[fancypost bgcolor=transparent; border: 0px solid transparent; height: 75px; width: 400px; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 10px; color: peachpuff; text-align: justify; overflow:auto;]❥ APPEARANCE (scroll) Breed . Domestic feline
Physical Diseases/Deformities . Way has no noticeable disabilities that someone could tell about him upon first glance. However, he is partly deaf in his left ear, so he struggles to hear out of it on occasion. But no visible imperfections can be seen on him, which is a positive for the very average-looking male.
Eye Color . Grey Pelt Color . Brown tabby Pelt Pattern . White spotting Size/Build . Average, no distinguished features
Detailed Appearance . Waylife, as a base color to his pelt, is a brown tabby cat. It is as simple as it sounds, that he is just a tabby cat with a few white spots. He is nothing special, without a customized pelt or particular shades to add contrast to any bit of him, and yet in his own way is he beautiful. Seeing as the light color that his coat has is already quite splendid and not too common to see as patterns like calico, mackeral, or mink often accompany the shade, it could give him some diversity to his otherwise bland-looking appearance. So, even though he is an average domestic feline with no special second color or beauty to his fur, the color and pattern, or in his case lack of, is enough to give him a second glance at first impression of appearance. Plus, he has just the right amount of white to frame his figure that the brown isn't too simple so that he's boring, but his patterning and coloring isn't too advanced that he stands out too much in a crowd and gets negative stares along with positive. He blends in to the crowd, but looks spectacular doing so. That is the advantage of being plain, in his case.
Way is no dashing prince, nor does he have impressive scars to base his stunning tales of slaying a beast or rescuing someone in need. He isn't naturally muscularly built and he certainly is not taller than the average male. He is, in sad truth, quite average compared to most everyone that he knows or will soon know. But then, in the world where dragons are not uncommon, he is perhaps below average. He has no broadness to his shoulders or particular tallness to his ears. His tail isn't too short or too long, and his paws are a perfectly normal size to fit the normality of his entire figurine. And it can be said that those who are average are boring and that diversity can make one stand out from the crowd. But really, if Waylife is what he is being described as the cliche average, would that not make him diverse? He has a standard set of shoulders, legs that aren't lengthy or stubs, and facial features that happen to be almost symmetrical to each other, or at least enough so that they aren't noticeable or strange. He is, to put it simply, very normally built.
Now, as mentioned before, Waylife is quite the average guy. He has no special beauty to him, no amazing traits to make him stand out of a crowd. However, a boring flower may a beautiful leaf pattern. A deformed child will have an adorable grin. A dirty pile of snow has millions of tiny, unique, gorgeous crystals inside of it. And he, though nothing of the mentioned items before, has his own beautiful leaf pattern. Metaphorically, of course. But his beauty and his radiance come not from his pelt nor from the build of him, but from his eyes. Those small, unnoticeable pair of eyes located on his face that no one ever sees. But it's true that they are Way's redeeming quality. They are what can cause him to look stunning, to actually be seen and noticed without speaking. For his eyes really are quite a spectacle. They are gray, already different from the usual blue or brown of most domesticated animal's eye coloring. But they aren't the gray of a sky filled with thunderous clouds. Nor the gray of slush after a large snowfall. No, they are more of that gray of the sky after a few hours of rain. The gray of a puddle in early dawn. They are that light, almost white gray that is just enough off of the snowy color that they aren't beige, but are instead gray. It's just too bad that his eyes are always covered by a pair of orange shades all the time, or he really could be a pretty tom. As put earlier, Way is average. Normal. Nothing out of the ordinary, just a basic old tom. But what does that really mean? What is the regular appearance of a cat, and how does this specific one fit that description? Well, to fully grasp what is being said, the context of each part of him must be looked at. And so, first comes the shape of his head. Now, since he is common by appearance, naturally his head is neither too large nor too small. It is right in between the scale of head sizes. On a range of numbers one through ten it is a five. If his head were a color between black and white it would be gray. It is nothing special. Like most heads, it has just enough roundness and just enough straight edges to look like it should, with no out of the ordinary bumps or permanent bruises to make it disfigured. And while being so normal as he is may sound a bit disheartening, the fact that the shape of his head was left alone from any disordered looks is a blessing in itself, so perhaps in that way it is a good thing to be in his position. Waylife's jawline is squared. Not rounded and chubby so that the edges are hidden, not pointed so that he has a defined chin. But while he has a square jaw, he doesn't have the face of a box and the sides of his bones aren't jagged and cube-like. They are rounded enough to look, again, normal; right in the middle, where he seems to really belong.
Next on the agenda of his overall appearance would have to be the structure of his face. While the shape and bones have been described, the features that line his face have been left out and yet to be told of. His face is asymmetrical, as all things in life will be. However, it is not so much so that one of his eyes is clearly more lopsided than the other. They look to be almost perfect when lined up right next to each other as eyes will be, with no specialties that make one different. But of course there will always be something strange, something to break what could be perfection. And though his appearance is such a regular one, he is no exception. This goes for his ears as well. They aren't tall and thin, and they aren't short and round either. There's no tuft of fur at the tops, no ruffled bottoms or anything. They are triangular, medium sized, and sit on either side of his forehead like two sides of a stereotypical bow. However, the left ear is more slanted than the right, giving that asymmetrical quality that life needs just to let nothing be perfect in it. And Way's mouth, while looking to be the same all around, has its own differences as well. One side of it, the right to be precise, has a slight curviture at the end that could be seen in a smirk. However, this is just its common posture, and is totally and completely unintended on Way's part. And though these little details are there, they are small, and are easily passed by. Only one who noticed the fine details in life would be able to truly see them. So, to the outside world, Way looks totally and completely ... normal.
But describing his head and facial features alone would hardly be fair to the rest of him. And so, moving downwards it can be immediately seen that Waylife has quite the defined collarbone. It sticks out like any living thing's should, with the most shadowed and outlined part of it being the front, each one mirroring the other, meeting up just about at his neck but still leaving a space in between for breathing. And as the collarbone moves outwards it fades into the thin line of skin that covers his body, disappearing into the rest of his bones that aren't so clearly seen as that one, which is meant to be displayed so as to fit with how one should look. His shoulders, too, are just barely shadowed the right way and have enough definity to be spotted as well, and don't just mold into his chest like they are nonexistent. They are rounded at the tops, showing that they're there but not so much as to make him appear anorexic or especially thin. It just seems that, as mentioned earlier, Waylife has especially thin fur and skin, giving him a more bony appearance. So perhaps that is his innormality. That would be a good thing, separating him from the cliches.
Way has all the right curves in his back, the downward dip of his spine that arches back up. The stub of a tail bone that allows for his tail to move freely. The backward bending of his rear legs that allow them to hold up his horizontally positioned body. He looks like a cat that could be drawn by a young child upon first learning what cats really look like. Or, for more accuracy and detail, the depiction of a domestic feline etched into a science textbook for all to read and gain knowledge on. He looks just like he should, like cats are supposed to look, with nothing personal to him but the fact that he looks so average. But perhaps that is his speciatly, apart from the coloring of his eyes. Perhaps that's what sets him apart from others, is the fact that he looks the same. For it seems as though every living being has their own traits, their own curviture of their arms or an unusually long neck or disfigured eyes. And so, the fact that he looks so much like a textbook depiction of a cat makes him unique, makes him his own. And though it's strange that what sets him apart from the rest is what brings them all together to look the same, that is who he is. And it won't be changing anytime soon. [/fancypost]
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