9/18/10: 8 facts about your character tag

I'm putting aside the 10 questions about your character meme briefly because I was tagged by Caticus to give eight facts about one of my characters. I guess I will go with my mascot, Domino. If you want to do the 10 questions thing, just go to my previous journal. On to the facts!

Oh wait, I need to post the rules first.

RULES:
1. Post these rules.
2. Post eight facts about your character.
3. Tag eight other characters.
4. Post their names with the creators avatars username.

The facts:

1. Domino is based on a real guinea pig I once owned that had the same name. I adopted him from a girl that went to the same middle school I went. She was moving away and she couldn't take her pet rat and guinea pig with her. I volunteered to take the guinea pig. The real Domino looked pretty much like the cartoon one, fat, white, and a black mask and black back. Domino died after I had him for about a year and a half, but I'm glad for the time we had together.

2. Domino's personality has changed several times since I started to draw him in my comics. At first he was a trouble maker always doing mischievous things, but ever since I added Rocky to the strip, I gave the mischievous personality to him. Domino is now a little more childish and naive.

3. I haven't really come up with a back story for Domino or any of my other characters, but currently I'm thinking maybe Domino was born as a lab guinea pig being subjected to unusual experiments and was one day rescued by Rocky, which is why they're best friends. This isn't set in stone, so it's bound to change.

4. I've also thought about giving Domino at least one family member. Before the escaped lab guinea pig idea occurred to me, I thought maybe he'd be raised by his uncle (yes, the old cliche that the protagonist has one or both parents missing), or maybe even be Cinnamon and Midnight's younger brother. Neither of those ideas went anywhere though.

5. My oldest drawings of Domino have him with much shorter legs, more like a real guinea pig. I made them longer because to me, it seemed that actions like running or kicking wouldn't look as exciting or expressive when a character has really short legs. Whether I'll return to the stubby leg look, I don't know.

6. I imagine Domino being around 2 and a half to 3 feet tall. That's huge for a guinea pig, but hey, he's a cartoon character. Making him big also makes it much easier for him to interact with the other characters.

7. Domino's favorite sport is paint ball. I've got one or two old comics where he plays the game with Rocky, but I haven't drawn him playing it recently. I've never played paint ball myself, but it looks fun!

8. Although Cinnamon, Midnight, and Domino are all guinea pigs and have similar body shapes, Domino is the only one with a belly button. It's there to make him look cuter.

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