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“ | Open mouth, yeah yeah yeah! Eat ice cream, yeah yeah yeah! So you can taste the sweetness, so you can taste the sweetness! | ” |
— Pencil, "Taste the Sweetness"
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Pencil is a female contestant in Battle for Dream Island, Battle for Dream Island Again, IDFB, and Battle for BFDI. She also appears in Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two. She was also the winner of Total Firey Island.
In Battle for Dream Island, Pencil was on the Squishy Cherries until the merge in "A Leg Up in the Race". She was eliminated in "Rescission" with 259 votes. She placed 9th overall.
In Battle for Dream Island Again, Pencil was on Team No-Name until "Get in the Van", when she left to form FreeSmart with the rest of her alliance, including alternates. She survived to appear in IDFB.
In Battle for BFDI, Pencil was on iance until her elimination in "Lick Your Way to Freedom". She received 4,595 votes to be eliminated, and placed 65th (last) overall.
Pencil also makes appearances in Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two along with the other EXITors.
Appearance[]
Pencil appears to be a No. 2 graphite pencil, a pencil most commonly used for writing. Her tip is beige, her graphite is a dark grey, and her main body is 3 shades of orange. Her metal is silver, and her eraser is pink. Between BFDI and BFDIA, her eyes and mouth were moved closer together.
Changes[]
Debut
- Pencil has her tip on the top and her eraser on the bottom.
TFI
- Pencil has her eraser on the top and her tip on the bottom, which remains as a permanent change.
BFDI
- Pencil's eraser outlines are more loosely drawn.
Late BFDI/Early BFDIA
- Pencil's eraser outlines are more uniform.
- Pencil's mouth is located higher.
Late BFDIA
- Pencil's metal has its edges more roundish.
IDFB-TPOT
- Pencil's darker shade is a bit reddish-orange kind of color.
Personality[]
In Battle for Dream Island, Pencil was usually nice to most of the other contestants, with a few exceptions such as Ice Cube (before she substituted Match in the alliance), Blocky, and mainly, Spongy. She usually stuck around her alliance and would stick up for the other members if anyone harassed them, as seen in episodes like "Don't Lose Your Marbles" where she called out Snowball for popping Bubble.
In Battle for Dream Island Again, Pencil started building more rivalries with other characters and took over as the alliance leader, forming FreeSmart. She also notably exhibits more sociopathic tendencies, from leaving Team No-Name behind inside Evil Leafy to win, to being much more manipulative. She does actions ranging from not caring about Gelatin saving Match's life in "Zeeky Boogy Doog", berating Bubble for popping, and in "No More Snow!", yelling at Ruby to the point of tears. Even then, she cared for her alliance members.
In IDFB, Pencil more or less acts the same, but is much nicer towards her alliance. In "Welcome Back", Pencil reveals that she doesn't really care about Match being trapped in the TLC, and calls her a little too "needy".
In Battle for BFDI, Pencil seems to be much bossier and manipulative, seeing that she tells Lightning to electrocute anyone she doesn't like (e.g.: Spongy, Flower, Fanny). She also verbally berated her alliance-mates to a higher extent, as she demoted Bubble to "bember" for trying to stop Lightning from zapping Flower. In the same episode, she proceeded to mock Bubble because of her "bember" nickname when she tries to convince Lightning not to zap Fanny.
Pencil acts noticeably more calm since she joined the EXIT. Leafy explained to Four that Pencil likes to exclude anyone who isn't a part of her clique, that usually being her alliance, or in this case, gender. This holds true based on her behavior in past seasons. Pencil shows that she's still very loyal to her alliance, this being her reasoning why she should rejoin in BFB 11. She also seems to become significantly less manipulative and cruel to those who she were enemies with, specifically David, as she was noticeably much more kinder to him. Although it isn't confirmed, she seems to have more respect for Ice Cube and those who support the latter now, as she was calm and nice to Bracelety.
Also, during Outbreak At Stake, she chose to interact with her former enemies (even teaming up with them despite normally being annoying to people like her, like Bracelety and David) and spend less time with Match, indicating that she wants to improve her attitude towards others and expand her list of friends. She also appeared to be more of a natural leader than a manipulative and bossy person, which possibly put her on better terms with the members of the EXIT.
Official Character Guide biography[]
Pencil is a typical No. 2 pencil with a graphite tip. You probably have one in your backpack! Pencil is a born leader, but she can be very demanding.
Pencil uses Lightning to shock anyone who annoys her, especially Flower, Fanny and Spongy. Pencil is an expert at staring contests, even managing to out-stare the legendary David himself.
Did You Know?: Pencil won Total Firey Island, a BFDI-esque comic strip that came before BFDI, making her the first winner of all-time.
Abilities[]
- Blinking resistance: Pencil can keep her eyes open without blinking for a very long time (longer than a day) and does not seem to experience any pain from this, as seen in "Reveal Novum".
- Fire resistance: Pencil does not experience pain nor suffer any burn injuries after Donut set Pencil ablaze with Firey, as shown in "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know". She can also suck up the flames and spit it from her mouth as a fire projectile. When that happens, she remains completely unharmed. This is also seen when she feeds Firey a yoyleberry in Meaty during his elimination.
Coverage[]
Appearances[]
- Battle for Dream Island
- "Take the Plunge: Part 1"
- "Take the Plunge: Part 2"
- "Barriers and Pitfalls"
- "Are You Smarter Than a Snowball?"
- "Sweet Tooth"
- "Bridge Crossing"
- "Power of Three"
- "Puzzling Mysteries"
- "Cycle of Life"
- "Insectophobe's Nightmare"
- "Crybaby!"
