Fairy's RP Character Storage (WIP / Do Not Post)

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Possible Prefixes (B)

• Badger-: A black-and-white cat or a gray-and-white cat (American badger/Taxidea taxus jeffersoni)
  
• Bat-: A small black or brown cat (various species)
• Bear-: A large brown (varying shades) or dark tortoiseshell (dominantly black and brown) cat [Grizzly bear/Ursus arctos] / A large black cat (American black bear/Ursus americanus)
• Beaver-: A dark brown tabby or dark tortoiseshell (dominantly black and black) cat (North American beaver/Castor canadensis)
• Bee-: A dark brown or gray-brown cat (European dark bee/Apis mellifera mellifera; this is the most common of all introduced bee species, which is native to N. Europe)
• Beetle-: A brown or black cat (various species)
• Berry-: A blue-gray, blue, or dark gray cat (Oregon grape/Mahonia aquifolium) / a black cat (Common juniper/Juniperus communis var. depressa)
• Birch-: A white cat (European white birch/Betula pendula)
• Black-: A black cat with predominantly black fur (some white markings allowed, but not a patched/bicolor cat)
• Blizzard-:A white and light grey spotted or dappled cat
• Blue-: A blue, blue-gray, or dark gray cat ('blue' fur is a dilution of black fur, appearing as a bluish gray color. They are rarely tabbies.)
• Boulder-: A large black, brown, or gray cat
• Bramble-: A brown tabby (Himalayan blackberry/Rubus armeniacus + Cutleaf evergreen blackberry/Rubus laciniatus; both species are naturalized species // Pacific blackberry/Rubus ursinus)
• Briar-: Interchangeable with Bramble-; a brown tabby (briar refers to any thorny plant, usually blackberry)
• Bright-: A cat that is predominantly white, but with significant patches of another color. The other color can be just about anything - ginger, black, brown, even grey - so long as there is more white than the color. This name can also be used for calico or bi-colour/tri-colour pelt.
• Brindle-: A cat with a mottled coat. Can be a distinctly flecked tortoiseshell, a spotted cat, or a brindle tabby.
• Brown-: A brown cat (any shade)
• Burdock-: A blue, blue-gray, or light gray cat (Downy burdock/Arctium tomentosum; the burdock plant is not native to N. America, and grows in the Twolegplace garden.)
• Burnet-: A ginger or reddish tabby cat (Salad burnet/Sanguisorba minor; this plant is not native to North America, and is grown as an edible plant in the Twoleg garden)
• Buzzard-: A mottled brown or tortoiseshell cat (Rough-legged buzzard/Buteo lagopus) / a dark brown or dark tortoiseshell cat (Turkey vulture/Cathartes aura)

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Possible Prefixes (C)

• Carp-: A golden brown cat (Common carp/Cyprinus carpio; they are an invasive species introduced to the US)
  
• Cedar-: A reddish brown tabby or ginger cat (Western red cedar/Thuja plicata)
• Chanterelle-: A white or light golden brown cat (Cantharellus cascadensis)
• Chervil-: A white cat (Garden chervil/Anthriscus cerefolium; this herb is not native to USA, and is found in the Twoleg garden)
• Cinder-: A gray cat (can be dappled, tabby, etc.)
• Cloud-: A white, pale gray, silver gray, or pale gray-and-white cat
• Clover-: A blue-gray or white cat (Rancheria clover/Trifolium albopurpureum)
• Comfrey-: A white, blue, blue-gray, or light grey cat (Common comfrey/Symphytum officinale; comfrey is an introduced species/weed in the US)
• Coot-: A black cat with some white markings (American coot/Fulica americana)
• Cougar-: A large brown, gray, or reddish brown tabby cat (North American cougar/Puma concolor couguar)
• Coyote-: A black, brown (any shade, from fawn-colored to dark brown), gray, or cream cat (Coyote/Canis latrans)
• Crow-: A black cat, with little or no white markings (American crow/Corvus brachyrhynchos) / A small black cat with little or no white markings (Northwestern crow/Corvus caurinus)

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Possible Prefixes (D)

• Dark-: A dark-furred cat (black, brown, or gray)
  
