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Peanut Butter Sandwich
Graaaaaape!
Peanut would really like to play. He is vigorous with most everything he does, even if he’s not quite up to human standards with some of his projects. (Give him a break, he’s not even 5 years old) Even though he’ll quickly succumb to hype and peer pressure, he’s still a caring spirit. On top of that, he’s an extraordinarily fast reader (whether he’s a fast learner is up for debate) and loves to play games. All kinds of games.
He creates his own mini-comic called The Adventures of Spot (superdog) which is a pastiche of superhero comics and movies he’s somewhat familiar with. It showcases his insecurity with making an actual creative work of art, mainly through his restating the obvious multiple times in the same panel. This is not too far off from the real thing.
Peanut lives with Grape, and has a mild crush on her. Recognizing this hasn’t stopped him from waking her up from her nap while in a panic.
Grape Jelly Sandwich
Any problem can be solved with the correct application of pressure to a stupid person’s face.
You shouldn’t expect too much effort from Grape. While she has a creative spark in her own right, she would much rather fall back on tried and true methods, such as violence. It hasn’t garnered her many close friends, and only recently she decided to open herself up to the cat community of Babylon Gardens.
Even though she’s younger, she often acts as the big sister to Peanut, given that she’ll refrain from hurting him even if he’s bothersome (for the most part) and even try to intervene on his behalf. This is part of what gets Grape into trouble so often.
She has ongoing disputes with the neighborhood dogs, mostly out of her disdain for them, but also because she can dance circles around them for fun, and rarely get much more than an angry stare or attempted beat-down. She can’t do anything about the balance of power, but it doesn’t matter to her, it’s just something else to pass the time.
Bino
All I want is your complete and unquestioning loyalty, is that too much to ask?
The ringleader of the neighborhood dogs and chairdog of the Good Ol’ Dogs Club. That is, to the extent that his older brother Fido isn’t around. Bino derives the respect he gets simply by blood relations. For most dogs, that’s good enough, nevermind the fact that Bino is almost nothing like Fido. He’s envious, greedy, stingy, obnoxious, petty, and downright mean, and if you know a little something about dogs, that can rub off rather easily.
His main posse consists of Fox and Rex. Joey sometimes tags along, but because Joey is exceedingly weird and isn’t part of the Good Ol’ Dogs Club proper, he’s often left out.
Fox: Wears dogtags. He’s the smart one, which means he’s almost as smart as a cat. But I kid!
Rex: What he lacks in brains, he makes up for in his uncanny ability to taste minute differences in coffee blends. Oh, and he’s strong too, but that’s genetic.
Sasha: She’s one of those ‘flavor of the week’ kind of girls, having an on-again-off-again relationship with Bino depending on how his standing is with the neighborhood dogs, and whether or not she feels like it. she wears a heart on her collar.
Joey: Bino’s younger brother. Was the runt of his litter, and is usually ignored for the most part. But it’s okay, he can cope . . . he can cope . . .
Squeak: Joey’s . . . partner. Don’t ask.
Maxwell
Don’t ask about the bite mark.
Maxwell likes to be snarky and caustic far more than is healthy for a cat, and it shows. He lives with Bino, and eggs him on often because it’s fun to torment the dogs and their idea of a social hierarchy.
Max is often known as ‘that annoying neighbor cat’ by the owners of other pets, and instead of sleeping like most cats, he gets his energy by being annoying. It’s almost like photosynthesis, only with grinding on peoples’ nerves instead of sunlight. Max isn’t the leader of anything in particular, but he’s friends with all the cats in the neighborhood for better or worse.
Fiddler and Keys: A cat duo who play the insturments they’re named after. This is likely due to an aggressive push by their owners to have musical cats.
Jasper: He’s the quiet type to the point of being mute. He’ll get that Jinx one of these days! Ah, hilarity.
Mr. Bigglesworth (10+): There are at least ten cats with the name Mr. Bigglesworth, and they’re all Siamese or Siamese mixes, most are not blood-related, and some of them are even female. They chalk it up to their owner being a crazy cat lady. A few of them have fun with it in order to mess with the heads of animals who aren’t aware there’s more than one.
Fido
No, no, thank you for serving your community. You’re an asset to this neighborhood and a great patriot. Me? I’m just an everydog trying to get by in this crazy game we call life.
Fido is the pet community’s leader, working hard every day to help the pets in need, promote adoptions, and keep the peace between cat and dog. On top of that, he was hired on by the local police department for their K-9 program, participates in a number of track and field tournaments, and teaches pups to read in his spare time.
Isn’t he just disgusting?
Not all is liver an potpourri, as Fido has found himself, through a series of poor choices as a pup, in the arms of a cat. Sabrina is Fido’s secret girlfriend, and despite Fido’s strongest attempts to keep everything hush-hush, Sabrina has needs to fulfill. Such as having Fido take care of every little forest critter she was told to get rid of. Fido helps out of the goodness of his heart, but probably also out of the goodness of something else. A recent case he’s deigned to take care of is a mouse named Spo, who Fido has grown rather attached to.
Sabrina: The quiet, unassuming type. She just tries not to make much noise among the other pets. Also, despite belonging to the most vicious killer subsection of pets, she desires most of all to be Friend of All Living Things and refuses to do physical harm to anyone. She’s secretly Fido’s girlfriend.
Spo: A loudmouth who was the runt of his litter, Spo is a mouse with spunk. He wedged his way into Fido’s life by strongarming his way into his heart.
Tiger Arbelt
I hate Thursdays. I like pizza. I hate cockroaches. I like my teddy bear Poom. That’s characterizaion, right?
A dog with an unfortunate name. When he was adopted as a pup, his owner was not aware that being named after a cat was a social h-bomb for dogs. (Other bad dog names are Leo, Felix, Sylvester, Cheshire, Figaro and Tabby) The other dogs will not let up on this, and it’s driven Tiger to become agressive and paranoid.
Additionally, he has an eating disorder, which stems from his constant emotional problems. In all, isn’t he a wonderful character to have in a comic? Sort of like a mix between Garfield and Heathcliff–oh.
Marvin Arbelt: Tiger’s cat-sibling, who is more patient and understanding with Tiger than the dogs. In fact, most of the cats are more patient and understanding with Tiger, and that doesn’t help things one bit.
Zach Arbelt: Adopted on Christmas, Zach is the newest member of the Arbelt household. He was rather hyped up after being in the pet store since he was a kit, but now he’s not sure he likes being a pet.
Other Animals
Daisy: Amazingly enough, she’s even less intelligent than Sasha.
Humans
Mr. and Mrs. Sandwich (Peanut and Grape’s owners): Both Mr. and Mrs. Sandwich moved into Babylon Gardens because they heard that the place was pet-friendly, and they’re both fond of animals. Mr. Sandwich works as an auto mechanic.
Jerry Arbelt (Tiger’s owner): TIIIIGEEEERRRR WHO ATE ALL THE PIZZA
Ryan Byron (Fido’s owner): He just thinks its really amusing what pets get themselves into. And beyond that, it’s not a human matter, so who cares? Ryan is an R&D expert for a software firm and likes to play D&D in his spare time.
