Bop N. Tunes

Summary

Bop N. Tunez is a hopfolk from Karrots. Fluffed into being long before the Ascension of Sop, Bop was raised along other children, including Hop.

He was trained to be a Knight of Sop for the Grand Sop Army, but stationed on Karrots outside of combat. He eventually went along a different path and settled down offworld on Amidann. He was a well known critic and scholar of artistic works, particularly music and poetry. Bop served an additional role during the Hop Civil War using his radio show to assist fellow Hoppists.

When he disappeared with the other hops following Hop & Vibri's long meditation, he was thought to be gone forever. In the coming years when Hop arrived on Earth and lived there, Bop emerged from obscurity as an internet personality, reviewing video game soundtrack and hosting rant content online. He currently communicates with Hop via social media.

History

Early Life, Relation to Hoppism

As a bunny, he displayed typical prowess young hops destined for the Grand Sop Army needed. As time passed it became clear that he did not enjoy nor pursue greatness as a warrior. He often displayed laziness and felt no pride in achieving physical feats and fell behind his peers. Bop has poor coordination skills, it appears this is due to a lack of effort on his part. If pressured, his performance matched the stellar standards of the Knights. Though it was capable of him, he let his potential squander and was sentenced to rehabilitation, which he later was thrown out of. His family had to decide what he would do for his lifestyle, as those thrown out of the Knights of Sop possessed knowledge and skill few others did. He was to be held accountable if he acted out. Years would pass as he sat at his family home, his parents working in the agricultural sciences.

Eventually Hop, a friend of his, and his parents shown him both homeworld sports and engineering at Royal Ampbersamd Academies, neither interested him. Hop claimed there is another important role Hops on the planet partake in, although it is frowned upon in times of war. The arts were a laidback pastime, that did not consist of fighting or mechanics, but both topics did involve one element that Hop saw Bop loved. Rhythm. Music was a passion he quickly took interest in, but soon became irritated by some compositions. Preferring gas instruments, and separating lyrics from the sound produced. Oddly, this meant he would not create any music for some time but instead critique and mix it. He would spend orbits on Karrots listening to and sharing his thoughts on the subjects. When he was of enough wealth, he traded carrots for a ship to a far away world named Amidann, under Hoppist control, conquered during the first Great Hop Expansion. He was known for harsh reviews and high quality demands of artists.

Friendship with Arritz the Hero

Several nights across his youth, Bop historically walked home from Hop's home and often took detours to prolong his music listening habit. One evening, he discovered an unwashed, miscolored hopfolk youngling that was rummaging through garbage in the wild. Curious, Bop began to stalk the individual over time before confronting him. Meeting this fellow hopling, Bop felt compelled to bring him to Hop for a new start on life. He began to share his music with him on the walk over to Hop's family home, when it struck him that he never asked for his new friend's name. His friend disclosed he was simply called Arritz and didn't hail from anywhere in particular and had been alone for his entire life, trying to stay out of the way of hard-working mature hopfolk and the Grand Sop Army.

Feeling for his new friend, Bop introduced him to Hop and his sister Vibri, who took to clean their guest and share luxuries with him as they got to know him. Upon Sop's arrival to the homestead, he saw the orphan and took him to his study to interview him. Bop overheard the same information he was told, with the added detail that Bop had invited him to the house of the Hopfather and shared his fascination towards music with him.

Ever since that day, Arritz was welcome to spend time at Hop's home and was introduced similarly to Bop's own family, who took Arritz in like an adopted brother. Many orbits passed as the two became closer and found a respect for each other's differences, as Arritz took full pride and effort into his military training, whereas Bop lagged whenever he could. This caused them to remain friends, but grow apart up until Arritz was sealed. Upon discovery, Bop visited the Arritz-Nido Memorial for his entire life until Arritz was freed from the sword, where the two quickly found time to relax together again.

Bop donated a large portion of his music collection to Arritz when the Hop Civil War came to an end, and Arritz left the known universe for retirement during the Second Great Hop Expansion. Holograms and drawings of the two are seen hanging in Bop's studio office and room on Amidann, and his childhood home on Karrots.

Hop Civil War

Since the start of the war, Bop declared his allegiance to Hop and his faction. He was in charge of occasional broadcasts for Hop on the planet Amidann, and used his radio to disavow traitors to the public. All factions of traitors and their allies would be recorded and sent to Hop's forces instantly via the Hoppist Network. Without any military forces, Bop's well-known presence and ability to relay information on a mass scale kept non-Hoppist factions out of his planetary system. This was supported by the fact the planet he was on had few worthwhile resources. This was until the New Sop Order had engulfed entire galaxies with their presence, and fled in the direction of the world. The Battle of Amidann took place, where Bop was recalled to Karrots during the chaos.

Bop was solely present on Amidann until Hop arrived out of warp space with an Electric Eye in tow. The Battle of Amidann commenced and Bop retreated until Hop gave an "all clear" signal. Bop and his station remained unharmed due to Hop's efforts. After a major turning point shortly following the battle, Bop returned to Amidann and construction of a Temple of Sop began. Alone again, Bop continued his work for most of the war once the surrounding area was in Hoppist control.

Toward the end of the war, he began to relayed departures and arrivals for Knights of Sop during shift rotation of the world's nearly complete Temple of Sop. This job supplemented his duties as a radio host. Bop turned the broken Electric Eye into a studio and radio station for his own use once fighting died down in the neighboring galaxies.

Current Day

Long after the war, Bop went on hiatus to discover non-transmitted music from other worlds. For years, he collected and shared all he could amass, but eventually grew bored of finding new audio. As Hop and Vibri went into deep meditation, Bop had traded a portion of his collection to travel extremely far in The Universe. However, leaving before Hop and Vibri, they arrived to Earth first and Bop landed once his ship detected their signal. Bop's ship, being rudimentary in durability and speed, was shot down by the United States military in the year [][][][] and since then Bop moved into a fleshy's home in the countryside, under Hoppist hospitality rules. He browses the Earth's media daily for quality music, preferring video game soundtrack.

Hoppist Rank

Bop's current Hoppist rank is Hopling, Class II.

Note: He was refused testing Tier 7 (Hopficer) by Hop, for showing up late to training and forgetting many of the principles of Soppipsism, later known as Hoppism. Due to his lack of passion for self improvement, he would have to wait an entire orbit to test. However, his lack of care became more apparent, then, Hop offered him to leave under the condition that Bop did not train outsiders. Bop is a trusted patriot, regardless of his lack of continued interest in the deeper lore of the universe and the Hop dynasty.