Special: Gender-changed. Female to other furries, still male to humans due to RDF. After October 2007, strangers now see her as her physical gender with the human ghost image changed to match. Friends, family, and others who've known him still see the same old Brandon.
Profession: MD at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, general surgery.
Place of Residence: Renton, WA.
Species: American Marten
Year Changed: 2008.
Special: Ask before using. Can see through the RDF/Veil if he looks at things the right way. It's very weak for him, regardless. In his late teens/early 20s he was a stoner, mostly hallucinogens like LSD and mescaline. Well-known furry artist, mostly drawn from life.
Note: 16-year old daughter in 2006, changed into fox when she was 13. Widower, wife died in an auto accident when daughter was 4. Not interested in remarrying, so it's a family of two.
Special: Transsexual who got gender-changed just as she was starting HRT. Overjoyed at the new changes to the RDF in 2007. Changing careers and place of residence to take full advantage. Married her boyfriend soon after Tall Tales Con, moved to where everyone would see her as a woman, then promptly got pregnant. Now everyone, human and not, see her as a she.
Profession: USAF, Ret. Flew B-52s during the Cold War.
Place of Residence: Duluth, MN
Species: Whitetail buck
Year Changed: 2005
Special: Has a right ear with a few notches in it from a hunting accident. This character is loosely based on a buck named Peter in The Gift of the Deer by Helen Hoover.
Profession: Assistant Commissioner in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Place of Residence: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Species: Horse (Chestnut)
Year Changed: 2004
Special Notes: As of 2007, fur with the highest known position in the Canadian government. Travels extensively across Canada. Has wide contacts with other government furs worldwide.
Special notes: Hates the initials, stayed stable though 2006. Pregnancy with twins born in 2007. Avatar changes, goes by Tea' full time by February 2007.
Special notes: Absolutely always cheerful, bouncy. Loves to swim, looking for his soul mate in an aquatic species, but for now willing to feel up anyone female.
When Daniel changed, Chris and Jessica were able to see him as a changed child, but they were unable to see other changed until their Changed friend, Sheila introduced herself as one. Even after that, they still mostly see the ghosts of other Changed they know.
Eric Hayward
Profession: Canadian Coast Guard
Place of Residence: Lark Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada ( a small community about 1 hour east of Corner Brook)
His father changed into a Polar Bear in 2000, and disappeared/was presumed dead on the ice while Sealing in 2001. After Eric himself changed, he realized what happened to his father, and set out to try to find him, signing up with the Guard to help make his search easier.
Joseph Ford (Joey, JF)
Profession: Software developer
Place of Residence: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Profession: Con artist/Scammer/Fraudster, now Prisoner
Place of Residence: Fort McMurray, Alberta (before capture), Drummondville Penitentiary (Drummondville, Quebec), Nova Institute For Women, Truro, Nova Scotia (as of March, 2008)
He is currently the officer 'in charge' of Changed within Canada's prison system, and tends to go in person to handle events involving Changed within CSC's domain.
His moose form is tall, nearly 7ft, but his original human form was short, just over 5ft.
Minor characters and organizations of interest
Boris Dementyev
Profession: Mob inforcer/Body Guard
Changed in 2004 or 2005 (he won't confirm)
Species: Zebra
Place of Residence: Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada; Kingston Penitentiary, Drummondville Penitentiary (after the December '07 Riots)
May be one of the first post-Change people to be arrested and convicted. (He was captured and imprisoned in early 2007 for kidnapping Changed hoofed-women to 'form his own herd')
Actually very intelligent, but he plays the 'dumb muscle' to make people underestimate him.
She has a twin sister living in Toronto who changed in 2007. After her sister changed, she found she could see through the Veil, something she often used to surprise Furs.
WATFUR
A Support group founded at the University of Waterloo to help out the Changed and Known on campus.
Has connections with similar groups at other Ontario universities and growing.
This section is for characters who appear in multiple works, are in government and thus may show up in other stories (though only as a cameo). There will be repetition between this section and the author-specific ones.
Canada
Winthrop Fitzgerald
Profession: Assistant Commissioner in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Place of Residence: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Species: Horse (Chestnut)
Year Changed: 2004
Special Notes: As of 2007, fur with the highest known position in the Canadian government. Travels extensively across Canada. Has wide contacts with other government furs worldwide.
Place of Residence: Ottawa, Ontario (formerly Regina, Saskatchewan)
Species: Moose (Male)
Year Changed: 2006
Notes:
He is currently the officer 'in charge' of Changed within Canada's prison system, and tends to go in person to handle events involving Changed within CSC's domain, though his actual rank/position is more junior.
His moose form is tall, nearly 7ft, but his original human form was short, just over 5ft.
He works closely with Winthrop to help handle various Changed issues.
Notes: Details to be determined. However, it's safe to assume that the policies are broadly similar to our own world, but more competently executed. I will try and avoid too much controversy here, but I think a female Republican President is one of the Major Differences due to the butterfly effect caused by the Change.