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Snowbell Kiel: Winter's Iron Rage Ruby Kiel: Fire's Timid Heart
Snowbell is a Snowshoe cat and a nekomata at that. She sports such thick blue white fur that almost looks silver in the moonlight. As she grew older, she had become quite the expert hunter as her own life path had led her to live out in the wilds, far from any towns and hateful, distrusting people.
She couldn’t stand the towns, being too busy and noisy for her, and especially much to crowded. She also could not stand how they lived, being so needy on money to maintain a life style to survive. Not only that, she believes all men are dogs. This here meaning that they are greedy, mistrusting, deceitful , and often take way to much of an advantage over the less fortunate and helpless.
She can weave her own clothes and tends t carry around two over sized butcher knives, which she uses when she goes hunting. She also loves bows and this gained the nickname Snow's bow due to the fact that she uses bows in decorating literally everything she wears.
Lastly, she uses that hunting skill of hers as a job, being a professional artifacts hunter. She so far has collected over 30 pieces from around the nation to get money. As much as she hates it, she does use the money to buy the few things she can’t get out in the wilds like pottery and other merchandise to have a proper basin/container to cook in that won’t break s easily. If one would see where she lived and how she lived though, no one would have realized that she has slowly accumulated a fortune hidden away that was too grand for one person.
Her dream is one day reunite with her two best friends who have later become like sisters to her through a bond they shared that is literally unbreakable though time and take care of them as the eldest the three had done for her and the smallest of them, Ruby.
Snow's Birth
Snowbelle will always be a tiny thing. She may now be in her twenty's, but she is simply much too small. To look at her height you might place her no older than a pre-teen. But to look at her face and body, you might place her at 18. The thing is, she is neither.
Because her father was a cat shifter, he seemed to have falling in love with a large house cat by the name of Belle, who was a snowshoe cat. Her father of course could shift into any cat that he had seen once, and mated with belle, this had then later produced Snow. Her father though, had never been seen again, disappearing from existence. Or at least, so it seemed.
When snow had just been born, she was no bigger than a baseball and most of her body was quite fluffy and feline in appearance. This of course shocked the mother, who still took care of her through the motherly love she felt. Belle knew the father was different, but she had not expected a little neko.
This was only possible because her father was a shifter and still had human genes with in him that he passed on to his daughter. Because snow was different though, the mother cat had to constantly hide her from the rest of the world, and especially her human owners.
During the time that she stayed with her mother, she was taught all that there was to be the perfect kitten and great feline hunter one day. By the time her mother had to “leave” though due to her lifespan being so short, Snow was already eleven but was no higher than a foot and a half, or any larger in weight than 22 lbs.
Snow's Troubled Times
For the next year, she seemed to have struggled, trying to survive in the towns, scrounging and scraping or a decent meal as her luck in having a decent lifestyle changed.
But Kemo, another Neko, Single tailed tabby it seemed, Found her sometime after finding Ruby. Taking her in, she cared for and nurtured the snowshoe kitten or as long as she could before having to separate again a few years down the road.
Present Life
Lie had gotten tough or her after she turned sixteen., Now she lives in the wilds, and have been ever since she and her sisters had been separated, becoming a treasure hunter or hire and was slowly making a decent lifestyle for herself to later take care o her sisters. She has now turned twenty-two, and is still quite small, being known in the hunter association as the Steel Snow Pigmy Cat. She’s good at what she does, and is often simply called Snow or Steel Bow.
Bio:
Age: 22
Height: 3'11'
Weight: 83 Lbs
Race: Snowshoe hybrid
Quote: "It Is Not Done All In Vain. I Will Save you... From yourself."
Firecats are rare in number. They were thought to be extinct. They are powerful ferals with the suns fire as their source of life and abilities. With the sun as their source of fire and life, they would never grow weak. Ruling over the heavens as gods. There was one larger and more magnificent as the rest. His fur coat was as red as fire stones, and could fly on waves of fire beneath his paws. He was a great, and the last true fire cat. For humans destroy what they do not know. But our story has only just begun...
Meeting The Fire Cat and Riel of Balvise
One day this Great Fire Cat was visited by a maiden. It was believed that the cat was the god of the village of Balvise's good fortune. One year the harvest has been poor and great snow storms had killed most of this towns livestock. They had not prayed to the cat for the year nor perform the ceremony to praise him. So they though that if they sacrificed a maiden to the Great fire cat, fortune shall smile upon them again.
She was taken to the far north mountain to the entrance of the cave said to be the home of the god. By days end the cat appeared and stared upon the female before him. She was terrified but showed no means of defeat, explaining why she had been summoned there. Days since passed and the Firecat had welcomed her, allowing her to stay as a guest, but she was never to reveal him. Love and compassion had grown between them and he told her, his name as she told him, her own.
"My name is Felrion. The oldest and greatest of the Fire Cats."
He said softly one night as he bowed and pulled her into an embrace. The women's scent suddenly felt hypnotizing to him as she then told him her own name and spoke his upon her lips.
"and I am Riel"
Ruby's Birth
The year since passed and fortune had long returned to village. While those who dwells down bellow where of merry due to healthy harvest, that had not known why. It was not because of the sacrifice they gave but for a child that was born that favored them so. Felrion had done what should not have been done, and took a mate with a human. His child he gave the name of Ruby, and cared for his mate and child as if they were jewels. Ruby was nothing but a neko with her fathers extraordinary fire talents and her mothers fine appearance.
