Manny Taur

**Manny Taur** is a 2022-introduced and cartoon-only character. He is a minotaur and a student at Monster High.

## Description

### Personality

Manny is described as a "gentle giant" who "has a brain as big as his brawn". He loves to read and to solve puzzles, and is a top student in Puzzleology class. He is conflict-averse and is not one to consider other intelligent students like himself as rivals. He is friendly and glad to help others, and even considers being thought of as a rival to be a kind of honor more than a problem, though would prefer friendship over rivalry. He likes cute things. He is also cautious and easily frightened.

He is known to visit the school library during late hours, and is usually the only one there at those times. He also likes to party and to perform, such as dancing and singing.

### Appearance

He is anthropomorphic bull with brown fur, freckles, blonde hair and blue eyes. His left horn is broken off and he has droopy cow ears. He is significantly larger than most other students, towering over average teenage monsters and making normal-sized objects seem small in comparison.

He wears a long-sleeved and collared white button-up shirt featuring a gray Holstein cow spot print. Over it is a red vest with a black collar, sleeves, and bottom hem, the latter two featuring white piping in a Grecian meander pattern. His denim jeans are torn open at the knees. He wears brown shoes with a cloven hoof-shaped toes, their heels are rimmed with gold that features either the same meander design or its own maze design, and the bottom of the soles have a maze design.

## Relationships

### Friends

* **Draculaura**: As the top student in Puzzleology just ahead of Draculaura, she considered Manny to be her academic arch-rival. However, this feeling was entirely one-sided, as Manny holds no such feelings toward her and was himself unaware she felt that way at all. When he learned she thought of him as such, he considered an honor of a kind, though he later confessed to preferring the idea of being a tutor than a clueless one-sided rival. After pacifying the Splitsee, Draculaura decided she would rather be Manny's friend than his rival, and admitted that she could use a tutor, to which Manny gladly agreed. He was among the students in the clawditorium watching her perform with the rest of the fearleader squad for the pep rally.
* **Deuce Gorgon**: Though it is unknown for how long, Manny and Deuce Gorgon are implied to have already been friends for at least a year by the time of the most recent Nightmore. During this Nightmore, they went to Mount Olympus together to celebrate by "party(ing) like the Greek gods." When they later returned to school for Draculaura's party, they set up the punch bowl together. When Frankie Stein's bottled up electricity caused a black-out in the clawditorium during a pep rally, he apologized for bumping into Deuce in the dark.
* **Heath Burns**: Manny and Heath Burns were partnered together by Mrs. O'Shriek to compete in the mandatory school dance-off, and seemed happy to work together. It is unknown how long they have been friends for, if at all.
* **Iris Clops**: Manny and Iris are first seen together buying some of Deuce's rock candy for his fundraiser. They are also seen talking to each other during lunch, indicating they are friends.

### Pets

When the Splitsee invaded Monster High through the catacomb labyrinth portal, Manny was among the students who searched for it. After the multiplied Splitsees were pacified and collected, he gently placed the final one into the De-Splitifier, showing his care for it. After the Splitsees were recombined into a single one and it was in need of a handler, it immediately jumped into Manny's arms in spite of the fact that most cute, small creatures are terrified of him. Seeing how much it liked him, Manny became enamored with Splitsee and decided to keep it forever. Later, when Splitsee was running around, Manny worryingly chased after him.