NAME: Glory
AGE: 92 moons
GENDER AND PRONOUNS: cis tom, he/him
SEXUALITY: homosexual
RANK: prey hunter
PERSONALITY: The first thing most observe about Glory is that he's not one to argue with - he has his opinions about how the world works, and isn't one to budge on them just because someone is a smooth talker. He's a realist, and makes that point very clear; if he's going to change his perspective on something, he needs to see factors he can consider as objectively as possible. Despite his stubbornness, Glory isn't an unkind cat, either; he won't back down if pushed, even to the point of fighting, but he's naturally protective and loves being in a community environment. It's not uncommon to see him playing with young cats, especially indulging their adventurous antics...as long as they stay where he can keep an eye on them. He seems to sincerely want to be part of communal life on Two Tree Island, despite his resistance to assimilating into the emerging culture.
HISTORY: He was a young, independent tom by the time the first cats began to gather on the island. Glory had been born to and raised by a single parent, a stray who believed - and taught - that nothing comes free and everything has to be taken. By the time he and his littermates were old enough to fend for themselves, they were left to do just that. Glory was the only one among them who accepted it; he stayed where they had been raised, alone, while his siblings left to track down the parent who had meant to abandon them, to travel together. He didn't fancy himself a family cat, not in those days.
He was a territorial cat, sometimes a nuisance to his neighbors for his refusal to let anyone bother him, not even when an older, stronger cat tried to force him out with claws unsheathed. Glory had felt drawn to the island in the earliest days of the community's emergence, but had denied it. His desire to stay home was stronger...for a while. In the throes of infection after losing his home to a brutal interloper, Glory thought he glimpsed a cat visiting him, coming from the island to simply watch over him. Maybe. Whoever it was didn't linger once he'd recovered; he never got a good look at them when his senses weren't addled by fever. But he owed them, he thought, for whatever part they might've played in his recovery, so when he was well enough, he finally got up and made his way to Two Tree Island.
When he got there, he declined to change his name. He was only looking for someone, he said, and didn't plan to stay. That's what he's still saying, even though he still hasn't seen that stranger even once since coming to the island, even though he seems quite content right where he is. He chose to work as a prey hunter, being keenly interested in a life where he may not have to fight as much. He is intrigued by the recent mystical phenomena, but doesn't necessarily believe in it...yet.
APPEARANCE: Glory is a large, long-bodied cat with thick seal lynx sepia fur and a stark white underbelly. He has pronounced striping on his face. His ears are long and adorned with even longer tufts. He lost his left eye at some point before joining the community, and sports scars there as well as elsewhere over his face. His legs are stocky and muscular, but his paws aren't very large.
MAJOR RELATIONSHIPS: open to anything!
interested in: parent to bumblepaw and turtlepawEXTRA:
- planning to start a lineage with this guy! most of my future characters + adopts will be connected to his legacy.