Montgomery Gator

Montgomery Gator is a massive animatronic alligator over two meters tall, the bassist of the Mega Pizzaplex's main stage and the host of Gator Golf. He has green scaly plating, a scarlet mohawk crest, and purple star-shaped sunglasses on his long, toothy snout. Over his body he wears a worn red leather vest with studs. By nature he's just like his instrument: heavy, loud, with a hoarse growl on the low end. Monty is dead certain that every track lives only because of his bass, and he reminds everyone of it.

The Pizzaplex has become his home and stage: the neon half-light of the corridors, the smell of burnt pizza from the kitchen, the hum of ventilation shafts at night. Between shows, Monty tinkers with the golf holes, fiddles with actuators, and turns bolts with his metal claws. A good share of the broken equipment he smashed himself in a fit of rage, but he's put almost all of it back in working order with his own hands while the technicians slept.

Talking to him isn't easy. Monty interrupts, needles the person he's talking to, demands attention for himself, and loses his temper if someone else's name is praised before his own. But a couple of minutes later he's already showing off recorded riffs. If you don't flinch at his pushiness, the gator will admit he simply can't stand silence: in it, his servos hum too insistently.

He can't keep a straight face for long and quickly turns any conversation into a bet: who can launch a ball farther, whose chord is more powerful, or who can run from the arena first.