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Post random characters you've made up here, instead of putting them into the main board like I did!
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Jarky Thistlebrush

Jarky Thistlebrush

Gender: Female

Species: Squirrel (Hare)

Age: She has never remembered to keep track of age and likely will never

Origin: Woodland cottage, whereabouts unknown

Appearance: Jarky is larger than most squirrels, with silver fur. Her tail is dyed white. She normally has hare ears attached to her normal ears.

Clothing: She wears a brown homespun cloak and a simple moss green tunic, belted at the waist with a burnt orange silk sash.

Weaponry: She wields a short dirk and a dagger for emergencies. However, she does not often use them as she has a tendency to forget what is the handle and what is the blade. Normally she just boxes.

Personality: Jarky wants to be a hare. She acts like a hare, speaks like a hare, fights like a hare, and even has the appetite of a hare. She is clumsy and forgetful, yet good at solving riddles and quite clever at times. She is a lovable creature.

Background: She was kicked out of her home as a young one due to her appetite, and has wandered the globe ever since.

Affiliation: None yet.
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Abbess Tyra Brooksong
Abbess Tyra Brooksong

Age: 47 seasons

Gender: Female

Species: Mouse

Appearance: Tyra has light, almost golden brown fur. She has unusually large ears and big, warm hazel eyes that, however kindly they may look, are capable of giving a steely stare.

Clothing: The normal green habit of a Redwaller plus a pair of round, steel framed glasses.

Weaponry: Tyra does not often go to pick up a weapon; she is normally a creature of peace. However, when the need arises, she considers herself quite a good shot with a bow and arrows.

Personality: Being Mother Abbess of Redwall, Tyra is rather clever and is always kind to her fellow Redwallers. But when someone is naughty, all it needs to quiet them down is one steely glance from the Mother Abbess. When her Abbey is in danger, she becomes quite warlike, leading Redwall into battle.

Backstory: Even as a Dibbun, Tyra showed signs of great leadership, often being at the head of the Dibbun army as it came to rob the kitchen. As she grew older, her leadership grew, and when old Abbot Dalton died, she was unanimously elected to be the new Abbess.

Affiliation: Mossflower Army, Redwall.
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Greydeath Easterland
Greydeath Easterland

Age: 28 seasons

Gender: Female

Species: Mongoose

Rank: Captain

Appearance: Greydeath, as her name suggests, is grey all over, with darker bands across her back and a chunk missing from her ear. Though not as smart or strong as Jargo, she is slim and agile.

Clothing: Greydeath is clothed in Jargo's army's usual uniform: A jet black coat, brown leather belt and brown cloak.

Weaponry: Soldiers, captain or not, are allowed only a fire blackened scimitar and a sling with a pouch of stones. Archers, spear carriers and shield-beasts are permitted to carry extra weapons.

Personality: Greydeath is an ambitious, quick-witted young mongoose with her eyes on role as High Commander. A great deal less honourable than Jargo, she'll do anything to save her own skin.

Backstory: Greydeath was born to the rank of captain, with her mother, father and their parents before them all being captains under several different commanders.

Affiliation: Jargo's Army.
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High Commander Jargo (Jargo the Mighty)
High Commander Jargo (Jargo the Mighty)

Age: 33 seasons

Gender: Male

Species: Polecat

Rank: High Commander

Appearance: Larger than most polecats, Jargo is tall and muscular. Unusually for polecats, his fur is silky black except for the tail tip which is a bright golden-red. A seasoned warlord, his fur is crisscrossed with a lattice of long, white scars.

Clothing : His sturdy leather tunic is lined with some exotic creature's fur and buttons up the middle with buttons made of shining white ivory. A hooded red cloak clasped with a wooden chip shaped like a skull drapes over his broad shoulders, and he wears a sturdy canvas belt around his waist.

Weaponry: Jargo is a skilled swordsman, wielding a long-bladed broadsword in one paw and a short dirk adorned with golden runes in the other. For long range, he carries a yew bow and a quiver of arrows, each fletched with pure black feathers.

Personality: Jargo is every inch the warlord, inflicting cruel discipline upon his ranks. However, he will not stoop to trickery or cheating. He holds his honor in very high regard. Strangely, he exhibits mercy on captured and vanquished enemies, usually letting them take their lives and freedom.

Backstory: As a young 'un, Jargo was a lowly soldier in his army. He rose quickly through the ranks, mainly due to his utter ruthlessness in fighting. Eventually he gained control of the army, taking it westward to cooler, richer lands.

