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Date Posted: 13:18:34 08/14/02 Wed
Author: Carmen
Subject: [young]

[the small creature skitters through the streets, dodging folk left and right, a blur. Most dismissed the being as a cat, a simple stray. They were partially right... Finally stopping, the small beast is finally visible. Her tail flicks, the young catling tucking herself out of sight and out of mind in a niche. Half-starved and lonely, the small femme sought company - a home. Yet even as she sat, she knew it was barely possible... Pointed ears swivel, cat-eyes searching, wary. Folk scared her... None cared for her... She scrambled out into the fray once again, scruffy, thin and ever so catlike...]
Dubbing - Carmen
Age - not more than 5
Gender - female
Breed - Catling (a mutt of a Catling - predominantly lion but a blend of a great deal of other types, including tiger)
Appearance - hunched over most of the time, runs generally on all fours. can stand/walk/run upright, but doesn't prefer it. Fur is a luxurious sandy gold, gleaming in the sunlight - when it's not caked with mud and grime from the streets. Cat-eyes are also gold.
Personality - fearful, shy, skittish. a social outcast of sorts. May occasionally trust a few beings, but won't go out of her way to start relationships...
History - A very troubled past, father unknown, mother dying not long after she was born. They became strays, her and her older brother Cameo. Her brother called her Carmen, after remembering his mother's desire to name her next child Carmen. Her brother knows more about their past than she, and 5 years older he cared for her best he could. They were shunned by civilization, their mother being an outcast and their father unknown to most and not respected in the least. Cameo knew who their father was, but refused to tell his sibling or their clan, sentencing both to a life on the streets as long as they lived with that clan, teaching her as much weaponry and fighting as he could with his knowledge of the matters, and they constantly experimented and developed new techniques not taught by the catlings. When Carmen was three, they started to move - it wasn't doing them any good to try to live where no one cared about them, and a famine was in progress so it waas increasingly hard to find food. An accident befell them, her brother being struck by an arrow by a fellow catling - they figured that since the outcasts weren't members of the clan and leaving, they were fair game for the starving clan. The injury was not fatal, catching him on the shoulder. A scuffle arose, Cameo fending off the onslaught of the hunting party. He and Carmen had learned how to battle on the streets, and easily toppled the party - but others had called for help, and they fled as soon as the last catling in the party fell. Carmen wasn't seriously injured, as her brother did the most fighting, and they progressed. Time passed, until before a town her brother told her to continue, stating the eventual destination: An'kor. There he felt they could make a fine beginning. A party of their old clan had trailed them, the remained succombing to starvation if they hadn't fled. This was the last she saw of her brother, as she fled for a great deal of towns, stopping to admire a performer as he worked his 'magic'. She stayed with him for a great deal of a while, picking up tricks and tips on performing on the streets, and became his assistant. Yet she couldn't get An'kor, nor her promise to her brother, out of her mind. She had feared he had perished, but still hoped he lived and sought her still. When her friend the performer, the only being she'd trusted besides her brother, was killed accidentally by a guard who mistook the performer for a criminal, she decided to be true to her brother and continue to An'kor... And here she is... Little did she know her brother suffered an ordeal of his own, yet still lived and still trailed her, in hopes of reuniting with her... (ooc - he's coming soon :)

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(ooc - a bit more...>) -- Carmen, 13:26:39 08/14/02 Wed
- (ooc - age change -> she's about 9-10 now...) (NT) -- Carmen, 11:24:00 10/03/02 Thu