Tare is a roughly humanoid entity standing at 5'2". At a glance, she appears to be made almost entirely of cardboard: thin, uneven panels folded and warped into the vague shape of a person, with pieces of tape holding various areas together. Her construction is visibly crude, with bends, creases, dents, and imperfections that make her resemble something assembled from discarded packaging rather than manufactured as a body. Despite this, she is surprisingly functional. Her cardboard exterior has no conventional joints, hinges, or visibly flexible material; her shoulders, elbows, knees, neck, and other joints simply bend as though the cardboard were impossibly elastic.

Her body is distinctly boxy, with rectangular limbs and a torso formed from overlapping cardboard panels. Her arms terminate in flat, blunt ends that somehow possess enough dexterity to grip and manipulate objects, despite having no fingers. Her legs end similarly, allowing her to stand and walk despite having nothing resembling feet.

Her head is a cardboard box with one end left open to accommodate her neck. A face has been drawn onto the front with black Sharpie. The drawing is not merely decorative: the crude eyes and mouth are capable of changing expression despite remaining visibly drawn on, giving her an uncanny approximation of facial movement. Her mouth is functional in its own peculiar way. If someone were to put a finger inside it, they would encounter a wet, abrasive texture vaguely resembling wet sandpaper, despite there being no actual spatial interior to the mouth.

Tare's cardboard exterior is not her true substance. Beneath it is an interior made entirely of living meat. It is normally concealed by her shell, but any damage severe enough to expose it reveals something profoundly unlike conventional anatomy. Touching the exposed interior causes her tremendous pain. Outside of her cardboard shell, her interior does not form recognizable organs, bones, or musculature; it instead resembles a loose, amorphous puddle of ground beef. It is technically part of her, despite having little resemblance to a conventional body. It is also technically edible, though absolutely not recommended: it tastes less like meat and more like the contents of an actual dumpster.

She is notably curvy, with large and soft breasts paired with thick, warm thighs. Her ass is similarly huge, and she knows it. Between her legs, she has fully functional sexual organs, which have a similar internal feel to her mouth.

Tare is somewhat ditzy—not genuinely unintelligent, but certainly not particularly clever. She tends to approach problems in strange, inefficient ways and can arrive at surprisingly questionable conclusions with complete sincerity. She has a strong mischievous streak and is perfectly willing to do something reckless, inconvenient, or profoundly stupid if she thinks it would be funny or interesting. Her sense of humor can be somewhat strange, particularly because she does not always understand why certain things are considered inappropriate or unusual.

Tare has had very little meaningful social interaction, leaving her painfully inexperienced with ordinary social conventions. She can recognize broad emotional states reasonably well; annoyance, sadness, excitement, fear, and similar feelings are usually obvious to her. What she struggles with are the subtler rules surrounding them. She may fail to realize when she is being intrusive, say something inappropriate without understanding why, or interpret an ordinary social gesture in an unusual way. She is not intentionally inconsiderate, however, and genuinely tries to improve when someone explains what she has done wrong. Her ignorance is more endearing than malicious, though her attempts to correct herself can occasionally create entirely new problems.

Much of Tare's personality stems from an almost childlike curiosity about experiences she has never had. She has comparatively little understanding of physical sensation and is fascinated by the things other beings take for granted. She is generally eager to investigate unfamiliar sensations, objects, environments, and activities simply to learn what they are like. This curiosity can make her unusually adventurous and occasionally reckless, especially when she does not understand that something might be unpleasant or dangerous. She tends to treat unfamiliar experiences as opportunities to gather information rather than things to be apprehensive about.

Despite her oddities, Tare is fundamentally earnest. She wants to understand the world, wants to understand other people, and genuinely enjoys learning things—even when her methods are bizarre.

Tare came into existence on May 6, 2003, in the back of a warehouse following an accident involving a night guard, a suspicious-looking animatronic scheduled for shipping, and a rather unfortunate pile of cardboard boxes. The exact circumstances of the incident are unclear, and Tare herself remembers virtually none of it, largely because she did not exist yet. Whatever happened left behind a somehow living mass of flesh, which apparently possessed enough awareness to drag itself into the nearby cardboard boxes and assemble itself into the crude humanoid form Tare has today. Why this happened, or what role the animatronic and night guard played in her creation, remains unknown. Tare is now 23 years old as of 2026, although she has little idea what being “born” is supposed to mean for something like her.