Rick Gageson

A drawing I was able to do yesterday, before being instructed to do otherwise (long story short, I sprained my wrist).

Rick Gageson, the fifth member of my animal crew and the fourth to have a finalized design...more or less (tweaks happen). Trigger is still in progress, as is the captain.

Rick is a cockroach, and has the role of engineer and general grease monkey...er...bug. After surviving a rather nasty explosion when he was young, he's fallen under the false assumption that he's indestructible, and so has a cocky attitude towards anything dangerous, which is valuable when living on a ship that's falling apart, but not so much when it comes to social situations. His general lack of care for danger and boundaries means he can come across as insensitive and creepy towards those who haven't known him for very long.

He has a rather turbulent friendship with Kit, both highly protective of the ship and incredibly doubtful of each others treatment of it. Kit yelling at Rick to avoid it exploding while Rick criticizes her drink driving and how it'll cause them to crash. Though he's probably the closest to the pilot, what with Silas finding him vulgar, Trigger finding him idiotic, and Legs constantly falling victim to Ricks frat-boy bullying.

I had so much fun with this, despite the pain in my hand...really upset that I can't do any more drawing for a few days

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