• Dawn-: A very light/pale gray or very light/pale ginger cat (never white)
• Deer-: A mottled brown, dark brown, or dark tortoiseshell (dominantly black and brown) cat (Black-tailed deer/Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) / A brown-and-white or gray-brown cat (White-tailed deer/Odocoileus virginianus)
• Dipper-: A gray tabby or speckled gray cat (American dipper/Cinclus mexicanus)
• Dove-: A brown-and-white, tawny, or lighter brown tortoiseshell cat (Mourning dove/Zenaida macroura)
• Duck-: A speckled or dappled brown cat; a tortoiseshell cat (American widgeon/Anas americana; these are a winter visitor species, as a more permanent version only live on the eastern portion of the state, whereas the cats live on the western part of the state) / a brown-and-white or tortoiseshell cat (Lesser scaup/Aythya affinis) / a dark tortoiseshell or black cat (Ring-necked duck/Aythya collaris) / a tortoiseshell or brown (speckled or tabby) cat (Wood duck/Aix sponsa)
• Dusk-: a dusky-colored cat (dark gray, brown, but never black). Also can be tortoiseshell, with some kind of patterns being common (tabby, speckled, etc.)
• Dust-: A brown cat (tabby or other pattern is fine)

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Possible Prefixes (E)

• Eagle-: A brown or golden brown cat (North American golden eagle/Aquila chrysaetos canadensis; there is a family of eagles living on the edge of HemlockClan territory, where the trees give way to more open ground)
  
• Elder-: A white or pale brown/cream cat (Blue elder/Sambucus cerulea)
• Elk-: A light brown or reddish brown tabby (Roosevelt elk/Cervus elaphus roosevelti & Rocky Mountain elk/Cervus elaphus nelsoni)
• Ember-: A tortoiseshell cat (predominantly black, brown, and ginger)
• Evening-: A gray or dark gray cat
  
  Possible Prefixes (F)
• Falcon-: A dark gray or gray-and-white cat (can be speckled/tabby/spotted) [Peregrine falcon ("Peale's falcon")/Falco peregrinus pealei] (under 'subspecies'; these are non-migratory)
• Fawn-: A light brown cat (any tabby markings must be 'quite faint')
• Fern-: A gray cat (seeing as green can be seen as gray from far away) [Goldback fern/Pentagramma triangularis)
• Fir-: A gray or gray-brown cat (Douglas Fir/Pseudotsuga menziesii) / a gray tabby (Pacific silver fir/Abies amabilis)
• Fire-: A ginger cat
• Flame-: A ginger cat
• Fleck-: A flecked or faintly spotted cat
• Fly-: A small black cat (various species)
• Fog-: A dark gray or gray cat (can have some dusky brown in the pelt)
• Fox-: A ginger (and kind of ginger) cat or reddish brown tabby (Red fox/Vulpes vulpes)
• Fritillary-: A dark brown cat (Kamchatka fritillary/Fritillaria camschatcensis)
• Frog-: A brown tabby (American bullfrog/Rana catesbeiana; this is an introduced/invasive species) / A dark brown tabby (Coastal tailed frog/Ascaphus truei) / a brown tabby (Pacific tree frog/Pseudacris regilla)
• Frost-: A white or pale gray cat (can have faint markings)

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Possible Prefixes (G)

• Ginger-: A ginger cat
  
• Golden-: "What it says on the can" (light ginger with faint tabby markings, a golden brown cat, etc.)
• Goose-: A tortoiseshell or calico cat (Moffitt's Canadian goose/Branta canadensis moffitti)
• Gopher-: small gray cat (Northern pocket gopher/Thomomys talpoides)
• Gorse-: A bright golden (golden brown, golden tabby) cat (Common gorse/Ulex europaeus; this is an aggressively invasive species in the US)
• Grass-: A brown (tabby) cat
• Gray-: A gray cat

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Possible Prefixes (H)

• Hail-: A pale gray dappled cat
  
• Hare-: A brown (summer morph) or white (winter morph) cat (usually short-tailed) (Snowshoe hare/Lepus americanus; both subspecies cascadensis and columbiensis occur in Washington state)
• Hawk-: A dark brown (can be speckled, spotted, or tabby) cat (Western red-tailed hawk/Buteo jamaicensis calurus; see under 'Taxonomy' for the subspecies)
• Hazel-: A light brown, golden brown, or golden tabby (Western beaked hazel/Corylus cornuta var. californica)
• Heather-: a very light ginger or white cat (Little prince's pine/Chimaphila menziesii) / a ginger cat (Bog wintergreen/Pyrola asarifolia)
• Hemlock-: A brown cat (tabby) [Western Hemlock/Tsuga heterophylla]
• Holly-: A dark ginger (after the berries' color) cat or a white (after its flowers) cat (English holly/Ilex aquifolium; a highly invasive species, it has been placed on Washington State's Noxious Weeds Control list)
• Honey-: A golden brown or light ginger cat
  
