User blog:Izunna Nwogbo/My OC: Latke

Latke is a young boy (13 or 14 years old) in Gravity Falls that lives with his Great Uncle Ace and Great Aunt Ursula who promote their popular breakfast cereal Sugarfrosted UFOats™.



























 History

Early Life
Latke earned his nickname "Latke" due to an incident during his school’s potluck in the fifth grade involving potato pancakes. The details of the matter are his darkest secret and he doesn't like to talk about it.

Arrival in Gravity Falls
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Latke’s parents let him stay with his great uncle and aunt each summer in Gravity Falls. He gave Ace and Ursula the idea of putting prizes at the bottom of their cereal boxes and they put him in charge of that job. Latke uses this opportunity as an excuse to go searching for strange and wondrous curios in the forest. He also promotes the cereal by dressing up in a polyester costume of the mascot: a short light-blue alien with multicolor spots and a singular purple eye. Latke is also the newest employee in the Mystery Shack. <h3 class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Mystery Shack employment Latke first came to the Mystery Shack as a detective to get some answers out Mr. Mystery since he was one of the only few residents in town that knew of Stan's con-artist exploits. Fearing that he might get busted, Stan tried to deny all of Latke's suspicions but gave in and bribed the boy not to tell anyone by giving him a job at the shack. Due to Latke's curious personality, Stan gave him a whole new job called "Questioner" and standing at a booth giving slips of paper to customers with random questions on them for 10$ each.

<span style="font-size:18px;color:rgb(58,58,58);">Personality
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Big-hearted, slightly quirky, and a larger-than-life youth, Latke dares to follow in his Great Uncle’s footsteps and uncover the dark secrets of Gravity Falls as a clever detective. He is a savvy and courageous individual who posseses a youthful charm, precocious wit along with a sarcastic sense of humor, and fierce determination. Latke also has an occasional tendency to ask a lot of questions which annoys some people. He never sits back when he friends are at stake, or if he's sees others being bullied or treated unfairly.

Appearance
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Latke has shaggy black hair, brown eyes, and light skin. He wears a deep blue t-shirt with the Dusk-2-Dawn logo on it, yellow shorts with orange wave designs, and yellow shoes with white undersides.

Great Uncle Ace and Great Aunt Ursula
Ace is a retired detective, and Ursula is a retired daredevil. Both of them take pleasure in telling their great nephew about their glory days when they were in their prime.

Latke's Parents
Lolo and Kyle K. They send Latke to stay with Ace and Ursula each summer. Lolo is very overprotective of her son.

Dipper Pines
Latke and Dipper are best friends. They both crave adventure. Dipper, like Latke, is clever, but he prefers carefully calculating when it comes to mysteries rather than Latke's riskier hands-on approach.

Mabel Pines
Mabel and Latke are best friends. He thinks she's a walking soapbox of sugar, spice, and everything nice.

Grunkle Stan
Grunkle Stan and Latke occasionally snipe at each other. While Latke occasionally butts heads with Stan, he knows that his boss is truly a  twisted cantankerous cold-hearted ogre-faced numbskull sweet old man with a heart of  bronze gold.

Soos
Soos started working at the shack around Latke's age, so he often gives Latke pointers on working in the Mystery Shack.

Wendy Corduroy
Wendy and Latke are close friends. They both enjoy fooling around and share a dislike for Grunkle Stan's cheap ploys and crusty attitude. However, Latke is usually a more competent worker who is more committed to keeping his job.

Robbie
In contrast to Latke's excitement-hunger and charm; Robbie emanates sourness at a sickening level. Latke often calls Robbie out on his behavior which often cause the two to get into scraps. Latke sometimes calls him "Emo McAngstyPants".

Gideon Gleeful
Gideon can sense lots of hidden power stowed away in Latke, and often tries to convince him to work in the Tent of Telepathy. Latke stays away from Gideon as he finds him creepy, but is secretly intrigued by his offer.

Abilities
Latke is good at pieces puzzles together. He also tends to yank objects out of hammerspace and can keep multiple items in his pockets. Latke tends to break the fourth wall. He owns a  wristwatch that can fire purple laser-beams. It can also shoot yellowish-green tractor-beams.

Hangout
Latke's hangout is the inside of the Gravity Falls water tower. Though the tower looks normal on the outside, there is a hidden door that leads to the inside which looks like a big laboratory/rec room. Not only does it contain beanbag chairs, a refrigerator, and a flat-screen TV; but there is also a large computer with a built-in surveillance system of the town so Latke can keep track of things he's discovered in Gravity Falls.

0
<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;">During his first month in Gravity Falls, Latke was trekking through the forest when he discovered a cryptic journal marked "0" with a six-fingered gold hand on the cover. Though the journal contains information about spells, creatures, and artifacts of Gravity Falls, it mostly offers information about locations and other dimensions. The greatest supernatural ability 0 possesses is reality warping, but this power isn't fully or even halfway unlocked.

<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;">Pages from 0 include the following:


 * Teleportation
 * Realm of the Merpeople
 * Air Walking
 * Man Cave
 * Leprechauns
 * Crop circles
 * Minotaurs  Manotaurs!
 * Bottomless Pit
 * Banshees
 * Inter-dimensional Mirrors
 * Bill Cipher
 * Reality Warping

Trivia

 * Latke tends to (more or less) subtly break the fourth wall.
 * He comically pulls thing out of hammerspace habitually.

Quotes
"That's for me to know, and for you to stress over because I won't tell you."

- Latke

"Why do vending machines feel the need to eat people's money? I mean, they're already full of food. What's the point?"

- Latke

"You're the reason aliens won't contact planet Earth."

- Latke

"At first glance I don't look like much. Look again."

- Latke

"We'd love to hear more of your interesting story, but Disney only gave us a 22-minute running time"

- Latke breaking the fourth wall