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Widget

2020 reference

Widget is one of the supporting protagonists for Strong Hearts Are Mandatory and debuted in the first book, Heart of Glass.

## Visual Description

Widget is a male snowshoe mixed feline with brown and white fur. He has three darker stripes running down his back and along his legs. He has deep blue eyes, and white paws with white inner ears.

## Behavior

Widget finds himself wishing he was less and less seen the older he becomes.

Raised not to be seen or heard, Widget was the most content being a Monitor Assistant in the back of the surveillance room with his family, (Recorder, Tape, and Digit) until Cassette was hired. Since that day, he's found himself waiting every day for his break and to be off his shift, just to disappear into his quarters. He would be content just staying there if it wasn't for the laws and his training requiring him to work.

Holding a secret, Widget waits for the day for when he can finally flee Media, and never be tied to the land again.

## Design

Widget was designed by Teelia Pelletier in 2015 with the rest of the supporting cast when she first began rebooting the series. He is nearly strictly a snowshoe breed, only with a few stripes that give tribute to the design of his mother, Digit.

## History

### In The Classics

#### Heart of Glass

Widget meets the chosen three along with Cassette and Sensor when the small bird lands on his head, and gives them the background information on what they know about their assignment.

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Queen Conquer

Cursed by a blue mage, Conquer's scars are unable to heal, instead blue mist sizzles upon any contact with her old scars that are to remain and fester until her eventual death. This causes pain, as due to the scarring across her eyes, even blinking will cause the blue mist to activate when her eyelids come in contact with the scars. She bears blue metal and gems as a reminder for her weakness and as an example of the evil of magic forced as her regalia by her husband, King Caliber.

Cursed by a blue mage, Conquer's scars are unable to heal, instead blue mist sizzles upon any contact with her old scars that are to remain and fester until her eventual death. This causes pain, as due to the scarring across her eyes, even blinking will cause the blue mist to activate when her eyelids come in contact with the scars. She bears blue metal and gems as a reminder for her weakness and as an example of the evil of magic forced as her regalia by her husband, King Caliber.

After the curse, she is shut into solitude with no visitors to prevent the risk of further injury, only brought out for events and ceremonies where Caliber gives the story of her downfall. Due to this, many individuals fear any contact with her, from both the worry of harming her and the consequence brought from Caliber if they're caught seeing her. This rule is sometimes broken by Ampersand, who visits the queen to offer some companionship and give updates when even her only remaining son is forbidden from seeing her.
Mono

Mono is a close friend of Switch and Stereo. Mono is the oldest of the group and is qualified for a Monitor position, but is currently assistant to his father who is a Monitor Supervisor and Mono occasionally does Courier work due to the freer schedule.

## Behavior

Mono is outgoing, friendly, and often times focus on humor outwardly when in group or public settings and is more serious with his friends in private settings.

## Trivia

* He is intrested in bothany and herbology.

## Reference and Citations

1. https://toyhou.se/7897435.mono

1. ↑ Reavealed on Teelia's Toyhouse
2. ↑ Lady Teelia's Toyhouse
Preset

Preset is a Monitor within the Capital of Central Media. She trained relentlessly to become a Monitor as quickly as possible after growing an extreme fascination of the previous traitors and tyrants of Media, knowing the Monitors were the only governmental rank to have access to the disclosed information she sought after.

The Median Council was so fascinated at her ability to retain information and uncover previously overlooked things, they gave her an additional title of Archivist, which earned her the high-ranking collar.

This sadly ended up being her downfall, unknowingly letting power fall into the wrong hands by sharing precious information with the wrong parties, and now she's dedicated to fix her mistake by finding the right people to put an end to this newfound danger.
Curiosity's Cube

## Explanation

This is the mages' artifact, an object the previous leader of the land created to give magic to those who were born without to try and settle the rebellion. During the overthrow, the mages theorized that the cube not only gives power to those without, but majorly enhances those with magic, and it's been continued to be passed down (or taken) by rebellious mages since the first holder stole it back from the new government. Magic strains its user, but the cube acts like a filter, removing old energy and providing the holder with new so they can continue with their use, which is why Curiosity can continue to use his magic at any time when the cube is near.

## Description

It appears to be a semi-transparent cube, almost as if glass. A light glows from within, presumably the magic Curiosity uses.
Reel

## Behavior

Reel strives to be a monitor-courier hybrid, but she needs to prove herself before she gets even accepted as a monitor assistant. She is eager to find someone to take her as their apprentice and start her training, but for now she's focusing on being the most efficient courier she can be to meet as many different and potential people as possible. She is very good at her job, but between assignments is a completely different story, and the reason why she hasn't been accepted by a monitor yet. Reel is infamous for getting into trouble and associating with unverified and exiled individuals, and without the right connections, she is never taken seriously by the monitors who would otherwise take her under their wings.

