Roger Grimdark

**Roger Sheldon Grimdark** is a velociraptor and the deuteragonist of the Goth Gang segment of Outcasted. He is an amateur filmmaker who mostly utilizes clay models and puppets of various materials, while also occasionally working with live models. He is also a general STEAM field employee who enjoys tinkering and inventing things in his lab, cooking, and painting.

He enjoys the culture, entertainment, fashion, and paraphernalia of the 1940s and 1950s and employs it in his everyday life with a mix of more advanced technology. He also enjoys reading about paranormal phenomena, morbid tidings, and scientific discoveries and advancements. Roger also has a very special interest in the process of eating and digesting materials and has a lot of knowledge regarding this.

Conversely, Roger dislikes 21st-century culture, entertainment, fashion, and paraphernalia, getting into heated arguments, loud noises, overly bright colors, and blind optimism.

## Appearance

Roger has long, straight rose-red hair that goes down to his shoulders, usually styled with long bangs that cover his left eye and corners of his face. His sclerae are a sand brown hue, his irises a dark hickory brown color. His teeth are a shade lighter than his sclerae and are all sharp. His face is typical of that of a velociraptor. His scales are cedar brown hue, his feathers a chocolate brown. His feathers cover parts of his face, though this is usually masked by his hair, and go from his neck to his upper elbows to above his knees, they also cover the upper side of his tail. His tail is long, straight, narrow, and has a large tuft of red feathers at the tip. He normally wears glasses and dark clothing that cover his arms and legs.

Roger is usually shown as clean-shaven, though it's been revealed in a few episodes that Roger regularly shaves his goatee that is the same color as his eyebrows. When he does not shave it, it sticks out of the corner of his lower jaw.

## Biography

Not much is known about this theropod man's background. Roger's very mysterious, yet most people who come across him find him to be a memorable person. People tend to feel strongly about him one way or another, even when some barely know him. When getting to know him well enough, he is considered to be a very interesting character- whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is up to the person to decide.

## Personality

Roger can be described as macabre, solicitous, obsessive, strange, socially awkward, reclusive, prone to extreme mood swings, gloomy/sorrowful, usually pessimistic, sometimes shows optimism, having a somewhat surreal worldview, and constantly overthinking/overanalyzing. His sense of humor can be considered dry, morbid, and absurdist at many different times. He is considered to be of above-average intelligence. He considers himself to be an introvert and, while mostly pessimistic, an occasional optimist. He always tries to tackle problems head-on if he considers it possible.

Politically, he's a moderate liberal/Democrat but likes to keep his views private due to fear of receiving backlash for them. He understands that politics tends to make people feel strong feelings and wishes to avoid the subject altogether. When confronted with someone whose views differ from his, his reaction tends to depend on individual-to-individual. He tries to see everyone's point of view in things and study everyone's psychology in hopes that there can be a breakthrough and a compromise. He is particularly interested in learning about evolution, history, development, sexology, and anthro psychology (and perhaps even animal psychology as well).

He has problems making eye contact with others as he only makes eye contact with people he is comfortable with. He also has a bit of a stuttering problem and sometimes has issues trying to find the right words to express himself.

## Backstory

### Childhood

The year was 2001. Scientists created Roger and his cousin Dominick in a lab using the ancient DNA of extant birds. He wasn't made as a fully-formed infant, however. He started out as an egg, as did his cousin. They wouldn't hatch until 1 year later. The scientists eventually ceased receiving funding for this project, contributors questioning the ethics of bringing dinosaurs back to life, and thus, they abandoned them somewhere where they believed the two wouldn't be found by any passing civilian.

Roger and Dominick were dropped in 2 different spots, far away from each other, and thus were separated. The two share a double birthday, being created and hatched on the same day. Luckily enough, they were also discovered by 2 people who happened to be siblings and thus were able to meet again as children. Roger's mother is an emu who was married to a male Sandhill crane. He harbored 2 siblings who happened to be a hybrid of the two species. He was the only dinosaur in his immediate family, something he had taken notice of. He always wondered why he was the only member of his immediate family that was a dinosaur, and why he never saw any other person of his own species aside from Dominick. One day, though, his parents decided to tell him the truth, that his particular species had died off millions of years ago—they were extinct and he was created in a lab using their ancient DNA. He found it devastating at first but was also glad his parents had told him. It hit him hard for about a few hours, but eventually, he stopped feeling so sad about it. Instead, he was intrigued and wanted to learn more about dinosaurs in general and about other extinct species and how they got diminished.

At school, he had trouble making friends. He was considered an oddball for reasons unknown and nobody ever wanted to hang out with him. In his neighborhood, he had only 2 friends but they were usually spiteful toward him. He eventually developed more friends, however, they were only temporary. He was also considered a bit of an outcast, though people would occasionally talk to him at school. Eventually, his parents divorced after a very rough marriage and his father cheating on his mother for the final time and he, his mother, and his brothers were evicted from their home and were forced to live with his grandmother. His grandmother was very rough with him and his father had turned abusive as they both had to deal with Roger's diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and his newfound mood swings. He had a lot of trouble befriending others in school and in his new neighborhood due to his newly-developed violent tendencies. Of course, there were others who attempted to be kind to him. His violent outbursts pushed him out of school and into a crisis unit for 1 month where he was miserable, but developed temporary friendships.

## Trivia

* Roger can be considered an excellent chef, being able to appeal to the majority of people's tastes. He is competent enough to be able to start his own restaurant if he ever desired. However, he prefers to cook as a hobby and as a manner of sustaining himself, dedicating his professional life to science, drawing/painting, writing, and filmmaking.
* He was designed to appear as Robin Grimmgall's ideal self, appearance-wise, but harbor his personality traits, experiences, disorders, history, mentality, and relationships.
* Roger is a multi-verse character, including Robin Grimmgall's private alternate universes.
* Although his hair may appear to be humanoid, it is actually created entirely of feathers. It is simple for other characters to guess while touching it directly or watching him pull a piece of it out.
* Roger wears prescription glasses, but he is simply myopic (*near-sighted*) and doesn't *require* reliance on them to see everything (simply sights at a considerable distance).