SAIYAKI

Saiyaki's origins are completely unknown. She's been around for hundreds of years at least, though she hasn't kept track of her exact age due to it not meaning all that much to her. She won't explain her history with her family.
Most people who talk or game with her on the internet don't know she's a sphinx, she just conveniently doesn't mention it or show enough of herself in photos for it to be clear she's not just in catgirl cosplay.

She's generally quite shy, partially due to how she's stopped socializing in recent decades to instead play video games all day. Saiyaki has a harsh way of speaking and can come off as rude or insulting at times, but she means well. She's also extremely clever, always playing 4D chess with multiverse time travel while we're playing checkers. She mostly uses this to win League of Legends or fuck with anyone who bothers her.

She definitely doesn't fully follow the law, her lifestyle is suspiciously comfortable for someone who claims to have been unemployed for many years.

• greatly enjoys riddles and puzzles
• unemployed currently, how she has funds is a mystery
• wishes her fur wasn't so thick due to the amount of shedding
• cannot resist laser pointers
• mains riven in league of legends

• 200 cm on hind legs, only around 112 cm on all fours.
  • can walk on two or four legs without issue.
• has the fashion sense of both an egirl and someone from victorian ages.
  • often mashes the two styles together in her outfits.
• she's full grown, she's just small for a sphinx because she's a housecat rather than a big cat

Work in progress.
Saiyaki is technically considered an ancient winged sphinx due to her liniage. However, unlike true ancient sphinxes, she appears more like a housecat than a wildcat. She was also born with underdeveloped, malformed wings. Both of these factors combined make her a bad omen in sphinx society.
She has lost contact with her family, having vanished from their lives a long time ago, and had her wings amputated to appear as a normal modern wingless sphinx. Of course, not many know she's a sphinx to begin with.

Truthfully, Saiyaki is not unemployed. She funds her lifestyle through the non-human black market, being hired to find and haggle for illegal items such as cursed artifacts or human meat. She occasionally works in the normal black market, though her profits there aren't as high. The few times she leaves the house, if not to go to a furry event with friends, is to make these deals.

Saiyaki is extremely pessimistic towards both monster and human society, seeing good people as the exception in both. She has experienced harm from both sides, and while she thinks the regulations pushed on non-humans are unfair in many ways, hiding their existence is not something she disagrees with. After all, she's seen and experienced firsthand the sorts of things humans are capable of should they discover strange species.
As she views the majority of humans and monsters as dangerous, she prefers to hide inside away from people (and the law). Her job isn't something she views as morally right, she simply doesn't see the point in following morals when they vary so differently depending on individuals/species (though she does have some boundaries in things she's not willing to source/sell).