Welcome everyone to the first broadcast of the Characters of Zootopia podcast! I'm your host Vicky Chola; join me as we dive into the lives and personalities of your favorite original characters by your favorite writers. We'll also be speaking with the creators themselves to learn more about them and what makes your favorite OC tick. We'll start off each show with an interview of the writer to learn more about them and where they got their inspiration and love of Zootopia. After this initial interview we'll get to do a one on one interview between me and the author's OC to get a closer look at their personalities. Each interview will consist of one OC but we'll also be doing additional OCs as we go for the writers. So if we haven't interviewed your favorite character yet but we did interview the writer please be patient. We'll work our way to them so stay tuned!

Let me go ahead and tell you a little about me so you won't feel like you're listening to some stranger. However, if you're following the Life Turns Right story I suggest you turn back now to avoid any spoilers.

First off, I'm a hybrid or a cross as we're often referred to. I know, I know, I look exactly like a North American grey fox. Well that's because my dad is one and for some reason nature decided I should look almost exactly like him. But I'm not mad, I love him very much and am more than proud to be his daughter.

My mother is an American bobcat and while I didn't inherit much of her good looks I did get her beautiful eyes and a few other features. She says I'm karma incarnate since I act a lot like her when she was my age. I'm definitely into going against the norm. I have a guitar and I can play a few notes and riffs on it but nothing special.

My dad owns a large digital networking company that specializes in getting signals to remote areas for less than what satellite cost. You wouldn't know it by that old raggedy jeep he drives all the time. But his life wasn't all rainbows and gumdrops. Before he met my mom he was married to a vixen for whom I'm the namesake. Victoria Grace McClane-Chola was taken by cancer while my father was overseas fighting in the war. Losing her broke him and it nearly cost him everything. His military career was cut short after he tried to drown himself with a bottle. After he left the military he buried himself in work. First in obtaining a school degree in communications, then with the help of investors he started his business, Retrans Networks, to provide communications equipment to small businesses and eventually setting up towers in remote locations to provide cell and wireless internet to the mammals that lived there. Eventually he met my mom and she was the first one who was able to heal the hole in his heart.

Mom, like I said, was a lot like me. Stubborn, hard headed, difficult, rebellious and about a dozen other things. She ran away from home when she was 17 to be in a rock band. They fell into the slump that many beginners often do. They had one record to be released but couldn't seem to gain any traction. One member died from a drug overdose, mom and the others split the band up after that. Mom was basically adopted by a family of Lynx and worked at a music store in Foxford. That's where she met dad. She says meeting him was the best thing that ever happened to her. I just hope I'm half as lucky as she was.

I won't bore you with the finer details of my life. The short version is dad wanted me to go into the family business so he talked me into going to school for networking. I made a friend in one of the computer classes who was studying to be a sound director and introduced me to how electronics play a big role in music these days. I didn't care much for that but I fell in love with being able to bring a mammal's voice to life and share it with the world over the internet. I'd seen my fair share of ewetubers but never thought much about how they actually make their videos. So I changed my career choice and started getting into sound design and production. My dad wasn't happy, but mom softened him up before I hit him with the sad puppy eyes to seal the deal.

I've spent my days after graduating interning on little projects here and there. I got listed in the credits a couple of times as someone's assistant. Then one day, one of the producers I was working for approached me with an offer. She said she had this idea of meeting the faces of Zootopia and sharing them with the world. And she wanted me to be the one to interview them.

I don't know if she picked me because she saw my talent or thought I'd be a cheap hire who wouldn't screw it up but here I am, hosting my own show and getting to meet some amazing mammals.

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A/N:

This project is a collaboration of creators from all over the world. As such, the grammar and punctuation often reflects that of people who don't speak English as a first language. Only rudimentary proofreading and edits have been done so that everything is understandable. I did this so that you can get a more personal feel for the person's personality. I ask that you be considerate when reading this and hold your critiques to yourself. This is not meant to be a scholarly work but a person to person recounting. If you wish to join us and have your own OC or Zoosona interviewed contact me and I'll tell you how to join us. Thank you.