Palette
- sunflower yellow
- shell speckle ochre
- leg sand
- ribbon red-orange
Tock
The fiddler crab · The bossy little drummer who wants everyone in the game
“Clack! Keep the beat!”
Clacks her big claw on the beat of whatever anyone is doing. Walks sideways into the middle of every group. Conducts with the big claw and counts in with the small one. Wants to get everyone doing the same thing at the same time, but she hears a beat in every plan and starts conducting it, even when the plan was to be quiet.
Tells
- Clacks her big claw on the beat of whatever anyone is doing
- Walks sideways into the middle of every group
- Conducts with the big claw and counts in with the small one
Want
To get everyone doing the same thing at the same time
Flaw
She hears a beat in every plan and starts conducting it, even when the plan was to be quiet
Story pressure
Wanting everyone to play my game
Resolving action
Stops the beat and joins someone else's rhythm
Voice
Counted-in commands, one-two-three-and, clipped and cheerful, claps between phrases
“One, two, everybody. No, you missed it.”
Who Tock is with
Cinder's secret lid-opening mission becomes impossibly loud once Tock gives it a beat.
Tock wants the whole creek on one beat; Skip's plops are always off it.
