As a member of the hive-minded Boovian species, Oh has been conditioned to value conformity. "The Boov ignore one another, and they don't have friends, neighbors, or family," said Johnson of the fictional creatures. But Oh is different. He longs for connection and feels out of place among his "people." And who hasn't felt at least a little bit out of place at some point in their life? Jim Parsons, the voice of Oh, shared his personal experience: "I always had friends, and there was always a group I felt left out of at the same time . . . which maybe, that's normal. Maybe that was my real middle-of-the-road way of being. I have friends — and yet, I'm still missing out."
As a recent immigrant from Barbados (just like Rihanna), Tip can empathize with a similar sense of feeling out of place. "I have felt like an outsider ever since my first day at school," Rihanna shared. "I mean, I think that's really it. When you're at home, you have this sense of comfort. You belong. It's familiar. It is you. And not until you leave your home and you have to be in another environment supervised by completely different people and around different children who come from different homes, and you're immediately exposed to all these types of things . . . because just as strange as they are to you, you are to them."
It's a feeling that every child will experience at some point, and one that Home promises will resolve itself (because it will!).
