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So a while ago I thought that one of prompts in Thought-Up was a perfect excuse to figure out Roddy's family, but I was also trying to draw other families and had some deadlines coming up and just decided not to rush it so... better late than never?

In case you don't remember who Roddy is, she's the PCSO with awesome hair:

It's kind of like when you dig up a box with old family photos and feel awkward when you realise you can't recognize half the people in them, only in Roddy's family it's more complicated because you can't even find the box with photos, in fact you're probably not in the same room with the box with the photos in the first place.

Anyway, long story short:
Roddy is the one with the glasses and bushy hair. She likes policing and pizza and dogs AND cats and has a growing dislike for her colleague PCSO Ace Trotley (not pictured here and not involved in any of it), her mother and complicated situations.
Her mother called Josie, she's the one with varying hairdo and strict expression. She likes not being single and doesn't like mess in the kitchen, pet hair on clothes and probably complicated situations as well, which is why at some point she sent her oldest kid Adrian to live in a home and conveniently 'forgot' to mention him to every family member that followed later (to give credit where credit is due she still visits him).
Adrian is the one in the opposite corner from Roddy, he likes fish, something new happening, does not like water and flashing lights on tv and does not give a toss about complicated situations.
The kid with a picture of a cat is Josie's youngest daughter Leila ("Squirt" for short), the actual cat is a neurotic family pet called Masterpiece ("Cat" for short). They are blissfully unaware of ...stuff.
Now everyone who's left to figure out is the stack of past and present husbands and boyfriends. The one with the poodle is Adrian's dad and it's not clear if he ditched Josie or Josie ditched him and at which point (Roddy knows him only as "the bloke with the poodle"). The uh, elbow and leg is Roddy's father which about represents his involvement in Roddy's life (and he's probably the one to blame for her name, though Roddy blames Josie). Then eventually Joe (the bald bloke) happened - he's Leila's father and Roddy has been expecting him to go out of the picture before Leila was born but somehow he didn't do it yet. Fortune favours the bald?

Roddy is glad to be out of the house and generally side-eyes her mother while trying to make sense out of it all.

This... probably explains something about my writing process, I think "I could use another PCSO in the story" but that PCSO has to arrive with friends and relations, who connect it to other people and other arcs and... the more the merrier? It's just how it is. Kind of how I can't resist from using traditional media for over a week. But hey, it's fun!

I notice I've been drawing a lot of papers and family portraits lately...

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Description
So a while ago I thought that one of prompts in Thought-Up was a perfect excuse to figure out Roddy's family, but I was also trying to draw other families and had some deadlines coming up and just decided not to rush it so... better late than never?

In case you don't remember who Roddy is, she's the PCSO with awesome hair:

It's kind of like when you dig up a box with old family photos and feel awkward when you realise you can't recognize half the people in them, only in Roddy's family it's more complicated because you can't even find the box with photos, in fact you're probably not in the same room with the box with the photos in the first place.

Anyway, long story short:
Roddy is the one with the glasses and bushy hair. She likes policing and pizza and dogs AND cats and has a growing dislike for her colleague PCSO Ace Trotley (not pictured here and not involved in any of it), her mother and complicated situations.
Her mother called Josie, she's the one with varying hairdo and strict expression. She likes not being single and doesn't like mess in the kitchen, pet hair on clothes and probably complicated situations as well, which is why at some point she sent her oldest kid Adrian to live in a home and conveniently 'forgot' to mention him to every family member that followed later (to give credit where credit is due she still visits him).
Adrian is the one in the opposite corner from Roddy, he likes fish, something new happening, does not like water and flashing lights on tv and does not give a toss about complicated situations.
The kid with a picture of a cat is Josie's youngest daughter Leila ("Squirt" for short), the actual cat is a neurotic family pet called Masterpiece ("Cat" for short). They are blissfully unaware of ...stuff.
Now everyone who's left to figure out is the stack of past and present husbands and boyfriends. The one with the poodle is Adrian's dad and it's not clear if he ditched Josie or Josie ditched him and at which point (Roddy knows him only as "the bloke with the poodle"). The uh, elbow and leg is Roddy's father which about represents his involvement in Roddy's life (and he's probably the one to blame for her name, though Roddy blames Josie). Then eventually Joe (the bald bloke) happened - he's Leila's father and Roddy has been expecting him to go out of the picture before Leila was born but somehow he didn't do it yet. Fortune favours the bald?

Roddy is glad to be out of the house and generally side-eyes her mother while trying to make sense out of it all.

This... probably explains something about my writing process, I think "I could use another PCSO in the story" but that PCSO has to arrive with friends and relations, who connect it to other people and other arcs and... the more the merrier? It's just how it is. Kind of how I can't resist from using traditional media for over a week. But hey, it's fun!

I notice I've been drawing a lot of papers and family portraits lately...

Other Cop Story stuff:

Read Cop Story on smackjeeves:
SHORTS MAIN PLOT

Cop Story © Oly R.