#Spagonia's OC

[runawaycarouselhorse]

ねんねんころりよ　おころりよ。

ぼうやはよい子だ　ねんねんしな

[darknoisestudio]

Sunset Melody Mina likes to casually sing along with Swift's guitar as he quietly strums in the fading light, both enjoying the peaceful evening together after a hard days work.

Yes, I know, it's been a while since I last updated. I keep forgetting to check over here, plus I'm busy preparing for my first ever table at Sonic Con in Oct.

More to come, promise!

[kinopioa]

Nowhere full depth as last time, but

Wow Mimic, you really don't give a shit about making an effort for this disguise, huh? It's laughable how Silver struggled with this (honestly out of nowhere, nothing indicated they were near the ocean) enemy, but you just...sneering and going evil eyed tops that

Inversely, huh. Was expecting Silver to be treated as the lone idiot for not trusting Mimic, but no, here's Whisper. That said...that means this arc will literally be less than 4 issues

Unless this is Mimic disguising as Whisper, but the writers are generally too quick to reveal that

Anyway, Sonaze stuff

>I didn't see too much. Edit, someone noted he meant Blaze's world. Even so, he literally had to go looking for materials to help Tails craft transportation machines, interacted with many stage elememts, and Sky Babylon is exquisite with floating platforms and machines. Oh, and dolphin riding

2. Yeah you probably shouldn't have brought Blaze to a literal multi story tall building. IDWSonic the inconsiderate dumbass

Once again, Flynn retreads upon something game Blaze already went through Rush 1. Cuz clearly Gens doesn't matter.

Unrelated, can't tell if Flynn or Aaron made the flub, but why is a Sonic Mania stage reffed? Isn't Classic stuff barred from use in "Modern" context?

Similarly, NPCs in Unleashed note daytime Sonic being tolerant of the cold, despite thin short fur

We almost no OCs reffed, darn

What could've been a sweet moment is ruined by Knux punking (hurray for Sonic X nostalgia...), and a blatantly ripped SA2 quote for pandering

Otherwise, this was fluffy filler that isn't too bad

Except that...why is Blaze with Sonic? And the art by Reggie last issue made it seem like Sonic was going to Frog Forest/Lost Jungle, not Spagonia

It doesn't help that this comes out of nowhere. Why is Blaze here? And no, reading an ANNUAL filler comic shouldn't be requirement, Flynn. Stop doing that!

Also makes this more odd. The 2022 annual...is apparently recent to events for Issue 57-62 (this is the same vacation somehow). Like what the heck!?

Also, we really interrupted Knux Amy for this? Why isn't this for another annual?

My head hurts thinking how poorly planned this all is

Sad cuz...Aaron's art is good, Valentino's colors good, and even Evan seems to not draw Silver with round eyes for neutral expressions

@randomthefox @darklightheart

[greenyvertekins]

I agree with the anon who wants humans back.

But I think it's just how the IDW Comics wants to be the new Archie who also only introduced Sonic OC type characters! But at least humans were present in those. But it's extremely weird in a story perspective since we've literally had humans since Adventure...

Don't know if it's a mandate or not though. Tho I'd rather have sonic with humans rather than Tangle and Co

What I don't get is that the first story of the latest issue is set partially in places from Unleashed right? Unleashed takes place in locations where humans live i.e the continental big cities.

So where are the humans? And why is anthro clothing depicted in a Spagonia storefront?

If there's some sort of mandate that forbids the depiction of humans then why is the book going out of its way to include human settings?

[hypernovahusky]

Character Ask Game: Nova the Wolf (Part 1)

Time for the first installment in totaleclipse573's Sonic OC ask game with my OC, Nova the Wolf!

Original:

Where are they from?

Nova’s parents originated from the country of Holaska, but both met and studied together at Spagonia University. After getting married, the two decided to settle in a small country village on the outskirts of the city. There, they would spend about 20 years raising their daughter, Nova. With both of them having jobs as environmental researchers, they were often busy, but were still able to fit in enough time to take care of young Nova.

Thankfully, her parents taught her how to be independent at a young age, so staying home alone wasn’t too much of an issue for her.

When she was around 14, Nova travelled with her parents on a business trip to the beautiful city of Windmill Isle in Apotos. After falling in love with the place, Nova would eventually set up her base of operations there 5 years later.

Nova does still have a good relationship with her parents and will visit or call them from time to time.

[bruiser-nation]

Proposed Sonic villain: Zìyóu Shāo , or her preferred title Mother Shāo.