Growing up always feeling like she was missing a piece of a puzzle for her story, Reel feels that everyone deserves an ear and a chance, and for as long as they treat her right, there must be good in their heart somewhere. This gets her into deep trouble when she ends up ignoring warning signs because of this, but her brother, Demo, thankfully watches out for her and helps her out of tough situations.

Just when it starts to seem like nothing will ever change, Reel is approached by a Median noble under the handle of the Rock Star, the estranged half-brother of the famous Radio Star, who promises her an interesting journey where she would make all the connections she's been seeking. She knows that her brother, Demo, is concerned by this and allows him to come with her to assure him it's fine, but she is very annoyed at not being trusted by her brother who is already well-established in Media ranks.
Transmitter

Transmitter was a one-shot character that made his first appearance in Heart of Glass.

## Visual Description

Transmitter is a grey raccoon with brown eyes.

## Behavior

It seems like Transmitter enjoys helping others. He's also thankful, as he thanks Video along with his companion Receiver when she treats Transmitter's wounds and gives them instructions.

## History

### Chapter 5 - Observance

First, Transmitter is mentioned by Receiver as her friend and colleague. She says that he we attacked after he found a strange shard outside the city. Receiver offers Video, Pictures, and Radio to come with her so she could take them to Transmitter.

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Deviate

Deviate is a Web comic following the perspective of Adversity. the comic updates weekly/bi weekly on Teelia Pelletier's deviantart account.

## The Story

### The Prologue

The story begins with Adversity in a dark jungle. They find a glowing cyan-green pool and reach towards it before Curiosity appears and the two fight over Curiosity's Cube.

Adversity is then pinned to a tree and Curiosity interrogates them as to how they found their way here. Adversity plays unaware but Curiosity doesn't buy it. He then hits Adversity square in the head with the cube, causing Adversity to fall to the ground in pain. Adversity seems confused as to why there is no blood and Curiosity then uses his magic claiming "If you wont give the answers... then I'll take them!" and Adversity closes their eyes.
Stereo

2020 reference

### Appears In

Heart of Glass, Straight to Video, Stars of the Silver Screen, Truth and Phantasm

### Last Appears

Truth and Phantasm

Stereo is one of the side characters for Strong Hearts Are Mandatory and debuted in the first book, Heart of Glass.

## Visual Description

Stereo is a dark brown classic tabby tuxedo. He has piercing silver eyes, and thick, long fur.

## Behavior

Stereo was quick to receive his title from the council for his efficient work, that as well as being trained personally by his father, Signal.

Continuing to live his life proving he's more than capable of simple respect, Stereo's gone beyond wanting attention from the Council. He is on the search for any way to leave a permanent mark in Media's history.

Aggressive and impulsive, Stereo trusts his first instinct over the opinions of others or further planning, and will get himself into messy situations if he feels it's worth the risk. Having no intention of being thrown off track, Stereo will try and try again until he gets his desired results, even if he has to break a few rules to get it.

Even while being younger than most verified users, Stereo's life experience has motivated him to leave a mark than most in Media already have. Enough so, that many find him dangerous.

## Design

Stereo was designed by Teelia Pelletier personally in tribute to her youngest brother. Stereo's stripes extend along his body with a bullseye mark that stretches across his flank and leg, and has stripes leading down to all four white paws. His tail is long-furred and is about as long as his body. He has extremely long fur around his neck to give him a thick mane. He has white fluffy paws with dark fur around his black paw pads and white claws. He's about a third size bigger then the usual tomcat, but is nothing unusual for his family's bloodline. He has long white whiskers and the general Mandatory eye template.

## History

### Chapter 7 - Irresponsibility

Stereo is first seen in Clowder City, attacking his sister, Video, without warning when she is separated from Radio and Pictures.

When Video was found by Radio and Pictures with blood dropping from her head, Studio explained that Video got injured in the Eastern Alleys. Video elaborates and reveals his name. Video and Stereo originally worked for the Council, collaborating on certain assignments under Signal and others. However, after Stereo's travel companion, Unit, was found to be a spy for mages, Unit was removed and he turned into a rogue. Pictures concludes that Stereo was Video's brother.

### Chapter 9 - Yonder

When Video and Studio are taken by Studio's carriage to the Capital City, Video is unexpectedly attacked by Stereo. Video snarls and asks Stereo if he thought she wanted this, and if things could be the same as they once were. Stereo hisses at her, rejects her request, and continues fighting. Before Video can be pounced on, Studio attacks Stereo and allows Video to gain the upper hand. After being scratched on the muzzle, Stereo immediately flees to the village away from them.

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Speaker

## Behavior

Speaker only recently recieved his rank as a Monitor Assistant, but his good work was noticed by the city leaders, and he was appointed as Screen's assistant within the first few weeks of work.

Only needed as a relief, Speaker generally spends most of his time out of the surveillance buildings, and socialized with the same citizens of Clowder City that he's appointed to protect. Visiting until being called back, Speaker enjoys the work he does and finds it amusing to watch the subjects that he talks with when he's off-work. Doing do ended up helping him settle into Clowder City easier, and kept him from seeking out other work in the vast land of Media. While not bonding with Screen personally, the additional time with the Studio Star compared to Media's other subjects helped Speaker keep a high sense of values, still wanting what's best for the city even with the excessive power he has been given.

