Zoo Man (Mainlore)

Portrait of Zoo Man by Sofia Ivy.

Zoo Woman (Sister)

**Zoo Man** is the founder and Global CEO of The Broccoli Company in Mainlore. He's one of the few Cakepeople to survive the Great Cataclysm, and by extension one of the oldest people alive.

Cakepeople's **slow aging ability** granted Zoo to preserve his youth throughout the years, and landed him an eventual partnership with OrbCorp.

## Background

### **Early childhood**

Zoo Man was born on November 5th, 87 B.C. (Before Cataclysm) on Shroom Island.

He was the son of Nham Nham and Moo Woman, and was initially named "Moo Nham" as an amalgamation of the two names.

Since his mom thought it sounded too weird, she renamed him to something similar, thus the name "Zoo Man".

His parents ran the island as an exclusive and luxurious tourist hot-spot, and so Zoo grew up surrounded with wealth and power due to the Shroom Island elitist resort, thus providing him a comfortable childhood along with his sister, Zoo Woman.

### **Nham's disappearance**

In 7 B.C., following Nham and Moo Woman's mysterious disappearance, Zoo inherited Shroom Island and his father's company, the Turtle Breeding Company.

In the next five years, the siblings went looking for their parents with no success, eventually resettling in Shroom Island.

Zoo and Zoey reopened Shroom Island to the public, and stored the vast amount of inherited wealth in a vault within Shroom Hill.

The first ever Zoo Testicle is stored somewhere on Shroom Island. Its current value is worth over three times T.B.C.'s total net worth across the Finite Multiversal Curve.

### **The Great Cataclysm**

Seven years after Nham went missing, in 0 B.C., the mysterious **Great Cataclysm** occurred. A Multiversal-wide event shackled the fabric of space-time, creating the first ever reported **Death Chunks**.

**Zoo and Zoey went missing**, caught in one of the onslaught of Death Chunks that appeared throughout the Multiverse at the time. Shroom Island also disappeared, theorized to have been submerged in the wake of the many earthquakes and tsunamis caused by the Cataclysm.

## Pre-Modern Era

### **Reappearance in the 60s**

Two thousand years later, Zoo Man re-emerges in 1963 at Freddit City sporting summer clothes and a watermelon shirt. What happened during his disappearance in Survival Era and the 60s is not disclosed to the public.

In 1964, Zoo Man is falsely accused and apprehended for vandalizing people's homes with slime. Attorney at law Malpoiuytrew, famous for getting the acquittal for his client in the People v Adventure trial, manages to reduce Zoo's sentence to just 6 months in Baby Jail.

Two months later, Zoo's friend Pluff manages to talk to the Mayor of Freddit City, Chris, who realizes his initial mistake and pardons Zoo. With his new-found freedom, Zoo begins working as a night-shift security guard in Freddy's Fazbear Pizzeria.

In 1967, Zoo witnesses the brutal murder of five kids. Like a sensible, reasonable person with self preservation, he quits his job after very clear and obvious hints that the animatronics are haunted.

The following year, he starts Fazbear Frights alongside Benjamin Wolf based on the murder of those five kids.

### **The Nuke of 1969**

In 1969, then-mayor Chris accidentally launches dozens of nuclear warheads into several locations (bad for the economy), destroying Fazbear Frights and leaving Zoo unemployed. Although this completely laid waste to hundreds of constructions, Chris continued to be the Mayor.

Wanting to build a nuclear shelter, Zoo and Pluff construct Vault 87 (named after Zoo's birth year, 87 BC) in November of 1969. However, once this was complete, Zoo's funds ran dry.

### **Search for Shroom Island**

Remembering his old home, Zoo set out to find more information about Shroom Island, hoping to find its treasures. Along the way, he learnt more about how its businesses operated, and how Nham made a fortune using his wit for economics.

Unsuccessful in finding Shroom Island or its valuable treasures, but inspired nonetheless, Zoo Man returns to Freddit City.

## Modern Era

### **T.B.C. is founded**

In memory of Shroom Island, **The Broccoli Company is founded**, keeping the same initials as the Turtle Breeding Company

T.B.C. buys its first location, a Starbucks, and begins making profit. Managing it, Zoo discovers his natural talent for economics and engineering.

While the first floor of the Starbucks was selling all kinds of food products (like the T.B.C. Popcorn), the second floor was reserved for experiments and development of new technologies, such as the Wall of Shitposting.

Business and profit were steady, but T.B.C. remained largely unknown, and its scientific developments remained confined to the cramped second floor of the Starbucks.

However, luck was about to be turned to T.B.C.'s side.

### **T.B.C. in the 1980s**

In 1983, the Financial Crash of '83 occurred. The value of the Dogecoin dropped to practically non-existent values, entire Dogecoin mines were abandoned and gigantic corporations went bankrupt overnight.

T.B.C. is one of the few companies that **survived the 1983 financial crisis** due to its small size. At around the same time, in 1982, OrbCorp was founded.

Bouncing back from the Crash of '83 better than before, Zoo uses the profit made with the Starbucks to buy out one of the dried-out **Dogecoin Mines** (located underneath what is now the T.B.C. District) and turns it into the **T.B.C. Underground Facility**.

The Starbucks goes completely bankrupt and abandoned. Development of CaSE, Securitrons and other technologies begins to take shape. The Spurrian from the Bruhssian Clay Mines is "hired" by T.B.C..