I have based her design off the Dark Gaia Phoenix boss from Sonic Unleashed and Niao Sun from Shenmue 3. She gives me vibes of the 'Other Mother' in Coraline.

Zìyóu Shāo (real name: Melody Birdsong) - An evil and seductive  female phoenix who is a crime godmother. Born as Melody Birdsong in the United Federation from immigrant phoenix musician parents, Melody was groomed to become a singer and model due to her gift of talent and beauty. As she became famous, Melody developed a huge ego. She married, but she was unable to have kids due to a chronic fertility issue. Her record label letting her go became the straw that broke the camel’s back, causing her to unleash her newfound fire powers to burn the record label’s headquarters, killing everyone in the building in the process. Her husband would be one of her victims as he had threatened to turn her in. She would go on to Chun-nun to establish an underground mafia organization that adopts orphans to conform them into musicians to entertain her, taking the alias Ziyou Shao. Her crime syndicate would expand to a couple prominent countries like Spagonia and Apotos.

Artist is tammyasan. https://www.fiverr.com/tammyasan

[amidst-the-storm]

A small, witch hat wearing pumpkin spirit approaches Tempest, staring quietly for a few moments, before turning to see a black and red hedgehog approaching, watching it closely. The pumpkin turned back to Tempest, silently. The hedgehog sighed, “Yeah, sorry... it uh, it does that.”

Tempest blinked, watching the pumpkin spirit for a moment. She got down onto her knees. She examined its hat, internally finding the entire creature rather adorable. Tempest glanced up at the mobian before standing back up. She shrugged.“You have nothing to apologize for.” Her voice was completely and absolutely void of emotion, as was her face. She glanced down to the pumpkin and then back up at the hedgehog. “… Is this your child?”

[spinslash165]

Pride month stuff I did earlier this year.

The flame gradients don't look the best but hopefully they get the idea across!

[sege-h]

!!

With every “!!” i get, I’ll introduce you to an OC!

(art by @/motobug! 💜)

Peanut! A bunny that moved away from home and to Spagonia in search of a new start. He eventually opened up a cafe/bakery there, naming it BonBon's Bakery as a play on words (because he is a bunbun--)

He loves making sweets and talking to regular customers- them being greeted with some variation of 'darlin/honey/sweetheart' isn't all that unusual, as well as him fussing over them if they seem down or unwell

Not a lot of people are aware he took an active part in the war against Eggman (in Forces)-probably because he's a bit embarrassed about it. He felt like he needed to do something to help people, but was terrified and took up a sniper type wispon* so he could fight while staying hidden and at a distance at the same time. He feels like he could've done more if he wasn't hiding away

Now he's just trying to move on and do his best to lift people's spirit at his cafe/bakery

He also accidentally ends up with two werewolf/werewolf-ish boyfriends whoops

He didn’t plan for this. He just likes tall beefy men. That two entire ones ended up also having even taller and beefier secret forms was an accident--

(*I know there were no sniper wispons in the game but I think it was a crime that we didn't get a laser wispon of some sort)

[windstarosprey]

Sonic OCs: The Windstar Pirates

Left to Right: Zephyr, Stomp, and Iggy.

Part of the reason I'm setting up this blog is to find a new place to put my deviantART commissions. And what better way to start things off than my eponymous OC and his friends! Sonic community, say hello to...

THE WINDSTAR PIRATES An infamous trio of treasure hunters and professional ne’er-do-wells. From the rooftop heights of Spagonia to the ocean waves of Soleanna, to Mercia, Empire City, and beyond, the Windstar Pirates sail the seas in search of adventure and riches, bringing destruction and mayhem wherever they go.

But despite being wanted criminals, the Windstars are actually fairly decent people with a (mostly) strong moral compass and a desire to help those less fortunate than them. Unfortunately, their penchant for theatrics, inability to gauge their own strength, and lack of foresight have given them a reputation for dropping the ball...a lot. The result: large amounts of collateral damage. Furthermore, they're still pirates, and aren't above taking advantage of a situation if it means making some Mobiums.

But despite their...issues, at the end of the day, the Windstars make for powerful allies and loyal comrades...just keep your checkbook handy and hope that your enemies are left in worse shape than you are.

