User blog:Izunna Nwogbo/My OC: Latke

"Latke" K. is a young boy (13 or 14 years old) in Gravity Falls that lives with his parents who promote their popular breakfast cereal Sugarfrosted UFOats™. He doubles as a superhero in Gravity Falls.



























 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.

Growing up in Gravity Falls
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Latke gave his parents, Ace and Lolo, 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. <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 of 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.

<span style="font-size:18px;color:rgb(58,58,58);">Personality
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Daring, kind-hearted, restless, overly-curious, and selfless; Latke aspires to be a superhero in his hometown. Although he is prone to flights of fancy and borderline fourth-wall breakage, Latke is no slouch in the brains department and exhibits resourcefulness on numerous occasions. Along with his big heart, desire to help others, and arsenal of supernatural mind-boggling curios he finds day-to-day in the forest; Latke is never down for the count against the unknown mysteries that Gravity Falls has in store.

Appearance
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Latke is a good-looking young man with 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 on the cuffs, a shiny silver belt with a square buckle displaying an "L", and coffee-brown shoes with white undersides.

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

The entire roof of the water tower is able to open up like a hatch, in response to Latke's ejecting-chair function.

Superhero Factor
Latke's shiny silver belt marked with an "L" contains his superhero costume, and by extension, his powers. Whenever the "L" is clicked, the suit is applied to Latke's body. The suit can disguise itself as a regular purple zipper hoodie that Latke can wear.

Latke's Parents
Lolo and Ace K. Lolo is very over-protective of her son.

Dipper Pines
Latke and Dipper are good friends and they both crave adventure. Dipper, like Latke, is clever, but he usually prefers carefully calculating mysteries rather than Latke's riskier hands-on approach.

Mabel Pines
Mabel and Latke are good 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.

Trivia

 * Latke has a big sweet tooth.
 * Latke tends to (more or less) subtly break the fourth wall.

Quotes
"Hi, the name's Latke. By this point you might be wondering why I'm named after a fried potato cake. Well, pull up a chair and I'll explain as much as I can..."

- 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