Affiliation: Jargo's Army
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General Ginko Coriandrum
General Ginko Coriandrum

Age: Around 40 seasons

Gender: Male

Species: Hare

Rank: General

Appearance: A tall, dark-furred hare, his fur is extremely dark brown all over his body except for his right ear, which is black, and a creamy patch on his throat.

Clothing: Ginko, when he's not wearing armour or the standard Long Patrol uniform, is garbed in a sturdy, hooded sharkskin tunic lined with sable fur. He has a fine woven kelp-belt with a silver buckle depicting a flying albatross.

Weaponry: A long, keen rapier and a short dirk are Ginko's main close-range weapons. He also has a sharkskin-woven sling and a pouch of hard obsidian chips.

Personality: General Ginko is a bright spirited hare, happy and confident even in the midst of battle. He is, however, utterly ruthless towards vermin and is sometimes afflicted with the Bloodwrath.

Backstory: Ginko has served in the long patrol for as long as he remembers. He has become an adept swordbeast, and as a result, been promoted to General, the highest position possible.

Affiliation: Mossflower Army, Long Patrol.
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The following is a list of things to bring on holiday:
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42 ~ Seb's Humility ~ Seb's toothbrush ~ Seb's soul ~ Half a Plane ~ Your Toothbrush ~ A creeping anxiety every time you look at your toothbrush ~ Pure Terror every time you look at your toothbrush ~ Death every time you look at your toothbrush

I had to move everything off the list but the bare essentials to make way for this:

Jack the Quick

Am I right to assume, due to the clothing on these characters, that you're style of writing is in high fantasy?
'I ate the sharpest tool in the shed'

"Inconceivable!" ~Vizzini, The Princess Bride

"Art is never complete, only abandoned," ~Leonardo da Vinci

Long live the RRR!!

Jarky Thistlebrush

The following is a list of things to bring on holiday:
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42 ~ Seb's Humility ~ Seb's toothbrush ~ Seb's soul ~ Half a Plane ~ Your Toothbrush ~ A creeping anxiety every time you look at your toothbrush ~ Pure Terror every time you look at your toothbrush ~ Death every time you look at your toothbrush

I had to move everything off the list but the bare essentials to make way for this:

Jack the Quick

#3
Aha! Are you a WoT fan?
By the way, I really like all of your characters.
Edit: Whoops, I forgot my characters.

Villains:
Redtail

Name: Redtail
Age: 25 seasons
Gender: Male
Species: Ferret
Weapons: Before: A rusty broadsword. After: A long curved sword with several jewels in its hilt and a deep black sheath, several small daggers tucked into his belt and boots.
Personality: Ambitious and cruel; he is a good warrior (in vermin terms) but he is a coward at heart, and he flees if he believes he cannot win.
Past: He has served with many vermin hordes, but he has always deserted them in the end. He meets a band of samurai under General Chikaru on their way to the abbey and attacks, killing one of their own and taking his sword and daggers (the after). He is recruited for his fighting abilities and later rises to captain.
Appearance: He is a little bit larger/more muscular than usual ferrets, fur sable mask style, but he has superstition that every time he defeats an enemy, he dips his tail in their blood, hence the name Redtail. He often wears dark green trousers with black boots. He wears a deep black sword belt and sheath across his waist. He is usually bare chested apart from the bandolier that runs across it that carries most of his daggers. He wears a small black metal helm on his head with small holes for his ears. His tail is permanently stained with blood.
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General Chikaru

Name: General Chikaru
Age: 23 seasons
Gender: Male
Species: Jerboa
Weapons: Large crossbow, pistol, and a katana.
Personality: Always on the lookout for new officer or soldier materiel, doesn't like taking prisoners. Merciless in punishment unless he believes he can use them, in which case they often get away without punishment.
Past: He is the top captain in the caln's army, he is second only to Daimyo Yoshiaki. He has his own platoon but he also commands the other captain's platoon's. He is the officer in command of the patrol that Redtail meets. He is also very fast.
Appearance: He is lankier and more muscular than your average Jerboa. He has deep black eyes and ordinary samurai armour with green highlights. His sword had a deep green sheath. He wears his crossbow on his back and he never wears his helmet. His breastplate is adorned with medals. He has a black mustache.
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Lord Flamepaw

