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Thanks, here's an OC I thought of, maybe you could use her.

Name: Tera
Age: 36
Species: Striped Skunk (my favorite animal)
Appearance: Wears glasses, blue eyes, average build, friendly looking, her fur is the normal black with two white stripes down her back. Wears cacky shorts with a hole for her tail as well as for her to spray if she needs to, blue tanktop, and a denium vest.
Personality: Kind, curious, inquizitive, somewhat shy due to getting picked on a lot (she is a skunk afterall), she'll stand up to her friends to the end, however, she's always looking for new discoveries, she doesn't like to spray but will if she's pushed.
Traits, Talents, and abilities: Archeologist, above average intellgence, open minded, like any skunk, she can spray.
Relatives:

I'd see her in a role happening in ruins of some sort, like they meet her there while on a dig or she hires them to bring her supplies and invites them to sta to help her then a villian shows up to steal the treasure they find. I just love skunks and thought I'd try to include one, think you could work with this character?

Well here's a quick sketch for an idea for jericho's looks.

Perfect, it looks awsome! Thanks, but then again, its really up to 0x7B, its his character after all. What do you think 7B?

Again, sorry for not responding sooner.

About the picture, I like it, it looks great! I think it will work quite well! Btw, the working name I'm using for conguy is Griffith because it's close to grifter which is old slang for conman. (helps me keep characters straight) I may go with another name once the outline is finished... It just depends how I feel about him when the time comes to assign him a permanent name.

About your OC Tera, she's good but she has a lot in common with Myra from "In Search of Ancient Blunders". If given a choice between two similar characters, with one being original series and the other being fan created, I'd probably choose the original series character nearly every time. It's just easier that way. Nothing against your OCs or any other fan created OCs. Also, I have to be honest, the thought of a anthropomorphic female skunk spraying stink grosses me out just a little bit. I think of TS characters as humans that just happen to look like animals. They think and act like exactly like humans the vast majority of the time. Anyway, thanks for submitting her! She still could be used with a little tweaking. I look forward to more OC ideas!

I see, I originally invisioned her as a police officer, would that work better? As for them being more human like, I seem to remember sometimes claws being used by animals with them. I don't think anything with an ability like a skunk or something was shown. Anyway, here's the possible rival OC you wanted.

Name: Jarret
Age: 33
Species: Wolverine
Appearance: Black leather jacket, spiked collar, black glasses, leather jeans, occasionally brace knuckles, his face is fierce and ruthless, he's often seen with a perment sneer and rarely smiles. When he does smile, its a very disturbing one. He's also very muscled and physically intemidatingly.
Personality: Ruthless, brutish, more brawn than brains you could say. He loves to push his own weight around and make others suffer. Unlike Griffith, he doesn't take any measures to hide his true self and normally shows it off. He enjoys playing dirty, even if he doesn't have to. He's also not the cleanest person and rarely bathes, he only washes himself, his clothes, and his machines when he loses, this is because he's strangely supersitous and believes, like sumo wrestliers, that washing something washes away the experiences its had, so thus he only washes away his losses, not his wins. This coupled with his natural wolverine odor makes him rather difficult to stay close too for any length of time without feeling ill from his overpowering smell, but its best not to make fun of him for this, as its one of the easiest ways to set off his temper, though at times this can be good stradagy to get him off his game. His superstisous nature can also be used against him, as it makes him prone to freaking out over things others consider minor, like spilt salt or a black cat.
Traits, Talents, and abilities: Expert pilot, good street fighting, over powering odor can be useful in a close range fight, expert at cheating.
Relatives: none known.

The perpose of the wolverine is they're both considered a particularally nasty animal and myth has it they may challenge bears often, which of course our main hero is a bear. The foul odor is due to a natural trait of wolverines that I was able to work in realitively well with the superstisous thing, which seemed like a good way to add some comic nature to the character, as well as giving him an effective weakness for our heroes to exploit.

Yeah, that would probably work better. You're right, there were a few instances where some characters (like Shere Khan) would use their claws. Khan sometimes rakes his desktop with his claws when someone or something angers him, but it's a subtle action that makes him look more badass.

As for the rival pilot bio, I like it! I'll have to ponder on it a bit more before I'll know it it needs tweaking at all. (Usually tweaking doesn't end until the outline is finished and maybe not ever then.) So far it looks good! The only problem I can see is that there may not be time to properly explore both his funky smell and his superstitions... But really it's too soon to tell right now. Btw, good thinking with the exploitable weakness that doubles as a comedic device, I knew he needed something like that but I couldn't think of exactly what.

