My sibling and I got into a bit of a heated debate over how to represent junior. I had originally wanted to represent both in one go with Chien Pao from gen 9 or Deoxys from gen 3. Tucker would be one of the only characters with a legendary/mythical pokemon and the whole bit is that he's not a high enough lvl trainer to really control them so they just do whatever. I just love the idea of Wash or Carolina realizing these guys have an increadibly powerful pokemon on their side and Tucker is like "oh yeah thats just Junior, he's chill."

When s14 of rvb came out I really liked the shake up of the mercs episodes. Seeing a more civilian side of the world was really fun to me and thinking about what the mercs did outside of work was really fun.

This design was a concept for a side character that works the night shift at a super shitty 24/7 diner that Sam frequented. Not because it was good and not because he liked the atmosphere of the obnoxious retro decor but because it was one of the only places he could go in the middle of the night when he was homeless after the war. (plus it was usually pretty quiet which was nice)

I wouldn't say he and Cait were particularly friends but at some point she got really used to having him around. Usually there's a 2 hr time limit per purchase for customers, but as long as her manager wasn't there she'd let him stay however long he wanted, even give Sam a heads up of when shift changes were coming. If someone sent back their food without eating it, she'd even offer it to him before stealing some for herself.

Sam is a pretty intimidating guy generally, and she'd be lying if she said she wasn't a little freaked out by him at first, but he's very effective when it comes to scaring off a lot of the obnoxious drunk guys that would come in after the bars close for some shitty cheap burgers. "Why get rid of the spider if he kills all of the mosquitos?" kind of mentality.

She's a pretty apathetic person, but is actively really trying to fix it and force herself to care these days. When she was younger she blew off school and basically lived to go from one shitty house party to the next, because whatever, humanity could go extinct at any moment right? Then one day she wakes up and she's not 19 anymore and the war is over, humanity is still here and so is she at 26 with back pain, rent due and no plan whatsoever. She's working on it though.