The Button

Red Menace

Red Button

Red Jerk

**The Button** is a male teaching assistant who is the brother of Virtual Reality Headset. Seen in the *Virtually Gifted* cartoon series, he acts as the tertiary helper of the Virtually Gifted Program, and occasionally assists VR Headset and Charger in producing assignments for the pupils to deal with in the Virtually Gifted Program. His voice is given by kiwi.

## Appearance

The Button, fitting of his name, appears to be a red button on a yellow and light olive green slab of metal. His face rests on the button part of it. There is a cap that can be removed to cover his face, which makes it a little bit to hard to hear what he's saying when it's rested ontop of him.

## Personality

The Button is not showcased to be a really good teaching assistant, or even a good person for that matter. He is depicted as a rather rude and argumentative person who tries his best to manipulate people he meets into pressing him by using taunts and rude insults, showcasing him as being hostile, crass and uncaring of the feelings of people around him. The Button is also displayed to be immature and reckless, having his thinking processes resemble that of a teenager rather than an actual matured adult.

Given his meek size and lack of physical prowess in life, the Button lacks the ability to physically force people to give him a press, but his honeyed words of suggestion sometimes work well enough to convince other people to press him anyway due to the strange act of instilling temptation of pressing him. His inherent ability to get people to give into their desire to push his face portrays the Button as persuasive and emotionally intelligent, and even somewhat sassy and suave. How he uses this ability is generally up to him and his own base desires.

When dealing with the various students he comes across, the Button can easily come to appear as being idiotic and somewhat insensitive to their feelings, as he sometimes says things that are out of line or just in poor taste, as he lacks a true filter to cap what he says. However, this mostly comes from ignorance rather than true and proper malice. The Button has a decent relationship with his younger brother VR, and a neutral relationship with his coworker Charger, so he's not truly a problem to be dealt with..or is he?

The Button's vocal performance having swish elements is intended, as he is supposed to sound almost like that of a makeup tutorial artist, making the device appear as arrogant and full of it. This aspect of the Button was written in the series for comedic effect. The Button sometimes claps his hands when talking in a sassy fashion for comedic effect. This makes him feel very animated and wacky as a character.

Overall, it can be argued that the Button likes pushing people's buttons.

## Abilities

* **Persuasion:** The Button has the ability to taunt people and make them second-guess themselves so that they give into their desires of pressing him. This makes him quite manipulative.
* **Siren Noise:** When pressed, The Button makes a very loud siren noise, almost like that of an air raid. This doesn't hurt anyone but it is an interesting ability that he seems to have.
* **Speed:** The Button moves fast and is athletic.
* **Small Size:** The Button can fit in small spaces.

## Trivia

* The Button's original design had darker olive chevron patterns, but that was changed because the design looked a little too eye-catching.
* The Button was originally completely limbless and was just a character VR brought in randomly to act as as a challenge device back when the series was just a regular game show in earlier drafts of the series. However, Daax decided that having that type of character was too boring of a premise to use, so he made the Button the third co host of the series and a more interesting person for the audience, and gave him limbs to give the device more spunk.
* The Button is stated to be a sibling toVR Headset considering the Inventor created him one year prior to VR being created. This fact makes the Button kind of like an older brother to VR. Their relationship is neutral for the most part. This makes the Button Derzani in nature, but he "doesn't know the language", according to the little device.
* The Button is one of the few people who knew the Inventor, and this quality is shown by how the Button mentions him on rare occasions. How he was treated by him is largely unknown at this particular time.
* The Button is the second character in the series that has their name usually start with the word "the" whenever people refer to them. The first one with this quality is the Celebration.
* The exact function of the Button, and the reason he was built in the first place, is not really known or explained in the series proper, but it can be assumed he was built as a social experiment to see if people would give in to pushing him if he tried to manipulate them into doing so.
* The Button has a real and strangely human name: Jared. Why he has this quality is unknown, since it's normally abnormal for an object to have a human name.
	+ It possibly could have been the name of the human who invented him, since he calls himself Jared Jr sometimes.
* The Button works at the Mcfinny Public School cafeteria on some days of the week, namely Friday and Tuesday.
* The Button has a mostly neutral relationship with most of the students in VR's classroom.
* The Button is hetero.
* The Button has a mental age of around 28.
* The Button's name (and maybe design) references the button in classic movies and fiction that can send off nukes to destroy the known world.