This is Stemming Street. It is a neighborhood in the suburbs of a large city. All of the houses look more or less the same. Each house has blue and white exteriors, like china plates. They almost always have slate shingling and the doors are either polished mahogany or burnished oak. There is a leafy green tree between every streetlamp, and colorful flowerbeds out front. Crystalline streets and driveways. Behind the houses, there is a forest of beeches and hornbeam trees, at the edge of which the children play. Where the houses end, the road slowly turns from cement to dirt. The dirt path winds through a wild, flowering meadow. Each family living in Stemming Street keeps one cat. They do not spay or neuter them, but rather lets their cat have kittens and picks the cutest one before selling the others. The families are all rich. The housecats are all pampered. But there is one thing. The rogues, thought to be raccoons by the people, live here too. They don't bother the people much, just knock over trash cans and walk on the roofs and harmless things like that.
h o u s e c a t--
You have been living here all your life, born into the prestigious rank of 'House Cat'. This building and the area around it has become yours to roam, passed down from generation to generation. It is your duty to keep your Hold rid of pests and vermin, and to guard it from the thieving fiends who live just outside your Hold borders. There are of course, other housecats on the other side of the white fence, since there are other Holds. You don't tend to socialize much with each other, but when you get lonely they make pleasurable companions. You don't dare leave the neighborhood lest you get lost and leave your Hold defenseless. To do so would be a most abominable crime. In order to keep the line of House Cats going on, you will eventually have to mate with someone, preferably another housecat, and bring the kits back to your Masters. They will choose the most worthy kitten and then you shall set on training your kitten on how to become a worthy House Cat before you are unable to continue serving. This is your life- if you leave it then you will have no choice but to join the bloodthirsty rogues.
r o g u e--
Life is hard, but you are harder. You pulled through when all odds were against you and now you are free to enjoy your life as a cat should. You have traveled many leagues from where you had faced your first challenge (being born) but you linger at this particular neighborhood. You are not quite sure what keeps you close. It's probably the shiny trash bins. They are usually filled to the brim with scraps. Maybe it's the sunlit forest, which stretched endlessly behind the houses. Maybe it's the flower meadow, where mice scurry about. Maybe it's the others, since they can't seem to leave either. Or maybe, just a possibility mind you, it was the housecats. Ha! Such prissy beings they were, trying to 'protect' their houses and such. That was no way to live. You look down on them because they are stupid to not realize their mistakes, because they are not struggling to go to bed with a wet tongue and food in their bellies. You scorn them and wait at the precise time that they just happen to be looking before you dart forward and knock over the trash bin at the end of their white driveway and ever so slowly eat the scraps. Because you know this aggravates them and to you it is quite funny to watch an angry housecat. Hissing and spitting, they stay just out of clawing range. Cowards. No wonder they like living in these blocks.
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r u l e s--
@general;
Follow Tess's rules. Really, I shouldn't have to remind you. That also means no pictures in regular posts and no serious swearing.
@literacy;
At least three lines per post. If you aren't sure you can handle writing that much without writer's block, then don't join. I don't usually bite, but if you break this rule repeatedly I will bite your arm off.
@reservations;
There are no reservations. See the 'joining' rule to get more details.
@characters
Your characters are to be as realistic as can be and must reflect the word that describes them in some way, be it majorly and minorly. It took a lot of effort fishing these pretty pictures from Google, so I also prefer their appearance stays the same.
@drama
Drama is what feeds this roleplay. You can bend and twist this roleplay with your characters in any way you'd like, but nothing unrealistic and completely plot-altering. Meaning you can't somehow destroy Stemming Street or change the cats' points of view and opinions about each other right off. Before you do anything rash with your characters, read the HCRC and/or the Rogue Code first so you can be sure what will happen.
@drama; romance
Read the HCRC and/or the Rogue Code to get info on the consequences for rogue/housecat relationships and what happens if they have kits. You have to have RP'ed a good bit before your cats can have kits and you may NOT have a relationship with your own character.
@joining
You pick an available cat in the following post and then post saying you want the cat. Poof! You've joined!
@majority
You may only roleplay one rogue and one housecat. If they have kits then the parent's users will be able to roleplay one kit each/choose between themselves who should roleplay the one kit/let someone else roleplay the kit(s). They do not count towards the number of cats you have.
@kits
I will choose what kits look like. I'm pretty good at the whole genetics thingymajigy.
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