CEDAR
basics
name cedar
future names cedarmoon [cedar - strength, and his blue coat looked like the blue cedar he was found under. moon - both for the crescent scar he'll gain and that he's become more 'full' as a warrior]
age 5 moons
gender male
sex male
sexuality unexplored
stats
— strength ★☆☆☆☆ | young, minimal strength
— stamina ★☆☆☆☆ | minimal
— hunting ★☆☆☆☆ | mossball hunting
— swimming ☆☆☆☆☆ | not trained
— medicine ☆☆☆☆☆ | not trained
— agility ★☆☆☆☆ | minimal
— intelligence ★★☆☆☆ | young, can be guillable
training
mentor ruth [future]
moves learnt
thread name, age | thing learnt
appearance + personality
appearance
in frames ONE / TWO / THREE / FOUR
in words long haired blue silver tabby with green eyes. his face is narrow and slim, his pelt is fairly long and thick. has a very placid appearance with thin slit eyes, not often seen smiling. when he does make a rare smile it becomes crooked to one side.
over time, he will gain a scar. either the scar will be from a snake bite where the fangs were torn out, or in a fight. the scar will be a crescent shape starting from near his ear and curving around his eye to stop just before his mouth.
personality
- curious, questioning, still experiencing the world with fresh eyes
overall, i want to develop his personality through roleplay. his personality will play and change according to others. he'll start as a relatively blank slate, but eventually will start to be influenced by his past personalities.
general idea:
kit - easy to get along with. a friendly kitten, quiet despite having strong bonds with his adoptive siblings and parent. as he will learn that he is not, by birth Jailbirds' son, he would want to make sure he's seen as irreplaceable in friendship groups so as not to be abandoned again. this development makes him appear to wear a "mask" that hardly any see him without.
apprentice/tyro age - he starts wanting to please others less, and more pleasing himself. he'll start to do what makes him happy, be it skipping training or patrols or apprentice duties. around this age is when his previous personalities would start to come forwards, putting him more firmly behind the "mask" and making him doubt sanity. how could he know things that he'd never seen? battles he'd never been too? moves he knows he didn't learn from bloodclan.
at this point hopefully he knows dusk and would become selfish in wanting to keep dusk all to himself. but really, cedar would want to talk to dusk a lot, because he trusts his friend not to think he's crazy for thinking that there are voices in his head that aren't his, memories that aren't his own.
warrior - this will depend entirely what happens in the apprentice stage, but he will have moved to darkclan. (claiming its for completely unrelated reasons to dusk, of course)
platonic relations
family
unknown birth parents
jailbirds' adopted son (application)
socials
close friends | has revealed secrets to, cares for deeply |
friend | looks out for them |
interested in | curious about them, met multiple times |
romantic relations
crushes
relationship
current events + plots
current events
- getting discovered by jailbird in bloodclan, creating close relations in bloodclan
- because of abandonment issues, starting an /innocent/ collection of rocks giving him a metallic tang scent
future plots
- His past selves and their personalities really rearing their heads during his mid apprentice years. It'll have been brewing for some time.
- From his first life he was uncaring of others unless it made him look good. To play on that and as Dusk will be working towards a medic position at first, I think he will have a sense of frustration that so much time is spent on the sick when it'd be easier to leave them behind. Others may believe this belief is caused by him suddenly spending less time with one of the few people who can stand him instead of his previous personality rising up.
- His first life pushed him into a position of power when he really was not ready for it. He had the expectations of others on his back and they all believed he truly cared for them. When clan mates started to be angry, upset and threatening to him he realised that itd be more suited to someone else. He realised that Dusk was beginning to look more torn and due to a previous event knew the scent of death berries. But why ever Dusk was doing this Cedar had all his faith in him. He believed it to be a mercy killing.
- In this life I want him to have a massive aversion to berries lol
- As his second life was rped by someone else I might have Cedar not remember a lot of it especially because we don't know the reason why Cedar died (or I don't know at least)
- His third life is him being found under a blue cedar tree on the edges of Bloodclan by Jailbird. He would grow up in Bloodclan, learning about the history of the clans/the tribes and while having a bit of interest in them probably won't explore on his own. He'll be a homebody for a while until someone suggests going exploring. At this time, his personality would be one that agrees as he believes it'd be good for others to see him exploring/being adventrous. This could lead him to Darkclan to meet Dusk. (Perhaps he gets hurt and if Dusk is working towards a medic position at first, he could help him? It could give some trippy flashbacks to the 2nd life Cedar/Dusk)
- His third life is going to be a mix of learning about his self and learning about others. He will develop a sense of outwards criticism especially in training or anything where lives are at stake. It'll be because he wants the others to be able to protect themselves, but he won't know that until later on. It stems from self criticism and while he trains well for the clan he also realises he will not be a famed warrior. For this reason he makes sure he makes himself happy by doing what he wants, when he wants. Living a life of no regrets.
- I think as a young apprentice he will obviously be close to dusk. I'm not sure how friendships will work but I imagine him being fairly easy to get in with as a kit/young apprentice. It's only when he grows up does he become more critical and black/white I'm right/you're wrong mentality.
- Due to being abandoned he will start innocent enough collections, finding things he believes are valuable and keeping them. He will get overtly pissed if someone touches them, and unfortunately this will lead to relationships as well. When he gets soome space from Bloodclan, he will realise his way of thinking was not right.
OOC threads
[ 0 ] plotting thread
[ 0 ] character help
IC threads
[ 0 ] intro
[ 0 ] learning bc rules from wildseas
[ 0 ] ruth mentoring thread
mixtape
tranquility base / star treatment (thoughts about dusk) /(mostly tame impala/am)
I've had a few mean characters before, their main deal was that they got mad really easily and anyone could piss them off so from there I usually had them threaten people or just yell and insult them
But in a normal situation I usually kept them wary and alert When introducing themselves I usually made them have very straightforward ways of speaking and actually rarely told people their names unless nagged to no end or they would be very blunt about it with no real introduction.
like instead of the chara being proud/aware or acklowledging of their own evil deeds they could always be either unware or dismissive of it? for example if chara is say raised in bc, theyd ofc have a warped moral and general mindset compared to forest clanners. so thing I was thinking of having w ken was that he would try to be more positive/fun in his bc life, but through the stress of being a better guy, hed fall into violent and aggressive habits w for example cats from other clans. so the energy that goes into being a better person ups the need for coping, in this case, violence for him. but it could be innocent hobbies if its a good chara for example smthing wholesome like collecting could turn into hoarding if its an evil chara.
idk if im explainng what i mean well but, i just feel its important to have a copig mechanism fitting to the chara. so w the collecting exmaple, the more warped and evil the chara becomes, the more itll go into hoarding for exmaple
also itd be interesting depending on if ur chara understands that his actions are wrtong/evil vs he doesnt
this could also become a development thing, that at first the chara doesnt, but when more life experiances come about, seeing forest clans more etc, the understanding wouldnt phase them. or opposite or even that theyd go back on their ways/ etc
it does make a lot of sense, thank you!! it works really well too as Cedar would [not for along time but eventually] more to a clan where the coping methods he'd used in BC would just /not/ fly!
also since he'll come to learn he was abandoned, he'll want to hoarde things to make him feel like he has something ... it would make sense for it to turn into something more viscious than innocent over time!
def like the idea of him growing attatched to smth that cant emote back to him! might be some rocks or smth?? less evil but still a problem!
+ he has a longer plot growing so when he gets some space from bc he can realise that oh sh*t i dont need rocks /i need love/
> writing style, noir
especially when she goes feral and destroys
