Katsurō

Whereas there is an almost feline element to the grace of some of his brothers and sisters, Kat is bulky. He is all muscle, but not sleek and refined - uncut swaths, an empty slate of blank potential. Kat seems to have grown too quick for his brain to catch up. There is a clumsiness to him that is almost endearing, but it's also the cause of many scrapes, cuts, and sore muscles from cutting corners to close and letting an errant tree branch take a chunk out of his hide.

He has a fiery mane of red, orange, and black hair that looks like a raging bonfire starting from just behind his pale face and reaching down until mid-back. It spits out smaller embers of the same color across his hindquarters and shoulders. The bulk of his body is a white so pale it is nearly luminescent. Eerie yellow eyes peer out from beneath a low, sullen brow.

appearance

self-conscious - reserved - empathetic - creature lover - loyal to a fault - hoarder

The more his body grew and changed, the more he receded within himself. This is often perceived as "stoic," but in reality, he's painfully anxious. Kat is prone to vacillate wildly between bombastic strategizing (how he can artfully edit every facet of his expression and body language to achieve the exact effect he's hoping for) and absolutely catastrophic thinking (oh, someone noticed him wince in pain - within two days all of Auster will know he's a weakling with a target on his back).

As he grows, he will develop a few coping mechanisms for soothing his anxiety: collecting pets and all manner of stones (his den will become overrun with scores of shiny, dull, pitted, round, oval, dark, light... rocks). Kat finds it easier to open up to animals of other species and he has a soft spot for the small and furry ones; the cats that wander within the bamboo are some of his fondest companions. When he does open up to others, Katsurō is loyal to a fault. This big lug is impossible to get rid of if he's taken a liking to you. personality