- "Lofty"
- "A Leg Up in the Race"
- "Don't Lose Your Marbles"
- "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None"
- "Vomitaco"
- "Bowling, Now with Explosions!"
- "The Reveal"
- "Reveal Novum"
- "Rescission" (eliminated)
- "Gardening Hero"
- "The Glistening"
- "Insectophobe's Nightmare 2"
- "Return of the Hang Glider"
- Battle for Dream Island Again
- "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know" Episode 1
- "Get Digging" Episode 2
- "Insectophobe's Nightmare 3" Episode 3
- "Zeeky Boogy Doog" Episode 4
- "Get in the Van" Episode 5a
- BFDIA 5b
- "No More Snow!" Episode 5c
- "It's a Monster"Episode 5d
- "The Long-lost Yoyle City" Episode 5e
- "Well Rested" Episode 6
- "Intruder Alert" Episode 7
- "Meaty" Episode 8
- “Catch These Hands” Episode 9
- "Taste the Sweetness" Episode 10
- IDFB
- Battle for BFDI
- "Getting Teardrop to Talk"
- "Lick Your Way to Freedom" (eliminated)
- "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset" (goof)
- "Fortunate Ben" (flashback)
- "Questions Answered" (flashback)
- "Enter the Exit"
- "Get to the Top in 500 Steps"
- "Return of the Rocket Ship" (cameo, voting screen)
- "Don't Dig Straight Down" (flashback)
- "The Four is Lava" (happy thought)
- "The Escape from Four"
- Battle for BFB
- "X Marks the Spot" (mentioned)
- "Who Stole Donut's Diary?" (flashback, cameo)
- "SOS (Save Our Show)" (flashback, cameo)
- "Chapter Complete" (imaginary)
- Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two
- Non-canon appearances
- "Last BFDI"
- "Thanks for 4 years!"
- "BFDIA 6 Deleted Scenes"
- "Ballers"
- "Thanks for 4 years of Thanks for 4 years!"
- "Happy Birthday, Battle for BFDI!"
- "Battle for Dream Island: Official Character Guide/Instagram Promotion"
- "Lo-Fi Beats to Yoyle To"
- "Thanks for 600,000 subscribers!"
- "Aw, Seriously?"
- "PUMPKIN 2.0 - BFDI Halloween Shorts"
- "If Among Us Was a BFDI Challenge"
- "Thanks for 4 years of Thanks for 4 years of Thanks for 4 years!"
- "What if BFDI was in r/place?"
- "BFDI & Inanimate Insanity Meet Up!"
- "Marker and Coiny plush have arrived!"
- "Firey and Gelatin Steal a Van"
- "UNREAL BFDI"
- “I HOPE ITS NOT ME” BFDIA 9 JANAURY 31th
Battle for Dream Island[]
In "Take the Plunge: Part 1", Pencil is first seen with Match, talking about Flower's fear of bugs. Both of them yell when Ice Cube accidentally pops Bubble while hugging her. During the challenge, Bubble, Pencil, and Match all make an alliance. Ice Cube, eager to join, asks them if she could join, just before Pencil is knocked off the beam with new alliance members, Bubble and Match. Pencil angrily refuses to let Ice Cube in the alliance.
In "Take the Plunge: Part 2", Ice Cube complains about Pencil not letting her join Pencil's alliance when Leafy chooses her for Leafy's team, because of this, Pin chooses Pencil to be on her team. And when Pin has trouble deciding who to choose next, Pencil whispers for her to choose Bubble, which Pin does. Then, Pencil chooses Match next since she's in their alliance. Pencil babbles along with everyone else about the team name, making the Speaker choose the teams, dubbing Pencil's team the Squishy Cherries.
During the process of the boat being made, Pin makes Pen, Match, and Pencil be oars, and Pen is shown to be happy about this, while Pencil only shows a look of annoyance. Pencil goes through the hole in the boat, making Firey command her to stay there as a plug. She looks worried when Ice Cube, Leafy, and Coiny are about to crash into their boat, screaming along with the rest of her team. When the boat breaks, Pencil tries to encourage Match to swim with her, but she claims she has no energy left, making Pencil swim to the finish line without her. Pencil's team wins, making her immune from elimination.
In "Barriers and Pitfalls", Pencil was sent by Pin to find Blocky, although she wanted to stay with her alliance. Once Pencil found the fish that supposedly ate Blocky, she tried doing a dance to make it open its mouth, although the fish then tries eating her. After being freed from the fish, Pencil and her alliance went as fast as possible and did not help the opposing team. When Pencil tries jumping through the falling obstacle, she gets dulled. She falls along with the alliance when Rocky breaks the ski lift.
In "Are You Smarter Than a Snowball?", she does not take the test (drawing an infinite doodle instead). When Match plays around with her mini-Match while playing Spongy Cake, brushing it against Pencil's pencil, their tests were caught on fire, so they did not turn them in (resulting in no score). While Match slaps Bubble, Pencil gets shocked then asks Match that she killed her own friend and comes to the conclusion that Bubble is dumb when she can't count to 3, even though Bubble just died before getting to 3. She also suggests ripping Bubble's test since they figure she'd be too dumb to pass.
In "Sweet Tooth", she randomly turns into Bubble in front of Match during Cake at Stake. She talks to Match about Bubble being "dumb", however, Pencil realizes Bubble is not "dumb" later in the episode after seeing Bubble count to 8. Pencil, along with Match and Bubble purchase slices of Leafy's strawberry cake for the challenge. Pencil ends up getting a low score of 13 tying with Bubble and Snowball for the second lowest score behind Golf Ball's 0.
