[wolfhaunt]

Username: wolfhaunt
Cat Name: Iscariot (Isa/Riot)
Gender: Genderfluid (AFAB)
Rank: Sentinel
Clan: The Citadel
Age: 5 yrs/~60 moons
Prompt: (Please let me know if I should rewrite this out of first person! It just feels cool to write it like you're asking the character themself!) [PSA: it gets a bit intense and mentions death, please be aware!)

"Cats of The Citadel heavily discourage hatred, and we are all given the same counsel each time we face it: forgive. However, I was not always a cat of The Citadel. Speak a word of this to the Archbishops and I shall enlist you as my sparring partner - and let me tell you, my scars will seem like paper cuts compared to what you leave with.
My birthplace was a small village far north of what is now known as the territory of The Citadel. Hardly any trace of us remains, and we are all but lost to history. My father was a noble, unlike my mother, who was a traveler from a far-off colony. He hardly acknowledged either of us. My entire childhood, I lived as a ghost.
Then, when the ground buckled and the sky splintered and he saved himself only - the coward! - that was when I knew that he was the worst of us all. He saw her trapped beneath those ice sheets and he looked away. He saw me wailing for him, reaching for him, needing him and he looked away. I was too small, too young to drag my mother from the rubble, and so I was forced to watch her wither away beneath the ice. He could have saved her, and I hate him - I loathe him - for his cowardice! He robbed me of a family, of a father, and then of my mother. I will never - never - forgive him." [There's a pause here, as if they are gathering their composure...]
"My father, whether he is alive or deservedly dead, remains the only cat who I have ever truly hated. And perhaps even the Archbishops would excuse me me of this." (299 words)

[Vivika]

Username: vivika
Cat Name: Evan
Gender: Male
Rank: Villager
Clan: Azeryn
Age: Nineteen moons
Prompt: (300 words <3)

The last thing he remembered was chaos.

Complete and total chaos. Distorted echoes morphing into war cries, flint against steel and sparks dissolving into an unquenchable inferno.

Then… nothing.

The healer appraised him with flat, unimpressed eyes. In the darkness of the recovery ward, she was a thin shadow. She pushed a picture towards him. “Do you recognize this tom?”

A rebel. It was written all over this tom, a king amongst titans, head raised with reckless ferocity and pride like a crown around his head. The crooked smile and puffed chest… it screamed anarchy.

Monster.

The healer’s voice was clipped. “He’s responsible for all this…”

Pictures flooded the space.

The tom wielding a blade of silver…
Wrenching a kit from another…
Claws stained crimson…

Back turned as a village crumbled.

A tattered manifesto:

“The King has decreed judgment. We cannot stand idly. Tomorrow, that village will be ash. Massacred. Unless━”


A call to arms disguised as an attempt to defend a village. A village massacred at that monster’s claws.

“He’s a fool.” His head throbbed, spinning. “He did this, didn’t he? He left me like this.”

His life in fragments. Memories shrouded. Shattered.
Family and friends, a mystery. His name, lost to the void.

She gathered the images. “You really don’t recognize him?”

He regarded that monster one last time. The steel nerve and heated passion from those fanged jaws. That demon━despicable, yet admirable. Unwavering in his belief. Merciless.

“No.” His breath was harsh. “Please, let me help you find him.”

A soft laugh. “We don’t need to find him.”

“What?”

“We don’t need to find him,” She slipped a shard of glass forward. "Because..."

And captured in that twisted, gnarled fragment of glass, that tom stared up at him.
The beast, the devil and the monster.

“...he’s you.”

[faelyn]

username: faelyn
cat name: theodorous (theo)
gender: male
rank: elf
clan: faerie!!
age: twenty moons
prompt: poem to his
dead sister who he hated </3

i am here
and you are there…

with the larks of the morning
above our heads
key and lock in hand

a key of broken promises
a lock of regret


and a sea between us
a sea filled with never enoughs
and a sky weeping
with the words that were left unsaid
and ones that shouldn’t have been

i am here
and you are there…

hearts broken
souls scattered

together
we are twin stars
forever separated
forever scarred
forever enduring the ache
the ache of being apart

and still separated by the sea

---

i should’ve said it
why didn’t i say it?
but i will find you, sister

i promise..

---

i am here
and you are closer..

all around me
a foregin world dances
beautiful
deadly

just like you.

i have travelled the seas
closed the void
but the sea between our broken hearts
its still there
i still have to cross it.

but don’t fret, sister
i will cross it.

---

i’m closing in
the perfume of lilies and lavenders
the soft glow of your radiant energy
its all there

i’m coming, i-
wait. what?

---

no.
it can’t be.

---

i am here
and you are gone...

with an even further ocean between us
roses marking the place where you fell
roses in a desert
dry and faraway from home

i can see the angels
i can see the stars
i can feel the salt drying upon my cheeks
and the buried hate in my heart
dwindling away as your broken heart beats

one last time.

the hate i had felt for you
you, and you alone
the hate that was belonged to you
to the person that i could never be
that i could never measure up to
its passing now

i should’ve said it

[wolfhaunt]

is there any update on this adopt? has an owner been chosen? I thought that it was meant to be closed on the 20th

[Swishy & Broken]

is there any update on this adopt? has an owner been chosen? I thought that it was meant to be closed on the 20th

Hey there, according to CS rules our artists have up to a month to choose a winner. Please be patient while nio gets around to judging this gem of a kitty 💜

[wolfhaunt]

Hey there, according to CS rules our artists have up to a month to choose a winner. Please be patient while nio gets around to judging this gem of a kitty 💜

I guess I misunderstood - I thought that "ends Jan 20th" meant that the winner would be chosen on the 20th, my bad!

[nio]

username: faelyn
cat name: theodorous (theo)
gender: male
rank: elf
clan: faerie!!
age: twenty moons
prompt: poem to his
dead sister who he hated </3

i am here
and you are there…

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wow.... this almost made me tear up. congrats! as always, your writing is incredible!! :")
and i loved reading everyone else's entries too tysm for entering!!

so sorry for the long wait for judging.

[Vivika]

aaaaaa, congrats fae!! your poem was absolutely gorgeous - definitely well-deserved! <333

[faelyn]

!!! ASHJBFG,,, thank u sm nio!! <3 this completely made my day!
i can't wait to develop this goregous babie! thank u sm again!! ^^