Pippkin Ducaine was one of my most rememberable villians in some of my Fanfiction stories, mostly because of the uniqueness of his design: People through that Pippkin was someone in a rabbit costume at first, but then I revealed that Pippkin was the costume itself, and the person in him was just as much a victim as anyone he’s up against.

Pippkin struck such a cord that people started to use sentient fursuits in many Role Plays I was related with. Whatever or not it was the first time sentient fursuits were used ever is up in the air. Once such character was Scarlet, a vixen costume who is Pippkin’s opposite, by Drew Rhine, one of my longest of friends. He gave me permission to use the character in a web comic, and I did so during the turn of the century.

Unfortunately, running a web comic while playing things completely by ear without much of a decent plotline will only take you so far. And it eventually meandered down to a stop. But I liked the concept and characters and I got a lot of positive feedback out of the strip. Most of them came from Furries who were salivating at the thoughts behind the comic, but with my reputation, you take good vibes wherever you find them.

The missing part of my strip was found by someone who wasn’t a furry fan, but had his own unique Role Plays about intelligent fursuits. His name was Prillo and he was the one behind the Happy Fun Land concept. What he did was take the worst curvature Michael Eisner would ever receive and made that imaged man look like a Boy Scout, as Prillo told of an amusement park company that erases the minds of their imprisoned castmembers, removing them of all their memories, personality, identity, everything that is them, and replacing it all with the preprogrammed mind included into their high-tech and very realistic character costumes. Once the new mind is installed to their bodies, they’re brought up to the park to live out the rest of their lives as that character.

I managed to get permission to use the Happy Fun Land idea before I lost contact with Prillo. I do hope he touches back with me. Until then, I continued on with the new Scarlet PI storyline.

In this version, Scarlet and Pippkin are in fact on the same side; they’re prototype Happy Fun Land costumes who had their AI system advance themselve to the point of sentience and even grew a concept of right and wrong. They rebelled against Happy Fun Land by shipping themselves out in the middle of the night, so they can find hosts—with their minds still intact—that will help them bring down the company. Just like in the first comic, Scarlet finds Jim Goodlow when she was still stuffed in that box in his doorstep, but this time Jim is an unemployed cop from Orlando. (He’s gay as well, although that wouldn’t change the story much.) When the two merged, Jim’s police training became a part of Scarlet’s persona, which will eventually make her a prime cannidate to the just-founding Amusement Park Division.

By the time this notebook is being written, Scarlet PI has really taken off, with a couple books already written—one of them actually published—and the web comic is about to get remade into a comic book format. Meanwhile, all the side stories and idea notes floating around needed a place to go so I can reference them properly. That is the reason behind this book and site.