In "Bridge Crossing", she first faints when the Announcer says he had to use an ice cake for the second time due to not having a regular cake, and Pin says she's overreacting, but it turns out the Announcer was kidding and he actually got an ice cream cake. When Needle lands back to earth, Match is grossed out at the sight of her, making Pencil state she liked "Needies", but is slapped by Needle for saying so. When the Announcer gives her cake, the cake splattered all over her back, much to her dismay. She's later seen jumping along with Match off the cliff to catch Bubble after she falls off the broken bridge.
In "Power of Three", she says she doesn't like Cake at Stake, only to claim she likes it when threatened with immediate elimination. She's placed on the same team as her alliance in the challenge. During the contest, Match accidentally locks Pencil in a safe and she and Bubble forget about her for a while until they nearly get to the next island. They place third and are safe from elimination.
In "Puzzling Mysteries", when the TLC fails to close completely, Pencil tells the Announcer that the carrying capacity is 6 and that there are 6 people inside, along with Spongy. Match and Pencil have a hard time finishing the jigsaw puzzle since the pieces are upside down and instead talk about the time when Eraser stepped on a nail in BFDI 1B. Her team loses the contest and is still trapped in the room by night.
In "Cycle of Life", Match and Pencil talk about their votes so far. In the relay race, Pencil has to carry Match, who she claims is gaining weight. When it's her turn, Match asks Pencil if she's fat, and Pencil says she was "JK kidding". They lose the challenge due to Bubble popping.
In "Insectophobe's Nightmare", Match and Pencil notice Ice Cube falling from a cliff as a result of a prank from the previous episode. Pencil thinks Ice Cube is shrinking, to which Match corrects her and tells her that Ice Cube is falling. When Ice Cube shatters at the bottom of the cliff, She ends up pushing Pencil and Match off the cliff during her freefall. Pencil and her team finally win a challenge by being first in the six-legged race.
In "Crybaby!", she was the only member of her alliance to choose Snowball on the team along with Pen and Eraser, due to him winning more contests (albeit only because he was the only one who ripped the ties on the literal tie breakers). Match and Bubble were not very happy. Pencil has a hard time crying in the crying challenge. After tying in the skiing contest, her team finally wins in the handstand tiebreaker, but Rocky ends up vomiting on the Squishy Cherries' platform, resulting in Pencil and her teammates slipping on it. Eraser is the only one who didn't slip on Rocky's vomit and he wins a Win Token as a result.
In "Lofty", a few clones of Pencil can be seen laughing at Another Name as they walk to the Cake at Stake area. Pencil just votes for Rocky to stay since the entire team already picked him unanimously. She loses the balloon contest when Snowball, her own teammate, pops her balloon for its pink color.
In "A Leg Up in the Race", many clones of Pencil can be seen laughing at Another Name as they walk to Cake at Stake. Pencil places 7th in the ladder challenge. She is the only one who doesn't lose any points since she never got a vote and is safe from elimination after the points are established.
In "Don't Lose Your Marbles", In the prologue, Pencil is seen getting angry with Snowball for popping Bubble. After Blocky is pushed off a platform by Leafy's bouncy ball, he drops Remote who in turn releases two batteries. The batteries release acid that kills both Pencil and Snowball. Later, Pencil and her alliance talk about how great it is for them all to be in the final 11. In the challenge, she is the first to turn in a ball, giving her 30 points. This makes her the second highest in points, behind Pen.
In "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None", Pencil tries to get Match out of a cliff and calls Bubble to help her, before she and everyone else ends up falling. She is upset when Match is eliminated and accepts Ice Cube as an alliance member out of desperation. Pencil cheers for Match to rejoin in the bread loaf contest and is disgusted when Spongy ends up winning. She is seen trying to retrieve marbles from the acid vat and dies. In the challenge, Pencil tries to use "alliance power" to jump over a variable height hurdle but ultimately fails when the hurdle hits her tip.
In "Vomitaco", Pencil plays catch with Bubble and Ice Cube. She later calls Ice Cube "garbage" compared to Match, as she didn't find it fun playing without her. Pencil chooses the barf bag contest along with her alliance. She gets angry with Rocky when he pukes in the giant bag that actually had colored water and throws a bowling ball at him. She then covers a leak in the bag with a pillow and throws barf on Blocky. She decides to make ice cream with Bubble using Ice Cube as the ice. Bubble finds it disgusting and Pencil throws Ice Cube in the barf. Pencil is the last contestant on the barf bag. The hole she plugged takes her out and she falls after standing for a whole minute, giving her 60 points. She is later glad about not choosing the taco contest, to which Bubble asks why, but Pencil pops her due to not wanting to answer "stupid" questions. She then is seen telling Firey to hurry up with his taco as he has some trouble making it.
In "Bowling, Now with Explosions!", Pencil is one of the various puppets used for the beginning of the episode. Leafy questions what she's doing and she says she's looking at clouds. Leafy says she looks bored and suggests they do something fun like jumping off a cliff, which Pencil takes literally. They decide to watch clouds with Pen instead. They later get real life objects of their counterparts and stab themselves in the middle. They all celebrate when Blocky removes their counterparts and they return to normal. She mentions how it is great to be puppets, before they become animated again, resulting as an April Fools' prank. At Cake at Stake, she is the first person to receive an explosive pie. Pencil later mentions how it's wonderful to be in the final nine. During the bowling ball contest, Pencil makes the final throw, launching the ball to smash Ice Cube and hit 5 pins in the center. While subtracting points, she decides to take away 25 points off everyone except her alliance and herself. Blocky and Firey take away 56 and 30 points respectively from her for subtracting their scores, while Leafy took away 10 points off her and everyone else for equality. Pencil is up for elimination along with everyone else, except Firey for knocking down a strike, for the first time since "Bridge Crossing".