ZEPHYR THE OSPREY Sex: Male Age: 16~17 Crew Role: Captain; Marksman Likes: Women, Colore (the world's finest fruit juice), Solean* cuisine, collecting fine art and other valuables, his crew, romance, sailing, swashbuckling adventure stories. Dislikes: Uncouth ruffians, bad table manners, his coat being damaged, people who abuse their power, people who abuse women, greasy food. Wanted For: Piracy. Vandalism. Reckless endangerment. Fraud. Theft. Armed robbery. Grand larceny. Petty larceny. Owning a blaster without a permit. Sailing a ship without a permit. Operating a stand without a permit. Smuggling. Bootlegging. Moonshining. Public indecency. Public intoxication. Public indecency while intoxicated. Impersonating a doctor. Impersonating an officer. Impersonating a reigning monarch. Slander against a reigning monarch. Assaulting a reigning monarch. First degree flirtering.

The Captain of the Windstar Pirates and youngest of the trio. Flashy, flamboyant, and fearless to a fault, Zephyr is the epitome of a swashbuckling pirate. Armed with his trusty "Rosa Venti" windblasters and backed by his stalwart crew, he sails the seas in search of adventure, treasure, and romance.

Zephyr fancies himself as a "roguish, gentleman hero", plundering criminals worse than him and going out of his way to help those in need. Unfortunately, he’s also a shameless philanderer and a snob, flirting with every woman he fancies and being dismissive and critical of those he deems “unrefined savages”. He also loves to show off and be the center of attention and hates being upstaged, especially by said "unrefined savages". Zephyr adores the country of Soleanna (Mobian Italy) and often injects Solean words and phrases into his speech (with varying degrees of quality).

STOMP THE BISON Sex: Male Age: 20~22 Crew Roles: Cook; Helmsman Likes: Cooking, flowers, his friends. Dislikes: Speaking (I get...nervous.), wasting food, violence and hurting people. Wanted For: Piracy. Vandalism. Aiding and abetting a wanted fugitive. Trespassing. Theft. Destruction of property.

The eldest Windstar pirate, cook, and the biggest, strongest member of the crew. Due to his imposing height and physique, most people think Stomp is just a dumb muscle-head; an assumption reinforced by how rarely he speaks. In truth, Stomp is a gentle, warm-hearted man who gets nervous around other people and doesn't like to draw attention to himself. He's also a staunch pacifist, and would rather spend his time preparing delicious meals than fighting, and only does so as an absolute last resort. In the rare moments Stomp does fight, he's capable of lifting objects several times his own weight and can effortlessly dent iron with his bare hands.

Because of his non-verbal tendencies, Stomp primarily communicates through gestures, body language, and the occasional grunt. When he does speak it's only a few words at a time and with frequent pauses.

IGNIS "IGGY" THE SALAMANDER Sex: Female Age: 18~20 Crew Roles: Mechanic; Doctor Likes: Tinkering with machines, science, candy (especially lollipops) Dislikes: People who use science and technology for evil, illogical things and behavior, people calling her fat. Wanted For: Piracy. Vandalism. Assault. Battery. Disturbing the peace. Trespassing. Theft. Unauthorized and unethical experimentation. Setting off explosives in a public place. Detaining one against their will. Leaking state secrets. Cyberterrorism. Copyright infringement. The middle Windstar of the crew and their mechanic and surgeon. Iggy is the serious and responsible member of the trio, the one who makes sure everyone focuses on the task at hand and doesn't do anything stupid - usually by slapping them upside the head or yanking them by their hair, horns, or feathers. She's also the most intelligent, having a genius-level IQ and an almost paranormal aptitude for all things scientific and mechanical - including the human/Mobian body (it's basically an organic machine to her) -, which she loves to the point of manic obsession. She's the one who developed most of the tech the crew uses, including their ship's engines, Zephyr's blasters, and her magnum opus: the Armachine, her transforming, custom-built prosthetic arm.

The only thing greater than her love of science is her temper and her penchant for swearing, forcing her to wear a special choker that plays random sound effects to drown out her profanity.

Sonic the Hedgehog is the property of SEGA, Archie, IDW, and Paramount. Please support the official release and all official materials.

The Windstar Pirates are owned by me.

Artwork by RisziArts.

[runawaycarouselhorse]

[darknoisestudio]

S3 | Gold Team - Long Day

Some day's can be long and tough, even for these two. But for now, a long deserved rest!

This took forever and so many redraws! Gosh I love it though! Hope you all enjoy and give it all your love!

[lea-andres]

It occurred to me while I was braindumping for an ask @livingthewritelife-things sent me, I mention my OCs Team Cerberus (Brutus the Bulldog, Dinah the Spaniel, Carlisle the Terrier), and so instead of making that answer even longer I should explain them on a separate post. Because there's too much about my chaos puppies 😂😂😂

Okay, so, I think I've mentioned before that I headcanon Jewel rents out her museum as an event space, and one of her reoccurring renters is Prof. Pickle, who rents it out to host the Archaeological and Geological Society Dinner where all of his other archaeology and geology professor buddies get together for food, drinks, and to swap stories?

