hockeycitty wrote:ok I have another for you
Image/Description:
Name: -----claw
Gender: female
Clan: rp cat
Rank: warrior
Personality/Skills: feisty and rude but sweet only to her mate{he is the orange tabby in the background} she is a great fighter but a poor hunter she is also good at climbing trees
Important Notes: I want a really pretty first name for her and I don't want brindle or sorrel thanks
Sorry for the wait, if there was one.
Name Suggestion: Emberclaw/Mapleclaw
Name Reasoning: Ember- and Maple- refer to a tortoiseshell, and -claw stays for her skill.
Notes: My job is not to give you a pretty name. If you want a pretty name, you can look at the prefix list here and see what you like, or go to lyrical naming. My job is to give you a fitting name, and that's something entirely different. If Sorrel- or Brindle- fits a cat, that's what I'll suggest as a name, regardless of prettiness. Traditionalism is practical, not elegant.
Character Rating: 5/10
Character Reasoning: Thank you for reminding me to put "feisty" up on the common problems post. I seriously have no idea what feisty is supposed to mean anymore. In the books, it became used as a default, one-dimensional personality for she-cats, and a lot of the time meant absolutely nothing ("feisty" ranges from fierce and overly-bratty to simply having an opinion in the books). It's impossible to decipher a meaning.
Plus, this character has the dreaded "mean to everyone but one specific person" trait, which I loathe more than anything else in this world (you can read up about it on the front page). I hate it because it's illogical, it's overdone, and it makes for a pretty terrible character (seriously, only one cat is respected enough to not be treated poorly regularly? Are you kidding me? Not like, I dunno, the leader or something, just this one random cat because they're in love with them?).
It's bullocks, it really is.
Thankfully, there's enough pieces here that we can patch together a more...respectable personality, for lack of a better word.
I suggest turning the apparent feist into more concrete traits - perhaps she's impatient, and wears her heart on her sleeve. She might be the type to get overly-excited about things and have a hard time cooling down, usually storming off to go train or beat up a fox or something. She could be a risk taker and not think too far ahead, which can lead to a lot for trouble for her (hindsight is, of course, 20/20).
She may not be necessarily rude to anyone, but it's very hard to not get her excited, which can lead to her either talking your ear off and hopping on her toes with eagerness, or stomping off in a huff that she created herself. This might make others a little wary of interacting with her, but the more patient cats will assure that she's always like this and it's never personal - if you can get past all the energy, she's a very dedicated and earnest cat who just doesn't have any cork to stop up her flares, which can vary in length.
Which is probably why she likes her mate so much - he's patient, calm and completely willing to wait until she runs out of steam to strike up a conversation. He might even provide a calming air around him that lessens her energy significantly, which probably draws her to him - she just feels better around him.
Kinda rambled there, but you get my point. You can do a lot and create a much more visual and interesting personality with those initial traits.