In "The Reveal", Pencil demands springy shoes from Leafy after she gave some to Bubble. Leafy takes Bubble's springy shoes from her so Pencil can have them, but Bubble later gets them back. At Cake at Stake, Pencil's no vote streak was broken (even her first voter, englishcreamcakes, got mentioned) but she is still safe with 38 votes. Pencil and Bubble do very well in the frisbee-throwing contest and both get 200 points for getting first place.
In "Reveal Novum", Pencil votes for Tennis Ball to be eliminated, despite saying he was very fuzzy. In the challenge, Pencil comes first in the staring contest beating Spongy, Rocky, and David (who took an entire day to blink). At one point while staring against David, she calls out Bubble, asking what's been with her lately, when she simply asked if her eyes hurt. Despite winning the contest, due to the scoreboard only holding 2 digit numbers, she still gets into the danger zone.
In "Rescission", Firey shows Pencil his emergency button and tests it on Bubble, causing her to disappear, making Pencil mad as she thought it was the cruelest way she ever died. She then takes the emergency button and uses it on Firey, Leafy, and all the recommended characters in the episode. Spongy then tumbles onto her, and Rocky is about to barf into her, causing her to worry until Rocky speaks. She asks him if it feels weird to talk after 15 months of silence but Rocky went back to barfing on her afterwards. At Cake at Stake, the Announcer reminds Pencil how she never got a single vote until "Bowling, Now with Explosions!", and then says that for this episode, she got 259, the most ever at that point, causing her to be eliminated. Pencil, mad at this, slams the Announcer thinking that he's been broken before she's sent by the Laser Powered Teleportation Device. The Announcer then mentions how Pencil was always a menace anyway. Bubble worries about what they can do without her and Match, and Ice Cube suggest that Needle joins in, but gets slapped because she called her "Needy".
In "Gardening Hero", Pencil gets a chance to rejoin the game. In her audition, she uses her chanting to get the viewers to vote for her.
In "The Glistening", When Blocky votes for Firey to "put up with the fire", Pencil makes a weird exaggerated laugh. She decides to vote for Ice Cube, along with 9 other eliminated contestants. She only got 60 votes to rejoin and is teleported back into the TLC.
In "Insectophobe's Nightmare 2", Pencil is first seen in the TLC where she says that she can't wait to be freed since BFDI was confirmed to be "cancelled". She and the other members are then "eaten" by the bugs, but it later turns out that everyone just faked their deaths. When the TLC disappears due to Flower deflecting the Laser Powered Teleportation Device, everyone, including Pencil celebrates, until the TLC teleports back into it's spot.
In "The Return of the Hang Glider", after being released from the TLC, she tries to vote for Bubble to win but instead votes for Leafy in fear of being slapped by the other contestants. She, Match, and Bubble are all let into Dream Island first by Firey. Pencil is shocked to hear that Dream Island was stolen but doesn't seem to mind as she tells Pen to get over it. Pencil then calls out Firey for not letting Leafy into Dream Island. Later, she is glad when a spike lands in Rocky's mouth so that he can't barf and announces the news to everyone else. After learning that Leafy stole Dream Island, Pencil finds Flower's Announcer Crusher to use to give Leafy the death penalty. After the credits, she asks Match if it would be weird if the first and last spoken words of BFDI were the same.
Battle for Dream Island Again[]
In "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know", Pencil gets 320 votes and gets into the 2nd season. In the beginning, following the events of the previous episode, she is one of the various contestants chasing down Leafy who stole Dream Island. When Golf Ball questions Pen on how they should get her in the forest, Pencil tells them about the Leafy detector she owns and uses it to slow down Leafy until they catch up to her. Later while deciding on teams she has an argument with Donut over the size of the teams and has a vertical rectangle as a favorite screen.
In "Get Digging", Pencil decides to kick Ice Cube out of her alliance because she made an "ugly face". She is assigned to add the ingredients to the team's Yoyle Stew along with Ruby and Match, which they do a terrible job on, since they add a lot of poisonous, harmful, and often inedible ingredients to the stew. In the process, Pencil invites Ruby into her alliance and discusses her plans on reviving Bubble, but Ruby declines stating that it would be dangerous and not worth it for "someone who can't count to three".
In "Insectophobe's Nightmare 3", Pencil's alliance does not participate in the contest since they decided to excuse themselves. Pencil has a conference with Ruby, Pencil decides to finally revive Bubble, considering herself self-taught and explains to her why Ruby should be in the alliance, stating that it wouldn't hurt having four members. She assigns Book and Ice Cube as alternates to her alliance when they question her, to which Book only replies angrily, "Fine!".
In "Zeeky Boogy Doog", Pencil saves Gelatin's life. She later scolds Ruby for reviving Flower, threatening to expel her from the alliance, but later turning out to be kidding. At the challenge, she practices freedom of speech from Golf Ball which gets her dragged into the incinerator by Tennis Ball.
In "Get in the Van", Pencil saves Match from being eliminated using the elimination prevention plan by tying her on the stage used for Cake at Stake. She forms a new team with her entire alliance, calling it FreeSmart, due to not wanting to use the word of freedom, because it sounded like saying they were dumb, and drives the FreeSmart Van bringing the HPRC and later accidentally driving into Evil Leafy and Tennis Ball, Golf Ball and Rocky.
In "BFDIA 5b", Pencil is not a playable character but is coded into the game. She plays similarly to Match since their sizes are mostly the same.
