Boyfriend

"Beep bo bop"

- Boyfriend

Boyfriend is the protagonist of Friday Night Funkin'. He is on a mission to gain approval to date his girlfriend, but must sing off against her evil ex-rockstar father, Daddy Dearest, as well as the many other characters that stand in his way.

Appearance
Boyfriend is a young, light-skinned man with spiky cyan hair. He wears a white T-shirt with a red prohibition sign, baggy blue pants, red sneakers and a backward red cap with a dark blue brim. He holds a microphone in his right hand while keeping his left hand in his pocket.

During Week 5, he wears a red parka, light blue pants and brown snow boots.

During Week 6, his regular appearance is rendered in a 32-bit style.

During the last track of Week 7, he holds Girlfriend up by the waist with his left hand.



Personality
Boyfriend is portrayed as a young, overzealous rapper with a love for music, donuts and his girlfriend. He loves to sing and show off his skills, resulting in his confident and cocky character. He is very determined and persistent on reaching his goals and won't let anyone get in the way of his success, even if threatened with death. Boyfriend is also implied to be clingy, as he is never seen without Girlfriend by his side.

Boyfriend has been diagnosed with ADHD and ASD; sometimes he may choose not to communicate conventionally with strangers and will simply beep at them instead of speaking and is rarely found without his red cap.









Trivia

 * ninjamuffin99, PhantomArcade and Kawai Sprite have all stated that Boyfriend's name is simply Boyfriend.
 * An official T-shirt created in collaboration with PKettles and Shark Robot refers to him as Boyfriend.
 * Additionally, there are currently two opening lines in the intro sequence that de-confirms two names: "His name isn't Evan, silly TikTok" and "His name isn't Keith, dumb eggy lol."
 * ninjamuffin99 has made a TikTok pleading with people to stop calling him Keith, saying, "His name, his name isn't Keith, it's not Keith. I'm, I'm sick of seeing everyone calling him Keith." He has also confirmed his name to simply be Boyfriend on Reddit.
 * The lyrics "boil 'lil boyfriend," in Winter Horrorland also refer to Boyfriend by name.
 * Boyfriend is his only canonical and official name. However, ninjamuffin99 has intentionally confused the community by spouting out random names on his Twitter and TikTok accounts. There have been several attempts to figure out his name (names in bold have been de-confirmed), including:
 * Keith (on Twitter, has been de-confirmed several times to not be his name).
 * Evan (on TikTok, based on misheard lyrics from the song Monster).
 * Luis (on Twitter, named after Luis).
 * Cam (on Twitter, based on ninjamuffin99's real name, Cameron. It was commonly used after becoming the first result when searching for Boyfriend's name on Google).
 * Jack (on TikTok, not de-confirmed so far).
 * Boyfriend originally had hot pink hair instead of cyan blue, revealed in early concept sketches of Boyfriend released by PhantomArcade.
 * Additionally, his shoe laces were originally blue instead of white.
 * Boyfriend has the most unused animations in the game.
 * While Boyfriend's singing voice is provided by Kawai Sprite, the game's composer, Boyfriend's groan after losing a battle is provided by PhantomArcade, the game's main artist and animator.
 * PhantomArcade also confirmed that he will be voicing more sound effects for Boyfriend on Reddit.
 * Boyfriend makes a cameo appearance in Sr Pelo's animation "Spooky Month - Unwanted Guest" as a background plushie. The "Spooky Month" series is also where the characters Skid and Pump originate from.
 * Bopeebo used to be the only song to use Boyfriend's V-sign pose during gameplay.
 * With the release of the 0.2.8 update, Boyfriend strikes this pose during Tutorial as well.
 * Boyfriend lacks a "danger" icon in Week 6.
 * Boyfriend knows a lot of fingerboard tricks, and it's one of the reasons he won Girlfriend's heart.
 * Boyfriend's favorite Newgrounds game is Newgrounds Rumble.
 * Boyfriend's hair is not dyed and is naturally cyan.
 * One of Tankman's Game Over quotes questions (and mocks) the nature of his hair color, stating, "I guess your shitty blue hair dye got in your eyes. It's okay, it happens to all of us."
 * Boyfriend is canonically 19 years old.
 * A popular headcanon within the FNF community was that Pico is Boyfriend's ex. This headcanon gathered so much traction that Tom Fulp, the creator of Pico, tweeted jokingly that "this is official Pico 2 canon," leading people to believe that it was true. ninjamuffin99 has stated that this was a joke, but later changed his mind and confirmed it was canon.
 * ninjamuffin99 and PhantomArcade have confirmed that Pico and Boyfriend are exes on Reddit, Twitter and Twitch several times.
 * This also means that Boyfriend is bisexual.
 * On the 1st of April, 2021, Tom Fulp updated the original Pico's School game for April Fool's day, ending with Pico revealing to Cassandra that he and Boyfriend are a couple and everyone at his school accepts them. The day after, this version would be released as a separate game set in an alternate timeline called "Pico's School: Love Conquers All."
 * Boyfriend is canonically so reckless and overconfident that he's essentially fearless.
 * PhantomArcade also clarifies that, just like Girlfriend, Boyfriend is far too dumb to be afraid of many things.
 * However, like Girlfriend, Boyfriend appears to be afraid of lightning, as shown in Week 2. Whenever lightning strikes, Boyfriend will briefly wince and shudder.
 * Boyfriend knows how to fight, surprisingly.
 * Boyfriend loves pepperoni pizza from Domino's.
 * Boyfriend loves donuts the most out of any character in the game.
 * Boyfriend also likes BRISK iced tea and milk, as confirmed in a Reddit AMA.
 * ninjamuffin99 has stated that Boyfriend's beeping noises are not a language, but just random sounds he makes to avoid talking to people.
 * Not much is known about Boyfriend's parents. The only information known about them is that they work in accounting.
 * Boyfriend's parents got him into a public college, paying the entry fees only for Boyfriend to stop showing up. This subsequently led to him dropping out.
 * During his time at the college, he preferred to read comics all day in the library instead.
 * Ritz is confirmed to be Boyfriend's brother, described by ninjamuffin99 as a Stuart Little situation.
 * Boyfriend is neurodivergent, as he has ADHD and is autistic, confirmed by PhantomArcade during a livestream.
 * Boyfriend likes to listen to Kanye West music, confirmed by ninjamuffin99 during a Reddit AMA.
 * It has been noted that Boyfriend's attire, from his red prohibition sign t-shirt, blue pants, and red and white shoes, is strikingly similar to that of a character from a 2009 Flash animation by Newgrounds user Zarla around the 1:52 mark.
 * In a Reddit AMA, PhantomArcade confirmed that the similarities are purely coincidental.
 * In a Reddit AMA, it was confirmed that Boyfriend's favorite animal is a Hominid, not realizing that a Hominid isn't an actual animal.
 * Boyfriend knows what to do in case of accidentally shooting oneself with a bullet into the thigh and being unable to afford a hospital visit.
 * When watching anime, Boyfriend can't read the subtitles in the subbed version fast enough. This draws concern from everyone that he's lying and that he's illiterate.