One of Prof. Pickle's closest buddies is Prof. Horne, who is the archaeology professor at Seaside City Academy (I made Seaside City into a college town, LOL). Picture your standard old man mountain goat, he wears the spectacles perched on his nose, hobbles about with a cane, and tells the same story about six times in a row because his memory's going and he forgot he told you already LOL. But he's a brilliant archaeologist.

He has three apprentices, Brutus, Dinah, and Carlisle. They were the children of two of his best students (that he went full matchmaker on and got together, because he thought they were a cute couple and the only thing Horne loves more than archaeology is getting into other people's shit LMAO), who had unfortunately died during a dig in Holoska. Eggman triggered an avalanche there, and the two were buried alive under the snow. 😳 The second Horne heard about this (and that the kids might get split up!), he swept in and adopted them.

Brutus the Bulldog is the oldest (18 in games/IDW canon). He cameoed in chapter 1 of WtDMtN, as you guys might recall, so I won't bother describing him again. He's an intelligent jock. Sometimes the meat head in him takes over, but he's a smart guy. He's a laid-back, casual guy. He's also quite infamously a flirt. Dinah and Carlisle joke that if it has a pulse, is legal, and can consent, Brutus will take a shot at it. He rarely succeeds though, but he just shrugs it off and never tries again when rejected, so it doesn't seem to bother him too much. There's also what Dinah and Carlisle call the Brutus 1-2 Special: He'll meet a couple, hit on one of them, get rejected, and then instantly try to hit on the other one, somehow unaware they are an item. This is usually met with Carlisle laughing at him, and Dinah yelling at him to "read the room".

Dinah the Spaniel is the middle child, (16 in the games/IDW canon.) and the leader of Team Cerberus (because she's the best at navigating through professional/academic discussions, trust me, you don't want Brutus or Carlisle doing those parts!) She's a white spaniel with large wire framed glasses. She usually dresses quite academically: button up blouses, skirts, little pumps. She trades this for a pair of coveralls and combat boots on an actual dig site though. Dinah is brilliant, definitely the most intelligent of the three. She usually keeps to herself, but if you connect with her on any of her special interests, you'll unlock how fucking crazy this girl can get. "Oh hey, let's sneak out of this party, grab some climbing gear, and scale up the side of Spagonia's clock tower!" Levels of nuts. She also dunks on her brothers a lot.

Carlisle the Terrier is the baby. (12 in games/IDW canon) and he loves to tinker with tech. His specialty is lasers, and he insists everything can be improved by sticking a laser on it. His dream is to convince Sonic the Hedgehog to let him strap a laser to him. (Cue Dinah facepalming in the background.) His stuff explodes and goes haywire a lot, which earned him the nickname "Carlisle the Terror" from his siblings. He's also just a cringe teenager at times. He's more up to date on pop culture and memes than his siblings, and routinely will just say shit that will cause them to just stare blankly at him and then keep going.

Brutus and Dinah are training to be legitimate archaeologists (with Dinah specifically training to be Horne's successor, as Brutus only likes the digs and can't STAND the academia side of things, but Dinah enjoys both.) Carlisle isn't into archaeology, he considers himself to be more of an inventor, but he makes himself useful keeping their equipment in peak condition and inventing new things for them to use.

Anyway, blah blah blah, Sonic Unleashed happened, Horne heard all the nitty gritty details from Pickle, and his reaction was "You know, someone really ought to be getting all of the artifacts that would be dangerous in the hands of someone like Eggman.", and shifts his apprentices' training to go more in that direction.

Thus Team Cerberus was formed. They travel the world hunting powerful artifacts, and hiding them somewhere Eggman wouldn't think to look. And they end up hunting down some CRAZY shit. First time Patience (who winds up apprenticing under them in the future) Goes with them on a dig, they're looking for the fucking Necronomicon. Team Cerberus does not fuck around with their job.

Couple more notes about them:

-None of them made it all the way through the Metal Virus. Horne stayed behind when it first broke out because he's a slow, hobbly old man who was going to hold his apprentices back. Brutus sacrificed himself getting his sibs off campus, and Dinah sacrificed herself to get Carlisle out of the city. Carlisle made it all the way to Restoration HQ, but was infected when HQ fell.

