Post by Maple on Apr 24, 2018 4:05:38 GMT
SophieOh, mirror in the sky
What is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?BASIC INFORMATION
Name: Sophie
Gender: Female
Age: 46 moons
Sexuality: Homosexual
Affiliation: Patria
Residence: Patrian Cottage
Rank: MatriarchPERSONALITY
Appearance: Longfurred chocolate molly with yellow eyes.
General Description: Sophie is a cat with good intentions. She wants to help her colony, relishes in the position she was promised at birth, and cares very deeply for all of her cats. She tries to have a personal relationship with each and every one of them. Yes, she might have good intentions, but sometimes things go awry. Sophie is deeply paranoid and exhibits symptoms of PTSD. She has trouble falling asleep and an even harder time staying that way. Nightmares come to her every night. She's very paranoid and frequently has to patrol the borders and camp to make sure that everything is safe for her cats.
Strengths: Communication, Problem Solving, Kit Rearing, Teamwork
Weaknesses: Speed, Paranoia, Possessive, Pedantic
Goals/Ambitions: Making Patria the safest place in all the land to rear your kits. Creating a warm, stable environment where mollies can be themselves
Worst Fear: Toms and Nightmares
Likes: Rabbits, Birdsong, Kits, Her Family
Dislikes: Fish, Badgers, Toms, Sleeping
Habits: Restlessly patrolling the territory and campFAMILY
- Seraph -- Mother -- Longfurred brown molly with yellow eyes. -- UFA
Sunbeam -- Daughter -- Mostly ginger chocolate tortoiseshell with blue eyes -- deceasedSandy -- Daughter -- Lilac calico with blue eyes -- deceasedSummer -- Daughter -- Longfurred lilac calico with yellow eyes -- deceasedSkye -- Daughter -- Longfurred white molly with yellow eyes -- deceasedSienna -- Son -- Chocolate tom with yellow eyes. -- deceased- Shiloh -- Daughter -- Chocolate molly with orange eyes -- UFA
- Sylvia -- Daughter -- Chocolate tabby with orange eyes -- UFA
- Countless younger siblings
HISTORYSophie was the only kit born to the matriarch of Patria, Seraph, in her first litter. The mother was smitten with her daughter immediately, naming her as her successor as soon as it was clear that she would survive infancy. Such is the way of Patrian cats. Her kithood was relatively uneventful. She was much loved by her mother and colony, didn't stir up trouble, and was an obedient and affectionate kit.Her training seasons went just as swiftly and easily as her kithood. Sophie trained under her mother Seraph in the ways of hunting, fighting, empathy, and leadership. She trained for much longer than your average cat due to the path ahead of her. Her training was ended when her mother fell pregnant once again. There was no father in the picture, as is often the case with Patrians, and Sophie was happy for her mother. With this announcement came the announcement that Sophie was now a full citizen of Patria. She wouldn't take on a leadership position until her mother's retirement, and she was content with that.When the kits were born, Sophie found herself longing for a family of her own. She wanted to bring life into this world as her mother had, to nurture and care for the lives of little ones and carry on a legacy of her own. She went out and found a tom relatively easily. He didn't want a future together and neither did she. She fell pregnant with his kits and the loner continued his wandering.As time went on however, Sophie found herself longing for a partner to share this joy with. Her mother had surely never felt this way, so why did she? Sophie found herself out wandering the territory more and more frequently. One of these many times she met a tom named Hayneedle. He was a handsome one, with black and ginger shaded fur and yellow eyes. He spoke purposefully and smoothly, held himself with pride, and had a certain air to him that attracted Sophie ever so much. The two began meeting nightly on the edge of Patria's territory closest to the Park.Eventually Hayneedle told her that if she allowed him to join Patria, he would help raise her kits as a father. Sophie was overjoyed. She went straight home to ask her mother. Seraph said no without hesitation. Heartbroken, Sophie asked her time and time again over the course of her pregnancy. Eventually after meeting the tom, she reluctantly agreed. She could never say no to her eldest. This decision would turn out to be a very bad one.The kits were born and all seemed well. The new father was taken with them immediately. Sophie couldn't have loved the five of them more if she tried. Yes, five kits! She had been blessed. Unlike her mother, she didn't choose a successor immediately as she was not yet leader.Kithood went well for the five kits- until they reached the age of two months old. Sophie and Hayneedle had taken the five youngsters out for a walk in the forest when the unexpected happened. Hayneedle turned on the family. Before Sophie even realized what was going on, he had killed three of her kits and was moving on to the fourth. He was attacking them! Sophie watched, frozen in horror, as he killed the last two of her kits. All of her daughters and her only son.... Gone in the blink of an eye. Sophie lunged at her former mate and the two wrestled in the dirt. She asked him why, and he didn't answer. He told her that he would make their deaths- and hers- look like a fox attack.Sophie was weak and near death when Seraph showed up. She'd heard the screeching from the cottage and had come to investigate. Seraph tried to kill Hayneedle, but he managed to escape into the deep forest. The heavily injured Sophie wept in her mother's embrace over the bodies of her kits, swearing that she should have listened to her and insisting on what a fool she'd been. Her mother, while she'd been suspicious all along, still comforted her daughter.Seasons passed, and Sophie started the slow process of recovery. She swore off of toms, believing them all to have hidden intentions and dark hearts. She focused on forming relationships with her fellow Patrians, learning to become Matriarch, and helping her mother with her kits. Seraph gave birth to two more litters during the seasons that Sophie spent recovering and learning.Eventually Seraph was getting up in the years and decided to retire, leaving Sophie as the leader of Patria. By this time Sophie finally felt like she had matured enough and was ready. Her leadership sprung Patria into a prosperous time. The borders were safer than ever, cats were happy, food was always on paw. Life was good.It was during this time that Sophie decided that she wanted kits of her own again. She wasn't exactly young anymore and needed an heir. Not only that, but she wanted... a second chance. A chance to do things right and give her kits the life they deserved. She went out and conceived with a passerby tom. There was no emotional connection, no long-term commitment, she barely knew the tom's name. And that was how Sophie wanted to keep things. She still didn't trust toms- she just wanted to use their reproductive capabilities. She and the passerby parted ways amicably.Sophie bore the kits in the attic of the Patrian cottage. There were two mollies. One a chocolate tabby, one solid chocolate. Sophie loved them with all of her heart and vowed to protect them with her life. She named them Sylvia and Shiloh.Currently, Sophie is training her daughters in the ways of leadership and Patrian culture. She has yet to choose which one will be her heir and loves them both equally. She works hard to make sure that the cats of Patria are safe and happy, frequently patrolling the borders and chasing off any outsiders. For the most part life is good.OTHERLink to adoption thread: hereWell, I've been afraid of changin''Cause I've built my life around youBut time makes you bolderEven children get older
