Who is Louis Ederson?

(I will find or create a better image of Louis at a later date, for now this is the only one I can find on short notice.)

Louis Ederson was my first original character, and the undisputed main character of Fire and its tributaries.

Origins

So when I was a little kid, my main flagship creation was called “Pikachu and Meatwad”, where an anthropomorphic stick figure Pikachu hung out with Meatwad (from Aqua Teen Hunger Force) and had constant sex with his wife, Jenny Wakeman from My Life as a Teenage Robot. And that’s kind of what the whole series was about. Don’t expect a detailed write-up of all the episodes anytime soon.

Well eventually I was told by my family about this little-known concept named “copyright infringement”. Of course, this immediately made my dumb ass paranoid that Nintendo, Time Warner, Viacom, and others were gonna file lawsuits against a nine-year-old who wasn’t even publishing Pikachu and Meatwad in any public spaces. Naturally, this meant that I had to pull up my big-boy pants and create something original for once.

I ended up creating Louis. Originally he was a green alien with red pants, but in 2009 I turned him into a green cat with red pants, in order to make him more appealing to a wider audience. This ended up being one of the only ideas I had back in those days that wasn’t totally braindead.

The Problems Begin

Oh boy, I became way too obsessed with Louis. I didn’t just want to make him a good character, I wanted him to be the greatest, most awesome cartoon character ever. I would actively shoehorn him into any other series or concept I had for years, even if he didn’t belong.

The first “series” he was in was Louis and Blob Boy. It was just Pikachu and Meatwad again but with original characters. Meatwad became “Blob Boy” and Jenny became another alien named “June”. For reasons too dumb to get into here, I had a feeling that the other characters were getting “more popular” than Louis, which resulted in them getting taken out of the show, lest Louis not become the best character. Louis and Blob Boy eventually ended because there were no characters other than Louis.

This obsession became one of the biggest problems with Fire; any and all effort that went into the writing, went solely to Louis. No other character got screen time or development. None of the other characters told any jokes because God forbid that Louis not be “the funny one”. Any character that wasn’t a green cat was an afterthought to me, and it killed the show.

Abstinence

You’d think that if an edgy kid wanted to make the greatest, most awesome cartoon character ever, they’d make that character an absolute gigachad who impregnated anything in sight with two X chromozomes. But strangely enough, I was somehow so uncomfortable with the idea of Louis having a love interest that I aggressively shut it down and anyone who even suggested it. I even went after fan works that sexualized him. If you happen to be one of those people and are somehow on this page, I’m so, so sorry.

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