Muko | DDE

Overview Muko Theodore Marman is a major character in Dimensional Deep End.

He gets involved in the B plot, joining Tristan and the others after becoming weirdly stressed about Dave's disappearance.

He is good friends with Dave and Bambi, and is an uncle figure to Tristan.

Appearance Muko is a lanky 2D world-er donning a white lab coat over a pink sweater with a white collared undershirt. Additonally he wears dark red pants with brown, blocky dress shoes. He has short blond hair with a prominent tuft at the top of his head. As his emotions intensify, his hair appears to become messier. He wears round glasses with a red frame.

Personality Muko is an intelligent robotic engineer who falls into episodes of paranoia and isolation when faced with stressful situations. Despite his serious and apathetic demeanor, he enjoys childlike hobbies and objects such as Furbies or listening to boy band music, which stayed consistent throughout his life. He also has a large interest in the paranormal and paranatural, keeping up with urban legends and natural phenomena. He keeps a lot of secrets and doesn't tend to talk a lot about himself as a person.

When not struggling with stress, Muko is a lot more laid back and emotionally available. When talking about something he likes or something he invented, he can’t help but ramble with excitement. He has spent a good amount of time working on outwardly showing appreciation for his friends, since he is often subtle with his emotions.

After learning about Dave’s disappearance, Muko relapses back into a person he never wanted to become again. He is now hard focused on one goal: to fix everything.

Background Muko was born around the mid-late 1980s in the American midwest. He grew up as an only child, raised by both of his parents.

Muko was an energetic and passionate little kid who never lost his affinity for robotics, inventing devices since he was young. However, because of his obvious nerdiness, he was the target of a lot of bullying from his peers. He met Dave sometime in middle school after he was protected from some bullies, and the two became best friends. Muko built up a small yet strong friend group that lasted until adulthood.

Ever since he was a child, Muko has had an affinity with the unknown, and wanted to explore topics that fell into 'conspiracy' territory and prove one of these theories as real. Oftentimes, Muko would fall into bouts of hyperfixation related to his passions and theories, which would often leave him without sleep or socialization.

After graduating high school, he moved to Fort Geraldson with Dave and established a lab to conduct various experiments related to his theory, with him as the engineer. However, some time after Dave lost his legs in a lab accident, another incident happened that shattered Muko's mental health and ended up straining his relationship with Dave. His tendency to hyperfixate and isolate himself became much more extreme, which Dave did everything in his power to mitigate. While on much better terms now, Muko still holds a form of a grudge against Dave, even if it is not yet clear why.

Trivia Muko visited Dave whenever he was hospitalized due to surgery when they were kids, catching him up on missed homework and chatting with eachother. This inspired Dave to pursue becoming a teacher later in adulthood. Muko sometimes has the tendency to repeat singular words twice, drawing out one word longer than the other. His friends have no idea where he got this speech quirk. Muko has a really nasally laugh, which he is self conscious about. Another character. Dave Algebra Class is a main protagonist in Dimensional Deep End.

He travels alongside Boyfriend in the A plot as the two of them are swept into the Deep End by a mysterious portal that opens up beneath them in the prologue song Format. As the straight-man of the duo, he's much more solution oriented and is focused on finding the most efficient way back home with what little he has to work with. In the mod he will act as Boyfriend's main partner in the story as they both take turns or work together to rap-battle the waves of opponents that get in their way.

He is the adoptive father of Tristan, one of the creators of Playrobot, and a good friend to Spike, Muko, and Bambi.

Appearance Dave is a 2D world-er with a spherical head and shoulders, donning a blue long-sleeved shirt with subtly belled sleeves and darker blue pants. His hair is brunette and shaved as a buzzcut. Dave is wheelchair bound, with the lower half of his legs being replaced with shapely metal prosthetics. These prosthetics act as 'neurotransmitters', which decipher Dave's nerve signals and transmit them to his wheelchair, allowing him to sprout multiple robotic hands from his wheelchair for different purposes.

At seemingly random moments, Dave's form can change by something he calls "shifting", changing his body from 2D to a lowpoly 3D.

Personality Dave appears as well-rounded and kind to most people he meets, however he has his moments of anxiety and cockiness. He has a tendency to put the needs of others before his own, and very rarely puts the fault of a situation on anyone other than himself. He's very solution-oriented and knows how to think in times of stress, usually jumping to de-escalating the conflict in some way.

