In addition to those characters many of us know and care about from "Sabrina - Online", "Sabrina, the Story", and "ZZ Studios", the following characters appear (note, as I get more material together, I will be adding to this list):
Lee Paul Evans
| Age: | 25 | Sex: | male | Species: | Maine Coon Cat (brown tabby markings) |
Physical description: approx. 5’ 11”, large boned, trim & in good physical shape; dark brown/brown striped coat with a ringed bushy tail with tawny fur from underside of his muzzle down his front. He wears thin metal framed bifocals and in generally found wearing pocketed shirts, even casually, with at least one pen or pencil in the pocket (at work, it’s generally one automatic pencil and two pens (black & red ink)).
General description:
A well-mannered gentlefur (example set & taught by father in word and deed, reinforced by the standards of his alma mater), he is the oldest of 3 brothers/1 sister from a stable family (sister is twin, Marilee Marie). Both parents have degrees in chemistry; his father works full time as a research chemist while his mother “keeps her hand in” by working part time at home doing translations for professional journals. Lee is easy-going and given more to listening than talking; he sometimes comes across as being shy but isn’t. This cat is sharp (both SAT & GRE scores qualify him for Mensa), reasonably talented, and capable of digging in and working things through when necessary (Eagle Scout); he’s self-confident but not cocky with a realistic sense of his strengths and weaknesses. A voracious reader on a variety of subjects (remembers “Chance favors the inquiring mind”), his special interests are aviation history, sf, and techno-thrillers. From grammar school through high school, Lee took piano lessons (primarily classical) and did well; he has an electric piano to keep his hand in and because he enjoys it. His favorite sports include racquetball, swimming, target-shooting, and bowling.
Growing up with his father’s science fiction library, he developed a taste for engineering that then focused on aeronautical engineering; trying to understand what was going on in the industry led him to discover an interest in aviation history, not just what happened, but the ideas and concepts that were around.
Though he’s easy-going, he can get impatient at times and he doesn’t suffer fools too gladly at the best of times. Patient with a high “flash point”, he can work up quite a “mad” but gets over it quickly.
He enjoys being with people, though not a “party animal”, but can be quite comfortable by himself or with a few friends. With sensitive hearing, his music tastes are classical & instrumental with some easy listening.
Car: Contour SE (graduation present) with 5-speed stick; champagne exterior with tasteful antique gold pinstriping, dark-gold tinted windows, and a gray leather interior. Well maintained, the car has been “massaged” with useful parts from a salvaged Contour SVT and a judicious selection of aftermarket parts to enhance both performance and handling. The car is intentionally a “Q-ship” that doesn’t attract attention (especially the police on those occasions when he has to “push” it).
Lyman Augustus Aquilaferi
| Age: | 25 | Sex: | Male | Species: | GrayWolf / Red Fox mix |
Physical description: approx. 5’ 8”, medium boned & in good physical shape; somewhat unique coloring combining his father’s dark gray coloring with his mother’s red fox coloring; his physical features are also something of a blend between wolf and fox shapes (n.b. the ladies seem to find this somewhat exotic). He wears contacts most of the time and, like Lee, favors pocketed shirts, though his generally have a six-inch scale in addition to pen/pencil.
General description: another well-mannered gentlefur, though in Lyman’s case the example in word & deed was backed by a father who didn’t (and doesn’t) hesitate to call him down. Although he enjoys being with people, he’s not given to partying or clubbing, preferring to be by himself or with a few friends. Though he tends to keep his own counsel, Lyman is always willing to lend a shoulder or ear to a friend that needs help and will, if asked, do what he can to provide helpful advice. Lyman tries to stay out of arguments as he can get quite passionate when engaged in them. Both of his parents are sharp and he inherited this as well as his father’s “feel” for how things can go together.
Sports: racquetball (“killer” games with Lee), bicycling, swimming, target shooting
A voracious reader like Lee, Lyman especially enjoys aviation history, sf & f, and “adventure fiction” (his secret “vice” is to acquire the complete works of Mickey Spillane and Donald Hamilton)
Car: “Monster Miata” coupe with a 5.7 liter V-8 that he and his dad prepped themselves. With a custom front end with fixed “bugeye” headlights, it’s finished in British Racing Green with a tan interior.
Lyman’s father is a long term air force maintenance officer (a “mustang”, he started as an enlisted man) whose wolf family came from the Lombardy region of Italy, north of Milan, in the late 1800’s. In his first post of his first re-enlistment, Lyman’s father was posted to a base in the UK where, at a welcoming party, he met a comely young red fox vixen and the rest is history (he did have to behave himself, though, her father was the RAF base commander: clearly, Lyman’s father had taste). Growing up an “air force brat”, Lyman moved enough that he learned to make friends easily, but never had any really close one. Exposure to aircraft gave him an interest in aviation history and chaperoned visits to his father’s different postings gave him an appreciation for the needs of the people who “keep ‘em flying.”
Lyman has an eclectic taste in music, from having lived in a variety of places, but his special tastes are Scottish / Celtic and country & western (go figure!).
