Origin

Prologue: how to read the bios

Full Name: The first and last name of the car in question.
Callsign: Their name usually used on business. Including Presidents, Leaders, and general warriors.
Nicknames: What people usually call the car in question.
Charge: Are they a leader? A commander?
Make/Model: The Brand and model of car they are. I.e, A Subaru Outback.
Paint Color: The color of the car in question, but their official brand color name. Don't worry, if it's too big of a mouthful I'll add the tl;Dr version in parentheses.
Year/Generation (On Appearance): Even car borns go by Year and/or generation on their birth certificate.
Iris Color: The color of the irises on the car in question's windshield monitor.
Specialities: What weapons they are best at
Weaknesses: What weapons they can't work with to save a life (literally)

Height: How tall their human morph is
Average Weight: How CHONK or BEEF
Hair Style: Wavy? Curly?
Hair Color: Black? Brunette? Two-tone?



Personality Traits: How the car in question acts.
Generation: Zero is human-made or is a human that has permanently identified as a vehicle and only returns to their human form like cars do. 1+, car born.
Place of Origin: State/country/planet they were born or escaped from
Accent: Almost everyone has a vocal accent!
Likes: What do they enjoy?
Dislikes: What drives them nuts?
District Job: Do they have a job or run a shop on their days "off" (not running to war)?
Hobbies: Usually nonprofitable side activities.
Best Friends: Closest friends from left to right.
Friendly Rivals: They don't want to kill them... most of the time, but they do want to choke them.
Enemies: They actually do want to kill these people, any chance they get. Usually Anticlan Antagonists.


Theme Song: What song helped create the character
Actual Favorite Song: The car in question's canonical favorite song
Favorite Foods: Canonical favorite food
Favorite Drinks: canonical favorite drink


Parents: Mother and Father of the car in question. Also including adoptive parents if applicable.
Siblings: The siblings of the car in question if applicable.
Partner: The current living partner of the car in question if applicable.
Ex Partners: Deceased or divorced past partners of the car in question if applicable.
Children: Living and deceased children of the car in question if applicable, sorted by sons and daughters.

Where did they come from, where did they go? But briefly!



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"It's always been mildly embarrassing for me trying to explain what this series is actually about. It's stupid and I'm used to people calling it stupid. Of course, I was 7 when I first started drawing the original characters, 9 when I started writing, and many different years where I added things and removed others, but for some reason I could never abandon it.

The machines are anthropomorphic cars, originally based as original characters stemming from Disney's Cars universe. I had two original characters based on our cars at the time, Grassly (now my sister's Jeep Cherokee), and Rudy (who has since been sold to a family who could take better care of him than my mom could have), the Jeep Wrangler, as well as my persona character, Jenna. Since the dawn of my series and thanks to their real life reliability, Grassly has always been an innocent doofus, while Rudy was always an unbearable jerk. Yes, Rudy was a jerk in real life.
The earliest example I have of the duo in writing was my second grade Young Writer's Contest entry. Grassly and Jen were playing with a ball and somehow Grassly fell over a cliff. Rudy, who had presumably been off hating on somebody elsewhere, showed up and rescued his best friend and fleetmate with his winch. I actually won third place with the piece, though I still don't think anyone realized I was talking about our cars.

Over the years, the series has definitely evolved since the beginning. I always had a "first episode" explaining the Escape, but as we got more cars over the years, I added more original main characters; Felix, Domic, and Grayson. Since Rudy had left our fleet in real life, he became a main character who came in later; similarly, since I was sick of editing the plot whenever we got a new truck, I added our newest IRL edition, Red, in later as well. Cars escaped Earth (as explained below) and all was good for many years.
But like any intelligent society, you'll have people who want to rule the world, and wage wars against their race. The same started happening within the cars' society; some decided they wanted to go back and destroy Earth for what the humans did, and others just wanted to own their new planet where the cars don't have a true president or king and everybody just coexists with common sense and intelligence. So, I decided to totally break from the original thought of this series being a simple spin-off of Disney at around 14 years old, and I made the characters start a privately owned military agency.

As a rule in their universe, cars are always somewhat divided by make and model, a primal sort of code that originated from their Earthen days of competitor models. Their brand is their identity and what drives them. Think of humans believing in their zodiac signs, only on steroids.
Every car in this universe is based off real car models (except for the rare Hybrid Models that come from parents of two different models), so you have the Fords, Chevies, Hondas, Nissans; Fords and Chevies are natural competitors, as are Hondas to Nissans. There are plenty of documented friendships, even partnerships (car equivalent to marriage), between rival models all over the universe, but there's always that underlying stale resentment thanks to the generations of brand rivalry practically coded into their processors. Each make and model also have their usual--trademark, even--traits and downfalls.

