Straw

Strawy

Last Straw

Strawman

Barber Pole (hates hearing this)

Plastic Man

Plastic Tube

Drinking Device

**Straw** is a male object student that appears in the *Virtually Gifted*cartoon series, and acts as the show's deuteragonist; he is the second most important character that follows Fedora around. He competes on the Leather Heads team and acts like an advisor for Fedora and his best friend. He is voiced by DigBio.

## Appearance

Fitting of his name, Straw takes the appearance of a white plastic straw that has red and blue colored stripes. This design makes him vaguely resemble a barber pole.

## Personality

Straw is seen as a voice of reason and level headed individual in a world suffering from pure insanity and dank memes. He's shown to be a rather shy and nerdy person, being quite calm and hard to truly anger when being put down or facing a state of crisis. Straw's usually logical and analytical in his approaches to the problems that he faces and tries to use the best solution he can think of to solve them. That being said, Straw does have a side of snarkiness and passive-aggressiveness if he is annoyed too much by the folk around him, so he isn't a perfect individual to look up.

Straw also has some moments of being alluring and romantic with various people, as indicated with his apparent crush on Thermometer, which does annoy the latter and make her feel awkward. To be fair, this alluring nature is not really seen as perversion or crossing of boundaries, and is instead more like him trying his best to woo another person that he has interest in. He's one of the only students with this particular quality of crushing on a character, as everyone else is more focused on succeeding in the class and moving on with their life. This crush can portray him as idiotic and naïve in a sense.

If one were to want to hurt Straw, he does have a weakness that can be manipulated for one's personal benefit, and that would be calling him a barber pole. This may seem like a harmless and stupid thing to say to him, but calling Straw a barber pole will cause him to get irritated to the point of crying and even running off. This implies that he has a sensitive side and may suffer from body image and even identity issues.

Overall, Straw is best described as a logical, shy, and quirky teenager who can be seen as slightly misguided in his attempts of proving himself to the world.

## Abilities

Being a regular object student, Straw doesn't seem to have that much powers or special abilities. But he does have a few quirks that make him seen as resourceful.

* **Loftiness and Speed:** Being one of the lightest contestants, Straw is good with speed and gliding, swimming. A downside is that wind can easily take him, though.
* **Quick Reflexes:** When he is given the chance to focus, he can make good decisions in times where a decision needs to be made fast. This shows us he has fast reflexes.
* **Filtering Liquids:** As he is a straw, Straw can filter the solid junk out of water via his holes.
* **Launching Projectiles:** Relating to the inner parts of his body, Straw can shoot things like pellets and rocks out of himself like a miniature cannon. While this attack doesn't do much harm by itself, the move can knock people back or even off of high altitudes. If the object he's tossing is dangerous, it might do some damage to those that get hurt. Straw can also be aligned like a rifle and used by his teammates as a makeshift weapon.

## Trivia

* Straw is confirmed to be the lightest student in the classroom due to being made out of plastic/paper.
* Straw is one of the few "rational" and mature contestants in the series, as most of the other characters are generally seen as "funny", "rude", "bully" or "idiotic". That being said, Straw has moments of not really being sane either.
* Straw's voice is intended to sound a little bit like Pin from BFB's vocal performance, but deepened in pitch and vocal delivery.
* Straw's relationships with most people are usually seen as average, as not many people seem to hate on him or love him. Even VR is depicted as acting mostly neutral towards Straw.
* Straw is good friends with Fedora, and is one of the few people that Fedora appreciates being around.
* Straw hates swimming, because it reminds him of the "world's pollution problem in the oceans being blamed on plastic folk like him". That being said, he's decent at doing so.
* Straw is hetero with a bi lean.
* Straw owns a digital camera he uses to take pictures of various things.
* Straw was originally mostly white with red lines on him, but his design was changed to make him a bit more appealing.
* Straw is stated to be the Geek Club with Fedora, Hexagon, and Thermometer. He is the main person in charge there, and may accept new members into the organizations if they "prove themselves in the way of the nerd" to him.
* Mcfinny Public School is Straw's second school that he enrolled to, since his family had to move.