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| Foxfelle | Thu Oct 6, 2016 11:22 am Post #1 |
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Kittings It has only been five or six generations since kittings first gained sentience in the brambleroot by eating the seeds of discord dug up one harsh winter when a single fox could find no meat. Bright One, the progenitor, was the first fox whose features glowed bright when he awakened, physically and spiritually. His tail spread and surrounded him in nine swirling lights, and he was compelled to carve a glyph into his own paw of a twisting flame, curling around itself like both his tails and the bramble he now called home and it remains the symbol of the den. But his descendants, a young, short-lived race has not even been aware enough generations to deeply contemplate heavy topics like death or life. All they've ever known is survival and family. Kittings are whimsical, curious animals, and the seeds of knowledge have only made them aware of how little they understand about a world they don't know. APPEARANCE Size: They are - strangely - sized like foxes. Their tails are averaged at being as long as their bodies. Type: Sound/ Cry: RING DING DING DINGRINGRINGDING GERING JOFF TCHOFF WAPAPAPAPAPAPAPOW. Actually, kittings make two different kind of sounds. One is a kiff, which sounds like a high pitched yowl of a -cat- rather than a dog's howl. The second is a warble, which sounds like a dog barking underwater or Chewbacca gargling marbles. Kittings are weird, yo. They also speak a unique language called kitt, and some speak common. Color Range: Kitting coats range along the same color potential as ponies, but tend to follow warm tones, from heated reds down to warm blues and purples. All kittings have white underbellies with black socks/eartips. Aside from fox, kittings learn common, but speak in a unique method. They use the pronoun "one" to describe basically any living thing, even themselves or someone they are speaking to. "This one is scared." - "I am scared." When they need to differentiate between multiple "ones" they simply add adjectives before the word. "That one." "Purple one." "Horned one." They always use "this one" to refer to themselves. This is a grammar carryover from their own langauge, where being "one" entity as an entire family is of the utmost cultural importance to the kitting den. As such, to kittings, every living thing is part of a single family, and that means more to them than a true name. Kittings may have a meaningful name akin to fae as an appropriation of nearby fae villages but this is frowned upon by the majority of kittings. Use of a "fae name" within the den is strictly forbidden. ((For OC sake, in addition to a fae name should they have one, their bio name should be the pronoun other kittings use to refer to yours. Such as "purple one" or "lofty one" or "shy one" and should be unique to them.)) Defining Features: Kittings get a tattoo - called their "glyph" - magically etched on the pad of their front left paw when they come of age and declare a talent. These are lineart only done in a single color of their choice. When they leave pawprints, they also leave a small print of the mark, allowing kittings to easily find each other and their way back home. Kittings also have 9 wispy tails that they can voluntarily combine into a single tail or combines when moving. All 9 tails are always present and separate when spellcasting. Their tails and their black socks/eartips glow in the same color as their eyes when casting, giving them an arcane glow. Kittings are otherwise easily mistaken for normal foxes when their tails are singular and they aren't using magic. PERSONALITY Alignment: Kittings are sentient foxes thanks to their recent ancestors eating seeds of discord from the Wildwoods bramble. When kittings mate, pups are actually non-sentient wild animals until they are fed a seed of discord. This method of sentience makes it rare, if not impossible, for a kitting to be born and sentient untied to the kitting den, the source of seeds of discord. Aggression Level: Usually defensive of the den Defining Behavior: Kittings take a rite of passage when their bodies become of mating age by being fed a seed, where their body enters a 48 hour to week-long trance state of lucid dreaming as their mind adjusts to the magic integrating with their system. The lucid dream seems to take place in an greyscape that's been discorded (think lovecraft horror) and the tasks performed shed light on a kitting's natural talent. Kittings are otherwise extremely territorial of their den and other kittings, and behave like skittish wild animals around fae. They often pretend to be normal foxes just to be left alone by the outside world, and distrust the idea of being discovedred or having their den compromised in any way. They usually resort to scare tactics and deception to keep outsiders away from their spot of Willdwoods, but will resort to traps, injury, hunting, and even murder if their den is attacked or the seeds are touched/taken. A kitting hunter will track a fae halfway across Lyria uphill both ways shoeless in the snow while wading a 500ft river on only 1 oxen and 2 wagon wheels to get back even a -single- stolen seed. CAPABILITIES Skills: Kittings are more naturally inclined than other sentient species. They don't build houses or tools. Their skills are fangs, claws and agility. Their unnatural magic always manifests as some kind of illusory or alteration magic, usually able to manipulate the primary senses in some way for hunting, stalking, deception, or traps. Some kittings can create lifelike illusions of predators to scare offenders off, and some might simply be able to enhance their own speed or cast a spell that illuminates tracks for hunting. All kittings tend to develop magic that benefits the den in some way. They have a cat's level of nightvision and a dog's sense of smell and hearing. Weaknesses: They are sentient and therefore make mistakes. Their personalities vary but their culture is unified within and distrustful without. They can easily be taken advantage of from an insider or a trusted outsider (those poor, poor apes. you had ONE JOB, Tarzan). Their magic requires concentration and leaves a literal afterglow on the kitting which ruins natural camouflage. Without their magic, they share all the strengths and weaknesses of real foxes. HABITAT: Biome: Wildwoods brambleroot Nest/Territory traits: There is one den, which kittings simply refer to as "Brambleroot". It is not a city. Rather, it's a dug out fox hole underneath and within a large patch of bramble made from the seeds of discord. The discordian magic makes the bramble only spread more when cut, giving Brambleroot a large spread of bramble to work with that regenerates itself when attacked. The very center of the bramble patch, where the seeds originate, has an unearthly blue glow to the soil there, which keeps the den lit and safe. From this central patch, the closest kittings have to housing are burrows dug out and separated by family where families sleep in a pile or curled over each other like cats for warmth. Kittings live as close to normal foxes as they can within Brambleroot. Their form of entertainment involves their illusion magics, pranks, and gnawing on your brother's ear until he tattles to mom. Diet: Omnivore, primarily carnivore. Prey: They are hunters of smaller mammals like rabbits and squirrels but scavengers of natural plantlife when it is available. Predators: Motherf*cking meowls. Manticores. River serpents. Wildwoods is dangerous. Anything charted as eating "small mammals" eats kittings. |
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