Current Mood:
Hopeful
Name: Sly Cooper
Gender: Male
Species: Raccoon
Born: 1984
Alias The Thief, Ringtail (Carmelita), Sitting Duck (Bentley), The Ball, Cracker Box (Dimitri)
Affiliation(s): Cooper Gang: INTERPOL (briefly): ACES (briefly)
Weapon: Cane
Early childhood
Sly was born into the long lineage of master thieves known as the Coopers under the tutelage of his father Conner Cooper. Between the jobs that his father's gang would pull off, Sly would spend time with Jim McSweeney, a member of the gang and Conner's friend. At the age of three, Sly was taken by his father to a museum on the Ligurian coast in Italy where they met up with McSweeney, who then took the map to the Cooper Vault—an island-wide safe that holds the riches of the entire Cooper Clan—and hid it in the museum.
As Sly grew up, he learned about his family's history as master thieves. At the age of eight, he was to follow in their footsteps and inherit their legacy, a book called the Thievius Raccoonus.[7] However, tragedy struck when, on the night Sly was to inherit the book, a mysterious gang of criminals known as the Fiendish Five infiltrated the Cooper home. Try as he might, Conner failed to defend himself, his wife and his son from the gang, resulting in the death of both parents. The Fiendish Five ransacked the house in search of the Thievius Raccoonus as Sly watched helplessly from the closet. Once the villains found the book, they tore it into five parts before leaving.
Orphaned and with no money or a place to stay, Sly was placed in an orphanage, where he met his now lifelong friends Bentley and Murray. With their encouragement, Sly was determined to live up to his namesake as an accomplished thief.
As children, the trio planned to steal the orphanage's cookie jar from Mrs. Puffin, the director of the orphanage, who kept the children's holiday cookies for herself. This desire came from the fact that "she was so nasty" and that Murray would spend sleepless nights thinking about the cookies. They started to strategize and gave themselves a name; the Coopers 3.
After much plotting, Bentley had come up with the perfect plan: Sly would hide in Puffin's trash bin until after she had left for the night and would swipe the cookies then. According to his calculations, Bentley decided they had only five minutes between Puffin's departure and the janitor's arrival. Unfortunately, Sly had misinterpreted Bentley's instructions and was nearly caught by the janitor. Due to Murray's quick thinking, Sly was yanked through the window at the last second before the janitor entered the office. However, the mission was not a failure, as Sly had stashed the cookies in his hat at the last moment. After their first successful heist, the Cooper Gang was born.
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(Also, definitely want a Carmelita Fox~)
(As for Settings; can work things out, but no matter what, Cooper is always going to be a Thief~ Catch me if you can~)