More Misfortune and Death
But alas the joy had not lasted. With in months what was left of the Gear cat's race had found out what he had done and came to take the child to kill it, for to them she was tainted. Felrion knew this day to come and sent them to go back to to village bellow as he would fight for the child and mate he so loved.
That night the skies had wept causing a flood. Felrion was dead and the child's mother was safe. For now. She lived in the village outskirts, and she had not come unnoticed. At first people accepted them. But to have a neko full red was strange. And then as misfortune spread upon the village again, they blamed the mother and her child.
They were taken captive by the frightened villagers and separated. the mother was to be sold as a slave as no one wanted anything to do with those who was thought to have cursed hands. Ruby on the other hand was abandoned to the side of a street, she was only but an infant, and no one wanted a child so young.
Her Secret Guardian
Little did the tiny kitten, ruby know, that she had a secret Guardian. This person never showed her face, and ruby doesn't even know who she is let alone she exist just to be her guardian. This person has steered Ruby along, making sure she was taken care of by good people witch led Kemo to find her, A fellow neko. Her guardian watches in the distance over the years and had turned fates wheel again to lead her to the man that had now claimed her as his pet. Her guardian knows well that this man is nothing but good to the little fire cat and secretly gave them her blessing.
Xi Saihine, her guardian now stays close, working in a private facility, just to keep a close watch on little ruby. She only does so because ruby is about to hit her sixteenth year, the time where all firecats would gain their powers. Sometimes they come late, or not at all, while others only have their powers appear if they are put into life threatening or mentally scary situations. Xi simply can not allow this to happen, as she would risk breaking her vow.
For now the little Kitten is nothing but happy with her new owner and friends, and she would not wish anything to change.
A New Life
She was found by another neko and stayed with her for four years, turning five with in their care. The neko that found her was named kemo. But as everyone knows, A slave once was, you will always be. Kemo was not free, living as maids and servants, trying to take care of her sisters. Now ruby was now apart of that life. Kemo managed to protect her from the reality for another ten more years.
She was now fifteen. and finally her body was coming to age where she would be noticed. In a final attempt to save her from hateful wanting hands, Kemo managed to have an old master take her.
She now waits to be taken by the man who her sister has given her too. Hoping the man be as kind and as gentle as her sister.
She has grown up not knowing anything about herself besides her name, Kemo and Snowbell, Who are her sisters through stong bonds later made. She had not even known she was adopted, only that she was different.
She is rather illiterate, having never learned to read or write, and her responses are normally short and carefully thought out, as she does not talk much.
Not only that, the poor kitten is confused, having herself to belive that she is a canine. She belives this because she loves bones, tends to chew on news papers, and sleeps with a giant stuffed puillow in the shape of a bone. Of course she mews, tends to be steathy, sneaky and sly, and tends to wash herself like any feline would.
Bio:
Age: 12
Height: 3'08'
Weight: 76 Lbs
Race: Rakshasa Fire Cat
Quote: "Ruby Loves You Master!"
When she is overjoyed she tends too revert to a cat like state where she purrs and mews. Will you be the one to buy her from the the hands of the evil man her sister is trying so hard to protect her from? Or is it that you will be worse, becoming her worst nightmare? I prey not for terrible things, and can only hope that things will go entirely as planned.
Her Owner
Ruby has one master, one owner, a best friend she found in him and loves him just the same. Shes adored him from the first time she met him and loved to play and tease him. She is much like a child still but he doesn't seem to mind it at all. This person even gave her the nickname bubbles one night and she calls him cloud sometimes. He loves to play with her and always teaches her new things.
She wishes that he lives very long, healthy, and happy... Her friend, Her Master, Her Zeran.
Her Collar
Ruby to this day believes that she was born into slavery, and that her collar was assigned to her right after her birth.
What It Looks Like
Ruby's collar as said before is giant. It is an over sized red collar with a chain attached to it. Ruby's collar nearly looks like the one in the main picture, but it has am eight link long silver chain permanently attached to it.
This is actually closer to what Ruby's Collar actually looks like though it is a lot thicker and a bit more over-sized even the chain links that hand from it are rather large.
More About The Collar And The Histories Of It
Her collar is locked and the only one that will ever be able to take it off is Zeran Stormsinger once he inscribes his name into it. The collar is special. Placed on when she was first taken into the world of a slave, the collar sealed itself onto her. This was done at the mere age of two when, out of the goodness of Kemo's heart, wanted to save the kitten from death. Kemo tried to shield her from the vile ways of her master from Ruby and for a while it actually worked. Kemo's master wanted to raise the kitten to be the perfect slave. The collar will expand and grow with her so she would never choke.
Word Of Warning, Freedom's Price To Be Paid
She has never taken off her collar and probably never will be able too. It has never been inscribed as it was left for her owner to do so when they would lay claim to her. One more thing. The collar could only be inscribed once, meaning she would never could truly be claimed again. If her owner ever abandoned her, the collar could kill her as it is genetically synced with her. That is of course, if he never takes it off her.
It cant simply be taken off her either. Her freedom will come as a price for them both. She would lose all memory of her entire life from after the placement of the collar, and the one who became her owner would never even know she existed. The collar though, has a way of returning to its original host. If you then try to destroy, dispose, or pass on the collar, it will always find little Ruby, and she will simply relive the horrors of having whole life times erased from her memory again and again.