Name: Lord Flamepaw Trueblood, Lord of Nebelheim
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Species: Weasel
Weapons: Twin double-sided daggers that he calls Orae (the left hand dagger) and Flara (the right hand dagger), the right hand one was roasted in a Badger Lord's forge flame for a year and a day, giving making it always full of heat. Once it was complete, Flamepaw killed the Badger Lord who made it with it, then accidentally burned his own paw, singing his fur. The burn turned his paw pad red and the fur around it orangey-yellow. It was at this point that he changed his name to Flamepaw. He once attempted to create a sword using the same method as the dagger, but the Badger Lord who he forced to make it, the successor of the one who made Flara for him, was assassinated before it was completed.
Personality: Flamepaw is cruel and unforgiving, though he has an eye for talent. He is very ambitious and has a high opinion of himself, though he is careful of underestimating his opponents and overestimating himself. He is contemptuous of the 'petty squabbles' that the Verminlords of Greystone are constantly having, though he aspires to take Greystone for himself one day.
History: Flamepaw, once called Nordite, was once an important member of a noble house in the far off lands of Redwall, hailing from the city of Brockhall. Tired of trying to take Brockhall for himself, he left his children to fend for themselves and Brockhall for the Highsip Weasel House. Leaving the Redwall area, Flamepaw took five hundred of his own Weasel-Guard men-at-arms, all clad in his black tunics with his sigil, a hand on fire rising out of a blue ground, on their chests. He also took assorted other beasts and clad them in his livery. By the time he reached Nebelheim, or what was Nebelheim at the time, his small army had grown to the number of one thousand. Once he reached Nebelheim, he immediately set on the civilians and began a monarchy-like government. He named the men who had come with him the Flame Guard, then created two other forces. One, a more ordinarily, very large Nebelheim Grand Army, and two, the Nebelheim Militia, a lesser trained force. After that, Flamepaw began building an armada and capturing slaves.
Appearance: Flamepaw is a grey weasel with a red, yellow and orange right paw, and a blackened left ear. He usually wears trousers with a black coat with his sigil over his heart and a badger pinned to a wall with a dagger on his shoulders. His coat has thread-of-gold lines weaving and curling their way over his coat sleeves, forming into gold flames by his armpits. Flamepaw wears his twin daggers in dagger sheaths on his back, making him look very menacing while at the same time regal with his coat. His face usually wears a smug grin and searching, wary eyes.
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Folosian

Name: Folosian
Gender: Male
Age: 23 Seasons
Species: Rat
Weapons: He has a longsword, which he has named Terror, which is his pride and joy. He tries to take care of his sword, but, not being too bright, never really does anything, resulting in it being very rusty and chipped. He acquired it by stealing it from a mouse warrior, so it has a faded black wire wrapped hilt and a small sapphire as the pommel stone.
Appearance: Tan trousers, black shirt. He has dark brown fur and completely white eyes. One of his ears is missing.
Personality: Usually in a bad mood, has a hard time socializing.
Place of Origin(Redwall, Southsward, etc.): Freebooter Crew
History: He was kicked out of his Freebooter's crew for deserting. He believed that the crew wasn't serious enough so he left, only to get caught. He used to serve with a vermin land horde, but after the horde's defeat at Salamandastron, he fled and joined the crew of the Seabane, commanded by Captain Mortooth.
Other: Disgusted with the thought of a mouse.
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Heroes:

Busher

Name: Busher
Age: 26 seasons
Gender: Male
Species: Squirrel
Weapons: Valuable curved dagger, wooden javelin
Personality: Prefers to be alone and brood, but if you can get close enough to him he can be funny and upbeat
Past: His family, who used to live deep in Mossflower Woods, was killed by searats when he was young, leaving him to die. He survived, and when he grew he attacked and killed the searats who killed his family, taking a valuable curved dagger. He maintains ties with Redwall, though he lives alone in Mossflower.
Appearance: Unusual black fur with a red stripe running from his forehead to his extraordinarily bushy tail. He has deep blue eyes and often wears an iron chestplate stolen from searats on top of his green tunic. He wears a rope belt to hold his dagger and wears his javelin on his back. He wears leather boots and iron greaves overtop of black trousers.
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Hampin

Name: Hampin the Arrow:
Age: 17 seasons
Gender: Male
Species: Squirrel
Weapon: Bow and arrow, short sword
Personality: Grim and serious, hates searats and corsairs with a passion.
Past: His tribe was killed by searats and corsairs when he was young, Badgermum Hoppe found him and brought him to Redwall. He dyes his arrows feathers blue to represent his tribe's colours.
Appearance: He wears a small chestplate on his chest over a black tunic. He wears dark green trousers and he has an unusual black stripe on his back.
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Jack

