Here is the bio of my lawyer cat character, Riyuuneko Tanaka. The picture for the thumbnail was drawn by  Fenneke_may who I commissioned to draw. Enjoy!

Riyuuneko Tanaka, Olivia Growlcia, Ethan, and all the other characters belong to me.


Riyuuneko Tanaka was born in the United States in 1993, in the popular city of Nevada, Las Vegas. His parents, a male anthropomorphic cat named Nekoshu Daisuke and a female anthropomorphic cheetah named Chiita Keiko, were Japanese immigrants who had traveled to the United States, where they had eventually applied for a full U.S. citizenship after 15 years of being in the country, since Japan doesn’t allow dual citizenship.



Riyuuneko was adored by his parents, and he quickly adapted to both the Japanese-and- American lifestyle. Although he did learn English while at school, at first, learning the phrases of and the differences in English and Japanese proved to be a little overwhelming for him. Nevertheless, he was eventually able to speak, read, and understand the two languages fluently, to the point where he could understand all sorts of Internet slang.



Riyuuneko’s father taught him how to use martial arts to his advantage, which proved useful whenever criminals tried to rob, attack, or kill him.



However, Riyuuneko’s life took a turn for the worse when one day, at the age of 15, he was approached by two tall, intimidating-looking police officers—a male anthropomorphic bear and a male anthropomorphic lion.



He was taken to the police station, where he was interrogated for 1 hour and 32 minutes. The officers did not read him his Miranda rights at all, not even before starting the interrogation. They didn’t let him call his parents either. As it turns out, Riyuuneko was accused of assaulting a male teenage bunny at a street, due to Riyuuneko’s similarity with the suspected cat.



Although Riyuuneko tried to answer their questions truthfully, the officers resorted to use lies, trickery, and even intimidation to coerce him into confessing to a crime he had not committed. After a couple minutes of interrogation, shaking with fear, Riyuuneko asked the male lion officer to bring his parents, as he wanted them to be present during questioning.



However, the officers told him that if he confess, then they’ll bring in his parents. And so, despite Riyuuneko’s requests, the interrogation continued for an hour, until Riyuuneko tried to lie to them by saying that if he can confess to his parents then he’ll confess to the officers, hoping that it will convince them to have his parents present with him during questioning.



The officer nodded, and the two officers left the room for a few minutes. Soon, they burst through the door, slammed the table with their hands, and started yelling at Riyuuneko in an aggressive, intimidating tone, using profanities, calling him names, and lying that his parents were crying because of what he had done. They claimed that if he didn’t confess, they would cry even more and that he won’t ever get out of jail.



After another 30 minutes of interrogation, Riyuuneko eventually broke down, started sobbing in fear, and confessed to stop the psychological torture he was being put through. The officers, believing that they now had the smoking gun, finally stopped the interrogation, and told him in a strangely gentle voice that he had done the right thing.



Luckily, for Riyuuneko, his parents got him a great criminal defense attorney after he was finally allowed to call them. That attorney was an idealistic and courageous male anthropomorphic husky dog named Timothy Barkin.



The case was rather easy for Timothy, because, as it turns out, there was no evidence proving that Riyuuneko was at the street where the crime took place. Riyuuneko’s confession was illegally obtained, as Riyuuneko was not aware of his Miranda rights, nor did the officers bother to read him those rights in custody before questioning.



So, Timothy filed a pretrial motion to suppress evidence to have that confession suppressed or thrown out of court. Ultimately, Gary Cheeter, the prosecutor who realized that his case was hopelessly weak, decided to drop all charges against Riyuuneko.



Riyuuneko cried in joy and hugged Timothy, who told him, “Riyuuneko, my boy, now that you’re finally proven innocent, what are you going to do?’’



Riyuuneko replied, “I think...I’m going to become a great defense attorney just like you and fight for those who are wrongly accused!’’



After Riyuuneko and his family celebrated his acquittal, Riyuuneko was allowed back into high school, from where he later graduated. 



Riyuuneko then went on to achieve a four-year degree in English, pass an admissions test, and get accepted into a renowned university in Nevada—the William R. Bear School of Law. Law school proved to be hard for him. One of the reasons for this was that he had to learn the case study method, meaning he had to read cases and discuss them in class. It became frustrating for him, and he had to get help from his professors to get used to them.



