Dakota Falcone

> Oh my golly gosh!
>
> Dakota, catchphrase in Tomodachi Life

Dakota's reference as of 2021

Dana Falcone (Step-Mother)

Trevor Falcone (Brother)

### Current status

Alive, living on [Treft Island] (TL)Saving the world from The Dark Lord Boris (Miitopia)

## Appearances

### Appears in

Cambridge Circle, Wii Sports, Tomodachi Life, Miitopia, Miitomo

### Origin

Cambridge Circle

Dakota Michaela Falcone is the main character in Cambridge Circle, who lives in the town of Cambridge alongside her friends. At the start of Cambridge Circle, Dakota is 12 years old and just starting 6th grade, where she forms a circle of friends that the story follows until they graduate high school in 12th grade, when Dakota is 19. Dakota is well known for her outgoing, bubbly nature, although she tends to be a little airheaded and can often be more trusting than she should be.

Outside of Cambridge Circle, Dakota has appeared heavily on Ghabulous Ghoti's YouTube Channel and in Catatouille101's artwork, due to her status as Katie's mascot, with her most prominent appearances being in Tomodachi Life and Miitopia, the latter of which she is the main character of.

## Cambridge Circle

### Early Life

Not too much has been revealed about Dakota's early life yet. Her biological mother left her family when she was around one year old, but since Dakota's step-mother Dana has been in her life since she was three, she refers to Dana as "mom." In elementary school, Dakota's bubbly nature annoyed some of her classmates, something she was oblivious to. She was good friends with Sam Jaden, and she quickly took a liking to Sarah Fisher when her family moved in across the street in 4th grade. At some point the same year, Dakota tripped into Thomas Mitchel and accidentally spilled her lunch tray all over him, who she developed a crush on while trying to clean off.

### 6th Grade

When Cambridge Circle's story starts, Dakota is about to enter 6th grade, where she ends up meeting Brooke Adams, Kate Kestrel, and James Goshow. Not too many details of the overall plot have been revealed yet, but at some point in the year, Dakota decides to pursue her crush on Thomas. At the same time, she tries to help James win over Sarah's feelings, since she likes the idea of two of her close friends getting together.

### 7th Grade

Few details of Dakota's storyline for 7th grade have been revealed so far, but it was mentioned that at one point in the year, Dakota and Thomas go on a date to the mall, chaperoned by her father, Mark Falcone. The date was described as "going poorly", with Dakota ending up feeling like a third wheel on her own date when Thomas hits it off more with Mark than with her. She then becomes jealous when Sam texts her pictures of her successful date with James.

### 8th Grade

No plot details for 8th grade have been revealed yet, although a picture featuring Dakota's 8th grade design was included in Ghabulous Ghoti's 10 year anniversary teaser video. The picture depicted Dakota and Cory in what appeared to be a candle-light date, with Sam dressed in a maid outfit saying that she will be serving them that night.

### 9th Grade

It was revealed in Dakota's Tomodachi Life bio that at some point in 9th grade, she and James realize their mutual feelings for each other and enter a relationship.

### 10th-12th Grade

No plot details have been revealed for Dakota's last few years of high school.

## On YouTube

### Tomodachi Life

Dakota is introduced in the 4th episode of Tomodachi Life, Oh My Golly Gosh!, introducing the Cambridge Circle franchise as a whole to Treft Island. In episode 5, Ghoti and Katie attempt to get her and James together to reflect their canon relationship, and the two of them get married a few episodes later. Dakota uses her design from the end of 11th grade in Tomodachi Life, despite being officially listed as 19 years old (she would only be 18 in 11th grade).

### Miitopia

Dakota is the main character in Miitopia, assuming the class of Pop Star in the first episode. In Miitopia, Dakota sets out on a quest alongside Brooke, Tamaru, and Katoe to stop Dark Lord Boris from taking the faces from everyone in Miitopia.

### Wii Sports

Dakota appears again in Wii Sports, where Katie plays as her in Bowling alongside Kevin.

### Minor Appearances

Dakota's Mii appears in Ghoti's livestream Waifu Alert, where she dances around graciously whenever someone subscribes.

## Personality and Physical Description

Dakota has been described as energetic and friendly. Her outgoing and bubbly nature has lead to her making friends with a variety of different people, many of whom likely wouldn't know each other if it weren't for Dakota. Despite coming across as ditzy, Dakota's also fairly smart academically, excelling at math. Even though Dakota is approachable and friendly, she's often unaware of other people's feelings, leading to her sometimes annoying them or being too trusting. She tends to be a little naive, although her "incredible luck" leads to her getting out of many sticky situations.

Despite her innocent nature, Dakota tends to be a fan of edgier media, reading several mature comics (most notably SaFire) and listening to Midnight Amethyst's music. It has been mentioned that Dakota is unaware of her attractive appearance, particularly in regards to her figure. As a result, she tends to wear tight and often low-cut shirts, and she's not opposed to wearing especially revealing outfits, as seen in both her Miitopia costume and in her Midnight Amethyst cosplay from Tomodachi Life.

Dakota often idolizes people, including Midnight Amethyst, SaFire, and Brooke, the last of whom she has deemed to be "perfect". This was referenced in Tomodachi Life when she began to "simp" for Cleopatra alongside Kate, going as far as to dress in a similar outfit to the Pharaoh.

Normally, Dakota is seen wearing tightly-fitted striped v-necks with a low cut alongside "awkwardly cut" shorts that end at her knees. For a brief time in 6th grade, she had braces and a purple streak dyed in her hair to match Midnight Amethyst.

