Furlecia

“*And I'm just a giant hairball. Doesn't mean I don't need some money, honey.*”
―Furlecia[src]
**Furlecia** is a main character in the Netflix film *Arlo the Alligator Boy* and its sequel series, *I ♥ Arlo*. She is a furball character with a flamboyant side, and moonlights as a wrestler for Tony's crew. She owns the Department of Hair at Seaside by the Seashore, where she works as its main hairdresser.

## History

### *Arlo the Alligator Boy*

Furlecia was first seen wrestling the toughest member of a clad of farmers in a barn in Alabama, where Arlo takes interest in. When she gets stabbed in her "love handles" by the opponent's rake, she pretends to be severely hurt to trick him, but Arlo, feeling truly worried for her, tried to interfere before the barn folk pushed him away. Furlecia manages to get up and finish the opponent off; during this, her boss Teeny Tiny Tony scams the barn folk out of their cash which they discover upon Furlecia winning. Furlecia escapes to the crew's bus driven by Alia, with Arlo coming up behind with Bertie in tow. Furlecia manages to grab onto Bertie's hand and pull the two aboard.

While aboard, Furlecia is initially rude and dismissive of Arlo for giving all the money Tony got from his scams back to the barn folk, but soon changes her mind when Bertie says she gets it more than them. Furlecia then sticks up for Tony and brushes off his short temper, and introduces the crew to Arlo and Bertie. At first she isn't keen on taking Arlo to New York City where his birth father Ansel resides, but soon changes her mind when Tony offers him a condition they free their friend Marcellus from an aquarium where he's trapped, which Furlecia refuses to do on account of not wanting to lose her perm.

After Arlo breaks out Marcellus and the group celebrates with a dance party, they take a rest stop on a beach where Marcellus tells of his trauma while locked up. While turning in, Furlecia goes inside the bus unlike the others; she also participates in the "Follow Me Home" number with the others, getting wet despite earlier, though she doesn't mind.

After arriving in New York, during the montage, Furlecia visits a salon called Il Pelo where she gets a haircut, causing loads of hair to spew out the door. That evening when the gang regroups in Times Square, Furlecia recognizes Ansel on one of the bigscreens of One Times Square, and clues Arlo in that he shares the same surname as his. This allows Arlo to realize Ansel is his dad; Furlecia then escorts Arlo to the penthouse building where Ansel lives before departing him.

Furlecia then spends the night at Seaside by the Seashore, the site of Ansel's newest project, which is where Arlo ends up upon being rejected by him the night before. While the group is observing the town, Furlecia reassures Arlo that ever since he came into their lives, she felt moved and changed by him, becoming a better person, and stands by on his side to help him get answers.

That evening, Furlecia helps Arlo break into the Met Gala so he can confront Ansel and get the truth. During this however, Arlo is captured by hunters Ruff and Stucky, but is rescued by Ansel, revealed to be a bird man, and reveals the truth. After Arlo turns down living with him in favor of his friends, Ansel has them move to Seaside by the Seashore and rebuild it instead of tearing it down. During the montage, Furlecia is shown painting pink on the building next to the pizzeria, which will become the Department of Hair.

### *I ♥ Arlo*

Furlecia is one of the main characters in the series, joining Arlo for his many adventures across New York. She owns the Department of Hair salon next door to Tony's Pizzeria, and while retaining her sass from the movie, she's become more of a motherly figure for the others.

In Season 1, she takes part in helping Seaside prepare for its Uncondemning block party. She gets a major role in the episode "Blow Out" where she is swamped with multiple appointments in one day and cannot bring herself to take one break. Her overbearing and anxiety eventually results in an extreme hair loss, but she still refuses to rest. When it all becomes too much, Furlecia hallucinates her sticky note doodle talking to her whom tells her about relaxing. Taking the advice, Furlecia does some rollerskating before work, and starts growing her hair back when she calms down. She then proceeds to make her salon time more organized thanks to Arlo's help.

Her contribution to the Seaside Community Garden is coconut trees to make vanilla conditioner for her beauty products.

## Relationships

*Click **here** to view the relationships between **Furlecia** and other characters.*

## Songs sung by Furlecia

* "Beautiful Together"
* "I Can Lift You Up"
* "Coming Together"
* "As Long As We Got Each Other"

## Foreign voices

* Adham Syed (*Arabic*)
* Fernando Mendonça (*Brazilian Portuguese*)
* Anders Bilberg (*Danish*)
* Paul Disbergen (*Dutch*)
* Tommi Haapaniemi (*Finnish*)
* Maxime Baudouin (*French*)
* Jeremias Koschorz (*German*)
* George Skoufis (*Greek*)
* Simone Veltroni (*Italian*)
* Zvika Forman (*Hebrew*)
* Ryuichi Kagehira (*Japanese*)
* Isosan (*Korean*)
* Pepe Toño Macias (*Latin America*)
* Geyr Michael Ross (*Norwegian*)
* Maciek Radel (*Polish*)
* Gonçalo Carvalho (*Portuguese*)
* Adrian Dima (*Romanian*)
* Wei Yifan (*Simplified/Traditional Chinese*)
* Juan Antonio Soler Nozal (*Spanish*)
* Edvin Törnblom (*Swedish*)
* Fatih Özkul *(Turkish)*

## Trivia

* Furlecia is a pink furball with Girlish Pigtails and high heels, but also a mustache and a masculine voice. She is identified as a girl by everyone else, so it is heavily implied that she is Transgender.