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Alright, since this will require a number of OCs in order to work, I thought making a thread for it would be best. Me and Eclipse volunteered to do OCs, though I can't draw very well, perhaps someone better at it than me can do the drawings for the characters. Anyway, Eclipse may have a diffrent bio style than me but here's the bio style I plan to use, if this needs modified to work, please tell me.

Name:
Age:
Species:
Appearance: (a detailed description)
Personality:
Traits, Talents, and abilities: (things like being able to fly a plane, a business man, con artist, double jointed, ect.)
Relatives:

Will that work? Just curious if this is ok before I begin making bios.

I can help you also with the drawings for the character designs

The bio looks good. Perhaps if you still want to add anything you can just add gender for the sake of completion ^_^ Let's wait for the input of the others as well. But I think that Bio style is good enough for now.

Just for reference perhaps, here's the bio style I initially planned to use but I think yours might be simpler and would fit the purpose of the project.

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Name:
Age:
Gender:
Species:
Nationality:
Occupation:
Physical Description:
Personality:
History:


This was actually what I used for the RP I tried to start XD

Yeah, gender is a good idea, occupation could go in the Traits, talents, and abilities section. Nationality may be good as well, though certain species seem to come from certain countries, mainly the bad guys..

Well, the thing is, I won't know a lot of that information until the outline is finished... Maybe not even until the story is finished. Stuff like name, species and relatives are not that important to me. I usually come up with those details shortly before or right after a story is complete. You know... the 'ol "Search and Replace"... I might give them temporary labels like conguy-1, mobster-1 and then replace these labels with the names once I've decided what they are. Weird, I know. Species is another thing I don't think about until the story underway... Usually I just make up a character whose personality and traits serve a useful function to further the plot. (I also usually write characters as if they were human, then assign them a species based on their personality. Ex: A strong loyal person might be a dog or bear, a sneaky conniving person might be a weasel, or a cold calculating person might be a tiger. You get the idea.)

What I can do is give you the general personality, age, gender, and maybe nationality. (And anything else that strikes me as important.) The rest I'll leave to you.

So after I finish the outline, I'll give you the relevant info, you cook up a bio, and I'll use that in the finished story. Does that sound Ok? (I may be another few days on the outline...)


Btw, I want to thank you both for volunteering to help create OCs, I really appreciate it!

Ok, though it appears the conman will be an important character for the first few episodes, as far as I can tell those episodes primary villian so he's probably one that could use some devolpement. Anything you've got on him yet? I've got some ideas myself but I don't want to just whip up a character if you've got some ideas.

Sorry, I don't have much specific info on any OCs just yet... I'm still working on basic stuff like plot points and story structure. Don't worry though, I'll have everything worked out soon. Btw, no, I don't really any kind of specific ideas about the conman, so please share any ideas you may have!

Well I keep thinking he should be a mustlid, like a weasile or a skunk, since they're commonly used as terms for people of that nature, though considering your idea, it may be better to make him something that no one would see coming, like maybe an otter. So basically, I have two ideas, one is he's something fitting to his role or he's something that's the complete opposite of his role. Once you tell me that, I can probably come up with a bio for him.

Also, here's a thought, what is due to Rebecca's reckless nature and the situation she's in, she's the only one that doesn't realize the conman is a conman? Just a little comical idea I came up with.

Also, would you be willing to work characters me and Eclipse come up with on our own into the series?

An outline update will be coming soon, I'm going to have Miniversal Corporation sponsoring the con-ring with Mr. Perry acting as the go-between. The con-ring itself will have one or two real cons while the rest (5 or so) will just be the goon muscle and lackeys. As for the cons, I think they should not look dishonest, this has to go for four episodes and also I don't want Rebecca to look stupid. They should be a large mammal species like a panther, cheetah, jaguar, etc. and in their early-mid 30's. The goon muscle can be any kind of very large mammal: bison, elephant, rhinoceros, gorilla, bull, etc. The lackeys can be really any type of medium sized creature in the TS universe (bird, reptile, mammal).

