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Tawna and Pinstripe

( 💌 ) It was almost midnight, after a long day of competitions it was ideal to go home to enjoy a good rest, well not for the blonde bandicoot, she found herself wandering the streets wrapped in thoughts. She stopped halfway noticing an icon glistening from afar, so decided to take a rather curious look.

“ Pootoro’s Casino ”

“ Pootoro? Interesting..” ah yes, that name was familiar to her, she hadn’t seen Pinstripe for a while, it might have seemed like a nice idea to go and visit him. Entered the casino and looked around, she had to admit that Pinstripe had a really good taste in decor,the wall was full of portraits of the Don and his family, it didn’t surprising her,gangster things,she was able to find the Don’s office, without too many issues and knocked on the door.

       ⑇   WITHIN THE WALLS OF THIS FORTRESS, of his empire and the fruit of all his work, was Don Pinstripelli Potorotti, enjoying a good drink of Scotch and Amaretto after a long business day. He was admiring through the window the flashy lights with the cold cocktail in hand. He breathed deeply, calmed, as if those artificial lights brought protection and revitalize to his life.

Drinking the last drops among ice trace, he leaves the glass over his desk. After sorting some papers, rested steps would go towards the door. His hand almost touched the golden yellow handle when two soft knocks rumble in the quiet silence of the room. His ears and eyebrows rose at the sound, by the unexpected visit. Thinking about the hour, it could be a client, but the lack of presentation with hoarseness voices had alerted him. Who could it be?.

A hand reaches the Benelli he had hidden inside his jacket, just in case, but his expression is frozen at the moment of open the door and see the alleged attacker on the other side.

" Ciao,Pinstripe " said laughing a little bit, getting herself into the office

One thing that I love about having a Tawna to interact with, is work and talk about their relationship. Because, you wanted or not, Tawna and Pinstripe do have a type of relationship that could be considered as canon inside the Crash Bandicoot bible. So, let’s go for that question: What do have Tawna and Pinstripe?

First, we have to read the first and second paragraph of Tawna’s background: Tawna is Willy’s heartthrob ( Crash old name ). The perfect blend of beauty and brains, Tawna is the only creature to go through the Evolv-O-Ray without a subsequent visit to the Cortex Vortex. Thus her brilliance remains, not twisted by the latter device… for now.

More than a simple damsel in distress, Tawna spends her time matching wits with N. Cortex, attempting to reason with N. Brio, and fomenting revolution among Cortex’s henchmen. Tawna is a force to be reckoned with.

So, while waiting for Crash, she started to put the cards on the table. She hates Cortex and wants a revolution against him. But, if she wanted that revolution to work out, she needs to convince someone more apart of N. Brio, someone important who could make it viable and possible. That someone is Pinstripe. 

If we go to Pinstripe’s background, it says and I bold, NO ONE gets power on the islands unless they come to ask favors from Pinstripe. He’s one of the most important henchmen ( from the mutants ) of Cortex at the moment, Tawna knows that so she needed him for her plan.

We both get into the conclusion that Tawna was the one who convinced Pinstripe to get away from Cortex’s side. She was sure that, apart from his reputation, he’s not a bad person like Cortex is. And, that makes sense! 

After the first game, we don’t know anything about Pinstripe, only that he moved to Chicago and started to do his own business there. As I’ve said before, if Pinstripe had this huge loyalty to Cortex, he would have stayed as his bodyguard, but he didn’t. Instead, Pinstripe listened to Tawna and started a new life.

{ This is for my new friend, @forgottendame. This is Tawna Bandicoot ^^ Crash’s girlfriend. I know I left out Crash’s face on her shirt, but I didn’t know how to draw him XD. Anyway, this is for her. }

Tawna Bandicoot © Naughty Dog, Vicarious Visions, and Beenox

                                            “I KNOW YOU                        THAT GLEAM IN YOUR EYES IS                                                          SO FAMILIAR A GLEAM” 

it hadn't been easy for her to go back home,It was like having the worst nightmare ever,she just wished an hero not being the hero. The female bandicoot managed to escape, tooking refuge in woods,knowing soon Cortex would send someone to look for her.

" I need to come back for Crash,he needs help"

Mal: yes?

Carlos: What about you?

Evie: Yes, I am.

Carlos: great! because I'm not. go on without me. enjoy your date.