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Here's an awesome drawing commission I got from Shock_Beast17 featuring Reuben stuffing himself with sandwiches, and letting you get a good smell of what he's been eating!

While watching 'Lilo and Stitch: The Series' and 'Stitch!' I really wanted to see Reuben being more of a gluttonous slob. He was certainly shown to be a chubby, lazy layabout of an experiment who loved stuffing himself with sandwiches, but I wanted to see the gross consequences of his near-constant laziness and gluttony. I wanted Reuben's workmate, Gantu, to be forced to deal with Reuben frequently stinking up their ship with raunchy belches and farts that reeked of the half-digested sandwiches melting away in his gut. I wanted Reuben to be too lazy to bother bathing, and for his potent body odour to make the smell situation within Gantu's ship even worse. I wanted to see Reuben messily gorging himself on sandwiches, and being too lazy to display any sort of table manners, or desire to clean up the messes he makes. And of course, I wanted to see Reuben's frequent sandwich-eating lead to his chubby, yellow-furred belly getting rounder, jigglier, and doughier; all the better to play with and catch fallen sandwich fillings on.

Alas, Reuben was kept as a pretty clean-cut character, rather than the adorable, little, sandwich-gorging slob I was hoping to see. Regardless of this, I still totally adore him; Reuben's adorable, plush-like appearance, his charmingly charismatic voice, and his snarky, but laid back, personality are all great. But seeing him embrace his lazy, gluttonous nature even more, and seeing a dirtier side to Reuben, would have been a real treat!

(Originally posted on February 11th, 2021)