From the journal of Ardebast Raconteur:
I met the fox, Todrick, on one of my trips through Verdant, the City in the Treetops. He’s an earnest young fur, and quite likeable.
Furs don’t often make their home in Verdant. That’s what makes Todrick so unusual. To add to his mystique, noone, not even Todrick himself, remembers how he came to live there. Todrick is an orphan with not even the slightest idea as to his origins, so in his case it’s forgiveable, and of course, the Avian are not known for their memories.
I can see it in Todrick’s eyes that he yearns for more. Someday I expect he will leave Verdant in search of…well, I don’t know what exactly. Adventure perhaps? I would suspect that finding out where he comes from might be a motivation as well.
Carja’s Notes:
Todrick first appears as a fur that Nektara encounters in the first of a series of three birthday stories I wrote for my friends, but I had the idea for him much earlier.
Foxes are my favorite animals, so it was a no-brainer that one of my characters would be a fox. His name is a nod to Todd from Disney’s The Fox and the Hound.
While there’s a little of me in all my characters, I’d say Todrick, as he appears in the Funnies, is the one that I’m most like: He’s somewhat of a spaz with a short attention span. I didn’t originally intend for him to turn out that way, but found him taking that role the more I wrote him.