Week 53! (Patreon)

So, firstly, reading back, there are actually surprisingly few "relevant" Randomly-Generated Characters after Connor. I'm kind of pushing "relevant" with Tobias here, and I'll be pushing "relevant" again with the next two characters in this series (who will also be the last in this series cause there's pretty much nothing left honestly). But anyway, this is Tobias, a sheep that was introduced in comic 109.

Now, again, I'm pushing to meet the criteria of "relevant" here because Tobias isn't important like any of the other characters have been thus far; that is, he isn't supposed to be a friend of the main cast that fills out their social lives, nor is he like Eve, Connor, or Dr. Jevesper who are plot-relevant. Tobias's role is like that of most RGCs in that he was meant to just fill out the world generally by being a background character.

There's two interesting things about Tobias, and one leads into the other. Firstly, when Tobias was made, I was in the middle of doing somewhat regular streams where I would draw the comic live (copying Immelmann in his streams of drawing Concession). This was back in 2009 before streaming art became such a commonplace thing with artists nowadays, so it was a pretty unique and interesting thing I've always felt (Immy and I were also some of the very first to put alt-text on our comic pages; we're pioneers like that). Comic 109 happens to be one of the comics that I drew live on a stream, and Tobias has the honor and distinction of being the only character who was not actually "randomly" generated, but generated by discussion and vote of the stream's audience. All of his details, from his name to his species (I forget if his clothing and hair and stuff were also suggestions from the stream chat), were picked by the audience as I was drawing the comic.

Now, the other interesting thing about Tobias that is led into by the fact that he was created by the stream audience... is that Tobias is also I believe the only intersex character in the entire comic thus far, being visibly male but possessing female genitalia. I believe, if I recall correctly, this was mostly Immelmann's doing, and I also believe it was either a response or a precursor to a character named Carrie on Concession that was also generated by one of his stream's audiences (mostly me if I remember right) who also ended up intersex, being visibly female but with male genitalia. This was all 6 years ago, back before transgenders and trans issues were really in the public eye at all, not nearly as much as they are today, so the fact that Tobias was intersex was not really ever going to seriously come up (and I wouldn't really bring it up even today, because like I implied and said in the last update, I try to make characters' sexualities and genders and whatever else not be at the forefront and focus of their character and personality and stuff, because I have always vastly preferred when characters are just regular, realistic people that don't really bring up those kinds of things all the time).

So yeah, that's all there really is to Tobias and why he's 'relevant': he was created by a Ustream chat and he's intersex.

Oh, and Immy drew porn of him pretty soon afterward, you can find it really deep in his FA gallery somewhere.