98SE-tan
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This character represents the second edition of Windows 98. She is represented as a shy pre-teen girl with short light blue or light purple hair with a small side ponytail held by an 8-shaped hairtie, the Windows logo as part of a necktie and a green + white sailor school uniform with SE printed on the front.
She is usually seen with 98-tan, and like 98-tan she is shy but unlike her she is prone to aggression, is not a futanari and has an unusual hatred towards male genetalia. She carries around a can opener or bottle opener (with the intent to castrate) and her most commonly used phrase is all dicks seriously need to die. Homeo is her primary victim for these attempted attacks.
Two early designs that continue to be used alongside the 98 an 98SE-tans are a pair of stick-limbed snack-boxes with a face and version number drawn in crayon, based on the Vulcan 300 toy that appeared in the anime series Konjiki no Gash Bell!!/Zatch Bell!. In the very early days before the designs of the primary OS-tans had settled, generic stick-limbed boxes were often used as placeholders; there had been instances of small DOS and Windows 3.11 boxes before other designs gained popularity. Both girls now make regular use of these as mechanical suits. The mech-box used by 98 is blue in colour, and likewise the 98SE mech-box has a green theme. The mechs are sometimes shown as guardians or friends to the 98-tans, otherwise the two girls can be seated inside them as pilots. The box sizes can vary, ranging from doll-like when carried by the girls to taller than an adult when they ride inside them.
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