![]() Not really caring what happened to herself anymore, Laika was launched into outer space, and expected herself to die there. The government officials of her home country picked her off of the streets, and began to train her to be a subject in a massively important experiment: survive in outer space. Since she was worth nothing and mattered to no one, her disappearance would cause the least controversy. She lived in an orphanage until she was kicked out at 18, and became a petty thief living on scraps to survive. Laika was born and raised on earth, with no parents who gave a damn and not a coin to her name. But due to her long history of partners and inability to grow old, she has commitment issues. She'll hit on any attractive person within her immediate vicinity, which doesn't actually work as often as she believes it does. She has had multiple partners over the course of her life before, and because of that also believes that she can make just about anyone fall into her arms. This ego does also make Laika a bit flirtacious. Her frequent acts of heroism tend to have her receive a lot of praise, which does feed into her ego unfortunately. She's ready to stand up for the little guy, and defend those who can't protect themselves. Laika, no matter where in the universe she ends up, will always stand up for what she sees as right, even if it does get her in trouble. She can recognize when she's overstepped her boundaries, and always feels remorse when she's gone too far and deeply hurt someone. She is also rather vulgar when in her element. That being said, she tends to be a bit insensitive, and oblivious to the feelings of others. She's not afraid to tell her opinion even if it's rather rude. Laika is a cocky, overconfident smartass. Star Trek) along the lines of the " Captain Space, Defender of Earth!" trope, and taking it in my own personal direction, incorporating aspects I like and twisting aspects I don't. Looking at all this space stuff made me think "Hey, what if we made her a space explorer instead?"įrom then on it was decided that Laika would actually be a parody of the typical Space Opera protagonist (i.e. Laika is somewhat of a mascot for space travel, and there was an episode of the anime Space Dandy called "The Lonely Pooch Planet, Baby" centered around a dog that is heavily implied to be Laika. So instead I actually looked at Laika's source material, which of course was the real life dog who was subject to an experiment in the Soviet Union, to test the effects of space on a living creature. But for a fan character? In an established universe that should not be messed with too insanely? Yeah that was a little too much to worry about. After all, they would constantly have to bend the rules of the world, which would be easier in an original story. difficult to write a time traveling character. But after some time, it proved to be really. Well, Laika was originally conceived as a cynical, depressed time traveler along the lines of Schrodinger's Cat, which didn't exactly make sense considering Laika was a dog.
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