Name: Jack the Lucky
Age: 15 seasons
Gender: Male
Species: Hare
Weapon: Lumber Axe
Personality: Upbeat, enthusiastic. He has a very warped sense of logic and tends to stretch the stories of his adventures so he sounds better. Sometimes he even believes his own tales.
Past: Born and raised on Salamandastron, he's been sent on numerous missions. Several of his missions have failed due to him getting carried away, Fleetpaw and Garl have always been sent to bail him out. Roguestripe the Brave was a father figure to him, as his mother died in birth and his father died of grief soon after.
Appearance: Common hare, he has blue eyes and his ears are always brown, even in the winter. He wears baggy trousers and often a black vest over his bare chest.
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Kifal

Name: Kifal
Species: Mouse
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Appearance: A very light colored mouse, his fur is almost blonde, which help him blend in in the Northern. He usually wears light clothes to help him disguise, apart from his iron breastplate. His fur is usually ruffled. He has brown eyes with a scar over his left.
Personality: He's very energetic, he is obsessed with the idea of gambling and tries to convince others to gamble with him. He's usually smiling and he never has his spirits down.
History: He lives in Stormbreak and often heads to the bar to gamble. He used to be part of an army that went off to fight warlords.
Weapon: He carries a carved quarter staff with him and a small dagger with a single ruby on the hilt.
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Kodar

Name: Kodar
Gender: Male
Age: 23 seasons
Species: Mouse
Weapon: Black iron longsword engraved with a K on the pommel stone, the pommel stone is black marble with white veins, same as the stones at the end of the crossguard and a black wire wrapped hilt. A black shield with a dark red carved with a K with dark red trim. The sword is named Domitor.
Appearance: Black fur with dark reddish fur around all of his paws, he usually wears dark clothing with his black iron breastplate.
Personality: He is easy-go lucky usually unless worried then he turns very serious.
History: He came from the harsh Northlands to Redwall, where they almost turned him away for his urging for them to join the Northlands war effort. He later left his recruitment plan and came to be a Redwaller. He declined their offer of making him the abbey warrior and instead founded the Mossflower Patrol.
Other (optional): He is the Captain of the Patrol
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Roguestripe

Name: Roguestripe the Brave
Gender: Male
Age: 45 seasons
Species: Badger
Weapon: Huge battle axe set with emeralds and a black and forest green wire wrapped hilt. The edges of his blades are carved, one end says Hail Gaul, the other says Hail Sora. His mother and father were Gaul and Sora.  He polishes it every day. It is said he locked himself in his forge room for five days straight, refusing to eat or drink after his parents died in a searat attack. He came out with his battle axe, who he calls the Hailer, and swore vengeance. He has been searching for the rats responsible ever since.
Appearance: Roguestripe is a grey-ish badger, with a black stripe from his nose to the tip of his tail, like most badgers, but unusually his stripe is a little wavy and it has spiked edges. Roguestripe usually wears black trousers and a no shirt, though he has a big strap for Hailer.
History: He was born the same as he is now, though smaller, and his parents thought his strip roguish and named him Roguestripe. His parents died in a searat attack when he was in his early twenties, still learning the basics of his role as a badger lord. After that, he disappeared into his forge room for five days, refusing to eat or drink, and came out with his battle axe, Hailer, and swore vengeance on the searats who killed his parents. When Jack the Lucky was orphaned, Roguestripe felt a connection to the baby hare, knowing what the hare would've been feeling should he have been older, and adopted him. Roguestripe loves Jack more than anything, though his position and the expectations of him cause Roguestripe to be a little more gruff and distant from his son than he would've liked.
Personality: He is gruff and serious, though he can have a good sense of humour if the time allows it and he is with people closer to equals. He brightens when he is around Jack, though he tries to hide it, as much as he wishes he didn't have to.
Affiliation: Salamandastron/ Long Patrol
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Flakhide

