Personality + Physicality

Physical Description

Rotstar is a tall, thin cat. He's a chimera, made up of lavender as well as red tabby colorations. His underbelly and his nose are both a cream color, as well as the fur inside his ears. His nose is a bright pink color and he has a rat bone placed through his septum. His eyes tend to be off putting to other cats, they're a blue so dark they tend to read as black to other cats, with red pupil, giving him an unreal, uncanny appearance. After his death, his body is covered in an assortment of large patchy scars, that periodically drip dark gooey blood from them.

Scars / Injuries

• Scars all over his body. They're all large and patchy, giving him and almost mangy appearance.

Backstory

[Rotkit] • [Rotpaw] • [Rotstar]

Early Life

Rotkit was born into a litter of two kits, him and his brother Bonekit. He was born deaf, and although it never really affected how he interacted with the world around him as a cat, he struggled from a young age with his parents not believing in him and his abilities, based solely on the fact he couldn’t hear them. The only change he had to make beyond what other cats could do was he couldn’t hear things like birds or dogs or anything sneaking up on him, but he quickly learned to accommodate for this. His parents had decided to have kits in an attempt to feel like they were special. They wanted kits that were promising and gave them some sort of honor as their parents. However, their ableism and disdain for their son overpowered their hopes of getting what they wanted. They were never too careful about keeping their feeling to themselves, outright stating to Rotkit that they believed he was going nowhere in life and that they’d regretted having him. This spurred him to believe that he needed to reach the greatest heights possible, starting with becoming the Shadowclan Leader. He started working hard as a kit, playing with his brother quickly devolved into actual fighting between the two, ruining their relationship from a young age. As well as watching the Apprentices above him training to become Warriors.

Adolescence

At 6 Moons, Rotkit became an Apprentice, much to his parents' surprise. He was Apprenticed under a cat named Beetletail, a careful and smart Warrior that taught him to use his abilities to his advantage. He spent more time training then not, determined to become the absolute best he could. Even though it was reported to his parents frequently that he was doing an exceptional job, they never seemed to put much care into his achievements. His parents' lack of care for him as well as watching the way most cats achieved next to nothing in their lives made him a bitter cat, realizing he would need a plan beyond hard work. He gained the trust of most of Shadowclan, making a positive name for himself as kind and hard-working. Both of which were labels that stuck to him even when he graduated Apprentice and became a Warrior, Rotgaze.

Adulthood

Once he had the trust of the cats that surrounded him, he put his true plan into action. Making careful moves to push the Deputy to their death, convincing them to go out on Patrol together, before killing them and hiding their body in a hard to reach place, hoping the birds and local scavengers would deal with it for him. Going back and pretending that the Deputy had gotten lost, giving the Leader the wrong info on where they went and getting the search party sent out, and inevitably coming back with no news. He took the place as Deputy, since the Leader trusted his judgment. He had no intent to stay Deputy long, even if the other cats realized what had happened, if everything went according to plan it wouldn’t matter. He was determined to create a Clan where everyone had to blindly listen to him, or be punished, a Clan where he had the first and final word on everything, where he could finally feel like he was accomplishing something and be able to rub it in his parents muzzles. It only took a few Moons before he decided to “dispose” of the Leader as well, in much the same fashion as the Deputy. Taking them out on a Patrol, up to a higher area, before pushing them off the cliff into a river of fast moving water, disposing of the body easily. He got back saying that he didn’t hear the Leader call out to him and that they had drowned, quickly taking the place of Leader. For a few Moons every other cat in Shadowclan was miserable as he tried to implement his rules and regulations upon the Clan. They all knew he was awful, a tyrant and a murderer, but no one was willing to be the first to step up and push him off his high horse. Until a younger cat, Yew, fixed the problem, gathering all the other Warriors together to lead an attack on him. Of the group that started the battle was Rotstar’s own brother, Bonetuft, wanting revenge for their strained relationship. All the cats formed together to hound Rotstar, effectively killing him and placing Yew as Leader, although not for long. Unsurprisingly, Rotstar ended up in Dark Forest, although he didn’t much mind it. The thought of living a boring perfect life just to end up in another boring bright place had never seemed ideal to him. Sure the other cats murdered him and he was all around hated, but at least they’d remember him! He doesn’t let being in Dark Forest get him down and will still harass anyone given the opportunity. And is more than willing to help any cat in crazy and deadly plans for the future.

Relationships

STANDING

Shadowclan

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Shadowclan hates him, there is not a single soul in that clan that has positive feelings towards him anymore. But who can blame them... he was awful.

Miscellaneous

Trivia

• He has an affinity for getting attatched to the worse cats :)