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GREATER UPPER EATSIDE

Layouts of the school, the city, ect. will be here soon.

SHORT COMICS

SETTING

THE WILDERNESS

Greater Upper Eatside National Park is an entirely man-made park. There are pine trees, oak trees, maple trees, and apple trees all in the same place. If you dig deep enough into the river soil, you will hit cement. There are no bears or any sort of large animal that could hurt you other than the heard or two of deer. The families that created the park wanted a nice place to look at; some of the plants are very pretty but also very poisonous.
Original, the park was a large plot of empty land the founding families didn't know how to use. They wanted greenery, but the natural plant life was 'dull' and 'ugly,' mostly made up of desert plants considering the place was basically void of any irrigation. One evening, Great-Grandmother Bossman decided she wanted a nice park to see from her bedroom window. Everyone else agreed it would be a nice touch to their small settlement. The men of the families dug in a lake and went out and bought fresh, soft grass the ladies could enjoy. They bought apple trees and pine trees, completely unaware of the natural way to things. The park was gigantic and beautiful.
It was when the current Bossman came into the picture that the park was made national. He realized, looking at different cities with their own national parks, how much money they dragged in from tourism. Thus, Greater Upper Eatside National Park was born. He enlarged the lake and put in some nice ponds, a ridiculous amount of trees, and even tore down a few cozy cottages to make good camping grounds. He also opened a walled-in hunting spot, but it is currently under-construction and will never actually be finished during the actual comic or cartoon.
In the center of the park is the Great Lake: a huge lake filled with fish and merfolk. It is the biggest tourism attraction in Greater Upper Eatside, and a frequent visiting spot when the class goes deep enough into the woods.

THE CITY
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THE OUTSIDE WORLD
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PARENTS AND EXTRAS

MR. AND MRS. DANILEWENSKI

Mr and Mrs D are upper-middle-class folk who own a large, single-story home and pretend to be rich. Mrs D is the breadwinner, a very successful realtor who works more over the phone with homes outside Greater Upper Eatside, considering that property is slightly newer and more valuable.
Mr D is a stay-at-home-dad who claims to have many talents, though the only talent he is open about is his ability to be a fantastic handyman. He takes small jobs from his neighbors; fixing a roof, a leak, a fence, even putting pieces of a desk-in-a-box together.

MRS. SMITHINS AND...SOMEONE ELSE?

Lilley's mom is a nice, colorful woman. She's a fairly ordinary housewife despite her carefree disposition and peace-seeking ways, easy to upset but hard to piss off. She's passive-aggressive and curses only when she's angry.
Mr Smithins works across the country in the government, but he often comes home to visit his family and his business in Upper Eatside. He looks like Bossman, but much thinner and with a little less hair.

FACULTY AND STAFF

BOSSMAN

Bossman is probably the richest man in Greater Upper Eatside. His father was one of the five families to break off of Upper Eatside and create Greater Upper Eatside, and Bossman now owns the three major schools [Greater Upper Eatside Elementary, Middle, and High School] as well as many random businesses ranging from realty to pet grooming.
He is a big hulking mass of a man, who is only really nice to his wife and somewhat tolerable of his son. Bossman's never yelled at anyone in his family or at anyone important, and is therefore considered a good if not an intimidating man around the community.
He is based off of those really big dodgeballs kids use to cheat with during dodgeball, the ones that are immpossible to dodge.

JOSH KERP

STEPHIE BROWNE

Miss B, the Lit and Comp I and II teacher. She's got a pretty big crush on Principal, but since she's not a very main character it's not very noticeable.

More to come.

HOBOS

R.J.
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R.J. is very loud and very obnoxious. These traits, along with the fact he's constantly drunk/sugar-high from root beer and other sodas, puts the class off from him at the beginning. He's a very once-in-a-blue-moon character who is mostly there to get in Principal's way. Or everyone's way, actually.

Patrick
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Probably one of the most favored in the group, Patrick is, in fact, not actually homeless. He's a teacher at Greater Upper Eatside High School, but enjoys the company of his ex-classmates and only really shows up around Cody, Ernesto, and is sometimes a substitute teacher at the Middle School.

Olivia

One of the 'city' hobos the class meets. Olivia often chills with some of her homies in the man-made Greater Upper Eatside National Park, though she mostly stays around the city limits. She is a pickpocket and one of the 'wiser' hobos, teaching Jim how to "pick a pocket like a pro" and preaches her hobo wisdom. Some people think she's the famous artist Ollie O, but no one knows for sure.

Ernesto

Ernesto, a hobo-man who teaches Wilderness and his class to how "hop trains like a pro." Olivia and Ernesto are the only two hobo characters that continually pop up. Ernesto is a sewing genius and not only made his little cape out of an umbrella, but he also fixed up a woman's dress into the shirt he wears. He makes a tiny living out of 'Trash Dollies,' stuffed animals similar to Beanie Babies, but these toys are made out of and stuffed with trash.
He's also one of the very few characters with colored eyes.

