I thought drawing all the main characters of my new project, Surf Shore City, as animal crossing style chibis would be a fun way to introduce them to the world. honestly the style is only negligibly animal crossing, i had to make up a lot of ideas for how the animals would look in that style since there aren't any salmon villagers...a lot of the animals i'm using in my story don't appear in AC. so really it's kinda just a bobbly chibi style but...ANYWAY.

Here’s part 1 of my lil project: the leading lesbians of Surf Shore City. here’s some quick (HA! as if) notes on them

Sunita “Sunny“ Sockeye

Roommates with Carrie! The two are best friends, always supporting each other whatever way they can. Between the two of them they’ve dated most of the girls in Surf Shore, and during a sexual drought they’re open to keeping each other company as well. They both swear it’s totally platonic.
Hasn’t spoken to her wealthy family since she left home, but makes a sizable income each month selling valuable items family gifted to her on birthdays and holidays before she left home. She got a red sports car for her 16th birthday, though she’d sooner sleep in it than sell it. That’s her baby! Plus she has plenty of gold jewelry and shit from her grandma. It’s too girly for her anyway…though she might keep a gold chain or two for a night out on the town. Gotta stay fresh for the ladiessss
Sunny does manage to keep one semi-regular job: her seasonal gig working summers at Surf Shore Pier. She does odd jobs around all the booths but her favorite is working the carnival games. They’re 50% less rigged than average!
Probably has the gaudiest fashion sense on planet Animal (it’s like earth but all the people are creatures, it’s a placeholder ok). I’m talking about patterns on patterns, colors you never dreamed of putting together
Absolute jokester extraordinaire, playing pranks to the point where you’re begging her to stop. Often takes it too far, not out of malice but out of low social awareness. I mean how was she supposed to know shouting “Woah did you see him move?” during a funeral was inappropriate? God forbid a salmon try to add a little light in this gloom, jeez you guys look like someone died! Huuuh? Waka waka!
Loves American breakfast foods, and fair foods, really any food that’s deep fried? She’s there yesterday. But she also loves seafood, especially sushi! Spicy salmon rolls are her favorite, and when she’s not eating eggs and bacon for breakfast she’s probably chowing down on a lox bagel with extra smoked salmon. Weird? Not in the world of Surf Shore. They’ll eat any food we have in our world. Why? Because I love food too much to not have my characters eat stuff, so all the animals that exist in our world also exist in Surf Shore. Sunny ain’t eating her cousin, she’s eating a normal ass salmon with all the sentience of the ones in our world.

Caroline “Carrie” Cactaca

Sunny’s roommate! They live together in a quaint little seaside beach house. Carrie’s parents bought her the house as a gift when she graduated college, and if that seems like an extravagant gift, it’s because it is. Carrie’s family were once working class, however a one in a billion scratch card win means the family has enough to live on for generations. However Carrie prefers to live a relatively simple life in her little beach house by the ocean, and her mother and father are the same, living in a modest house in the suburbs of Surf Shore, where Carrie grew up.
Speaking of Carrie’s parents, they‘re pretty unique themselves. Her mom Joyce Cacataca is a red kangaroo lady, a former makeup artist by trade and fan of numerology. She played the same lotto numbers for decades, which is ironic because the family ended up winning big not on her lotto tickets but because of Carl Cactaca, Carrie’s father. He bought a scratch card on a whim on the way home from work and was so shocked by the win he didn’t believe it until his wife started crying and whooping when she saw it. The family once lived across the sea in Joyce’s homeland, but they decided to move back to Carl’s hometown of Surf Shore after the lotto win. Carl is also a cactus person. Plant people and plant furries are common in Surf Shore, though plant person/furry couples are relatively rare in the world at large. Carrie was a little bit of an outcast where the family used to live because of her unique appearance and parentage, but in Surf Shore she’s more accepted. She considers Surf Shore City her home through and though.
Carrie is a landscape painter! Her specialty is beach scenes and paintings of her homeland. The pieces she paints of Surf Shore’s picturesque beaches and boardwalks are very popular with the tourists, and she has a little shop on main street where she sells her paintings. It’s also a small gallery where she shows her works as well as other artists in the town.
The type to try to do it herself before she pays anyone a single cent…and this applies to everything. Carrie stretches her own canvas, she cooks before eating out, and to her calling a plumber is admitting defeat. She’ll electrocute herself trying to fix electric appliances and cries whenever Sunny takes her car to a shop before letting her take a look. They’re robbing you blind Sunny, Carrie could have fixed that faulty break pedal for half a sandwich. Is she qualified to do anything non-art related? Not in the slightest, but she IS butch…the type of butch who thinks that’s all you need to perform advance repairs.
She’s covered in little cactus like spines. They’re like whiskers and when she’s nervous they stand up, but otherwise they’re not really that pokey. You can give her a hug, just don’t startle her before you do.

