Laika the Dog

Concept and Creation
For a long time I've wanted to make a character who has an insane amount of control over time, as I've always loved time travel stories such as Seconds, Life is Strange, Erased, the Time Machine (1960), and the Girl Who Leapt Through Time. I've also always been interested in the tragic consequences of time travel, as in say, Back to the Future, the protagonist gets a better life and doesn't deal with paradoxes, where as in Life is Strange the entire balance of reality is thrown off and every choice dramatically changes characters. So while thinking of a character, I was originally considering making one based off of Schrodinger's Cat, who would have been a male cat that jumps between realities and is extremely jaded. However these ideas were put off to the side as I was busy with larger creative projects.

Then the idea came back to me when I was watching Sonic Boom one night and was thinking "If I was in this show how would I screw with everyone?" (Not sure why I thought that but whatever) and eventually I began to think of a character somewhat based on myself. Considering how I'm also extremely jaded the idea for the time traveling character returned to me, however, I decided to base it off of Laika, a dog who was the first animal to go into space, and I figured it fit since Laika is of my same gender and I am more of a dog person. Then considering the "Sonic lore", remembering that the Time Eater from Sonic Generations exists who warps reality, and that he was discovered in Space. So, I began wondering what would have happened if a confused dog in space ran into a space-time bending anomaly, and thus Laika came to be.

Trivia

 * Her hairstyle is inspired by various interpretations of Veronica from the movie/musical Heathers, and in the musical fanbase, it is common to create animatics for various songs. Many animatics feature Veronica with hair similar to Laika's.
 * She is pansexual.