-Team Chaotix knows them! They hired the detectives a couple times, and the detectives occasionally reach out to them when they encounter something the archaeologists would know about. They've been surprisingly useful contacts to them.

-They also know the Babylon Rogues! The Rogues hire them occasionally to translate and appraise shit they've stolen (that they can't translate and appraise themselves.) Team Cerberus doesn't give a shit how they got their hands on this stuff, but any time the Rogues end up with something dangerous Dinah buys it off them right there and then, usually for more than she appraised it for. Carlisle wants to put lasers on Extreme Gear, which Wave refuses to do because she's pissed she didn't think of it first.

-Dinah has a very shaky professional relationship with Clutch the Opossum. He also has her appraise and translate artifacts he's unfamiliar with, because she never asks how he got this stuff. Unlike the Rogues, Dinah doesn't tell him when he winds up with something dangerous, she just anonymously purchases it off of him for more she appraised it for later. If Clutch is aware she's the anonymous buyer, he doesn't care... But he would care if he knew she's from Team Cerberus and she's buying the dangerous stuff off of him. Because he could make far more money selling that stuff directly to Eggman...

-They don't know Team Dark (unfortunately, Carlisle and Omega would be a hilarious combo!), but they know GUN. Tower left them to their own devices, but Wilson insists they should be handing over all the dangerous artifacts to them instead of hiding them. Any orders he sends to them demanding they do so are usually met with "Fuck off." Translated into a one of the many languages Dinah and Brutus knows, so let's leave it at they don't exactly see eye to eye...

-We're going to see them meet Jewel and start their relationship with the Restoration in the epilogue of WtDMtN! Through "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" logic (referring to GUN), they give Jewel a copy of the list of what is hidden where. It's written in code though, so Jewel can't read it. Dinah has fed Espio and Wave information about how to translate the code without them realizing it, so if they were to ever see it, they'd realize they could figure it out. Carlisle also just told Charmy how the code works, so hilariously he could figure it out faster if he got to see it.

-Once Patience comes into the picture, and she starts taking a huge interest in archaeology, Jewel introduces her to Prof. Pickle, who instantly pulled Dinah in to talk to the kid too. Dinah was VERY impressed with Patience, and gave her her email, and after a month of exchanging enthusiastic emails about archaeology with the kid, invited Bark and Jewel out to dinner to discuss her taking on Patience as her apprentice. Which, after a lot of thinking and worrying about it, they do allow. While Team Cerberus would never endanger Patience, the apprenticeship does have quite a bit of "don't tell your parents" energy to it. Looping back to the Necronomicon, Dinah let Patience hold it and leaf through it a bit (BUT NOT READ IT ALOUD!!!), to give an example.

[greenyvertekins]

Just out of morbid curiosity... How do you feel about the IDW Comics only including Sonic OC characters an no humans whatsoever?...

Personally I hate it... Like it's always been humans in the games, and I prefer it that way. I just feel like it's only a bunch of Sonic's running around it makes things so much less special...

And with the recent chapter with sonic and blaze spagonia I noticed the clothing store the manikins were also Sonic's and it just urges me so much...

Maybe Im the other only one who misses humans?

If IDW wants to leech off the games by claming they're canon to them, they should include humans like the games do. It's limiting its scope for variety by being anthro only. Though isn't that a mandate at the moment?

[beepccore]

cringe doesn't exist!!! post oc x canon!!! also tell us more about ur ocs rn!!!! :o!!!

[screams] okay i have a lot of ocs i can talk about so I'm gonna start with bubble. long post incoming!

bubble is an oc that's very personal to me! she's sensitive and shy, but rocks out big time on her electric guitar when she's with her bandmates! she hails from spagonia and is a good friend of amy's. i was inspired by spaniel breeds and 60s/70s fashion when designing her and i thought having a character with a mod aesthetic would fit right in with the sonic cast, especially if placed next to characters like amy and cream

she and her bandmates do some work around various cities and towns, using their music to provide power and morale to those who need it. their names are poppy and gum (get it, together they're bubblegum pop!) and their band's named jambreakerzzz!

as for the ocxcanon. h 👉🏾👈🏾

i ship her with the speedy blue boy himself bc. comfort character make brain go brrrrrr

their dynamic is really cute: she encourages him to be vulnerable (a lesson he should've retained from secret rings through forces) and he encourages her to be more open and adventurous! bubbie loves him very much although she's forced to bear witness to his cheesy one-liners and incessant rambling. its ok tho bc we stan an adhd short king 😤

i have a lot of concepts for bubble that im still working on, and maybe a whole au im planning if i ever get around to putting my thoughts on paper hehe

[nuttyrabbit]

Giovanni Conti Bio

“Nutty, are you only going to show up to post about Archie Sonic and your OCs?” Yes, yes I am

Anyways, I decided to throw together a quick bio for Gambit’s dad because hey I figured his stuff out and I’m doing shit with him now.

