Fire was my first attempt at a “flagship” creation, which ended up becoming somewhat of a franchise. It consisted of three short-lived series that collectively lasted from 2008 until 2012, each one sharing many similarities but ignoring each other’s existence for the most part.

So what was it exactly?

There are two versions. Both of them had the same main character, named Louis Ederson, who lived with others in a giant mushroom, located in what appeared to be the middle of nowhere. Both series were intended to be as LOLrandom and wacky as possible, as you’d expect from a literal 12-year-old making his own cartoon.

The 2008 version focused on a family of aliens, or rather, the three sons of the family since the parents only had five seconds of screen time. All of the episodes were about their exploits as Louis acted like an asshole towards his siblings and everyone else unfortunate enough to come near him.

It was then rebooted in 2009, now featuring Louis as an anthropomorphic cat. He lived with a living sock named Steve and a bean named Mr. Happy, with a living nugget of chocolate (not a turd, I swear) named Mr. Chocolate joining in later.

Oh, and there was also a spinoff featuring Louis and Mr. Chocolate, fittingly known as “Louis and Mr. Chocolate”.

Why was it named Fire?

I wanted to have the song “Fire” by Scooter as the theme song. I eventually went with a shitty little ditty that I made myself, but I guess the name had stuck by that point.

Was it any good?

FUCK no!!

It was plagued with issues, most importantly was that I was hyperfixated on Louis and making him the greatest cartoon character ever, and refused to give any screen time or development to any other character who wasn’t a green cat. Every time I even attempted to make an episode about another character, I would find a way to take a hard left turn and make it about Louis again.

The only problem bigger than me glazing Louis was that I put myself under a strict “one episode per month” schedule. I pushed the fuck out of myself to meet that deadline for no good reason. I was not giving myself the time to work on making the writing any good, or to make the animation actually animate besides the lip sync. The episodes’ plots were getting lamer and lamer because I had no time to come up with any good ideas.

Is it available anywhere to watch?

Unfortunately, no. I grew to hate these cartoons so much that I removed them from YouTube, and destroyed all of the videos and their source files. Doesn’t help that I had terrible luck with backups failing on me anyway.

That’s why I’m writing this page to begin with: as the final preservation of these cartoons for anyone interested.

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