To start off we have our two main characters Spencer and Billy. This post will be primarily about Spencer and his relation ships with the other characters most singular posts will be like this more so just detailing how I would personally handle the character. And Spencer since he's technically the main character while Billy is supposed to be the secondary main character I'm doing him first.
First off a life before living in LA in the show his dad mentions there from cowtown USA, I have actually looked this up just to see if that's the name of an actual place and it's not it's very specifically just another way to describe a cattle town or places that have a lot of livestock. I have decidedly made him from somewhere in the Midwest, mostly I feel like somewhere in Kansas namely because there is one or two horror films about tornadoes it could work for developing an admiration for horror. Plus he just seems like the type of kid that would stand outside to record a tornado. I also feel like this is what draws Shanilla to him as a friend, because she gives horse girl energy to me for some reason. So she could be genuinely interested in like living on a farm, Spencer didn't actually live on a farm he just do a lot of people who did.
Oh also my Spencer has a pet cat, it is an orange and white cat and his name is King, technically it's Stephen King but I feel like that's copyrighted so it's just shortened to King. King is a retired Barn cat and he used to be feral. King is technically supposed to be the family pet, but he warms up more to Spencer so he is just Spencer's cat. Also, King can see Billy, most animals can see Billy. Most animals also do not like his presence.
Spencer's relationship with Billy is more so of a sibling dynamic, with Billy obviously being the older brother that does not want Spencer in his space or around at all at least until he gets used to him. I kind of imagine Billy's relationship with all of the kids kind of just being like Eda with luzAnd her friends where he starts off being like not very close to them but he hangs around them because they're the only people he knows of that can see him, and at first he kind of maybe this is them a little because he's like 19 (technically he'd be almost 30 if he were alive but who's counting) and there 14 year olds they're practically babies to him. But as time goes on and he starts to appreciate their presence more he starts to get closer to the kids. Mainly Spencer's and Spencer kind of lives with him. Chanella regime and Mallory are his friends, he meets Rajiv first and she meets the rest of his friend group through them. again relief will have his own separate post because I changed him significantly that's no longer the same character same goes for Mallory and Shanilla though Shanilla I changed less about and Mallory didn't have a lot to start with.
His parents and sister are kind of the same his parents are out a lot due to work and he's left alone with his sibling Jessica is kind of just basically the same she's 11 she thinks she knows everything. One thing I did change about the parents though is their hobbies Spencer's mom like she still cuts hair but mostly just her kids she's already shown in the show to have a talent for baking so I can imagine it being a dream of hers to have her own bakery meanwhile hugh was exactly the same he wants to be a mechanic but he sucks at it he sucks really bad at it no one has the heart to tell him though.
I also changed or rather elaborated on why Ponzi hates Spencer, because there's no real reason outside of Spencer just shows divergent traits it seems, by the way my version of Spencer is on some level autistic, so I decided that the exact reason Ponzi hates Spencer so much is because as soon as he found out he was related to Billy he decided to make his life a living hell because of the whole broadcasted talent show thing that Billy was on and the fact that Billy crushed his dreams.
Now one to his design, with my version I wanted to make him resemble really a little more you'll see this more when I show my Billy design. This is mostly in the sense that I made their face shapes more similar, also my Spencer has a mullet because why not I also turned his T-shirt into a short sleeved hoodie. Smaller details that I added to his design are the gap in his teeth, there's no real reason for this I just thought it looked neat, and freckles. I mostly just felt these smaller aspects would give a little more life to his design, I saw some edits two years ago that showed Spencer with freckles and it made him look like a completed design to me so that's why they were added.
So I have some concept sketches, I have a sketchbook primarily to doodle my versions of the DTMG characters and related OCS. I blame ginganinjaowo(joking). These doodles are done in water based marker and usually aren't as detailed as they would be in my primary sketchbook. And alcohol marker drawings that are more accurate representations.
There are a couple Billys in some of these so enjoy those as a little teaser for his post ;3
