Rex

Rex on Babylon in 2027 A/Co

**Rex** was a cybernetically enhanced Doberman Pinscher owned by Rick Gryphon. The first Kinginator, and an incredibly loyal soldier, Rex fought alongside his master for years, resolute in his goal to create a world of Housepets. At the conclusion of the second Erebus crisis, Rex would betray his master and surrender to the MVSF, disheartened after years of pointless battle.

## History

### Early Life and Plans

Rex was originally a normal Doberman Pinscher owned by Weston Burr, a human who sought to bring an end to his own species as punishment for their perceived cruelty. In an attempt to create Furries, Burr, now going by his pen name of "Rick Gryphon", attempted to fuse Rex with his own human DNA. By 1992, these experiments had given Rex humanlike intelligence and form, and after Rick turned himself into a furry using Rex's DNA, the two began making plans to move on to the rest of humanity.

In his spare time, Rick created a webcomic, Housepets!, which depicted what he thought an ideal world should be. Rex helped write and draw several of the issues, though ultimately he preferred preparing for more direct action against humanity. The two would succeed in turning several other humans into furries, though their success was largely small-scale, and it seemed that Rick's goal of a utopia would not come to pass.

This changed around 2012, when Rick began having strangely vivid dreams that seemed to show his own creation, as well as how to construct a time machine. Confused but driven, Rick and Rex began to construct and test this time machine. Rick explained that the time machine could be developed into a "Time Crucible" that would shape the timeline to their needs, and could create a world of Housepets. They also created an army of "Kinginators", robotic corgi drones loyal to Rick. Unknown to the two, they were actually being manipulated into breaking their universe's timestream by the Demon King Erebus, who hoped that doing so would help free him from his shattered state.

### Paradoxes and Rio Sapo

In 2015, Rex and Rick put their plan into motion, sending plans and parts of a time machine to Jude, a human high schooler would was destined to travel back to 1972 and kick off the paradox. Rex did not participate in the battle that followed, staying onboard the Time Crucible as reality changed around him. When Jude's friends were able to overload and destroy the Time Crucible's power core, Rex and a small force of Kinginators were flung off into an alternate universe. After fighting their way back to Rick, who had allied himself with the Rio Sapoans and created "the Organization", Rex and his forces battled the MVSF and their allies in the Rio Sapo Crisis. Rex would be seriously wounded after attempting to crash an MVSF shuttle carrying the high school kids from Rick's previous defeat, and was brought back to Kolthis for repairs. Rick, who seemingly perished during the battle, returned to Kolthis and, with the power or Erebus, created a new robotic form for Rex. Now in command of what was left of the organization, Rick set out to reunite the shards of Erebus, with the ever loyal Rex sure this would help lead to their Furry Utopia.