Oliverstorm wrote:Name: Whiskerwing
Description: Whiskerwing is a light brown tom with long matted tabby fur. His eyes are pale green. His fur color, as said before, is light brown but it has black, white, grey, and a faint red thrown in to the mix.
Important Notes: I added the 'wing' suffix to describe his pelt, which is like a bird's or something. The wing doesn't get used often, and since it comes in so many varieties and colors, it seemed to fit and cover all the colors. He is a very skilled hunter, more of a runner than a fighter.
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Name: Whiskerwing
Gender: Male
Clan: Dark Forest
Rank: Warrior
Personality/Skills: Whiskerwing is easy to snap sometimes, but really he hates being where he was. He had a terrible flash of ambition and tried to kill the deputy when the Clan was leaderless. He now regrets his choice. Always loyal before, Whiskerwing would serve his Clan as a hunter rather than a fighter.
Important Notes: Same as above c:
Name Rating: 3/10
Name Type: Creative
Name Reasoning: While alliterative naming is nice, this doesn't really make any sense. Whisker- says nothing about the cat's actual appearance as a prefix (as a suffix, however, it would work), and I feel like I've ranted about -wing before? Maybe not. Basically, -wing isn't a valid suffix for two reasons:
A) Cats do not have wings, and thus it doesn't apply to them (traditional suffixes work on physical parts of the body for skills/appearance/personality, and the only three excluded aside from -star are -storm, -cloud, and -leaf).
B) Whatever -wing wants to say is already said by a few suffixes. Is the cat so fast it's like they're flying? That's a -foot. Are they agile, and very good at climbing trees to catch birds? That's a -tail.
C) Even if it was supposed to describe his fur, wings, like feathers and birds, come in many, many, many colors, shapes and sizes. No two species have the same wings, and the closest you'll get to a wing that looks like his fur is a pigeon or robin.
Besides that, this fellow is a skilled hunter! He ought to be named for something he can do, not something he can't.
Alternative Name: Rockwhisker/Stonewhisker. As a suffix, -whisker shows that he's a very good hunter, and both Stone- and Rock- are for a greyish-brown cat (which, from his picture, he's mostly comprised of).
Quick note for all: Stone- usually refers to a grey cat, Rock- to a brown, however I've always seen them as interchangeable.Character Rating: 6/10
Character Reasoning: Here's one thing that I want to address right quick. The coat color you described is a dilute tortoiseshell. Tortoiseshell, dilute or not, and calicoes are a female-specific thing. It is possible for a male cat to be a tortoiseshell, and that's called a chimera (which is what happens when two embryos with different color genetics fuse together in the womb). These are incredibly rare, and also infertile, which is why I recommend against having a male tortoiseshell/calico. If you want to keep him that way, that's fine, but I would research the effects of being a chimera cat before anything else.
Meanwhile, I don't think that an atoning sinner is exactly a bad thing, but his reason or being in the Dark Forest is a little shaky. A sudden ambition strong enough to kill the deputy in a time like that? Perhaps he should have just vied for deputy-hood, already strongly desiring power, and then when he wasn't chosen by the new leader, actively planned the murder of the deputy. Maybe it wasn't until he went to the Dark Forest that he slowly began to realize that he had messed up, and now he seeks redemption.
One thing I want everyone to know: Ambition itself is not an evil trait. What you do to attain what you want is a reflection of your character, not the desire itself.Allow me to pull up the definition of ambition:
am·bi·tion
Noun
A strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work.
A hard working cat is absolutely the best thing a Clan can have. There is a difference between ambition and a thirst for power.
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