61st Post, LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS

My friend, Toby, and I have been putting some more work into make a little Los Dos Kevos site lately. It'll just be a Freewebs thing, BUT IT'LL BE FUN, TRUST ME. It'll have overly in-depth stories about my series' development stages!

So, I'm in Marine Biology this year, and learning all sorts of stuff that's helping with Hoop-a-Joop.

To my great surprise, Hoop is actually very much like a real octopus! Real octopuses (turns out that's the correct way to say it and not octopi) are capable of love and deciding who they like and dislike, as well as learning and planning. Yet they are also extremely deadly: they'll squeeze you in their tentacles, bite at you with their suction cups, snap your arms off with one bite from their beak, and slice through your body with their chainsaw tongue (called a radula). So that covers both aspects of Hoop! Hoop's a friendly guy who would put all the best murderers in the world out of business if he had known he could.

But I also learned that one important thing about Hoop doesn't work out. The reason Hoop isn't deadly is because Hoop was taken from his mother too early for him to learn anything. But according to this article I read, octopuses are not raised by their mothers (and I already knew that their fathers die during reproduction), so then it stands to reason that Hoop could learn of his murderous potential completely on his own.... Maybe I could work it so that he was kidnapped by the aquarium so early that it made him too shy to think of trying out his abilities....

I also had the silly idea of giving Hoop-a-Joop his own "bully." I don't know how to explain it in a funny way, but the idea itself is a joke, because it looks funny to see a majorly unpersonified octopus in the same situation as a young schoolboy. Because I learned that, while octopuses are capable of judgement and consideration, squids are just JERKS. They will attack ANYTHING they see, regardless of how much bigger it is than them or if it's just barely close enough for them to see. And they can be so tiny that you could be swimming and not even know there are thousands around you. And jellyfish really freak me out now, because they have no eyes, BUT THEY ALWAYS KNOW WHERE YOU ARE. And the only things that can protect us from the deadliest ones? TURTLES. That's why I want 20 pet turtles.
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So this jerk squid and his two skull-resembling jellyfish cohorts are going to be Hoop's enemies in the aquarium and other places if I can find a way to explain them.

It's awesome when weird real-world facts can come into outlandish cartoons. One of my favorite SpongeBob moments is when he's afraid to leave his house and admits that "his people are sedentary" and that he doesn't need to eat, because sponges filter feed. THE END. =D