For instance, Fords of all models are known by their arrogance, and their tendency to march out and start cracking jokes about GMCs and Chevies in the middle of a GMC and Chevy crowd. However, when confronted, Fords suddenly become easily stung and run away, bawling. The latter is especially true for the giant trucks called F-250s and F-350s.
Rams, seen as strong and enduring, are also extremely stubborn and bull-headed. They are the only model of truck that adores to pack up with other Rams, be they 1500s or 3500s, and just hang out. Extremely communal, yet highly temperamental; it's well advised you don't irk a "Ramily Gathering", because they aren't Fords and they do NOT flee from a challenge. I'm not totally sure when I started just picturing traits among different models, but it mostly comes from how I see the models' communities acting in real life. Ford people just really don't like Chevy and Ram people. Ram people (like me and my sister and we're both in the Ram groups on Facebook!) are always seriously into other peoples' Rams, and likely have the strongest community of all the truck models. We wave at each other as we go by like we're Jeeps or something; meanwhile, whenever I'm out in my dad's Ford F-350, Red, absolutely no other Ford person waves. They give us stank looks, even. It's appalling.

It is probably not for some people (heck, it's probably not for most people lol) but my sister can't handle generic cars and honestly neither can I. So the entire series might come off as an "advertisement hell" with all the car brands and models. Don't forget this series wasn't really for anybody else but us, though we wanted to share it with anyone interested. Like a 1:1 roleplay in the forums, it's our story and it's not changing by anyone's request. Critique it all you want, it's still not changing. Feel free to join us, but we're just going to ignore the haters at this point lol

As silly as my series seems, it's actually far more intricate than you'd believe; it's pretty easy to stray from the timeline and accidentally mess up or forget dates, plot twists become harder to create as you start running out of new ideas, deciding what car models would become rare in their society and how they'd be treated was always a wonder. Like, should they be treated like endangered animals or scoffed at by their fellows? Should hybridization--and we're not talking Priuses, here--be a thing though it's been established that you usually get kids that are one model or the other out of intermodel parents? Is there such thing as too much conflict in a plot revolving around an extraterrestrial military agency? Speaking of extraterrestrial, what if we threw in actual aliens and turn everything into a Star Trek dumpster fire?

Personally, if I were to content rate my storyline, I'd probably rate it somewhere between PG and TV-14. It covers topics that Disney never thought to and can venture into the more mature side of things unintentionally. I admit I've thrown many an innuendo in as well, some I questioned leaving in when translating stories onto Flight Rising XD since I never expect anyone to read anything, I also love throwing in running and inside jokes, humor from the car community, and many, many obscure references that would be easier to see on screen than read in order to understand. It's an awkward cross between romance, comedy, sci-fi, and children's reads, but picture putting all those genres into a good processor and digesting the results. It's an acquired taste for sure, and I don't blame anyone who agrees! Even I cringe at my older stuff sometimes, as all authors do when coming back to their past creations.
Where cars don't curse the same words as humans do, the ones that had human owners do know what they are while most of the newer generations don't. Curse words are a running joke because some are just such comedic gold I gotta reference them lol. Though I assure you that you will never see anything worse than hell written out. Anything else is self sensored with the actual origin words (even @ss, which I usually replace with (donkey) because it's just funny to me lol)


The only rule to my series, don't ask me how they reproduce. It's a long and awkward story; just know it's one of the many technological advancements they've figured out already. You can ask me literally anything else that doesn't make sense, especially if I don't have a dragon explaining it already! Slowly working on adding the thousands of characters I have and tidbits from the over 400 stories averaging 60 pages each even when unfinished to FR.



Tabs


"Dawnrise/Beyond" (Lair) - holds protagonist characters, pets, and lore explanation dragons that are in relation to Dawnrise.

"Resident Antagonists" (Lair) - holds antagonist characters, sorted by anti-clan or organization.

"Dawnrise" (Den) - Same as Dawnrise/Beyond.

"Rhemaria" (Den) - Car heaven. Passed away essences go here after they died if they're pure and not malignant. Essences can also come here after a redemption period in Avantis.

"Avantis" (Den) - Car hell. Dark and evil essences are trapped in Avantis either forever or until they pass a redemption period and are allowed into Rhemaria. It's a lengthy process and the soul has to be truly changed, not just pretending.