He hopes one day to develop technology that would even impress the council in the Capital, but currently is content just to have the headstart he has working under Studio and Screen.
Virus

Virus wants to dissolve the world in a painful death just to see if he could pull it off, but he'll make sure his weasels are the last to go; they're all best friends.

This marbled fox sees Media as just one big experiment lab that he can learn from and tinker with. Virus never truly had compassion for others and was originally verified under a different handle. However, he formed a bond with three weasels, who all later became known as Crash, Lag, and Freeze.

Virus and his assistants (or minions/lackeys, as they are called by Irony) received their new handles after being exiled and striped from their governmental positions.

He is an overwhelmingly powerful mage, with wisps of red magic expelling from him if he does not keep hold over his emotions. Thankfully, Virus has always had a strong hold over how he's felt about things, but after his banishment, there's nothing holding him from then having bursts of magic at the ready for anyone who steps in his path, it's just one less person to expend energy on later. He is one of the first mages to hybrid technology with magic, and the first of his kind to do it to such extreme depths.
Demo

## Behavior

Demo has always played his cards right. Upon verification, Demo immediately put out feelers and started making contact with the right individuals to move himself up in Median ranks and is now training as monitor assistant in Capital's Castle. It worked out for him that he moved quickly, because he has been since told he would not have been considered due to the trouble his sister, Reel, got in if he waited any longer. Demo tries to keep his sister from bad association as it is, but often times it takes until his job is on the line for her to realize her actions are affecting more than just her. Demo tries to protect his sister for her own benefit more than his, but it's not until he brings up the risk of his career does she often listen.

When off-work, Demo likes to reach out to colleagues and Medians within the castle's other departments. He's become very well known and is on his way to become a monitor, it's more or less just a process to get there, now. Demo is really outgoing and sweet, with a slight reservation to his demeanor that keeps him from being overbearing. He loves to learn and dig deep into the workings of Media but patiently waits for the information to be accessible to him.

Things seem like they're all finally coming together when he finds out that Reel runs into a Median noble under the handle of the Rock Star who promises her an opportunity that would have her climb the ranks of Media without all the obstacles. Demo is very scared at the suspicious noble's promises as he does not believe Rock has good intentions toward Reel, but as just a monitor assistant, he's forced to just watch and stay at Reel's side when he can. Usually he's always been able to convince individuals that he feels comfortable around them despite if it's actually the case, but he's very concerned as he feels like Rock sees through everything he does and plans.
Audio

## Visual Description

Audio's main coat color is brown, three, almost black, brown stripes run down her back, along with another shade of brown underneath it, she has an "m" shape marking between her orange eyes and a white muzzle stretching from her chest to beneath her flank. Three curvy lines on each limb, and at the center of her underbelly. She wears a collar specifically for medicines.

## Other Information

Before Video and Stereo were born, at the time where Jukebox, Console, and 8-Track were just kits, Phantascope targeted them, but his attempt failed once he was defeated by Signal.

Audio's brother is named Subwoofer

She’s the cousin of Studio and Resolution.
The Heart of Glass

**The Heart of Glass** is a red crystal heart-shaped artifact in *Mandatory*, it was accidentally created when Curiosity attacked The King in Mandatory Heart of Glass's prologue.

When the heart was created, Curiosity didn't fully understand it and so became angry at it, he then smashed it against the ground breaking it into five heart shards. the retrieval of these shards became the objective for Pictures, Video  and Radio, causing the plot of *Heart of Glass*.

## The Story

### Heart of Glass

After Curiosity attacks The King of Media, the Heart of Glass appears. Curiosity goes to touch it but it breaks his form and he stares at it confused. he then thinks for a second longer before becoming outraged at it and he hits the Heart of Glass against the ground, causing it to explode. in that moment the heart is broken into five shards and they are thrown to different parts of media.

Video, Pictures and Radio are then called in to retrieve the heart shards and they are the only ones who can touch them without being burnt.
Screen

2020 reference

Screen is one of the side characters for Strong Hearts Are Mandatory and debuted in the first book, Heart of Glass.

## Visual Description

Screen is a silver bullseye tabby with dark brownish orange swirled wraps around his eyes and tail, and very, long, thick fur. He has one faded-blue eye, and dark pink ears and a dark gray nose and paw pads.

## Behavior

Screen likes to lead his life off of logic, but his underlying judgement keeps him from always being able to do so.

Joining Studio's colony two years after the city was built, Screen spent a large portion of his life working directly under Studio as an assistant and surveillance director of Clowder City. He has a contact lens built for him that allowed him to see the screens as well as any other monitor of Media despite being mostly blind.

