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There’s one of these in every IT company if they have any hope of survival. The code guru. The one that can code in assembly, while blindfolded, tied to the back of a rabid wolverine.

Like each and every character for this comic, Rain started as just a doodle of a cross between Neil from the Young Ones and cousin It from the Addams Family. A friend pegged him as a the code guru and I liked that.

The name Rain McKnight came from the fact that it sounds cool. Originally his parents, or one of his parents, as going to be a latent hippy which explains his name. But recently whe deciding colors, I opted for an Asian tint for him. This immediately creates an interesting background, his last name obvious comes from his father who’s from Great Britain and his mother was most likely Asian which explains his name. However this does not explain his preference for coding.

Which is why his father is a traveling business man and his mother was dead. Without a lot of friends or attention he turned to computers. Resulting in an overly developed ability to code.

Personality wise I want him to be the most calm character in the comic. Where Jay is relaxed, Rain will always remain calm no matter what happens. This is partially caused by the fact that he has no facial expression. He can’t convey emotion and thus will always come across as very robotic. But that works, those guys exist, I’ve met them.

How Rain will further develop we’ll have to see.