Bat

Bat

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Sean Dingling V · T · F
Occupation	Trapeze artist ( - June 2017)
Biological information
Reckoned birth year(s) (this is for age comparison purposes, and so may look odd; click on the question mark for details)?	1995-1996
Documented age range (as recorded in court record profiles & case files)	22* (Turnabout Big Top)
Last known status	Comatose (Dec. 30, 2017)
Eye color	Brown
Hair color	Dark brown
Height (the metric (cm) values are sourced from official guidebooks and may not reflect the relative sizes of characters as depicted in-game or in other official media)	Unknown
Associates
Family	Unnamed parents (absent) Acro (older brother & colleague; arrested)
Friends	Regina Berry (crush & colleague)
Affiliates	Russell Berry (employer; deceased) Moe (colleague) Benjamin Woodman (colleague)
Aliases/nicknames
Bat* (stage name)
Names in other languages
Japanese (romanization written with the given name first)	木下一平 (Ippei Kinoshita)* (birth name; equivalent of Sean Dingling) バット (Batto)* (stage name; equivalent of Bat)
French	Alec Loche* (birth name; equivalent of Sean Dingling) Bate* (stage name; equivalent of Bat)
German	Sean Dingling* (birth name) Bat* (stage name)
Spanish	Sean Dingling* (birth name) Bata* (stage name; equivalent of Bat)
Italian	Sean Dingling* (birth name) Bat* (stage name)
Miscellaneous
Debut episode	Turnabout Big Top

Acro

"Your brother became a star." Regina believed in that so purely, that she would laugh innocently when saying it... Too innocently... I just couldn't stand it... No matter how hard I tried.

— Turnabout Big Top

Sean Dingling, more commonly known by his stage name of "Bat", was an acrobat at the Berry Big Circus. He fell into a comatose state after an accident six months prior to Russell Berry's murder.

Early life

Sean Dingling and his older brother Ken were abandoned by their parents when they were children. Russell Berry, the ringmaster of the Berry Big Circus, took them in and later employed them as acrobats. Ken and Sean became known as "Acro" and "Bat," respectively.

Bat developed a crush on the ringmaster's daughter, Regina Berry, and they would constantly play pranks on each other.

Accident

One day, Bat made a bet with Regina that if he successfully stuck his head into a lion's mouth, Regina would go on a date with him. Unfortunately, earlier that day, Regina had covered Bat's scarf with pepper to make him sneeze. Bat didn't sneeze, but when he stuck his head into the lion's mouth, the lion sneezed and bit Bat, critically wounding him. His older brother, Acro, tried to wrestle the lion off Bat, but was injured and became paralyzed in the process.

Bat remained in a coma, and Acro was confined to a wheelchair. Regina, being too naive to understand what really happened to Bat, quickly got over him and moved on. Angered at this, Acro devised a plan to kill her six months later, which resulted in her father's death instead. The resulting trial of one of the circus performers led to Acro's implication as the killer.

After Acro's conviction, Regina finally realized the seriousness of Bat's accident and vowed to stay by his bedside until he woke up.

Name

• "Kinoshita" likely comes from the "Kinoshita Dai Circus", a famous Japanese circus.
• Acro and Bat, the two brothers' English stage names, combine to form "acrobat".
• His English surname "Dingling" is likely a combination of the "Ringling Bros Circus" and "dangling", a reference to his job as an acrobat.
• His French surname "Loche" is likely a play on "cloche", meaning "bell" in French. This may be a reference to the English surname "Dingling".

Development

• Bat only appears in the court record and in-game dialogue, making him one of only two living named characters to date to have a court record profile but not make an appearance in person, with Bruto Cadaverini being the other example of this.