Chrome Bumper

"Chrome Bumper" Cothman is one of the eight principal protagonists of As the Orb Turns. He lives in Wacovia and attends the local high school.

Bio
Chrome Bumper was born on March 23rd, 1973 to Sherman and Roberta Cothman, who lived (and still live) in Wacovia, DW. He has a brother, Brandon, who is five years older than him, and five years later, his sister, Sandra, was born.

When Cothman was in 10th grade, he got his first girlfriend: Wendi. She was in 8th grade at the time, and had blond hair and a happy dimenor. However, this relationship ended at the end of summer 1989 when Wendi's family mysteriously had to move away.

In autumn 1989, the start of his 11th grade year, Chrome Bumper met his second and current sweetheart: Susie Platzner. Unlike Wendi, Susie is a brunnette and a goth, loving all things strange, maccabre, and otherwise unorthodox. Since then, they have been stable.

He has been friends with Rusty and Gilbert since elementary school and love skateboarding and video games. Unlike his friends, however, he doesn't do marijuana. He, like the rest of his family, is an active churchgoer, but also interested in Zen philosophy, and its application to skateboarding.

He makes average grades in high school, and isn't [as much of] a slacker [as some of his friends]. He graduates class of 1991.

His real name is Nicholas Michael Cothman.

Meta-info
Chrome Bumper predates As The Orb Turns, being a carry-over from Aluminum Siding. However, this incarnation of him is a great deal more intelligent and reasonable than the Aluminum Siding one.

His name derives from the lyrics of Freeways by Men Without Hats. 'Chromierte Stossstange', which is German for Chromed Bumper. ''The tense was made present, giving us the character's current name.