Fastidious Beaver

"Actually, it's whom-ever."

- Fastidious Beaver, "The Sidekick"

The Fastidious Beaver is a character that appears in the Sonic Boom series. He is an anthropomorphic beaver and the local librarian of the Village on Bygone Island. Always caught in the local goings-on, he has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Concept and creation
According to an interview with Bill Freiberger, the Fastidious Beaver was created to be one of the characters in the roster for "The Sidekick". During one of the late rewrites of the script, the writers came up with Fastidious' personality traits which proved so funny that he was made a reoccurring character for gags.

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric
Despite Mayor Fink running unopposed, Fastidious tried to get elected for mayor of the village on Bygone Island. Reasoning that since people loved races, Fastidious opened the Great Mystery Race (though no one explained to him why it had that name) to make the voters happy and thereby earn their favor. He even took the course himself within a certain time. However, he was not all that excited about the plan, but since nobody was pushing him towards something better, he remained there.

Eventually, Fastidious found Team Sonic arriving and he tried convincing them to try the race. However, when Team Sonic did not think it was a good idea and wondered what they got out of it, Fastidious made a deal: if they beat his time in the race, they would receive a Power Glyph as a reward. After the team won, Fastidious handed over the glyph as promised while encouraging them to vote for him.

TV series
When Sonic held try-outs for a new sidekick, Fastidious applied for the job, but Sonic dismissed him. However, when Fastidious returned to have his parking ticket validated, Sonic chose him as his third candidate, along with Tails and Dr. Eggman. For Sonic's following test, Fastidious and the others had to compete in a dangerous race to Mount Safety, where Eggman pushed him into the race early. Shortly afterwards, he was knocked out of the race by Tails and he decided to sit out the rest.

While visiting the village, Fastidious and the other civilians were attacked by Dr. Eggman's Anti-fire Bot until Sonic stopped it. When the Awardy Awards were being held, Fastidious was invited to this event where the award would be handed out. During the gala, he was accidently spilled punch on by Sticks in her attempt to be lady-like. At the height of the evening, he and the other guests were attacked by Dr. Eggman's robots when the doctor did not get the award. Thanks to Team Sonic though, Eggman was beaten and Fastidious could return to the gala. While minding his own business, Fastidious would find time to visit Meh Burger and pay a visit to T.W. Barker's Circus of Wonders. He and the villagers were later caught in Dr. Eggman's invasion of the island, but when they were at the mercy of the Mega, they were saved by Knuckles, whose case of bad luck made the Mega destroy itself when he joined Eggman. Fastidious would later visit a large ball of twine where he was nearly crushed by a rockslide, but was saved by Sonic.

When Dr. Eggman sued Sonic for injuring him, Fastidious was made a part of the jury to monitor the trial. However, after Fastidious and the jurors had deliberated and were ready with their verdict, Eggman was revealed to be fine, thus rendering their decision moot. Later on, as Fastidious was pulling a wagon of lemons, he was nearly crushed by a boulder thrown by Granifier Giganticus, but was saved by Sonic while losing and then regaining his lemons.

Archie Comics
While at a restaurant, Fastidious had to take cover as Dr. Eggman attacked in the Big Boy. While hiding, he talked with Comedy Chimp about how bothersome Eggman's attacks are.

During a trek though the Village Center, Fastidious met Dr. Eggman who offered a bridge, but was not interested. Not long after though, Fastidious chose to trust Eggman by going to the Eggtoberfest, but when the rides would not work, he and the villagers formed an angry mob until Eggman fixed the problem. Despite this, Fastidious recognized the Eggtoberfest as an attempt to buy his trust, something which made Eggman attack Fastidious and the villagers with his army until they were saved by Team Sonic. When the Go-kart Pan-island Grand Prix shortly after arrived, Fastidious served as the competition's flag marshal, though his wishes for a slow and courteously race fell on deaf ears when he gave the signal to start.

Personality
Due to his profession, Fastidious is calm and formal, but also fussy and uptight. He is also a grammar enthusiast, correcting Sonic's speech during his sidekick try-outs, and uses the word "actually" a lot. According to Fastidious himself, he is an immense coward, which is his biggest weakness, though he appears to be at peace with it.

Fastidious takes little personal interest in people, like when he deemed all Team Sonic's members hedgehogs, only to tell them when they disagreed that he did not care. He also has a tendency to ruin his own good time by sticking to subjects he is not all that interested unless someone pushes him towards something better, making him a wet blanket for himself.

Allies

 * Team Sonic
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Amy Rose

Enemies

 * Dr. Eggman

Trivia

 * Fastidious Beaver's role in "The Sidekick" was referenced in the unused Q-N-C's Database for Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.