10 things I'll bet you didn't know about...Hope

1. The original idea to create Hope came to me in 1999 after I had purchased an eevee plushie from a local comic book/magazine shop. The idea to create Hope in her current form didn't come until about 1 to 2 years later.

2. Hope's design is (loosely) based on that of Rush from Mega Man. However, where Rush is fully robotic, Hope is techno-organic (meaning mostly robotic, with some organic parts). Hope was also designed to be much larger than the typical eevee on the count of eevees from the actual show are roughly about the size of an average squirrel and I wanted to make her more the size of a medium to large-breed domestic dog.

3. Hope's organic elements include a digestive system (with unique elements to it which I will get to in a minute), mammary glands, and a reproductive system. Her organic elements are created from synthetic stem cells with DNA from several random eevees (No actual eevees were harmed in the creation of these stem cells).

4. Hope's body (or most of it) is made from armor that is completely indestructible and is covered by synthetic fur. Her underbelly is made from an indestructible rubber-like compound that allows for stretching during any pregnancies.

5. While Hope's uterus, ovaries, and vaginal canal are made of organic parts, her vulva is not. It is made of the same material as her underbelly is, only made to feel more fleshlike and react like an actual eevee vulva would.

6. Hope is primarily solar-powered. Her retractable wings act as solar panels, allowing her to recharge her internal battery in a few moments. However, she can also convert food into energy due to a special gland she has at the end of her small intestine.

7. Hope does not have a tailhole, nor does she go #1 either. All potential waste products (either produced through food digestion or as a byproduct of her developing offspring) go directly to the gland at the end of her small intestine, where it is converted into energy. It does not provide Hope with as much energy as her solar panels do, but it helps her through pregnancy.

8. Hope's offspring develop into organic eevees. In case you're wondering, she has another special gland that is attached to her uterus that will allow a placenta to form and give her offspring synthetic blood (that functions in the same way that normal eevee blood would).

9. While Hope is technically an eevee, she also has the ability to transform into almost all of the other eevolutions at will (except for when she's pregnant). She can also mimic just about any move that any of the other eevolutions can. However, Hope does not have a Sylveon form...yet, at least.

10. Hope can also transform into an anthropomorphic female eevee (once again, she cannot do this while pregnant and she can only do it when she's fully charged since it takes a lot of energy to transform and sustain the transformation for an extended period...unlike her eevolution forms).

BONUS: Hope's "V" on her forehead was not part of her original design. It was something that  pandafox put in when I asked for a reference picture of Hope. Pandafox thought that she was an eevolution of eevee, instead of a larger-than-life and artificial eevee. However, I kept this as a part of her design (in non-anthro form anyway) after this since I figured it gave Hope something more unique.

This is the last "10 things I'll bet you didn't know about..." journal that I intend on producing...at least for now. I would make one for Eva, but I highly doubt I could think of 10 things to say about her. So, unless I can think of something else, this will be the last one of these journals. Next time though, I'm going to do something else. I'll explain more about that when I get to that point.