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Your writing must relate to the following: Artificial

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Name: Sweetpringle
Gender: Nonbinary (she/they)
Rank: Scout Swimmer
Clan: FrostClan
Description: Solid black calico
with high white and hazel eyes
Age: Robot age
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Owner: nindroidzane

[nindroidzane]

Username: nindroidzane
Clan: FrostClan
Prompt:

They are not a real cat.

They're wrapped up in wrapping paper not because they're a secret surprise adopt for the Stars ARPG, but because they're a robot cat, wrapped up for some kid as a Christmas present - or some other occasion, they're not really sure. Again, they're just a robot cat, they don't know anything about human holidays.

They don't really know about cat holidays, either - not real ones, made up by biological cats. They could probably learn them, if they escaped out into the world and met, say, a group of wild biological cats who regularly engage in holidays. Which is quite likely, since they're an artificial cat in an ARPG.

Would the real cats even want them around? Who knows. Some cats don't even like each other because they came from the wild, or because they used to live in a human house. Who's to say they'd like a robot cat? An artificial cat, whose first moments of sentience began while wrapped up nice in some Christmas wrapping paper for some child?

Well, probably some cats wouldn't like them. That's just the way the world works sometimes. But I'm sure other cats would like them. It would probably be cool to be friends with an artificial cat. They would probably be good at a lot of things, too. Maybe they could go down to the bottom of the ocean to catch a fish without drowning, for instance. That would be a pretty cool trick - and helpful, too, since the non-artificial cats would now have a fish to eat.

Would an artificial cat need to eat the fish? Perhaps it would. Perhaps the cat went to the bottom of the ocean to get the fish for itself, because it feels hungry too. The other cats should expect it to want to do some things for itself now and again, it wouldn't really be fair to expect them to do all the hunting just because they're an artificial cat.

Oh - oh. Oh dear. Apparently artificial cats aren't so different after all. It turns out, not only can they eat fish, but they can faint... and drown.

[Vinson]

Username: Vinson
Clan: clan of the broken night
Prompt:

He yawned, watching the other cats around him. They were quiet, mulling, just going about their days - like he wasn't even here. He grumbled under his breath, stretching out his front legs, watching as his claws extended and shone in the gentle morning light. There was nothing fake about him. Nothing artificial, like they had called him just yesterday. No, he thought, eyes narrowed. He was very real. And there was nothing they could do to stop him from being real.

He stood quickly, huffed to himself, and padded towards the entrance of the clan's current camp. If anything, this old rickety thing was artificial - rusting metal, squeaking and rustling pipes that dripped murky water - water that Deathwish told them to avoid. How could they call him a fake when their whole lives were built around humans? They lived in a human den, abandoned as it may be, and lived quietly among the humans. Many of their new recruits, their new youngbloods, came from human houses and human dens. He scoffed, pattering out of the den. How dare they.

Sniffing around, he tried to scent some kind of prey, something to bring back to the clan and prove that he had what it took. He could do anything they asked of him - he could do even more. He would just have to exceed their expectations, do even better than they thought he was limited to. Crawling amongst the alleyways, darting around the dumpsters and moving away from the tantalizing scents of the trash heaps, he continued onwards. He would have to catch real prey - if they were going to call him a fraud and a scavenger, then he would have to prove him wrong. He would show them just how capable he was of bringing down fresh, living prey. He startled, then stuck himself to the ground - something like that seagull right there, right across from him in the next alley...

He bunched his muscles, getting ready to leap out of the shadows, almost flicking his tail before stopping himself. He couldn't let it hear him or see him. He had to catch it. Just as he was about to jump, he felt a rough shove on his shoulder, and his eyes flew open - he was in his human's den. His brother prodded his side, narrowing his eyes. "Fall back asleep now, would you?"

[Chanceuxcat]

Username: Chanceuxcat
Clan: Scorchclan
Prompt:

His laughter is almost as artificial as the plastic trophies lining the room. Dexter grins, his facade impenetrable. These other cats would never see through him as long as he continues this act, pretending he enjoys this show act. His chest is puffed out and the sinking feeling, the trapped terrible feeling of being stuck, so stuck in this world of prancing and fake, fake, fake! He can't stand it much longer. He's suffocating.

The other cats finally leave the room. The room is covered in trophies, shiny and glittery in the glow of the fluorescent lights. A picture of his first win, barely older than a kitten. Dexter is standing up looking at the other opponents with a smug grin on his little face. He knew he was the best, even then. Another picture, bright and with the other winners. And they still don't outshine him, even by his side. It fills him with dread now, fear and disgust to see his face in this fake fake world. This room is dedicated to him, covered in pictures of his wins, and yet it feels cold and empty. Chilling almost, despite the heat vents. Oh man, the heat vents, the fake bursts of heat to keep the cold air out- it's comfortable but it's just as fake as this life and this world he's found himself in oh goodness. How had he gone this long?

He needs the real world. He needs it now. He walks over to the glass door, the thing he's been uninterested in until now. The outside world, past the perfectly unnaturally manicured yard, now that's real. He stares outside, letting his eyes get lost in the moonlight. He has to get out there. He has to escape this artificial place. This life. He wants a real life, full of adventure and truth and honesty, not some facade he puts on, a giant show, just to please his "friends", the other cats as trapped as he is. He makes his decision then. There's a rock, very decorative and painted like no real rock would be, by the door. He lifts it up gently in his jaws and throws it through the door. The glass shatters and he leaves the fake world behind.

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[I Like Bees]

Username: nindroidzane
Clan: FrostClan
Prompt:

They are not a real cat.

They're wrapped up in wrapping paper not because they're a secret surprise adopt for the Stars ARPG, but because they're a robot cat, wrapped up for some kid as a Christmas present - or some other occasion, they're not really sure. Again, they're just a robot cat, they don't know anything about human holidays.

They don't really know about cat holidays, either - not real ones, made up by biological cats. They could probably learn them, if they escaped out into the world and met, say, a group of wild biological cats who regularly engage in holidays. Which is quite likely, since they're an artificial cat in an ARPG.

Would the real cats even want them around? Who knows. Some cats don't even like each other because they came from the wild, or because they used to live in a human house. Who's to say they'd like a robot cat? An artificial cat, whose first moments of sentience began while wrapped up nice in some Christmas wrapping paper for some child?

Well, probably some cats wouldn't like them. That's just the way the world works sometimes. But I'm sure other cats would like them. It would probably be cool to be friends with an artificial cat. They would probably be good at a lot of things, too. Maybe they could go down to the bottom of the ocean to catch a fish without drowning, for instance. That would be a pretty cool trick - and helpful, too, since the non-artificial cats would now have a fish to eat.

Would an artificial cat need to eat the fish? Perhaps it would. Perhaps the cat went to the bottom of the ocean to get the fish for itself, because it feels hungry too. The other cats should expect it to want to do some things for itself now and again, it wouldn't really be fair to expect them to do all the hunting just because they're an artificial cat.

Oh - oh. Oh dear. Apparently artificial cats aren't so different after all. It turns out, not only can they eat fish, but they can faint... and drown.

Congrats! I'll have the cat revealed in a moment

I'd also like to award HMs to Vinson and Chanceuxcat !

[nindroidzane]

Name: Sweetpringle
Gender: nonbinary (she/they) more like 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 ahahaha
Rank: Scout Swimmer ....silly me, they're in the ocean!
Clan: FrostClan
Description: Solid black calico
with high white and hazel eyes
Age: robot age
Edits: -
Owner: nindroidzane