Origami

Ori

Origamiy

Gami

Sharp One

Artful piece of paper

**Origami** is a female object student who is seen in the *Virtually Gifted* cartoon series, and serves the role of being a supporting character that can be considered a hexagonist, or likely the sixth most important character, in the entire VG narrative at hand; this means while she isn't the main player/controller of things to come to fruition in this particular story, she still does seem to carry at least a small amount of control over various story beats that plague the plot at hand here. Origami adorably competes on Laser Tag like the good ole sweetheart she is, and her lovely kind voice is provided by koheirichan.

## Appearance

Origami, befitting of her pretty obvious and literal name that explains her species quite blatantly, takes the form of a small purple colored piece of paper with arms and legs. Origami's shape isn't always consistent, though, since she does have the ability to fold herself, due to her being a piece of paper. When she turns into things and forms of different shapes and compositions, Origami can hide her limbs and look like geometric versions of the thing she decides to turn into. This gives her design some fluctuation and uniqueness that is unmatched by most other characters.

Being one of the shier and meek children-coded characters that's observed in the story at hand here, Origami is usually seen with a happy smile or blushing face that conveys a fair bit of youthful innocence whenever the screen is focused on her. She even does cat smiles (:3), also coding her as a sweet and precious bean. That being said, Origami sometimes looks afraid or scared of stuff and even hides her face with her hands, or hides behind other people by shrinking. These actions signify that there may be a scaredy-cat in the mist...

## Personality

Origami is coded to be one of the younger characters of the show who has a big heart and big dreams that she wants to chase down, but she's cursed to act shy due to a desire of fitting in correctly with the others around her, and caring what others think. As such, her writing displays her as being a relatively sweet and caring young girl who goes to Mcfinny Public School to get a good education. She's a paper piece who's displayed to be very friendly and lovable, although Origami's also displayed as someone who's noticeably shy to give her a bit of charm and quirkiness in the series proper. She tries her absolute best to be a good person as often as possible, doing whatever it takes to make people, including herself, happy and joyful. This characterization makes her a bit similar to Rainbow Candy, but in Origami's case, she's more shy and a bit more of a doormat than the former. Origami acts kind to most folk she encounters, even ruder people like Fedora and VR Headset, which implies that she is a very benevolent character who has no hate in her heart, not even for people who would likely deserve to be hated on in-universe. This also shows her as being altruistic to a fault, and this could be her downfall, considering people can manipulate and lie to her.

Origami is blessed with the ability to change herself (I mean pyschically), and this power is granted to her thanks to her flexibility of the paper material on her body (after all she's a sheet of paper). Using her abilities to shape-shift into papery mockups of various other objects and beings, Origami usually fancies being a paper airplane and flying around in the air, making her seen as cute and adorable to the audience. Origami has an inherent love of flying and moving in the air, further displaying her character as one who is imaginative and free-spirited. She's someone who often remembers her dreams, and seems to be someone who can be looked up to. Flying seems to be extremely important to her that she'd even suggest flying with others, like telling the teacher that she wants to have a class trip where they fly in a big metal airplane to various lands; this also shows an explorer side in her. She does recognize the risks though, and occasionally gets hurt from flying around as a funny source of adorable slapstick humor. She always gets up again, though..most of the time...poor little devil..

Origami does have a flaw, though, and that's her tendency to be scared of scary things that she encounters around her. She's easy to spook, scare, and make frightened, and when this happens, she may tense up and act frozen. If something frightening is happening, she may show herself losing her ability to react properly, meaning she's not very good in acting in dangerous or serious situations. Now, with that being said, Origami does try her best in all areas of her life, she is just noted to lack the needed experience to properly deal with these scenarios. And this immaturity that she possesses makes her ripe for some harsh criticisms from others, leading them to believe that she's just a "baby" and more of a problem than an asset to their cliques. Origami might try to change this and become more strong, but character development does take work...so be patient with her, okay? And things might get better for her..so stay tuned!

To sum up Origami's character, she's basically showcased to be a really adorable and sweet person with a heart of true gold, and the audience can easily get attached to her and view her as "baby" or "best girl", but there may be more to her than meets the eye..

## Abilities

* **Shapeshifting:** Origami, being a piece of paper, has the ability to turn into pretty much anything you can think of, like an animal, vehicle, or even a rough version of another person. She doesn't have the ability to fully copy the actions of things she turns into but it still is a powerful ability.
* **Flight:** Origami can fly if she turns into an airplane, making her glide with ease and control. She can also fly just by extending her arms to the side and being aerodynamic as well.
* **Loftiness:** Being lightweight, she is naturally lofty, but can lose herself in a case of heavy wind.
* **Speed:** Origami is a fast runner and can be described as athletic.
* **Cutting Edges:** Origami's sides are somewhat sharp and can hurt people.

## Trivia

* Origami is one of nine specially marked characters that originally were set to appear in THOAB.
	+ Paddleball, Hexagon, Copyright, Coffee Cup, Baggy, Hexagon, and Prize Box are the other eight competitors with this particular background trait.
	+ In Tournament Held Over A Box, she was originally armless, colored white, and shaped like a paper airplane. Her personality was similar, but even more meek than it is in Virtually Gifted.
* Origami is the only character in Virtually Gifted whose name starts with the letter O.
* Origami is regarded as being one of the younger characters of the entire cast.
* Origami is noted to be the second lightest object in the show, with Straw being the lightest member of the cast at hand.
	+ This could be viewed as strange, considering that Straw is coded to be older, but it can be explained with him being made out of plastic and not paper.
* As a behavioral quirk to distinguish her from others, Origami sometimes makes cat mouth expressions whenever she's shown on screen. This is an example of her childish and cutesy persona, and people find this part of her "adorable" and friendly.
	+ It also vaguely references anime to an extent, as anime is known for its cutesy and "kawaii" expressions.
	+ Origami, while obviously not regarded as a human being, seems to be coded as a Chinese individual/character, given how, in the real world, Origami was made as a peaceful activity in China during the year 100 AD.

* Origami thinks of confetti as one of her fears. She's also averse to postage stamps and envelopes.

* Origami lacks the ability to understand what swears are, saying random words like "fuzz!" and "shap!" in their place. This trait serves to showcase her innocence and childish nature.
* Origami is stated to have bad handwriting that is almost rendered illegible. It could be based on the real world condition of dysgraphia.
* Origami owns a Gameboyesque handheld console that she plays with on occasion.
* Origami and Pill Bottle, despite being on different teams, have a good friendship together.
* Origami is extremely flammable, and thus, she is stated to have a fear of fire. She also cannot swim because her body would break. Origami *could* turn into a paper boat, though, and sail across bodies of water if the situation required her to.
* Origami seems to mispronounce big words, like philosophy being said by her like "fill all the phee". This also showcases her being a bit uneducated for her age, and coded like a kid. It's also a running gag by her.
* Origami's favourite day of the week happens to be Wednesday, and that's because Wednesday is "free day". What this means is anyone's guess.
	+ She also likes pencils, and sometimes chews on them, signifying her as being childish and innocent.
* In terms of friendships and trust, Origami seems to prefer girls over boys in a funny way, believing some boys have "cooties" and germs.
	+ Because of this, her being on a team with all girls soothes Origami.
* Origami loves to doodle, and sometimes does this whether or not she is in class at Mcfinny Public School.
* Origami's character kind of seems like Bubble from BFB, given her easily killable and meek nature that she expresses.
	+ She also has a bit of a resemblance to Foldy, as both are paper beings who can fly.