Yes. It's a Gungan. Get it out of your system now, then we'll go on.
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...OK now? Good.
Anyway, all this "Star Wars" drawing and research naturally attracted my son's attention, but, being 9, he naturally resented my preference for female subjects. Being a good (what-passes-for-a) father, I therefore decided to make one of the cast male, and asked him to name his favorite alien race from the movies.
Yep. Damn you, Lucas and Jar-Jar...
Still, a promise IS a promise, dammit, and, since I recently rewatched Episode 3 for the first time in years and found it to be better than I remembered, I decided to try and give Jar-Jar and his kind the same benefit of the doubt as I reviewed his antics.
Nope, he still makes me wanna barf Hoojibs.
HOWEVER...the writer part of me LOVES a good challenge, and what greater challenge could there be than making a Gungan character who doesn't trigger violent rage and my gag reflex? The game "The Force Unleashed" proved that going the opposite route as Jar-Jar and making a violent, evil, intelligent Gungan does nothing to abate the race's inherent suckassitude (new word!), so the key is to make their lameness work FOR the character.
SO...lanky, gawkish, paranoid, prone to speaking in near incomprehensible languages just for shits and giggles...what does that resemble..? Hmmm, I wonder...
I am SO gonna get smacked for this one, hehehehe...
SO...this is Bud Anloo, adolescent slacker and wanna-be Swoop racer. When, while "working" at his dad's off-world general store, he accidentally finds himself about to be crushed by a cargo crate he was moving, only to be saved by one of the girls. His dad, eager to offload his troublesome offspring on someone else for a while, invokes the Gungan life debt and pledges Bud's services to his savior, much to Bud's dismay. I mean, c'mon...who wants to fly around the galaxy with a bunch of MAMMAL girls, with their hair and those, what are tey called, breasts? Uck...
I haven't decided yet if Bud is Force-sensitive or not yet, but, despite his "butt-monkey" status, I have an obligation to at least try and make him a potential stud, if only for my son's sake.