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HUSTLE BONES ハッスル骨

Lilo is the youngest member of the team. Currently 14 he was abandoned as a baby for his animalesque features (he has large, furry ears, sharp carnivore teeth and a long flexible tail) and was picked up and brought up by Cake (see below). He's quite the energetic one and has a passion for vehicles, especially Airplanes. He can actually drive and is usually the one driving Tyche around. He is smart but has a problem with concentrating on things that don't capture his attention, partially the reason he never really cared for school. He is sweet hearted and great friends with pretty much everyone in the team
Kari, is a 15 year old girl yet incredibly smart and creative. She's a specialist in science, especially mechanics and chemistry. No one really understands why and how she ended up in the team but she appears to be from a good family from the way she acts and speaks (she's very polite and gracious). Despite her good manners she is quite moody and will outwit anyone who steps on her. Her favourite things are bubbles, partially the reason she loves chemistry so much. She also has a dangerous thing for bombs and has created many different kinds of them. 
Sybil is a mysterious woman carrying a nasty past. The other characters do not know much about it besides her former involvement with drug trafficking. Her former job made her incredibly organized and schematic yet still able to fend off in the most unexpected of situations when the plan goes sour (usually because /someone/ can't stick to the goddamn plan). Skillful and trained with guns due to her lack of physical strength. 
Tyche (read tie-kee), is the little mascot of the group. He gets along especially well with Kari and Lilo (who he's super protective of) and can transform, namely, into the van the group travels in when he bumps his goggles down (Kinda like Catbus from My Neighbour Totoro, but not quite either).  He's quite sarcastic and not too fond of  cuddles and petting. He can transform into many vehicles and into a larger, fiercer version of himself, although this specific transformation requires a lot of energy and cannot be done often. As is Lilo's case, he's not a terrestrial being. 
Cake, arguably the "main character" (although I like to think they're all equally important), is a reckless, foul mouthed and loud yet humble, just and funny young man. He loves hiphop and sports (especially basketball) and is pretty fast and athletic due to this (he's done everything, from skate to parkour). He also has a thing for fire. 
Cake grew up homeless in a tough neibourhood together with a bunch of kids skipping from one shelter home to another.
When he was 8, he and the kids robbed a newly built, fancy pastry shop. Once they got home they shared the food between themselves. This was the first time he ate cake and he liked it so much that the kids nicknamed him Cake, which stuck to the present day. It's been his favourite food ever since.
On the same day, as he took the trash out, he found a closed box with holes from which he heard noises. When he opened it he found some animals and surprisingly a baby. A baby who happened to have fluffy ears and a tail and who he decided to call Lilo.
Blaze is a collected, quiet, 2,10m tall man in his late 40's. When he was younger he was quite the rowdy one, and caused a lot of problems for his neibourhood, often setting things on fire (thus his nickname, which he was quite proud of). When he was 19 he decided to enlist into the army which he thought would be a way to regain some sense and help control his anger management. The next years in the army were tough for him and eventually he was sent to war. There he had his face burnt, leaving the left side of his face completely desfigured (his left eye is sown shut and he has no left ear). Badly hurt and barely escaping death he came back home and was discharged. He is frightened of fire to the point where he completely dropped smoking, something which was a habit before. He thus has a tumultuous relationship with Cake, who reminds him a lot of his younger self. He loves cooking and can only do so now with an electric oven and often bakes cakes and cookies with Kari's help. 
HUSTLE BONES ハッスル骨
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HUSTLE BONES ハッスル骨

A collection of 6 colourful drawings of my characters from my fictional series Hustle Bones ハッスル骨 and the resulting "wallpaper" version.

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