Prior to joining Studio's colony, Screen and his former home was attacked, leaving him to wear cloth to keep from frightening Studio's subjects in Clowder City with his scars. Having to do this built resentment in Screen's heart, and made him keep mostly to himself when Studio has an audience with any of her subjects.

Still remaining motivated to do his duty, Screen makes sure the city is protected from what he finds as a threat, and has consistently done his best to keep Studio content after being allowed refuge by her.

## Design

Screen was designed by roodkat on DA as a design trade with Teelia Pelletier. He is mostly gray and white with scattered black stripes spiraled across his pelt. His cloth wraps trail across his eyes and from the base of his tail to nearly a regular tail length across the ground. He is the fluffiest of all of the reoccurring Mandatory cast, having three layers of fluff and a tail as big as his body. He has one nearly completely blind eye with his face and tail covered in scars, and one empty socket for his eye.

## History

### In The Classics

#### Heart of Glass

Screen takes Studio's message to Film per request in her penthouse without question, only asking for the details.

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Pictures

2020 reference

Pictures is one of the main protagonists for Strong Hearts Are Mandatory and debuted in the first book, Heart of Glass.

## Visual Description

Pictures is a tall silver mackerel tabby with darker arms and stripes along his pelt and tail. He has white dappled across the underside of his tail and underbelly. He has a patch of white across his chest and muzzle. His right eye is a light blue while the left is is golden. He has a nick in his left ear. His paw pads are a mix of both maroon and black.

## Behavior

Pictures is willing to work around things to get what he desires, taking measures to manipulate his companions to go his way while they're convinced that they've won the argument.

Raised by some of the most cunning subjects in Media, Pictures always has an ulterior agenda, whether or not it is good or bad. Even while he is known to help and assist others throughout the region, it's always been to get something from it in return. Starting as only being praised as a kit, it has grown to be much more over time, and possibly reckless. He appears to be carefree and apathetic towards problems, and generally waits to offer a solution at the last moment, but only after inferring the answer slowly. This shows that he has been carefully thinking about the issue. [1]

## Design

Pictures was the third character to be designed for Mandatory. His original design came from a contest Teelia Pelletier hosted on deviantART, but he was later revamped drastically by Teelia to better match his travel companions. He has a consistent pattern of stripes going down his back with three dark gray and four black stripes along his tail with a white underside and tip. His nicked ear is on the side of his left ear, and he is mostly symmetrical with the exception of his paws, which alternate between black and white for both sides. His golden and blue eyes are of the general eye template for Mandatory.

## Trivia

- It was revealed in some of Teelia’s animations in her main youtube channel that Phantascope was the one that made the wound on his ear.
Signal

### Appears In

Heart of glass (mentioned) Straight to Video, Stars of the Silver Screen, Truth and Phantasm

# Trivia:

- He lost his sight after a fight with Phantascope (which resulted in the mage’s first death).

- In the third book he mentions that he descends from Calotype, Phantascope’s sister. Assuming that so far between her and signal Teelia Pelletier has revealed all the felines that also descended from the mage, then that makes the Maine coon the shadow advisor’s great-grandnephew.
Takeshi Sendo/Historia

(千堂 武士 *Sendō Takeshi*?): Es el campeón novato de la zona oeste de Japón, conocido como "Rocky de Naniwa" (solamente hasta cuando Ippo lo vence, luego pasa a ser conocido como Henuso el "Tigre de Naniwa"). Al ver la pelea de Ippo frente a Mashiba, Sendo se obsesiona en pelear contra Makunouchi, pues su obsesión es derrotar a sujetos fuertes. Su golpe devastador es el Smash, que consiste en un potente Uppercut a 3/4. Estuvo a punto de ganar la final, pero Ippo lo noquea de un certero golpe en la sien, aunque más adelante se le verá en una pelea de revancha contra Ippo, esta vez defendiendo el título japonés del peso pluma. Takeshi Sendo esta claramente inspirado en el protagonista del manga y anime Ashita no joe, Joe Yabuki, ya que a este le gusta meterse en problemas como Yabuki, a Sendo le persiguen unos niños de su barrio como a Yabuki, los dos conocieron a sus entrenadores después de una gresca en la calle e intentaron atacarlos, Sendo es apodado en la serie Rocky al igual que Yabuki y en la primera pérdida contra Ippo se puede apreciar un tributo a la muerte emblemática de Yabuki. Muy apreciado por sus vecinos, ya que fuera del ring, es un hombre muy normal y amable con todos y el fan de Takamura.
Colosseum

2020 reference

Antagonist for Of Events Prior. Often seen with Cinema and Playback.

His foes consist of Phantascope, Ochroid, Compassion and Clematis, (attacked with Cinema and Playback,) and Conscience (directing Cinema and Playback.) He is a deadly foe, and not many people are chosen to meet him unless they're on the list to be removed by Media's officials.

