TOby

TOby
Species	Ragdoll
Age	Unknown
Gender	Male
Introduced	Page 50
Current Whereabouts	Falling from a pier, at the bottom of a pier

"Oh, hell. It's the idiot box."

TOby (Pronounced "Too-bee", not "Toe-bee") is first introduced in page 50 of Chapter 3: Soft Focus. He has a liking for making cunning comebacks, but mostly remains reluctant to engage in pleasant small talk. As a doll, he is unable to move, so the wind often ends up pushing his upper body to the ground.

Story

Pre-comic

TOby was once one of RGB's "Heroes", but no longer since being torn into twenty pieces and then stitched back together with his own nerves, presumably for resisting "Her", and then set up to watch over the Endless Deep.

In-comic

Hero and RGB find TOby having fallen over at his post while the two sought out the Ferryman. Hero quickly propped him back up before setting off to build a bridge of books, while RGB subjected him to a series of time-related puns. He questions RGB's dedication to his task, reminding him of his own fate, and then warns Hero she will not survive as she leaves.

TOby is next seen reacting to the restored sun in the sky, and then is promptly knocked over by the wind again. Dial later comes to confront him for "lying down on the job", and informing him he's going to be relocated. He offers the doll the chance to "give up", which TOby jokingly accepts and then refuses, before then dropping him into the abyss.

TOby is currently still falling , although when Time cut forward through time we saw TOby land at the bottom of the pier

Appearance

He has purple hair, a brown stitched shirt and orange shorts. Underneath, he has green and black striped arms and legs, which attach to brown mitten-like hands and rectangular feet. He is unable to change his expression, and has a permanent wide eye smile. His pupils, however, can move freely to gaze at his surroundings.

Speech Bubble

He has a wispy lime green speech bubble, with no distinguished edges. Modmad's voicecanon for him is a Jamaican accent.

I especially love his smile

Human

We have very little information about the human TOby, other than that he is Jamaican, extremely deadpan (intensified by his sunglasses), and possesses a build described as "bara as hell".

Trivia

• As TOby is a ragdoll set up on a ledge made of books, he is literally a toy on a bookshelf.
• Participating in a meme, Mod stated that TOby smells like "that toy you hugged so much as a kid that it started to smell like you"
• Though TOby isn't as overtly antagonistic as Dial or the other antagonists, TOby represents hate in that he's bitter because he's forced to rely on other people and is unable to do anything on his own. He'd rather wallow in his own self-pity and make sarcastic, biting remarks because he just hates everyone else and can't stand that he can't do anything to change his situation.