| Dalmatian |
The Dalmatian is the third of the Dog Painters which raz meets in Black Velvetopia, mind of Edgar Teglee. He’s found in the Queen of Diamonds, also known as Dalmatian Alley
Background[]
Similar to the rest of the Dog Painters, the Dalmatian is a meta-physical fragment of Edgar’s artistic inner muse; who just like the others, he has been affected by the rampage of El Odio. Unlike the rest however, he’s also one of the only fragments that is aware of what’s causing this, though, unlike Collie, who also knows what’s the origin of El Odio, Dalmatian knows the actual truth as well as real identities of the people involved with the rage of Edgar.
Psychonauts[]
Once going deep into the last portion of the town, Razputin comes across the Queen of Diamonds section where, after defeating a couple of enemies he finds the Dalmatian. Raz asks if he can get a discount for one of the Dalmatian’s paintings since he was sent by Edgar, world’s famous painter; Dalmatian laughs at this statement and claims that eating lunch in the art teacher’s room doesn’t exactly make you a famous painter. From here on forward, the conversation Raz engages with the Dalmatian is dedicated to explain the real reason for what’s provoking the rage of Edgar as well as his mental inabilities; he explains that Edgar was in reality a high school wrestler, the leader specifically, and at some point he had a relationship with a cheerleader called Lana Panzoni, but said girlfriend dump Edgar with another men called Dean Lagrante.
The broke up caused Edgar to weaken him emotionally and physically, losing miserably the state semi-finals, and gaining the hate and contempt of his team and most if not the entire school. As an artist, he along with his partners sells paintings which in his catalogue includes the Vine Painting and the Window Painting, the first at 75 and the second at 55 arrowheads. Upon revisiting the mental world, Raz can find the Dalmatian along with Edgar and the other Dog Painters in Edgar’s Sanctuary who are playing poker.
Appearance[]
Characteristically from his breed, the Dalmatian has multiple spots all over his skin, however, his skin is of a jagged ice color. His poncho as well as his sombrero includes curved patterns of yellow and mixed with the general black color all the accessories have, this also includes his boots; the most intriguing part of his cosmetics is the poncho which includes a diamond with wings in the middle. He’s the tallest of the group, mostly thanks to his rounded-rectangular head and is the only member who doesn’t have any type of mustache nor beard.
Personality[]
Dalmatian shines for his evident pessimism and often tendencies of self-deprecating when it comes to talking about his pieces of art; this is more easy to see when checking any of his paintings, not having anything good to say about them and thinking of burning or destroying them. On the other hand he’s the most aware of his surroundings, he doesn’t hesitate on correcting Raz about the inflated fantasy Edgar has made over his traumatic experience in high school.
Quotes[]
- (Introduction): "Famous painter? Edgar?"
- (Following Dialogue 1): "Pffft! Yeah, right!"
- (Second Conversation): "Look, I’m sorry, but eating lunch every day in the art teacher’s room does not make you a famous painter."
- (Following Dialogue 1): "Anyway, he only did that to hide out from the school wrestling team."
- (Third Conversation): "Oh, whaddya mean wild animals? Like dogs, eh?"
- (Following Dialogue 1): "Oh, you got a problem with me now?"
- (Fourth Conversation): "Oh, you don’t think I’m tough now?"
- (Following Dialogue 1): "Why ’cause I’m a Dalmatian?"
- (Following Dialogue 2): "Hey, we can’t all be St. Bernards and Bulldogs, you know!"
- (Alternate Fourth Conversation): "(Sigh)"
- (Following Dialogue 1): "Look, man. Are you gonna buy something or what?"
- (Fifth Conversation): "No way. In fact, he used to be the captain of his high school wrestling team!"
- (Following Dialogue 1): "He took them all the way to the state semi-finals one year, and then he…"
- (Following Dialogue 2): "…he choked."
- (Following Dialogue 2): "Cost the team the entire match."
- (Sixth Conversation): "No, Edgar’s girlfriend Lana Panzoni dumped him after the first period for Dean Lagrante, the head of her cheerleading squad."
