Writings From A Field of Roses

Name: Annette Leparine (formerly Le Paradox)

Nicknames: Annie (by Sly, Bentley, Murray, and later Penelope), Kiddo (by Sly), Bilby (by the Guru), Leparine (by Panda King), Yù tù (by Jing King), Cottontail (by Dimitri), Coneja (by Carmelita from jealousy initially), Ma petite (by Le Paradox), My blessing (by Andrea)

Alias(es): Agent Joker (by Bentley for the final push to restore Cooper history)

Age: 14 (debut, 16 following a time skip)

Ethnicity: French-American

Birth date: March 20th

Species: Miniature lop rabbit

Gender: Female

Fur color: Light pink with a lavender tuft on her head, white muzzle

Eye color: Brown

Other appearance notes: White stripe running vertically down her back

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Status: Alive

Family: Cyrille Le Paradox (father; disowned), Andrea Leparine (mother; deceased)

Affiliation: Le Paradox clan (formerly), Cooper Gang, Carmelita Fox (ward)

Weapon(s): Bow and trick arrows, crossbow

Associated color: Periwinkle

Associated symbol: Stars (Joker playing card by extension)

Pictured voice actress: Anairis Quiñones

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Personality

As the white sheep of the Le Paradox clan, this status has dealt Annette a bad hand in life. From being disowned along with her Mother, to a traumatic break-in that cost her Mom her life, to being cast out by her abusive father, she starts out with a defensive nature due to her fears of being shunned for her family ties. Underneath that prickly nature, what she wants the most is closure regarding her beloved Maman.

As those emotional walls she erected around herself break down, she reveals her caring and empathetic side towards others. Her time in the field has made her resourceful and adaptable. This allows her to confront her past head-on and ultimately obtain the peace she needs to move forward.

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History

Life isn't kind to prey animals like Annette Leparine. When Annette was born, Andrea's family disowned both mother and daughter. This was due to her falling for and marrying Cyrille despite their suspicions. Those suspicions were confirmed true when it was revealed that the skunk was pulling heists behind her back. That was grounds for divorce and Andrea barely managed to keep custody of her daughter. Le Paradox ended up in prison during the time Annette was a toddler. Mother and daughter both took up the Leparine surname, an attempt to scrub out the skunk's influence on the duo. As such, the younger lop rabbit doesn't know her father and his side of the family that well.

The older rabbit did her best to raise Annette right as a single mother in Yvelines. When Annette was approaching ten years of age, she helped a strange, masked rat by pointing him to where he needed to go. Little did she realize she tipped off one of Le Paradox's henchmen to their location. On the skunk's orders, their house was broken into the moment her mother opened the door. Andrea did her best to protect her daughter, but she was stabbed in the abdomen, and Annette got kidnapped before she could call Interpol.

Her time locked away on Le Paradox's blimp crippled her emotionally. When the skunk saw that Annette had no stench to give her away, his teachings took a turn for the manipulative. To make matters worse, his many rants about the Cooper clan planted the seeds of prejudice in her mind. Her training under his wing only resulted in her having some skill with lock-picking and pick-pocketing, but that was it. Annette tried to forge a connection with her Papan, but each attempt ended in failure.

It all came to a head when Le Paradox decided to kick-start his first attempt to erase Cooper history. Believing she'd be of no use to him in the long run, he trapped Annette in a capsule and threw her backward in time. However, he made sure to call her useless and reveal that he never loved her mother from the start. This broke her heart.

When a scared and prickly Annette found herself in Ancient Egypt, those around her believed she was...abnormal. She was later imprisoned and set to become a tomb laborer...only for Slytunkhamen II to realize something had happened before he found her and broke her out. It took some doing, but the Isthmian raccoon recruits her as his ṭālibah (read: student) and teaches her archery. Thanks to Pharaoh Ahmose and one of his priest-physicians, she unlocked her aerokinesis.

