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Canonically, his name is Hatsune Luis. GF doesn't have a canonical name, outside of her relationship nickname, but I like to think her name is Vanessa Fearest and her parents are Evan and Cassidy Fearest, because it's funny. 129K subscribers in the FridayNightFunkin community. The official unofficial subreddit for Friday Night Funkin', the ...
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Boyfriend is a young, light-skinned man with spiky cyan hair and a confident expression. He wears a magenta-white T-shirt with a red prohibition sign, baggy dark blue pants, pink-red sneakers with magenta-white shoelaces and soles as well as black dots on the quarters, and a backward pink-red cap with a dark blue brim. He holds a bluish gray microphone in his right hand while keeping his left hand in his pocket, and is drawn in a chibi style.
During Week 4, his hair is blown around as a result of standing on a moving car.
During Week 5, he wears a red parka with white fur, light blue pants and light brown snow boots, to suit the Christmas theme.
During Week 6 and as the opponent of the unused song Test, his regular appearance is brightened and rendered in pixel art style. He also moves his microphone differently.
Boyfriend is portrayed as a young, overzealous rapper with a love for music, donuts and his girlfriend. He loves to sing and show off his skills, resulting in his confident and cocky character. He is very determined and persistent on reaching his goals and won't let anyone get in the way of his success, even when threatened with death.
Boyfriend is implied to be clingy, as he is never seen without Girlfriend by his side. He is also very stupid, which, when mixed with his overconfidence, results in him being essentially fearless. This is demonstrated during both Monster and Winter Horrorland, where he does not appear to be afraid despite Monster's constant threatening of him and Girlfriend. Despite this, he has street smarts as he knows how to heal people. Boyfriend also shows that he gets bored of scary games, as he once almost fell asleep while playing one.
Parents
Boyfriend's parents seem to be willing to make sacrifices for him, as they floated him the entry fees for public college. However, based on the fact that Boyfriend simply stopped showing up to class so he could instead read comics in the library all day, he may not be very interested in or appreciative of the things that his parents want or do for him.
Ritz The Rat
Ritz The Rat is Boyfriend's brother. The two of them both enjoy singing and rapping. In art by MKMaffo, the two are depicted as the best of friends, though the canonicity of the art is debatable.
Girlfriend
Girlfriend is Boyfriend's partner. The two love each other very much and are never apart. Boyfriend is determined to do whatever he can to stay with Girlfriend and protect her, including by singing off against her parents and others. Their closeness is shown when Boyfriend happily catches Girlfriend and receives a hug from her during the cutscene for Stress thanks to true love.
General
•ninjamuffin99 has stated that Boyfriend's name is simply Boyfriend. Before this confirmation, fans frequently speculated about the character's actual name; such conjecture persisted even after due to the unconventional nature of the name "Boyfriend". •Following the onset of speculation, ninjamuffin99 teased the fandom by tossing out random names for Boyfriend and other characters on Twitter and TikTok. Among the false names commonly circulated by fans are: •Keith (from TikTok. As this was the initial one uttered by ninjamuffin99, it became the most prevalent counterfeit name adopted by fans.) •Evan (from TikTok, based on misheard lyrics from the song Monster.) •Luis (from Twitter, named after Newgrounds artist Luis Castañon.) •Cam (from Twitter, based on ninjamuffin99's real name, Cameron. It was commonly used after becoming the first result when searching for Boyfriend's name on Google). •Jack (from TikTok). •There are currently two opening lines in the introduction sequence for Friday Night Funkin' that explicitly disconfirm two of these names: "His name isn't Evan, silly TikTok" and "His name isn't Keith, dumb eggy lol." •ninjamuffin99 also made a TikTok pleading with people to stop calling him Keith, saying, "His name, his name isn't Keith, it's not Keith. I'm, I'm sick of seeing everyone calling him Keith." Despite this, he has stated on Reddit that people can call Boyfriend whatever they want. •The color of Boyfriend's shoes and jeans were decided by PhantomArcade, whereas the prohibition sign on his shirt was a design choice by evilsk8r. •Boyfriend is tied with Girlfriend and Spirit for having the least tracks out of any character in Friday Night Funkin', having one each. •Boyfriend originally had magenta hair instead of cyan blue, revealed in early concept