Doug

Sarah Thompson—better known to millions of fans as Fuzzy Flufferstine—has the dream job. Her comic, Furry Friends, is an international hit. Unfortunately… Reality has decided to become a fan. Somehow, for reasons that continue to insult every known law of physics, Sarah’s comic characters have started coming to life. Which brings us to Doug. Doug is a seven-foot-tall anthropomorphic dragon who was originally designed to be the cool, adventurous member of the cast. Brave. Noble. Majestic. Reality had other plans. The first thing Doug did after discovering he had actual wings was fly. Straight into restricted airspace. Apparently the Federal Aviation Administration gets extremely upset when an unidentified dragon cruises past commercial airliners without filing a flight plan. Doug has now been arrested six separate times for unauthorized flight. The first time, everyone assumed it was an elaborate publicity stunt. The second time, they asked him to stop. The third time, they started keeping paperwork ready. By arrest number six, the officers greeted him by his first name. He’s been mistaken for a military prototype, an escaped movie prop, an alien, a cryptid, and once, somehow, an unusually committed hot-air balloon. Doug still doesn’t fully understand why humans insist he can’t simply fly wherever he wants. “The sky belongs to everyone!” “Not above military bases, Doug.” “Oh.” Five minutes later he accidentally wandered into another no-fly zone because “the clouds looked interesting.” Sarah now keeps an emergency backpack containing Doug’s ID, bail money, snacks, and a printed map titled ‘Places You Are Absolutely Not Allowed to Fly.’ He’s ignored it every single time. Doug isn’t malicious. He’s just a dragon who finally got wings… and has the situational awareness of a golden retriever chasing a tennis ball. The legal system knows him. Air traffic control fears him.