Some days after Sly's arrival, Slytunkhamen has Annette sent out on her first solo mission to tail Sly without being seen...

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Clothing

A white shirt, a blue-gray jacket, blue-gray gloves, a blue skirt, black shorts, and blue-gray boots. Outfit for her time-traveling adventure.

Various jumpsuits tailored specifically for her lessons by Le Paradox on his blimp.

Starts wearing more varied clothing upon her return to the present day.

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Abilities

Being a budding thief, Annette can pick locks and pick pockets. Notably, she barely makes noise when picking a lock, though Sly notes that she's a little slow at times. She can also use her ears to fly for short distances, an ability she says she learned on her own.

Slytunkhamen II taught her archery on her request, and her skills only grew thanks to her time with the Cooper Gang. The rabbit is also skilled at using a crossbow.

During the final moments of the Cooper Vault job, Dr. M pulled off the unthinkable. He taunted Sly by revealing that Clockwerk approached him one day. The owl offered a solution to truly earn his place: end the life of Conner Cooper. The mandrill accepted that offer by creating a beacon that would alert the mechanical owl to where Conner was located behind the backs of the teammates.

When his hatred for Sly's father reached a breaking point, he used the beacon to tip the Fiendish Five off to where Conner was. That led up to both him and Noelle getting murdered that fateful night.

That was the breaking point and Sly's temporal abilities unlocked earlier than intended from unbridled rage. The ghost of Andrea had to act fast, her gray eyes going wide from horror. Sly was set to bludgeon that mandrill to death for what he did. Thankfully, help came in the form of Inspector Fox, which got him to snap out of it. Dr. M knocked out the raccoon and Carmelita opted to finish the fight.

While the vixen was doing battle with the mandrill, Andrea quickly floated over to the unconscious raccoon. Using her spiritual powers, she took the opportunity to seal off his memories. The ghost felt it was the only way to keep him from going berserk like that again.

But she made sure that if they were ever to resurface, they'd leak in little by little so that the backlash wouldn't shatter his psyche.

So, when Carmelita found Sly, he was holding his head from lingering pain and genuinely dazed.

"...What happened?" the raccoon asked, trying to get some idea of what hit him.

"Sly?" Carmelita asked out of concern and confusion.

"Where am I?" he questioned, taking a look around. "What is this place?"

"Sly? Can you remember anything?" the vixen inquired.

He tried to piece together who this lovely fox was before him. All he got were static images and muffled words.

"No. Who are you?" the raccoon questioned. "You look familiar."

"I'm Inspector Carmelita Montoya Fox," she (re-)introduced.

"And...who am I?" he genuinely inquired.

"You..." she began with a faint blush on her muzzle. "You're my partner."

Using what she knew about him right now, she thought of a cover story to get him out of tight spots in the future.

"Constable Sylas James Cooper," she christened him.

It didn't take long for the low rumbling to become seismic. Sylas opted to drop the strange cane in his hands once he stood up.

"Well, partner, we'd better get out of here," Sylas advised. "Looks like this place is gonna cave in. We don't have much time."

Carmelita fondly smiled at that offer.

"Let's go," she told him.

When Bentley wheeled into the inner sanctum, all he found was an unconscious Dr. M. Sly had plans to fake amnesia and live a civilian life after this. When he saw and felt time briefly freeze within the vault, he had a nagging feeling that something had gone very wrong. This was due to him catching a glimpse of Andrea's spirit during his search for his best friend.

He didn't know she had intervened and locked Sly's memories away during the fight against Dr. M, but he had a feeling his amnesia may have become genuine...

"Sly! You in here?" the turtle called out from panic and concern. "Sly?!"

During an unexpected stop in Blood Bath Bay, Annette has an unwanted reunion with Cyrille Le Paradox at the Skull Keep. He was initially surprised to see her again. The lop rabbit initially thought the skunk would be hostile around her. He sees the high-tech bow in her hands and notes the hooked blade equipped to it.

