BoJack

Backstory: was born and raised in San Francisco, California, and grew up in an abusive and dysfunctional family. His mother, Beatrice Horseman, was a housewife, formerly a socialite, and the heiress of the Sugarman Sugar Cube Company fortune, while his father Butterscotch Horseman was a failed novelist from a working-class background. Butterscotch, resented his wife's wealthy upbringing, and initially worked at a fish cannery for low income due to his spite for the upper class until BoJack was six. After that, he begrudgingly took a well-paying job for Beatrice's father's company at his wife's insistence. Butterscotch was an alcoholic and regularly verbally abused, and sometimes even physically abused, BoJack while he was young. He was also often seen yelling nonsensical ultra-conservative hyperbole, usually to cover up his failures. His mother, Beatrice, was also an alcoholic and a heavy smoker, and resented and hated BoJack for everything he had "done" to her, including being born, saying that she was beautiful before she got pregnant. To her, BoJack was a reminder of all of her bad decisions, and her own traumatic childhood did not help this fact. She and Butterscotch would also constantly get into loud arguments right in front of their child. Her smoking habits, forceful will, addictions, and constant bickering with Butterscotch made BoJack's formative years difficult and eventually shaped how he turned out as a grownup. Once BoJack became an adult, he’d leave to Los Angeles to work on his career as a comedian. During one of his shows, he’d meet a director who’d offer him a show… a show called Horsin' Around, which centered around a young bachelor horse raising three orphans. Despite negative reviews from critics, Horsin' Around is a huge hit, and BoJack quickly rises to fame. However, during the show, BoJack slowly becomes more and more depressed, bitter, and cynical. He also lets fame go to his head. He turns to smoking and alcohol, the latter of which he used to reject, just like his parents, in order to deal with the pressure and loneliness of becoming famous in Hollywood. The show would go on for FAR too long, getting worse and worse as time went on… it eventually being cancelled. Years later, he lives in his mansion now… occasionally getting rolls in stuff, but nothing major. Him having been reduced to a B-List Celebrity. Being in an even worse place than he ever was.