Shoutouts to @pidgeonspen​ for doing his design for me.

Anyways, as always, everything’s under the readmore

Name: Giovanni Conti (Real name Brando Romilla)

Age: Approximately 50 years old

Height: 3'4"

Occupation: Auto mechanic/Conman

Location: Unknown, last confirmed sighting in Westopolis. Originally born in Lugaio, Spagonia.

Sexuality: Bisexual, though greatly prefers women to the point of denying any male attraction

Personality: Giovanni's personality is what one would expect from a seasoned conman: charismatic, self-serving, and conniving, the weasel finds success in his trade thanks to his natural talent in dealing with others. To his victims, Giovanni appears to be a charming, compassionate, smooth-talking individual who seems to go out of his way to help others in their time of need. But of course it's all a farce, a way to con unsuspecting victims out of their hard-earned cash. In reality, the man formerly known as Brando Romilla is the exact opposite. A selfish, grumpy, and temperamental weasel "behind the scenes", Giovanni finds himself unwilling to engage with the world around him outside of whatever con he's cooked up or to get out of whatever mess he's gotten himself into this time.

Giovanni's most defining personality trait however, isn't his sardonic attitude or his smoothtalking ways, but instead his paranoia.  Giovanni has spent the majority of his life on the run and it shows.  He often finds himself looking over his shoulder both figuratively and quite literally, hoping that his latest victim hasn't found out about him or that the law or the mafia or whoever he's crossed hasn't tracked him down to enact their revenge.  As such, Giovanni is extremely hesitant to give out his name unless absolutely necessary for the con, even going so far as to make up fake names in emergency situations, though the truth eventually comes out.  In addition, he trusts absolutely nobody and almost always looks for a way to backstab/escape any sort of partnership he's found himself on the receiving end of, willing or otherwise.

All of this being said, it isn't *all* bad for Giovanni personality-wise, for when the weasel finds something he actually likes, one can see a softer, more eager side of him come out. Despite his professed hatred of his previous job, Giovanni has a rather deep appreciation for the intricacies of vehicles and vehicle repairs, even going so far as to sneak into antique car shows to gawk at the new vehicles and reminisce about the "good old days" before it "got so complicated" in terms of technology. Oddly enough, he also loves vinyl.

Skills: Giovanni is of course, an incredibly skilled con-man, imploying a variety of cons and scams to trick people out of their money, ranging from simple "tourist trap" tricks such as "no change", "toll booth", and "free gift", to more complicated ones such as "flat tire" schemes and even reselling stolen/counterfeit items at a significantly marked up price.  His variety in terms of cons is helped by his ability to sell them thanks to his smooth-talking charismatic persona that he puts on during them.  As a result of his occupation he's also extremely adept at pointing out other cons/knowing when he's being duped.  Not only that, but he's even picked up some basic lockpicking/hotwiring and ID forging skills, though they aren't quite as honed as his other talents in the area.

Surprisingly enough, again despite his professed dislike of his childhood job, Giovanni is an incredibly skilled mechanic, being able to assess the issues with (mostly older) vehicles just from a few minutes of observation and testing alone and fixing it in record times. OF course he'll complain about how he's "too fuckin' old" for it, but he'll do a damn good job...and even enjoy himself somewhat.   He claims he would be unable to work on "new-fangled" vehicles such as Extreme Gear but if he were to get the chance, would find that he'd be a natural at it.

Likes: Antique vehicles, wine, the feeling when he pulls of a con, vinyl records, fresh pressed suits, rare steak, expensive cigars, older women, working on antique vehicles.

Dislikes: The law, organized crime outfits, his ex-wife, his kid, getting caught, prison, cheap beer, "new" technology, people who talk too much, his grandfather, working on vehicles (his relationship with auto repair is..complicated), staying in one place for too long.

Backstory: Brando Rombilla was born into anything but normalcy:  born to a pair of younger Spagonian lovers, the result of a tryst gone wrong, he was abandoned on the steps of his paternal grandfather, the widowed mechanic Angelo Rombilla, who would raise the weasel as his own.