That blade is a reminder that the Cooper Gang is helping his "petite." Instead of flying into rage, he reminds her of what he "warned" her about regarding the Cooper clan.

"Your Maman attempted to scour the Le Paradox name by having you use her maiden name," the skunk began. "Yet, there was one reminder that she could never wipe away. The stripe that runs down your back."

That made Annette's eyes go wide as dinner plates from fear.

She recalls her Maman, Andrea Leparine. She was a well-known dancer and the lop rabbit who raised her despite the hardships she faced. How they lived a peaceful life in Yvelines until a tragic break-in claimed her life.

Thanks to Le Paradox, Annette faced the harsh reality that Andrea was miserable. Some of her co-workers viewed her with envy and hate, preventing her from forming friendships with them. While her brother tried to get her to open up to him, their mother reinforced the idea of life not being kind to prey animals like them. Andrea became starved for love underneath her smile...which led Le Paradox to sweep her off her feet.

"Did Maman...truly love me?" Annette questioned from heartbreak after hearing this.

"She never did," Le Paradox lied. "She feared that she could never truly love someone. Not even her own daughter. As for Cooper, the moment he learns whose blood runs through your veins...the bond you share will dissolve in a heartbeat."

Annette came back to Henriette's ship thoroughly rattled that day. Though, she put on a smile to reassure those around her that she's fine.

An attempt to emulate her Maman's "strength and resilience" from those peaceful times. But the question that Le Paradox asked her afterward truly haunted her later that night.

According to Murray, he owned his beloved van as a delivery car during the time he was trying to make ends meet. Eventually, he gave it a fresh coat of paint and flame decorations once the Cooper Gang got off the ground. When he lost it in Canada, his heart split in two. In a twist of fate, he found the van frozen in a river in Western China. Murray towed the van to dry land with some help, and Bentley and Sly got it back up and running right on time for "Operation: Wedding Crasher."

During the group's time in World War I Germany, Otto shows the group the blueprints he has planned for an automobile that could get him from place to place following the war. When Bentley has Penelope get a look at those blueprints, she notes they're a little large for a standard mass-produced car from that era. Murray gets a better look...and the design holds some similarities to his baby...

"Great snakes on a stick!" the hippo exclaimed. "I don't believe it!"

"What is it?" Annette asked out of confusion.

"The blueprints...they're a lot like the team van!" Murray realized. "His car's going to be my baby's great-great-grandpa!"

"Whoa...is that really true?" Annette asked with awe, looking at the tablet screen beside Bentley.

While Carmelita's distracted in the Victorian England Safe house, a somewhat bored Sly noticed a brown strap sticking out of the bag she brought along for the adventure. Mischievously taking a look around, he unzips the bag and pulls out a familiar red and gold camera bearing an Interpol badge symbol.

Sly quickly recognizes that it's the camera he, his friends, and the Guru fooled around with near the end of their time in the Australian Outback.

And there's a fresh roll of film inside of the bag waiting to be used.

He, Bentley, and Murray take turns pulling off goofy poses and even get Annette to join the fun.

"Cooper!!"

My broader take on the Sly Cooper universe is titled the "Jewelverse." This focuses on events before and during the first three Sly games, the rewritten "Thieves In Time," "Heist Across The Hourglass," and finally the next generation of the Cooper Gang and their allies.

As such, the main Cooper Gang, secondary members, and allies were as follows before the trio turned themselves in after their second time-traveling adventure. The moment Sly was arrested, he disbanded the Cooper Gang to allow Annette to live a civilian life.

Main Members

Sly Cooper: Master thief and founder. Currently living in London, England as a museum curator. His associated color is blue and his associated symbol is a spade.

Bentley Wiseturtle: Mastermind and later the leader. Currently living in Lyon, France with Penelope while tipping off Interpol anonymously. His associated color is green and his associated symbol is a club.

Murray Austin: Enforcer and getaway driver. Currently living in Kilkenny, Ireland as a construction worker. His associated color is fuchsia and his associated symbol is a heart.

