Fastidious Beaver

"Actually, it's whom-ever."

- Fastidious Beaver, "The Sidekick"

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, with Wild Cat as his assistant. 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, 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 race to Mount Safety. Shortly into the race, Fastidious was knocked out of the competition 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 from a Granifier Giganticus, but was saved by Sonic while losing and then regaining his lemons. Fastidious later went to Meh Burger, but his indecisiveness over what to choose made the impatient Sonic choose for him. Soon after, Fastidious closed the library early to have chili dogs with Wild Cat. Before leaving though, Sonic tried returning a book, which Fastidious declined until Eggman blew a hole in the library and let Sonic hand the book over. Fastidious later came back to Meh Burger, but stayed out of the "battle of the buns" between Meh Burger and Chez Amy. Finding his way to Sticks' Burrow, Fastidious joined the yard sale there. Despite Sticks' refusal to depart with her stuff, Fastidious was able to buy what he wanted from Amy.

While Knuckles served as deputy mayor, Fastidious got him to approve permits which included the construction of a new library wing and prohibiting people from checking out books. Like the villagers however, Fastidious began to feel the consequences of Knuckles' abuse of power. Fastidious eventually joined Amy Rose's sensitivity seminar and had a good time, though his fellow participant Sonic eventually left them to retire. Later, Fastidious joined the seminar on a camping trip and by the time returned, he saw Sonic was back in business. Detecting some improper grammar, Fastidious came to Tails' Work to correct Sonic, only to leave in dismissal when Sonic saw him coming.

At New Year's Eve, Fastidious came to the party held in the Village Center where he for once let loose. During the party, Dr. Eggman used his Slow Motion Machine to slow down time long enough for him to beat Sonic in something before New Year, though Fastidious did not see Eggman's victory as it happened too fast for him to notice it. While watching the news about Justin Beaver later on, Fastidious was unaware he was being avoided when the news mentioned a "Beaver Fever" which only referred to Justin's growing fame. Fastidious later witnessed another peculiar sight in the Village Center where Tails tried getting Zooey's attention with a dating dance, but failed.

When the game show Bro-Down Showdown was being recorded in the Village Center, Fastidious briefly dropped by the set to see the show unfold live. He would later follow Comedy Chimp's publicity stunts, during which Knuckles began a trash can trend. Like the rest of the Village, Fastidious would adore Knuckles during his time of fame.

The Big Boom
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.

Boom Shaka-laka
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 courteous race fell on deaf ears when he gave the signal to start. As he watched the race with a corn-snack, which ended in Sonic the Hedgehog's victory, Fastidious untimely commented on how "corny" his snack was when Sonic made a friendship speech to his team, which earned him the ire of the heroes.

Worlds Unite
As Fastidious was heading home from the Go-kart Pan-island Grand Prix with Comedy Chimp, the two of them were strong-armed by Sticks into joining Team Sticks and help her get the Maverick Hunters, who were stranded in their dimension, to the location of the evil Sigma. Though Fastidious was less that eager, the group went to Eggman's lair, where they had Orbot and Cubot open a Genesis Portal. Fastidious and his team followed the Maverick Hunters through the portal to where Sonic's World and Earth from the year 20XX were being merged by Sigma's Unity Engines. Amidst this chaos, Fastidious and his allies joined the New Freedom Fighters and the Robot Masters of Light Labs from these worlds to stop Sigma's plans. Heading for Sigma's base on the Lost Hex in the Sky Patrol, the Unified Army ran into Sigma's first line of defense: the Deadly Six and an army of Mechaniloids. As a massive fight erupted, Fastidious and Comedy Chimp fled into the Sky Patrol in terror upon Fastidious' suggestion and hid for the remainder of the battle despite Sticks' demands.

The Unified Army had no time to rest from their victory as Sigma, now the colossal "Sigma-2," attacked with his army of Mavericks. When Sticks arrived with reinforcements from the world of Street Fighter, Fastidious and Comedy Chimp remained on the Sky Patrol to watch over the Chaos Emeralds while the rest of their allies pursued the Mavericks to the various worlds they invaded. During this, Sigma attack the Sky Patrol, but with aid from Metal Sonic, Fastidious and the crew got away in an escape pod with the Emeralds before Sigma destroyed the Sky Patrol.

Reuniting with the Unified Army, now bolstered by new members from different dimensions, Fastidious helped Cream guard the Emeralds until an alternate Sonic and Mega Man needed the Emeralds. While Super Sonic and Super Armor Mega Man beat Sigma, their Genesis Portal-ravaged reality would have killed them, but Xander Payne changed history by preventing Sigma's plot from happening, thus sending Fastidious' team back home. Retaining their memories though, Fastidious and Comedy Chimp were left severely traumatized and could thus not verify Sticks' story.

Personality
Due to his profession, Fastidious is calm and formal, but also fussy and uptight. A grammar enthusiast, he has a habit of correcting the grammar of others' speech and uses the word "actually" a lot. He also has a peculiar view on books, believing they are for sitting neatly in rows on the shelves rather than being read. 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 thought all Team Sonic's members were 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. He also has a hard time on deciding things, like what he wants to eat.

Allies

 * Team Sonic
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Miles "Tails" Prower
 * Knuckles the Echidna
 * Amy Rose
 * Team Sticks
 * Sticks the Badger
 * Comedy Chimp
 * Maverick Hunters
 * New Freedom Fighters

Enemies

 * Maverick
 * Deadly Six
 * 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.
 * A running gag throughout the Sonic Boom franchise is Fastidious trying to correct people's grammatical usage of "who" and "whom."