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/bant/-tan, or Bantanna

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Gender/Physical Description: A medium-height, slim teenage girl. Her all-time messy, dirty blonde hair is tied in twintail. Her eyes are bloody red. Her usual clothing consists of comfortable things, usually wears a hoodie and some kind of tracksuit or skirt.

Personality/Habits/Hobbies/Behavior: She is a playful geek, proud of her autism like everyone on /bant/. She really likes playing board games and old vidya. Normally inoffensive and cheery in tone, she'll throw well-intentioned jabs and banter at people when the situtation calls as per fitting her namesake. Though not a person with a short fuse, if sufficently angered (usually by people ignoring her or making her feel uncomfortable), her tone turns towards something more remincient of her upbringing, throwing more sophisticated versions of the slurs her father makes ("Negro" versus "Nigger"). She dislikes porn and everything lewd in general like /pol/, but will only use her father's words for degeneracy when angered.

/Bant/ has a very creative imagination and likes playing with toys in her free time depicting popular board figures such as Cirno and Duke Nukem, and more original characters of her own design like Leaf Girl, Simon, and Borche. These are done on the backdrop of an imaginary kingdom, which also functions as a showcase of what she views as an ideal world: a realm of fantasy and cliches known as /bant/kingdom, with each board figure having its own role in correspondance to what she thinks their personalities are like. A handful of these characters include the following:

• Cirno, is an intellectually-challenged fairy only supported by likewise intellectually-challenged anons the Queen of /bant/. Her loyal knights form the core of /bant/'s defensive network, and she likes to make sure everyone remembers that she's queen by hanging her flag everywhere and surveying the populance. Few people know how to properly pronounce her name. It is contested whether the plural of Cirno is Cirnos or Cirnoes. As a toy, she was among the first aquired by /bant/ and one of her favorites and how she got into Japanese culture, but is sometimes mocked for her tastes by /jp/ and /[s4s]/.
• Simon, the maybe blobfish, maybe salamander person is mayor of Castle Town, though his role can shift as needed as he has plenty of skills! He longs for Leaf Girl, but she's in a stable relationship with an American, making him very sad. Something like a /bant/ version of wojak.
• Borche, a simple, good-natured farmer who likewise doubles as the captain of the guard. Defends /bant/ kingdom from evil STUPID forces like Pepe the Frog and Kogasa Tatara who are real jerks, and really, really hates frogs, extending to a general distrust of Apu. His favorite way to deal with threats is to burn them.
• Leaf Girl, the Canadian, a famous local known for both being very Canadian and having several conflicting rumors about her. Is she a foreign spy looking to overthrow Cirno as Queen of /bant/? A serial killing seductress wanted for her crimes seeking asylum? Or just a Canadian who knows how to cook a mean BBQ? Nobody knows, but she obliviously stole the heart of Simon. Only time will tell if she reflects his feelings for her.
• Duke Nukem, the original man with the balls of steel and simply known by many as The Duke. Tells foreigners trying to disrupt the peace to blow it up your ass, especially non-American ones. Isn't particularly loyal to the kingdom, but they're usually glad to have him whenever he successfully drives out a jerk or forced meme. Usually.
• Apu A deformed Pepe the frog that really wants frens. In a meta sense, Apu is a special case of /pol/ giving /bant/ a Pepe the Frog action figure with was unknowingly defective in the box. Though she hates Pepe as much as everything else /pol/, she saw something in the deformed creature and decided it had a new personality, one that isn't rude or abrasive but wanted friends, rejected by the Pepes for being defective in a not so subtle jab of /pol/'s ideology.
• Blepe, a being made to fight Pepe out of the visage of fellow Boy's Club character Brett. Originally among her first original characters, she gradually figured out that he was just a bad knock-off and as ugly as what he was meant to fight, and so he is featured less than he used to be.
• The /bant/ Plant, a potted plant chalked up to be a man-eating monster. Or maybe he's just Simon's pet? Another one of her original toys,
• The /bant/elope, a cheap antelope figurine that she used to substitute for horses and other beasts of burden befoer she could afford more toys. Occasionally still used out of nostolgia, but was never really popular to begin with.
• Gondola, one of her favorites and often used as a general citizen of the kingdom as well as a mount from which the Queen and her knights rides. Likes comfy situations, dislikes Spurdo.
• Spurdo Spärde, another toy given to her by /pol/, she found him too fun to dispose of and he frequently goes on adventures with the Queen as well as drives out enemy frogs. Is afraid to be left alone with Gondola.