In "No More Snow!", Pencil asks Ruby to press a button on top of Evil Leafy, which they have a hard time doing so due to Ruby accidentally pushing other buttons and crying when Pencil shouts at her, which then zaps her, killing her. She wasn't recovered yet due to the HPRC being crushed by W.O.A.H. Bunch.
In "It's a Monster", Pencil gets revived by Match and drives the new FreeSmart Supervan. Pencil mentions how they don't need the HPRC due to already having a Leg-Powered Recovery Center, and Book questions what would happen if she used her hands, to which Pencil mentions "she'd be very sorry". Book uses it with her hands nonetheless, and the LPRC disappears, leading to Pencil shout why did she did it. She then decides to steal the HPRC with the magnet in the van. While they go across the Goiky Canal, she along with the rest of FreeSmart drown and revive each other numerous times.
In "The Long-lost Yoyle City", Pencil finally drives out of the Goiky Canal. When she and her team reach Yoyle City, She gets caught in the tongue of a fish monster for the second time. When FreeSmart fail to set her free, Pencil insists that they kill her and recover her using the Hand-Powered Recovery Center. FreeSmart cut her in half using a saw and she is successfully recovered. Later on, She delays Team No-Name from reaching the summit by freezing them and kicking Rocky into the jaws of the fish monster, as payback for him barfing on her two years ago. FreeSmart ends up winning the challenge, reaching 1st place, although in the process Match is sent to the LOL and TLC when the Firey Speaker Box sees her. Firey Speaker Box then interrogates Bubble, who pretends to be a tree. Pencil tries to help her sound more convincing as a tree, but Bubble is ultimately flung somewhere unknown. Later, W.O.A.H. Bunch makes it to the summit as well. Pin celebrates over their victory, but Pencil reminds her that they only placed second. Pencil is last seen falling from the summit with everyone else.
In "Well Rested", Pencil and the others are still falling from the summit until they hit the ground. Pencil feels that they should stay in Yoyleland because the only recovery center is glued to the ground. For the challenge, the team's must find a building to sleep in. Pencil has the team enter the FreeSmart SuperVan so that they can drive to the Pillow Marketplace. But before they go, Pencil locks Ice Cube in the trunk so she doesn't have to hear the noise from her headphones. After driving around for hours, Pencil clearly doesn't know where their destination is. Ruby gets the information they need from Book and finds out the Pillow Marketplace is on one of the higher floors of the Yoyle Needy. Pencil drives the FreeSmart SuperVan through a balloon store, allowing the vehicle to float so that they can park on the top floor of the Yoyle Needy. Suddenly a pipe appears in the sky. Pencil isn't able to avoid it and crashes the van into the pipe. The water getting pulled in from the pipe starts to flood the inside of the van, so everyone has to hold their breathes.
Once the sun sets, the team is completely submerged underwater. They pull out some snorkels and jam them through the roof of the van, allowing them to breathe. Suddenly, the van's weight causes the pipe they're stuck to to tilt. The pipe rotates several times, allowing the team to steal W.O.A.H. Bunches pillows and sleeping bags. The pipe then balances itself out, and the two team's face off against each other on the pipe with Pencil kicking Rocky to his death. Pencil and Needle then dueling each other and Pencil eventually wins. Spongy charges in to help Needle, causing the pipe to tilt again. The end of the pipe with the FreeSmart SuperVan hits Pin's point, causing the water from inside the van to burst out and flood the aerospace building. Amidst the chaos, Book eventually realizes that they should be sleeping, not fighting. So FreeSmart tries to go to sleep quickly. W.O.A.H. Bunch continues to try and sabotage them, now by telling scary stories. Coiny starts repeating Evil Leafy, which makes the FreeSmart members wince in their sleep. Eventually, Evil Leafy appears and puts both teams at a stalemate on the dehumidifier (which is now dunking each team as Evil Leafy teleports to them). Ice Cube eventually pulls out the balloons from the van and has everyone tie one around themselves in order to escape the predicament below. Once everyone is in the sky, Ice Cube plays relaxing music that puts the team to sleep, so FreeSmart wins the challenge, coming in second. In the stinger, the team decides to start recording video diaries together.
In "Intruder Alert", Pencil addresses Match in FreeSmart's daily video diary. She later gets into a debate with Ruby before hearing the contest wheel being spun, ordering her team to pop their balloons. After landing, Pencil asks Firey Speaker Box to tell her the challenge; he denies her request and she faints upon realizing they need to try every contest on the wheel. After waking up, she refuses Firey and Gelatin's request to join FreeSmart until they state they know what the challenge is. Pencil participates in every incorrect challenge Firey and Gelatin claim, being sharpened to death by Ruby in one instance. The team runs out of time, and are put up for elimination because they built no loser chamber.
In "Meaty", Ruby gives Pencil some gears for her to use as earrings. At Cake at Stake, Pencil is the last one safe, receiving 13,530 dislikes. She then feeds Firey a yoyleberry in order to turn him metal to avoid burning down the Weak Trembling Fortress. After Firey Speaker Box breaks down due to his owner's elimination, Pencil uses a magnet to remove the knife from Puffball Speaker Box, which non-fatally stabs her in the head.
During the challenge, Pencil fires lasers at Fries' car to prevent Team No-Name from taking the lead. After FreeSmart loses their paint can, Pencil infuses the laser gun with some of the remaining paint, allowing FreeSmart to cover most of the Eiffel Tower with pink paint. After Fries knocks the laser gun out of Ruby's hand, Pencil jumps after it, being killed upon impact with the ground.
