Klonoa

Klonoa (クロノア, Kuronoa) is a furry anthropomorphic animal that has features of a cat and a rabbit. He is also known for his unique fashion taste, for example he went through a phase in which he wore and oversized red dog collar with no shirt. One accessory that has remained consistent over the course of Klonoa’s experimentation with clothing is his blue cap featuring a yellow Pac-Man logo on the side.

As an avid player of retro arcade games, Klonoa's favorite game is Pac-Man on which he has achieved a perfect score of 3,333,360 points on multiple occasions. Due to having Autism Spectrum Disorder, Klonoa tends to obsess over certain games and can play them over and over for hours on end. Consequently, he has become very skilled at these games and is technically the best Pac-Man player in the world. However, he is not officially documented as the best Pac-Man player in the world as he has not told anyone about his high scores.

Although Klonoa is on the higher functioning part of the autism spectrum, he also suffers from expressive dysphasia which impairs his ability to form coherent sentences and use appropriate grammar. Klonoa’s receptive language skills are only slightly impaired; he understands most of what is said to him and only struggles to comprehend very complex dialogue. Klonoa also has some vocal tics, the most frequent one being “Wahoo!”.

Due to his social and communication difficulties, Klonoa struggles to make friends and is often bullied by the neighborhood children. His social isolation and loneliness caused him to create an imaginary friend who he calls “Huepow”. Klonoa imagines Huepow as a young boy with whom he goes on many adventures which often involve fighting enemies and beasts to save mythical civilizations. They ‘communicate’ to one another in Klonoa’s made up language, which is essentially gibberish. Huepow is in fact a light blue bouncy ball with a face on it that Klonoa carries everywhere he goes. His mother disapproves of what she perceives as Klonoa’s unhealthy attachment to an inanimate object and has tried to confiscate the ball from Klonoa – Klonoa's interpretation of this event is depicted in the final scene of the 1997 PlayStation Game Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.

Interesting Facts

 * Klonoa glued a novelty sized zipper pull tab onto his shirt to make it look cool.
 * Klonoa and Tails are boyfriend and boyfriend. They are both switches meaning sometimes Tails is the top and Klonoa is the bottom and vice versa.
 * In his fantasy land, Klonoa likes to imagine that certain enemies inflate and start floating when he fires a "Wind Bullet" from the magical jewel in his ring.
 * Klonoa's favorite film is Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) and he especially enjoys the scene in which a character called Violet blows up into a giant blueberry after eating a piece of experimental gum.

Quotations
"Wakka wakka wakka." - Klonoa imitating the sound that Pac-Man makes when he eats dots.