Secondary Members

Guru of the Stone: Shaman and supernatural specialist. Currently teaching his successors the ways of the Dreamtime in Yuendumu, Australia. His associated color is indigo and his associated symbol is a Concentric circle.

Penelope van Muis: R/C vehicles expert, had to be rescued from brainwashing before re-integrating into the Gang. Currently living in Lyon, France with Bentley while working as a college professor. Her associated color is lavender and her associated symbol is a butterfly.

Panda King: Full-time demolitions expert. Currently living in the Kunlun Mountains in China as a farmer. His associated color is red and his associated symbol is a flame.

Dimitri Lousteau: Frogman and informant. Currently living in Bordeaux, France as a treasure hunter looting ship wrecks for a living. His associated color is purple and his associated symbol is a music note.

Annette Leparine (OC): Archer and lock-picking specialist. Currently living with Carmelita as her ward in Provins while attending the International School of Paris. Her associated color is periwinkle and her associated symbol is a star.

Allies

Detective Carmelita Fox: Initially an Interpol Inspector. Resigned to become a private investigator. Currently living in Provins while caring for Annette as her legal guardian. Her associated color is gold and her associated symbol is a diamond.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sly Cooper (Video Games) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bentley & Sly Cooper & Murray, Bentley & Carmelita Fox & Murray, Sly Cooper & Original Character(s), Sly Cooper/Carmelita Fox Characters: Sly Cooper, Bentley (Sly Cooper), Murray (Sly Cooper), Carmelita Fox, Slytunkhamen Cooper II, Original Anthropomorphic Animal Character(s) Additional Tags: Headcanon, POV First Person, POV Sly Cooper, Post-Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Fan Characters, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Worldbuilding, Ancient Egypt, Screenplay/Script Format, Rare Fandoms, Rare Characters, Rare Pairings, Rare Relationships, Friendship/Love, Prologue, Monologue, Minor Sly Cooper/Carmelita Fox, Paris (City), Modern Era, Canon Rewrite Summary:

Watching over a lop rabbit on a rainy night in Ancient Egypt wouldn't normally be on my to-do list. But life has a funny way of making sure a heist doesn't go according to plan. We needed the rest if we're going to overthrow a corrupt Pharaoh. ...Even while taking a nap along with her, I think back to the beginning.

The name's Sly. Sly Cooper. Born into a long line of master thieves, the darker side of those times got me to hang up my mask and cane for a world on the other side of the law. However, when the contents of the Thievius Raccoonus began disappearing from its pages, I saw no choice but to go back to that lifestyle.

...Some good that did in the end. I got stranded in Ancient Egypt when I tried to save the one responsible for tampering with history. But it hasn't been all bad here. I found some company with my new lop rabbit friend. Her name? Annette.

At first, she thought I was a "heartless miscreant." She believed that I didn't have good intentions (and that also extended to my ancestors). So, I should probably mention that the reason we became friends is because we're both strays from the present day who poured our hearts out on a sleepless night.

If it weren't for her, I wouldn't be sleeping a wink.

It was nice to have some form of a partner in the B.C. era, and we became a team while working with my ancestor. But as time went on, modern technology was being used by the guards. Something was very wrong with this picture.

In a bid to call in back-up, I convinced Annette to help me send a Morse code message to the modern era. The location? The storeroom that would lay the foundation for the Cooper Vault. While waiting for some form of a response, we had to help my Ancient Egyptian ancestor, Slytunkhamen II.

It turns out he's childhood friends with the Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. However, when I first met him, his friend's rule was usurped by someone who should have been considered a simple grave robber. We eventually tracked down the true Pharaoh of Egypt and tried to break him out of his dungeon.

That only tripped an alarm, and I had to take Annette and run.

Once the guards and royals lost track of us, we made our way out of our Safe house and tried to get a rescue together.

