Arlo Beauregard

**Arlo Beauregard** is the main protagonist of the Netflix film *Arlo the Alligator Boy* and its sequel series, *I ♥ Arlo*. He's a half-human, half-alligator hybrid with a passion for music, who longs to be accepted by others and to have friends, and to meet the family he never knew he had.

## Profile

### Biography

Arlo is an alligator boy -- a boy who's half-human and half-alligator. Fifteen years prior to the events of the franchise, Arlo was born to Ansel Beauregard and an unnamed mother, at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. But because Ansel was concealing his bird-man appearance and feared Arlo would expose who he really is, he was forced to abandon him into the sewers, where he soon gets lost at sea for days before ending up in the Louisiana swamp where he is raised by an old swamp hermit named Edmée for fifteen whole years before learning the truth on his birthday. Since then, he has left the swamp and journeyed back to his birth home, assembling a friendship circle consisting of a group of abnormal misfits like him -- Bertie the teenage giantess, Teeny Tiny Tony the rat man, Furlecia the hairball, Alia the tigress, and Marcellus the reverse merman. After a long adventure of reaching the city, facing unforseen disownment from Ansel before finally being accepted by him, evading an evil hunter couple, and even restoring his dad's old boardwalk home to its pristine condition and making it his own, Arlo has gone on to enjoy his new life and learned how to live in the community where everyone has their own way of living.

Arlo speaks with an African-Cajun accent.

### Appearance

Arlo is half-alligator, meaning he's human but with the appearance of an alligator. His skin is medium yellow-green with a pale yellow snout and belly, and has mussy, light red hair. He has a few chin hairs under his lower jaw, and a slight blush with three freckles on each cheek. He wears an off-white t-shirt and pale blue jeans which cuff up to just below his knees, held up by a single pale orange strap and with a hole at the back for his tail to poke through. He's also barefoot.

### Personality

Arlo is optimistic, positive, and constantly upbeat, and always looks on the bright side of things. Due to his time being isolated, he's also curious over his surroundings, and has a hard time understanding what his outside world aspects are at first. He's also extremely sensitive, meaning he can get his feelings deeply hurt if insulted, turned away, or getting disowned by Ansel. He's also accepting of others, and is proud to appreciate himself and his friends the way they are.

### Abilities

* **Singing:** Arlo's main talent is his passion for singing. As demonstrated in both the movie and series, he has an astounding singing voice, and is a really great singer. His singing is often captivated by Bertie, whereas it annoys Marcellus. He has a tenancy to sing what he says, or lapse into song mid-sentence.
* **Music:** In addition to his singing talent, Arlo is also good at playing various instruments; in the movie, he owns a handmade cigar box guitar, which he presumably leaves behind on the way to New York. In his riverboat imagination and in some episodes of the series, he plays a banjo.
* **Dancing:** Likewise with his passions for singing and making music, Arlo is also shown to be a talented dancer.
* **Swimming:** Like all alligators, Arlo is a really good swimmer. First demonstrated in the film, Arlo can swim at really fast speeds and can stay under the water for prolonged periods of time. Usually when he gets out of the water, he dries off in no time, though there are rare times he does remain wet.
* **Speed/Agility:** In addition to his swimming skills, Arlo is shown to run really fast and has excellent agility skills.
* **Prehensile tail:** He can use his tail as a third leg as shown in "Be the Turtle".
* **Skin shedding:** As seen in "The Shedding", "Blow Out" and "Swamp Itch", he sheds his skin at least once per year.
* **Alligator chomp:** He can use his teeth to chomp things apart, like in "The Uncondemning" when he tries to free Ruff and Stucky from their briar prison, when he bites himself free of the Bog Lady's grasp, and when freeing Edmée from her vine cage.
* **Climbing:** As seen in "The Uncondemning", Arlo is good at climbing trees real fast.

## Trivia

* Arlo was Michael J. Woodard's first acting role as well as his first voice role. It's also his most recognizable.
* In early artworks, the top of Arlo's snout was green; in the final version, it is yellow.
* The movie only introduced Arlo's swimming and crawling alligator skills. The rest of his skills were shown gradually: shedding in "The Shedding", and climbing and chomping in "The Uncondemning".
* He does a realistic alligator hiss when angry or annoyed.
* He brushes his teeth at least once a month, as revealed in "Friendship Couch".
* So far, Arlo has suffered something negative at least once by the major villains in each work:
	+ In the movie, he was captured by Ruff and Stucky.
	+ In the Season 1 finale, he was hypnotized by the Bog Lady.
* He puts a bowl on his head whenever he needs his famous pageboy cut, as alluded to in the movie and shown in "Friendship Couch".
* Arlo is the third main character to say "I'm walkin' here!", in "Community Garden". The first two were Bertie and Tony respectively in the movie.
* He wiggles his tail quickly when excited or curious about something.
* He does "wild thrashing" to distract himself from being sad, as shown in "Jeromio, Jeromio".
* He often tends to sing his lines or randomly lapse into song mid-sentence.