Week 41! (Patreon)

Ah, Mr. Foobre. This final teacher of Kale's is one I'm actually not that embarrassed about looking at again. Whereas the other teachers were mostly just stereotypes of teachers found in their respective studies, Mr. Foobre was more of an original idea... sort of. The basic idea was that, in the future, Computer Science would have advanced into a virtual reality sort of setting in terms of chatrooms and socializing and such, so the teacher for a class of said topic could be a sentient A.I. program within the VR realm itself. It allowed myself to incorporate a "futuristic" sort of setting into the school day, and making Mr. Foobre appear to be human gave potential for Kale to have someone to identify with, even if they were only a computer program. It also gave the possibility for fun involving glitches and weird computer quirks, like his habit of screaming default phrases when classes started and ended; hence why his name is Foobre, a play on FUBAR.

Now... unfortunately, when I said this was more of an original idea sort of, it's 'sort of' because... well, if it weren't obvious reading it, the whole idea is kind of ripped off from Mega Man Battle Network, which I was really big into a decade ago. The "skin-tight suits" that Kale and Bruce get put in, as well as the polygonal computer program that directs them to their classroom within the VR, are pretty blatant tells on that.

Still, I like this general idea probably best out of all the school stuff from the Old Canon, hence why I would reuse the VR idea again in the New Canon in Arc 14, complete with the same basic style of headsets and the same little polygonal computer program making a reappearance.