Chelsea joined us when she was about a month old. She was born to one of our favorite cows, Little Bobbie. Chelsea was super duper cute, and true to the nature of gray cows, was very flighty and excitable.
In Hope’s Heroes she was a sweet little girl, but that’s about all that I can remember. Except that her gemstone was a scapolite.
Charity was a bucket calf we purchased from a neighbor. She was a sturdy calf and very self confident. (Our rooster has a habit of chasing our cows around and she’s one of few who has ever stood up to him.) The neighbor we bought her from has really good bloodlines in his cattle, so we decided to keep her for one of our cows. So far, she has had two calves; a heifer and a steer.
In Hopes Heroes, she was pretty much the same as in real life. Her weapon was kind of confusing, but I shall do my best to explain it. She had metal plates on the back of her neck and on top of that was a metal battering ram. The mechanism had springs that shot it forward to punch whatever was in front of her. The metal plates on her neck were kind of like dominoes that pushed her neck down so she didn't whack herself in the head. Her gemstone was a rubelite.
Joseph was a bucket calf we got a little later in the year. He was born to an older cow of ours, like Chelsea was, and we had him the same year.
In Hope's Heroes he was a minor character. I think his weapon was a combustion device that expelled two violently explosive gases. His gemstone was a demantoid.
Aaron was yet another calf we had with Chelsea, Charity, and Josef. He had the same story of being born to an old cow that we sold, giving us a fourth bucket calf. He was fantastic. He was the most apathetic calf you could ever meet. You could stand there trying to move him all day and he wouldn't budge an inch.
In Hope’s Heroes he took over as the scientist from Bingo. He developed a lot of the weapons and planned missions with his strategy genius. His gemstone was the axanite.
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Omega was a bucket calf we purchased from the same neighbor who sold us Charity. He was from the same year as Chelsea, Charity, Josef, and Aaron. We had five bucket calves that year, a record for us that will go down in history! Omega was absolutely hilariously adorable. He was lazy, kind of like Aaron, but he would actually move. Just very. Very. Very. Slowly. He also had droopy ears that made him look like a sheep. =P
In Hope’s Heroes his character was not developed much. All I know is that his gemstone was the rhoddelite.
Homer had a more interesting story. He was a twin born to the cow, Agnes. She would only let his brother nurse, so we decided to take him on as bucket calf. He was named after the character from Robert McCloskey's book, Homer Price. He was great, but we didn't have much time to integrate him into our story because we adopted him onto a cow who had lost her calf.
Corriam was another calf from our neighbor. He also didn't get written into the story much because by then Farm Boy and I actually sort of had lives, so we didn't have as much time on our hands. His gemstone was orange, but I’m not sure of the fancy name for it.
Lucy was a calf we had the same year as Corriam (Cory), and from the same neighbor. Her mother had died and they couldn't keep her in a pen. She just kind of blundered through the fences and they thought she might have brain damage. Anywho, like I said, we didn't have much time to develop characters so I don’t know much about her. She was the only member of Hope’s Heroes who actually had a super power, but we never discovered exactly what it was.
