Post by kitsune ! on Oct 8, 2011 19:54:17 GMT -5
C A N C E R
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Cancer
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Female
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Autumn
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Amphitrite
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To those unfamiliar with amphitrites, they often look strange and alien, gilled and scaled and spidery and finned. Cancer is an amphitrite, but her mixed blood makes her seem a more familiar figure to land-wolves than her aquatic kin. While she may seem slender or of average build to land-wolves, Cancer is of slightly larger, bulkier build than her waifish kin, and in place of fishy scales or eel skin her frame is covered in short, swampy green fur with a texture not dissimilar to an otter's pelt. Her murky green fur has a few swirls of paler green, like Spanish moss, and her chest and belly are the same lighter shade. Her lower jaw and muzzle are also a lighter green than the rest of her dingy pelt. As if she is always up to her knees in water, her lower legs and paws are a mossy green darker than the rest of her pelt. She inherited, from her aleyabruj ancestors, dark orange-amber eyes.
Amphitrites are often considered pretty or at least exotic, but Cancer falls beneath both standards. While she possesses the standard amphitrite traits - webbed paws, second eyelids to allow sight while swimming - she could almost be considered drab. Her only "exotic" trait is a very flight, membranous crest that starts at where her head connects to her neck and continues to between her shoulder blades. While it can be erected - and occasionally is, when the she-wolf is aggressive or feels threatened - most of the time it lays flat against her skin, no more notable than a dark green smear. While Cancer inherited none of her beauty, she did inherit some of her grace, and while she may anatomically appear little different from land-wolves, she's an expert at aquatic acrobatics (though perhaps not to amphitrite standards) and, thanks to her slightly more muscular build, has great stamina. She is comically ungainly on the ground, like others of her breed, though it's probably less because of physical incompatibility with land and more because of lack of practice.
p e r s o n a l i t y • • •
Those critical of her will be quick to suggest that her personality is as drab as her appearance. It's true that she's not exactly social, with typically very little to say to anyone around her. She won't bother with niceties in any situation, and she won't express sympathy unless it's genuine. This combination of aloofness, rudeness, and enjoyment of solitude might lead some to dismiss her as a budding hermit, but that would be an inaccurate presumption - she doesn't mind the company of others, but she has little patience for uneccessary societal constructs. While she isn't crass, if you engage her in conversation she'll come off as cynical and fatalistic - while she sees herself as a realist, her views definitely range toward negative. Though she livees in a world throbbing with magic and fantastic beings, she has little patience for flights of fancy or whimsy that doesn't pertain to her life.
She's intelligent, to be sure, but has little patience for stories or digging extensively through the past. Such rumination changes nothing in the future, and the future and present is everything.
For all her brutal cynicism, Cancer is rather aimless; while she wouldn't mind living in a pack or pod, she has yet to find one to her liking, and while she has a hidden fondness for pups, she doesn't see them in her future. She is practical and frugal to a fault, but she is also hollow and purposeless, and this frightens her; she sees little appeal in the aimless wandering of her father.
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Born late in the fall, Cancer and her brother, Virgo, were the result of an unlikely - and, some might argue, improper - union between land and water, an aleyabruj father and an amphitrite mother. Her father, a loner named Crow, was absent in her adolescence except for a few sporadic visits, and her dam, Capricorn, had left her two pups in the care of their aunt, an amphitrite named Libra.
Libra lacked Crow's wanderlust and Capricorn's elegance and passion, but the muddy-brown female had an incredible maternal instinct, earning Cancer's genuine affection. Libra had a stable rank in the pack, and thus Capricorn and Virgo wanted for very little. The siblings quarreled often, to Libra's dismay, and oer the most trivial of topic.s When they were about one and a half and had ceased to be pups, a vicious feud broke out between the two over Virgo's conduct. Frivolous and morally loose, Virgo had inherited a speck of his mother's phantasmagoria in regards to the somatic sense and was... abusing it. He was accused of impregnating the alpha's youngest daughter, and though this was later deemed merely a rumor, this and other accusations had brought shame to their blood. Virgo no longer obeyed Libra and scorned the authority of elders, so Cancer tried to persuade him to 'clean up his act.'
Virgo proved that he could generate more than illusions of pleasure.
While Cancer recovered from her shock quickly - the agonizing jolt had, after all, been only an illusion - something in her mind had been crippled. She could no longer exert even the slightest control over water.
Neither sibling was exiled for the spat - it was a family matter, not a pack one - but Cancer felt compelled to leave the pack nevertheless. Her brother might have felt no shame for his recklessness, but Cancer felt plenty.
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