Double A
Black Soul
We're here for a good time, not a long time.
How unfortunate things seem the be the opposite.
[Name] Double A
► ► Nicknames: Battery, A[Gender] Nonbinary
►► She/They[Sexuality] Bisexual Demiromantic[Age] 4 years
(~3 at start)[Religion] Follower of the Fallen the religion of making Helena into a fur coat[Breed] Scottish Fold, Oriental Shorthair, Moggy[Build] Very skinny, bordering on unhealthy, wiry[Size] Fairly average, somewhere between 8.5 and 9 inches.[Physical Description]
Double A is a very thin feline, considered an albino because of their white fur and unpigmented eyes, which appear as a reddish-pink. Her fur is thin, but long in the places that it exists. She is missing fur on her paws, tail, some of her bottom, her muzzle, and her right ear due to a hair-losing gene in both of her parents that has progressed throughout the years. Her belly and muzzle fur is very thin, and her skin tends to show through. Where her skin shows is pink, from chill or heat or (sometimes) sunburn, though she tries not to let it get that bad. Her top fangs can often be seen poking out of her mouth. The skin along her spine and neck is exposed and recovering from a nasty sunburn.[Accessories]
Monster Scale - obtained ???
Sleep Charm - obtained trial 3
Wildcard - obtained via trade
Sailor’s Cap - obtained trial 3
BEHAVIOR
..FOCUSED..
In her daily duties, Double A is fairly good at keeping a clear head. While lately, she often finds her mind drifting in her alone time, when things pick up, they are good at shoving those thoughts to the side. She’s good at blocking out distractions. She is decent at most tasks, and so long as they demand any sort of concentration, she very rarely gets wrapped up in thought and preforms them diligently.
..HARDY..
Having grown up being looked at as baggage, Double A has learned to not let things get to her. She's defensive over most things for sure, but she tends to brush off negative comments and refuses to look at herself as less. She's withstood many a tough condition and she's sure she'll experience more. She just has to hold out until they find the power within themself.
..INTELLIGENT..
Double A is a pretty smart cat. She can take care of herself one way or another, and usually knows how to pick up on suspicious goings-on. Her anger gets control of her sometimes, but Double A at the very least knows when it's time to run and when it's time to speak. She has a loud mouth but her flight over fight response is useful. She knows, usually, how to escape a bad situation through observation and her speedy legs. Her street smarts are well-versed after having traveled with Box and on her own for so long.
..SARCASTIC..
Double A is a pretty sarcastic being. While sometimes it's funny and can lift a mood, she can just as easily bring down a mood with her sarcasm. Sometimes it's hard to tell if she's trying to be funny or not, though. She's...pretty rude sometimes.
..BUSINESS-MINDED..
Double A considers very little how those around them feel most the time. If they can exploit a situation to make it work in their favor, they will. This isn't to say that their service is unneeded. Double A may be ignorant to emotions, but they are providing something beneficial.
..CIVIL..
Double A, while not friendly exactly, is kind so long as they are on good or neutral terms with others. Double A may have a temper, but they know how to behave with others; they do run a business of sorts, after all. They are willing to be polite and courteous in the company of those who show it back.
..IMPERSONAL.. ..CURIOUS..
Double A does everything they do without much emotional attachment. Of course they aren't emotionless, but Double A never gets emotionally invested in others, because they know that caring just...hurts. Perhaps, despite their better judgement, Double A has formed a curiosity about the cats around them. They seek out the company of others more often than before. They tend to mimic the movements and sometimes behaviors of those around them, though to a much more reserved degree. They find comfort in the company of others more and more as of recent.
..DEFENSIVE..
So used to being insulted and looked down on, Double A has grown to be defensive and easily offended by everything and anything. It's a grown habit after having been nitpicked by her sister and Box constantly throughout her life. She's not so effected by insults, she just feels that she always must retort, and she takes everything as an insult.
..PARANOID..
Double A is paranoid of everyone. She's seen cats turn on her so much throughout her life. Her sister and uncle left her, her parents are dead (sort of), and she's seen so many cats actually die or reanimate that she's sick of it. Especially with her newfound curiosity in her fellow trial-goers, Double A knows that she’s more vulnerable than ever. She’s nearly impossible to earn the trust of, especially after her brush with Kaulu...but past the paranoia that she’ll be crushed again, there’s something there. She's constantly on edge when associating with new cats.