Roxanne “Roxy” Orlando

Roxy ain’t roommates with anyone! This otter flies solo and tries her best to never rely on anyone else. She’s a hard worker and spends her days pounding the pavement trying to recruit new students for her Surf Academy. Like its name suggests, Surf Shore City is the world capital for all things surf! At least that’s what all the signs say. The city has hosted the largest Surf competition in the world for over a hundred years, and for a few decades the popularity of this contest rivaled our world’s Superbowl. However as time goes by trends change, and eventually surfing stopped being the greatest sport around. But it still has a core audience of surf enthusiasts, tourists who saw the movies, and old timers trying to hold on to the good ol’ days. Roxy caters to all kinds, if you wanna learn to surf, she’s your otter!
She was mostly raised by her layabout brother Rhodney, but honestly if you ask her she’ll tell you she raised herself. Both her parents were, and still are, surf hippies who care more about having fun and chasing their youth than either of their two kids. Rhodney did his best but Roxy soon realized he wasn’t much better than her parents. She has a strained relationship with all three but is closest to her brother. After all, when their parents forgot her birthday he took her to see all the movies they could on one ticket before the usher caught on and threw them out, and then afterwards he let her eat a whole ice cream cake with a knife a fork. Sure, it was a story that involved outrunning a movie theater security guard and she threw up about half an hour after eating half the cake, but at least he tried. The siblings are about 10 years apart in age.
The quickest way to get on Roxy’s bad side is to mistake her for her brother Rhodney. The two look similar but couldn’t be less alike in personality. They are, unfortunately, in the same line of business. Rhodney hangs out on the beach and tries to rope tourists into paying for tomorrow’s surf lessons. The problem is, he schedules the lessons early, and he’s not exactly the best at waking up on time…so a lot of the time ends up with a class of very unhappy customers. By the time they realize they’ve been conned Rhodney is away somewhere, no where to be found (probably in Margaritavilla) and the only one they can vent their frustration at is Roxy. They either think she and her brother are in business together or she is her brother, neither of which are true. That hasn’t stopped her from getting ice coffees and the occasional slushee dumped on her head.
So, if Roxy’s not roommates with Sunny or Carrie, how does she factor into all this, and why is she here with them? Well, Roxy and Carrie are childhood friends! When Carrie moved to Surf Shore, Roxy was one of the first friends she made, and quickly became the closest. In turn, Carrie and her parents were like a second family to Roxy. She was a regular at family dinners and slept over more weekends than not. As she got older she became more self conscious about this, worrying Carrie’s parents might think she’s a burden, an annoying little daughter they never asked for. So she stopped going over as much, and closed herself off to the emotional and financial support they’d always been generous in giving her. Carrie’s parents are pretty sad about all this, one of the things they really loved about having a large amount of expendable income was doting on Carrie and her friends. They really miss Roxy and would embrace her like a daughter again if she ever came to them. Unfortunately Roxy is stubborn as hell and rather than admit she needs help she’ll sleep in a hammock in the back room of her surf shop. Sometimes Carrie will still drag her over for a weekend sleepover at her beach home…which is really just an excuse to give her a night or two sleeping in a real bed and a hot breakfast in the morning. Coffee and a protein bar do NOT count Roxy.
A secret romantic and lover of the holiday season. Holidays with her family were never…great, but every season she decorates and dresses in her best reindeer sweater waiting for the love of her life to kiss her under the mistletoe. If you ask her why she spends so much time decorating during the off season, she’ll mumble something about how important image is and then tell you to get out of her face unless you want to buy something.

holy shit I can't believe this is the first time i'm posting Roxy AND Carrie on here!! All three of them are my favorite OCs rn...do an MRI scan of my brain and you'll just see weird gay furries running around in there. so obviously more to come....