Post by *-*Riku*-* on May 2, 2010 17:42:50 GMT -5
Name of Character: Riku
Gender of Character: Tom
Desired Clan: Loner that lives near Dream Falls. He's friendly towards clan cats, but he'd rather die than live under their rules.
Age (In Moons): 69 moons. (almost 7 years old :])
Gender of Character: Tom
Desired Clan: Loner that lives near Dream Falls. He's friendly towards clan cats, but he'd rather die than live under their rules.
Age (In Moons): 69 moons. (almost 7 years old :])
//Description//
He's a big long-haired silver grey tom with fur that spikes like thistles all over his head. He is very handsome and muscular. His eyes are a clear turquoise blue. He has two rather ugly scars on his body parting the hairs on his chest and back so that they're doubly noticeable, one of them runs a diagonal across his chest and the other lays between his shoulder blades and slants downward toward his right hip.
//Personality//
He has seen much in his life and it has hardened him to the reality of death and despair. Riku's good-nature and calm disposition make him a charismatic cat to know. He loves to play, but he never takes that too far, because he's the kind of cat that knows when to be serious, and when not to be.
//History//
3 years ago, Riku was once the leader of a small group of cats that lived near the beach. These cats did not have a strict warrior code, like the clan's do, but they did have a sense of belonging together, and they believed in what many Clan Cats would call a DreamClan. They had no name to call themselves and no real home to stay, which is probably why they died off so easily. Like any Clan Leader, Riku has 9 lives of which he only has 3 left. There was no ceremony, no hailing his name, because his name had not changed since his birth. The cats wandered around along the beach, stopping to make camp for only as long as it took for the kits to grow to 5-6 moons old before they started wandering again, loosely connected through the bonds they shared with one another. The bonds that were like cobwebs in the wind.
A lot of people could say this group was the last remnant of the ancient groups of cats that started clan life here. and indeed, in the stories that the group told their young kits, there was a story of a division in the group. Once when the group had grown to over 25 cats, 19 of those cats left to make their home somewhere else, and that was the beginning of the clans here.
Riku's life as leader of those cats was easy. There was no clan borders to patrol, and all they had to worry about was hunting for food. Of course, the able bodied cats hunted for prey and brought it back for the elder cats to eat, if there was a nursing queen, the fathers hunted for their mates and kits. Every once in a while, they'd come across a fox and the stronger cats would fight it off... Life was easy, but as Cobwebs disintegrate in the rain, so the bonds that held these cats together disintegrated over time until finally, they split up, and only Riku was left. He wandered for moons on his own, until he found a prey-rich meadow with a fish-filled creek running through it. There, he made his home in an abandoned fox den and has lived there ever since.
The Medicine cats that go to Dream Falls have to cross through his territory to get there, following the same creek that feeds him. When he was first discovered by the clan cats, many of them wanted to drive him out, feeling that no one cat should live so close to the place their ancestors speak loudest. After a battle, in which Riku lost his 5th life, the shock that a loner could have the 9 lives of a leader rocked through all the clans. A negotiation was made in which Riku met with the leaders of all 10 clans, they listened to his story, and they agreed to allow him to stay here. Their pity for a leader who had lost his "Clan" evident in their faces.
In the 3 years he's stayed at his current den, he's helped the clan's many times, though no matter how many times he's helped them he still refuses to join any one clan, feeling there wouldn't be room for 2 cats with the gift of extra lives. Erego, he lives out the rest of his days in peace and the only thing he wishes for now.... is a mate.
A lot of people could say this group was the last remnant of the ancient groups of cats that started clan life here. and indeed, in the stories that the group told their young kits, there was a story of a division in the group. Once when the group had grown to over 25 cats, 19 of those cats left to make their home somewhere else, and that was the beginning of the clans here.
Riku's life as leader of those cats was easy. There was no clan borders to patrol, and all they had to worry about was hunting for food. Of course, the able bodied cats hunted for prey and brought it back for the elder cats to eat, if there was a nursing queen, the fathers hunted for their mates and kits. Every once in a while, they'd come across a fox and the stronger cats would fight it off... Life was easy, but as Cobwebs disintegrate in the rain, so the bonds that held these cats together disintegrated over time until finally, they split up, and only Riku was left. He wandered for moons on his own, until he found a prey-rich meadow with a fish-filled creek running through it. There, he made his home in an abandoned fox den and has lived there ever since.
The Medicine cats that go to Dream Falls have to cross through his territory to get there, following the same creek that feeds him. When he was first discovered by the clan cats, many of them wanted to drive him out, feeling that no one cat should live so close to the place their ancestors speak loudest. After a battle, in which Riku lost his 5th life, the shock that a loner could have the 9 lives of a leader rocked through all the clans. A negotiation was made in which Riku met with the leaders of all 10 clans, they listened to his story, and they agreed to allow him to stay here. Their pity for a leader who had lost his "Clan" evident in their faces.
In the 3 years he's stayed at his current den, he's helped the clan's many times, though no matter how many times he's helped them he still refuses to join any one clan, feeling there wouldn't be room for 2 cats with the gift of extra lives. Erego, he lives out the rest of his days in peace and the only thing he wishes for now.... is a mate.
//Theme Song//
