Undoubtedly the smartest member of the group planning to depose Lady Anita, Professor Canis is a prolific inventor and C.E.O of Canis Industries. An attempted genetic experiment some years ago went awry, turning the good professor into a shaggy, black dog. He still wears spectacles and has a specially adapted laptop strapped to his stomach.
Though he's mostly pleasant to everyone else, he never passes up a chance to trade insults with his ex-lover Beatrice Ledouf. At the same time as this, he's also very worrisome and pedantic, being the first one to panic in a dire situation. But at the same time, this is usually when his encyclopaedic knowledge of Underside is most useful.
His family has been providing the war with death-machines, weapons, and Hallows for thousands of years, with Canis Industries being the most renowned, all purpose company in Underside. It was only when the company passed to Benedick, that he took a stand.
Professor Canis is to Underside, as Grim is to Spirit Rider. He acts as Mr. Exposition, able to explain anything overly complicated to the audience. I do feel such characters tend to be necessary in stories with so many vast and ranging concepts. At the same time, I had to distance him from Grim, so immediately toned down the sarcasm and replaced it with other traits. It could be argued that Grim's necessary attributes are divided between Professor Canis and Beatrice Ledouf, with him getting her brains and Beatrice getting her fighting prowess, though it could be argued that Tamlin Jones serves that role as well. But of course, more on them later.
Professor Canis is another of my older characters, pre-dating my desire to be a writer. Professor Canis came from a game I wanted to design called 'Zyden', about a boy gaining the powers of the zodiac, but (all together now!) more on that later.
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