Finally whipped up a better picture, so I can scrap the crappy one.

-Fiktor is a silly ol' crow who loves to write. He has the habit of plucking out his own feathers due to stress. Sometimes he uses them as writing quills. Fiktor isn't too good around people, as he seems crazy and unpleasant to look at by most, but he's a nice guy.

-Faktoid is his robot friend, who can search through databases and satellites to get info on almost anything. Fiktor uses that as references to help with his stories. He is also Fiktor's personal spell-checker.

This design was fun to come up with, and I think I have it finalized now. Main inspirations were the names based of "fact" and "fiction", a pencil, and birds who pick their feathers from stress etc.