design challenge where contestants were tasked to create a new candy for the dandy shop.
Since Smoke's entry got first place, HriHof's Mints became available in the shop.

### **Challenge 7**

**Rank: 1st/4 teams**

Due to a team shuffle, Smoke got moved to Not So Scrunkly. The seventh challenge was to recreate a song with your team. The team settled on recreating *The Pitiful Children* from the musical *Be More Chill*. In it, Smoke played the role of the Squip.
Due to organizing the entry, Smoke received extra wallets this round.

The entry can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2llgBCCb\_0

### **Challenge 8**

**Rank: 1st/4 teams [Tie]**

This challenge was a team challenge where contestants were given a video with 5 second long excerpts of 50 different songs and tasked to name the songs and their artists. Not So Scrunkly got 50 out of the 50 songs correct, getting them first place and tied with The Luckiest Days, who also got all of the songs and their artists guessed correctly.

### **Challenge 9**

**Rank: 2nd/17 contestants**

After some delays with getting the earpiece connected, Smoke tells Hateen that she thinks that it would be a much better idea to let her into the restaurant to help them survive rather than just stand outside pointing out things. Hateen reminds Smoke that she would get attacked by the waiter since the contestants aren't allowed inside. Not long after, Smoke notices a dragon in the kitchen and tells everyone they should duck, which Hateen relays to the rest of the group. After narrowly missing the fire shot out by the dragon, Hateen peeks out and sees that the dragon is approaching them. Smoke tells Hateen to let her inside to fight it, to which Hateen says no but Smoke breaks inside anyway and tackles it to the ground, knocking it out. Promptly, a waiter drags her out by the hose and kicks her out of the restaurant. Nothing bad happened after that, and Smoke commented saying that maybe it was because the dragon was controlling the place to be dangerous like the conspiracy theory about lizard people controlling the government.

### **Challenge 10**

**Rank: 5th/17 contestants**

The challenge was to make an ugly poster advertising the festival because Hateen doesn't want anyone to go to it. Smoke's poster had a lot of images layered, which included, but was not limited to, a blurry image of a mini inflatable tube man, chesecak, the word meth, Red Herring (another character who belongs to HriHof), and a very faint toothpaste flag. Not So Scrunkly, the team that Smoke was on, got an average of 11, which was the lowest of the remaining teams. Smoke received immunity from elimination due to being the highest ranking member of her team.

### **Challenge 11**

**Rank: 3/16 contestants**

This challenge was to play the song "Roki" from Taiko Web. Contestants could choose to play it on normal, hard, or extreme mode. Smoke opted to play hard mode and got 650,670. This was the highest score out of the four people who played hard mode and ranked her just below the two contestants who played extreme mode.

### **Challenge 12**

**Rank: 3/15 contestants**

The challenge was to complete a 24-piece puzzle as fast as possible. Contestants could try as many times as they wanted to during the submission period. Smoke got a time of 32 seconds, which was the third fastest time out of all those who submitted.

### **Challenge 13**

**Rank: 2/14 contestants**

The challenge was to design an outfit for another character. Smoke had to design an outfit for Ribboned Sword. The rankings were determined by averaging out ranks given by three different people. Smoke recieved a 5th, 2nd, and 1st.

### **Challenge 14**

**Rank: 3/13 contestants**

Due to not wanting to get inbetween the two anymore than she already has, Smoke offered to watch over Carl so Lighthouse and Tropical Drink could go enjoy the festival on their own. While walking around in search of something to do, Smoke rambled to Carl about her predicament involving her feelings for Lighthouse. She found it a bit sad how she started rambling to a turtle about it.

Not long after, she runs into her best friend Cardboard. Smoke tells her about having to watch over Carl. After a brief conversation, neither are sure of what to do, so they think of just walking around to look at whatever. Smoke set Carl down so he could walk on his own, but notices a strange hat stamping things with a weird swirly stamp. They question the hat, whom Smoke calls Hatly due to them not telling her their name, and Smoke tries checking how many wallets the hat has due to a request from 93. After asking more about the stamps, Cardboard points out that Carl walked off.

Smoke and Cardboard leave Hatly and find Carl on a shelf for a ring toss booth. When Smoke asks for Carl back, the worker says they have to win him back. Smoke begrudgingly goes to reach for her Hatsy wallets, but spots Hatsy inspecting some nearby booths and is afraid of them seeing her trying to win back Carl. So, Smoke got Cardboard to cover for her as she knocked out the booth worker before grabbing Carl from the shelf.

Unfortunately, a worker in an adjacent booth saw her knock out the worker and soon begins to chase. After weaving through many people and booths, Smoke comes across Lighthouse and Tropical Drink. She hands Carl to them to ensure he stays safe and continues to run away from the worker, hopefully to find someone who can help resolve the situation and ensure Hatsy doesn't find out it was because she had to steal Carl back.

