this is the best day of my life
TACOOOO MY BABYYYYY
Taco sketches + closeups!! I drew these a couple weeks ago and posted them on my AO3 doodle-book, and I wrote lore for it back then too! Let me just copy-paste what I wrote there :3 (warning its very long)
ANYWAYS BRAINROT LORE IDEA DUMP:
when Mephone4 was coming up with the idea of a villain, he always saw red to be perceived as bad, so to sneak in little easter eggs that he thought was smart, he gave her red tomato earrings that have been the only consistent part of her clothing from S1-S2. In S1, he had her wearing a bunch of greens and yellows because those seem like happy colors right!! and her blonde hair was much more golden and bright blonde in S1 too. (this is meant to be hairdye, as her natural hair is the dull blonde)
now get this angst idea: he saw cobs as a villain in his eyes, so thats why he created her with the yellows and greens as her primary outfit in S1. because cobs didnt seem evil, and it slowly snuck up on you, and hes got yellow and green as his primary color palette right?? (in the human au hes got dirty blonde hair and a green suit with green eyes) so he took partial inspiration from TV and partial inspiration from cobs.
basically, in his mind, red seems like the obvious villain color. and green and yellow are the happy colors. but cobs had green and yellow and he was still evil right? so thats how he got the idea for a twist villain!
I like to imagine that mephone definitely had the 'reveal her as a villain' thing set in like an automatic code command. After she ran into the forest and the day ended, her coding registered the command, and she woke up the next day wearing those clothes out of nowhere, and her natural dirty blonde roots were given the green light to start growing naturally. Also! being in the forest will definitely ruin the clothes, riiiight? so when she's up on the floaty thingy and taking over the challenge in ep 15, her clothes are obviously tarnished. but after reviving, she's wearing the SAME exact thing, but they're brand new. going to show how the 'villain' clothes were her coded default outfit. (btw for the hair, beforehand, he coded the golden blonde as hairdye and her natural hair growth was paused, and made it so once the villain reveal command registered, the dirty blonde was set to start growing naturally.)
and now after the finale, there's little things left and right that Taco notices and gets stuck on, like the exaggerated bright emerald green in her eyes, the way her teeth are naturally very sharp, and how her hair seems incredibly dull and bland looking- unlike some others who have dirty blonde hair, hers is unnaturally very very dull. of course, theres nothing wrong with this hair color, but she's severely insecure about it once she realizes it was coded apart of her villain characteristics. she sticks to wearing duller colors to not stand out, because she hates having eyes on her as she is now entirely self aware of what is going on (unlike before where everyone was kinda mindless lines of code at one point)
and the final nail in the coffin: when they all get restored and are standing right in front of cobs, Taco immediately notices how similar she looks to that man. they have the same hair, eyes, skin, demeanor, expressions, almost everything. she immediately is hit by a freaking bus of realization that she was based off a man as horrible as him, and that is one of the final blows for her mental health. It was bad enough that her entire existence and very being was based off a negative personality trait, it's even worse to know that she was created with cobs in mind.
oh no she’s sad :(
I'm gonna be soooo annoying about this show later today (lighthearted) (excited) (I'm shaking as I write this)
