The new storyline for Scarlet-chan started with a role play I've heard about set in an evil amusement park, where they keep a set of prisoners, put them into high-tech character costumes, bend their minds into said chara's personality and let them live the character's lives in that park. Most of the Role Plays involve the prisoners either in their own minds, turned into the characters, or lost between the two as they try to escape. It's very popular in some circles.
In this new version of the FoxFire Comic Strip, I incorporated this role play into the origin of Scarlet, Pippkin, and the other zoots: Basically, I made Scarlet and Pippkin prototypes into the above mentioned process, used to perfect the process to sell to several other amusement parks as well as their own personal enjoyment. A. Hem.
However, the scientists discovered that the combination of the goo that was used in the Zoot's creation and the multiple times the mind control were used, created an unexpected breakthrough in costume technology, where the two costumes began to stir and move on their own without being worn, and studies prove that they will become actual sentient beings!
The scientists stuffed the two costumes, Scarlet and Pippkin, into a box and abandoned them in some alley they thought nobody would go to.
They didn't count on the alley being where unemployed cop Jim Goodlow lives.