Post by toadfoal on Jun 1, 2015 5:58:22 GMT
Name: Cenek
(though technically incorrect, as an American I and most others tend to prononce it "cynic")
Kit name: Carl
Gender: Male
Birth Season: Fall
Age: 4 years
Tribe: Shadow
Breed: Turkish Angora
Tribe: Shadow Tribe
Tribe's Tattoo: Silver-Shadow
Profession: Shadow Tribe Leader (previously Guard)
Remaining Lives: 9
Skills:
Disappearing in the Shadows
- You can hide yourself by merging yourself with a shadow, but not moving along with a shadow.
Shadows Around Me
- You can control small shadows that are located within your sight range and cause them to change shape at will.
Shadow Walking
- You can immerse yourself in shadows and walk around with them camouflaging you so you are unseen by any eyes.
Shadow Sphere
- The user summons shadows into a solid, head-sized ball and hurls it at an opponent. This will knock back the one hit and create a large welt.
Walking Through Shadows 1
- You can "teleport" yourself over small distances using shadows. This skill may take more skill and effort to master than most others.
Secondary
Seeing the Soul
Mental Projection
- Using a true name, you can project your emotions (positive or negative) onto a recipient.
-Signature Move
None
Build: It's difficult to pin Cenek as being particularly large or small. He's agile, but not too fast, powerful, but not muscular. Most of the reason why he's been so successful as a deputy and an active war-lover is his ferocity. He makes up for his lack of physical strengths with pure, ruthless determination. It helps that his eyes and mind are keen, and he is still in his prime years of life. Otherwise, he's really somewhat ordinary.
Because his fur is white and relatively thin (he sheds a lot), scars tend to show through fairly easily, and just as many heal with time. His right ear was partially torn off in a fight, and since medical treatment was best left to those in desperate need, he didn't have it looked at until it became infected and sort of... Wilted.
Scars:
* Had a neck scar that was visible from age 1-4, his fur eventually thickened enough to cover it
Personality:
Blunt: Cenek doesn't sugar-coat things. It doesn't seem to be a skill he ever learned, so he's prone to sounding a bit harsh. Or really harsh, it depends on the situation. He isn't really the cat you'd want to get bad news from, but despite that, he usually means well.
Loyal: Both his best quality and worst flaw. Cenek is loyal to his death, both to his leader, and his Tribe. He would do anything to help ensure that Shadow Tribe rises to the top, including killing innocents. He's smart enough not to go after members of other Tribes in cold blood, but if he gets a chance he won't feel the least bit guilty killing them in battle. Unfortunately, he also fails to see any flaws within his Tribe. He'll stand by his fellows even if they decide to jump off a cliff.
Diplomatic: He may be a bit of an extreme nationalist when it comes to his Tribe, but Cenek isn't evil. He knows how to get along with other cats, and is glad to make alliances and friendships with cats in all Tribes if he thinks it will further his cause or benefit him in the future. He believes in the saying, "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer". Though admittedly his success rate in this area is rather questionable.
Patient: Cenek has a pretty strong will when it comes to listening to boring conversations or taking care of noisy kits. He isn't really that fond of kits, but he can handle them without going crazy. He might try to scare them into behaving, but he won't yell.Thoughtful: It might be a bit of a stretch to say that Cenek is overflowing with wisdom, but he is thoughtful. He doesn't like to rush into situations without considering their consequences. Unless he's given orders, in which case he will push his own judgement to the side. He might try to hint at what he thinks, but he'll always obey orders.
Well-meant: The Silver-Shadow is not the most beloved of Silvers, nor will he ever be for a number of reasons that are generally of no fault but his own. Despite this, he often does mean well. Everything Cenek does is for a reason that, in his mind, works towards the greater good. He is prone to antagonizing others, but he will not necessarily shy away from helping a stranger in need either. Often he feels tremendous guilt regarding his past wrongs (which generally goes unspoken) and will occasionally make attempts to atone for his sins.
Intolerant: Cenek has a habit of not letting things go. Perhaps this stands as a sign of his old fashioned ways, but it is undoubtedly something he struggles with almost constantly. He cannot let go of hatred. He cannot let go of tribal differences. He cannot let go of old ghosts.
Self-Pitying: Cenek oozes self-pity. It is something he is plagued by and something he struggles to overcome. He seems to have some idea that either everything is his fault. But if anyone else knew, it would be the end of the world. Although he would deny it in an instant, the Yellow-Shadow has a tendency to teeter on the balance of mental stability, and this is but one symptom of that battle to remain functional.
Parents- Unknown
Siblings- Unknown
Mate- None
Soulbond: None
Rp Example:
It was a quaint young world in which a troupe of like-minded fellows did subsist. They found joy together in simple things, feline endeavors. Within their minds did great plumes spring, fine tufted ears and coils for caudals. They birthed their world and sat as gods upon a throne of osseous matter, led by one with a visage bright as flame.