## Behavior

Ruthless, vicious, and malicious, Colosseum isn't one to pass by with ease. Being one of the strongest nobles, he's well respected by the verified and untitled subjects of Media, even if the council was cautious to allow him onto their cabinet because of his aggressive behavior. He's endeared to his kits and had them set up with their companions as soon as they were ready, eager to continue the nobles' power across Media. One should be wary upon crossing Colosseum's path, but as long as they don't fall under questionable motivations, they're quickly assured there's no worry. Colosseum is very bold and enthusiastic (as he can be) about his role to protect the verified of Media, and holds his title with pride.
Cassette

2020 reference

Cassette is one of the supporting protagonists for Strong Hearts Are Mandatory and debuted in the first book, Heart of Glass.

## Visual Description

Cassette is a female calico-tabby feline. She has olive-green eyes, and pink paw pads, ears, and nose.

## Behavior

Cassette loves doing nothing more than finding ways to climb the Ranks of Media and isn't afraid to push others out of the way to get what she wants.

Spending most of her childhood in the alleys of forgotten cities, Cassette dedicated her fourth season to finding somebody who could grant her a title and worked to keep it since.

Idolizing the monitoring director Film, Cassette had set her goals onto becoming his companion, but after she realized he had no interest, Cassette decided to work with new goals in mind, and has no plans to let anything stop her.

## Design

Cassette was designed by Teelia Pelletier in 2015 with the rest of the supporting cast when she first began rebooting the series. She was one of the first of later many calico designs Teelia made, but has yet to be in one of the animation clips.

## History

### In The Classics

#### Heart of Glass

Cassette meets the chosen three along with Widget and Sensor, and gives them the background information on what they know about their assignment.

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Clowder City

Clowder City also known as Aureate City is a City in the Land of media lead by their mayor, The Studio Star.

The City is made of gold buildings and its buildings and paths are designed in the shape of a cat's face, which can be seen from above.

## Apearences

### Strong Hearts are Mandatory : Heart of Glass

The City first appeared in the novels in the later chapters of Heart of Glass, when the main protagonists Video , Radio  and Pictures  ventured throguh the city on their quest for the Shard fragments. they arrived just in time for the Aureate Festival and were greeted by Studio, who was already informed of their mission.

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The North Atlantic Federation

## Overview

After the USA went apeshit and conquered most of Canada, the rembnants of Canada formed a new federal state with Greenland and Iceland under the leadership of Iceland. Later, in east Eurasia, China attacked Russia, was successful and as a result forced Russia to split off its Eastern part as an independent country. That eastern Russia wanted to value its new gained freedom and voluntarily joined the North Atlantic Federation for protection and economic help.

## Developments

2020 - Builds various early warning systems on the border with United States of North America. Warning system comprise of underground telephone lines, guarded radio towers, border patrols with radios and silent radio alerters, and border towers with telescopes.

2021 - To increase integration with its East Siberian federal states, a railway was built across Arctic.
Curiosity

2020 reference

### Appears In

Heart of Glass, Straight to Video, Stars of the Silver Screen, Truth and Phantasm

Curiosity is the main antagonist for Strong Hearts Are Mandatory's arc The Classics, and debuted in the first book, Heart of Glass under the name of The Jester.

## Visual Description

Curiosity is a black-headed spider monkey with jet-black fur and tri-shaded skin. He has brown eyes with dark blue rims around his pupils. He has no front thumbs, and a hairless underside to the tip of his tail.

He is often wearing a brown Jester's outfit and hat.

## Behavior

Curiosity is a mischievous being that seems fond of having as little known about him as possible. Redirecting any question of himself back at his opposer, (when getting a chance to speak, that is,) Curiosity remains carefree without taking the initiative of his planned scenarios; enjoying each step at a time. He is only assertive when given a perfect opportunity, and jumps into conflict when he is certain he will win. Curiosity only progresses things forward if he believes he'll enjoy watching the events of his actions play out, and otherwise finds it a waste of his unlimitless time. This is only when he's not upset.

Mastering the magic that ceases aging and breakdown, Curiosity's magic slowly grows limitless. With an eternity to train and grow more powerful as his time in the world progresses, his presence in Media becomes more and more unpredictable.

It's often speculated on how much of his power he's actually using, or if he's just holding it back, waiting for a moment to use it all and finish everything he has put on the stakes at once.

## Design

Curiosity was designed by Teelia Pelletier personally and was the second planned villain for the series after Pictures.

Curiosity was made a monkey for his first design per the request of Teelia's sister. Originally an unidentified species of monkey, Curiosity's first design was gray-haired with a red and golden outfit instead of his current dark brown one. Inquisitive, the castle jester seen in Heart of Glass, later took this design as a homage to Curiosity's first design. Once Curiosity's revamp was done in 2013, he was made a spider monkey with the likeness to a brown recluse spider in mind.

## History

### In The Classics

#### Heart of Glass

"The Jester" is the mage who destroys the crystal heart and causes King Capital to vanish. He scatters the shards of the heart across the land and enchants them to only be able to be handled by the youngest courier, noble, and monitor.

