Post by Fennway on Apr 6, 2021 21:59:10 GMT -8
buckwheat.
a slender gold-and-black classic tabby with white ear-tips and pear-green eyes
buckwheat the barn cat, "buck"
31 moons
taken to the farm to be a mouser when the old mouser got old
a friendly, warm tom who appreciates his peaceful, full-bellied life on the farm, but is struck by how lonely he can feel. hence, he tries to foster what conversation he can with the hostile wild cats living beyond his fenceline.
ultimately he is cowardly - nonconfrontational, content to let others make decisions for him. after all, everyone has made them for him before; why should he pick them up now?
he can be excitable and a little stilted and awkward-- he's been living alone for about a year now without big red, so that's natural. the farm dog doesn't make for good company - but he gets along with him just fine.
he can be one for mischief, as long as the farmhands don't find out! even playing with the apprentices who sneak around to ogle the chickens - but getting on their case if they try to lay a claw on any of the farm life he protects.
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he sometimes chews a wheat strand between his teeth, and sometimes gives strands of wheat to friends for gifts, saying they're good for chewing off any nerves. a good guy.
mother: LETTIE - a plump golden-brown ticked tabby molly with hazel eyes
lettie was a stray who, when she got pregnant, sought help from a friendly twoleg family who took her in to foster the kittens. when they were of age, the kittens all got separated - and louie, later named buckwheat, was sent to the farm when the farmer's girl picked him from the side of the road as they sold.
father: never met him, but a tom named Merlin - a black tom with green eyes and silvering facial fur. just a thing that came out with kits.
siblings:
Lewis -- a stout golden-brown tabby tom with brown eyes
Libby -- a tortoiseshell molly with hazel eyes and a white face
Leo - a golden tabby tom with yellow eyes
(Louis, "Buckwheat) - a gold-and-black tabby tom with hazel eyes
he was kinda "raised" by the old farm cat, an old tom named Big Red, an old, grey-whiskered chubby ginger tom with a broad face and green eyes. he was a real good guy, if a bit stilted in tradition- which buckwheat doesn't realize and has ingrained upon him. he's very sheltered, so to speak - his only encounters with other cats have been fleeting passing relations with traveling cats and the clan cats who don't associate with him.