Further, the Socratic method, where professors cold called students and peppered them with questions about the reading, also proved to be daunting for Riyuuneko. Sometimes, he felt like an idiot for getting the questions wrong.



To add to all this, the brutal learning curve in law school and the long hours made his life even more difficult. Riyuuneko began to think that law school just wasn’t for him and that he should just give up on his dream of becoming a lawyer.



However, the group of friends that he had made; his kind, supportive, patient, and knowledgeable professors; and his loving family gave him the determination he needed, and he successfully earned a Juris Doctor degree.



But the hardest part was yet to come—the Nevada State Bar Exam. The exam was really hard, and Riyuuneko managed to pass the exam only on his third attempt.



After becoming a criminal defense attorney, he started his own law firm called Riyuu Neko Justice Law.



Personality: As a lawyer, Riyuuneko was just, empathetic, playful and professional.



Riyuuneko wholeheartedly believed that everyone has a fundamental right to be treated as innocent until proven guilty, even the ones that the public considers to be criminals. To manage the stress that came from working as a lawyer, Riyuuneko would often use humor and even watch comedy shows on TV to better grasp America’s sense of humor.





Further, Riyuuneko also represented the defendants zealously, to the extent where not even death threats, mobs, or warnings from the federal authorities threatening to end his career would stop him. 



He would often use his charm to help him build great attorney–client, as well as other, relationships. However, he would avoid joking around and being playful while in court, unless a judge permitted him to do so.



He was extremely intelligent and knew how to use the law, especially the law in the state of

Nevada and federal law, to his advantage. He also used legal strategies effectively, thanks to his experience with the legal system.



When writing motions and doing research, Riyuuneko would rely on his trusty paralegals who were most qualified to help him write the best motion for his case, including the motion to suppress evidence. Sometimes, he would even write the motions himself if he had to.



While investigating, Riyuuneko would also hire a private investigator, who would eventually find more loopholes in the prosecutor’s case than anyone else, which helped him get cases against his clients dismissed before the prosecutors could charge them.



Riyuuneko would also remain calm and collected when arguing with someone and would rarely lose his cool, even when he was pushed to his limits. He never shied away from correcting a judge if they lacked common sense and/or didn’t understand basic constitutional rights of the defendants and witnesses.



Riyuuneko also held a big bias against prosecutors and police officers, considering that he had been falsely arrested for a crime he hadn’t committed, especially when they did it to satisfy their own quotas and get a win rather than achieving real justice.



It also didn’t help that he often saw multiple news articles of police officers getting away with misconduct way more than prosecutors do as well as some prosecutors working with police officers to violate the defendant’s constitutional rights just to get a guilty verdict.



As such, when Riyuuneko first met one of the good police officers, a female tiger officer named Olivia Growlcia, the two really didn’t get along, and Riyuuneko even accused her of not caring for the rights of citizens and claimed that she would always get away with it, thanks to the qualified immunity.



However, after Riyuuneko represented Olivia’s subordinate who was falsely accused of beating a suspect to death when he was in custody, the two eventually got along and understood each other.



The two even fell in love with each other, with Olivia falling for his charm, wit, lawyer skills, and the acting talent he would display whenever the two engaged in erotic role-plays together and Riyuuneko falling for her, kindness, intelligence, dominance in role-plays and motherly attitude.





Despite his bias and distrust towards prosecutors, there was one that he became friends with, and that was an anthropomorphic male tiger, who’s also Olivia’s father, named Ethan Justis, who was considered by many to be the best prosecutor in the city of Las Vegas, willing to prosecute criminals and corrupt police officers and public officials to achieve true justice rather than to earn money and get a win.





Riyuuneko admitted that if it wasn’t for Ethan, he wouldn’t have to work his hardest to really challenge the prosecutor into making an indisputable argument that the defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and Ethan considered Riyuuneko to be the reason that really pushed him in working his hardest to really make sure there was enough evidence to prove that fact to the judge or jury.

Fun fact: Riyuuneko is really ticklish, with his soles and toes being the most ticklish of them all. Despite his ticklishness, he actually loved being tickled, especially by his wife, Olivia, when they had naughty role-plays together. Even feathers can make the cat lawyer squeal.