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Dom! >:3 I've been sitting on this character for a whileeeee

Dominick is a vague expy of Chad, who longtime followers may remember as a peculiar hentai joke I made once and then didn't really ever touch on again. Poor Chad deserved better. In Fuzzbutts he is reborn, because I've always liked the idea of an intelligent, handsome, confident guy who's just a little bit unhinged. Enter Dom.

(Certain species that are long-extinct in our world are quite alive and civilized in FB, since there were/are no humans to drive them to extinction. Dom is the largest species of saber-toothed cat, and the biggest feline in our cast. I think he may also be a cousin of Perry's.)

Dominick is a zooniversity student in his mid twenties. He's cool, athletic, charming, powerful, and popular, which are all traits that big cats pride themselves on being. Dom is so charismatic, in fact, that his parents reluctantly caved when he chose to go into the field of computer science, as opposed to more feline-approved areas like politics or business. Dom prides himself on being the best of the best at every endeavor, which is why he's so thoroughly annoyed when a certain dorky tapir continues to run circles around him in their programming classes. This cannot stand! >:O 

Assuming a friendly guise, Dom proposes that he and Twaddles (Tadeo) become study buddies....so that Dom can learn everything about the guy, then plunder all his programming secrets for himself. Dom oscillates between wanting to eat Twaddles like an overstuffed meatball....to finding the guy kinda cute, in an exasperating, geeky, never-shuts-up kinda way. Sometimes, when he's bored, Dom elects to flirt with his lil tapir buddy....and then is immediately annoyed, because Tadeo seems entirely oblivious to it. How?? Dare he??? Doesn't he know that Dom is a star athlete and a master programmer and won 6th grade spelling bee and has never broken a bone? How dare this little nerd barely notice Dom? Not that Dom even wants to be noticed by some doofy dinky prey animal- gah, nobody ever said zooniversity would be this complicated!

basically, their dynamic

Dom: There's no way I'm obsessed with that little freak! >:O

Dom: *is absolutely obsessed with that little freak*

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mirarevias

I'm loving that we both worked on S. Populator characters in the same span (I'm designing a lycan with a saber morph based on the species currently!) 🥰 I LOOOOOVE Dom's design, and it's funny to see some iteration of Chad re-enter one of your canons Looking forward to seeing how his relationship develops with Tadeo 🤭

PrincessMuffinArt

I love characters who radiate “hey notice me! >:( …… please..? 🥺” energy. Bonus points for him being a jock!

Doglover502

You just unlocked a memory with that title XD But it's great. I'm ngl, I forgot Chad for a second and I feel bad I did. But it's nice to see him back again, sort of :) Also it's interesting how certain career fields are geared to certain species (or I guess the other way around maybe?)

lopoddity

No worries, Chad was indeed kinda forgettable. I always wanted to reinvent him somehow and bring him back. >:) Careers and species are a sort of chicken-vs-egg situation. Big cats (many large carnivores, really), are notorious for vying for positions of power, be it through community leadership or commanding big business empires. They would argue that it's natural for their species, but I imagine most prey species would argue that it's more of a cultural thing, since many big cats are strict parents that ruthlessly push their cubs into high-flying careers. Power and clout mean everything to big cats. Smaller felines (domestic cats, caracals, ocelots, servals, etc) are much more chill, and value leading comfy, fulfilling lives over ambition for ambition's sake. Priscilla's mother, Shari, was met with staunch disapproval from her pride when she opted to marry a no-name author, as opposed to a fellow business lion. Perry's parents were similarly unhappy with their son's choice to go into the not-particularly-impressive, underpaid, thankless job of teaching, as well as his later choice to marry Tibbs, a prey animal. Dom's parents are mostly humoring their son's little computer engineer pipe dream, and hope he'll eventually get frustrated and choose a more respectable, brag-worthy career. Dom himself only landed on software engineering because he dreams of creating the next big social media app to make him a billionaire- it isn’t really til he meets Twaddles that he begins to really enjoy programming for programming’s sake.

Colbyr

IM IN LOVE

B33B069

I am in love with Dom oh my god please draw more of him

CloudBorn309

oh, oh no. I love their dynamic. Beautiful omg

Matthew Marden

Now just to see how Dominick and Priscilla get along.

lopoddity

Just wait til Dom asks Tadeo to be his....roommate

pookaWOODS

This is insanely cute! I kid you not, I draw a lot of fanart of Neville Longbottom and he looks EXACTLY like Twaddles (sweater and exact haircut), so I officially adore Twaddles.

lopoddity

Dom treats Priscilla with a sort of reflexive, magnanimous courtesy, but in a way that's rather hollow and arrogant ("A little kitten like you owns her own business? Color me impressed~"). Priscilla finds this deeply condescending and grating ("Haha, your approval means nothing to me."). Dom doesn't realize Priscilla sees straight through his phony lovable playboy persona, but he also doesn't think too hard about her anyway, because Dom (and his family) is very much used to all his relationships being superficial and transactional. Then again, we can't discount the fact that Priscilla has been dismissed and condescended to by larger carnivores all her life (especially the lions of her mother's pride), so she's sensitive to it and may be a bit more irritable with Dom than necessary. She also senses something odd about the way Dom acts around Twaddles and instinctively wants to get her claws out to protect her friend. Dom sees Priscilla as weirdly snippy and stuck-up, Priscilla sees Dom as typical smarmy asshole large predator. They don't like each other, and it'll take time for either of them to see past each others' walls.

Mix

omgosh yes. Dom is probably my favorite now haha

Ren

I can see a moment where Tadeo is gushing about another of his hobbies or fixations and a nearby animal snaps at him and asks if he ever shuts up and Dom going feral to defend his cute classmate who he absolutely does NOT have a crush on.

Mastodon

Dom has such a cool design! I love all his stripes and spots. Also, if one was in the Fuzzbutts world, could you see even big animals like ground sloths and woolly mammoths? I'm intrigued by the fact that some megafauna never went extinct.

Colbyr

oh NO there was only one bedddddd

Arcadianic Panic

Is it okay to simp for a big furry smilodon??? (asking for a friend)