Appearing as a spider monkey with magic, the primate is only referred to as an "it" due to his mage status. He appears in multiple locations after the initial attack. Most destinations of the chapters have names, such as Faith's Village, when he appeared to torment the Chosen Three and possessed The Guardians, the Ruined City when controlling Ratchet, Clowder City to tease Studio, and is mentioned to be in The Meridian Stretch to kill Resolution, Flash, and Frequency before the final battle with Video, Pictures, and Studio in The Capital.
Tape

2020 reference

Tape is one of the supporting protagonists for Strong Hearts Are Mandatory and both debuted and died in the first book, Heart of Glass.

## Visual Description

Tape is a solid-built, dark brown mackerel tabby tom. The designs on his fur are many darker shades of brown. The rest of his coat, particularly his underside and tip of his tail, is white. His eyes are golden-brown, and he has mixed paw pads of both maroon and dark pink.

## Behavior

Tape often finds himself worrying too much. He knows he has the potential to be more like his sister, Recorder, if he could take charge more.

Working in surveillance being his true calling, Tape is content to work the rest of his days being in his position as a monitor. Not feeling he could handle face-to-face interactions outside the castle, he remains content helping others behind the scenes by reporting those who think they aren't being seen, and helping those who can't protect themselves. Nearly becoming the manager of his department for his talent of observance, he instead let Cassette take the role to avoid any confrontation.

## Design

Tape was designed by Teelia Pelletier in 2015 with the rest of the supporting cast when she first began rebooting the series. He was one of the first characters made outside of the main and side characters, and was the first of the Mandatory characters that has his own animation clip on Teelia's Youtube. He has very few stripes that touch each other with the exception of the long black stripe down his back. He has one black back paw, and a blotch on both his nose and chest with dark brown chin and bottom of his paws.

## History

### In The Classics

#### Heart of Glass

Tape escorts the chosen three to the Surveillance Room with his sister, Recorder. He and Recorder introduce the three to Widget, Cassette, and Sensor, who gives them the background information on what they know about their assignment. From that point, Tape and Recorder take the chosen three to the outskirts of the Capital City, where they find the first of the shard fragments.

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Settings

2020 reference

Settings is one of the supporting protagonists for Strong Hearts Are Mandatory, and is awaiting her debut.

## Visual Description

Settings is a dark calico-tabby feline with a high ranking Media collar. She has bright yellow eyes, and dark gray pawpads, ears, and nose.

## Behavior

Settings was once told she wasn't allowed to wear the high-ranking collar that her mentor Film discarded upon receiving his title, so she worked until she earned one herself.

Living most of her kittenhood with many younger, and older siblings, Settings sought to find something that would make her stand out to others. After reuniting with Film when receiving her title, she strove to become his assistant for his director position within the Capital. While respecting Cassette as his assistant when she instead earned the position, Setting took all outside matters upon herself. Proving herself with her strong will, she earned Film's respect and trust, and often works in his personal offices when he's out in field work.

She works happily for her old mentor and tries to center most of her wants on what's best for him.

## Design

Settings was designed by xX-PastelGalaxy-Xx as a gift to Teelia Pelletier. She has a general mackerel tabby design with black blotches that give her the calico coloring. She has a dark brown muzzle with one white striped cheek and the rest of her head tan tabby with black patches. She has an orange collar with silver rows and a drop down medallion of Media's symbol.
Animated Series

The animated series will be a YouTube series by Teelia Pelletier following the first two books of Strong Hearts are Mandatory, Heart of Glass and Straight to Video. There is no release date yet, but a teaser has been released. It will only cover the first two books; everything else will be in a written format.

The series will follow The Radio Star (selneversleeps), Video (Blixemi), and Pictures (Tysonater) on their journey across the land of Media to recover the shards of the heart of glass. The series will then follow the aftermath in the second part.

It will be fully animated and voice acted, including original soundtrack and songs sung by the characters themselves.
Ranks

Media is currently lead by King Capital, the former ruler of the land being Queen Satisfaction. The current rank system follows as:

## Ranking System

**Royals:** Complete power with advisement from his council. Currently the only royal is King Capital.

**Council:** A group of individuals who are mostly royals and high ranking monitors that make most decisions concerning the subjects of Media.

**Nobles:** Descendants of the group that were responsible for the take down of the queen, given high power and influence by the Council. They wear collars as well as other jewelry to establish their rank. A noble can also make their partner of another rank a noble.

**Monitors:** High ranking titled officials that are responsible for observing and protecting the lower ranked titled subjects of Media. They generally report directly under the Council, royals, or a higher ranked surveillance officer.

**Verified:** Those who swear loyalty to the council and Media's king who have been approved by the Council or a royal official. They work an occupation of their choice unless assigned one by the Council, and are offered protection by the land.

**Untitled/Unverified:** Those who either choose not to serve the Council directly, or did not succeed in being approved. They generally serve under titled subjects or work beyond the general route of officials in secluded areas or parts of Media that gain no interest from the Council.

