Io

Special notes

1. Although her clan name is Nightshade I don't call her that, because that aspect of her life is near the end of what's interesting. In my mind she's a house cat that had a happy ending when she joined Shadowclan. Her character ark is dead she might as well be.

2. This is a closed species just so you no. No one else is allowed to make glass tails without the owners premission. I only get to make Io because of a contest thing.

I imagine her living in a alternative reality where twolegs can enchant and glass cats are a trend for the rich and financial better off. Glass cats would be generally considered cats by flesh cats, but are viewed as odd and strange.

Io personility is kinda vague at the moment. I view her as a kind cat who is always wanting to make friends, but has a enormous difficulty doing so, because of her fragility. She stays socially awkward throughout her whole life, but does end up making friends. Io has always wanted to be like a flesh cat and be able to do everything a normal cat can do. She hates the idea of being nothing, but a piece of art and as valuable and useful as a flower.

Accepting her mortality is difficult for her and she has to evaluate whether she would rather live or survive. Doing what she wants to do and well living is rewarding, but garrentees a short life while staying inside makes her miserable, but she's terrified of dying. As a kit and apprentice age cat she tried to make friends with the neighborhood flesh cats, while living as a kittypet she never successful at befriending them. A couple thought she wierd, but one pushed her away, because he just knew that she would have a short life and that he didn't want to be hurt by getting to know her.

One day while playing with them she breaks her paw. Her first emotion is confusion as she doesn't understand why they are looking at her with such a horrified face. She looks down and sees her paw completely broken off. One kit tried to touch her, but the glass cuts him deep and makes him bleed. The kits run away and she stays still in panic for a long time. Then a older glass cat finds her and shows her their trick with repairing broke parts. The gum worked like a charm, but the incident was scaring.

One morning near clan territories she is met with aggressive kittypets, ones from a neighborhood gang. They attack her for fun and take joy out of frightening her. When they take off her foot she stabs a cats head in with her jagged limb. She runs away into the woods and meets the Shadowclan medicine cat. The med cat is kind to her and after washing the blood off her glass they walk back to the scene to find her missing paw. When they arrive her paw is in pieces.

She meets with the medicince cat frequently, while chatting at the border or being a guide through the twolegplace. When leaf-bare came and dicease was common Io took it upon herself to deliver catmint to the medicince cat's clan. After meeting with the leader she expresses desire to join as a medicince cat. The leader doesn't think that's such a good idea, because of her fragility, but the medicince cat argues for her.

Io tells the leader that her lifestyle and the amount of risks she takes isn't their choice and explains how helpful she'd be. She doesn't need any resources after all and her joining would only be beneficial. She becomes a medicine cat and gains the name Nightshade and although a lot of the clan cats don't like her she still manages to make friends and is on good terms with the majority of her clanmates. As a clan cat she's happy and although she probally won't live long she's making the best of her life.

(all written by my friend Lil-Illustrates!! I co-own her with her)