For the theme week: The Helpers (September 2025 theme)
Rex was a service companion fluff for his first owner before the guy died and his family just dumped Rex in an alley so they wouldn’t have to deal with him. (Said owner was a bit eccentric and obsessed with the 80’s, hence Rex’s colors and “rad”)
After Rusty took him in, Rex began helping him out by teaching any “smarty foals” that were being fostered some manners. He’s a strict tutor, but fair.
Rambling about Rex's back story and design here.
Rex was originally from a licensed designer breeder, specifically to be trainable as a support “animal”. He is technically a smarty but one that was trained to its fullest potential. He ran into and had a fight with an abandoned domestic smarty with a really shitty attitude before Rusty found him, hence the scarring and his low tolerance for any smarty bullshit.
The first time I drew Rex he had longer legs and ears and a slimmer face because I wanted him to look “cool”, but I quickly realized that it’s funnier if he’s just as fat and squatty as any other fluffy but someone tried to make him look cool (with debatable results).