Rodger

Rodger is a very special electromagnetic denizen. TO ME! heh. so, in turn she just is, because i interpret this story myself for the most part, whatever you can really define as me anyway. I MADE RODGER SPECIAL, BECAUSE I SAID SO! plus i mean it just works with the story. shut up. i'm downplaying her already by up-playing her making it seem to you like I am making her out to be more important than she is but trust me she truly is just important. hi guys.

**personality**

Rodger at the start is very quiet. He mumbles most of his words and speaks under his breath. She sounds annoyed most of the time. Some people who spend time around him begin to wonder if he's casting some type of spell, when in reality he's just murmuring to himself and staring. He also isn't afraid to make eye contact, ever. You can see him from afar with his eyebrow furrowed and gazing at you like a ticked off animal.

is a gentle, thoughtful and creative little denizen. Though on the outside , he looks either angry or judgemental. and usually he does act this way to you at first if he doesn't know you, being incredily blunt and cynical in little phrases he uses in casual conversation sometimes, either letting something slightly edgy sounding around a shrimpcity job centre client or under his breath around marco in their tiny flat. and anywhere that rodger seems to exist. hes an omnipresent unstoppable force. he tries his best to not let marco hear his pretty much tic-like cynic murmuring, especially when marcos super young and impressionable.

He often wonders why people are so fast and in a hurry. All Rodger wants to do is survive and look after his family, at the start being only Marco but eventually he comes to find more family members.

he has a very dry sense of humour, and alot of the time if you were talking to him he'd be saying something sarcastically almost at every point but it's hard to tell this unless you already know what Rodger is like. She likes to make sarcastic jokes in conversation without really even caring if people pick up on them or not. most of the time she doesn't expect people to pick up on them and speaks like this just to keep herself amused so when people do pick up on it she's always taken aback. Eddie is surprisingly one of these people who does and plays along with rodger's sense of humour which surprises rodger a lot at first because she wasn't expecting it ESPECIALLY from this tiny seemingly socially unaware dolphin, but at this point eddie actually has more social nuance than he lets on. outwardly he looks just completely innocent though and pretty much wears his thoughts and personality through his demeanour and clothes and ways of speech.

no matter what form he comes as, rodger maintains a few certain features which are constantly unique to him. his face sags in a certain way that weighs on his eyelids, making him always look slightly tired or fed up. The rest of his face is always slightly droopy with a little bit of loose skin. he's also got a very long oval, pear shaped head, more pear-like than circular compared to other characters which have a circular kind of head. Her whole body is pretty pear shaped as well, kind of almost being an exaggerated larger version of his head shape. His eyes also always tend to a yellow hue, if not wholly yellow. she's most often got some semblance of two little moustache whiskers seemingly coming straight out of her nose. it's true.

he cares for the people close to her deeply, and almost to a fault.

He is very introspective and realises that the greater picture in life is important, but affecting things on the larger scale comes from caring about the individuals around you every day, instead of speaking to an invisible, unfathomable and impossiblly complex wall of denizenial organisation. She realised this a long time ago, when she first started working at the job centre and encountered infinitely many prawnish characters and their tales.

**the part of the story where Rodger is a young little hardworking jobcrab**

When she first started working this job, she was very heads down workheadgirl-get-the-money-for-the-kids(aka marco at the time, who needed to be taken care of in their tiny shrimp flat in shrimpcity). she needed to pay rent and buy food for marco, and basically had no brain space for anything other than working for survival. She always had dreams of being a famous comic artist though. in and out of her daydreams stories would deliver themselves to her, derived from the strange shrimps she would meet day by day- and believe me, everyone in shrimpCity was a little unscrewed, mentally.

One of the shrimps she meets is a crawfish like herself- who happens to call himself "Dodger". He looks like Rodger, but with a few different features swapped out. (Dodger is based directly from the old design of Rodger). Dodger is thinner, has whited-out small empty beady eyes, an acne-filled face and a permanent clenched-jaw kind of grimace plastered on his face.

**rogers ever changing claw situation**

so you might all be most familiar with rodger's one big claw and one tiny little claw, but this is actually not his "natural" state of being. he was born with two equally sized claws, of pretty average size, perhaps both a little on the small average scale for a clawed shrimp. This all changed when Marco was deep in his pretty prawn delusions . Marco 's pretty prawn activities were getting exponentially more frequent, and rodger would often come home from work to find that their room would be empty almost every night. (rodger would also come home very late too, sometimes around midnight.) He did realise this was probably a phase but couldn't stop himself from worrying. It climaxed in rodger coming home on a friday, ready to relax and do some writing and drawing after a weeks hard work, expecting no marco to be in sight. but he sees