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PLAYER INFO

Name: Roach
Age: 32
Contact: skittering_roach

CHARACTER INFO

Journal: toonpatrol
Name: Bonkers D. Bobcat
Age: Unknown, but generally treated like the toon equivalent of someone in their 20's-30's.
Canon: Disney's 'Bonkers'
Canon Point: 'New Partners on the Block', right after he saw Lucky "die".

Canon World

Their world is pretty much what our world would have been in the 90's if we had somehow managed to create living breathing cartoon characters out of ink, paint, celluloid and a dollop of "imagination".

History

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Personality

Like many toons from his era, Bonkers was animated with the intent of him being cute, funny and entertaining, particularly to kids, so a lot of his personality stems from those roots. He practically thrives off of making people laugh, is generally sweet-tempered, theatrical, optimistic and empathetic, but is also hyperactive, overly emotional, incredibly blunt and easily manipulated.

But underlining his general chipper disposition, he seems to be dealing with self-worth issues. Something he's not too keen on being open about outside of a self-deprecating sense of humor. And the few times he's slipped up and said something too cynical or depressing he's immediately back peddled or tried to distract away from it. But throughout the show he's been quick to make excuses for people who treat him poorly, nearly consigned himself to a fate worse than death at a point when he felt he was a useless burden. And he's spontaneously broken down in tears after someone showed him some basic human decency he didn't expect, either because it overwhelmed him, or like in one instance, he insisted he didn't deserve it.

While it's not something gone into with any detail, it's occasionally hinted at throughout the show that Bonkers hasn't had the best history with humans, which is likely the biggest contributor to his low sense of worth. His bar for good treatment from them is set extremely low, to the point that he thought his former boss considered him a son despite the man very brazenly treating him like a piece of property. He's also very lax about being condescended to or insulted, but sometimes briefly flinches or cowers at the smallest signs of aggression (when he manages to pick up on them). And he's outright admitted that no human had ever stood up for him before Lucky (this after Lucky tried to tell off another "officer" for physically and mentally abusing his partner under the guise of a training program, and then risked his job trying to help him pass the rest of the course).

And when it comes to his job, while he's very ditzy, impulsive and easily distracted, he's more clever than he tends to come across, and over the year or so he's been working as a cop he's gotten pretty good at detective work, occasionally proving to be better at it than his human partner. But even with the progress he's made, he doesn't always have much confidence in his abilities, often second-guessing his own deductions, citing that he's not good with logic (which, to be fair, his is often iffy) and openly struggling to deal with "human rules".

It also seems like he has a particular passion for helping toons over catching the criminals among them. While it's hardly ever lingered on, it's shown that toons who aren't actively working in cartoons tend to have a lot of problems. They're often living on or under the poverty line, struggle to find jobs, are taken advantage of, and far too often end up going missing. Either falling through the cracks or being kidnapped by humans or other toons who know that no one will care if a few unknowns go missing. He's quick to look into cases of toon disappearances and has been shown trying to help other toons find work, or shelter outside of his job. The first thing he did after being offered his job as a cop, was convince the Chief to also hire a bunch of out of work toon "supplies".

Toons are also given little benefit of the doubt when it comes to being accused of crimes. They can be put into jail for doing very little or despite having little evidence against them, and this is one of the few things about being a cop that Bonkers is shown to be genuinely disgruntled with. While he doesn't openly complain about it, outside of the occasional pouting or snarky/passive aggressive remark (sassy passive aggression and guilt trips seem to be his favored form of retaliation in general), he'll do just about everything in his power to prove their innocence. At one point even putting his badge on the line for a case involving a personal friend. And he also adamantly volunteered himself and Lucky for a reform program for toon criminals, insisting that all toons have the potential to be good if only given the chance, much to his partner's displeasure.

While he hasn't always been right, and his instincts and trusting nature have gotten him into trouble more times than he can probably count, he's still relentlessly hopeful and tries to do whatever he believes is right. No matter how many times it might bite him in the tail.

Special Abilities

Made of Ink and Paint- Toons like Bonkers are made to be nearly indestructible. Over the course of the show, the bobcat has been flattened, run over, thrown off cliffs, ate a bomb that detonated inside of him, and spontaneously split himself in half for a punny gag. While he can be hurt or knocked out it's usually not for long and generally done with some degree of comedic effect.