### **Challenge 15**

**Rank: 2nd/12 contestants**

After unintentionally scaring Forest Fire into running away, Smoke began to search for him. It doesn't take long, and Smoke confronts Forest Fire once again. Without her even holding up a fist, Forest Fire calls for Cask of Amontillado and starts to run away again. Smoke tried to pursue, but Cask of Amontillado jumped onto her and caused Smoke to spend a brief moment to pull him off and chuck Cask elsewhere. It didn't take long, but the surprise attack distracted her long enough that Smoke didn't see where Forest Fire ran off to. Once again, she is forced to look again.

Since Forest Fire is, well, on fire, Smoke tries to search for him by looking for rising smoke. In he search, she keeps just finding food stands and begins to get frustrated. However, she spots and unusually large smoke pillar and approaches it. This leads her to Forest Fire, and she is startled that his flames got bigger. Smoke chooses to disregard this and just get the task over with and pulls out her horn to fire at Forest Fire. Upon her pointing it at Forest Fire, he becomes more scared and his fire abruptly grows. Smoke realizes that she can't attack him normally or else his flames will grow too big for her to handle. The approach she chose was to take a nearby tent (which was made of a somewhat fireproof material) to trap Forest Fire under it, which reduced the flame by cutting off most oxygen, and tackling him down. Smoke accidentally punched Forest Fire in the eye, which caused the glowing spiral to go away and Forest Fire to not be under the control of ??? anymore.

Forest Fire apologizes to Smoke for the flames starting to get out of control and says that he thinks punching his eye (it got rid of the spiral) helped. This causes Smoke to wonder how the spiral symbols work.

### **Challenge 16**

**Rank: 2nd/11 contestants**

The challenge was to write a Y/N x ??? fanfiction utilizing the trope and setting that is assigned.

The trope Smoke had to use was 'enemies to friends to lovers' with a setting of time travel.

Link to fanfiction: https://www.wattpad.com/story/302982919-y-n-these-x-y-n

### **Challenge 17**

**Rank: 5th/10 contestants**

The ranks for this challenge were randomized due to it being a Drag Race Brainsteele simulator.

### **Challenge 18**

**Rank: 2nd/8 contestants**

The challenge was a Nerf Gun Rebelle war.

[Summary to be added.]
Entry: https://youtu.be/r6agFi3ZLxo

### **Challenge 19**

**Rank: 1st/7 contestants**

The challenge was to play the mobile game High Heels and play the most levels within the challenge period. Smoke got to level 711, which earned her a win. Her player is not okay.

## Relationships

### Tropical Drink

While Smoke was freezing a water fountain in the airport, Tropical Drink approached Smoke. After getting a bit too close, Tropical Drink got frozen on accident. Whoops. Together, Smoke and Tropical Drink infiltrated the Information Center and caused some minor chaos. Smoke thinks Tropical Drink if fun to cause chaos with.

### Ottace

Ottace gave Smoke some chips. That is enough to count as a friend.

### RGB

After accidentally stumbling on Smoke when trying to find some food in a food court freezer, RBG talked to Smoke a little bit. They seem nice. Except for when they turned into Gummiballs for two rounds and insulted Smoke in terrible German.

### Lighthouse

Despite Lighthouse not really approving of some of Smoke's methods or word choices, they get along fairly well and talk to each other quite often. Smoke has also been aware of Lighthouse's crush on Tropical Drink for a while and found it amusing on multiple occasions when Lighthouse tried to hide it (although terribly).

Due to 93 playing an Unfortunate Cookie on Smoke (during round 8), Smoke unwillingly made a very out-of-character love confession to Lighthouse. She then passed out from the pressure and woke up remembering none of that happening, but later learned about what happened after pestering Lighthouse to tell her what happened. This led to Smoke questioning if she really does have feelings for Lighthouse.

## Trivia

* The file name for Smoke's reveal icon is *GaslightGatekeepGirlboss.png*.
* Smoke is a nickname she prefers to go by. She would rather others call her 'Smoke' over her real name.
* Smoke's hose is about 1.5 times longer than she is tall.
* Smoke used to be a firefighter.
* Smoke's birthday is on November 28th.
* Outside of the camp, Smoke participates in fighting matches for income. Are the fights legal? Uh... She hasn't gotten arrested? (Yet?)
	+ Fighting isn't the only way she gets money. Just the main one.+
* Smoke broke into the souvenir shop before the first challenge occurred, which is when it was locked and the hosts thought they couldn't enter the souvenir shop.
* Smoke is somewhere around six feet ten inches tall.
* Smoke is one of the few contestants whose name doesn't match their object appearance. Her nickname, Smoke, is from the smoky appearance of the non-flammable carbon dioxide gas she can release out of her nozzle. Her real name has zero correlation to anything about to her appearance or abilities.