And there they did indulge in fancy follies, games of crack which offered many an occasion in which they might giggle to themselves. But all was not well. For they did discover there the path all mortals are bound to take. For in the end are we not all but food for worms? They set to path their words in trains of thought, and whispered. Sleep. Yonder doth the sun rise and rain upon the beaks of man in hunger so divine. Divine the right to speak, the right to scrawl upon paper the thoughts of man in immortality.
Speak not, thy weary souls in need of softer sugars than words could satisfy. Utopia, in all their glory, did lie still beyond their mindful reach. And yet are we not all mortals? Ah! Mortals indeed! Mortals in company were they bound to thus succeed. An end should not be reached, that they may quiet forever more.
So now they rest their weary tongues. They’ve said their words. Now they be done. And sleep should claim them in the night, to take them towards a brighter day when they might keep what they have sewn and grow what should be grown.
(though technically incorrect, as an American I and most others tend to prononce it "cynic")
Kit name: Carl
Gender: Male
Birth Season: Fall
Age: 4 years
Tribe: Shadow
Breed: Turkish Angora
Tribe: Shadow Tribe
Tribe's Tattoo: Silver-Shadow
Profession: Shadow Tribe Leader (previously Guard)
Remaining Lives: 9
Skills:
Primary
Seeing in the Dark
- You can see with full clarity even in places where there is no light. This skill will work even for those who are entirely blind.
Seeing in the Dark
- You can see with full clarity even in places where there is no light. This skill will work even for those who are entirely blind.
Disappearing in the Shadows
- You can hide yourself by merging yourself with a shadow, but not moving along with a shadow.
Shadows Around Me
- You can control small shadows that are located within your sight range and cause them to change shape at will.
Shadow Walking
- You can immerse yourself in shadows and walk around with them camouflaging you so you are unseen by any eyes.
Shadow Sphere
- The user summons shadows into a solid, head-sized ball and hurls it at an opponent. This will knock back the one hit and create a large welt.
Walking Through Shadows 1
- You can "teleport" yourself over small distances using shadows. This skill may take more skill and effort to master than most others.
Secondary
Seeing the Soul
- You can see the flow of energy through the body of other animals, including the unborn. This is what is referred to as the soul.
Meditation
- You have strict control over your own emotions, including the ability to blend them out at will.
Control Through the Name 1
- Using your understanding of souls and names, you gain the ability to control small animals and insects by commanding them with their true names.
For example: Thinking the name "firefly" will allow you to control one (or many depending on your level of expertise) firefly.Meditation
- You have strict control over your own emotions, including the ability to blend them out at will.
Control Through the Name 1
- Using your understanding of souls and names, you gain the ability to control small animals and insects by commanding them with their true names.
Mental Projection
- Using a true name, you can project your emotions (positive or negative) onto a recipient.
-Signature Move
None
Build: It's difficult to pin Cenek as being particularly large or small. He's agile, but not too fast, powerful, but not muscular. Most of the reason why he's been so successful as a deputy and an active war-lover is his ferocity. He makes up for his lack of physical strengths with pure, ruthless determination. It helps that his eyes and mind are keen, and he is still in his prime years of life. Otherwise, he's really somewhat ordinary.
Because his fur is white and relatively thin (he sheds a lot), scars tend to show through fairly easily, and just as many heal with time. His right ear was partially torn off in a fight, and since medical treatment was best left to those in desperate need, he didn't have it looked at until it became infected and sort of... Wilted.
Scars:
* Had a neck scar that was visible from age 1-4, his fur eventually thickened enough to cover it
Personality:
Blunt: Cenek doesn't sugar-coat things. It doesn't seem to be a skill he ever learned, so he's prone to sounding a bit harsh. Or really harsh, it depends on the situation. He isn't really the cat you'd want to get bad news from, but despite that, he usually means well.
Loyal: Both his best quality and worst flaw. Cenek is loyal to his death, both to his leader, and his Tribe. He would do anything to help ensure that Shadow Tribe rises to the top, including killing innocents. He's smart enough not to go after members of other Tribes in cold blood, but if he gets a chance he won't feel the least bit guilty killing them in battle. Unfortunately, he also fails to see any flaws within his Tribe. He'll stand by his fellows even if they decide to jump off a cliff.
Diplomatic: He may be a bit of an extreme nationalist when it comes to his Tribe, but Cenek isn't evil. He knows how to get along with other cats, and is glad to make alliances and friendships with cats in all Tribes if he thinks it will further his cause or benefit him in the future. He believes in the saying, "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer". Though admittedly his success rate in this area is rather questionable.
