Stare of Inrcredulous Stoat(Stoat) - ToAR HG

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STARE OF INCREDULOUS STOAT
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"There's got to be an explanation!"
she-cat : 20 moons : tribe homeguard : heterosexual

APPEARANCE: {short-furred ginger and white ticked oriental tabby}

Stoat has a long, slim body, incidentally looking just a little like her namesake though with much longer legs than an actual stoat. She has pronounced shoulders and a thick yet elegant neck, far from the most muscular of cats but clearly capable of defending herself and whoever she may be in charge of watching. Her paws are compact and her legs are strong and excellently angled, giving her an athletic edge over some of the bulkier or exceptionally slim cats among the tribe.

Her face is almost round, but has a refined sort of gauntness due to her fit built and the typical somewhat pronounced cheekbones of the tribe. Her tail is almost as long as the rest of her body, and has a pointed shape instead of a rounded one at the end. Her ears are wide-set and pointed, following the lower angle of her eyes.

In color she is a light ginger with a flecked and grizzled back of a slightly darker color, lightening considerably on her chest and belly to an apricot tone. Thin dtripes matching the darker color decorate her forehead, legs, and tail. White streams down from her nose, covering her muzzle and neck, to form a rough diamond-like shape on her chest and a smaller, similar if longer shape between her front legs. She also has half-length socks on all four legs. Her eyes are dark brown. Her nose is pink and her inner ears are pale pink. She has short and fine white whiskers.

Her voice is generally serious and while clearly feminine has a lower tone unless she's exceptionally upset.

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PERSONALITY:
{positive; logical, analytical, intelligent, self-assured}
{negative; rigid, overly skeptical, prone to crises of faith}

Stoat is driven by logic and what she can definitively prove or know by experience or common sense; she has little care for fantasy or speculation, and would rather focus on real-world matters. Critical and analytic, she has a knack for observation and divining the truth by what the facts are, but can miss things that seem too far-fetched to be believable even when it may be the only possibility left.

Generally self-confident, she has only one major weak point in her beliefs- she has a skepticism about everything, including the Tribe of Endless Hunting and other things that cannot be seen. She doesn't like to be directed by visions, trusting Firstspeaker based on his authority and skill in leading rather than his supposed ability to speak to the dead or "see" things. Even so, part of her wants to believe in an afterlife.

She is hard to convince without solid proof and is endlessly annoyed- although admittedly intrigued sometimes- by her frequent hunting partner Fox's theories.

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HISTORY: 

Born to a loving pair of parents, her mother Hiss was somewhat strict but supportive of her children's successes, and Stoat confided in her when it came to emotional crises. However, it was her father Whale that she was closer to, and they shared an enjoyment for patrolling the river together and telling old stories from prey-hunters and home-guards long passed, such as when the log first fell over. They shared nicknames based on these, secret to all but their family.

Whale passed away during her training, and she closed herself off to new friendships and her love for stories died almost completely. As his body was never found, nobody is sure what happened to him. Her mother passed a bit over a year later, of what seemed to be natural causes exasperated by an otherwise minor disease.

Her siblings were all engaged in their own interests, and while they have no bad blood between them seldom spoke then and speak even less now after their parents' passings.

Recently she's been more or less assigned to one prey-hunter in particular- Fox that Screams in Wind, who nobody else really wants to deal with. Sometimes it seems that others want her to help them prove he's actually insane and unfit for tribe duties despite being a fairly young cat.

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FAMILY:
parents
Hiss of Found Serpent[mother][deceased 56 moons; natural causes] - tribe
Whale Breaching the Shore[father][deceased 42 moons; unknown causes] - tribe

siblings
Reflection of Large Fish[brother][alive] - tribe

Call of Distant Bird[sister][deceased 16 moons; disease] - tribe

Glimpse of Far Away Vole[brother][alive] - tribe

clan relations
Fox That Screams in Wind[friend...?][alive] - tribe
"I'm apparently the only one who can put up with his flights of fancy. "

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archival
-original application info: Stare of Incredulous Stoat- 20 moons -