Glep

Name: Glep
Age: (Adult)
Gender: Male

Glep is a critter; critters are one of the five main categories of intelligent life in the world of Smiling Friends, along with standard humans.

• Shape and color: It is a small, green, flattened, malleable creature shaped like a droplet or a melted cone. It has no neck or defined limbs; its arms and legs are very short.
• Face: It has large eyes with black pupils and a huge mouth that it often opens chaotically. It frequently sticks out its tongue and spits when it speaks.
• Iconic accessory: He always wears a purple wizard hat (conical style) that he never takes off.

• Lazy and addicted to screens: Spends most of his time sitting in his beanbag chair watching TV, playing retro video games, or mesmerized by his tablet. He hates being interrupted or asked to do housework.
• Irritable and explosive: Although he seems sweet and quiet, he has an extremely short temper. If you make him angry (for example, if you touch his beanbag or demand that he pay his share of the rent), he will react by screaming furiously, flailing his arms wildly, or biting ankles.
• Communicative but incomprehensible: He speaks a language of rapid babbling (Wingon). He expresses himself with a lot of energy and body language, making it (magically) that everyone who lives with him perfectly understands his level of sarcasm or annoyance.
• Secret party animal: He's much wilder than he seems. He loves loud electronic music, dancing wildly with his hips swaying, and occasionally exhibiting strangely mature behavior or throwing out short phrases in perfect Spanish.

🏛️ Ancient and Medieval Era (329 AD – 1347 AD)

• Birth (329 AD): Glep was born at a remote date in antiquity. Due to his extremely slow aging, he maintains the same small "Critter" appearance for centuries.
• The Fall of the Roman Empire (476 AD): After being caught stealing apples by Roman soldiers, the creature is brought before the emperor. Glep tries to save her life by performing her characteristic and frenetic dance. The dance horrifies and confuses the court so much that it directly causes the final collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
• The Black Death in England (1347 AD): Glep is wrongly accused of witchcraft by the locals after accidentally turning milk into yogurt. When confronted, he coughs in a citizen's face. This cough inadvertently triggers the massive outbreak of bubonic plague that devastated Europe.

🇺🇸 Colonization and Corporate Foundation (1777 – 1995)

• The Founding Fathers (1777): Glep spends time in Virginia living among the key figures of the American Revolution. However, he completely ruins the atmosphere of a campfire after telling an extremely bad and awkward joke, earning the group's disapproval.
• Founding of Smiling Friends (1992): After thousands of years wandering aimlessly, Glep arrives in Pennsylvania by bus. At a bus stop, he encounters a young Mr. Boss who has just lost all his money in the stock market and is planning to take his own life. Glep performs his dance to cheer him up. This small gesture inspires Mr. Boss to create a business dedicated solely to making people smile. Thus, Glep officially becomes the co-founder of the company.