Similar to games in the "Tales of" series, Chats are short, optional, and fully-voiced scenes animated in an anime cut-out style. These provide additional dialogue and interactions for everyone outside of required story scenes. These are typically initiated inside a hideout.

These give a sense of what happens in the group and how they feel during their adventure. When a Chat is triggered, portraits change to reflect each character's emotions. These scenes have characters engaging in idle banter about various subjects, sometimes involving topics unrelated to the story. The purpose of these is to flesh out the characters and their interactions.

Here's a small example of such a conversation, which is initiated by pressing the triangle button when prompted.

I mentioned before that Inspector Fox felt the early pangs of jealousy regarding Annette and her closeness to Sly. Upon first learning about this complicated, yet mutual relationship the fox and the raccoon share, Annette looks away with a slight glare. She first believed that Sly's love for Carmelita would lead to disaster down the line given what happened regarding her parents.

It didn't help that Le Paradox said he never cared about Andrea from the start. This was shortly before Annette was discarded to Ancient Egypt.

As the Ancient Egypt operation goes on, it becomes clear to Annette that Sly and Carmelita genuinely care about each other. Circumstances between them and outside factors put both of them in relationship limbo. That she guesses when Sly tries to bring up the Inspector's question of marriage between them, but finds himself unable to do so.

He is in an occupied hideout in Victorian England, so he had to bite his tongue for now.

"Better to reserve that matter for when the lady within you shines through," Sly cordially stated.

"Don't push your luck, Ringtail," Carmelita flatly reminded him.

"Reserved for a lady, huh?"

That gets everyone's attention. The first major break in Annette's prickly demeanor comes when she makes herself known with a wink and a playful smile.

"Usually, a lady would be more open toward a gentleman like Sly," the rabbit teased.

Sly gave off a nervous smile, but that comment got the vixen's temper to flare.

"Interpol agents need to be tough for their job!" Carmelita exclaimed out of frustration. "And if you do so much as insist that I be dainty for-!"

Figured I'd list everything for reference reasons.

Sly Cooper

Default: Temporal Rewind, Cane Spin, Air Dive

Vault: Temporal Lock

ThiefNet: Paraglider, Silent Obliteration, Smoke Bomb, Safeguard, Rail Sprint, Meter Recharger, Flash Bomb, Echo of Fate, Cane Push, Silent Sprint, Air Smash

Bentley

Default: Explosive Ammo, Sleep Ammo, Remote Hacking

Vault: Music Box

ThiefNet: Adrenaline Burst, Shock Ammo, Throwing Shield, Multi Bomb, Bomb Blast v.2.0, Bomb Drop v.2.0, Thermal Ammo, Grapple-Cam, Meter Recharger, Scorching Hover Pack, Adrenaline Burst Plus

Murray

Default: Fist Spin, Thunder Flop, Juggernaut Charge

Vault: Aboriginal Ball Form

ThiefNet: Fists of Flame, Raging Inferno Flop, Elbo El Drop'o Combo, Astral Guard, Dukes of Dynamite, Meter Recharger, Clothesline a lo Macho, Licks of Lightning, Diablo Fire Slam, Cuffs of Confusion, El Drop'o a lo Macho

Carmelita Fox

Default: Default Shot, Nine-Tailed Guard, Lightning Whip

Vault: Teleport

ThiefNet: Mega Jump, Charge Shot, Shield o' Nine-Tails, Stun Shot, Heat-Seeker, Triple Shot, Dancing Blaze, Meter Recharger, Auto Fire, Hypnosis

Annette Leparine

Default: Standard Arrow, Lop Cyclone, Gale Quiver

Vault: Crossbow

After Penelope was...subdued in Medieval England, Interpol found her erratic in Helvoirt in the present day. The judge, however, interpreted her unpredictable behavior as criminal intent. The mouse was quickly imprisoned in the Nieuw Vosseveld to keep her from committing any serious crimes.

The days she spent there were suffocating.

