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[b]Name:[/b]Ralph McCooney

[b]Species:[/b]Procyon Iotor, aka Raccoon 

[b]Sex:[/b]Male

[b]Age:[/b] 19

[b]Brief History:[/b]  Ralph's upbringing was a lot like most of the other city 'scavengers'.  His mother died just after his birth, the sixth of six cubs left to fend against the harsh reality of poverty.  His father worked meager job after meager job, earning the family a meager living.  Ralph knew how hard he tried too, more than anyone. It was just hard finding honest, decent-paying work with the notion of thievery constantly plaguing his opportunities.  

That was the part Ralph hated most.  Few realized that, paradoxically, the only reason his family needed to steal was because of the preconception of all raccoons as thieves.
  
As their misconceptions grew, so did his skill as a thief.  Ralph, by the age of four, was a master of the trade of 'scavenging'.  Unlike his siblings, however, he always wished for more, a more fulfilling life with the goal of breaking the barriers founded by previous generations and proving that his people, and scavengers in general, were more than the trash they were forced to eat.  He vowed early on that he would be the first of his family to make a significant difference, to make things better.    

Thus, the day came that he began working for his dream, a position as a full-fledged member of the ZPD.  What better way to change a system of injustice than by becoming a figure of justice?  What better day to change than today?              

[b]Personality:[/b]  Ralph may be described as one who is driven.  This, however, would be an understatement.  His goals dominate most of his time, thought, and resources.  He is incredibly determined, so much so that even the most daunting of challenges he can overcome.  These challenges he views as entertaining, a break from the frequent recurrence of everyday events.  Because of this, one might say Ralph excels under pressure. 

Ralph is a somewhat stereotypical intellect, curious of everything.  Perhaps the most captivating topic to him is the behavior of others.  He hopes one day to use his observations to put forth some working explanation for the division of society based on issues that resolved long ago.  He, however, often looks past the emotional attachments  of the present and past.  He makes decisions based mostly on cold logic rather than being rash.  In fact, he might be described as detached from anything that doesn't involve his primary goals.  Because of this, he is sometimes intolerant of those that he deems 'excessively emotional'.  

All in all, Ralph seems rather aloof to those he is not familiar with.  For those he calls friends, however, he would do most anything for.       
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