A character study of my current favorite character in general, backgroundy/ watercolor brush from the ask blog that-one-paintbrush! Sure, we know little about their backstory before the blog but we have enough and they're really interesting. How they've impacted the story/ lore overview: well for one they're paintbrushes biological father, though they died before painty was born. their cause of death was in a fight with torch, where torch had accidentally shoved them into a table, breaking their skull. fast forward years later in Canon to when the blog takes place and a magic anon brings the background to life for five asks. however due to the anons and painty missing them they're brought back as a permanent character named backgroundy. Little did the anons or paintbrush know that backgroundy is the reincarnation of Watercolor brush, though for quite awhile they don't have any memories. the waterfall and cliff in the pmv were both memories shown early on that they remembered. Eventually they have a run in with torch again since she possesses paintbrush in some situations. Rightfully upset and mad about their death, even though accidental, Bgy tries to stab torch while shes possessing paintbrush, only stopping because torch pointed out that it'd just hurt paintbrush and not her. She apologizes for what she'd done to watercolor brush but agrees to leave (also at this point we don't really know their backstory). awhile later paintbrush drinks the same thing yin and yang did to split in an episode of ii to make torch stop possessing/ taking control of them. Backgroundy leaves, not exactly willing to confront torch at that time. some anon guessed that backgroundy was Paintbrushes father and Torch, very awkwardly confirmed it the ask after. after that we got some asks with backgroundy and it was mostly anons trying to get them to reveal more of their past, which they refuse to do. however someone magic anoned them into their original object for an ask, if they hadn't, bgys identity before their death would have been revealed a lot more recently with the mindscape asks unless kit had planned to show them before that. I'm not great at going into this much detail let alone more so that's it for this part Why I chose to do a character study on her: For the more technical reason, her lore is interesting to me. The fact she started as a magic anon but became one of the two important non paintbrush characters, the other of course being torch. though to be fair, its mostly character bias for why I'm making this. Bgy is my #1 comfort character rn and one of my favorite characters overall. Their backstory is really cool and overall intriguing.
Arcoos I should submit the writing part of this for an assignment in English eventually- also I didn't go into it in the lore summery but they also had their signature forged by springy and work for him in their sleep, which is in part of the pmv (when their eyes are green)