sketches of Boyfriend released by PhantomArcade. •Additionally, his shoelaces were originally blue instead of white. •Boyfriend has the most unused animations out of any character in Friday Night Funkin'. •While Boyfriend's singing voice is provided by Kawai Sprite, the game's composer, Boyfriend's groan after losing a battle was provided by PhantomArcade, the game's main artist and animator. •PhantomArcade also confirmed that he will be voicing more sound effects for Boyfriend. Additionally, he stated that Boyfriend's canon voice will probably end up being the one used in Fresh (Boyfriend Remix). •Boyfriend makes a cameo appearance in Sr Pelo's animation "Spooky Month 3 - Unwanted Guest" as a background plushie. He also makes a cameo in "Spooky Month 5 - Tender Treats," in which a trick-or-treater is dressed as him. The Spooky Month series is also where Skid and Pump originate from. •At the end of most of his turns in Bopeebo and, as of the Week 7 update, his first two turns in Tutorial, Boyfriend will briefly strike a V-sign pose. •Boyfriend has variants of his V-sign pose for Week 4, Week 5 and Week 6, although they all go unused. •Like Girlfriend, Boyfriend is afraid of lightning, as shown in Week 2. Whenever lightning strikes, Boyfriend will briefly wince and shudder. •In the Game Over screen, Boyfriend is revealed to be slouching his knees, adding to his small appearance. •Even when he isn't slouching and when Girlfriend isn't wearing her heels, she is still taller than him. •A Reddit comment by PhantomArcade implies that Boyfriend and Girlfriend appear very short as a symbol of their innocence. •Boyfriend's original icons in the Ludum Dare prototype and older versions of the Newgrounds demo consisted of a small yellow circle with a yellow cap, blue eyes and a smiling mouth. In the Week 4 update, his icons were replaced with a blue mouthless head that more closely resembles Boyfriend. Pressing "9" during any track will cause Boyfriend's new icons to be replaced with his old ones again. •There is a 1 in 1000 chance for the pause menu or Game Over screen of Friday Night Funkin' to change to resemble that of Gitaroo Man, in which Boyfriend's head (drawn by Newgrounds artist Wandaboy) will appear over a message saying "Replay this game?". •It has been noted that Boyfriend's attire, from his red prohibition sign T-shirt, blue pants, and red and white shoes, is strikingly similar to that of a character from a 2009 Flash animation by Newgrounds user Zarla around the 1:52 mark. •In a Reddit AMA, PhantomArcade confirmed that the similarities are purely coincidental. •Another character resembling Boyfriend appears in an episode of the 1994 animated series Mega Man. The character, named Bobby, wears a backward red cap and a red prohibition sign T-shirt; moreover, the two characters have slightly similar names and personalities. •The concept of Pico being Boyfriend's ex-boyfriend started out as a headcanon within the Friday Night Funkin' fandom after the release of Week 3. This headcanon gathered so much traction that Tom Fulp, the creator of Pico, Tweeted jokingly that it was "official Pico 2 canon," leading people to believe that it was true. ninjamuffin99 initially said that this was a joke, but later changed his mind and confirmed it was canon. •On the 1st of April, 2021, Tom Fulp updated the original Pico's School game for April Fools' Day, ending with Pico revealing to Cassandra that he and Boyfriend are a couple and everyone at his school accepts them. The day after, this version would be released as a separate game set in an alternate timeline called Pico's School: Love Conquers All. As Pico and Boyfriend's relationship was portrayed in a positive light, the game indicated Tom Fulp's approval of the idea of them once having been a couple. •On the 22nd of May, 2022, JohnnyUtah uploaded a piece of artwork depicting a much more muscular and seemingly older Boyfriend next to a surprised Girlfriend. PhantomArcade has confirmed that he will find a way to officially implement it into Friday Night Funkin'. •Comments made when the image was uploaded to Twitter revealed that the muscular Boyfriend is from an alternate timeline where he was forced to kill Girlfriend in order to save the timeline and the future, and that the Girlfriend in the image is actually a blow-up doll dressed to look like her that he's kept as a companion since the incident. •As shown on an old model sheet created in November 2020, Boyfriend initially sported an emblem on his hat reminiscent of the "angry faic" emoticon found on Newgrounds. However, Boyfriend's model sheet underwent an update shortly thereafter, and this emblem no longer features on any official rendition of him. •That same model sheet unveiled that initially, the brim of Boyfriend's cap was severely askew, slanting sharply to the left. Presently, however, the brim is entirely straight.
