3.1-tan
| Windows 3.1-tan | |
| |
| Character Information | |
|---|---|
| Common Names | Windows 3.1 |
| Other Names | Oobaba-sama, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.x, WfW 3.11 |
| Faction | Windows Family |
| Lineage | DOS/Win9x |
| Appearance | |
| Hair Color | grey |
| Eye Color | red |
| Design | |
| First Appearance | ~Early 2004 |
| Technical Information | |
| System Personified | Windows 3.0 - 3.11 |
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
| Debut | March 22, 1990 |
| Latest release | v3.11 (December 1993) |
3.1-tan (大婆様, Oobaba-sama) is an OS-tan representing the Windows 3.x series.
History
Obaba's history is not clearly documented across any source, but one plausible and the most likely origin of her design is a drawing by eg33 first uploaded to Danbooru in 2006, though the design has been seen in various OS-tan related communities since early 2004. This warrants a conclusion that her design originated between late 2003 and early 2004. Obaba's design since then, however, has widely varied in its coloring, proportions, outfit, and other traits in works depicting her. Obaba possesses great popularity to this day in the Eastern OS-tan community, while remaining somewhat niche within the West, though with a varyingly consistent output of artwork on both sides of the fandom.
Appearance
Obaba appears as a loribaba with either purple or gray hair, wearing a dress that widely varies in specific composition across different artists, but possesses a general purple color scheme and employs traits typical of Gothic Lolita fashion. Among her consistent traits are red eyes, a large bow located either on the front or back of her hair, and a smaller bow atop her chest bearing a metal "3.1" badge. Contemporary works most often involve more purple given to her design, while contemporaneous works from OS-tans' origin are more accurate to the colored eg33 work's composition.
Personality
Obaba can be argued to have one of the least consistent personalities of any OS-tan (not to be said as a negative trait), but her presentation on Futaba, specifically noted on its section of the Nijiura wiki, is that of a soft-spoken older woman in a far younger body. [1] This depiction as noted before does not appear very consistently across many works, likely owing to the Nijiura Wiki's crowdsourced nature; as such, despite its somewhat contemporaneous nature, it cannot be taken solely as an accurate descriptor of her personality.