Howdy Pillar 📞💚

Clown has confirmed that Howdy was a fuzzy caterpillar. Clown didn't discard the possibility of Howdy becoming a butterfly. Howdy had four handkerchiefs to blow his nose into if he cried, one for each hand. Howdy believed that everything can be resolved if you put it in a can. He was not good at baking and cooking, he was too bossy to others in the kitchen. Howdy just cried when someone stole from him. Howdy was a great actor. Unfortunately, he always used Sally's plays to advertise his products in the middle of the act. If there was a beach in Home, Howdy would have tried to sell piles of sand. He was decent at dancing and worked his counter very well. He could dance people out to the door. Howdy was one of the neighbors that broke the fourth wall during the "Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours!" Storybook Record, talking directly to the Narrator. If the Welcome Home puppets meet the Muppets, Clown thinks that Howdy would like the Cookie Monster because of how high his tab on the shop would get and how challenging it would be to keep him happy as a customer. If he had been in the world of Splatoon, he would have liked special weapons like the Tacticooler that dispense products like beverages for the team, but he would have preferred to not participate during battles. Clown also described their own take in a Welcome Home x Alice in Wonderland AU. Howdy would be the one to take the role of the Queen of Hearts instead of the Caterpillar in this universe, and Sally would take the Caterpillar role instead. Clown explains that this is because of their personality. Howdy likes being in charge and being his own boss, not wanting to deal with small talk and thinking a verdict is much easier in order to get back to business. He would wear a crown over his paper hat. Howdy normally eats leaves for breakfast.

Howdy's name, along with the naming conventions of his cousins/siblings were possibly taken inspiration from Howdy Doody, an American children's program. Howdy's voice has been described as very fast paced and confident, much like a salesman trying to sell you something. It was compared with the voice of the Radio from the Brave Little Toaster but with a Transatlantic accent. It took SynthCharmVA 20 takes to get Howdy's parts right in the "12-14-hb" video because of all the names and the rhyming of the dialogue. Howdy was first conceptualized in October 2020. In old concept art he only had two arms and legs instead of four. His color palette was also different. He didn't have a favorite food and used to just eat healthy greens. However, he was pretty fond of strawberry ice cream soda. His favorite type of cheesecake was "Cherry Ghirardelli". Howdy's favorite type of coffee was Dark Roast because it's stronger on taste, without sugar and only with a bit of some creamer. His favorite color was teal. All the favorite colors of every neighbor put next to each other forms a rainbow. Howdy played the triangle. Howdy enjoyed jokes, especially when feeling down. He also had an easy laugh. There didn't seem to be an actual currency in the neighborhood. He didn't demand financial compensation for his goods and Howdy was usually paid with jokes, riddles, poems and the like. Barnaby's jokes always met the price tag, even if Howdy heard them before. However, if the jokes were about his shop, he didn't understand them and he would even get offended by them. Howdy was glad to give discounts if people worked to gain them. All neighbors had a very good grasp on maths, but Howdy was perhaps the most mathematical of the bunch. Despite having four legs, he never tripped before. He was also pretty fast. Howdy never got bored in his shop. He had a lot of things there and he was always humming, working, cleaning or organizing stuff.

Howdy was one of the taller Neighbors, standing at 7 or 8 feet tall [3]. He had four arms and legs, green fleece skin, and blue hair styled into a pompadour. He had a large red nose, two red and yellow striped antennae, and small eyebrows. He was often drawn wearing a rainbow hat, a striped blue button-up with white cuffs and a rounded collar, a plain red tie, cuffed red pants, brown work shoes, and a scalloped orange gradient apron adorned with a name badge.

Species:Caterpillar. Gender:Male. Height: 7-8 feet.

"Howdy Pillar is Welcome Home's friendliest and happiest shopkeeper! This colorful caterpillar knows his store like the back of his hands, which is impressive considering how many hands he has. Charismatic, quick-witted, and remarkable jolly, Howdy always seems to have whatever his neighbors need with a price that just can't be beat!"

"Howdy was a small time caterpillar who wanted to start his own business, of which he accomplished in Home as a much larger caterpillar. His grocery store was named Howdy's Place, of which Barnaby was their most loyal customer. Howdy was said to have originated from an apple core in a tree alongside his plentiful brothers and sisters, many of whom Howdy would offhandedly mention a plethora of by name throughout the show's run.

Illustrated material typically depicted Howdy standing behind the counter and at the open window along the side, especially when he is a part of skits with other residents. Howdy is rarely seen in the neighborhood sets beyond special occasions, with one of the only other instances being to visit or deliver goods to Poppy himself.

Howdy would often exchange goods for funny jokes, silly observations, one-dollar ideas, and unique gadgets. Noted formerly as being his favorite customer, Barnaby would often appear regularly at Howdy's Place. He would supply Howdy with a daily laugh in exchange for a hot dog. As such, old scripts would provide strange language to describe the various ways Howdy would prepare this hot dog, such as “paint a bow-wow red and yellow in the winter and make sure it got legs,” or “a full house with a couple of bloodhounds.” Howdy's puppet was rotated between a live-hand puppet and a walk-around puppet in order to keep him in frame with his fellow residents. In the storybook record, "Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours," it is implied that Howdy's antennae may have a mechanic that allowed them to move."

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