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Little Cato is from an adult animated canon rather than a kids' one and it's a comedy-drama space opera with fairly serious story at times. That means it has more overtly potentially triggering content than kids' cartoons, and frequently had Little Cato suffering very real harm. (Unfortunately, he is one of the canon's worst hackey-sacks.)
The biggest issues that might come up in play are:
Child harm (during play): He's fourteen and used to having to fight head on in his universe side by side with the adults. They do try to protect him if they can but it's rare that he's not suffering the same fate as them side by side. He expects to be treated like a competent adult and won't hesitate to jump into the fray. I plan to keep things balanced and have him meet with successes and times his competency keeps him from getting hurt but occasionally he may get harmed during play. This is pretty easily avoidable in most threads.
A note: He will eventually be canon updated when the graphic novel comes out, to age 19 (since it has a time skip), so this will no longer be a factor, so waiting to build CR until that new canon point is an option as well.
Child murder: Little Cato's father Avocato (adopted, though Little Cato didn't know initially know Avocato killed his real parents) was the general of a fascist dictator, Lord Commander, who believed in his lies of building a universe with prosperity and order. At one point, Lord Commander demanded all his generals kill one of their children to prove their loyalty. Little Cato and the other children were taken to a field and he saw all the other children shot to death around him, execution style. His father Avocato was the only parent to refuse to shoot his child, instead shooting his two guards and trying to take his son and run. Lord Commander separated the two and kept Little Cato imprisoned to control Avocato and keep him under his thumb, using Avocato as a bounty hunter.
Child kidnapping/imprisonment: Lord Commander kidnapped Little Cato and kept him imprisoned for three years from ages 11 to 14. While he had his most basic needs met, conditions were unpleasant and he was kept in total isolation other than interactions with Lord Commander and his right hand, Viro.
Child abuse: While imprisoned, Little Cato was actively taunted and verbally abused by Lord Commander and Viro, and canon shows they didn't hesitate to physically abuse him as well. While there were times he was prepared for this, like when he attacked Viro to try to escape, he could also earn blows just for pissing Lord Commander off by being rebellious and sarcastic. They also weren't above degrading actions like splattering food on him by throwing a food tray at him. Viro has huge claws so it also wouldn't be out there to assume he probably has a few scars under his fur.
Parental death: Little Cato has lost his father Avocato twice, first after Avocato saved him from a mine and blew up, falling out of the ship, and later when Avocato was saved through time travel shenanigans, possessed by the series' bad guy, and Little Cato had to shoot him to protect his adopted human father Gary Goodspeed. Little Cato thought at the time that he'd killed him.
Psychosis: When their ship hit a time anomaly and were caught in a time shard, half the ship had time move faster. In the side where Little Cato was trapped, sixty years passed in what was only a few minutes to the outside universe, before his crew could break the shard and free him. During that time Little Cato was completely alone and was shown to have broken down and become completely psychotic, hallucinating that the crew was with him on the other side. Reverting to his younger self has changed that situation by pushing his brain back to the state it was in as a teenager, and those years have been carefully locked away in his head where he tries to pretend they didn't happen, calling it a "pain spot," but it is something that may come up at some point depending on plots.
Zombies: The cosmic Big Bad, Invictus, can fight by reanimating the dead. In Final Space, many versions of Cato's adoptive human father Gary had sacrificed themselves, trying to save Earth in many different variations of the timeline. Invictus animated all the dead, rotting Gary's as zombies to attack Cato's crew. They weren't the contagious kind of zombie but were visibly gory and rotten. He may potentially mention the zombiedads or they could possibly come up as cw's in memshares.
Options
1) Opt out of being tagged by him entirely. While it's easy to avoid having him bring things up as he tries to avoid discussing these things at times, I'm always cool with avoiding tagging someone. (If you still want to chill together as players, I also play another character who's an adult, with different issues, if you'd like to have some alternate CR.)
2) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to child harm (during play), until he's at the age 19 adult canon update.
3) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to child murder.
4) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to child kidnapping/imprisonment.
5) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to child abuse.
6) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to parental death.
7) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to psychosis.
8) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to zombies.
Please note your handle and all your character journals.
Post screened for privacy.
The biggest issues that might come up in play are:
Child harm (during play): He's fourteen and used to having to fight head on in his universe side by side with the adults. They do try to protect him if they can but it's rare that he's not suffering the same fate as them side by side. He expects to be treated like a competent adult and won't hesitate to jump into the fray. I plan to keep things balanced and have him meet with successes and times his competency keeps him from getting hurt but occasionally he may get harmed during play. This is pretty easily avoidable in most threads.
A note: He will eventually be canon updated when the graphic novel comes out, to age 19 (since it has a time skip), so this will no longer be a factor, so waiting to build CR until that new canon point is an option as well.
Child murder: Little Cato's father Avocato (adopted, though Little Cato didn't know initially know Avocato killed his real parents) was the general of a fascist dictator, Lord Commander, who believed in his lies of building a universe with prosperity and order. At one point, Lord Commander demanded all his generals kill one of their children to prove their loyalty. Little Cato and the other children were taken to a field and he saw all the other children shot to death around him, execution style. His father Avocato was the only parent to refuse to shoot his child, instead shooting his two guards and trying to take his son and run. Lord Commander separated the two and kept Little Cato imprisoned to control Avocato and keep him under his thumb, using Avocato as a bounty hunter.
Child kidnapping/imprisonment: Lord Commander kidnapped Little Cato and kept him imprisoned for three years from ages 11 to 14. While he had his most basic needs met, conditions were unpleasant and he was kept in total isolation other than interactions with Lord Commander and his right hand, Viro.
Child abuse: While imprisoned, Little Cato was actively taunted and verbally abused by Lord Commander and Viro, and canon shows they didn't hesitate to physically abuse him as well. While there were times he was prepared for this, like when he attacked Viro to try to escape, he could also earn blows just for pissing Lord Commander off by being rebellious and sarcastic. They also weren't above degrading actions like splattering food on him by throwing a food tray at him. Viro has huge claws so it also wouldn't be out there to assume he probably has a few scars under his fur.
Parental death: Little Cato has lost his father Avocato twice, first after Avocato saved him from a mine and blew up, falling out of the ship, and later when Avocato was saved through time travel shenanigans, possessed by the series' bad guy, and Little Cato had to shoot him to protect his adopted human father Gary Goodspeed. Little Cato thought at the time that he'd killed him.
Psychosis: When their ship hit a time anomaly and were caught in a time shard, half the ship had time move faster. In the side where Little Cato was trapped, sixty years passed in what was only a few minutes to the outside universe, before his crew could break the shard and free him. During that time Little Cato was completely alone and was shown to have broken down and become completely psychotic, hallucinating that the crew was with him on the other side. Reverting to his younger self has changed that situation by pushing his brain back to the state it was in as a teenager, and those years have been carefully locked away in his head where he tries to pretend they didn't happen, calling it a "pain spot," but it is something that may come up at some point depending on plots.
Zombies: The cosmic Big Bad, Invictus, can fight by reanimating the dead. In Final Space, many versions of Cato's adoptive human father Gary had sacrificed themselves, trying to save Earth in many different variations of the timeline. Invictus animated all the dead, rotting Gary's as zombies to attack Cato's crew. They weren't the contagious kind of zombie but were visibly gory and rotten. He may potentially mention the zombiedads or they could possibly come up as cw's in memshares.
Options
1) Opt out of being tagged by him entirely. While it's easy to avoid having him bring things up as he tries to avoid discussing these things at times, I'm always cool with avoiding tagging someone. (If you still want to chill together as players, I also play another character who's an adult, with different issues, if you'd like to have some alternate CR.)
2) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to child harm (during play), until he's at the age 19 adult canon update.
3) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to child murder.
4) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to child kidnapping/imprisonment.
5) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to child abuse.
6) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to parental death.
7) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to psychosis.
8) Opt out of dialogue and/or non-dialogue references to zombies.
Please note your handle and all your character journals.
Post screened for privacy.