Post by Triplen on Feb 24, 2013 10:26:06 GMT -5
THE IMPORTANT STUFF
NAME:Syringa (Syri)
GENDER: Female
AGE: 4 Years
CASTE: Artisan
SPECIES: North American Cougar
RANK: CommonerBRIEF APPEARANCE OVERVIEW
HEIGHT: 2 feet at shoulder
WEIGHT: 90 pounds
LENGTH: 6.9 ft long with tail
GENETIC BUILD: Syri’s tawny pelt has always had a healthy glow about it, with the fur along her back and flank taking a more golden shade than most other cougars. Her chest and face are of the typical pale ashy colouring of others of her species and her ears are a faded grey. Her whiskers are long and well-kept while her nose reveals a bright shade of pink, almost red, which matches her glowing pelt.
In build, Syringa is longer than the average female cougar and is slightly underweight for her height. The muscle she has is weak and she tires easily as she rarely partakes in strenuous activity due to her injured back leg.
EYE COLOR: Dark teal.
SPECIAL MARKS: Syringa’s right hind leg is much weaker than her other legs, with the paw twisted at an odd angle. After having broken it badly as a cub, the bone and muscle healed awkwardly, allowing Syringa to tread on it delicately but giving her a lopsided limp in her walk. Syringa does her best to conceal her injury and will not run or walk hurriedly unless forced.PERSONALITY SYNOPSIS
LIKES: Talking about politics, mythology, reading and writing, cubs, socializing, sunny days, her sisters, friendly argument.
DISLIKES: Being treated like a cripple, having to run, climbing, swimming, rain, stupid cats, her father, feeling helpless, the parliamentary caste.
STRENGTHS: Syringa’s greatest strength is easily her mind. Even before ‘the accident’, the young cougar took a great interest in reading and listening to the opinions of others, and her favourite word was ‘why?’ After her injury, when she spent most of her time lying around, she continued to strive for knowledge. She taught herself a wide range of vocabulary by reading anything and everything she could get her paws on. While other cubs spent their younger years developing their strength and physical skills, Syri developed her mind. Consequently, she is now one of the more learned of the Artisans. She loves a good argument, particularly on the concepts of politics and loves hearing stories about the Condemnation and the days before.
Syri’s a hardworking soul, never one to lay back and accept a bad situation. Determined and energetic, Syringa’s a born planner and likes to find practical uses for items and ideas rather than float around in hypothetical ones.
Finally, Syri’s a good teacher. Her love for little cubs has helped her become skilled in explaining things in a simple way and, although she can be strict and impatient, an inquisitive cub can learn much from Syringa.
WEAKNESSES: Although one would think that a hindering leg injury would teach lessons of patience to a young cougar, Syri has broken that idea. Syringa may be able to control her impatience around younger cats but her quick temper cannot withstand anyone older. She’ll flare up quickly if anyone treats her as anything less than an equal and while she respects that others can have different opinions from her, she maintains that she still has the right to dislike their opinions.
Humility isn’t something that comes easily to Syri either. Proud and sure of herself, Syringa can be stubborn with her ideas and refuses to believe she could ever be wrong.
Physically, Syri is weakened by her unfortunate lameness. Her healthy coat and spirit show clearly that, had her leg remained sound, Syri would have made a fine, strong puma. As it is, a simple run tires her out, not to mention brings up cramps which remind her of the incessant pain she suffered when she first broke the leg. While Syri doesn’t let her injury stop her from getting what she wants, it has made her clumsy and slow. She rarely hunts her own prey, relying on getting her meals from her sisters or friends. If she does catch anything, it has to be slower than her awkward gallop and deaf enough to not be able to hear her clumsy footsteps coming.
GOALS AND DESIRES: Syri wants to set up some sort of organized schooling system for young cubs with a syllabus and educational system. She believes that an untrained mind makes them no better than the prey they eat and is tries to encourage others to learn to read and write.