- (Following Dialogue 1): "Teglee was worthless after that."
- (Following Dialogue 2): "The other team just tossed him around the rest of the day like a half sack of pork rinds."
- (Following Dialogue 3): "Oh, man. His squad hated him after that. The whole school did."
- (Seventh Conversation): "Ohhhhhhh. Riiigggght."
- (Following Dialogue 1): "Yeah, they exist."
- (Following Dialogue 2): "Not made up at all, those two."
- (Following Dialogue 3): "Sheesh."
- (Following Dialogue 4): "Hey, I got some original Picassos over here if you’re interested, by the way…"
- (Vine Painting Recommendation): "Okay what I was going for here was a creeping vine. The kind that grows up walls?"
- (Following Dialogue 1): "But it just ended up looking like a truck driver’s hairy back."
- (Following Dialogue 2): "But without the charisma."
- (Painting Commentaries): "Whoa! I forgot how crummy this one was."
- (Following Dialogue 1): "I can’t believe I painted this."
- (Following Dialogue 2): "Seriously. What a load."
- (Following Dialogue 3): "Ug."
- (Following Dialogue 4): "I deserve to get my nose rubbed in this one."
- (Following Dialogue 5): "Woof! That’s all I gotta say about that."
- (Following Dialogue 6): "Really I should just take this one out back and bury it."
- (Following Dialogue 7): "Ach!"
- (Following Dialogue 8): "Terrible!"
- (Following Dialogue 9): "This looks like electric clown barf in space."
- (Following Dialogue 10): "Black velvet hasn’t been abused like this since the last time Mom got drunk in her prom dress."
- (Following Dialogue 11): "Ew."
- (Following Dialogue 12): "This stuff reeks."
- (Following Dialogue 13): "Just awful!"
- (Following Dialogue 14): "Uhhh, uhhh… I’m sorry you had to see this."
- (Following Dialogue 15): "Ewww, so bad…"
- (Following Dialogue 16): "This painting reminds me of my grandpa’s last year alive…"
- (Following Dialogue 17): "…just one terrible stroke on top of another."
- (Following Dialogue 18): "Ya see what I’m talking about?"
- (Following Dialogue 19): "I recommend you don’t look directly at this one. It is so awful, you could mess up your eyes."
- (Following Dialogue 20): "Bleech!"
- (Following Dialogue 21): "This one is so bad, someone should take a rolled-up newspaper and smack it."
- (Following Dialogue 22): "Ech! Somebody light a match! This one really stinks."
- (Switching between Paintings 1): "Each one worse than the last…"
- (Switching between Paintings 2): "What? You want more?"
- (Switching between Paintings 3): "Look, give it up. None of them are any good."
- (Switching between Paintings 4): "Ha-huh. Couldn’t look at that one any more, ahh?"
- (Buying a Painting 1): "Well, maybe you can write it off on your taxes as a loss."
- (Following Dialogue 1): "A catastrophic loss, even."
- (Buying a Painting 2): "Enjoy that! Heeheeeheee."
- (Showing a Painting): "This ain’t the Bad Art Mutual Appreciation Society. Get out of here with that awful thing."
- (Punching Dalmatian): "Owf, I deserve much worse than that for painting this stuff."
- (Following Dialogue 1): "Arf!"
- (Following Dialogue 2): "Yow!"
- (Following Dialogue 3): "Ooof!"
- (Scaring off Censors and Demons): "Get outta here you punks! Leave my customer alone!"
- (Offering Rose): "You do realize I’m a boy dog right? I’m just askin’."
- (Farewell Dialogue 1): "Yes, run! Run from the horror!"
- (Farewell Dialogue 2): "Don’t tell anyone who painted these, okay?"
Trivia[]
- If Clairvoyance is used in the Dalmatian, it reveals he sees him as a judge.
- Curiously this illustration would be reused in Psychonauts 2 if Raz uses Clairvoyance on Lili after the casino mission.
- Despite saying dozens of crap about his paintings, he’s the dog painter with the expensivest items to buy in all Black Velvetopia.
- Dalmatian's name is incorrectly spelled as "Dalmation" in the game credits.