The flip side of this is that toons have to periodically use ink and/or paint to give themselves touch-ups and basically keep themselves healthy. The show never goes into the full ramifications of not doing this but they can become discolored which can make them sick. Any more serious consequences are up for interpretation. For the purposes of the game I was planning on making it so that going without a touch-up for too long (around a week or two), would eventually cause his color to start fading, make him less capable of using his toon abilities and more prone to lasting or lethal damage.

And following "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" rules (which this show seems to be inline with) things like the "Dip" (a mix of turpentine, acetone, and benzene), and some hard paint thinners, can be dangerous or deadly to them.

[I would like to further nurf this so that he's harder to hurt with blunt force (though not completely immune to it), but everything else would be fair game. So getting knocked around might not do much to him but getting stabbed sure would, and the longer he goes without touching-up his paint, the more unhealthy and easily damage he'll become.]

Tooning - In the words of Fallapart Rabbit, "Extended physical proximity with toons, such as being crammed together in a drain pipe, results in involuntary imprinting of personality, often accompanied by color transference". Basically, toon ink can rub off on to other people and can make them act a little like the toon it came from, or just make them kind of giggly/easily amused. It's very temporary, seemingly only lasting a few minutes, though that might depend on the person.

Rule of Funny - Being a slapstick style toon, Bonkers is capable of all kinds of reality or physics breaking antics. Like walking into/out of paintings, using toon black holes, shapeshifting, temporarily ignoring gravity, pulling objects out of nowhere, losing body parts and just sticking them back on, running faster than a car can drive, creating thought balloons and grabbing things out of them, or using "imaginary" toon items. They can do just about anything really, but only if it's funny, or at least done in an attempt to be funny, and only if they believe they can do it (like they can easily walk off a cliff into thin air and just hover there, but as soon as they look down and realize they should be falling, they'll fall).

Unfortunately 'rule of funny' also means that if a joke can be made he has to do it, even if he really doesn't want to because he knows it might be detrimental or just awkward. If someone provides a set up for him, he has to finish it, if there's a banana peel on the floor he has to slip on it, if a big shiny button says "don't push" he has to push it. There have been a few times, though they've happened very rarely, were he's found this just as annoying as the people around him tend to, but he can't help himself, it's on the level of an extreme compulsion, and like with most compulsions trying to ignore it or resist it will only make the need to do it worse.

[I would like to nurf this one a lot, with most of it just not working at all.
Things I'm interested in leave him with include:

Thought Bubbles - but any items he pulls out of them are very temporary (only lasting about 5 to 10 minutes before poofing out of existence) and they won't be very substantial (using them for anything physical will make them poof). The most useful object he could probably make would be a light bulb. And I'm tempted to say the 'nightmare' might mess with it somehow.

Hammerspace - essentially makes him a walking bag of holding. He'll be able to pull nearly any object out of small spaces on his person (like a pocket, wallet or bag) but only if it's something he's picked up ingame. No toon objects for this one outside of a Toon Black Hole.

Toon Black Hole - he can pull one of those old school Toon Black Holes out of his pocket, slap it on a surface and create a temporary hole of up to six feet. This can be a hole that goes straight through a wall or floor (though he'll find it will not work to get him into areas that are locked off to the PC's) or just a bottomless hole leading to hammerspace that he can possibly trap a person or monster in (though he'll only have the one hole, so if he fills it with a monster he's not going to be able to really use it again until he lets that critter back out). Other people will be capable of passing through this hole as well, but only if they believe 100% that they won't just run into a wall or break their shins trying to jump into it. (This doesn't seem to be an issue for most people, especially if it doesn't occur to them that the hole isn't "real" or that going through it might be impossible to do in the first place, but it has still been shown to not work for people who do get hung up on the impossibility of toon objects working for them. So I'm mentioning it anyway, since it could work to the disadvantage of people trying to use it, or possibly to the advantage of those he might try to trap in it.)]

SAMPLES

TDM Starter x

TDM One big bird and several small spoopy birds x

TDM Hotel of Horrors x