The Two as a Team
Both Lee and Lyman are currently employed at an aircraft plant at the Columbus airport and are assigned to the “Special Engineering Team” (the youngest members of this trouble-shooting team), working on both commercial and military aircraft. As a result, both of them hold fairly high & stringent security clearances.
The two met during freshman orientation at Texas A&M, found they had similar majors, interests, & tastes, and agreed to room together. (Those interested in astrology should note that they were born only two weeks apart and share the same sign) They soon became best friends and their freshman design project showed nicely complementary skills. By the time their junior projects arrived, they were a good strong team. In the meantime, they’d visited each others home and been accepted into the other’s family; as a consequence, Lee gained a knowledge of Italian and Italian cooking that was to serve him well between his junior & senior years in college. Both had applied to an exchange program that would let them work overseas; Lyman, with his ancestry, had asked for Italy, while Lee had asked for “somewhere in Europe”. Bureaucracies being what they are, Lee spent his summer in Italy, and got to meet some of Lyman’s extended family while Lyman spent his summer in England and got to know his mother’s family better. Back for their senior year, the outside reviewers who critiqued their senior team project were sufficiently impressed that they got a number of job offers which they evaluated on the basis of keeping a winning team together. Both are now taking graduate courses at Ohio State but, since their job can have sudden overtime requirements, they are only taking one course per semester.
Rather nerdish when they started college, a few young ladies each helped refine their styles and tastes; direct feed back from Marilee Marie Evans (Lee’s twin sister), who was also attending their alma mater, greatly assisted in this.
At college, their room was considered an anchor for the quiet end of the dorm, not just because they were quiet and not given to horseplay, but also because, on those times they became engaged, they tended to give decidedly better than they got.
Currently both are dating occasionally, but have no real steady girlfriends (at least, not until Lee met Debbye). Each rents a two-bedroom apartment, in the same complex, with the second bedroom set up as an office/den/library and they carpool to work whenever possible.
Shortly after they moved to Columbus, the found Trattoria Salvatore and their ability to speak the language, their appreciation for good Italian food, and their general good natures got them accepted as “part of the family” by the staff and owner of this establishment.
George & Linda Squirrel
George & Linda Squirrel are both in their mid-forties and are both employed professionals. George is employed by the City of Columbus while Linda is the office manager for one of the state government offices.
Debbye is an only child and received lots of love & encouragement as a child, but mindful of many bad examples, her parents also supplied loving discipline. The results, in Debbye, vindicate her parents’ efforts. The effects of being an only child were also mitigated by the presence of her older cousin.
George is a typical father in that he still somewhat sees his daughter as his “little girl”, so the inevitable evidence that Debbye is becoming a mature adult jars him. He is, however, intelligent enough to realize that polite suggestions will work far better than telling her what to do and expecting obedience. For her part, Linda recognizes that Debbye has grown into an intelligent, capable young lady with high standards & expectations and a mind of her own. Consequently, they have a close mother – daughter relationship that is in the process of becoming a friendship between two adults.
Joe McDonald
| Age: | 50 | Sex: | Male | Species: | Black Wolf |
Manager / Team Leader – Special Engineering Team
Lt. Col.,USMC (ret.) A specialist in aircraft maintenance/overhaul/modification, he has the challenging job of “riding herd” on the bunch of creative individuals that make up the Special Engineering Team. At the same time, he also serves to "protect” the team from the excesses of the normal management chain, especially since the team functions in a “hands off” mode similar to that pioneered by Lockheed’s “Skunk Works” ™. A native of Altoona, PA, he enjoys living comparatively “close to home” after his service career sent him to some “interesting” locales to “keep ‘em flying”.
Nick Ferox
| Age: | 38 | Sex: | Male | Species: | Madagascar Fossa |
Shop Lead in support of the Special Engineering Team
A first-generation American, his parents left the area around Africa during the turmoil of the late-50’s/early-60’s. His strength, agility, and grace, especially for moving smoothly around high places, got him a position working in the “high bay” of the VAB (Vertical Assembly Building) at Kennedy Space Center; his brains and talent earned him promotions and offers of better positions. He currently oversees all manufacturing and assembly efforts for the SET.
Rava Purr
| Age: | 26 | Sex: | Female | Species: | Domestic Cat |
Manufacturing Engineer – Systems; Special Engineering Team
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and A&P (Airframe & Powerplant Mechanic) License from Embry-Riddle; paid for by working summers on a Nascar pit crew. She joined the team at roughly the same time that Lee and Lyman did and the three became good friends; sharing common interests in cars and target shooting. She also owns a garage in Columbus and does all the work on both guys’ cars as well as various commissioned efforts. Naturally extroverted and outgoing, she has learned to control herself in the work environment but can be quite a shock for the unprepared outside of work. A native of Columbus, her father is retired from the Columbus PD and is now working to establish a security firm that he and some friends founded. Divorced after a short marriage to a fur who turned out to be a liar, cheat, and fraud (and those were his good points), she is not as trusting as she once was and is a whole lot more cautious.