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Backstory
There isn't one anymore. Try as I might, I can't find the notes. Not too surprising as there is a fair gap in my work from the early 2000's when I was planning this out. What follows is an amalgam of memories from those notes, old stuff from an earlier website revision and stuff I wrote when I revised the characters in 2012.
From HoA circa 2004-ish
Fuzzy was designed as the ultimate caricature of every annoying kid out there hopped up on candy, caffeine and anime I've ever met. This includes myself when I was younger.
The best story for Fuzzy is I drew him while watching squirrels in my back yard race around for no real reason. Nothing on the ground, nothing in the air, no real threats at all. They just ran around like crazy. Fuzzy pretty much is my "Red Shirt" or my Kenny - the one character I wouldn't mind roasting with a laser or dropping a piano on only to bring him back for more life threatening damage all over again all for a laugh.
From the 2012 Revisit:
Unfortunately, I can’t find my notes on him exactly. What I remember was he was the stand-in for the many many annoying kids who my friends and I would encounter at the mall. You know the type – always talking, leaves an unholy mess in the toy store, steals candy from the candy stand, never has a parent around when they’re causing havoc in my arcade when I’m five minutes from closing… yeah. He and Bob go together. Bob was a military robot that, like Johnny Five or the Iron Giant, wasn’t bad but could become destructive when you least expect it. Fuzzy was a Red Shirt, a Kenny. He was to get blasted, melted and just destroyed when I needed to for stress relief and to put some physical comedy into my comic.
I chose a squirrel because I like them. It’s fun for me to draw squirrels – cartoon or otherwise – and I had a backyard full of them so I had plenty of live models. They’re also skittish, hyperactive, and quick. They’re the perfect cartoon critter to use for kids that could appear ninja-like to annoy the hell out of you, and then disappear into thin air just as quickly.
Trivia
While searching for any existing backstory for Fuzzy, I found only a single mention of his full name. A note on a collection of the "Lil" images you can find on the other cast pages.
Fuzzy is the only member of this cast to not only get a role in my Biff strip, he is the only one to change species. He's a child-like human who has had squirrel features added to him while working at a company that specializes in body mods.