When I wrote the Flashback story for Suburban Tribe that took us back to college, a good part of the narrative was dedicated to showing how Alan, Dave, Tiff and Carol met. My problem was that I had established very early on that Tiffany knew of Dave and knew that Alan lived with him, but Carol had never even met him.
So how should I write this story and give Dave enough to do? Answer: Establish a prior record of his troubles with Tiffany's cats! The lifespan of cats dictated that Caesar would not have been around while the gang was in college, (not to mention that the story of how Tiffany acquired Caesar is yet to be told) so I had to create a cat who was Caesar's Predecessor, one who would meet an unfortunate end at the hands of Dave.
Enter the old and incontinent Mister Nibbles. A few cat lovers took a shine to the obnoxious fella, and one even sensed where the story was going and asked me not to kill him. My heartless response was to show Dave leaving him in a KFC bucket in an overflowing dumpster. (Which was my plan all along, alas.)
So in this sketch we see that Mister Nibbles lives on. May he forgive me.
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