Patient: Cenek has a pretty strong will when it comes to listening to boring conversations or taking care of noisy kits. He isn't really that fond of kits, but he can handle them without going crazy. He might try to scare them into behaving, but he won't yell.Thoughtful: It might be a bit of a stretch to say that Cenek is overflowing with wisdom, but he is thoughtful. He doesn't like to rush into situations without considering their consequences. Unless he's given orders, in which case he will push his own judgement to the side. He might try to hint at what he thinks, but he'll always obey orders.
Well-meant: The Silver-Shadow is not the most beloved of Silvers, nor will he ever be for a number of reasons that are generally of no fault but his own. Despite this, he often does mean well. Everything Cenek does is for a reason that, in his mind, works towards the greater good. He is prone to antagonizing others, but he will not necessarily shy away from helping a stranger in need either. Often he feels tremendous guilt regarding his past wrongs (which generally goes unspoken) and will occasionally make attempts to atone for his sins.
Intolerant: Cenek has a habit of not letting things go. Perhaps this stands as a sign of his old fashioned ways, but it is undoubtedly something he struggles with almost constantly. He cannot let go of hatred. He cannot let go of tribal differences. He cannot let go of old ghosts.
Self-Pitying: Cenek oozes self-pity. It is something he is plagued by and something he struggles to overcome. He seems to have some idea that either everything is his fault. But if anyone else knew, it would be the end of the world. Although he would deny it in an instant, the Yellow-Shadow has a tendency to teeter on the balance of mental stability, and this is but one symptom of that battle to remain functional.
Spiritual: Other than his tribe, the Spirits are basically the only other thing that Cenek really believes in. He is utterly devoted to and afraid of the Spirits, considering them the ultimate power in both this world and the next. They withheld this rise to power by appointing another Silver over him and it was only by outliving all those before him that he eventually became leader himself. Whether or not it is true, he believes that the Spirits cursed him and instead of granting him death they plan to torture him for an extended period of time to cleanse him of his sins.
Ambitious: While Cenek was always a bit ambitious, his motivations have changed significantly over time. For most of his life he was content to serve as deputy, often working "behind the scenes" to promote his own agenda. However, now that he is leader he wishes to do what is best for his tribe, and what he believes is best for his tribe is to somehow assert their power over the other tribes while retaining good diplomatic ties.
Business Inclined: It's a bit of a stretch as far as personality traits goes, but Cenek is very much politically inclined in almost everything he does. He almost always has good intentions, but most antagonists are the heroes of their own journeys. He's really a bit of a weasel about getting his point across, and is a good friend of the blackmailing technique. He's also very fond of spinning things to make it appear as if others are at fault when leverage is needed.
Not Amewsed: Never. Nope. Not once. At all.
Paranoid: While there is something to be said for Cenek's uninformed interpretations of other's intentions, most of his paranoia revolves instead around illness, be it diseases of the body or madness of the mind. He has grown to be afraid of it, perhaps afraid that interactions with the ill will leave him exposed. Even if he were immune to it all, the thought of forming bonds with unwell cats is not something he is likely to exhibit interest in, and his dislike of those who try may push his temper to uncharacteristic bounds.
Temperamental: Cenek's temper often gets the best of him at times when logic and reason (his primary resources) would suit him much better. This has been the cause of many problems throughout his life, and has earned him his fair share of enemies, even within his own tribe.
Brief History:
Cenek was born in the loner lands shortly after the first great war ended.
Though he is convinced that his parents were both Shadow Tribe cats, his mother was in fact an Orange-Earth and his father a Green-Water. He likely had litter-mates, but their fate remains a mystery to him, their very existence more than questionable. They must not have mattered much to him, or if they did, he learned quickly to live without them. His kithood, whatever it was like, was almost certainly unpleasant. He received his first scar, a jagged mark around the side of his head and neck, before he became 6 months. He remembers it being a fight with other loner cats, but given that he was born in a stretch of land with barely any other loners, this is unlikely. Since reaching adulthood his fur has grown over the scar, but it is still visible when the wind is blowing in just the right way.
Suddenly, there grew a white mark upon his face was that of Shadow Tribe, and so the young Cenek ventured forth into the mountains, in search of the place where he belonged. By some miracle he found the small place of Shadow Tribe and it quickly became the only home he had ever known.
His mentor was the Silver-Shadow, Killian, his elder by nearly four years. Yet Killian quickly became his closest friend, and when the Yellow-Shadow died in a series of unfortunate events, Cenek was quickly promoted almost immediately after his tattoo turned green. Cenek admired the strength and ruthlessness of the Silver-Shadow, his loyalty was unbreakable, so this turn of events was perhaps not surprising.
