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More information on the Characters
Roy: The name for the ruler of the Universe came from tuna. At school, Daniel ate tuna almost everyday and eventually it seemed poisonous to him. The slogan "If it ain't rotten it ain't tuna" was merged with the El Tuna Café and in the first version of CTU (CTU 1.0) it became "Roy's Rotten: if it ain't rotten it ain't tuna!" The name Roy came naturally when trying to think of a name with the letter R in it for the slogan. Roy became the ruler of the Universe because he owned the El Tuna Café and the authors wanted to center the Universe around the restaurant. Simon: The name for Roy's archrival, Simon Carp, is just as random as it sounds. The name came from CTU 1.0 and was passed on into the published version (CTU 2.0 ). The family ties between Simon and Roy was first planned for the end of CTU 1.0 in order to make it more interesting. The authors, seeing things from CTU 1.0 as part of CTU's Universe, decided to keep it. Mr. Parrot: Jack Ferguson loved to doodle during the year of CTU 1.0's writing (2004). The doodle "Bob the Parrot" was a strange square shaped parrot head that had nothing to do with CTU. Bob the Parrot soon became Mr. Parrot and Daniel, when writing CTU 1.0, decided to make him into a wealthy bio-engineer. Later on in 1.0 he became a former ruler of the Universe. Although he dies in CTU, he still plays a role in WYV. When Billy and Toby are robbed and stuck in the bottom of the El Tuna Cafe, they use Mr. Parrot's notebook to learn how to travel through time so they can escape. When time traveling they encounter several Mr. Parrots who all traveled to the same cocktail party, and after a chain of strange events the two end up with one of the Mr. Parrots, who has a mid-life crisis and cannot be found again until Mysteries of the Ghost Squeenburg. |
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Tony Beaver: Tony Beaver was a combination of the first name of the actor Tony Dow and the last word in the name of the show "Leave it to Beaver", creating Tony Beaver. Tony Beaver was simply a name and only showed up in CTU 2.0 because Daniel liked it and wanted it to fit in somewhere. He decided that it would be good to have a human in the plot and gave the human the name. Jack was oblivious until he read CTU 2.0. Toby Beaver: Toby is the nephew of Tony and named as he was because the authors weren't creative. He was briefly the son of Tony, but the authors decided against it since Tony having a son or even a life wouldn't fit in with CTU. Toby is the pen pal of Billy until Billy is on the run and decides to meet him in person. The two don't have much time to explore together because of a series of chaotic events, and Billy leaves him when he discovers his father at the Honky Donkey. Toby has to stay at the Hobo Society, even though the threat of Loothpit's attack grows. Finally Toby has enough and decides to go into the fabled Dimension of Nothing with a soldier working for the Hobo Society, where he finds oddities such as a teacup rehabilitation center. PiBotQ64: Either late in the sixth grade or early in the seventh grade the authors were talking so much about the Children's Tales of the Universe story that Jack began to dream about it. Once he had a dream that was almost an epic tale of a Gotithian Cube Person named PiBotQ64, who is angered by his creation and destroys the El TUna Cafe to take revenge. The name alone was good enough for Daniel to want to have it in a book somewhere, and the two authors decided to include it in WYV. Of course, the El Tuna Cafe is just an empty void when WYV takes place, so it couldn't involve the Gotithian Cube Person taking revenge on the El Tuna Cafe. It made more sense, anyways, for the Cube People to have created a Gotithian Cube Person. In WYV the Cube People create PiBotQ64 to try to influence WonderClaus, but it doesn't work. The PiBotQ64 of WYV is also angry at his creators, and wants to either turn into a full Cube Person and be happy or die and be relieved. He might very well have saved Roy and Simon in his glorious defeat. His name is a compilation of Pi, the number the two authors were trying to memorize to one hundred digits for the sixth grade talent show; Q, a letter that Jack was strangely obsessed with; and 64, the number the authors find the most cuby because it is eight, the number of corners on a cube, squared. WonderClaus: The name was a random exclamation made by Daniel in a pool game during the summer of CTU's writing. The two authors decided to include him in WYV as the son of Satan/Santa. When doing what was probably the most serious brainstorming for WYV ever, the two authors developed Presleytarianism and made WonderClaus the founder of it. In WYV he is changed to the head of the largest sect, the True Presleytarian sect. WonderClaus is believed to be the last Gotithian, since after the fall of the short lived Gotithian Republic people went on a hunt of Gotithians. He is indeed one of the last Gotithians, and the reason why the Cube People wanted to influence him with the creation of a new Gotithian race that PiBotQ64 was the prototype of. Gabriele: Gabriele was the name of an actual turkey of the Ferguson's. They wanted to buy some poults (baby turkeys) and the poults came in a large group. The Ferguson brothers split the costs of the group and Daniel used some money for the right to name one of the turkeys. He named his Gabriele because the name sounds like "Gobble", the sound that turkeys are supposed to make. The turkey was a white, female poult. A raccoon attacked the chicken coop the turkeys were held in and killed all of the poults one night. In the morning there was blood all around the coop and outside of it Gabriele's wing was found. Daniel had made Gabriele a male turkey in CTU 1.0 and after the wing was found made him have a mechanical right wing in place of where his natural wing should have been. The Ferguson farm now has another set of turkeys, with another turkey named Gabriele the alpha-male. Sir Dr. Dungeon Master Chief Tuna Fry Cook: This character showed up in CTU 1.0 simply as "Cook" and was the first character to appear in 1.0. His only role was to tell Roy that the El Tuna Café had exploded. Daniel gave the character extra meaning in CTU 2.0 by making him also the kidnapper of Little Billy. The long name was