I aim to have the outline updated in another day or two and hopefully have it completed in another week or so.Possibly, that depends on what you come up with and how well they fit in the TS universe. I usually come up with characters as needed when I'm working out the plot, but if you guys come up with an intriguing character that I could build a story around, then sure I would use it.

Lackies are mainly just background normally, but I think maybe having one or two with actuel characters is a good choice, the others are just menions. Lets see what I can find for the big conman. I'm leaning towards a Jackal myself, they have a regal and noble air to their appearence, they don't really look evil, despite being connected to the Egyption God of Death...Anyway, I've got a basic bio, minus the species, hows this?

Name: Jason Black/Jericho Ramses (the first is not really his real name, I chose something that seemed plain because its a fake name to hide his real one, thus chose uncommon and plain, the second is his real name)
Age: 34
Species:
Appearance: Wears a monocle over his left eye, his eyes are a pleasant, almost mesmerizing blue, his face his unintimidating and friendly, by all outward appearances, a kindhearted, helpful man. However, when he shows his true personality, he removes his face is quite frightening and aggressive and his eyes are really a menacing orange but hidden with contacts. In both cases, he wears an expensive black business suits with a gold tie.(species related information will be added one his species is decided)
Personality: He has a very twofaced personality, on one side, he appears to be a friendly, helpful, intelligent individual, knowing a great deal about whatever it is he's 'helping with'. His true personality is a sly, cunning, cruel mastermind that is highly talented in manipulating his targets into believing he's whatever he wants them to and having a plan B. He is extremely greedy and will do anything to get money in his paws.
Traits, Talents, and abilities: Con artist, skilled in manipulation, talented in coming up with get away plans.
Relatives: None known.

I'll revise it as needed, particularlaly the appearance once we have a species set. If there's anything you don't like, don't be afraid to ask.

Ok, good so far; a jackal is a good choice. A few changes though: No contacts (eye color yellow or green), glasses rather than a monocle, blue tie rather than gold. Also the name may change; names usually pop into my head when I'm actually writing to story, but until/unless I think of something special, I'll use your names. Other than that everything looks good!

Ok, I just figured a monocule seemed more busiman, finished bio:

Name: Jason Black/Jericho Ramses (the first is not really his real name, I chose something that seemed plain because its a fake name to hide his real one, thus chose uncommon and plain, the second is his real name)
Age: 34
Species: Jackel
Appearance: Wears glasses, his eyes are a pleasant, almost mesmerizing green, his face his unintimidating and friendly, by all outward appearances, a kindhearted, helpful man. However, when he shows his true personality, he removes his face is quite frightening and aggressive and his eyes are more intense and frightening, he also does not require the glasses, they're to help disguise himself. In both cases, he wears an expensive black business suits with a gold tie. His fur is a dark gold with brown on his paws and snout.
Personality: He has a very twofaced personality, on one side, he appears to be a friendly, helpful, intelligent individual, knowing a great deal about whatever it is he's 'helping with'. His true personality is a sly, cunning, cruel mastermind that is highly talented in manipulating his targets into believing he's whatever he wants them to and having a plan B. He is extremely greedy and will do anything to get money in his paws.
Traits, Talents, and abilities: Con artist, skilled in manipulation, talented in coming up with get away plans.
Relatives: None known.

So far, I haven't come up with a bio for any sort of character. I'll go through the suggested plots and maybe a character will barge in on me XD

But most probably I'll help out create the bios for the initial char sketch given by 0x7B.

Mind drawing a sketch for Jericho here? You said you could, that's why I'm asking.

Oh Gosh! Sorry I have been out for the past few weeks. I picked up a second job short term to get in some extra money. Now I am back in the game. How about a Racoon for lankeys. They are always considered theives b/c of their masks. Opossoms are also night critters that are very sneaky. I could see a lot of interesting sceneios with an evil chararter like a opossom. Hanging from rafters in banks by their tales un-noticed and then dropping down and picking the safe, using tails as whips, playing dead in a shoot out and then sneaking off when the cops backs were turned. SHarp teeth and claws if cornered.

Sure. I'll give it a shot.