Even then, Killian had shown some signs of mental instability. They all feared him (he had murdered cats in his own tribe for calling him weak) and his harem was vast. Every female belonged to the Silver-Shadow. And so did his deputy, though arguably in a different way. Whether or not Cenek minded was irrelevant. It was the only life he had ever known, the best life he had ever known. In the mountains, he had friends, he had power, though somewhere in the back of his mind he always felt tortured by his powerlessness. But he loved the Silver-Shadow, more than anything else in the world. However, it turns out all of this was not true, Cenek lived in the mountains, but he never lived with a Shadow-Tribe. All the life he made up in his head was nothing else but a farce, and Cenek was truly alone.
One day however, Cenek left the place he had been building up for quite a while, including all of the fake hallucinations and fake memories he held there. He headed to the Tribe-Lands, he joined the real Shadow-Tribe to be a real leader, unlike the hallucinations he held in the mountains. It has been the happiest Cenek has ever been.
Family:Not Amewsed: Never. Nope. Not once. At all.
Paranoid: While there is something to be said for Cenek's uninformed interpretations of other's intentions, most of his paranoia revolves instead around illness, be it diseases of the body or madness of the mind. He has grown to be afraid of it, perhaps afraid that interactions with the ill will leave him exposed. Even if he were immune to it all, the thought of forming bonds with unwell cats is not something he is likely to exhibit interest in, and his dislike of those who try may push his temper to uncharacteristic bounds.
Temperamental: Cenek's temper often gets the best of him at times when logic and reason (his primary resources) would suit him much better. This has been the cause of many problems throughout his life, and has earned him his fair share of enemies, even within his own tribe.
Brief History:
Cenek was born in the loner lands shortly after the first great war ended.
Though he is convinced that his parents were both Shadow Tribe cats, his mother was in fact an Orange-Earth and his father a Green-Water. He likely had litter-mates, but their fate remains a mystery to him, their very existence more than questionable. They must not have mattered much to him, or if they did, he learned quickly to live without them. His kithood, whatever it was like, was almost certainly unpleasant. He received his first scar, a jagged mark around the side of his head and neck, before he became 6 months. He remembers it being a fight with other loner cats, but given that he was born in a stretch of land with barely any other loners, this is unlikely. Since reaching adulthood his fur has grown over the scar, but it is still visible when the wind is blowing in just the right way.
Suddenly, there grew a white mark upon his face was that of Shadow Tribe, and so the young Cenek ventured forth into the mountains, in search of the place where he belonged. By some miracle he found the small place of Shadow Tribe and it quickly became the only home he had ever known.
His mentor was the Silver-Shadow, Killian, his elder by nearly four years. Yet Killian quickly became his closest friend, and when the Yellow-Shadow died in a series of unfortunate events, Cenek was quickly promoted almost immediately after his tattoo turned green. Cenek admired the strength and ruthlessness of the Silver-Shadow, his loyalty was unbreakable, so this turn of events was perhaps not surprising.
Even then, Killian had shown some signs of mental instability. They all feared him (he had murdered cats in his own tribe for calling him weak) and his harem was vast. Every female belonged to the Silver-Shadow. And so did his deputy, though arguably in a different way. Whether or not Cenek minded was irrelevant. It was the only life he had ever known, the best life he had ever known. In the mountains, he had friends, he had power, though somewhere in the back of his mind he always felt tortured by his powerlessness. But he loved the Silver-Shadow, more than anything else in the world. However, it turns out all of this was not true, Cenek lived in the mountains, but he never lived with a Shadow-Tribe. All the life he made up in his head was nothing else but a farce, and Cenek was truly alone.
One day however, Cenek left the place he had been building up for quite a while, including all of the fake hallucinations and fake memories he held there. He headed to the Tribe-Lands, he joined the real Shadow-Tribe to be a real leader, unlike the hallucinations he held in the mountains. It has been the happiest Cenek has ever been.
Parents- Unknown
Siblings- Unknown
Mate- None
Soulbond: None
Rp Example:
It was a quaint young world in which a troupe of like-minded fellows did subsist. They found joy together in simple things, feline endeavors. Within their minds did great plumes spring, fine tufted ears and coils for caudals. They birthed their world and sat as gods upon a throne of osseous matter, led by one with a visage bright as flame.
And there they did indulge in fancy follies, games of crack which offered many an occasion in which they might giggle to themselves. But all was not well. For they did discover there the path all mortals are bound to take. For in the end are we not all but food for worms? They set to path their words in trains of thought, and whispered. Sleep. Yonder doth the sun rise and rain upon the beaks of man in hunger so divine. Divine the right to speak, the right to scrawl upon paper the thoughts of man in immortality.
Speak not, thy weary souls in need of softer sugars than words could satisfy. Utopia, in all their glory, did lie still beyond their mindful reach. And yet are we not all mortals? Ah! Mortals indeed! Mortals in company were they bound to thus succeed. An end should not be reached, that they may quiet forever more.
So now they rest their weary tongues. They’ve said their words. Now they be done. And sleep should claim them in the night, to take them towards a brighter day when they might keep what they have sewn and grow what should be grown.