By the end of the year, **T.B.C. reaches a net worth of 300,000$**, and Zoo began rising up in notoriety after several new successful experimental prototypes in the Underground Facility such as:

* The Computer-aided Service Executor, also known as CaSE (1983-1988)\*
* T.B.C. Securitrons (1984-current)
* T.B.C. White Energy Portal Gun, also known as the W.E.P. Gun (1986-1988)
* The Auto-storage Service Robot, also known as the A.S.S. Robot (1985)

*\*Not to be confused with TBCLABS-25565's CaSE, the Multiverse's biggest Supercomputer.*

In 1985, **Thomas Hoopla discovers Hoopla** and the Hoopla Race begins. T.B.C. begins developing several technologies using Hoopla, including the Hoopla Reactor, the Hoopla Armed Weaponized Laser (HAWL) and the T.B.C. Securitron.

### 1988's Invasion and T.B.C.'s Explosion

Following the 1988's destruction of Freddit City due to the Spurrian Invasion, Zoo Man founded the New Freddit City (NFC). The victory caused by the T.B.C. Securitron Army armed with Hoopla caused a gigantic public trust increase in Zoo Man and T.B.C..

Furthermore, the establishment of T.B.C. Supermarket, T.B.C. Bank and other commodities in the new city helped T.B.C. grow exponentially in size and wealth.

In the years following the 1988 Invasion, T.B.C. grew explosively, attaining global standards quickly and controlling the entire global economy. T.B.C. was now in so many industries (from home commodities to military research, from space exploration to therapy rehabilitation), it became impossible to compete against.

Zoo was nominated for 1990s Fr00ble's Person of the Year award, after Freddit City's (now Reversal Point City) reconstruction project came to fruition.

## **Present Day**

Zoo Man's original title of CEO became Global CEO once T.B.C. expanded globally. A new established worldwide currency was named in homage to the Shroom Island currency of the same name: the Zoo Testicle (1ZT=1,000,000,000,000$).

Zoo has been the richest and most powerful person in Mainlore ever since T.B.C.'s explosion. Nowadays, thousands of companies have been bought by T.B.C. and operate under its rules.

Billions of consumer products and services are provided, monitored and controlled by Mainlore's T.B.C.. In 2016, T.B.C. discovered the Multiverse, and in doing so, discovered there were millions of other T.B.C.s banded together in one massive conglomerate: **the A.N.A.L. Council.**

Zoo would come to realize his unimaginable wealth, influence and power were almost nothing compared to what the **CEO of the A.N.A.L. Council** held in his hands.

## Trivia

* Zoo Man's name comes from a 2015 meme. Sometimes, when Zoo joined the server, some Fredditors would greet him by saying "zooooooooooooooo maaaaaaaaaan" for no particular reason. It eventually became Zoo's canonical name, Zoo Man.
* The 87 on Zoo's back is the number of the first Vault constructed on the server, Vault 87, which in turn is a reference to the Bite of '87.
* Zoo Man was originally 21 years old in lore. Although his age changed, he's still portrayed as a young adult in his 20s.
* Zoo Woman was originally Zoo Man's female counterpart in the Dating Sim. However, she was canonized to be Zoo Man's brother in most Universes.
* Zoo Man's lore mimics the real-life events Zoo went through in Freddit.
	+ For example, his arrest due to vandalizing people's home with slime is a reference to his ban due to filling people's inventory with slime balls, the nuke of 2k15 that destroyed his FNAF 3 build with benjaminwolf3, the construction of Vault 87 preceding the creation of T.B.C. and the Starbucks, Supermarket, Bank and other locations, and so on.
* Although Mainlore T.B.C. is the oldest T.B.C. in the Multiverse (established in 1053 BC), it is not the most powerful or richest. That title would go to the T.B.C. A.N.A.L. Council.
	+ In fact, Mainlore's timeline as a whole seems nothing special, and has confused historians to this day as to why it was dubbed Mainlore by Jeff the Securitron.
* The oldest Zoo Testicle went missing with Shroom Island in the Great Cataclysm, making it the most valuable treasure in the Multiverse.
* Zoo Man developed Multiversal Dissatisfaction Syndrome when he discovered the Multiverse in 2016/2018.
	+ In fact, it seems most Zoo Men develop MDS in their own respective timelines when they discover the Multiverse - including the Multiversal CEO.
* When Zoo found out that the Moon was already discovered by the Bruhssians, he destroyed and replaced it with another Moon so T.B.C. could be the first ones to step foot on it.
* In 2018, Zoo Man's T.B.C. was bought by the A.N.A.L. Council, as per regulations once a T.B.C. sustains Multiversal Travel.
	+ Oddly enough, the Multiversal CEO himself was present for the acquisition, something that is quite unorthodox.
* Zoo's frustration with his heater followed by a kick-induced explosion caused Mainlore to discover the Multiverse in 2016.
* The T.B.C. District was founded on top of the Underground Facility (which was destroyed and abandoned in the Spurrian Invasion) in homage to the elitism and luxury of Zoo Man's original home, Shroom Island.
* In 2019, the RP City government collapsed due to the FFC riots. Since then, T.B.C. has taken over all branches of government, marking an end to the RP City Mayorship Council.