In "Catch These Hands", Pencil recovers herself due to the properties of the Yoylite near her corpse allowing her spirit to remain conscious. During the challenge, Pencil shows apprehension towards volunteering to go into the crusher first, and ends up in it once Book points to her phrase in her pages. Her phrase is "blowing out a candle", which her team fails to guess. In a last-ditch effort, she blows extra hard, managing to recover Bubble in the process. The two of them are then crushed, and Pencil is next seen in Hell, believing Spongy to be Bubble; Spongy hands her a mirror and she screams at her now-uncanny appearance. She greets each new arrival, combusts due to nearby fire, and flattens Fries when he refuses to speak in a verbose manner. In the stinger, Pencil expresses disappointment in the fact no one is helping put out the fire that is on her.
In "Taste the Sweetness", Pencil is the first contestant in Hell to be recovered, and she assists Ruby in recovering the rest of the dead contestants. She admonishes Ice Cube for making an ugly face, but reneges once she makes her beautiful face, seeing as it's bringing new alternates to FreeSmart- soon to become The Beautiful Face Devotion Institute. For the contest, Golf Ball orders Pencil (along with Needle and Nickel) to market the ice cream, and Pencil notes Golf Ball did not giver herself a job. Pencil alerts the recommended characters of the free ice cream they're selling, causing them to rush into Gelatin's Steakhouse. Pencil then makes flyers to advertise the ice cream, drawing on the papers with her body. Afterwards, she successfully encourages the recommended characters to repeat the jingle she created. Despite this, her team loses the challenge.
IDFB[]
In "Welcome Back", Pencil is preparing to eat her gumdrops but realizes that Ruby forgot to remove the Lens Cap from the camera. Shortly after, she realizes that all the video diaries are black screens and assumes viewers do not know who was eliminated in BFDIA 6. When Ruby pulls out the BFDIA 6 results, Pencil demands them but ends up falling down the Yoyle Needy.
Book saves her life, and the two walk to recover Ice Cube, Ruby, and Bubble. They talk about Match, but Pencil complains about Match being too needy. She licks in order to recover Ice Cube.
Battle for BFDI[]
In "Getting Teardrop to Talk", she reunites with her alliance from previous seasons. She proved to be meaner than usual, as she demoted Bubble from a member of the alliance to a bember. She also used Lightning to zap other contestants. She formed a team called iance, with her alliance, sparing Book and Ice Cube, who found the alliance unhealthy and joined Gaty's team, which is . The team also consisted of Snowball, Fanny, Flower, and Lightning. In the first contest, she jumps and hopes to reach the basket hundreds of feet in the air. She also made Bubble cry by zapping Fanny with Lightning. These behaviors made her disliked. When her team lost the first challenge, she was voted out with 4,595 votes, the first off the show. She placed 64th (later 65th place after The Hidden Contestant).
Pencil is mistakenly present on the Swings in "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset" when Fanny was being used to propel the swings. Her eraser can be seen above Lightning.
Pencil is not seen throughout the series after her elimination until "Enter the Exit". She appears in the EXIT along with Leafy, Bracelety, and Liy. She complains about males in "an all-girl classroom" and the class in general. She was given a chance to rejoin the battle, but she failed to rejoin in "Get to the Top in 500 Steps" with only 3712 votes. She appears again in BFB 15 in Ice Cube's happy thought, where she is burned.
In "The Escape From Four", Pencil was first listening to Loser reading Donut's Diary out loud, and suggests that he should lower down his voice because they can hear him. When 8-Ball said he can't hear Pencil, she grabs a stethoscope and said she wanted to listen to the "celebrity's juiciest secrets", thinking Loser was reading his own diary. Match shortly after wanted to hear too and grabs one of the parts of the stethoscope to hear him. After listening to the journal entries stated by Loser, she and Match were shocked and Match asked her when did Loser combine with Four, and replied she doesn't know, but screamed Donut's name as Loser said it was his last entry.
Pencil later appeared looking at Stapy who was struggling to pile up some things, and Pencil suggested that Loser should climb instead because he's smaller, and the plan worked. However, when Liy was asked to throw more things, she claimed that there's nothing else to throw, and came up with the idea to use Match and Pencil to lift Loser up since they're the tallest. Pencil replies with a bored sigh, but when she heard that they would get demoted to "bember", she climbed up immediately, not wanting to be demoted. When Spongy was halfway sucked into Four's body, Pencil realizes Spongy just got eliminated, which grosses her out. When she heard that they should climb on him, Pencil disagrees and tells Liy she can't do that. She then says she's bailing and jumps off as Match follows, leaving Loser on his own.
In "X Marks the Spot", Ruby reveals that Pencil gave her the FreeSmart Supervan to look after before she got eliminated.
In "SOS (Save Our Show)", Pencil appears in a couple of flashbacks that weren't ever shown before. The first being a moment where she and Match talk to Eraser while the Announcer watches from the side. The second is when the Announcer appears at the top of the summit of Yoyle Mountain. Pencil asks what he's doing back, and the Announcer manages to avoid getting caught by pretending to be a tree.
In "Chapter Complete", Pencil and Bracelety appear as Four's finalists. She says that she has less appreciation for Ice Cube compared to Bracelety, but is sure that Four is better than her. She then tells some of the other contestants to chant Four's name. Suddenly, voices can be heard talking about Four coming back. Pencil asks if he left and where to. Later, Pencil is revealed to be the winner of Four's made up show and is given what looks like a glitched scribble as prize. When Four starts to realize that none of this is real, Pencil sarcastically compliments him for figuring that out and slow claps. Four then snaps his fingers, making Pencil and the other imaginary character disappear.
Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two[]
In "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?", Pencil follows Liy and Stapy as they run back into the EXIT, asking what they're doing. Liy explains that she didn't get to look behind the door before Four caught her and boarded it up and that she will definitely see what's behind it this time. Pencil then watches as she pulls out a staple and uses it to unlock the door.
In "The Seven Wonders of Goiky", Pencil leaves the classroom with the other EXITors except Roboty, who Pencil says to leave behind when Four catches him. After walking down a hallway for a while, at the end they discover what appears to be a dimension themed entirely around Four.
In "Outbreak At Stake", Pencil discusses with the other exitors in the Fourest about where to go next with Pencil saying they should go back to the school. Stapy comes up with the idea to split up into groups, so Pencil breaks everyone into groups of three and tells them where to search. Pencil groups herself with David and Bracelety to search the classrooms. As they climb up a wall, David complains, and Bracelety interprets that he's upset they didn't save Roboty. Pencil says they can check on the classroom along the way. However, Four attacks them, so Pencil's group runs away to another room. Inside said room, is proof that other numbers exist.
Relationships[]
- Main article: Pencil/Relationships
Votes[]
Episode | Votes |
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3~6 | 0 |
17 | 38 (her first votes ever) |
19 | 259 (eliminated) |
21 | 60 (to rejoin) |
Episode | Votes |
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1 | 320 (joined BFDIA) |
3 | 146 likes, 172 dislikes |
5a | 236 likes, 213 dislikes |
8 | 21,156 likes, 13,530 dislikes |
Episode | Votes |
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2 | 4,595 (eliminated) |
11 | 3,712 (to rejoin) |
Elimination | Prize | Total |
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18,807 | 21,538 | 44,437 |
Deaths[]
- "Insectophobe's Nightmare": Fell to her death after she's pushed off a cliff by Ice Cube (debatable).
- "Lofty": Dies in Bomby's explosion.
- "Don't Lose Your Marbles": Is killed by Remote's acid.
- "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None":
- Falls down a cliff.
- Walks into a vat of acid.
- "Insectophobe's Nightmare 2": Is devoured by bugs (off-screen).
- "Zeeky Boogy Doog": Is thrown into an incinerator by Tennis Ball.
- "No More Snow!": Is disintegrated by a random laser.
- "It's a Monster": Drowns in the Goiky Canal hundreds of times.
- "The Long-lost Yoyle City": Sawed in half by FreeSmart.
- "Intruder Alert": Sharpened to death by Ruby.
- "Meaty": Fell to her death.
- "Catch These Hands": Crushed in a trash compactor.
Non-canon deaths:
- "Thanks for 20,000 subscribers! (Last BFDI)": Turns into Pen when a cap lands on her head.
- "Battle for Dream Island: Official Character Guide/Instagram Promotion": Sliced in two by Bomby with Saw.
- "If Among Us Was a BFDI Challenge": Burnt to death by a fake MedBay scanner.
- "UNREAL BFDI — Thanks for 1 Billion Views!": Turns into Match after she is combined with Fries' fries.
Kills[]
Total kills: 121
Character | Number of times killed | Episodes |
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Blocky | 1 | "Don't Lose Your Marbles" (along with Leafy) |
Bottle | 1 | "Rescission" |
Bracelety | 1 | "Rescission" |
Bubble | 3 | "Vomitaco" (twice) "Zeeky Boogy Doog" (along with Match and Pin) |
Firey | 2 | "Don't Lose Your Marbles" (along with Leafy and Blocky) "Rescission" |
Ice Cube | 2 | "Don't Lose Your Marbles" (along with Firey, Blocky, and Leafy) "Bowling, Now with Explosions!" |
Leafy | 1 | "Rescission" |
Pin | 1 | "No More Snow!" (along with Ruby and Book) |
Remote | 1 | "Don't Lose Your Marbles" (along with Leafy and Blocky) |
Rocky | 2 | "The Long-lost Yoyle City" "Well Rested" |
Snowball | 1 | "Don't Lose Your Marbles" (along with Blocky and Leafy) |
RCs | 105 | 105 recommended characters from "Rescission" |
Non-canon kills:
- "Michael's best comic": Accidentally pops Bubble with her lead.
- "Happy Birthday, Battle for BFDI!": Devours Cake, along with many other contestants.
Trivia[]
Comparisons[]
- Pencil, Spongy, and Blocky are the only contestants with more than a hundred kills.
- Pencil has the third-highest kill count behind Spongy and Blocky.
- Pencil is one of the five characters to be seen as a puppet; all of them were shown in "Bowling, Now with Explosions!"
Competition[]
- In Total Firey Island, Pencil won the competition, making her the first character to win an object competition.
- Pencil spent the most time on the Squishy Cherries, due to her being picked first and having no votes during the eliminations.
- Pencil's elimination in BFDI is considered unique:
- She was inappropriate for elimination, as she won the previous challenge; She was put up for elimination because her points exceeded the two-digit limit (105 -> 5), resetting back to the first few numbers.
- She was the last contestant to be eliminated before the point system was removed.
- Out of all of the free characters in IDFB (excluding Evil Leafy), Pencil is the only one who didn't go on to compete in post-split BFB or TPOT.
- Pencil holds the record for going the longest time in season 1 without getting any votes, at 1 year and 3 months, or 15 episodes. However, on April 1st, 2011, her streak was broken. Englishcreamcakes cast the first ever vote for Pencil. She got 37 other votes as well for episode 17.
- Ironically, she was the first contestant to receive the most votes in BFB.
- Pencil came in 11th place out of the original contestants in Season 2 voting.
