You've obviously all heard of the Girl Scouts before, with their uniforms and door-to-door cookies that make for some cute cub pictures. Well, I present to you a pair of fictional versions I designed: the Juniper Scouts, and the Tideway Girls. The two often compete against each other in sports games and fundraising events, especially bake sales. While parents and staff are typically friendly and encouraging to the opposing group, rivalry between the kids themselves can get awfully fierce!
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The Juniper Scouts wear a red-orange and white uniform for easy visibility in the woods. They started out making gin for soldiers during wartime, teaching the girls survival and self-defense skills on the side. Tend to sell their own sodas, lemonade, and cider nowadays (including some alcoholic versions), and their classic gin is still in production. Members are divided by age categories, from Berry Scout (ages 4-7) to Senior (16+). Mammal-only enrollment restrictions persisted until the early 2000's, before finally getting a change in management and more inclusive policies. Still firmly girls-only, but some feminine boys have slipped through with false forms; new Scouts don't get 'checked' at recruitment, but the communal showers and changing areas in their camps would make it a tricky charade to maintain.
The Juniper Scouts uniform consists of: white button-up shirt with long sleeves and orange-red cuffs, purple ascot, orange-red open vest (where the badges are pinned), red plaid skirt, orange-red soft cap with white brim and the Juniper emblem.
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Tideway Girls wear a blue uniform with a white sash. They grew from a kids' first-aid program, which was a combined attempt to get more girls into nursing/medical schools, and to use them as volunteers to collect much-needed blood donations. Outdoor and survival skills were added later on using the Juniper Scouts and similar organizations as a model, but they retain their medical roots, with their blood drives still going strong. They have a ranking system named for bodies of water, from Droplets to Seas; while you normally need to earn merit badges to progress through each rank, regardless of age, older or more experienced recruits can often show their existing skills and achievements to join as a higher rank. The highest-ranking member in a group can assign badges to lower-ranking members, in case no adults are around to make the judgement, but they're expected to do so fairly and honorably. While they're usually seen as a girls' organization (making up 90% of their members, and an even higher percentage of their staff), there aren't any real restrictions on who can join. Don't let the name fool you. ;)
The Tideway uniform includes: black short-sleeved shirt, aqua-blue waistcoat or swimsuit (often with the Tideway emblem over the heart), red ribbon with a fake jingle-bell (doesn't actually chime), white sash (for merit badges), blue skirt with belt or blue shorts, blue beret with the Tideway emblem.
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Hopefully that gives you an idea of which group your little tots belong in. Enrollment is simple: just draw your character in one of the uniforms, doing scout-ish things. That's all it takes to join.
But if the idea of your cub in cute scout-like scenarios isn't enough incentive for you, there's also the P~R~I~Z~E~S.
I'll be running 3 raffles for the rest of 2020, ending as soon as I wake up on January 1st.
The first 2 raffles will be for the separate groups - one for the Juniper Scouts, and the other for Tideway Girls. To enter those, all you have to do is get your character drawn in the appropriate uniform. It doesn't need to be the whole uniform, but should be enough of it to be recognizable. It can be drawn by somebody else, too; commissions and friends' drawings count.
The last raffle is for anyone who spreads the love to other participants. <3
To enter that one, you need to make a drawing or write a decently long-ish story that involves someone else's Juniper Scout or Tideway Girl. Your characters can be in it too, and commissions count just fine as long as you paid for someone else's scout to be included. Just needs that scout theme, and another person's character. I'll accept things with my own girls, but the intent here is more for you to be helping out other participants and sharing more joy amongst strangers you've never met. ^3^
The prize for each raffle will be a scout-themed 2-character drawing (you pick the exact scenario, but it can't violate the artist's ToS, nor can it have gore, scat, or diapers), with one of your characters and one of mine. I currently have \r\n\t\t\t\t\t
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That's pretty much it! I hope you're all excited, and I invite you all to join in.