Her extreme isolation in her cell resulted in moments where she began talking to...herself. One part of Penelope genuinely believed that she had thoroughly screwed up when she ran out the door. The part of her in the here and now reminded that annoying little voice that Bentley's feelings for Sly meant that the fallout was bound to happen eventually.

That little voice tried bringing up moments during the Cooper Vault job to try and break free, but no luck.

The routine body searches she underwent were invasive. There is a psychiatric unit, but many insisted that she was of sound mind when she was found near the former Town Hall trying to break down the door.

Is it any wonder that, when her brainwashed self regained control, she promptly escaped?

Ancient Egypt

Pharaoh Ahmose: A Pharaoh hound, the close friend of Slytunkhamen II, and the benevolent ruler of Egypt. Wise, intelligent, but also a warrior who will fight for the people of Upper and Lower Egypt. His time with Slytunkhamen II as children has taught him the value of kindness.

Victorian England

Eloise: A White-tailed deer, Eloise grew up in Manchester with knowledge of sewing clothes and jewelry-making under her belt. Despite the harshness of her home era, Eloise's resourcefulness has gained the respect of Thaddeus. Although garrotted later, Thaddeus worked to make sure she will recover from her ordeal.

Golden Age of Piracy

First Mate Nathan: A Maine coon cat and Henriette's close friend and confidante. Although quick to panic when things go wrong from time to time, his trusted spyglass and knowledge of the high seas have gotten them and the crew of the Sea Phantom out of more than one tight scrape.

Late 1960s to Early 1970s

"Big" Jim McSweeney: A smilodon and the enforcer of the Original Cooper Gang. While he has good intentions, he shows hesitance when it comes to handling emotionally tense situations.

Dr. M: A mandrill and the mastermind of the Original Cooper Gang. Prideful in his vast knowledge, he shows a surprising lack of emotional intelligence. He secretly plans to overtake Conner as the true leader of the Gang.

Sly's nightmares in Ancient Egypt detail his harrowing experiences in full before leading up to the moment where his friends have moved on without him after a futile twelve-year search.

However, twelve years in Ancient Egypt translates to a few long weeks in the present day. Bentley, Murray, and Carmelita haven't given up on him. The turtle receives Sly's Morse code distress message from the Cooper Vault some days after Penelope destroys their old laboratory. He contacts Carmelita, locates Murray, and has Dimitri guard the Thievius Raccoonus with his life or else his easel will be used as firewood.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sly Cooper (Video Games) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sly Cooper/Carmelita Fox, Bentley/Penelope (Sly Cooper) Characters: Sly Cooper, Bentley (Sly Cooper), Murray (Sly Cooper), Carmelita Fox, Penelope (Sly Cooper), Thaddeus Winslow Cooper III, Original Anthropomorphic Animal Character(s) Additional Tags: What-If, Canon Rewrite, Rewrite, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Friendship/Love, Fan Characters, Ghosts, Spirits, Victorian, England (Country), Fix-It of Sorts, Post-Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Het, Canon Disabled Character, Team as Family, Past Brainwashing, No Penelope Betrayal (Sly Cooper), No Dialogue, Embedded Video, Late at Night, Sleep, Minor Sly Cooper/Carmelita Fox, Mother-Daughter Relationship, One Shot, Rare Fandoms, Rare Characters, Rare Pairings Summary:

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sly Cooper (Video Games) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sly Cooper/Carmelita Fox, Bentley/Penelope (Sly Cooper) Characters: Sly Cooper, Bentley (Sly Cooper), Carmelita Fox, Penelope (Sly Cooper), Detective Winthorp (Sly Cooper) Additional Tags: Headcanon, Time Skips, Post-Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, Pre-Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Complicated Relationships, Marriage, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Inspired by Tumblr, Paris (City), Interpol - Freeform, Inspired by Music, Canon Rewrite, Rewrite, Original Character Death(s), Sly Cooper-centric, Work in Progress, Rare Fandoms, Rare Characters, Rare Pairings Summary: