by flightoftheowl » Sun Nov 10, 2019 5:57 am
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"A man betrayed by treason, I only wanted what was right..."basics wrote:gender: male
age: 48 moons
sexuality: closeted
bisexual
affiliation: Vipermoon's
rogues
rank: rogue
role: the traitor
family: bear, barley
(brothers)
Appearance
Talon is definitely a big cat, standing at least few heads taller than your average warrior, with a muscular, powerful build built up over years of training and fighting, big paws and ears, and with a thick, furry tail as long as a young apprentice. He is a dark brown tabby tomcat with wide, black stripes, making his thick, long pelt look almost black in places. He has cool, guarded, pale green eyes that usually show little emotion. He has a number of different scars, though most aren't visible under his thick pelt; a few of the more visible ones are a small notch in his right ear, some bitemarks on his upper chest, and a long scar down his left side where the fur didn't grow back completely. All in all, he strikes something of an intimidating figure.
Personality
Talon's personality seems to match his intimidating appearance at first; on the outside, especially around strangers, he's aloof and cool, not much given to smiling or laughing, and seemingly always on guard. Around those he knows, he often becomes warmer, willing to smile, joke, and play around more, especially if it's around those he trusts, like his brothers. At his core, buried deep down over years of hardship and fighting to survive, there's a soft, gentle, loving, and protective cat who still holds some degree of idealism, despite everything, and still cares about doing the right thing whenever he can, but while flashes of this side of him only usually show around those he trusts, even they don't know how much it still influences him. When things bother him, he usually speaks up, as he always prefers a diplomatic solution when possible, but as of late, he's had to keep his mouth shut out of fear of being ridiculed, attacked, or- worst of all- abandoned. After all, his worst fear is being rejected, ridiculed, abandoned, and alone, and so he holds on tight to and protects the loved ones he has, always afraid of losing them. The way things are going, though, his tolerance of things out of the desire to fit in is nearing its breaking point...
History
Talon was the middle kit of his littler, with Bear as his older brother and Barley as his younger brother. He has no memory of his biological parents, as he and his brothers were abandoned while they were still too young to remember who their true parents were. They surely would have died if Morris hadn't found them, an old rogue with no desire for kits, but also no desire to let them die if he could do anything about it, and so he begrudgingly took them all in. However, Morris, as a rogue, had lived a rough life, often having to fight for his survival, and so raised the brothers in the same way, with little affection and lots of tough love in the form of intense combat training. Bear was well-suited for it from the start, Barley much less so, and Talon... The truth was, he never liked to fight, and like Barley, preferred to hunt and explore, as he was softer at heart than his older brother. The difference between him and Barley, though, is that Talon desperately craved Morris's approval, and so he tried his hardest to work up to his adoptive father's standards, pushing the soft part of him deeper down every time he was yelled at and smacked, and training even harder than Bear did to try to keep up. No matter what, though, he always protected Barley as well, no matter how much trouble it might get him into, covering for him and picking up his slack, so that Bear wouldn't have to do it alone. After all, in the end, Morris rarely, if ever, showed approval, but his brothers took care of him and cared for him, and he for them.
The love he wanted came from his brothers, not his adoptive father, and that is no less true many moons later, despite all the other cats they've met and everything that's happened. However, with Vipermoon's takeover of their rogue group and the terrible things she's done and had them do, Talon has grown increasingly certain that he can no longer stand by, go along with things, or participate in the destruction of a group of cats that has never done any of them any wrong. He hates what she's made his friends and family into, and more than anything, he wants to fix things. He's starting to believe the only way to do that is to get rid of Vipermoon... even if his loved ones disagree, no matter how much it breaks his heart to go against all the ones who love him most, and even if it makes him into something he never, ever imagined he'd be- a traitor."To bring a purpose by rebellion, the storm is soon arriving..."
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flightoftheowl on Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:17 am, edited 1 time in total.