Great game for the moment (too early to really know for sure), we will see where it goes... but...
Maybe it's just me... but the first impression of Dawn Hound is very bad.
-SPOILERS-
Not only he is thinking that putting a totally untrained guy to do hero job is fine (which means that he doesn't really care about his life or the lifes of all the innocent people he may fail to save because of his inexperience) but he also... makes offensive bets about the life changing decisions the dalmatian makes like it's a game.
Maybe that was intentional, and you wanted to portrait him as an inconsiderate inmature asshole who thinks the hero thing is nothing more than a harmless game, and doesn't really realize just how big and dangerous it really is. In that case, very good job, congratulations *thumbs up*.
But if it wasn't intentional... maybe you should reconsiderate a couple of things about that "presentation" of the character... just my opinion.