Tonky

Tonky is one of the main antagonists from Lua Virus whose main perk is being able to ride a tank. He can only be used by players who own the "Tonky - Extra Payload" gamepass. Tonky was designed to serve as an ally of the Roblox Player team.

Point Blank was added early in the Tanks, Magnets and a Friday Night update in January of 2021. According to the in-game information, Tonky's rival is Magnemeton.

Appearance
Tonky's body is black, sporting light green gloves and shoes with a black square on the bottom and a light green hat. His torso and hat have his emblem, which appears to be an Private military rank insignia.

When using his alternate skin Tonkman, Tonky's colors will become black and white and their headgear will alter to represent Captain Tankman, the mascot of newgrounds. There is a 1/3 chance that it will instead change to represent Steve from the animation series Tankmen.

When the "Payload Body" option is set to F, Tonky's torso will lose its accessories and become curvier to represent that they're female.

Behavior
Tonky behaves like any other payload, being capable of sprinting and running. Their HP is invisible to all players, with only a small popup of the player's current HP appearing whenever they take damage.

Unlike most payloads, Tonky does not have any expressions according to their health, thus the only way to know their HP is through the small popup whenever they take damage and their running speed.

Due to being created to help the roblox players, Tonky and the humans cannot harm each other through their weaponry, however Tonky can still be hurt by disinfection rooms and the bomb placer's bomb explosions.

Due to riding a tank, Tonky is unable to jump, however, the tank is immune to any damage, so anything that fails to hit Tonky's body such as Toxintrap's Toxin Drop will result in him taking no damage. It is also possible to use the tank as a floatation device, allowing Tonky to carelessly swim through Marine Area's surface water. And in some well-coordinated occasions, allow him to transport players by being used as a boat.

Tonky owns a primary attack called Solo Attack which behaves like a normal attack, which will cause him to step out of his tank and allow him to jump and move like any other player, Tonky's tank will reappear as soon as his Solo Attack is unequipped.

Tonky also has another attack called Tank Cannon. which allow him to shoot a cannonball that flings players.

It should be noted that while Tank Cannon cannot directly harm humans it will still fling them, making it possible for Tonky to accidentally throw his peers into map hazards.

Lore
Tonky were artificially built by both Cogswirl and RXT-ZERO alongside his partner Magnemeton in order to protect the Nett and RXT seal rooms from being used by players and befriended each other. On the day that they were finally deployed to Control Zone for a testing round, they were ambushed by a group of malicious payloads.

While Tonky-ZERO managed to survive the ordeal, Magnemeton-ZERO was kidnapped by the enemy team, which resulted in the two never seeing each other again and Magnemeton-ZERO becoming corrupted by RXT's essence for evil purposes. Tonky's character description ends by saying that he still misses Magnemeton to this day.

Killing Magnemeton
Whenever Tonky kills his rival, they will freeze for a few seconds before placing their arm on their face as they get inflicted with the unique CRYING status effect with blue particles coming from their head to represent tears. While on their crying state, Tonky will be unable to use any of his equipment, making him unable to fight back against attackers. It will take Tonky around 90 seconds to restore their composure and stop crying, which will allow them to use their equipment once again and award the player with the Tonky/Magnemeton "RIVALS" badge.

The reason for this unique behavior comes from the fact that both Tonky and Magnemeton's ZERO versions still fondly remember each other instead of being in separate teams.

Facts/Trivia

 * Regardless of their sketch art being created with just a few days of difference, there was a large gap between Tonky and Magnemeton's implementation in which Bass Boost and the Funk Zone was added.
 * Fratricide means "To deliberately kill a brother" and in some countries' laws "To kill a partner/ally in war". "Fratricide" is rather fittingly the name of the RIVALS badge for both Tonky and Magnemeton.
 * Chrispy once compared Tonky to the Newgrounds Tankmen and often offhandedly jokes about Tonky being Captain's brother, and eventually mentioning that he'd like to replace Tonky's current alt skin with one reminiscent of the tankmen if it weren't for him already liking Tonky's alternate.
 * Crispy stated that Tonky's original alt was made to see players complain about it.
 * Tonky's tank doesn't actually touch the ground, if you put your camera at the right angle you can see the tank floating. Due to this Tonky's hitbox is unaffected by ground hazards outside of Coner's cone.
 * This is the only character to have more alt skins than regular skins. Hexashark technically has multiple alt skins, but they are both counterparts of existing regular skins.