Angelo was an old, stubborn, hardworking man who had spent his entire life toiling away as a mechanic, even coming to own his own shop...yet despite it all, he never quite had a lot to show for it, and Brando grew up in not quite poverty, but in...less than modest means

Despite this...unusual situation, Brando would, at least for a time, grow up as any other child would, going to school, making friends, and living as a normal Spagonian child would--at least until he hit the age of 12-13, where his father suddenly and inexplicably ground his childhood to a halt, pulling him out of school and telling him that he was going to be a "working man" from now on, that he'd have to help out at the shop and help put food at the table--and that is indeed what happened.

From then on, Brando found himself working at the modest repair shop, working the front desk, doing oil changes, and learning the ins and outs of auto repair--and he fucking hated it.

Not just because he'd been robbed of the experiences his peers were getting, but it served as a constant reminder of the (at least to him) pathetic conditions in which they lived and worked. In addition, it only served to exacerbate his sheer irritation at his father's stubbornness and near-perfectionist standards.

But over time, as he aged and saw his peers move on to bigger and better things, he realized something else: all this work, all this "good, honest, hard" work he'd been doing, that his grandfather had been doing, that he wanted him to inherit, it was getting them nowhere

The both of them spent years and years doing the same shit over and over, and they were no better off than when they'd started. They still lived like shit, ate like shit, and worked like dogs, and the idea of doing this his entire life revolted him.  Yet when he'd bring this up, he'd just get shouted down, beaten down, and told to get back to work. He loathed it all.

Then one day, around the time Giovanni hit 19--it all changed. In a moment of what his grandfather would call laziness and what Brando would later call ingenuity, he accidentally charged a customer for something they hadn't done--and with it, more money than he should've had.  It suddenly hit him, his way out, his way to actually do something about all of this. It started off slow, an overcharge here, a useless job done there, a job not done this way or that, even some front product sold off of lies.  Before Brando knew it, the shop was actually making money for once, and more than that, he was making money.  And the best part was, that for once, Angelo seemed like he didn't have a stick up his ass. He seemed...happy, over the moon really that things had begun to look up.  Things seemed to finally be getting better!

....until Angelo caught Brando in the act, after which the mother of all shouting matches ensued, of the grandson and grandfather screaming at each other about this and that, about everything--and saw Brando being thrown out of the shop, out of his grandfather's home--and out of his life

Out on his ass with only the money he'd pocketed and the clothes on his back to his name, Brando  by all rights should have been terrified about his future, livid about what had happened, but instead he found himself excited. Now that his grandpappy or his stupid shop wasn't a problem anymore, he could finally do something with himself, and he knew exactly what that'd be--putting to use the same bullshittery that'd gotten him here to begin with.

And so the young weasel found himself hopping all over Spagonia, honing his craft. Whether it be through  pinching wares from stores and selling them nearby at an outrageously hiked price,  snatching and selling bootleg items, or even using his mechanic skills to craft "wonder items" that were quite literally just old scrapyard junk,  Brando soon became quite adept at the art of the con.  However, with that adeptness came attention, and with that attention came the watchful eye of the law, which attempted to crack down on the weasel multiple times as he traveled about Spagonia.

Soon enough, his face and name were plastered on wanted signs, in local papers, and in time, he couldn't run any longer, finally being booked on fraud charges and placed in prison for ~ 3 years at the age of 22.   Upon getting out,  Brando realized that he couldn't exactly do his work here anymore, lest he get thrown back in for good.

But Soleanna wasn't exactly appealing either, especially since the SPD were notorious for cracking down on fraudsters.  He was at a loss at what to do, until he managed to catch a TV broadcast talking about Empire City and it hit him- EC would be the perfect place to disappear and get a fresh start.  It was big, it was far away, and it was full of suckers just waiting to be parted with their money Forging himself a new identity (quite literally) as "Giovanni Conti" , he smuggled himself on board a ship and soon found himself in Empire City, where he almost immediately got to work--and found the results to be not what he expected

While the toursts were complete suckers as expected, the residents were anything but, and he found himself on the run from the law once more--and in addition, the various criminal orgs that made their homes there and had no tolerance for being scammed.   Needless to say, the whole thing frustrated him, and with no other way to vent his frustrations, he turned to drinking, and with it, found himself at a small bar in downtown EC, drinking away his frustrations...and chatting up an equally frustrated, and rather attractive young woman. He didn't catch her last name, but certainly caught her first- Artemis

What should have just been a simple one night tryst suddenly got a lot more complicated once the young woman had tracked him down almost a week  later with some soul-crushing news: She was pregnant, and it was almost certainly by him.  To make matters worse, Artemis was an up and coming politician, someone in the running for the EC City Council, and she would be DAMNED if it came out that she got knocked up in a one night stand, that would ruin her career! Despite Giovanni's attempts at arguing otherwise, she also insisted on keeping the child, claiming that if word got out she got rid of it, it would ruin her career. Threatening to hand him over to authorities, she blackmailed him into sticking by her side for the following 9 months, appearing in front of the cameras as a pictureesque pair of parents-to-be, Artemis embracing the newfound attention and Giovanni absolutely loathing all the eyes on him, and not only that, but also moving in together to her (admittedly) lavish apartment.

