Charpy

Name: Charpy

Series: Animals X

Age: 10

Gender: Male (he/him/himself)

Species: Charpen

Favorite Food: Beef Jerky

Element: Neutral

Powers: Can always find something to complain about.

Catch Phrase: "What is wrong with this planet?!"

Likes: Meat, action movies, vehicles (tanks, ships, planes, spaceships, etc), warm climates, his friends, Lummy, and cool weapons.

Dislikes: Vegetables, new things, not being taken seriously, weird things/people, cold temperatures, being called "cute", and SCOPE.

Personality: Charpy is rather self-centered and often only cares about himself. He tends to be irritated easily and finds it difficult to see things from the perspective of others. Despite this, he does care about his childhood friends, though he'll do all he can not to admit it. After his planet gets invaded and he ends up stuck on Animal Planet, he slowly becomes nicer and more considerate of others, but it takes him awhile to get there. He eventually becomes less whiny and more snarky. Charpy is also known to talk big when he's trying to intimidate any enemies he comes across, but in reality Charpy has almost no fighting skills and is useless in combat.

Home: Charpen Planet

History: Charpy grew up on the Charpen Empire's home planet. As a young child, he became friends with Melly, Lt. Fuzz, and Mich. His life remained peaceful until one day when a mysterious organization called SCOPE invaded the planet and overthrew the government. Lead by the overconfident Melly and a strange Charpen named Charles who claims to be royalty, Charpy and friends searched for a way off of their planet by convincing the nervous Lt. Fuzz to bring them to one of the planet's military bases. At the military base, the groups found a spaceship that they could use to escape the planet and search for help. However, not only did the children struggle to pilot the spacecraft, but SCOPE quickly noticed the escape attempt and followed the ship into space. Finding themselves being chased, unsure of their destination, and struggling to pilot the spaceship, the group quickly becomes overwhelmed as SCOPE began to fire missiles at their ship. It didn't take long for their spaceship to fall apart, leaving the children no choice but to use escape pods down to a nearby planet.

Charpy later wakes up to find himself injured and separated from his friends on an unfamiliar planet. He is quickly found by Lummy, a friendly Star Bunny, who gets him medical attention and food. Charpy then learns he's on Animal Planet, and becomes disgruntled as the Charpen Empire is not on great terms with Animal Planet. However, after Charpy explains what happened to him and how he got separated from his friends while trying to escape from SCOPE, Lummy jumps at the chance to join him and help him find his friends and stop the evil organization much to his dismay. However, he quickly realizes he doesn't have much of a choice, and accepts Lummy's help.

Current-Bio: Charpy is currently traveling around Animal Planet with Lummy in search of Melly, Lt. Fuzz, Mich, and Charles. Charpy quickly realized that SCOPE had followed him and his friends onto the planet, and encounters them several times on his adventure. During his travels, Charpy meets several people that appear to have connections to an incident 15+ years ago that threatened the universe.

Meta-History: Charpy was created to be the main character of Animals X, the sequel to my childhood story Animals which takes place at least a minimum of 15 years after Animals ends. Why did younger me decide to make a character who has no connection to the previous main characters the protagonist? I don't know. To be fair, he does end up on Animal Planet and meets several characters from the previous story and their kids, but before that he had never heard of any of them. What I do know is that I had previously created the Charpen creatures (pronounced as "Char-peon") as a random space empire that characters like Sakura would mention occasionally. I guess I wanted to create characters that were this new species, but for some reason I decided to place those characters in a sequel. Charpy isn't a very action-oriented character either, which also makes him a weird choice. Sure he gets a lot of allies that can fight, but it's still a strange decision. However, to younger me's credit, having a new character come to the previous story's location and see how things have changed with fresh eyes isn't a terrible idea. I just feel like I could have made better decisions? idk.

Relationships with Other Characters:

Lummy: Charpy originally didn't want anything to do with Lummy and wanted to focus on getting back to his planet as soon as possible. This changes as the two travel together and learn more about the mysterious organization called SCOPE, where Charpy eventually considers Lummy to be his best friend.

Melly: Charpy and Melly have been friends since they were children, though they don't always get along.

Lt. Fuzz: Charpy and Lt. Fuzz have been friends since they were children. Charpy is usually nicer to Lt. Fuzz than the others.

Mich: Charpy and Mich have been friends since they were children, but Charpy finds him annoying more often than not.

Charles: Charpy and Charles had never met before they encountered SCOPE for the first time. They don't get along well at all. Charpy doubts that Charles is actually royalty.

If I think of anything else I'll add it later.