FXPlug making text objects

how can i get a plugin to generate a text object?
i have literally thousands of text objects that will be moving and doing it all by hand is tedious and you can all agree its mega slow and difficult to make changes and apply behaviors to them all

(creative cow was it?)
ok, i'll try give more detail
say i have 1000 words, and i want them to exist for a certain amount of frames.
during the time they exist they will animate (keyframe animation is sufficient).
at a certain frame the word's outline will change and then a behavior will activate on that word, and the character will individually vanish in a fancy way
what i want to do with FX plug is read in a text file that contains the words, their life span, and where/when they will animate. This part is easy, it's just basic Objective C stuff
specific to motion, i want the FX Plug to create a text object for each word that it reads with certain properties.
i want the user to be able to control the colour of the outline of the words. The problem is, is that each word will have a different style attached to them and as far as i can tell, you can select all text objects and mass modify their outline colour (that is, modify all the outline colours at once)
so i want to create the UI (easy) that will mass modify all the text object's outline colour
I also want to mass apply a behavior that will trigger at the unique frame that the word should "die"
so, in summary
i need the FX plug to:
- read in a text file (easy, i can do that already)
- create a text object that exists for a certain length of time, and animates transformation values
- keyframe the outline (information provided by the text file)
- change the colour of the outline of ALL words at once
- apply a behavior that will trigger at a certain unique frame (specified by the text file for a particular word)
is this possible in motion?

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