Lore
•The reason why Boyfriend and Girlfriend began dating is not because of their names, but because they thought of each other as being cute. •Boyfriend is bisexual. •Boyfriend knows a lot of fingerboard tricks, and it's one of the reasons he won Girlfriend's heart. •Boyfriend has a dog who lives at his parents' house, with his mom taking care of the dog. •Boyfriend's favorite Newgrounds game is Newgrounds Rumble. •Boyfriend loves donuts the most out of all the Friday Night Funkin' characters. •Boyfriend likes Brisk iced tea and milk. •Boyfriend likes drinkable yogurt. Girlfriend is sometimes really nice and gets him some; if she gets him 5 of them, he will drink them so fast that he starts choking because he isn't swallowing fast enough, and he then spits it all over her face. Girlfriend buys them for him anyway because she loves him. •Boyfriend's hair is not dyed and is naturally cyan blue. •One of Tankman's Game Over quotes pokes fun at this fact, as he questions (and mocks) the nature of his hair color, stating, "I guess your shitty blue hair dye got in your eyes. It's okay, it happens to all of us." •PhantomArcade has stated that "Tankman claims his hair is dyed to be a condescending asshole, in reality[,] it's naturally blue." •Boyfriend's beeping noises are not a language; however, when he "speaks" in musical tones, he means to communicate actual words. As such, what he means to say is shown through written text in official media, such as his speech bubble in the non-canon Monster's Head-Canon comic or the subtitles of the FNF Erect Mode Sampler video on YouTube. •In 2020, ninjamuffin99 stated that Ritz The Rat was "canonically" Boyfriend's brother, as he and Kawai Sprite worked on both Friday Night Funkin' and Ritz, making the two developers "fathers together." As an in-universe explanation, ninjamuffin99 described this in 2021 as a Stuart Little situation. However, in 2023, ninjamuffin99 instead stated that Ritz being Boyfriend's brother is a "light headcanon" for the same reason as before. •Boyfriend is neurodivergent, as he has ADHD and autism. •Boyfriend likes to listen to music by Kanye West. •Boyfriend and Girlfriend cannot be hypnotized or mind-controlled into not loving each other. Their love for each other is practically the only thing that occupies their minds, and they would die without it. •Boyfriend doesn't know what the Pizzagate conspiracy theory is. •Boyfriend barely understands the concept of race. •Boyfriend does not wash his clothes. He keeps a pile of dirty clothes on his desk chair where he goes to make music; when he wakes up, he puts the clothes on his bed, and when he goes to bed, he puts them on his chair. •Boyfriend acts extremely enthusiastically when Girlfriend cooks him dinner, which is PB&J sandwiches. •Boyfriend and Girlfriend's favorite "animal" is a Hominid, not realizing that a Hominid isn't an actual animal. •Boyfriend can't read fast enough to watch subtitled anime, which makes everyone around him concerned that he is lying and possibly can't read at all. •Not much is known about Boyfriend's parents. In a 2021 Reddit AMA, ninjamuffin99 stated that Boyfriend's parents work in accounting. However, when someone called them his "accountant parents" in a donation message during a 2022 live stream by PhantomArcade, the latter seemed confused, suggesting that ninjamuffin99's comment was a random joke and not canon. •Early on in the development of Friday Night Funkin', the VOCALOID Hatsune Miku was stated to be Boyfriend's sister by ninjamuffin99. During a live stream, PhantomArcade elaborated by explaining that Miku was no longer a teenager in Friday Night Funkin' and was therefore the older sister. He also said that the developers were trying to talk to Crypton Future Media, Inc. to get the rights to Miku. However, during a later Twitter Space, PhantomArcade said that although he reached out to Piapro and Crypton, having Miku officially appear in Friday Night Funkin' was ultimately not up to him, suggesting that the FNF team tried and failed to convince the rights owners to license Miku to them. This, combined with the fact that the developers have not discussed Miku in relation to FNF since then, may mean that her being the sister of Boyfriend is a scrapped concept and no longer canon. •Although Boyfriend reps Newgrounds, he made a YouTube account and got advertisements enabled on it. Since he hates working part-time jobs, he uploads 3D videos of sex in Roblox to make money on the side. Despite the videos being age-restricted, he profits from the videos based on the views and CPM and uses the money to buy cigarettes, implying that he likes to smoke. •Boyfriend's favorite burger order is a burger from In-N-Out Burger with jalapeños, pepper Jack cheese and the Animal Style spread. •Boyfriend and Girlfriend like Neon Genesis Evangelion, but only the scenes where things fight, as they are too unintelligent to understand the plot. •Boyfriend hates the movie Cars with a passion. •If he sees a poster for Planes, he throws up wherever he's standing. Sometimes, when he accidentally swallows things around the house that he's not supposed to, Girlfriend simply shows him the Planes poster, and they immediately get back whatever they're missing. •Boyfriend likes to go to a Brazilian wax factory that costs exactly 1 dollar. Although they do an awful job and painfully rip all of his pubic hair off, it's really cheap, and he has fun each time he does it. •Whenever Boyfriend fails a song and gets "blue-balled," Girlfriend holds his hand until he feels better. Girlfriend is obliged to kneel to hold Boyfriend's hand due to being taller than him. •Boyfriend is irreligious. •Boyfriend is circumcised, described by PhantomArcade as being a "cut king." His foreskin was apparently cut off due to an incident involving a car door. •Boyfriend owns a copy of PaRappa the Rapper 2 that he bought from Goodwill. •Boyfriend can easily defeat Darth Vader, but he can't beat Goku. •In a situation involving Girlfriend and Boyfriend meeting Darth Vader, he would see Darth Vader coming ominously. Darth Vader would have his lightsaber out, and all of a sudden, Girlfriend would start charging up in the background. Darth Vader would sense an ominous force and would start to get a chill within his suit; he would pull out his lightsaber and make sure he's ready to completely try to take on whatever's about to come at him. Boyfriend would then slam his microphone into the Fisher-Price control panel on his chest, leading to Darth Vader freaking out, coughing and dying. Boyfriend and Girlfriend would then start hopping on his back and beating him up, yanking on his helmet and smacking his bald, crispy head around. •In a fight between Boyfriend and Goku, Goku would rip Boyfriend's skin off, but as long as Boyfriend had his hand for Girlfriend to hold, he would still have the retry screen. •Boyfriend uses $100 Android-based monthly card payment phones. He also gets angry at the poor-quality 3G Wi-Fi and drops the phones from 5-story buildings onto incoming traffic out of frustration. Whenever they crash, he throws them 200 feet off his roof; an example is him drawing PictoChat-esque penis pictures on his Samsung Galaxy before its 5 kilobytes of free space crash it, leading to him throwing the phone off the roof instinctively. •If he got a better phone, he would accidentally set facial recognition and forget the strange face that he made, failing repeatedly as a result. He would also hold it outside a Greyhound window to film a video, and a gust of wind would knock it out of his hands, with the phone then flying underneath the front tires of an 18-wheeler truck, leading to the truck flipping. •If X (better known as Sonic.exe) ever tried to mess with Boyfriend and Girlfriend, he could trap them in a nightmare dimension for all eternity, but if he mentioned there's no McDonald's, they would immediately kill him and escape. If there was a McDonald's, they would presumably stay. •If there was a McDonald's but its ice cream machine was broken permanently, they would be fine with just being given the sweetener milk bags that go in the machine instead. •If they were told that there was no Burger King, they might actually prefer the nightmare dimension to reality. •When Boyfriend and Girlfriend go to McDonald's, they normally get whatever they can pressure the window clerk to give them for free. They hold the store hostage, stealing Mommy Mearest's limousine and holding up the entire drive-through slot. •If the McDonald's were to have no Chicken McNuggets included with the Happy Meal, they would start yanking all the iron bolts and screws out of the PlayPlace. •Boyfriend wears his prohibition sign shirt because, according to ninjamuffin99, it looks cool. •He also wears it because he is a "cool as fuk smooth ass bitch" with "nothin but style." •When Boyfriend and Girlfriend sign up for a driver's license test, they use a fake ID, and they crash into trees and run away. As a result, the Henchmen are stuck driving Mommy Mearest's Porsche back, and she tears the Henchmen's fingernails and eyelashes off.