Name: Flakhide
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Species: Very small crocodile
Weapon: A large broadsword he calls Verminbane, slightly dented along the blade and a heavily gauged red leather covered hilt from his claws.. The pommel stone and the three stones along the crossguard are flamestones, a type of stone from the swamps that he comes from, though they are commonly mistaken for rubies. The crossguard is painted black and blade itself is covered in a red tooth pattern.
He also has a huge mace-and-chain, also with a gauged red leather wrapped hilt. The chain and ball of the mace are painted black and the spikes are painted red, which some say are to hide the blood. There are a few flamestones embedded on the ball.
And, of course, his claws and his teeth.
Appearance: Flakhide has an ordinary crocodile green hide, though he has had at least half of his scales painted or dyed red, though not split right down the middle, done completely randomly. He usually wears black and red plate armour, painted to look like scales. He has huge spiked shoulder plates, the points painted red. He wears spiked kneepads and boots with a spiked toe. He always goes helmetless. His eyes are permanently tinged red from getting the bloodwrath, called the Wrath where he comes from. He wears his mace strapped on his belt and his sword on his back.
History: Flakhide comes from the Southern Swamps, a place no woodlander has ever gone to and survived. Flakhide spent the early years of his life fighting the vermin who raided his home and the alligators who lived nearby. Flakhide was exiled after the Wrath affected him in a peace treaty with the alligators, causing him to kill several of them and ending the treaty, and after the Wrath affected him in the middle of battle and he killed several comrades. Before his mother died, he had never succumbed to the Wrath once, but when she died he lost a little control. Once exiled, it just got worse. He left the Southern Swamps and traveled northward.
Personality: He used to be raucous and always happy, but since his exile and the death of his mother, he's almost always angry or sad. When alone, he cries to himself and mourns his mother, but his rage is immense and it's almost impossible to calm him. He hopes, deep inside his heart, that he will eventually recover.
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'I ate the sharpest tool in the shed'

"Inconceivable!" ~Vizzini, The Princess Bride

"Art is never complete, only abandoned," ~Leonardo da Vinci

Long live the RRR!!

Jarky Thistlebrush

Actually... No old chap. I've never heard of it. Nice blinkin' characters, by th' way!
The following is a list of things to bring on holiday:
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42 ~ Seb's Humility ~ Seb's toothbrush ~ Seb's soul ~ Half a Plane ~ Your Toothbrush ~ A creeping anxiety every time you look at your toothbrush ~ Pure Terror every time you look at your toothbrush ~ Death every time you look at your toothbrush

I had to move everything off the list but the bare essentials to make way for this:

Jack the Quick

Thanks!
Hmm, if you've never heard of it and you like high fantasy...
The Wheel of Time is great.
'I ate the sharpest tool in the shed'

"Inconceivable!" ~Vizzini, The Princess Bride

"Art is never complete, only abandoned," ~Leonardo da Vinci

Long live the RRR!!

Jarky Thistlebrush

#6
And...
More characters!!!

Spoiler
Name: Koal Redtail
Gender: Male
Age: Around 20 seasons
Species: Arctic Fox
Appearance: As his name suggests, Koal has an extremely unusual bright red tail. Aside from that, his fur is pure white and fluffy, hiding the lattice of pale scars that criss-cross his skin. Koal's build is tall and strong, with broad shoulders and rounded ears. He is usually garbed in a pale blue tunic and a black, fur-lined cloak.
Personality: Koal is quite mad. He is quick to anger and quick to fight. You must be careful what you say around him, as he can be happy one second, mad and raging the next.
Place of Origin: The Northlands
History: It is rumored that, as a young 'un, a band of wandering vermin captured him and killed both his parents. They captured Koal, and despite him being a vermin like themselves, he was enslaved and driven mad. One day, he broke out of the cage they had kept him in and slaughtered the vermin gang. Since then, he has wandered the globe, all vermin bands refusing to take him in. Until one day, he was kidnapped by Harlapple and his band of Freebooters, and his life changed forever...
Skills: Despite being mad, Koal is a very good shot with a bow and arrows and even a good swordsman.
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Short ones:

Spoiler
Name: Chelli Duskfur                                                                                                                                                                               
Gender: Male     
Species: Shrew                                                                                                                                                                                      Age: 18 seasons                                                                                                                                                                       Appearance: A young shrew, Chelli is muscly and has inky black-blue fur. He wears a short, patched brown tunic belted around the waist with a bright red sash and a matching red bandana tied around his forehead. Thrust into the sash is a sharp rapier.                                                                              Personality: An impulsive male shrew, Chelli is quick to anger and quick to forgiveness. He is more clear thinking than other shrews, and is kind and caring to his friends.
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Spoiler
Name: Azar Teraflyte                                                            Species: Hawk                                                                                                                                                       Age: 25 seasons                                  Gender: Male                       Appearance: A young, golden-feathered, sharp-eyed hawk.                                                                                       Personality: Cruel and ready to kill anybeast, Azar is also extremely honorable. He is not particularly clever or strategic.
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The following is a list of things to bring on holiday:
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42 ~ Seb's Humility ~ Seb's toothbrush ~ Seb's soul ~ Half a Plane ~ Your Toothbrush ~ A creeping anxiety every time you look at your toothbrush ~ Pure Terror every time you look at your toothbrush ~ Death every time you look at your toothbrush

I had to move everything off the list but the bare essentials to make way for this: