Post by V!PEЯ on May 22, 2024 9:33:02 GMT
VALERIANCREST
BASICS
NAME ► Valeriancrest (Valerian: prefix which means "a white flower associated with healing aspects for insomnia and anxiety; can also exacerbate these issues"; crest: suffix which means "a distinguished and proud warrior")
AGE ► 24 moons
GENDER ► male
PRONOUNS ► he/him/his
RANK ► deputy
CLAN ► shadowclan
DESCRIPTIONS
ONE LINER ► Cream-brown tabby tom with sand gold eyes.
FACECLAIM ► AI Generated Creative Commons Stock created by Idalba Granalda
PERSONALITY
STRENGTHS ►
- Values honor, loyalty, and efficiency
- Motivated by personal ambition and political gain for all rather than the few
- Tender and caring
- Self-sacrificing to a fault
- Driven to improve for the betterment of his clanmates wellfare
WEAKNESS ►
- Takes a long time to trust, trust is easily broken
- Motivated by desire for power, prioritizing his political station over sentiment
- Easily aggravated
- Prone to lapse into fantasy
LIKES ►
- The look of sun-dappled leaves surrounded by shadow, he finds it poetic
- Actions rather than words
- Devotion to a cause one's passionate about, even if it could spell their undoing
DISLIKES ►
- Dishonesty, habits of spewing stories instead of truth
- Disloyalty, claiming allegiance to one cause or individual and breaking that vow
- The scent of sickness, it's cloying to the nostrils and clings to him for days
RELATIONSHIPS
FATHER ► Nightingale
MOTHER ► Laburnumwish
SIBLINGS ► Goldenleap, Swankit
MATE ►
OFFSPRING ►
MENTOR ►
APPRENTICE(S) ►
HISTORY
TRIGGER WARNINGS ► Unexpected death of kits (not detailed but mentioned), allusions to potentially unstable psyche, "painfully adoring and affectionate family mysteriously vanished under unknown circumstances" trope
► Born to Nightingale, a stray, and Laburnumwish, a fierce warrior who prided herself on her cunning and virtue, he led a mundane childhood, nothing extraordinary to report on but nothing that would lend to a particularly traumatizing upbringing. His parents had gone through mishap after mishap when it came to children, his sisters Swankit and Goldenleap having been failed offspring attempts before he came about. As such, Laburnumwish was a detached mother who focused more on ensuring her son survived his own kithood than a caring individual who wanted to share her affections. Still, she showed her love in her own way, such as when she oversaw his training or warned him of how untrustworthy other individuals could be. He was taught to rely on himself if he wanted to see his dreams be fulfilled and that advice had never failed him. This treatment throughout his childhood, cold and detached parenting styles without outright claiming they saw him as a burden rather than a blessing, led to Valeriancrest viewing the world through a lens of benefit and liability. He refused to take on others in his life if he believed them to be a drain on his resources. His parents worried about his ability to make friends or find meaningful companionship once they realized it was no longer a bout of adolescent rebellion and instead how his brain truly processed the world outside of himself, but by that point, habits and traits were already set in stone. Antisocial sociopathy, he would have been diagnosed if anyone had bothered or if he'd been particularly fond of labels. Instead, he focused on his own trials and tribulations, his triumphs and struggles. They helped him guide his way through life, but they also kept him from expressing himself as keenly as he wished to. Emotional regulation wasn't instinctual for Valeriancrest. Nothing made that more apparent than the loss of his family, where he hardly shed a tear, even when told should he go looking for them, he would at most only find their corpses. He felt... detached. Disconnected. He had lost everything, and yet all that greeted him was the chilly ache of something missing in his heart and the understanding that it would be placing more work upon him in the coming moons.
