Trinket

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Rocket Chip!

Rocket is a runaway alien cat. Chip is a lost broken robot they found in a junkyard. Now they're best friends on an aimless roadtrip through a galaxy-sized city

Characters

Rocket

(She/They)
Rocket is very low energy and has a hard time showing emotion. It’s less that she’s afraid to open herself up to others, and more that she isn’t used to anyone caring whether she does or not, and expressing yourself is just too much effort sometimes. Underneath it all she’s very clever and sensitive, if a bit pessimistic.Rocket spent most of her life on a dystopian planet, and it roughed her up pretty badly. She eventually escaped by using her self-taught engineering skills to modify and steal a luxury spaceship from an eccentric billionaire. She didn’t expect it to work and didn’t really plan much farther than that… soooo now she’s just kinda chilling.
Rocky says her goal is to find a new planet where she can live self-reliant and alone. At least it was until she ran into Chip, a broken robot with no memories but endless enthusiasm. Now just drifting aimlessly doesn’t seem so lonely! Though she’d never say so out loud…

Chip

(She/They)
Chip is silly, full of energy, and friendly to a fault. Willfully ignorant of everything bad in the universe, they try to find the FUN in every situation!Chip’s upbeat personality is only inhibited by a lingering feeling in her programming somewhere that she’s supposed to be serving a “useful” purpose in some way, though she has no idea what it is.Chip is a unique robot that can feel a full range of emotions, and they feel them INTENSELY. But if robots are supposed to be efficient and serve a purpose, aren't emotions just an inconvenience? Chip seems to think so. Because of this, she tends to inhibit her ability to feel negative emotions by literally deleting unpleasant memories from her brain. It’s such a constant habit she doesn’t even realize she's doing it, and of course she doesn’t remember why after the fact. This maintains her cheery disposition without challenge, but this also means she never really learns from her mistakes.

Rocky and Chip together

Rocket is the brains and Chip is the muscle. Even though Chip has a super computer for a head and Rocket’s the one with actual muscles. Rocket’s ability to stay cool under pressure and think quickly more than makes up for Chip’s absentmindedness and impulsive actions. Chip’s various abilities can get them out of any jam, provided she has enough fuel in her, and Rocket is there to remind Chip that she can fly while they’re falling to their deaths. Chip isn’t totally clueless though, as Rocket relies on her entirely while dealing with social situations like… talking. To people. And sometimes taking immediate action is more effective than overthinking it!Basically, with their powers combined, they form one functional person.Despite their different dispositions, these two genuinely enjoy each other's company, and hate to be alone. Rocket admires Chip's optimism, but helps her stay grounded.

Supporting Cast

M'egg

(She/Her)
Megg is a computer expert from a planet of dinosaur birds. She's one of the few of her species who can't fly, and has become a basement dwelling computer nerd. Her goal is to program a machine that can aid in wing mobility, or at least a flying AI assistant to carry out tasks for her.
She’s very outgoing when she needs to be, but because of her isolation she’s extremely socially awkward. Mostly she is overly blunt, can come off as rude, thinks of herself as the smartest in the room (she usually is), and tends to ramble for hours on end about whatever thoughts happen to come into her head, whether she has a point or not. Luckily for her, Rocket is endlessly patient and Chip is excited to hear about it all!Megg has an admiration for Rocket’s self-taught engineering skills and the two have a lot in common to bond over, both with their hobbies and disabilities. Rocket also appreciates having more deep conversations with Megg that Chip doesn’t usually have the patience for.Chip and Megg get along because they share the same impulsive enthusiasm that Rocket doesn’t have the energy for, and if left on their own they tend to get into trouble. Megg loves Chip too, though she seems to look at them as more of a science experiment than a person. Chip has fun with Megg but thinks of her as a bit scary, and feels they cant let their guard down, in case Megg decides she wants to open up Chip’s head just to see how the wires are hooked up.Rocky and Chip will video-chat with Megg whenever they need information about Chip’s programming or have car trouble, or if they just can’t figure out how to look up something on the internet… Or to ask simple math questions. Or just to see how she’s doing because that’s what friends are for.

The Triclops Twins

Yoyo and Zip are royal siblings taking a vacation cruise through the galaxcity, on their parent’s dollar of course. They’re both very young and spoiled adults who have never been told “NO” in their lives.Princess Yoyo is the one in charge, and she takes whatever she wants. Very domineering and full of herself, she may as well own the entire universe, but is seemingly never satisfied no matter how much stuff she’s got or how much power she gains. She prides herself on being unnecessarily cruel and selfish for the fun of it, because she deserves to be of course!
She takes a special delight in torturing Rocket. Their low self esteem makes them so fun to scare!Prince Zip is her brother, younger than her by exactly one minute, making him second to the throne. He’s constantly overshadowed and forgotten about by their family and subjects, and this frustrates him to no end. He’s entirely the same amount of selfish and cruel as his sister, but with the added desperation of trying to compensate for his believed lack of power. He comes off as very insecure and tryhard, and is very easily irritated, compared to the haughty regal attitude his sister carries.
He hates Chip especially. Their playful demeanor drives him up the wall, and he's incapable of taking a joke.

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The Galaxcity

The setting of the story is a galaxy sized urban city, complete with solar suburb systems, asteroid malls, black hole junkyards, and apocolypsed/abandoned planets ripe for the looting. Entire planetary systems are connected by colossal telephone wires.Rocket and Chip are less of intrepid explorers of unknown lands, than they are essentially tourists on a more complicated road trip, minus the actual roads. Their travels aren’t completely aimless though, as they both have a goal in mind when they bother to remember it. Ironically, Chip is the one more focused on this goal. Chip is trying to find her planet of origin, and figure out what her purpose is. Rocket would eventually like to find a decent planet to live on, but only has a vague idea of what she really wants and seems content to drift for now. And in a galaxcity with roughly 200 billion stars, each with any number of orbiting planets, that’s a lot of neighborhoods to cover.The urbanization of 85% of the galaxy allows it all to be at least somewhat cohesive, as you’ll never be too far away from a fuel station, be it fuel for living beings or machines, artificial atmospheres abound with spare helmets supplied with whichever gas, liquid, or plasma you happen to breathe, and you’ll be sure to find someone around that speaks space common to translate for you. But a society cobbled together by millions of different species and out of touch elite alien quillionaires is never really going to make sense enough to get completely used to. So much so that Rocket and Chip will often seem like the most normal beings around in comparison to their surroundings. At least it never gets boring!Quite a few planets are still uncharted however, and are off-limits to travelers normally, which is what makes them especially fun to visit! And on those, literally anything can happen.

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