This continued up on through the end of the pregnancy and into the birth of their son, who Artemis named "Tai", a (perhaps ironic) homage to an old Apotosian patron of Luck.  From then, things continued normally, well as least as normal as could be for the unwitting parents-to-be, up until the child was around a year old, when Artemis went on a sudden vacation.  Left alone with the child and feeling helplessly trapped, Giovanni contemplated making a break for it, perhaps faking his own death and figuring out the details later, when a hooded figure burst into the home and attempted to shoot both him and the child dead.  Through a near-miraculous stroke of luck though, the intruder's gun jammed, giving Giovanni the chance to brandish a knife and stab them in the jugular.  His heart pounding, his mind racing, Giovanni quickly put two and two together: someway, somehow, Artemis had tried to get the two of them whacked.  Quickly disposing of the body and without really thinking about it, Giovanni grabbed the child and made a break for it, bolting from the apartment and leaving Empire City under cover of darkness, trying to make sure he left no trace that he had left--or was even still alive.

Soon arriving in Westopolis, Giovanni and Tai found a small apartment to squat in for the time being. Quickly settling in, Giovanni quickly fell back into his old ways, and found the people of Westopolis far more vulnerable to his schemes than in EC. Still, the weasel wasn't happy. His "new start" that he'd hoped for had fallen apart before it'd even gotten the chance to get off the ground because of *her*, Artemis. Giovanni's frustration gnawed away at him--not helped by the tiny weasel at home, his little boy--the *mistake* that'd gotten him into this mess.   He often found himself verbally and physically taking out his frustrations on young Tai, even more so when it turned out the little brat wasn't even good enough to help him on cons.  He wished he could get rid of the little bastard once and for all, but for some reason, he just couldn't bring himself to kill him despite his best efforts.

Years went by, but nothing truly changed for the pair, until young Tai was 8 years old and Giovanni found himself on the bad end of a con gone wrong, having inadvertently found himself attempting to swindle an undercover cop.  Rushing back to the apartment he and Tai shared, he quickly grabbed whatever tools he could and attempted to disappear, leaving the young Tai behind for good.

Throwing himself out of the frying pan and into the proverbial fire, Giovanni had managed to disappear and evade the cops---and run right into one of his "victims": "Downtown" Ebony Hare--a "made man" in the Carnades, one of the major local outfits--and someone who he'd given a shoddy brake job.  Ebony recognized the weasel almost immediately and motioned to off him for messing up his car, but after Giovanni pleaded for his life, Ebony spared him-- on the condition that he work off his "debts" to him and the Carnades.

Faced with either paying his dues or paying with his life, Giovanni made the obvious choice and ended up doing quite a few small jobs for Ebony over the course of the next decade and change (approx  13 years) not only fixing his car but also fixing the other vehicles in the outfit--and giving a disgustingly large portio nof the proceeds from his other "work" directly to Ebony.  Once again, Giovanni was trapped doing the very thing he'd been stuck doing since childhood and not only that, but also indebted to a mobster who had no intention of letting him go.  He desperately tried to find a way out, but it was to no avail--until a near miraculous stroke of "luck".

The Black Arms invasion decimated a significant portion of Mobius, especially Northamer, and no place found itself worse off than Westopolis. For most living there, it seemed like the end times as  the city burned around them. But for Giovanni, it was an opportunity to finally disappear--and never come back.

The invasion soon ended, the repairs soon begun, and the Carnades began to operate once more--but Giovanni was nowhere to be found. Despite a thorough search of the city, the weasel had just...vanished, presumably killed by the aliens or escaping to parts unknown after.  

Giovanni's current location is unknown and those who know of him believe him to be dead, but there have been some apparent sightings of the aged con-man.  Some say they've seen him on the outskirts of Sand Blast City, others say they've seen him working his trade with another individual down in the Southern Baronies, and some even say that he's still in Westopolis, working his craft, and sticking close to the headquarters of the East Side Pack, a noted rival of the Carnades.