..BARBARIC..
Double A isn't a horrible cat up front. But cross her and she doesn't just get mad. She wishes the worst on cats that have betrayed her. Simple insults don't bother her so much. But cats who show physical aggression or cross them, they throw her into a mood, and she'll demand against her better judgement in some cases that said cat be "RIPPED TO SHREDS" or "FED TO THE COYOTES". Not that they have any authority, or even the power to enact such demands most the time, but they feel this way nonetheless and will often let their opinions be heard. They're kinda like one of those "I want to see your manager" ladies, but instead of wanting you fired, they want you tortured. Note: While bitter to the world, Double A's fury is not directed at everyone. Only those who cross them. Be thankful that her fury towards another living being will never reach her hatred of Helena.
..MINOR TRAITS..
Adaptable, Apathetic, Calculating, Cautious, Competitive, Creative/Innovative/Resourceful, Observant, Organized, Private/Loner, Reliable, Tough, Spiteful, Stubborn
Bullet Points for CalStan so they don't have to suffer
- Sharkky and Patrick give birth to Double A and Spaark.
- Box, often referred to as "Uncle Box" though not related in blood, travels with them. He's cool and scary, but the Battery Siblings like him.
- Patrick always goes and finds something to cover Double A from the sun when they have to travel in the daytime. Double A develops a fascination with human objects at a young age.
- Sharkky and Patrick are honestly dumb fool idiots and keep getting into trouble with gangs. Box, being older and a little wiser, warns them to behave as they have children to care for.
- Being the stupid dumb idiots they are, they get the whole crew into trouble. In a moment of realization that they caused this, they sacrifice themselves for their children while Box makes an escape with Double A and Spaark, who are only 2 months old by this time.
- Box continues on the way to Paradise Valley, fully intending to drop Double A and Spaark, unbeknownst to them.
- The Battery Siblings and Box run into a skeevy gang of young toms.
- Spaark catches the eye of the youngest of the gang. This leads to a couple weeks of endless courting. Spaark and Double A start fighting over the topic.
- Spaark eventually abandons her sibling and Box after a bad fight. Box is indifferent, while Double A is heartbroken.
- (Double A couldn't follow her sister, as The Toms would not accept a "sickly cat" like them into their ranks. She's heartbroken for losing her sister, and knowing she didn't stand up for her.)
- Double A begins to suspect that Box will leave them, too. They adopt a paranoid, distant sort of attitude towards him.
- Double A and Box arrive to Paradise Valley as planned, and are offered a place to sleep in the Forest Colony's camp.
- Double A finds that they were correct in their assumptions that Box would leave.
- Bitter, Double A thanks the Forest Colony and leaves to live on her own.
- They find they're kind of awful at living on their own. Box was nothing if not a survivalist.
- Double A turns to the one thing they're good at; finding cool human artifacts.
- They begin offering things like old human scarves, knives, and mirrors, as trade for food and sometimes shelter.
- Double A returns to one of their rummaging sites and finds none other than Spaark.
- Spaark attempts to apologize for what she did a year ago, but Double A chases her off.
- The two run into eachother on somewhat often after that. Spaark is noticeably living with a different group, now.
- Double A refuses to interact with their sister.
- They make a meager living trading human wares and learning to hunt better from those they made acquaintance with in the Forest Colony.
- When the red plague starts appearing, Double A doesn't take much note. If there is any worry for their sister and Box, where ever they are, they certainly don't show it.
- The call for cats to come to Paradise Valley starts spreading.
- Double A is contemplating going, hoping it might spite their sister if they get in and she doesn't.
- Before Double A can make any sort of decision, Box appears.
- Patrick is alive by some incredible feat...well, sort of. He has the red plague.
- Apparently Box had found him wandering the edge of the Paradise Valley territories.
- Double A gets the sense that Box only came and found her so he had someone to watch her father while he went to Paradise Valley.
- Before Box even gets the chance to abandon them again, Double A is gone, off to Paradise Valley.
