Thank you very much! I'm glad to hear my characters had an appeal to a passing stranger.

Scott (the blue guy with the chain) was made first, and I gave him stripes to imply criminal undertones. Everyone else of his species, Scatterbrain included, was made by making bootleg versions of him. If you like drawing something, then just make more of it. So they all kind of have that going on, but you're right in guessing that it was pushed very intentionally on Scatterbrain. She has the most obvious prisoner stripes because crime is more central to her motives. Everyone else has vices or personal problems that incidentally lead to breaking the law, whereas she does it with purpose.

As for her sentence, that's a project for the future to tell as a short story. Maybe as a break between chapters. But the gag is that she wasn't a criminal at all in the beginning, and got mixed in with a bunch of prisoners doing some kind of work along a road in striped outfits. It's as silly and straightforward as that.

I often do think about how their spines probably suck to slip past your skin. Thank you for dropping that movie reference, writing it down because she is French and that title alone makes it 10x funnier to spin her around in a circle at breakneck speed.