simply a joke. Loothpit: Loothpit is not significant to the plot of CTU except when he hurts Simon, forcing Roy to admit that they are brothers. Daniel could have easily written Loothpit out of the book but he liked the species that Loothpit belongs to (Moose that looks like a turtle, which was a combination of the two author's favorite animals) and Loothpit was intended to have more significance in Worship your Vermin. In WYV 1.0, written while the authors were in sixth grade, he injures Simon again and forces Roy to hand him over to the Cube People. In WYV 2.1, the one currently published (with 2.1 because it is somewhat edited), he unites the moose-that-looks-like-a-turtle species and poses a threat to the Hobo Society in which Roy and Simon seek refuge. Little Billy: Little Billy was at first a name that Daniel used if he needed a name for a little boy. When Daniel and Jack were playing “Super Mario Smash Bros.” on car rides home, they decided to name characters in the game after CTU and WYV (neither of which, of course, had been written yet) and when they got to a little boy in the game, they decided to call him Little Billy because there was no fitting character thought of yet in either book. Daniel wanted Little Billy to somehow be worked into the storyline of CTU, and Jack said that Little Billy must be Roy’s son. Daniel disagreed, thinking that Roy shouldn’t have a son, and so it was decided that Little Billy was Roy’s heir, since he didn’t have one in the first place. In Children’s Tales of the Universe there is a sub-plot mystery of who Little Billy’s true father is, and it is suggested that both Roy and Simon believe him to be his own biological son, which causes severe complications in both sides’ plans. The true identity of Billy’s father is revealed in Worship Your Vermin. The Cube People:The Cube People came to Jack and Daniel on the way to school without CTU or WYV in their minds. The idea was inspired by a church sermon Daniel once heard involving stacking people on a bus (the purpose of the story is lost to time). It got the two authors thinking about a very overpopulated species and problems it would have to face. The two authors knew that the Japanese made watermelons in squares, and then came to a conclusion that such a species might come to the idea that they should make everything on their planet a cube for more efficient storage! It took a long time for the idea to be integrated into the CTU storyline, but the two authors wanted to for the fun of having a more complex world. They eventually decided that the Cube People are so strange they have to be in another dimension, and the Dimension of Tuna seemed more suitable for them than the Dimension of Stupidity. As the story progressed, Daniel suggested the name “Boxer Revolution” for the uprising of the Cube Communist Party. Little did they know that there really was a “Boxer Rebellion” in China toward the end of the Qin Dynasty. The authors suspect that if the Cube People ever come to Earth, Japan, with its overpopulation, will be the first to go! The Big Brain:The Big Brain: The Big Brain is odd. It is a black hole at the end of the Universe opposite of the El Tuna Café, and it is a mass of intelligence so large it formed a black hole so big that not even gravity can escape the event horizon! The only gravity ever to escape it is a wave of gravity forming the words “I would like a tuna sandwich and a diet cola” as it flies around the Universe at the speed of light, destroying everything in its path, and is likely to destroy the whole Universe eventually. The Big Brain chapter was made during the creation of CTU 2.0 because Daniel wanted to give more information about the Universe through the black hole. The way things worked, though, the Big Brain only told Gabriele and Tony that Simon was attacking the El Tuna Café. The Big Brain turns out to have a personality and takes offense of the term “black hole”. It has decorated the interior of the black hole with all sorts of colors and prefers the term “personal hole”. Note: We have a game involving this character called Ask the Big Brain! Antonio:In the first version of CTU, Mr. Parrot is not interested in a conflict with Roy until Roy decides to tax him to death, even though Roy had taken his power away a long time ago. The same is true in the published version of Children’s Tales of the Universe. Daniel wanted the same thing to happen to Mr. Parrot as well as have Roy be shown as overly naïve. He decided that he could combine the two ideas by having a character very close to Roy steal the wood that the Universe’s currency, the scarab, is valued from. He chose the name Antonio from the already present character Tony because he didn’t feel like having too large of a variety of names. No character like Antonio was in CTU before, and before Roy had decided that he needed to raise taxes to fund a colonization of Earth. Especially with Dave owning Earth in the later version, that didn’t make much sense, and Antonio was made. However, Daniel somewhat regrets the uncreative name.
Head Trauma:Although never having appeared in the published form of Children's Tales of the Universe, this band was mentioned in CTU 1.0. The idea for the band came from the obnoxious sound of Heavy Metal and Emo music. The band is a group of wild, loud, and unruly members that have a tendancy to go from a slow melody into a loud, incomprehensible screaming song in about three seconds, and are most well known for the head-banging involved in their concerts and music videos. Head Tramua plays a concert at the Honky Donkey Cafe in WYV, which disrupts the diplomatic meeting publicly being held there and helps Billy find his father. Tewes the Racoon:In CTU 1.0, Gabriele was planned to have a showdown with his arch enemy, Tewes the Racoon. The idea for a battle with a racoon originated from the animal, suspected to this day to have been a racoon, that attacked the turkeys at the Ferguson Farm. The name "Tewes" comes from the name of a local turkey farm called the Tewes Poultry Farm. It is pronounced "Too-ees" but the two authors at first thought it was pronounced "Toos" and came up with the obnoxious slogan "Tewe's turkeys" with their pronunciation. The name stuck and was placed in CTU as the name of a racoon who owns a turkey farm that Gabriele grew up on.
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