A rocket, flying saucer or bird seems obvious, for something which is going up and down. But as an improvement, it should also handle the direction of scrolling

A rocket, flying saucer or bird seems obvious, for something which is going up and down. But as an improvement, it should also handle the direction of scrolling. At the moment, the buddy always looks into the same direction. Unless it's Michael Jackson doing a moonwalk (which you could add too), it's inconsistent.