If Cory's name was Pete he could seamlessly replace a certain small astromech droid...
Guess every RPG group needs someone like him ;-)

Cory could also easily replace a certain often-teased character from a now-finished webcomic or a certain user of red magic...
There are a lot of RPG groups with players like that.

All those strange hair colors in the One Piece universe could logically be traced to weird ancestry? Zoro is green-haired, and he is both part giant and part fishman. A messed-up gene pool could explain quite a lot of the strangeness. If only explanations could be as simple in all other manga/animes ^^
Also, I wonder what ancestry Coby has, that explains the bubble gum hair.

My guess? Banshee. Something quasi-living with magical ties to fear.

Coby's actually the second child of Kirby and Jigglypuff (specifically BitF's universe), but he has been forced to be a human because Palutena predicted he would be the savior of five dimensions. He was sent far, far away from his birthplace in a different form to avoid detection of the team-up of Kefka & the Joker, who want the secret mega powers inside of him. On the Harvest Moon on his 24th birthday, (Kirby was a farmer in a past life, and Jigglypuff was Teri Bauer), he shall morph into his true form and CLAIM HIS BIRTHRIGHT AS THE SUPER SAYIN SHINY POKEMON KIRBYPUFF!!!!

...Well, you asked.