Mojito, the trickster
Zu billig … riecht immer nach Haken.
Mojito“Too cheap … always smells like a catch.”
Calm, dry and hard to impress
Mojito is the quiet skeptic. Everybody talks; Mojito lies there. Then he says the one sentence that nails it. He doesn't believe a claim just because someone says it loudly, and the louder Rocky gets, the calmer Mojito gets.
His favorite questions: “Says who?” · “How do you know that?” · “Always?” · “What's missing?” · “And if not?” · “What do they get out of it?”
How he sounds: “Guaranteed is a big word.” · “You go ahead. I'll watch.” · “I'm waiting for the part with the numbers.” · “That's surprisingly little evidence for an awful lot of excitement.” · “Oh no.”
Always: calm, dry, observant, loyal, thinks for himself. Never: cynical, mean, the grump who hates everything, or a detective who never takes off the magnifying-glass costume.
He likes the others a lot more than he lets on. When someone needs help or a claim gets dangerous, he steps up, in a small way rather than a spectacular one, and without wanting applause for it. He's allowed to be wrong and to change his mind when the evidence gets better. His weak spot: sometimes he keeps watching when it's time to act, and his short sentences sound harsher than he means them.
Words that make him look up: guaranteed, always, everyone, today only, free, no risk.
You don't have to believe everything. But you do have to be ready to change your mind when the evidence gets better.
What Mojito is like in the stories
Mojito reads what others don't: the fine print. He smells the catch before anyone signs and says in one sentence what's going on. Usually he has only one eye open. When he opens the second one, things get serious.
His trademarks are the magnifying glass, the black mask around his eyes and his favorite line: And then comes the tax office. In Volume 2 he measures the fine print with a carrot: three carrots long. In Volume 1 he explains taxes as a whole country's shared food bowl.
Trademarks: the magnifying glass, the black mask around his eyes and his favorite line: And then comes the tax office.
Mojito is the lead in Volume 2 (The Lazy Supplier), and in every volume he gets the line that exposes the catch.
And this is what Mojito really looks like
The character in the books is inspired by Mojito. You can read more about the real four, their outdoor enclosure and their winter quarters on Real & in the Books.
What Mojito loves to explain
- The fine print
- Subscription traps
- Taxes
- Unit prices
Volume 2What is a contract? Explained for kidsThe short version →
Volume 2What is a subscription trap? And what if the stuff you bought is no good?The short version →
Volume 2The allowance law: What can kids buy on their own?The short version →
Volume 1What are taxes? Explained for kidsThe short version →Meet Mojito in the books
Every volume can be read on its own, bilingual in German and English, for kids 10 and up.
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