Sharkky met Patrick and Box in an old abandoned human city. She probably would not have thought much of it, had Patrick not shoved her to run in the same direction. She'd been more ready to start a fight than follow, but when she'd spotted the hoard of angry cats chasing them down the once smoothly paved road, she didn't protest much. It turned out hours later a town over that Patrick had trespassed on their territory and "stolen" prey.Sharkky stuck around afterwards, which many years later lead to a blooming romance between her and Patrick, much to Box's chagrin. Whispers of cats traveling to find paradise came and went, as did the return of the legendaries. Sharkky and Patrick had never been keen on starting a family until this point, gangs and dangerous loners at every turn. But word of colonies forming in a place called Paradise Valley spread, and when Sharkky expressed suspicion that she might be expecting kittens, they set out towards Paradise Valley.
However, they were never destined to arrive so easily to the place they sought for their children. Sharkky and Patrick welcomed Double A and Spaark into a much brighter world than what might have been years ago, but nothing was so easy. Especially when you had Sharkky and Patrick as your parents. Two cats who, while they wanted the world for their children, also couldn't help but cause trouble at every turn.Even as a kitten, Double A could kind of understand Box's mutterings. Usually about their mother, and how she "brought a dangerous side out of their father". Double A wouldn't grow up to really remember this, but it was always apparent that Box was much fonder of their father than their mother.Patrick and Sharkky, while reckless, were always looking for ways to protect their kittens from the elements. Be it clearing out the leaves beneath a bush to hide under or finding an old abandoned owls nest, they made sure their kittens had somewhere to sleep. Patrick often would return from hunting trips with both prey, and some sort of old human things, which they would use to cover up and protect Double A from the sun, since her skin was so sensitive.One day, the two came back to their nesting spot in a rush, disturbing Box's attempt at getting the kittens to take a nap. They told him that they'd caused some trouble with one of the local gangs. Of course they'd brilliantly decided to lead them here, and Box berated them for it. They didn't have much time to make a plan. Before they could, a group of rag-tag felines were upon them, snarling and swiping. Box scooped up the kittens and ran.
Box traveled with the siblings for over a year. He began referring to them as "Batteries" since it was easier to say than both their names, apparently. Box could never seem to meet their eyes, especially after their father died, but he still took time to help the kittens learn to hunt and fight and, in Double A's case with her limited strength and stamina, run and hide.Double A often would try and collect human artifacts; scarves, toys, shiny objects, even what may have been a skull. Just as their father had done, then used most these things to cover themself up. Box didn't seem so fond of it.One day, the travelers came across a gang that called themselves The Toms. They were a group of young male felines, all obviously lacking things like manners, but at the very least they weren't aggressive.Box was eager to move away from them, but The Toms kept following them. Box couldn't do much about it, since they were outnumbered. One male cat in particular had a fascination with Spaark. The brown she-cat was visually prettier than her sibling at the time, her fur not yet balding and obviously she didn't have the same physical limits Double A lived with. The two began courting. Double A always voiced her disapproval, and Spaark would always lash back.
It came to a head, and after calling out Double A for being "ugly" and "undeserving of love" Spaark left to live with The Toms. Upon the next sunrise the gang had gone, and Box and Double A were alone.After the abandonment of their sister, Double A suddenly became aware of how lonely they were. Box hardly gave them the time of day. He fed her, helped her find cover at night, and slept next to her to keep her warm, but he provided nothing more. He seldom spoke, and just as before, he refused to even look at her.Double A began to doubt Box held any sort of emotions towards them. Rightfully so. As they had begun to suspect, Box never intended to stay with them. As far as he was concerned, after Patrick's sacrifice he was just a babysitter.They arrived in Paradise Valley months after traveling. Box and Double A found a welcoming place among a colony in the woods, called the Forest Colony. After a few days of settling down, Double A woke one morning to find Box gone.Bitter at the fact that Box would just...up and abandon them like that as soon as she'd settled down, Double A left as well.
