Here we have a lovely little character my boyfriend,  JosephH and I created together for a new project of his - Inkblot, a kind of limbo where many fictional creations go after their writers or artists have passed on, moved onto new projects, or they've been forgotten or discarded. Catarina Cooke is one of these individuals, and here's her background.

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Catarina Cooke's past is one not too uncommon in Inkblot: She was part of an attempt to either rip off, or spinoff, a popular cartoon in the 80's and 90's. In this case, she was a concept created to try and creature a Pan-Eurasian branch of the Rescue Rangers, which was to be called the Saviour Society.

Although she looks like a mouse, the little lady is actually a Mouse Lemur, a species native to Madagascar. Although she didn't originally come from Madagascar in the show concept, she still had allies themed around that, including a best friend named Berthold (A fruit bat with something of a wise-guy, street tough attitude) and a Ring Tailed Lemur she rode on her adventures named Winsley.

The show was pitched with the idea that there would be multiple groups of little Animal adventurers, like the Rescue Rangers, and each week would have a different team adventuring in their respective areas. Cat's area would've been the U.K., Wales and England in particular.

The idea, pitched by an up and coming artist named Tom Harlin, was pretty much shot down immediately. Disney executives didn't think they needed another Rescue Rangers-style series, and in fact were already making plans to cancel the original series to begin with.

In the end, Harlin shelved the idea and all of his character concepts with it. Luckily for Cat, this wasn't the end. No, rather she found herself in Inkblot, along with her friends, and soon found work as a secretary for some of the higher-ups in town. She has worked for bankers, businessmen and politicians, but her latest employment has been as personal assistant to Petunia Pettigrew, and go-between with Cyril Squirrel.

Enthusiastic, ebullient and friendly, Cat has been known to be forward and excitable when presented with something she really loves. Bookish and a bit nerdy, she can easily spend all day reading, and has often been known to lose track of time and end up staying hours after she was needed at work. As a "Tiny", one of the smaller citizens of Inkblot, Cat has special privileges and disadvantages.

For one, she can get around in ways other people can't, using an ingenious pneumatic tube mechanism set up in most of Petunia's Palace to get from point A to point B in record time. She can also observe and report things back to her bosses without being seen. The normal size issues come into play, however, when dealing with the larger world as a whole.

She can normally be found working directly on Petunia's desk, at a tiny desk of her own, or living in her apartment in Teacup Towers, an apartment block for toons of her size, just a block away from the Flower Pot.

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Cat is both my and Joe's brainchild. I came up with her initial concept, and Joe helped give her a more fleshed out background. As for the artwork, that was done by the awesome  Gidg. Many thanks to her - Cat's just how I imagined her. So tiny. So cute. So nerdy. So titsy. Teehee.