Dr. Toades

Dr. Hemingway Toades is a supporting character in North Park.

## Background

Dr. Toades is a local scientist in North Park who specialises in genetics and genetic engineering. He spends most of his time either working in his lab or teaching science to students at North Park Elementary. Unknown to most of the residents of North Park, Toades is actually a subterranean frog person who left the rest of his kind to pursue science on the surface in a human disguise. The people of North Park will often come to him for scientific advice and assistance.

## Appearance

Dr. Toades' human disguise is a below average height round and pudgy man with long thin arms and legs that appear ill-proportioned to the rest of his body. He has a wide toad-like face and mouth and a flat upturned nose, with short orange hair shaved on the sides.

He is most often seen wearing small pince-nez glasses. He has a white lab coat he wears over a green shirt, red tie and brown pants.

## Personality

Dr. Toades is a haughty man of science, believing his knowledge makes him superior to those around him but taking glee in being able to share and demonstrate this knowledge. He can come across as rather bombastic and eccentric in his methods, and has a very strange sense of humor that he writes of as "just a little bit of science humor" to those who don't understand it. This weird sense of humor can sometimes lead to him traumatising his students.

One of Toades' interests in the field of genetics is changing the gender of living creatures. No one is really sure why he does this, but it is best to not drink any strange liquids he hands to you if you prefer the gender you currently are.

## Family

#### Frog people

Not much is known if Toades has any current living relatives, but he does not have the best relationship with the mystical frog people considering his rejection of their traditional ways in pursuit of science.

## Relationships

#### Miner Character

Miner, being the other (less well disguised) frog person in town means that he and Toades have a level of understanding to each other, especially as they are both outcasts in frog person society. They sometimes assist each other in various frog person ways to help make life on the surface more bearable.

#### Maria Gurlukovich

Maria, being the other prominent scientist in town who focuses on robotics instead of genetics leads to the two of them having a rival as frenemies. Sometimes they will be insulting and competitive with each other, but are able to team up in the name of science if the occasion calls for it. Despite the fact they find each other physically repulsive, they have a strong sexual tension going on and may have done a different kind of experimenting together.

## Powers and abilities

#### Frog person

Toades has the abilities of a common frog person, such as being amphibious, having a long frog tongue, and being able to jump far.

#### Vast intellect

Toades is incredibly intelligent and skilled in the scientific field of genetic engineering. He can quickly with ease put together various scientific abominations in his laboratory.

#### Human disguise

Toades has the ability to relatively convincingly disguise himself as a human.