Dave (BotBots)
| The name or term "David" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see David (disambiguation). |
Dave the Security Guard (aka "the flesh creature"; b. February 29) doesn't ask for much out of life, which is probably for the best, as life seems disinclined to give him much outside of grief and disappointment. The sole member of night security at the mall the BotBots call home, Dave constantly manages to get in the way of his own ambitions of mediocrity. Out of luck, out of shape, and out of his depth, the meager scraps of respect he strives for constantly slip from his greasy grasp, even to the point where his own mother makes fun of him. Desperation pours off him like sweat, as do fast-food crumbs and actual sweat.
And yet...
And yet...
For all that's going against him, there seems to be no malice in Dave's heart. Sure, he wants to capture those tiny robots he's convinced are hiding in the mall... but only so people will see he was right for once. He'd be happy with a little bit of recognition... and maybe a fresh donut, rather than the day shift's stale leftovers. Not that he won't eat the stale leftovers. Off the floor. But, you know. Man's gotta have a dream. And for all its headaches, he seems to love his job, love the mall he works at... he just wants to be where he belongs.
Maybe he's not so different from certain Bots after all.
Fiction
BotBots cartoon
- Voice actor: Mark Little (English), Svatopluk Schuller (Czech), Sonny Lahey (Danish), Martijn van Voskuijlen (Dutch), Samuel Kujala (Finnish), Emmanuel Garijo (French), Rainer Fritzsche (German), Zoltán Karácsonyi (Hungarian), Kamal Chaturvedi (Indian), Harda Billy (Indonesian), Simone Crisari (Italian), Mohd Azizul Sani Mohd Salleh (Malay), Kim A. Wifladt (Norwegian), Wojciech Chorąży (Polish), Douglas Guedes (Brazilian Portuguese), André Raimundo (European Portuguese), Pavel Dorofeev (Russian), Nacho López (Castilian Spanish), Miguel Angel Ruiz (Latin-American Spanish), Cristian Neacșu (Romanian), Christian Hedlund (Swedish), İlham Erdoğan (Turkish)
When he was a child, Dave's mom made him go to Clown Camp one summer. His experiences at the hands of the camp counsellor, named Laffo, would leave Dave scarred well into adulthood, to the extent just remembering would reducing him to a quivering, huddled mess. Lone Bot and Carb
One night, while out on his rounds, Dave saw a bird flying around the food court, but figured since it wasn't bothering anyone, it wasn't his problem to deal with. Live and Let LARP
Much to the consternation of the BotBots, Dave spent a whole three days not buying his usual, er, "meals" from the mall vending machines. As it transpired, this was because Dave had been saving up his money to buy a fancy macaron, with the intention of taking it to his favorite bench in the creepy abandoned dark side of the mall to eat it. Stopping to take a pre-celebratory selfie, he was distracted by what kind of filter to put on it. His reverie was interrupted by creepy voices coming from one of the abandoned stores. Investigating, poor Dave found himself surrounded on all sides by the store's creepy dolls speaking in unison. The experience triggered Dave's memories of Clown Camp, reducing him to a quivering, huddled mess on the floor. Just as he managed to escape the nightmares, he saw the nearby merry-go-round had reactivated itself, and his macacron had somehow transported itself onto one of the ride's horsies. Advancing, he slipped on some marbles, and when he got back on his feet saw the macacron had gone. In a surprisingly canny move for him, Dave managed to put two and two together and realized this could only be the work of the tiny robots. As he searched the dark side of the mall, a tray of expired pastries appeared in his path. Never one to say "no" to suspiciously placed food, he devoured the lot (why, Dave?) and then went to have a nap. As he slept, he once again flashed back to his horrors at Clown Camp... until one of the dolls said it would see him soon... Lone Bot and Carb