Double A managed a living on their own. They found that they weren't as good at hunting as they'd believed themself to be. It made them even more bitter towards the fact that Box had never properly taught them, he'd just dumped them with a group of cats without the right means to survival. But Double A made due. They began scavenging among places humans had once lived for useful or fun objects like their father once had and using them to barter with other travelers as well as occasionally some of the colony cats for food, shelter, and even hunting lessons. They made both semi-friendly acquaintances and foes in this time.Any cat who tried to cross Double A from then on was made her sworn enemy. She'd find some way or another to get revenge. If she hadn't the strength to leave a reminder of her wrath as a scar by her own claws, she'd go searching for trouble, a big scary feline or even a hungry fox, and bait them into attacking any cat who wronged her.Of course revenge didn't always work out for them, but Double A was a fast runner if nothing else.Double A woke one morning after months of being alone to the painfully familiar sight of her sister's face. Double A didn't even give Spaark a chance to speak before she'd pinned her to the ground, claws sunk into her shoulder, a silent hatred painted across her face.Spaark's apologies fell on deaf ears. Probably realizing this, Spaark pushed against her sibling, kicking them off and making a run for it. Double A didn't follow, but it was obvious things were never going to go back to the way that they were.So...maybe Spaark had been right, Double A mused. They weren't deserving of love.They met again after that, but Double A never tried to attack Spaark again. She simply ignored her, always interacting with others that accompanied her rather than the brown she-cat. Double A found quiet joy in the fact that over the years since they'd seen her, Spaark had begun losing her fur, much like Double A had at a younger age. Spaark no longer seemed to get on with The Toms, and rather seemed to be involved with the colonies. Double A doubted after everything that had happened, Spaark had chosen to live here. It was a small victory, but a great one all the same. They were on a level playing field once more.
The red plague, at first, was nothing but a minor inconvenience for Double A. Some of their "clientele" had fallen to it here and there. But it also brought a few nifty business features. They had definitely found a usefulness for human things like rope and heavy chains. It helped keep cats' soulless family and companions from wandering off too far from home. Probably a little unconventional, but useful nonetheless.When word had first begun spreading of the Legendaries call for help, Double A's initial reaction was to ignore it. But then the thought of their sister 1-upping them entered their head. What if Spaark turned out to posses those all-mighty powers, and Double A just let her go?Before Double A could make any sort of decision, a surprise found her one day when they made their way to their nest for the night. Box. But it wasn't the appearance of the good-for-nothing tom cat that surprised Double A. No. It was...The cream-colored feline beside him. Double A felt some emotion stirring in her heart that had felt empty for so long. It was Patrick. Her father. A cat who had done his best to show her love as a kitten, who's only mistake was his sacrifice to save his two unworthy kits. Double A looked around, but Sharkky, their mother, was nowhere to be found.A dread filled Double A when Patrick turned to them, muttering incomprehensible jibberish, and Double A was met with a red gaze not like their own, but of those who had fallen to the red plague. Box launched into an explanation that shocked Double A because it was more than he'd ever spoken to them before in the past. Ever.He talked of how he'd found Patrick at the edge of the territories that bordered Paradise Valley, back when the red plague had just begun. He must have survived the attack and been searching for them! He blathered on, happiness to see their father, blah blah blah. But Double A latched onto the fact that Box hadn't come to see them until a possible way to cure the plague had arose.Of course. Box was trying to dump Patrick on her, so he could go claim his own glory. So he could save her father.Double A didn't give him a chance to dump that duty on them. They left that night when Box had gone to sleep, and set off towards Paradise Valley.They had a lot to prove; to Spaark, to Box. But something had sparked inside them. For once there was a purpose other than revenge driving their paws towards the grassy hills ahead.The chance to not be so lonely.
[Voice Actor] Molly Guldemond
[Scent] the sea, ocean water[Likes]
- Nighttime
- Being given tasks
- Human trash and artifacts
- Foggy/Rainy days[Dislikes]
- The sun
- Cold
- Rats
- Closed spaces[Fears]Being Lonely Forever
Which is a little unfortunate, since she's felt lonely, and almost incomplete, as long as she can remember.Traps
Double A's best bet is running. Not being able to do that to escape danger is one of their biggest fears.[Facts]
- Double A still wakes up sometimes with hair missing, but for the most part, it seems that her hair-loss has stopped.
- Double A gets sun-sick very easily.
- Double A has never killed anyone...at their own claws.