[Mythz]

What's their favourite recreational activity?
(Thank you to DaniCalifornia and Takura for the cat/prompt suggestions!)

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[b]Username:[/b]
[b]Cat Name:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Rank:[/b]
[b]Clan:[/b] (Please link)
[b]Age:[/b] (1 year or above)
[b]Prompt:[/b]

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Name:
Gender:
Rank:
Clan:
Description: Fawn Ticked Tabby
Age:
Edits: [c] teeth [uc] tufted tail, round/short ears
Owner:

[Lex.]

Username: raiden,
Cat Name: Kiara
Gender: NB
Rank: Hunter
Clan: CoH
Age: 21 Moons
Prompt:
WIP w/ creating flower crowns

[nio]

Username: nio
Cat Name: Pumatooth
Gender: nonbinary, she/he
Rank: garrison
Clan: mesaclan
Age: 78m
Prompt: train-catching! they love the thrill of speeding alongside a train and making the leap into open carriages. plus, the train ride and the scenery is very soothing!

[vaguevoices]

Username:Mnvt9
Cat Name:Sunstar
Gender:Tom
Rank:Leader
Clan: Sunclan
Age: 5 years and 3 moons
Prompt:Sunstar loves collecting things. From sticks to mushrooms to herbs, if they have freetime, they will collect. His den is rather large, dug out by Sunstar to make room for things they found on hunting trips. He often helps the medicine cat by collecting herbs while patrolling, which makes him a big help.
Often Sunstar takes their collections and makes things. Some of the kits have crowns made out of leaves and flowers, courtesy of Sunstar. It's because of his kindness that makes Sunstar a great leader.

[espen.]

Username: quirky;
Cat Name: Noblelion
Gender: Tom [ Agender | They/he ]
Rank: Hunter
Clan: LagoonClan
Age: 90 moons
Prompt: Net weaving! It both calms him and is useful for catching extra fish for the clan!

[Griff]

Username: Griff
Cat Name: Shellclaw
Gender: Male
Rank: Hunter
Clan: https://toyhou.se/griffhighwind/charact ... er:2507939
Age: 23 Moons
Prompt: Hide and seek! That is, they absolutely adore kittens, and enjoy teaching them skills for the future in the form of this game. Using their natural pelt for camouflage, they sneak up on and ambush little kits, tickling them or worse if caught! The kittens in turn love it, and try oh so hard to tickle him back! Sometimes he lets them win. Sometimes.

[coffee.berry]

Username:
Cat Name:
Gender:
Rank:
Clan: (Please link)
Age: (1 year or above)
Prompt: mark!!

[werepickle]

Username: werepickle
Cat Name: Lightfern
Gender: Male
Rank: warrior
Clan: Shadow Walker
Age: 20 moons
Prompt:
When Lightfern isn't on duty, he can be found down by the little river painting. He loves to paint the scenery around the little river and when he has finished he wanders around looking for another serene place to paint. His little cave is dotted with paintings and a small corner is filled with a variety of art supplies and canvases.

[I Like Bees]

Username: I Like Bees
Cat Name: Rice
Gender: Male
Rank: Main Group
Clan: The Travelers
Age: 24 moons
Prompt:

Rice likes to run.

No, of course he's not running because he's being chased! That would be absurd. There's definitely, absolutely, nothing at all behind him. He's just running for fun. He does not constantly have the feeling that something -- something evil -- is looking over his shoulder, following him, always juuust barely out of sight. He just likes the feeling of the wind in his fur, the ground against his paws, and the relief of finally escaping the crushing feeling of being watched.

...

Okay, so maybe he does feel like he's being followed. He won't ever admit it to the others though; he's too afraid of them making fun of him. At least, that's how he justifies it to himself, to help keep his fear under control. In reality, he's terrified that the presence he feels will do something bad if he mentions its existence to another cat.

He's not sure what it is, or if it's even real (though it certainly feels real), but what he does know is that running is the one thing that makes it go away, even if only for a short while. The tom can frequently be spotted racing across fields and down roads, tufted tail waving wildly in the wind behind him as he charges at full speed at nothing in particular. It's thrilling, freeing -- and not entirely because it lets him escape the evil feeling around him. He does just love to run too.

[/nyx.]

Username: /nyx.
Cat Name: Léo / León / Lion / Apollo [depends on who you ask]
Gender: male
Rank: deity / guardian / docker [lesser apprentice] / apostate
Clan: Lé'echékyo
Age: irrelevant [perhaps a few millennia]
Prompt: i wrote it and i'm not entirely sure what's happening

He watches the world through sparkling eyes, his tail twitching every now and then — in amusement, in sorrow, in worry and regret. Most often in worry and regret.

“We can fix it... right, Tiún?” the fawn feline asks, nearly begs. Seeing others in pain… is painful, and their Pride, their clan (of broken pieces) is so obviously wrong; the sinister aura, the mother portal devouring herself from the inside out.

“Your obsession with fixing everything must stop,” Tiún replies, dismissive of the suffering they’re forced to witness. And yet — “Wherever you go, Léo, know that I must follow.”

Léo half-grins. “Thank you,” he murmurs, though the noise is muffled when he buries his face into Tiún’s abundance of fur.

—

Elsewhere, another feline wakes. He watches the world through sparkling amber eyes, his tail twitching every now and then. He doesn’t bother wondering why, because—

“I will do everything in my power…”

He trails off, noticing the speculative gazes on him. Cold and calculating, the seraphs warning; the den closing in, their claws unsheathed; cruel jaws, swirling thoughts. The wild majick circulating through the air… is suffocating.

The deity lowers his gaze, projecting as the predators would want. Where went the High North, their vibrance and brilliance? Where went their knowledge of healing, of arts and dances and songs of growth? What drove them underground where the vermin all hide?

Léo flees the den as the basilisk who stole the serpent’s scales, a higher being hiding amongst his own. Beneath his breath, he admits: “I can’t fix us overnight.”

—

Lifetimes later, dimensions away, a fawn tabby mewls into existence. He has a goal; a heart of gold, a soul of steel. He knows, he grows.

But mostly, he knows.

—

He tackles the kitten gently, likely the softest touch it’s felt in its short life — softer than its mother’s, even. Apollo deposits the bundle of joy back to its littermates, allowing the more energetic ones to play with his tufted tail.

“You can leave now, docker,” Seraph Veríscite says in her grating voice; it’s more of a command than anything.

“What if I want to stay?” the fawn feline asks.

Verís glares at him; it’s only his knowledge that lets him know the turmoil she hides.

“No right docker wants to stay in the Mecca, docker,” the seraph, the jem-broker spits.

Despite the hostility, Apollo half-grins. “Well then, maybe I’m not a right docker,” he responds. In his mind, he laments: Why is it so hard, for you, for them? Help should not be an alien concept...

—

“Léo, do you know what recreation is?” Tiún demands, darkness against the sunlight. “It is a refreshment. A diversion from the troubles of everyday life. Fixing the world is not recreation. If anything, it is a quest worse than labor.”

“Recreation,” Léo refutes, “is an activity that encourages the soul. If bringing happiness to others brightens my day, then I may consider it recreation.”

Tiún mutters something beneath his breath, then: “You are subjecting yourself to fruitless drudgery!”

“You have no faith in the light! It will pay off... eventually.”

“Eventually...“

“Anything is better than our wasting away in the stars!” Léo suddenly hisses, and must he bring up their eternal imprisonment? This argument will bring them nowhere—though,

“If helping others truly makes you feel better about our miserable situation… then so be it.”