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==Character Details== | ==Character Details== | ||
===General=== | |||
XP-tan is a dark-haired girl with ribbons in her hair and an XP hair ornament worn on the left side (infrequently, she is depicted with ornaments on both sides). As Windows XP was originally criticized for bloating a system and being very pretty without being equally as useful, XP-tan wears tight clothing and has large breasts. An early alternate outfit was especially skimpy, wearing a blue miniskirt, high-heeled shoes, and a midriff-bearing tube top with "XP" on the breasts. [http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-2460 see here for an example]. She usually dresses in a blue and white stylized schoolgirl outfit with ribbons and detached sleeves for decoration. | XP-tan is a dark-haired girl with ribbons in her hair and an XP hair ornament worn on the left side (infrequently, she is depicted with ornaments on both sides). As Windows XP was originally criticized for bloating a system and being very pretty without being equally as useful, XP-tan wears tight clothing and has large breasts. An early alternate outfit was especially skimpy, wearing a blue miniskirt, high-heeled shoes, and a midriff-bearing tube top with "XP" on the breasts. [http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-2460 see here for an example]. She usually dresses in a blue and white stylized schoolgirl outfit with ribbons and detached sleeves for decoration. | ||
Also, [[Breast Size, Hunger, and Memory|as Windows XP used up large amounts of memory for its time]], XP-tan is often seen eating or holding an empty bowl labeled "Memory". | Also, [[Breast Size, Hunger, and Memory|as Windows XP used up large amounts of memory for its time]], XP-tan is often seen eating or holding an empty bowl labeled "Memory". | ||
XP-tan's personality is often shallow at | Her nickname "Saseko" corresponds to the kana syllables "Sa" and "Se", which on a Japanese keyboard are on the "X" and "P" keys, with the "Ko" at the end of her name being a common ending for female Japanese names. | ||
====Early depictions==== | |||
When the OS-tan phenomenon was in its early stages, XP was at the time the current Windows OS, and was heavily criticized. XP-tan's personality is often portrayed as shallow and promiscuous; the latter may reference not just the eye candy interface, but also the large number of security exploits XP had early in its lifetime. There is a strip where 2K-tan derides XP-tan and calls her an "Activation Whore" since XP required activation over the phone or internet to set up; this was a change in Windows that was widely criticized at the time. She generally fills the role in the manga as the typical eye candy character, but alternate interpretations may be starting to change this. | |||
===Roles=== | ===Roles=== | ||