Week 44! (Patreon)

Here we have Simon Bitterman, the butler of the Goodman (as Kale's last name was in the Old Canon) family, created because obviously a wealthy family has a butler, right? Bitterman was pretty much going to be a stereotypical butler, except without much snobbery and pomp, instead being more friendly and nurturing. The Bitterman family apparently was one that had served the Goodman family for many years, to the point that Simon here had actually helped raised Kale's adopted father in addition to helping to raise Kale and Tyler. Also I apparently deemed him infertile? I suppose as a way to inject the idea that he really cares for the Goodman family and kids in replacement of having his own.

Bitterman's design is kind of a hodge-podge of simple ideas and references. He's a raccoon because... well, I think just to have a raccoon and some diversity in animal representation at the time. Ace Attorney was, for some reason, an inspiration for his design, as his coat and cravat are similar to Miles Edgeworth's and his hairstyle is similar to Manfred von Karma's. The purple fabric on his arm, his pose and demeanor, and the "mustache" were all just pretty much additions to make him a typical elderly butler.

Bitterman wasn't added in the New Canon mostly because I wanted to stray from having Kale's family be stereotypically rich, so that meant cutting out the servant and having the family act more "normal", to be more relatable and to give Kale a closer relationship with his parents and having more knowledge of a typical family, with a homemaker, proactive mother and a less stringent father... to an extent.

This is actually the last of the Old Canon characters who actually had a Cast page, so I'll see if I can dig out any more minor characters from that era to do a drawing and description for.