Like many others, Syringa has ideas about how to fix the Condemnation of the castes. However, she knows that it takes great numbers to implement a political system and often not without bloodshed. She dreams of the day when her ideas can be implemented to raise the artisans into the world of politics.
More realistically, Syri’s thought about having cubs of her own. She typically feels lonely after playing and talking to the cubs of other cats and wants to find someone to share her thoughts and ideas with.
FEARS AND PHOBIAS: Being lame, Syri has never run out of nightmares involving her being left behind. She hates swimming and is careful around large bodies of water, scared that someone will topple her over into the freezing dragging clutches of wetness.COMPRESSED HISTORY
FATHER: Chester (Chess)[Alive]
MOTHER: Nah’r [Deceased]
SIBLINGS: Two Sisters: her litter-mate Kalmia, [Alive] and their younger sibling Lilium [Alive]
LOVERS: None
OFFSPRING: None
OTHER RELATIONS: None
HISTORY: Syringa was born on a biting winter morning, sharing her birthday with her sister Kalmia and a still born brother who was never named. Their mother, Nah’r, was devastated by the dead cub and poured her grief into caring for her two remaining children. Naturally, Syringa grew up spoiled and sure of herself. As a youngsters, Kalmia would race around the Artisan camp and play with other cubs while Syringa would spend most of her time bothering adults by listening to stories or scrounging for books. When she did play with other cubs, she was a natural at starting up arguments which often ended in fights.
Syri never really liked her father, from whom she inherited her impatient tendencies and quick temper. He would yell a lot and disliked her arguments and ideas, and she felt he was constantly trying to stem any flow of creativity in her. Although she couldn’t see it, her father did love her and her sister but wasn’t very good at showing it. A little while after Lilium was born, a year after Syri and Kalmia, Chester left Nah’r. Nah’r was deeply hurt and this time her sadness did not aid her in raising her new cub. Thus, Syri spent a great deal of time with her little sister, and it is from this time that she began to enjoy teaching younger cubs.
At 2 years old, Syringa was running in the frigid rain along the incident did lead to one good peaks of the mountainous chain with Kalmia at night. They had encountered the tracks of a pack of wolves and Syringa, curious to know more about the animals, did the opposite of normal protocol and followed them. Kalmia, afraid to let her sister go alone, had followed. Chaos erupted when the two sisters turned a corner and came face to face with the pack. Their flight down the mountain led to the most calamitous event in Syri’s life. In the stormy weather and torrential downpour, Syri slipped and plunged over a cliff. The fall was not large enough to be lethal but Syri took the brunt of fall directly on her right hind leg. Kalmia reached her quickly, trying desperately to move Syri away but failed. Just as the wolves reached them, Nah’r appeared. She had heard the commotion and arrived just in time to save the sisters’ lives. She fought valiantly, but was injured seriously by the time other cats arrived to chase the pack away. Nah’r died a day later.
Syringa was shocked by the night’s events and spent her time recovering drowsing in and out of nightmares of her mother’s death only to wake to the continuous pain in her leg and the sharp, cutting knowledge that her mother had died saving her. After she had recovered, Syringa still spent some time reading alone, refusing to talk to anyone, least of all Chester when he tried to comfort her. Eventually, it was little Lilium who broke through, and for a few months the growing cub would visit her elder sister daily to chat and ask questions.
Today, Syringa has immersed herself into social life once more. While her mother’s death hit her hard, she was too sensible to blame herself. Her leg healed irregularly and she grew to hate the limp she developed, trying her best not to show it in her walk. The incedent did lead to one good outcome: Syringa’s studies. She delved deeper into the world of books and learning that she was so curious about and has now grown to love it, making teaching and learning her ultimate passion.IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU
NAME: Triplen. Trips if you want I guess =)
GENDER: Female
ASPIRATIONS: I’M CAPSLOCK EXCITED!
OTHER CHARACTERS: Syringa’s my first
CODE WORD: [omitted ha ha]