Rokko and Yakko

Hmmm...color sketch...I guess I need to do a Dot one...I have one of Wakko and Ginger here [link]

I think one of the most difficult parts of perfecting Rokko's personality is to not make him better then Yakko or to make the two them seem very different and still get along. I would never want the parents to become anymore then breef camios or side characters. Some of you say, "WHY? Wouldn't they want to live with their folks?" and I'll tell you "They were never meant to have parents, it'd take away from thier humor!" but this is fanart, so I can do what ever the heck I want...

UHG, Fangirl ideas...you may not want to read this part if you never liked these fanchars to begin with:

Rokko would use Yakko as his card counter for poker most of the time. The kid's a genius, he'd say but never really got him tested for it. Yakko replaced Cikkit as Rokko's distraction for most of his shemes. Use the chatter box with vast amounts of pointless info to give the badguy a headach. It hard to picture Yakko as a baby but I would say he always was making baby noises, but to him he was saying completely understandable words (at least he understood what he was saying). The A! bibel says that the kids are utlimate books of knowlage. They know anything and everything except personal experiance (meaning they cannot relate or understand why you are mad at them for bugging the shit out of you). Yakko obviously being the smartest, so Rokko would use him the most. Rokko knows his kids abilities but would never put them in harm. In fact he may be over pertective in some cases, not willing to let the kids help him more serious enimies (such as the Mob, which was the main reason why he had to leave his family). But besides that he likes making his family happy and never breaks a promise to them. Even if it's completely impossible, somehow he would make it happen.

Funny story: Rokko was in a tight sqeeze during a poker game with a bunch of "friends". He had little or nothing left to bet and Crikkit couldn't help him out. The house (which was the owner of the pawn shop) was winning and the two other random people had folded thier play. Rokko made a move of desperation and asked the owner to make a bold bet. Rokko bet that his son, over the phone, could pick the next set of cards for Rokko to pick and win. All he would need was the number of cards left in the deck, the number of cards in the discard pile, and number of cards everyone else had. He'd only Rokko's and Crikkit's decks to go by, and the cards in the deck would be reshuffled. The Pawn Boss thought quite hard about this...but he figured if the kid didn't get the suits of cards, he couldn't guess the next cards to come out. Rokko bets all or nothing, if he wins he'll get all the winnings that the boss made, but if he looses he bet his wife (or something crazy like that). So barrowing one of the guys cell phone he calls Yakko up and tells him the cards he has, Crikkits cards and the number of cards left in paly and not in play. There was a 30 second pause and Rokko gets rid of all but two of his cards. He gets two back...Rokko looks a bit surprised, loosing his poker face. Looks around at the other men and places his cards on the table to show to them. The boss looks in surprise. Rokko just leans back, opens his arms, "What you gonna do?"
Over the phone Yakko could hear loud hoots and hallors, as a bunch of men are going crazy over what they're seeing. Yakko just sits and smiles waiting for his dad to hang up and say goodby, "Love ya son! See ya in the mornin'"