Her interests extend to tabletop games like Risk and games of her own creation such as /bant/rpg and /bant/ Chan Boss raids (indicating that she has some skill programming and making games), liking controlling nations and kingdoms and capable of taking a short-term leadership role if needed, such as the time /bant/ united 4chan on PixelCanvas. She's significantly better at diplomacy than /pol/, probably because she is more interested in playing games than using them as a vehicle for her political opinions. Consumes anime on a casual level, but this is largely done to spite /pol/ and her knowledge tends to be spotty compared to someone like /a/. She also plays both old-school DOS games and more casual modern .io games such as PixelCanvas and MooMoo, and used her programming and leadership abilities to disrupt the former with the help of /jp/, /mlp/, /b/, and even /pol/ before losing ground to dirty communists in one of the few friendly interactions with her father.

Like /pol/ and /[s4s]/, /bant/ believes in meme magic.

Her story: She came into being shortly after the destruction of /mlpol/; /pol/ initially wanted her to be a replacement for the late board, but being who he is failed in swaying her to adopt his views. She strongly dislikes him for this and has adopted a few mannerisms and interests in order to deliberately be the opposite of /pol/'s projected visions and occasionally steals his GETs to further spite him. She thinks that many of /pol/'s pet projects like Kekistan are stupid. Despite this this, she still has small traces of her father such as knowing all the right ethnic and racial slurs if she wants to go beyond banting to being really offensive, generally reserving them for legitimate fits of rage.

Relationships: She is a child of /pol/, but isn't happy to admit it, despising her father and everything related to him. /pol/ moves his threads to /bant/ in effort to make /bant/-tan more like him, but this is rarely met with a warm reaction. One of the few positive things she inherited from /pol/ was the ability to play strategy games and think objectivley. Her mother is unknown and /pol/ refuses to answer the question who she is. It is speculated that she is /int/, but no one can tell for sure.

She’s good friends with Keksandra, the two meeting when /[s4s]/ walked into /bant/- during a session of /bant/ Kingdom searching for GETs, noticing all the potential memes she's playing with, including the Cirno, which is how /bant/ learned about GETs and KoG. The two play make-believe with each other, with Keksandra bringing in her own toys and occasionally ruining things because she's at times too weird for /bant/. When it comes to GET gathering they treat themselves as friendly rivals.

/bant/-tan initially saw /mlp/ as weird like most people do, and the fact that she dislikes ponies (/pol/ tried to make her into /mlpol/2) only enforced it, but the two found positive relations and common ground in certain activities, making /mlp/ one of the adults that /bant/ is able to be herself with. /bant/ makes /mlp/ feel nostolgic.

/bant/ knows of /jp/ and was given an introduction into Japanese culture by her, but is often decried as a secondary by the latter. /jp/ is willing to tolerate her as she's one of the few other boards that shares an interest in Touhou, trying to get her to play the actual games.

/vr/ taught her how to play shooters and other old video games and she will sometimes be seen co-opting with him when she has nothing better to do. /tg/ is in a similar situation in that she will play tabletop games with him when she can, but when comitting to a role-playing game her characters tend to be well-played, but cliched ones with a habit of reusing them for different campaigns with minor changes and ocassionally dropping out of long-term campaigns.

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  /bant/-tan meeting Apu
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  /bant/-tan meeting Cirno