## Development

Dakota was first created in 2009 by Catatouille101 while she was bored in 6th grade. In her initial appearance, she was designed to resemble Katie in real life, though over time her design shifted further and further away from that.

When Katie first wrote Dakota, she intended for her to be more of a relatble, straight-man kind of character who tried to get involved in people's lives. Dakota was originally an artist and a writer, and was intended to be a lot girlier and a try-hard. When Katie shared her early story drafts with Ghoti, several quirks of her writing caused Ghoti to see her as more air-headed and ditzy, and Katie really liked that idea so she changed the character to reflect that interpretation more. Katie cut Dakota's creative endeavors, feeling that they no longer fit in, and pushed Dakota more towards being a quirky dork instead. Later on, the two were looking for new interests for Dakota and settled on comic books, feeling that they were a natural fit for Dakota's new personality.

In terms of design, Dakota's skin tone was initially much paler. However, each new reference that Katie drew for her unintentionally made her skin sightly darker, until Katie realized the trend and decided to intentionally darken it. Notably, this is still true even for her most recent reference picture in 2021, where she appears slightly darker than she did in her reveal in Tomodachi Life in 2019.

Dakota always wore striped v-neck shirts, though Ghoti suggested that Katie exaggerate her cleavage, stating that it would be more in-character for her to be unaware of how much skin she was showing. Similarly, Dakota was originally drawn with more of an hourglass body shape, but Katie unintentionally drew her with smaller hips a few times and Ghoti liked it, thinking that the more awkward body proportions fit her character really well.

## Mii Information

### Tomodachi Life

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## Gallery

Dakota's official icon without the backgroundDakota's official icon from Cambridge CircleDakota's official reference from 2021Dakota and BrookeDakota's fear of snakesDakota's Midnight Amethyst cosplayDakota in her Pop Star outfit from MiitopiaDakota meeting the Great Sage, GregDakota bowling from Wii SportsDakota in Egyptian clothes for CleopatraKaa choking DakotaKaa tries to make friends with a terrified DakotaDakota gets hypnotized into being Kaa's friendDakota's design from 2018The first full image of Dakota used in Tomodachi LifeDakota wearing a suit of armor and challenging Sicily for his gold.Dakota's not good at slaying dragons.
### Sketches

Dakota reading SaFire in 6th gradeDakota and Cory on a date, with Sam serving them while dressed as a maid
### Thumbnails

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## Trivia

* Dakota has appeared in the most thumbnails out of anyone on Treft Island, with a total of 19 thumbnails as of Episode 73.
	+ Similarly, Dakota has had the most problems in Tomodachi Life, with a total of 88 by Episode 48.
* Despite being listed as 19 years old in Tomodachi Life, Dakota's design actually comes from 11th grade in Cambridge Circle, where she would only be 18.
* Dakota is 1/4th black, as her biological mother was half black. This was an idea suggested by Ghoti when Dakota's skin was made darker in 2020, which Katie approved of.
* Dakota is the distant ancestor of Iris Taylor, the main character from The Wind Striders, confirming that the two exist in the same universe outside of Tomodachi Life.
	+ Despite being related, both Katie and Ghoti have said that they wouldn't consider a DakotaxIris ship to be incestuous, due to the two being separated by several centuries.
* In 6th grade, Dakota has a single purple streak in her hair, in reference to Katie's desire to have a purple streak at the same age.
* Dakota is the only one of the five main girls in Cambridge Circle to not be named after one of Katie's online friends, with her name instead being inspired by the original name of Katie's cat, Woody.
* Dakota was described as being attracted to androgeny in Episode 68 of Tomodachi Life.
* Dakota is officially considered "gender blind", both romantically and sexually, making her pansexual. Despite this, her sexuality is not intended to come up in Cambridge Circle's narrative to avoid overlapping with other character's plotlines.
* Dakota was confirmed to have a choking fetish in Ghoti's 2021 Night of 100 Frights Charity Stream. This was later elaborated to mean that she gets off to choking others, rather than being choked.
* Dakota has an intense fear of snakes.
	+ Humorously, her favorite Midnight Amethyst album is *Squeezing My Soul,* which features a snake attacking Midnight Amethyst on the cover.
* Dakota has a peanut allergy, an idea suggested by Ghoti to make her "just a little more different."
	+ As a result of this, Dakota's favorite sandwich is actually "almond butter and bologna."
* Despite having three known potential romantic partners in Cambridge Circle, Dakota's only had one relationship in Tomodachi Life.
* Dakota is able to eat a lot while staying thin as a result of a minor thyroid disorder, something Ghoti actually has in real life.
* Dakota has been described as having an undiagnosed case of "mild Asperger's", placing her on the Autism spectrum.
* Ghoti's favorite ship for Dakota is with Kate, while Katie's is with Sarah.
* Dakota's favorite food in Cambridge Circle is macaroni and cheese.
* Dakota's Smash Bros. main is Duck Hunt Dog, despite her not playing Smash (or any video games) often.
* Although character traits are played up for comedy in Tomodachi Life, Ghoti confirmed that he feels like Dakota would actually wear the Midnight Amethyst cosplay outfit without realizing how revealing it is in Cambridge Circle if she had the chance.
* Dakota has a habit of grabbing her boobs when she's excited, based off of Katie's similar habit in real life. (An example can be seen in her Midnight Amethyst cosplay.)
* Katie has joked that Dakota has a crush on Brooke that is "similar to Michael Scott's crush on Ryan in The Office."
* Dakota canonically wears a D cup, although it's "too small for her."