Hope's Heroes pt. 1

     I have brought up Hope's Heroes in a previous post and meant to post about each of the characters, but as you can see it did not happen. To recap, Hope's Heroes is a story Farm Boy and I made up about our animals being heroes and fighting against a villain named Ecirocil. Anyways, here are some of the members of Hope's Heroes.

     Faith was nearly a month old when we acquired her as a bucket calf. She was great friends with Hope and got on well with Missy, also. She was super sweet and polite in contrast to the gregarious Hope.

     In Hope’s heroes, Faith was like a sidekick to Hope. She stuck with her and tried to keep her out of too much trouble. Her gemstone was the citrine and her weapon was never established.

     Bingo was a twenty-two year old Quarter Horse given to us by a neighbor. For a while, we were uncertain about getting him because he was so old, but we decided to say yes and never regretted it. We put him on some good grazing and soon he was nice and plump. He had been a cutting horse and despite his age was still quite energetic. We used him for herding and moving cows and he was a professional. He loved getting out and moving! He was also very fuzzy and slightly resembled a woolly mammoth.

     In Hope’s Heroes, Bingo was their mastermind. He organized them as a group and for a time served as their scientist. He developed a chemical that turned limestone into gemstones which could then be colored with flower petals. (Yes, it’s absurd. Please don’t judge. xD)

     Missy was just a puppy when we got her, one roly-poly bundle of cuteness. She’s half Basset Hound, half lab, and the cutest parts of each. She’s fat, lazy, short, and sweet. That’s pretty much her description. And she has a goofy way of hopping along like a frog when she’s in grass above her head.

     In Hope’s Heroes she was kind of a crazy little goofball. To take advantage of her great length, she had a ‘weapon’ of sorts that let her stretch a long ways, kind of like a slinky. We can’t quite remember, but we think she might have had stilts also. Her gemstone was a bixbite.

     Mario was one of our Aberdeen Angus bulls. He was purchased on Dad’s birthday and named after Mario Chalmers. (I think we bought him in 2008 after his namesake scored a 3 point shot for KU in the NCAA basketball Championship) We called him Mario Dietrich (dee-trik) because we purchased him from the Dietrich family. He was a good bull except for his tendency to get out of his pen. He was the first bull we bred Hope to, so that was how she came to be called Hope Dietrich.

     In Hope’s Heroes he was silly and bumbling and always trying to impress Hope. At one point in the story Mario met a real Spanish fighting bull and was officially inducted by him into ‘Fighting Bull-hood’. The fighting bull also inspired Mario's weapon- a pair of metal horns with electrical currents in them. Mario’s gemstone was a baddelyite.