properly introducing some characters in the story of Team Smithereen: Reunion Special. Their names are Lydia and Holler, respectively!
Lydia met Thrill Kat shortly after he was banished to the human world, and she took him in and raised him as a son. When he was still small, she liked to sew little outfits for him! Though, she couldn’t really do that when he was older since he was more human shaped and proportioned. She encouraged Kat to go to college, and get a medical degree. As I might’ve stated before, puppet first-aid is different from human first-aid, but fortunately Gloria is a doll customizer, so she was able to get Thrill Kat back to normal health when she first found him. Thrill Kat knows he can always rely on her. I haven’t decided on a last name for her yet, she def needs one lol.
Holler is Whoop’s biological dad (I guess biological is a strong word when you’re talking about puppets, they literally just make their kids out of craft materials lol). A washed-up stunt performer and professional wrestler, he wants Whoop to be just like him. Which, I suppose Whoop is, in a lot of ways.. for better or worse. Holler’s full name is ‘Holler Hertz’ (Whoop doesn’t have the same surname, he’s mononymous) which is a dual pun-- ‘hertz’ is a measure of frequency in audio, but it also sounds like ‘hurts’. Appropriate, since Holler has unmatched pain tolerance and basically thinks of himself as being invincible! He generally means well, but is oblivious and has trouble empathizing with others. This usually affects Whoop the most; Holler tends to push him to his limits without realizing what they are, or why they’re there in the first place. Their relationship is strained, but Holler still tries to help his son as much as he can. He’s in a similar spot to Whoop and lives in the human world, so they can bond over that.
There’s a lot of Holler on this post lol, I took a while trying to solidify his design so they all look kinda. different. I think the last drawing of him is pretty much definitive, though he still has the sharp teeth in the other 2. not pictured are his cartoonishly tiny legs and split cape.
