Aliphant

Extracted from the ANTian Encyclopaedia.

Character from Aliphant series

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Aliphant at his boss Qoph's office door

Aliphant
Place of birth Floating Island of ANT
Species Loxodonta antiana (Antian elephant)
Gender Masculine
ANT Hierarchy Virtual Reality Engineer
Hair colour Turquoise blue.
Skin colour Sky blue.
Clothes Suit and tie. Disguised if required by the joke.
First Appearance in ANT Aliphant I
Frequency of appearance 98.1%
Other Characteristics Musophobia (Fear of mice)

Aliphant is the eponymous lead role in the comic strip Aliphant, created in 2003.

About his origins almost nothing is known. However, his first appearances are related to the admission application for his current job in ANT.

Even if he can be seen as an anomaly in a society populated almost exclusively by ants, it is known that other members of his species exist as they also appear in the series.

The ethymology of his name can be traced to the first letter of the phoenician alphabet, aliph in some transcriptions, followed by the particle -ant, which identifies all the characters in the series who work in the company ANT.

The first letter is not just related to the main role in the series. There is the theory that this letter aliph represented the elephant, or at least, the animal from whom the ivory was obtained according to the ancient civilizations.

His marital status is bachelor, though he is attracted by his colleague Aypbee, a female Transarmenian elephant who works in ANT as a subcontract by BEE enterprise.

His job as a Virtual Reality Engineer is developped in ANT company under the supervision of his boss Qophant -akin Qoph, in the ANTian style. His fellows are Dalethant, a brown ant who usually shares his points of view and Kaph, the coffeemaker, which is provided with any weird kind of artificial intelligence and symphatizes with this avid caffeine consumer.

Although his appearance is practically necessary, there are some rare strips where Aliphant can escape and rest. This is the price for having a comic strip with his name.   

Amongst his hobbies, it must be remarked the cinema, till insane levels, but also Litterature and Arts in general. During his career in ANT, he has visited BEE in Transarmenia, but also a parallel dimension where he belonged to a society called Contubernium IC; but this, is another story.

 

 

 

First Aliphant's Strip (January, 2003)

 

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