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name: booyaka age: early 20s species: cat fur: light blue/white eyes: yellow hair: purple/lime green personality: loves to make people happy. she's carefree and a little naive - she just wants to have fun. but because of this she usually ends up in trouble. she usually hides her real emotions. talent: she's a people person |
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name: renard age: early 20s species: fox fur: orange/white/brown eyes: brown hair: dark brown personality: a little hostile to strangers, but very caring and loving. he tries to be as open minded as possible. he's from london, england. talent: technology/computer stuff |
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name: wolf age: mid 20s species: wolf fur: gray/white eyes: light blue hair: brown personality: the modern day sybarite. he's a bit of a "player", and doesn't understand things like monogomy too well. but he tries to be a good person. talent: getting whatever he wants |
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name: melanie age: early teens/preteens/unknown species: dog fur: light brown/tan eyes: blue hair: light blue/purple/pink personality: very quiet and mature for her age. no one really knows anything about her, including herself. just that she's an orphan that booyaka takes in one day. talent: ? |
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name: marco age: mid 20s species: skunk fur: dark gray/white eyes: green hair: almost black personality: he's almost always seen reading, as it's his favorite thing to do. he owns a little ma & pa style book store and he lives there as well. he doesn't have much of a social life by choice. talent: reading |
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name: marie age: early 20s species: mouse fur: brown eyes: purple hair: reddish brown personality: she's kind of plain and dull at first sight, but she's actually really interesting. she needs to be able to trust people before she can show her true personality. talent: photography |
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name: sean age: early 20s species: squirrel fur: aqua/rainbow eyes: left pink, right yellow hair: orange personality: usually he wears the scarf that shulei gave him, but not all the time. he's very hardworking and loyal. he comes from a rural area of ireland. talent: piano |
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name: shulei age: early 20s species: sloth/bear fur: brown eyes: dark pink hair: pink personality: very shy and closed in. he doesn't like people knowing too much about him. his parents are famous actors, so he's worried about ruining their reputations. talent: singing |
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name: kehli age: late 20s species: cat fur: light brown/dark brown/white eyes: green hair: brown personality: she's kind of a bully, but she means well. she's booyaka's half-sister, and usually she's mean to her, but she still loves her even if their parents don't. talent: interior design |
nine lives started about 4 years ago, in my drawing 1 class of freshman year in high school. it all began when i started looking at furry art, and i became inspired to
create my own furry characters. the first of which was booyaka, which i'm sure you all are familiar with by now. after her, i began creating even more
characters, until i decided i should do something with them. (which happens with all the characters i create...) so i started drawing a comic. it was a bit
of an improv comic at first, and it was called fuzz. older fans will remember this.
fuzz was a comic i did to pass the time, mostly. the pages were really sloppy, and i never took up the entire sheet... just the top half. everything was
messy and hastily put together, and there wasn't much of a story either. the dialogue was also horrible. i know a lot of people liked fuzz, but i didn't after
a while. so i decided to give it a bit of a makeover, and fuzz became nine lives.
the inspiration for the title came from a song, actually. nine lives by south. every time it came on, it reminded me of booyaka... since she's a cat... and i realized that i could
change the title to that and have nine characters and so on... so i made up a few more things, gave the story an actual story, and decided that i would put
some real work into this comic. i've never really done a comic where each page actually looks like a comic page, and some might even say it looks professional
this way... so i'm really proud of what i've done.
the story is basically just a focus on the lives of these nine characters. there is a plot, but it's a thin one i guess... i'm just trying to make their
lives seem as close to real life as possible. i don't want it to be crazy and unbelievable, so i guess you could call it a drama... even though i wouldn't
call it that.
nine lives is like my baby. i don't know what i would do without it. i love all of the characters and their stories, and even though it's the cause of a lot
of my stress sometimes, i'm never going to abandon it.
my name is nikki stavin, i'm 19 and i live in the chicagoland area in illinois. i attended the school of the art institute for one year but right now i don't really know what i'm doing. i'm not going back
to that school mostly for financial reasons. i will probably continue my studies at columbia college in chicago.
art is very important to me as it's the only thing i'm really good at. i love comics, even if it seems like i
don't do them very fast. i put a lot of work into each page whether it shows or not. drawing is my main forte, but i also have talent in photography, painting, soft
sculpture and installations.