Ok, thanks, I'll redo her bio.

Name: Tera
Age: 36
Species: Striped Skunk (my favorite animal)
Appearance: Wears glasses, blue eyes,muscular build, friendly looking, her fur is the normal black with two white stripes down her back. Wears a police uniform with a hole for her tail in the pants.
Personality: Kind, curious, inquizitive, somewhat shy due to getting picked on a lot (she is a skunk afterall), she can stand up for herself though and doesn't back down from a challenge, espically if her friends are on the line. She's also very open minded and obserbent.
Traits, Talents, and abilities: Intellgent, claws, obserbvent, a good shot, being a skunk she can spray but due to the difficulty of doing so, she normally just caries around a water pistol with her musk in it which is easier for her to untilize.
Relatives:

Since you were uneasy with her actuelly spraying, I gave her away to do it without actuelly spraying herself, she basically just collects her musk and puts it in a water pistol, easy to carry but still effective. I could see her as just a compatent detective or police woman around town that helps them out, maybe arrests some of the badies but there are other ways to use a detective type character, like maybe giving our main characters advice when it comes to criminals or legal issues from time to time.

About Jarret, thanks I'm hoping it works ok. Considering its a multiepisode storyarch, there's probably a lot of time to explore the characters in it.

Hello Godzillawolf, sorry for not replying to your post earlier, but I've been designing and planning for the pilot and promo video.

The thing, well the main thing about bringing Talespin back is to elaborate a little bit more on the characters from what Disney did. There were a lot of loose ends and even when the show was very well done in storyline and most of the times in art and design. We do feel like they needed to continue with more.

On the pilot episode, Plunder and Lightning, they edited a lot of scenes that were pure on emotions and so they kept the characters not as multidimensional as they could go. They avoided those things on future episodes too.

The characters that you're creating are well done, yeah, but sadly they wouldn't fit into the Talespin universe at this moment. Even the Halloween episodes have to be more realistic than having a spider antagonist. I'm going to mention some examples of what would fit into the Talespin universe as the show has already a setup follow-up and if we change that it just wouldn’t be Talespin anymore.

*Lets just say that it is October 31 and Rebecca forgot to buy the candy. She asks Baloo to take care of Molly while she gone. While at H4H Baloo thinks that setting up a bonfire and telling Halloween stories would be a great way to pass the time. After she tries to scare up Molly with one of his stories he fails, but when Kit tell his Baloo himself is found petrified, and Molly just finds his reaction funny. When Becky comes back they are ready to give the candy and the Jungle Aces arrive dressed up as monsters. I can think of an ending, but this is just an idea that needs to be better elaborated.*

Godzillawolf, we are working on a promo video right now. Do you think you could help us finding music for it? Something with action and lots of flying is going to be shown.

Also we are going to make some promo cards, one per character. I'm having trouble with the time to do this on my own. Can you please PM me. I really need to get in touch with you. A.S.A.P Send me your Yahoo or Msn names to my box to contact.

I see, I guess the OCs I've made for the plots I was given make more sense than the ones I created at random. I'll PM you but I can't give you any message stuff.

As for music, I can't really help, not the best at it.

Eclipse, since Jarret is ok, mind drawing him?

Sure no prob. I think I'll be primarily an illustrator for new characters rather than actually making some new ones. I can't seem to think of any nice characters right now ^^; I'll see if I can get some sketches on tom.

Thank you, your art rocks!

Here's an experiment on Jarret. It's a bit challenging getting the wolverine feel in the design so I just did a head shot without accessories/clothing. I might play around with the design some more. One of the questions I had was should this guy have a tuft of fur/hair or a whole 'set'? So right now there's none XD

Looks good. As to the hair, I think scruffy, unkept hair would be good, fits his dislike of bathing. Try making the neck thicker, Wolverines are stocky animals. Other than that, he looks good. Just making suggestions.

Alright. Well here's another attempt. Sorry it took a while. I misplaced the paper for a while.

I tried to get that stocky, arrogant look. Although... I couldn't imagine a pilot with brass knuckles so I gave him muay thai hand bandage thing instead. Then again this is just concept. Just wanted to toss it up. I'll make another version with brass knuckles just to see how it looks.

Cool! That looks like really good. The brace knuckles are mainly for intimadation, seemed to fit him.