I actually just turned my discord pfp to Mr Dorito right before you sent this so really perfect timing LOL Iām assuming you meant this as to ask for my Dom headcannonsā¦ but when you assume you make an ass out of u and me so Iāll give my thoughts on Dom AND do a headcannon list (because I want to heheh)
Dom to me is one of the strongest side characters, he gets so much development and is practically a main character by the end of the series.
When we first meet Dom heās a spoiled bully obsessed with getting āhis girlā, itās a very heteronormative view that we see in the series was taught to him by his dad. Our first introduction of Mr Dorito is Dom acting proud of him (itās been a while since my last YHS rewatch so forgive me if I get some things wrong lol) so I like to think they had a close relationship and that Dom was really desperate for his dadās approval/attention, or at least looked up to him. All this goes to shit pretty quickly when Dom realises heās gay and his whole world shatters around him.
Being outed meant the end of his life as he knew it, he was out on the streets and his dignity didnāt exist anymore. This is where his development starts, Sam and his roles switch pretty quickly as the bully becomes the bullied but the power switch is what essentially gets him into the role of the unofficial fourth member of the trio (tied with J). He helps defeat Yuki, he moves to Tokyo with them, he becomes a version of himself that isnāt tied down to what he thinks his dad wants
Sorry this is a whole lot of nothing Iām so sleepy I might add more once Iāve gone to sleep and woken up, I explore some of the things Iāve talked about a bit better in a few of my fics!:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/57913366/chapters/147628522
https://archiveofourown.org/works/74359586
- Dom is Wasian, his mother is Thai and Mr Dorito is a stereotypical fat American
- Dom is trans, I like to think Mr Dorito was cool with him being a dude because heās sexist but his homophobia is stronger than his sexism (In the Twitter YHS roleplay arc I made Mr Dorito a closested gay guy because I thought itād be funny if it ran in the family)
- Domās nipples are wonky in Tokyo Soul but not YHS because he ended up doing his own top surgery in the street but ended up chickening out and left one boob
- Dom watches those extreme bike parkour stunts on Crabtube
- Dom wanted to do one of those YouCrab family channels where the kids just unbox stuff for content when he was really young, but Mr Dorito never had any time to record it while he was doing his own crabtubes/managing Dorito HQ so he stole one of his cameras but dropped it and it broke. He stuffed it in a bag of unsold Doritos, sealed the bag up, put it on a random truck, and hoped for the best (Mr Dorito fired a whole factory worth of Dorito workers after he settled the lawsuit)
- Dom got used to sleeping on the floor and now he finds mattresses uncomfortable
- Domās legal name is Dom Dorito, but he goes by Rao after his mumās last name
- Not technically a Dom headcannon, but I headcannon Mr Doritoās first name to be Charles, because Chip is a nickname for Charles, so his name is Mr. Dorito Chip (lol)
- Whenever Dom went on dates with Invader heād buy her Doritos, she threw them all away whenever he wasnāt looking
- Dom had never been in a relationship before Invader, he was a lot more into the relationship than she was. She was his first kiss, and he didnāt wash his hands for a month after they held hands for the first time (but he wasnāt really washing his hands before then either)
- Dom is a romantic at heart, he secretly watches romcoms late at night
- Dom cried when āI Now Pronounce you Chuck and Larryā hit theatres, he watched it 10 times until he got banned for life for sneaking in without paying, he then found out the movie had come out 9 years ago, that the theatre put it out really late, and stole the DVD from one of the only blockbusters they had nearby
- Dom has an insane mullet under his hat, an absolute legend of a mullet, he keeps that haircut in tip top shape no matter how poor he may be at the time
- Dom befriended an army of rats while he was homeless, they wait for his call
- Dom was the first to back up Doughboi when the trio suggested eating him the first week they were in the void
- Dom ended up eating Doughboi himself and getting cannibalised a bit after that
- In a post-YHS college AU; Dom, Doughboi and Jerry are on a backpacking trip
- Dom wears his purple hat on most occasions, but his red hat during special events or formal settings
- Absolutely incredible at swimming, he has a sleeper bod that comes out only when swimming, him and Invader used to train together; heād do swimming while she ran laps
- Dom would be an electrician
- Dom has mild chronic pain in his fingers from the amount of times heās dislocated them while messing up a punch, or while doing a really good one
- Mr Dorito and Domās mum divorced when he was young, Domās not sure where his mum is now
- Dom once bought Invader a kitten, but it ran away before he could give it to her and he never brought it up or thought about it again
- Early Dom/Invader was very Invader/Sam esc., she was really into him until they actually got together and she slowly drifted off