- "Meaty" marks Pencil's first and so far only time falling in the bottom 2 and surviving.
- She has the least amount of votes to be eliminated in BFB, at only 4,595 votes. This is slightly lower than 8-Ball, who got 4,814 elimination votes.
- Pencil was the first contestant eliminated in Battle for BFDI.
- This makes her the lowest ranking female, contestant with all limbs, contestant competing in BFDI and BFDIA, free character in IDFB, contestant voiced by Michael Huang, and member of iance.
- BFB is the first and currently only season to have Pencil outranked by Match.
- Pencil and David are the only contestants with rejoin auditions in both BFDI and BFB.
- Pencil and Match are the only original contestants in the EXIT.
- TPOT will be the first season without Pencil competing.
- She's the only contestant in BFB who never used their voting icon for voting.
- Just like Woody in BFDI, Pencil was in the spot for going the longest without competing. Having been eliminated in "Lick Your Way to Freedom" in 2017, she went roughly six years without competing in a season, until competing again in "Well Rested" in 2023.
- Pencil was originally going to be inside of the Locker of Losers in IDFB, but the idea was dropped and Pencil was one of the objects that were free in Yoyle City. Gelatin has a similar fate.[1]
General[]
- Pencil enjoys chanting as seen in "Barriers and Pitfalls", "Reveal Novum", "Gardening Hero", "The Long-lost Yoyle City", and "Enter the Exit".
- Pencil seems to enjoy drawing, particularly when she's bored as she doodles all over her tests in "Are You Smarter Than a Snowball?" and "Enter the Exit", as well as her desk in the EXIT.
- As mentioned in the doodle in "Are You Smarter Than a Snowball?", Pencil loves chocolate.
- Pencil seems to love fuzzy stuff. In "Reveal Novum", Pencil voted for Tennis Ball despite saying that he was so "fuzzy and everything", and in "Insectophobe's Nightmare 3", Puffball won a personal speaker box and Pencil commented on it being fuzzy.
- Pencil has the most colors and shades, apart from speaking Puffball, with 7 colors.
- Pencil's darkest shade (base) has become a vivid salmon color in IDFB than her usual dark orange.
- In BFDI, sometimes Pencil and Match's mouths are seen connected into one.
- According to some information in Cary Huang's video "Yoyle City: Behind the Scenes", Pencil is about 1.7 meters or 5.5 feet tall, as her height is proportional to human sizes, not pencil sizes.
- This would mean that the FreeSmart Supervan would be 5 meters or 16.4 feet long.
- Pencil's possible favorite or least favorite color is brown, as shown in "Are You Smarter Than a Snowball?".
- The first version of Pencil had an upside down body and no arms. Pencil 1.0 was officially called "scary".
- Pencil has broken her tip only once, in "Barriers and Pitfalls".
- When Pencil died in BFDI 5d, her body turned grey instead of being the normal color of her asset.
- Pencil name drops the title of every BFDIA 5 episode except "No More Snow!" which was said by Nickel.
- Pencil shares her scream with Firey, as seen in "Welcome Back".
- Pencil has been shown to dislike Match in "Welcome Back".
- Pencil probably doesn't like tacos as she said she was glad she didn't choose the taco contest in "Vomitaco", despite also being disgusted with the barf bag contest.
- It was revealed in "Reveal Novum" that Pencil really likes crackers.
- Her OMG phrase is "Oh my Tree".
- Pencil is the second, as well as the second to last character to speak in the first season.
- Pencil spent the most time in the EXIT, with over three years.
- An early version of Pencil's body can be seen in XFOHV.
- Pencil once appeared in Nickelodeon Pakistan's Nick Genius Promo of 2023, using the animation of her saying "You'll pay for that, Donut." from BFDIA 1.[2]
- According to Meaty, the metal lining of her eraser is a headband.
- Pencil is one of the contestants who have canonically entered Hell in "Catch These Hands", along with Spongy, Fries, Nickel, Pin, Golf Ball and Tennis Ball.
Gallery
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References[]
See also[]
- Bubble and Pencil
- Book, Match and Pencil
- Ice Cube and Pencil
- Pencil's Alliance
- Pencil and her alliance
- Pencil and Ruby
- Match and Pencil
- Match, Pencil, and Spongy
- Variations of Pencil
Murderer Trout |
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Bubble • Coiny • Eraser • Firey • Golf Ball • Pencil • Spongy • Woody |
Squishy Cherries |
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BFDI 12: Bubble • Eraser • Match • Pen • Pencil • Snowball • Rocky Eliminated: Spongy • Blocky • Woody • Pin • Snowball • Match • Eraser • Pen • Pencil • Rocky |
The Beautiful Face Devotion Institute |
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Current: Bomby • Book • Coiny • Golf Ball • Ice Cube • Needle • Nickel • Pencil • Pin • Ruby • Spongy • Tennis Ball |
FreeSmart |
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BFDIA 10: Book • Ice Cube • Pencil • Ruby Eliminated: Firey • Gelatin |
People in IDFB |
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FreeSmart: Book • Bubble • Ice Cube • Pencil • Ruby
Free characters: Bomby • Coiny • Evil Leafy • Firey • Flower • Fries • Gelatin • Golf Ball • Leafy • Needle • Nickel • Pin • Rocky • Spongy • Tennis Ball • Woody • Yellow Face |
iance |
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BFB 16: Bubble • Fanny • Flower • Lightning • Ruby • Snowball |
EXIT |
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Inhabitants: Roboty
Former: Pencil • Bracelety • Liy • Roboty • 8-Ball • Stapy • David • Match • Firey Jr. • Dora • Leafy • Loser • Spongy |