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Characters

Whilst studying for BTech in Art and Design at Preston's College, I would do a lot of cartooning of Dasher characters in pencil and coloured them in colouring pencils. This activity and drawings greatly influenced me into the direction of being an animator and comic writer. From these basic designs and the skills developed during my time at UCLan, they have been improved into what we can see now primarily using the Adobe Photoshop suite of tools.

Character building

In this gallery is everything you need to design your own character for your story.

Dasher

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Age: 14

Gender: Male

Real Name: Lucas Wilson

Powers/abilities: Super speed

Category: Hero

He is the “new” hero of Blackpool after gaining his powers from the shock wave from a crashed meteor. He not only protects the residents from criminals but inspires them to be better people. This is done in a happy, energetic but childish manner. He is also known by many different names by the residents:
·         The blue angel
·         Blackpool's guardian
·         The blur of Blackpool

Lucas Wilson

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Age: 14

Gender: Male

Alter-ego: Dasher

First appearance: issue 1

Lucas Wilson (A.K.A. Dasher) used to live in Manchester before moving with his parents to Blackpool to escape the viciously bullying at school. His bullying experience scared him to death and since then does not want to face bully’s again. But, on the night on arriving in Blackpool, an event known as "the shock" empowered Lucas with the ability to run faster than the speed of light. But he doesn't learn this until the next day when he gets chased another bully.

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Now, knowing the extent of his powers he has discovered his strength in fighting back again. Lucas now enjoys high school but acts like a dork and a coward around bullies. This gives him the perfect cover to keep his superhero alter-ego protected.

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His new found friends, Ben and Matthew, have also become part of his strength in fighting back. Their motivation gives Lucas the strength to continue being the hero he was destined to be. In return, he helps and motivates them to believe in themselves too.

Ben Foster

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Age: 14

Gender: Male

Category: Allie

First appearance: issue 1

Ben Foster is the son of Johnny Foster, the mayor of Blackpool. His friendship with Lucas began after he was saved from getting beaten up by his school bully. When Ben learns about Lucas's powers, he formulates an idea of Lucas becoming a superhero for Blackpool.

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Ben has a desire to become an artist as his future dream job. In his school life, the art pieces he produced was never good enough to be the best. But after Dasher was born, Ben had went ahead to do his art reflecting on the Blackpool's guardian angel. Because of this, his art on Dasher was finally enough to get noticed by students of culturepoint high school.

Matthew Fiddler

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Age: 10

Gender: Male

Category: Allie

First appearance: issue 1

Matthew is a younger sensitive child who is self-conscious about his body, but a genius who becomes part of Dasher's team. The creative genius helped develop a suit, originally designed as a motorcycle suit, which he planned to show in his science project for school.

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Matthew is a resourceful person because of his father, who is a science lecturer and a scientist at R.E.C. Industries. Whatever Lucas or Ben need, Matthew will aim to supply no matter how hard; especially making up excuses to his parents, just to protect Lucas's alter-ego.

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Matthew hopes to become a scientist just like his father. He learned to read at a very young age, and from this his father encouraged him to read university science text books and research papers to grow this love of science and intelligence. Now, as a hidden genius, his abilities help Dasher to grow his abilities and understand the weaknesses of all the villains he battles. This help and friendship has brought him into what Lucas and Ben call "The trust circle".

Julie Carter

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Age: 14
Gender: Female
Category: Allie
First appearance: issue 3

During her childhood, she had a habit of watch musicals as a toddler. She loved seeing people singing on stage because she saw the singers having fun on stage, which lead Julie wanting that same kind of fun for herself. Everything she enjoys doing is all because of her father, as she carries the same joy for music as he did. Her father is a guitar musician who works to help Julie fulfill her dream to follow her father’s footsteps. Julie visits her father’s music concerts for her love for singing, and her mother works part-time to take Julie to these music events.

Julie is known to be the schools most popular singing student. Her voice in her singing lessons at Culturepoint high school had taken her to the path of becoming a singing champion. In school, she is also known as Julie the jewel because of her performances on stage. As she preforms as Julie the jewel, she puts on a beautiful pink glittering dress to compare herself to any jewellery based on how amazing her voice is on stage.

Julie has been single for most her life, until her friendship with Dasher began. When Dasher was born and made known in Blackpool, Julie wanted to follow him and find out about the mysterious blue guardian. Julie had been saved one time by Dasher from a possessed maniac who had attacked the pear. Later, on that same day, the Blackpool guardian had visited her to give back her mobile phone she dropped by accident when she was in danger. In that moment, their friendship began when Julie and Dasher exchanged phone numbers. After a while as they continued talking to each other, their chemistry grew, as their friendship becomes something more.

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