Keriae wrote:Image/Description: Dilute tortoiseshell with heterochromia eyes - the right is green and the left if blue. x
Name: Smokepaw/Smokewhisker
Gender: Female
Clan: Depends on roleplay.
Rank: Apprentice/warrior
Personality/Skills: Smokepaw is a witty, stubborn, mischievous little thing. She is full of pride and refuses to accept help, especially from her brother, who is constantly trying to defend her like she isn't capable of doing it herself. It completely grates her nerves and her Clan have grown used to her outbursts. But she's also pessimistic, expecting the worst whenever there's bad news, and she sometimes doesn't know when to stop her pranking. Putting rocks or thorns in warriors' nests, tricking the kits into eating rabbit droppings by telling them that they're berries, or sitting next to a rock that has a channel under it that makes her voice sound celestial. It's all great fun, but she's be told off for it more times than she can count.
Her main skill is her tracking: Smokepaw has an incredible nose and can follow scents further than most cats. This helps her with her hunting, and she's known to bring something back almost every single time.
Important Notes: I couldn't find the tortoiseshell section, so I settled for a grey-denoting name, as I figured she's mostly grey.
Edit: I forgot something xD
Quick note: This, I think, is my first hetero-chromatic eyed cat. I wasn't too sure if that naturally occurs in dilutes, even after looking around some, so I'll give allowance to it for now, and keep digging. That said, to the review.
Name Rating: 7/10
Name Type: Traditional
Name Reasoning: Smoke- is a little hesitantly given, as I've always seen it as a grey-tortie name myself, but I notched it a little since it's denotation is a grey dappled tabby. It might could work, but I'll give you some dilute names as well, just in case.
While she is a good hunter, her tracking is what interests me. Cats that are good trackers tend to have great senses in general, not just with their nose. I'll talk about this more in the character section, but bottom line is that I think she should be named for her tracking, rather than her hunting.
Alternative Name: Lichen-nose/Pochardnose. Both prefixes are for dilute torties, and -nose references tracking.
Character Rating: 10/10
Character Reasoning: I'll be honest: I adore this character. She's something quite fresh to this review, and not just for her eyes - we haven't had a short-tempered prankster before. Her traits are all nicely tied together, and she sounds a lot like a few kids I've met: the types that will get themselves in trouble near constantly, and can't really offer an explanation why, just a certainty that it's the adults' fault. Granted, she doesn't seem like someone who's breaking into cars or getting into fights, but there's a semblance there that I like quite a bit. Non-sarcastic gold stars for you.
Now for tracking, and why I think you should focus on that a fair deal more than hunting.
Tracking is much more than hunting. It involves not just going after prey, but figuring out who was where, what they were doing, how long they were there, when they were there, etc, all based on a faint smell or grass laid a certain way. Good trackers can find lost kits or the dens of foxes, and they have hyper-sensitivity to the world around them. They may jump at small noises, or be aware that someone is coming long before their friends are, and they tend to be pretty good hunters as well. A good tracker is an excellent addition to the Clan - intelligent, quick on the draw, and extremely observant.
I think that, if you were to put some more emphasis on her tracking than her hunting, that would be a great trait for her to have. Difficult to fool thanks to her observant abilities, but marvelous at acting or lying herself, which helps a lot with her pranks. Her pride and dismissal of help could be partly because she
knows that she's a better tracker than half the cats around her, and would notice danger in a flash. Skills are a reflection of ourselves, and vice versa.
I dunno. Just some things to think about.