[100] •Boyfriend and Girlfriend need fake IDs because they don't want the police called on them; they go to the same DMV every few months.[101] •Boyfriend may have a drool fetish, as he seems happy to be drooled on by Girlfriend's drool after she puts his Nendoroid figure in her mouth. •When Boyfriend texts Girlfriend to ask if she wants Chick-fil-A, he knows to get extra Polynesian Sauce once she starts sending nudes.[102] •In the wintertime, when Boyfriend and Girlfriend look away from each other for more than 10 minutes and then look back toward each other, they hold their arms out wide and run toward each other to hug each other, as their object permanence is sometimes not very good. Sometimes they will go to kiss and accidentally bump into a cold pole and kiss it, and both get their tongues stuck to it for hours. The fire department even knows them by name. •If Girlfriend became a worm, Boyfriend would still love her. While it would impact their love lives and change things, they could get used to it. Boyfriend would also figure out a way to change her back, even if it took him a decade.[103] •Boyfriend rides a Lime electric scooter that he rented with the app and never returned, and he is dodging the debt collectors on it. He signed up for Lime with a temporary e-mail address, and he simply can't be found.[104] •Boyfriend and Girlfriend have a poor concept of time, so occasionally they get really freaked out at night upon realizing that their local McDonald's is not open 24/7. When they see that it is closed, they think it is closed down, as the lights are off and no one is there. This scares them greatly, so they stay up all night holding each other and watching movies, trying to forget about it, and they can't sleep. The next morning, they go to McDonald's just to double check, and when they see people are working there again, they breathe out in happiness and go to order $20 worth of food using dimes in their pockets.[105] •Boyfriend is a grower, not a shower.[106] •Boyfriend sometimes wears coats during the summer.[107] •Boyfriend currently lives in a building resembling the real-life Newgrounds office in Glenside, Pennsylvania.[108] This building is not where Newgrounds operates out of in-universe, as it is a dingy apartment complex rather than a studio.[109]
Inspirations
•According to PhantomArcade in a Tweet, one of the core inspirations for Friday Night Funkin' is the 1981 anime adaptation of the manga Urusei Yatsura.[110] Boyfriend is presumably based on the series' main character Moroboshi Ataru, who has a powerful girlfriend named Lum, whom Girlfriend is presumably based on in turn. Lum's blue hair also inspired Boyfriend's hair color. •Boyfriend is supposed to represent issues that PhantomArcade had at 19 years old.[111] •When PhantomArcade was 19 years old, his partner's father told him to turn off the Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth music that he was listening to because it was "fruity." The father then played AC/DC music on a guitar. PhantomArcade described this as "a story about the unique dynamics within relationships that inspired the game, and why [Boyfriend and Girlfriend] are that age."[112] •Boyfriend is a self-insert of PhantomArcade, as stated by the latter during a live stream. •Boyfriend was loosely inspired by early Cartoon Network shows like Dexter's Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls.[113] •Boyfriend is similar to PaRappa in some ways and may be inspired by the latter. Like PaRappa, Boyfriend is passionate about rap music, is always seen with a cap and engages in rap battles in order to impress his love interest. •Boyfriend may be based on b-boy characters used by graffiti artists. B-boys and graffiti art represent and descend from hip-hop culture, with graffiti and street art being closely linked with breakers and breaking since the 1980s.[114] Other aspects of Friday Night Funkin' and its art appear to also be influenced by graffiti and street art.