He has his moments of ego as he's surprisingly competitive, and since he has mathematics as a passion, he tends to let it get to his head when his prowess for it is validated in some way. This accidentally slips into his teaching methods, as he occasionally tries challenging his son with higher level math than he's equipped for, as seen in Tristan's worksheets.

Dave speaks in a very child-friendly manner, only letting it slip when he panics. Since he wants to be a good role model for his son, he switches out typical curse words with goofier euphemisms, like "Fudgesicles" as a substitute for a swear of the same letter.

When he slips into panic, Dave tends to spiral into thinking of worst-case scenarios, which only feed more into his anxiety.

Background Dave was born as Dave Alan Claus around the mid-late 1980s. He later changed his name to his current when he became an adult. He was raised solely by his father since his mom passed soon after his birth. He moved from Canada to Midwestern America sometime before starting elementary school.

As a kid, Dave was already disabled by conditions such as childhood gigantism and cerebral palsy, which caused him to receive multiple surgeries to manage it, and ended up affecting his movement when he was young. As seen in older photos, he got around via modified crutches. Due to his disabilities, Dave has been distanced socially from his peers until he befriended Muko, whom he met after protecting him from bullies like David, according to Muko's log in the terminal. From there, Dave built up a small yet strong friend group that remains lasting into adulthood.

Sometime after graduating high school, Dave builds a house thanks to his animatronic friend Maldo in the town of Fort Geraldson. There, Dave and Muko pursued advanced scientific projects, with Dave working as a programmer. It's around this time Dave starts making his own personal program to store files such as his logs. Eventually, a backfire in one of their projects resulted in the loss of Dave's legs. Muko was soon to design a customized robotic wheelchair and prosthetics as a form of apology, and they've been in use ever since.

At some point, Dave and Muko's relationship becomes strained and they start spending less time with eachother. Dave abandons science work and works with Maldo to build a new Elementary school in the middle of Fort Geraldson, which was lacking in those facilities due to being in a more rural area. There, he started hiring staff like Samson and Allen, and accepted Diamond Man as a junior counselor. Muko, even with their strained relationship, still provided for Dave in this time by building SLEEP and Playrobot, the latter he took into his home.

In his teaching days, Dave met a very young Spike, whose family recently moved in the area and needed a place for him to be cared for. Spike ended up being the only student in Dave's first year because of this, but it nurtured a close mentor-student relationship with the two. Dave began developing fatherly emotions while teaching Spike, and decided that his new dream would be becoming a father. He decided to step down as a teacher full time- telling Spike he can still see him as a math tutor and substitute- and soon adopted his son Tristan.

It is also around this time where Dave meets his good friend Bambi, who suddenly appeared in the town one day. The two immediately click, and become fast friends. Bambi helps with caring for Tristan by providing a steady source of food, and along with Spike, gives Tristan someone to look up to. Dave becomes satisfied with his current way of life, and even starts leaning more into his hobby of singing. He sets up a Funkbook page one day, and is surprised to see two people become interested almost immediately.

Trivia Dave had a mullet as a middle schooler. He tried growing it back multiple times throughout his life, but never felt as confident about pulling it off. Added character Bambi Bambi Bambi is a major character in Dimensional Deep End.

He joins the others in the B plot, and fights with Pico in the song Shucked.

He is good friends with Tristan, Dave, and Muko.

Appearance Bambi is a stout humanoid 2D world-er, wearing blue farmer overalls adorned with golden buttons, and a red collared shirt. he does not wear shoes, as his overalls cover the entirety of his legs. He has unique anatomy compared to the other major characters due to his stubby legs and detached floating hands. He dons a green hat that covers the top part of his face, giving his giant, snow goggle-shaped eyes a consistent half-lidded look. If you took off his hat, he would be bald underneath.

Personality Bambi is a protective and short-tempered person who often causes conflict by jumping to conclusions too fast. Originally living in Brazil before coming to Fort Geraldson, he is fluent in Portuguese, but struggles more with speaking English- which doesn't help with his tendency to make assumptions. When he's calmer, he is a cranky and stoic yet caring friend, often providing Dave and his other friends with food and company.

Background Nobody seems to know anything about Bambi other than his position as a produce farmer. He appeared in Fort Geraldson one day and became fast friends with Dave, providing for him even if it is unneeded and giving Tristan another person to look up to.

For some unexplained reason, Bambi sometimes clips through objects. When this happens the form of his hands briefly fizzle out. Bambi cannot control when this happens.

Trivia Bambi doesn't know his own birthday, opting to make one up after his friends were concerned. Bambi stores an impossible amount of things in his front pocket. Tristan Class is a major character in Dimensional Deep End.