Ari Bat

> Who knows what we'll find?
>
> -Ari Bat

* Normal
* Pajamas
* Costume
* Dragonfly

**Ari Bat** is a fruit bat and one of Elinor's best friends. He is voiced by Wyatt White.

## Appearance

### Body

Ari is a bat with wings under his arms, and light-brown fur on most of him, unlike the rest of his family members who have mostly dark-brown fur. There is dark-brown fur on the top of his head, however. He has three short tufts of hair, and ears that resemble bird wings.

### Clothing

He wears golden yellow shorts and a short-sleeved dark green top. Tops like these are usually referred to a t-shirts, yet Elinor calls it his "sweater" in The Seed of an Idea, indicating it's possibly what is known as a "sweater tee". At night, he wears a white pajama shirt with a dark green collar, cuffs and hem and a green apple on the chest along with light green pajama pants. For Owl Girl's Costume Day, Ari dressed as a magician, under the name "The Mysterious Mysterioso". For Butterfly Drinks's Insect Day, Ari dressed as a dragonfly.

## Personality

Ari is silly and likable. He is also funny, imaginative and energetic. Ari loves pickles with peanut butter (stated in The Syrup Tree), and also apples. He doesn't like carrot sticks, but raisins are his favorite, as revealed in Elinor Stops the Squish. Ari claims that bagels are his favorite baked snack in Wind in the Web. As seen in Bath Time, Ari is prone to getting dirty very quickly, and he also enjoys getting dirty to a certain extent. He also frequently makes puns and jokes. Ari is also shown to be clumsy, as he falls over, trips, and fumbles with things numerous times within the series. After the events of *Bath Time*, Ari seems to want to grow out of his favorite toy, Robin. In one comic and A Wonderful Journey, Ari initially declines bringing Robin along with him. Though he does cave in both situations, showing that he still prizes Robin as his favorite toy as much as he would like to keep it on the down-low. He's also shown embarrassment upon accidentally showing Robin to Beatriz in *A Wonderful Journey*.

## Physical Traits

As he is a bat, Ari can use his wings to fly. The exact capabilities of his flight aren't very clear, as in The Lizard Lounge, he stays in midair for around thirty seconds before grounding and saying he needs a snack, while in Owl Girl, he's in air for around half the time, afterwards expressing exhaustion *and* hunger. Meanwhile, in Colorful and Tasty, he flies for around the same time as in *Owl Girl* and appears to be fine afterwards. In Big Trees, Ari flies to the very top of a sequoia tree, becoming exhausted both on the way up and when he returns to ground. Also due to his bat physiology, he can hang upside down on horizontal surfaces such as branches and the ceiling of his own house, like real life bats can. He even sleeps upside down like how an actual bat does!

Despite his energetic behavior, he's not too physically adept while on the ground. In *The Lizard Lounge*, he's pretty exhausted after some time on their walk, and wonders how the rest of the group walks so fast compared to him. Although, his fatigue could be explained by him not being prepared for the hot weather (Ranger, Elinor and Olive all had hats on to protect them from the sun, while Ari did not). As shown in Look What I Can Do, he fails at dribbling a soccer ball, misses a kick while a ball is rolling towards him, and is the slowest out of all the kids participating in a running test. Throughout Zig Zag Plant, Ari attempts and fails at doing a backflip many times, though at the end, Ari is shown to perform multiple successful backflips thanks to what he learned from how plants grow. In Frozen Fish, Ari is shown to be inexperienced in ice skating, falling over and losing balance multiple times. Towards the end however, Ari utilizes his wings to help him right himself once he loses balance, becoming much better at skating. Despite his slight ineptitudes, he's very skilled while in flight. He has displayed fast flying speeds and impressive acrobatic tricks in midair, such as flipping out of bed and immediately kicking into flight in Snow Friend as well as in *Bath Time*, and doing various flips and turns midair during the intro. Supporting this, Ari claims he usually flies when he needs to get to places in a hurry in *Look What I Can Do*, likely proving that he's more active in the air than on the ground.

Ari is displayed to be pretty voracious, as on numerous occasions he expresses interest in talking about and eating food. In *Colorful and Tasty*, he supposedly asked Mr. Rabbit to sample the cupcakes they were making at every stage of the cooking process, and later on has to be stopped from eating the finished cupcakes by Elinor, as they were for other people. In Backyard Soup, he very quickly eats three bowls of soup and asks for a fourth one as soon as he finishes his third.

## Quotes

* "I could use a snack."
* "I meant to do that~!"
* "That is so cool!"
* "That's so awesome!"
* "Who knows what we'll find?"
* "I knew that."
* "Hey, sometimes I forget."

## Trivia

* Wyatt White, Ari’s voice actor, also voices Brad from Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum, and will later play Benito in the Work It Out Wombats episode "Sammy's Primo".
* Ari's toy bird, Robin, alludes to Batman and his sidekick Robin.
* He loves barbecues, seen in Follow Your Nose.
* Real life fruit bats have normal eyesight, unlike usual bats which are blind and use echolocation, giving more evidence to Ari specifically being a fruit bat.
	+ This was fully confirmed in the episode A Change of Art, as said by himself.

## References

1. ↑ His surname is known due to Ari's father being called "Mr. Bat" in the closed captions and credits.

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