#So a lot of my Chao lore was inspired by watership down

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So lets talk about Tabi, who is currently running in the @sonic-oc-showdown

✨- How did you come up with the OC’s name?

Right, so, they ended up getting their name while I was trying to name a separate character. While double checking to make sure that "Zori" didn't mean anything offensive, ended up finding out about Jika-Tabi and went from there.

🌼 - How old are they? (Or approximate age range) Born a couple decades past when the Nocturne Clan were supposed to be put in the cage/ The Knuckles Clan made their attempt to grab the Master and Chaos Emeralds. In their universe, the former didn't happen and the latter wasn't stopped.

🌺- Do they have any love interest(s)? ....No. Not anymore.

🍕 - What is their favorite food?

Steamed Soybeans! They like a little bit of chili oil and salt on them sometimes.

💼 - What do they do for a living? Salvage work, mostly. They'll spend their days scavenging badniks, item boxes, old chaos ore, you name it. Then they'll archive it and cobble stuff together in order to make things to help their fellow chao, like sensors to alert for predators, or filters in order to make sure water stays clean.

🎹 - Do they have any hobbies? Oh, tons! They love studying mechanics and, learning how to polarize lenses to find chaos radiation signatures, as well as Extreme Gear propulsion systems. And as of recent, they've been doing their best to revive a lost technique of gem cutting for maximum effect of their molecular structures. It's going well! ... It's going too well.

🎯 -What do they do best? Thievery! They will steal anything that's not nailed down and if it, they'll take a hammer to it. It's second nature to them, really, anything they find interesting, or shiny, or they need/want it, they are going to get it. There's not a lot you can do to stop them, the challenge is half the reason they love it so much.

🥊 -What do they love to do? What do they hate to do?

Tabi likes taking a few hours in their day to train. Free Running, Swordplay, trying to channel their natural connection with Chaos Energy in order to boost their own abilities, just to get out of the nest every once in a while, ya know? On that last bit, they used to be able to access what they could do with chaos energy with song and they could sing you an aria that could heal grievous injuries and soothe the soul. ...

Tabi... doesn't sing much, anymore. They hate doing that.

❤️ - What is one of your OC’s best memories?

They bit a child once. It wasn't biting the child that was the best memory, mind you, they thought said child was gonna eat them, to be perfectly fair.

But they've been so happy being the best parent they could be to that kid, it's funny that's how they remember meeting them.

✂️ - What is one of your OC’s worst memories? ...You know...

...it wasn't the fact that a Raptor Hawk attacked them. Or the fact that the Field Medic didn't have a choice but to amputate what was left of their wing. Or the fact that the experience left them so rattled, they couldn't quite keep up with the rest of the Babylonian Mercenaries they'd been raised with since hatching. It was the fact that when the distress signal they were charged to watch until their owner came back finally went out, the worst part was that it took 4 weeks to realize they might not be coming back.

🧊 - Is their current design the first one? Nuh uh, their horns used to go straight back with no horns, and they were closer colored to an adult dark flight chao.

And that's not to mention the other designs, depending on what time period it is...

🍀 - What originally inspired the OC?

I looked up the word "Zori". I saw what socks went with Zori. I got Ideas.

🌂 - What genre do they belong in?

Shonen? Anything where if you fight people and you win they become your friend.

Or whatever the hell The Last Of Us is.

💚 - What is your OC’s gender identity and sexuality?

Agender Demisexual

🙌 - How many siblings does your OC have?

None, anymore.

There were some other chao they were raised with, but they never really saw them again, except like...maybe once or twice.

🍎 - What is the OC’s relationship w/their parents like?

None, anymore.

It suits them just fine.

🧠 - What do you like most about the OC?

I like the fact that if you manage to get them to respect you, you'll have an ally for life, and they consider you family, they will fight god in order to protect your smile.

✏️ - How often do you draw/write about the OC? Far too much.

💎 - Do you ever see yourself killing off the OC?

Killing? No. Passing away peacefully after centuries of life? More likely. If anything? Something along the lines of being asked by El-ahrairah to join their Owsla. Sure, they'd balk at first, but they'd eventually accept their time is done, their era is over, and it's time to go, and it's ok to let what they've done echo in folklore and the like. They need that rest.

💀 - Does your OC have any phobias?

Birds. Big ones. If you have a low flying enough drone casting the shadow of one, or have some bird of prey calls playing near them, they'll freak out to the point of having severe panic attacks all the way to dissociating, but why would you do something like that.

🍩 -Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival? They do have one. Of sorts. Tabi eventually manages to work through some of their feelings towards Mobians, and a lot of their anger gets blunted with age, and actually opening their heart up a bit. But a lot of the chao that follow them didn't have good experiences with Mobians either. And some of those chao weren't happy about their change of heart...

🎓 - How long have you had the OC?

About 5-6 years now? I think?

🍥 - What age were you when you created the OC? .....*cough* 27.