Cody

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Hank

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Hank is a drifter, a 'don't-mess-with-me-or-you'll-regret-it' sort of guy. He's probably the only hobo character that isn't nice to the class whenever he meets up with them; in fact, he's consistently an ass. Like Patrick, Hank isn't actually homeless. Because he's a drifter, however, he's considered scum due to the fact he lives in a motel.
"A motel, honestly. It's disgusting." Mrs. Danilewenski wrinkled her nose. "But what do you expect from a man like that? He might as well be a bum!"

FRESH-WATER MERFOLK OF GREAT LAKE

On the left: Vee
On the right: Princess Annabell

The merfolk of Great Lake were made #1 because I love mermaids for some reason, and #2 I loved the idea that people believed that they had water-counterparts, like the sea-pope and sea-bishop.

Greater Upper Eatside, Bossman in paticular, uses the merpeople as a sort of tourist attraction.
The merfolk have gills and lungs, but they can't stay above water for too long. Their skin is greenish-yellow due to the algea that grows on the lake bottom.

PRINCIPAL

Principal is a money and power-hungry guy, who grew up with a drunk, chain-smoking, famous-musician father [until he was ten years old, when his father died,] and a kind-hearted but lazy mother. He was born into wealth and doesn't need to strive to stay there, seeing as he was the only heir to his father's mountainous fortune.
He is a bitter snake of a man who is tall enough to loom over 5 ft 8 in Wilderness and the rest of the faculty, and he takes advantage of it. There are only two people fond of Principal: his mother and Literature I/II teacher Stephie Browne, a woman he hardly bats an eye at ninety-five percent of the time.
Wilderness is his main focus if only because Principal believes him and his classes are a huge garbage disposer of money. He's always trying to find ways to fire Wilderness or cut the classes he teaches, but is usually forced to change his mind every time Wilderness and the kids save his life, his job, or the city itself.

LILLEY SMITHINS

Lilley is the quietest student of the group. She is very intelligent and is surprisingly coordinated and outdoorsy. She's the shortest in the group but probably the most friendly, though looking at her she looks as if she'd be a negative sort of person. If Mr W chose favorites, she'd be his. Lilley's parents are probably the only 'upper-middle-class' people that act their social status in Greater Upper Eatside. Her father works out-of-city most of the time, and her mother works at home. No one is quite sure what she does -- it's that and her carefree, peace-loving nature that makes neighbors suspicious. Unfortunantly, it also gets Lilley ridiculed by some of the high-schoolers, but most of the middle-school kids tend to like her.
She's an eighth grader, or a 'Junior.'

JIM BOSSMAN

Jim is an aspiring author, despite his father's objections. He constantly reads and writes science-fiction. His father, a very prominent man in Greater Upper Eatside, forces him to dress as if he were an aspiring businessman instead. Jim is possibly the smartest kid in the school, but very uncoordinated out of city limits. He is very scientific and a bit of a hack inventor, as his useful inventions usually blow up as soon as he tries to use them. Surprisingly, Jim spends some of his time at various malls, crowded shopping streets, and jewelry stores, picking pockets and stealing here and there. He majorly benefits from the teachings of Olivia, a hobo.
He's a seventh grader, or a 'Sophmore.'

JOHN MARCO

John is a bit egotistical, but he's a pretty cuddly sort of guy when he's in a really good mood. Often teased as a video-game nerd, he seems to be truly happiest in Mr W's class, one of the only kids in the group excited about the outdoorsy activities. He's somewhat of a jerk, hostile only because of the way the kids treat him, but he can usually keep himself in line.
He's an eighth grader, or a 'Junior.'

THE DANILEWENSKI KIDS

Megan acts as if she's one of the richest kids at Upper Eatside Middle School. She's noted as a smart-mouthed little priss, probably one of the only students to ever truly hurt Mr W's feelings without really caring. She resents not being able to switch out of his class and lets the whole class know so. She and her brother usually sit off to the side, arguing and viciously fighting. Megan isn't the most coordinated of the group, and usually gets seriously injured or even dies during class excursions, but comes back a while later with a couple of band-aides and a stuffy nose.
She's an 8th grader, or a 'Junior.'

Bo is the youngest of the group, perhaps the most silly and immature. He's sometimes followed around by his sister Megan, which leads to him and her shouting,possibly followed by a fistfight. He gets into a lot of trouble out of Mr. W's class, seeing as Mr W is one of the few adults who can deal with him properly [i.e. lots of exercise to get rid of excess energy.] Bo is very brave [or somewhat stupid, either/or] and doesn't mind trying out that rickety bridge before anyone else does.
He's a 6th grader, or a 'Freshman.'

MR WILDERNESS

Garret Wilderness is the Life Science and Geography teacher at Greater Upper Eatside Middle School, where he enjoys just over minimum-wage pay and classes of five to ten bored students the school couldn't fit into any other classes. He is eccentric, to say the least, and enjoys taking his students on constant field trips [mainly his period four Geography class and his period two Life Science class, both of which consist of the same students and their overly-leniant parents [the parents figure a class-long field trip is enough to put the kids to sleep at night, like too much running would to a puppy.]]
He's excitable and fun, mostly silly and spontaneous. He can get serious if he needs to be, however, and plays the strict-teacher role only when someone is touring the campus. Otherwise, Mr. Wilderness' class days are filled with field trips, learning games, and fun group assignments that take place out of the classroom.