  Possible Prefixes (I)
• Ice-: Interchangeable with Snow-; a white cat
• Ivy-: A dark-colored cat (dark gray, dark brown, or possibly black; most likely tabby) (Common ivy/Hedera helix; this species is an invasive species, and is actually listed in the state of Washington as a 'noxious weed')
  
  Possible Prefixes (J)
• Jay-: A blue, blue-gray, or gray cat (Stellar's jay/Cyanocitta stelleri)
• Juniper-: A black cat (Common juniper/Juniperus communis var. depressa)
  
  Possible Prefixes (K)
• Kestrel-: A dark ginger, mottled brown, reddish (tabby), or tortoiseshell cat (American kestrel/Falco sparverius; they are seen sometimes near the edge of HemlockClan)

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Possible Prefixes (M)

• Mallow-: A ginger or blue-gray cat (Oregon checkerbloom/Sidalcea oregana)
  
• Maple-: A golden (golden brown, golden tabby, light ginger) cat (Bigleaf Maple/Acer macrophyllum)
• Mole-: A small black cat (American shrew mole/Neurotrichus gibbsii)
• Moose-: A large dark brown (tabby) cat (Shiras Moose/Alces alces shirasi; under 'Populations')
• Mouse-: A small brown or gray cat (various species)
• Mud-: A dark brown (tabby) cat
  
  Possible Prefixes (N)
• Night-: A black cat; no markings ~ moderate (<30%) white markings allowed
  
  Possible Prefixes (O)
• Opossum-: A small black-and-white cat (Virginia opossum/Didelphis virginianus)
• Orchid-: A white cat (Phantom orchid/Cephalanthera austiniae)
• Otter-: A brown or brown-gray cat (North American river otter/Lontra canadensis)
• Owl-: A golden brown, light brown, or lighter calico cat (Barn owl/Tyto alba) / A mottled brown, dark brown, or tortoiseshell cat (Great horned owl/Bubo virginianus) / a mottled brown or mottled gray-brown cat (Barred owl/Strix varia) / a dark brown tabby or speckled/spotted brown cat (Northern spotted owl/Strix occidentalis caurina)
  
  Possible Prefixes (P)
• Pebble-: A small brown or gray cat
• Pigeon-: A dark gray (tabby) cat (Band-tailed pigeon/Patagioenas fasciata)
• Pine-: A rexxish tabby or a dark brown tabby (Pacific ponderosa pine/Pinus ponderosa subsp. critchfieldiana

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Possible Prefixes (R)

• Rabbit-: A brown cat (various shades) (Eastern cottontail/Sylvilagus floridanus; these are an introduced species)
  
• Raccoon-: A dark gray or gray-and-white (tabby) cat (Pacific Northwest raccoon/Procyon lotor pacificus)
• Rat-: A small black, brown, or gray cat (various species) / A dark brown (tabby) cat (Muskrat/Ondatra zibethicus)
• Raven-: A black cat with little or no white markings (Common raven/Corvus corax)
• Rose-: A pale ginger cat (Dwarf rose/Rosa gymnocarpa)
• Rye-: A blue-gray or gray cat (Creeping wild rye/Leymus triticoides)

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Possible Prefixes (S)

• Sedge-: A white or golden-furred cat (Showy sedge/Carex spectabilis)
  
• Skunk-: A black cat with white stripes (Striped skunk/Mephitis mephitis) / a black-and-white cat (Spotted skunk/Spilogale gracilis)
• Squirrel-: A dark gray or brown-gray cat (Douglas squirrel/Tamiasciurus douglasii) / a gray or gray-and-white cat (Western gray squirrel/Sciurus griseus) / a brown, brown-and-white, gray, gray-and-white, or tortoiseshell cat (Northern flying squirrel/Glaucomys sabrinus) / A predominantly brown and ginger tortoiseshell cat or a reddish tabby (Fox squirrel/Sciurus niger; this is an introduced species in Washington State, as they are native to the Eastern US)

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Possible Prefixes (T)

• Thistle-: A light gray cat (Creeping thistle/Cirsium arvense; this is an invasive weed species, as it is native to Asia. Also, the lavender collr might look a bit like gray sometimes)
  
• Tiny-: A small cat (synonymous with Little- and Small-)