"Toki Toki au Bibliotheque"

Artist: A. Hjelseth

Email: ahjelseth@trust-me.com

Website: http://ahjelseth.rydia.net/

Character's Story:
Professor J. Jenkins likes little girls. Not in that sort of way, mind you. He has just found them the most adept minds for the work he does. Little boys are too prone to running around and yelling. Adult men are too eager to prove themselves to the world. Adult women make the professor nervous. Little girls, with their attention to detail and fondness for tattling on ne’er-do-wells are just what the professor decides would be perfect in aiding him at the Neo-New York Main Library, in his categorizing and organizing. Unfortunately, little girls grow up to be adult women and Jenkins can’t stand the though of that so he creates 2K-TK or Toki Toki to help him out. He programs into her not only all the rules, regulations, and Dewey Decimals she will need to do her job, but also a vast store of poetry, plays, and famous literature to help people who visit the library find what they want more quickly. However, Toki Toki shortly surpasses the role he thinks she’d play in his life, becoming much more of a daughter figure. At her insistence, he creates Bęte, a dog, to lighten their workload even more. Bęte is essentially just a connection to the internet on a canine scale, able to search the web and find the exact resource a person might be looking for at amazing (even for the future) speeds. Professor Jenkins jokingly calls him their "little retriever".

Toki Toki has a hard time making friends because, frankly, a lot of kids find her somewhat creepy. I mean, look at those scary eyes. And she can remember all those book things. Ew. Who wants a friend like that when you’re a gossipy little fifth grader? Surely not the girls at the private academy she goes to. However, via the internet she has been able to make many acquaintances and friends whom she holds dear and respects. Despite the fact that she is an android programmed not to age, she longs for the day when she will be grown up and able to write like the people she so much admires from the past and the present. Unfortunately, Toki Toki was not made to create literature but only to repeat. She will never be able to do anything more than repeat what she knows.

Despite this, Toki Toki is very imaginative in formulating pranks to play on people who visit the library, especially the mean girls in her class who tease her. She delights in new practical jokes and through this makes friends with a hilarious boy named Henry Herbert who attends her school. Very clownish on their own, the two quickly become inseparable friends and utter hooligans, much to the professor’s open dismay and hidden amusement.

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