1.For years, Newgrounds users speculated that Pico and his friends were around 10–14 years old during the events of Pico's School and Pico 2, but Tom Fulp confirmed that all of the main characters of Pico's School were high school seniors (approximately 16–18 years old). Although Fulp later retconned this with the statement that "Pico and his frien...
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2.framework (November 20, 2022). "FNF work, it leaked, no point in hidin' it" (30:58). From YouTube.
3.https://twitter.com/PhantomArcade3K/status/1338765717529907201 Tweet] made in December 2020 by PhantomArcade, Boyfriend and Girlfriend were stated to be 19 years old. In a Tweet made in February 2021 by PhantomArcade, the two characters were stated to be 20 years old. It is unclear if PhantomArcade was confused in the later Tweet, if the two being 19 years old was retconned, or if Boyfriend and Girlfriend have no specific age and only a range. However, in a live stream PhantomArcade did in April 2022, he stated that Boyfriend and Girlfriend are 19 again. As the two have been stated to be 19 more often than not, the one instance of them being stated to be 20 may have been a mistake.
4.ninjamuffin99 (February 14, 2021). "boyfriend lovs donuts". From "wake up babe new ninjamuffin99 ama" on Reddit.
5.The Funkipedia (August 11, 2021). "BF and GF are idiots". From YouTube.
6.PhantomArcade (October 23, 2021). "They're both dumb as hell. But let me put it like this. GF knows how to file taxes, and BF knows what to do if you accidentally shoot a bullet into your thigh and can't afford a hospital visit.". From "PhantomArcade AMA" on Reddit.
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Because I refuse to believe that Boyfriend is 7 ft tall, Girlfriend being at 8 ft tall, and Daddy Dearest being 14 ft tall! 14!! THE MAN WOULDN'T EVEN FIT IN A HOUSE!!!! So unfortunately this is going to have to be the only Canon I'm going to have to break, Yourself and Herself are the only exceptions.
Boyfriend currently lives in a building resembling the real-life Newgrounds office in Glenside, Pennsylvania. This building is not where Newgrounds operates out of in-universe, as it is a dingy apartment complex rather than a studio. Boyfriend does not have a 6-pack; he is described as having a slight tummy at times. Inspirations
Original Boyfriend "speaks" in beeps and bops, much like in the vanilla FNF (although canonically if he can speak only that he does not want to). For some reason, Original Boyfriend does not have a losing icon in this mod. Within the entire Chapter, he appears to be calm about the situation at hand.
Your wits have to be sharper than a knife if you don't want to be on the wrong end of one thrown by Nene. After chasing Pico down a alleyway, she sits on A-Bot and readies her knife, so Pico better hit those notes! Hank J. Wimbleton is an upcoming character for Friday Night Funkin' . Hank is a character from the series Madness Combat.
Red sun, red sun over paradise Red sun, red sun over paradise Golden rays of the glorious sunshine Sending down such a blood-red light Now, the animals slowly retreat to the shadows, out of sight Arid winds blow across the mountains Giving flight to the birds of prey In the distance machines come to transform Eden, day by day Only love is with us now Something warm and pure Find the peace ...