# Trivia :

- With the exception of nobles and the unverified, the citizens of media after birth are given a normal name (in the case of Video, Hers was Amira) that they later change for the technology-related one upon being verified.

• The nobles don’t have to go through this, since automatically after birth they receive their verified name.

• In the case of the unverified, they simply remain with their birth names.

• A somewhat similar process was/is used with mages, where they are named a normal name at birth and once they end their training they earn an emotion-related name.

- The collars nobles wear seemingly have the same color as their eyes and have symbols related to their names. It is unknown if there’s a lore related reason for this or if just for aesthetic purposes by Teelia Pelletier’s side.

• Blood nobles wear placeholder’s collars when they are kittens (As shown with the current references of Circuit, Image and Pixel). They later receive their personalized collars upon reaching maturity and/or reaching the age of 1 year old.
Rhacophyton

## *Rhacophyton sp.* (upcoming, arrives in update 2.1.0)

* **Height**: 2 blocks
* **Spreads near water**
* **Time**: Middle Devonian to Early Carboniferous
* **Native biome(s)**: None (obtain from fossils)
* **Edibility**:
	+ Edible to herbivores

An extinct relative of modern ferns, Rhacophyton grew during the late Devonian and early Carboniferous, around 384 - 318 million years ago. It grew in coastal areas, often near the mouths of large, slow-moving rivers.

Fossils of Rhacophyton are common in North America (especially in Red Hill, Pennsylvania), although they have also been found in Norway, Belgium, Germany and western Siberia.
Ampersand

> ***"You've done your work with the source that we want to destroy!"***
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> ***"Bringing an end the people who gave you and trained you in your ability!"***
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> **Where do you place yourself, Ampersand? (source)**
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Ampersand is one of the antagonists in Origins and was first mentioned in the first book of The Classics, Heart of Glass.

## Visual Description

Ampersand is a brown tabby tomcat with green eyes. He has white paws and a white muzzle. He has green plasma wings emitting from his back, with some coming out a silver collar around his neck.

## Design

Ampersand was designed by Teelia Pelletier personally and was one of the first Mandatory mages.

## History

### In The Classics

#### Heart of Glass

Ampersand is mentioned in the prologue and by name in the epilogue of Heart of Glass.

## Trivia

- He’s the ancestor of Studio, Resolution, Frequency, Radio, Audio, Sound, Video, Stereo, Jukebox, Console, 8-Track and Cinema.
Queen Satisfaction

## Satisfaction (Sassy)

The former of the land now known as Media has been explicated by many different definitions. Some describe the being as good. Others, within Media's borders, are more likely to describe her as a terror.

One constant remains the same is the stories, however. It's the matriarch's incredible power. Some stories tell of how she could stretch her magic across the entire region to protect it from the neighboring lands. Other stories whisper of her casting every form of magic by means of her artifacts. Her magic inspired those beyond the borders of her territory. Her magic was imbued into the hearts of other creators. Another constant of hers conveyed in all the tales is that she always had a smile on her face. Supporters of the being known as Satisfaction claim she was kind and selfless; she wouldn't rest until she knew her loyal subjects felt peace of mind. Opposers stand firm the mage leader only supported those who served her without question and only acted when it pleased her and her favorite servants, and not in the interests of benefiting the whole land.

Even after many generations, stories of the queen continue to be told throughout Media, obscured from detection by the monitors' radar. She remains unforgotten by many villagers and scholars who seek knowledge of the peculiar being; an individual who could shift her form to her own preference with both ease and performance.

Many speculate a being with such power has the ability to come back from the grave. They await her return to reclaim both the land and the rulership.

# Trivia :

- According to Teelia Pelletier, purple magic is unique to Queen satisfaction or those somehow related to her. There is no other way characters inside the world of SHAM can have it.

- Her third eye is capable of seeing the aura of others.
Premiere

## Behavior

Premiere has secrets in her life, but they're for her to know and for you to find out if you mess with her. She decided to take a job as a monitor to learn the kind of work they do and is currently advising Demo, but she's hoping to train him for her job so she can transfer and go back to the Rich Top Mountains. She enjoys Demo's company and his intelligence, but she sometimes worries if he's really doing the work for the right reasons, such as actually wanting to, or if he's just trying to prove himself to be an individual who will make a difference for Media. Premiere is a strong believer in doing what you love, and more or less likes to travel and transfer around Media to make sure each working environment is appropriate for its staff.

She also enjoys the company of Demo's sister, Reel, but she only offers so much advice before she knows the young courier tunes her out, and wishes her the best on finding her way. One individual she is not too fond of is Portfolio, but she finds the work he does is good enough to not raise too much complaint just as long as he allows her to do her work in her own style and time.
Inquisitive

Inquisitive is a one-shot character that makes his first and only appearance in Heart of Glass.

## Visual Description

Inquisitive is a marmoset monkey with a red and yellow jester outfit adorned with bells on the tips of the hat, dark and light grey hair around his face, paws, and tail, and brown eyes.

