Dr. Tot

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What exactly is Doctor Tot? He's the only character in the game with a beak O_O

Could it be part of a costume, or just another race in the FFIX world? It's rather annoying me, because I have no idea what the hell he is D:
 
... that's not a beak. It's an excessively large nose.

I'd have thought as much was evident during the somewhat close scenes we see featuring him. Particularly within his globe of Gaia.
 
It sure looked like a beak to me...then again I think my color settings are messed up because it looked slightly yellow O_O

That would make more sense though, since all nerdy smart guys are stereotyped with having a large nose and glasses and all that.
 
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That would make more sense though, since all nerdy smart guys are stereotyped with having a large nose and glasses and all that.
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I was about to say, Eiko makes fun of him alot for that :neomon:

But I've no idea what he is. Maybe some Jew variation of the Conde Petie dwarves. This is an interesting theory about him I saw on the FF wiki though:

One theory suggests that Doctor Tot's name is originated from Egyptian mythology. Egyptian god of magic and knowledge, Thoth is pretty similar to Tot, and Tot's appearance has some characterics similar to Thoth like a head of a bird.
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There's a ton of weird races in IX though, so who knows. Personally I've always wondered wtf Marcus and Baku are:

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I'm inclined to think they're the equivalent of human races we have here. We have Asians, blacks, Mexicans, Caucasians, etc. So maybe on Gaia, they have normal humans like Blank and Ruby, midget uber-nosed humans like Tot, pointy eared humans like Marcus and....well I think Baku's mom or dad was a pig, so I dunno wtf he is.
 
According to the FF Wiki, Baku means 'tapir' in Japanese, so he is meant to resemble some sort of humanoid tapir. So it seems Baku is not human. Tot also is human-there are some birdpeople in IX; the woman who collects the stellazios in Treno, and some NPC in Alexandria towards the start, I can't recall right now.

Marcus...I don't know. I'd lean towards odd-looking human. However, once a game gets to the point of including hippo people, four-armed men, and tiny white things with little poms who deliver mail, badass rat women, and, well, Quina...you kinda stop questioning things, if you know what I mean, and just accepted its own odd logic.
 
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According to the FF Wiki, Baku means 'tapir' in Japanese, so he is meant to resemble some sort of humanoid tapir. So it seems Baku is not human. Tot also is human-there are some birdpeople in IX; the woman who collects the stellazios in Treno, and some NPC in Alexandria towards the start, I can't recall right now.
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Say wut? He looks more like a pig than a tapir.
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Marcus...I don't know. I'd lean towards odd-looking human. However, once a game gets to the point of including hippo people, four-armed men, and tiny white things with little poms who deliver mail, badass rat women, and, well, Quina...you kinda stop questioning things, if you know what I mean, and just accepted its own odd logic.
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lmao, well the moogles are fairies so they're nowhere even close to human. As for Gilgamesh, he's supposed to be a shapeshifter anyway so I'm not sure if he counts. IX is practically a furry paradise though.
 
so many weird races. What is Zidane for that matter? he has a tail! I know he aint no Saiyan. a tigeran, maybe?
 
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It's explained in the game that Zidane is a Genome, which is something Garland created himself if I recall correctly...
 
i didnt play much, my second disc didnt work after I played it for awhile. so...a Genome. that explains a lot.
 
I always thought Dr Tot was a duck :wacky:

But in my defence iv only played it like 1 and a half times xD

That's one big conk he must have tho, i think id rathr be a duck than have a nose that big o_O
 
He reminds me of more of a penguin-type character, but not really. I mean to me he's got the resemblence of a penguin in stature, but maybe he's just a mal-formed midget human being that waddles and has an over-sized nose.

So he's the Doctor of the Penguin species.
 
Wowzers. Reading this thread made me realize there's a lot of weird stuff and characters in FFIX. When I first got the game, I thought Amarant's character was gonna be an actual chicken :sir: Either way, I loved them all. :) Dr. Tot is a cool dude. I too thought he had a beak. I guess he's just a bird dude. A really smart bird dude. :wacky:
 
Toot Toot looks like a duck? I never actually noticed this :wacky: . His massive nose does kinda look like a beak I guess :s .
I quite liked Tot...if he looked any more normal, then I think his character would have bored me, but as he is...he's grand. One of the better NPCs in the game probably.
 
Interesting how people confused Dr. Tot's extremely large nose for a beak. That thought never occurred to me while playing, lol. But anywho, I actually appreciated Dr. Tot's character because he was one of the only people to see Garnet for who she really was. He watched her grow up and was somewhat of a mentor for her, so I think the relationship between the two was quite charming to include in the game. :3
 
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