Hogweed - - F - - Loner

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HOGWEED
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she-cat : 70 moons : loner adult : heterosexual
APPEARANCE: {longhair brown tabby with white muzzle and unders, and half of an extra face}

items used: Herb Knowledge, Major Mutation("janus" face)

Hogweed has long, silken fur laced with lovely browns and black stripes, with a white "club" across her forehead, muzzle, and chin that trails down her chest, belly, and the bottom of her tail. Her paws are also white.

Her fur drapes from her cheeks and neck like sheets of satin, feathering up in front of her upper front legs, with matching fettering on her feet. Her long, bushy tail is like a feather, with long strands of fur that all meld together into a solid mass.

Unfortunately, in sharp contrast to her wonderful coat she has a face marred by the addition of a third eye and most of a second muzzle. All of her eyes are green, though the third has a milky cataract due to an inability to blink, and is somewhat red from irritation. Her second muzzle is diminished with a loose assortment of teeth, always slightly agape with no esophagus, though it does drool.

She is a large cat, though not abnormally so.

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PERSONALITY:
{brief; bitter, unfriendly, like a mean hostess, but secretly dreams of romance}

Hogweed has no reason to like the world, as it has never given her anything in return except maybe freedom from her mother. Where some might cower inwards, embarrassed by a face such as hers- and she certainly used to- this tabby she-cat has decided that if she has to look at herself whenever she drinks water, everyone else can just deal with it; after all, they can leave. She's stuck to her own face for life.

She tends to immediately dislike others, having little to no trust of anyone she meets and assuming before they've spoken that they've already judged her by her looks alone. Of course, with her tendency to lash at the few she meets, they probably would've judged her for that anyway.

Though she knows how to use herbs, she generally reserves using them for herself or, very rarely, anyone she finds lost and alone. She is willing to nurture others who have nowhere else to go, but be warned that she is a hard hostess to be around, and will either make you do tasks for her if you can, or gnaw your ears off with her long speeches about her past or how funny it is that anyone has to rely on someone as deformed as her.

She still has the heart of a young girl at her core, still full of unrequited romantic feelings that invade her dreams and taunt her thoughts.

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HISTORY: 

Citronella was a former kittypet who ran from her home after they brought a dog in and refused to unbring the dog in even after she ripped apart their curtains and refused to eat. She had a thick, long pelt of black and brown, with fuzzy stripes that got a little lost in her dense coat and a pair of white front paws. She was also known for her sharp attitude and territorial nature.

Cob was a hairless cat whose owners foolishly let him out in the summertime. His skin was patched pink and greyish-black, with long spindly, fingerlike paws. Somehow, he managed to impress Citronella- or maybe just earn her pity- and within a few moons she was expecting his children.

Unfortunately, Cob himself was struck by a car while on his way to visit his mate, and he was never seen after she told him she was expecting. Citronella became bitter.

She was not joyous when her kits came, though she was deeply saddened that two were born dead- a black and white shorthaired cat she named Piper, and a long-haired tabby she named Hazel, giving them tender names. To her surviving children, she gave rougher names- Ragwort, Thistle, and Milkweed-  and to their most deformed sibling she gave the worst of all- Hogweed. Hogweed was a cat almost identical to Citronella, which made the queen dislike her all the more. This was because Hogweed had a deformed face, her muzzle dragged to the left where another half-formed mouth drooled, and her eye elongated and red in the furthest corner, pointed at the milky third eye above her second muzzle. She was a ghastly kitten, one that Citronella kept alive seemingly out of spite. The lone mother doted upon Milkweed, but as the weather chilled the mostly white kitten couldn't stay warm enough, his heart too cold to keep beating when she left on a hunting trip. Left with only three of her six child litter, the queen raised them sparingly, ushering first Thistle and then Ragwort off to be their own individuals as soon as she could. Hogweed, however, had to stay.

Raised mostly alone after her sixth moon, Citronella made Hogweed do as much as she was capable of and a little more than that, too. Hogweed had to hunt for herself or go hungry, Hogweed had to mark their territory so that strangers didn't come in. Her duties and the departure of her remaining brother and sister left her with plenty of time to herself. The tabby she-cat would try to speak to toms, but most found her too upsetting to even give the time of day. One or two humans pitied her and gave her secret treats she never told her mother about, while others just gasped or threw things. She nibbled on plants and spoke with the few who would look at her, eventually picking up a fair array of knowledge on plants and herbalism. By the time her mother passed away after a few winters together, Hogweed knew plenty enough to have healed her, but the she-cat was tired of being someone's footstool.

The morning after her mother's death, she slipped into the forest, going to the opposite side of it from the city, where she remains lingering infrequently on the boundaries of the clans. She used to live where MothClan does, but when she realized that one cat was to become dozens, she left quietly.

Other notes; has a second half-formed face, the eye of which is completely blind and painful because it never grew an eyelid; the second mouth is half-formed and cannot swallow; she is otherwise very beautiful by most standards; lonely hermit who could heal you if you were lost and in need, but probably won't; wouldn't go out of her way to intrude, and generally has no interest in fighting as she's not actually very strong. 

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FAMILY:
parents
Citronella[mother][deceased at 65 moons; infection] - loner adult
Cob[father][deceased at 30 moons; car impact] - longer adult

siblings
Ragwort[sister][alive?] - loner, kittypet, or rogue adult

Thistle[brother][alive?] - loner, kittypet, or rogue adult

Piper[sister][deceased at 0 moons; stillborn] - loner kitten

Hazel[sister][deceased at 0 moons; stillborn] - loner kitten

Milkweed[brother][deceased at 3 moons; exposure] - loner kitten

relations
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*dislikes mothclan in particular because they pushed her from her home*