## Behavior

Little is known about Inquisitive's personality, but he seems to be easily frightened and timid.

## Design

Inquisitive's design is a reference to Curiosity's old design from 2012.

## History

### Prologue

When Curiosity is walking down the hallways of King Capital's castle, he hears Inquisitve humming in a small room nearby. By the time Inquisitive squeaked for help, he was pinned down and asked if he was an entertainer for the King. Inquisitive said he would be jesting for the king that night, but Curiosity claims he is no longer needed and bites the marmoset's skull, killing him. Curiosity then mimics his jesting costume.
Phantascope

## The Shadow Advisor

### Magic

Cyan / Light Blue, Colorless / Desaturated (White), or Shadow / Saturated (Black)

## Associations

### Assistants

Zoetrope (formerly)Print (in Truth and Phantasm)

## Appearances

### Appears In

Stars of the Silver Screen, Truth and Phantasm

## Profile

The Shadow Advisor is a mage hunted across all of Central Media, and he is not well liked by many. Sadistic, apathetic, and cold, the mage lacks empathy for most subjects, and his relationships never last long. His enemies last even shorter, as Phantascope rarely makes time for games. He often tries to make the attempt to rekindle his fire of emotion and companionship, coming across as a quiet, nurturing type upon the first encounter, but quickly burns out like a candle at his temper. Phantascope is often very relaxed when he's alone and pleasantly polite and flustered easily when first meeting him. His general excitement towards learning things and doing something to help someone makes him approachable to most, but once a stressful situation is thrown upon him, his kindness gives away to anxiety and fear, quickly which turns into anger, apathy, and cruelty. This pattern is repeated very often with his friends. He's compassionate with his travel companions, but after years of constantly losing his loved ones to death, illness, and murder at the hands of his enemies, he's lost the ability to connect to those he finds dear to the point that he's capable of taking them down himself. Being hunted as a mage his entire life, death has lost nearly all meaning to Phantascope, and he rarely sees the value in life by the time he nears the end of his own.

# Trivia:

- He mentored both Audio and Studio when the she-cats where kittens and ended up developing a close bond with both, becoming an important role model and figure to look up to for the former, and turning to a father figure for the later.

- His true name is a great enigma as of now, since so far in the series only the name that he received by the medians and his nickname “the shadow advisor” have been used in order to refer to him. However, in a post in Teelia Pelletier’s literature section of her Toyhouse it can be discovered that it seems that The Studio Star knows what his true name is (yet, Teelia loves to leaves us in suspense, since when the she-cat called the mage by his true name, she censored it).
Mandatory Wikia

Welcome to the Wiki for Strong Hearts Are Mandatory.
A book and animated series created by Teelia Pelletier.

**What is Strong Hearts Are Mandatory?**

"Strong Hearts Are Mandatory" is a series revolving around multiple characters upon their quests. Beginning with the heroes, Video, Radio, and Pictures on their task to help take down magic once and for all, the three try to reach their objective while being trailed by the malicious Jester, Curiosity. They reside in the land of Media, which detests all mages and forms of magic.

Mandatory is a planned book series and animated series on Youtube, there will be six books, and 12 episodes, covering the first and second book.

The first book, Heart of Glass, follows the story of Video, Radio and Pictures on their way to restore what's been taken by Curiosity. They are supported by their monitors and servers, Recorder, Tape, Widget, Cassette, and Sensor, and meet allies and foes such as Studio, Screen, and Stereo and to establish the task of what what their superiors have given the three. They come across others as the series progresses, who help them complete their task and guide them to the next objective. The first book will be compressed into six 11 minute episodes, that will be available on Youtube as they are completed.

The second book, Straight to Video, is lightly touched upon. These are the events that take place after the first attempt to take down magic, and the follow-up on the consequences of their bold actions against Curiosity. It will also have 6 episodes that will be posted on Youtube, and will be the end of the animated series, while the written story continues.

The third book, Stars of the Silver Screen, is the first book that will not be captured by the animated series. This book shows the next villain after Curiosity, a conduit of his magic, and Video's mission to stop him with her sister Jukebox joining her as a main protagonist.

The next three books' details and main objective are currently unknown, and only the villains' names and descriptions have been released.

**New Releases** Strong Hearts Are Mandatory: Truth and Phantasm was officially released on March 27th, 2022 on Amazon and is the fourth out of the planned six book series.
Video has finally found the answers to who, or what, this Jester really is. It's all or nothing once the mage has revealed his intention of having all of Social Media crumble in his grasp. Video and Radio have to do the unthinkable to stop this mass murder across Media, and team up with a few unlikely "heroes" to make the most formidable team they can against this merciless mage before it's too late. Together they dive into the study of forbidden magic and dig deeper than ever to locate the “last living mage” but find things go further than they ever imagined. Video has to put all her principles to the test once she realizes many more people than she initially thought weren’t who they really seemed.

Update - February 18th, 2020:
Progress to edit and revamp the wiki has picked back up. Please feel free to assist on any of our pages!