Salsa

Salsa is a female object student seen in the Virtually Gifted cartoon series. She depressingly and gloomily competes on Laser Tag, but does so uncertainly and cautiously in an attempt to not fail the course at hand. She's likely regarded as being a supporting character in the series proper, and her sorrowful and hapless voice that marks the jar is provided by none other than Shmoopy.

Appearance
Salsa. as implied by her less-literal name, happens to take the form of a clear glass jar with a dark brown colored lid on top of it to seal the contents inside. She has a dark green brand label wrapped around the middle of her body that brandishes a minimalist logo depicting five yellow tortilla chips (four on the side shown at a much larger size and one being dipped into a vat of salsa on the other side). These clip-arts found on her body's label are done in a specific line-less style that's a little bit reminiscent of BFB.

Salsa's facial expression is typically read as being that of a sad or empty one, which is an obvious nod to her nihilistic and depressed mannerisms that she displays in the series pretty commonly. She sometimes makes very dark and scared expressions whenever she's shown on screen, making the audience feel pretty bad for her mental state throughout a fair part of the narrative.

Personality
Salsa is coded and written to be a rather depressive and neurotic individual, and is considered the emo goth of the school group. Given this characterization, she's someone who rarely speaks, and whenever she does, it’s usually because she has to do so for the assigned challenge or if someone annoys her into talking about something. She's also known to be bad at small talk, and lacks actually interesting topics to discuss, but she may get better.

Compounding of the aforementioned depressed attitude that was mentioned earlier, Salsa also comes across as emotionally distant and somewhat uncaring of the people around her social circles, and this negative outlook that she seems to possess of the world kind of bleeds into how she doesn't have space to care for much people. This uncomfortable and cold aura she carries creates rifts in her relationships with other people in the classroom. The few melancholic lines Salsa does say to others serve to suggest that she has clinical depression and that makes sense as she possesses a bleak view of the world around her, sometimes feels like doing nothing, or feigns happiness. Salsa's own teammates tend to notice this apparent sadness and melancholy that she emits on a regular basis, but are uncertain on what to do to remedy this.

Adding to that side of negative views of life another layer of complexity, Salsa is also seen to be somewhat sassy and snarky when the time calls for it, but isn't intentionally hostile or outwardly rude for the most part. Her specific speech patterns is notably marked by a slight and faint Spanish accent for the sake of ethnic representation. Complementing this particular fact, Salsa lightly tosses in Spanish terms in her speech on some rare occasions in the narrative, while her vocal direction is noted to be somewhat deadpan and monotone to define her further. Her voice, however, sometimes shows emotion depending on the scenario at hand. And this serves to add depth to her character.

Abilities

 * Throwing: Salsa is known to be rather good at throwing stuff a decent distance and with good accuracy.
 * Boomerang Lid: Salsa can throw her lid like a boomerang as a ranged attack that can knock people down. This also ties in with her knack of throwing stuff.
 * Salsa Lobbing: Salsa can lob her innards at people if asked to. While this move isn't really deadly, it could blind people if thrown at their eyes.

Trivia

 * Tostiters, Salsa's brand, is an obvious and shameless parody of Tostitos. Her original design depicted the word on it directly, but it was edited out and changed to make a more cool and interesting character design.
 * Salsa has an expiration date of approximately 3 years for some reason yet to be explained.
 * Salsa is one of the six food students seen taking VR's course in the Virtually Gifted series.
 * Rainbow Candy, Potato, Tortilla Chip, Cheeseburger, and Coffee Cup are the other five characters with this quality.
 * Semi-coincidentally, Salsa and Rainbow Candy are both on Laser Tag and are also females.


 * Salsa's Spanish accent could be a reference to the fact that salsa, in the real world, originates from Cuba. This implies she may be a foreigner to the continent of Raik, but the exact region she originates from is not really known or explained properly
 * Salsa's nicknames Sal and Sally are actual human names.
 * Salsa seems to have awareness of how strange her classroom life is, and is even vaguely aware of how stupid some people are, but her attitude and mental state of depression doesn't really make her seem all that logical.
 * Salsa is regarded as one of the sadder contestants in the narrative, as she is usually displayed wearing a lopsided frown when she's on screen in the story. Most of the other contestants/classmates are seen smiling or with a neutral expression whenever you see them in the story.
 * Salsa's favorite color is black.
 * Salsa loves sad movies, apparently.
 * Salsa stretches and likes to meditate to cope with her feelings.
 * Salsa hates tostitos and doritos. This is most likely because people eat salsa with those food items.
 * If she were to run out of salsa, Salsa could still survive, but she becomes unconscious. This could imply that the salsa inside of her is like the equivalent of her blood.
 * Salsa works as a store clerk when not attending Mcfinny Public School. This makes her one of the few students who actually have employment outside of school.
 * Salsa likes being called spicy.
 * Salsa is a lesbian.
 * Salsa is noted to be one of two students who is a foreigner to the land of Raik, as she officially originates from outside of it. She comes from a fewirn island region not recognized to be part of any continent.
 * Fedora hails from a northwestern continent called Faros.
 * Salsa and Tortilla Chip have a one sided rivalry from Tortilla's end.