[Neptune.]

Hollowkit || Hollowpaw || Hollowviper

Hollow - for his raspy voice
Viper - for his ferocity and willingness to strike back

AMAB || he/they/it/snake || homosexual

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Let’s go in the garden
You’ll find something waiting
Right there where you left it,
Lying upside down

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Hollow is cold in nature, often keeping others at an arm's length and unwilling to let them in. It’s unclear how snake came to be this way, considering both snake’s parents love him very much, but maybe it’s just a combination of his natural state and the high expectations on his shoulders causing him to view all failure as weakness and undesirable, and any vulnerable emotion as something that isn’t beneficial.

Yet, bits of his softer side seep through the cracks in this facade of his, and it’s not uncommon to find it cuddled up with either of its parents or siblings. Hollow can be… a little sensitive. They don’t always show it, often, they prefer to keep this undesirable aspect of them hidden away where no one will know it exists, but criticism really gets to snake and will stick with snake for a long time. Everything stays with him, from the smallest thing to the biggest thing, all bottled up until the day he just explodes and is left… hollow.

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When you finally find it,
You’ll see how it’s faded.
The underside is lighter
When you turn it around.

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While snake’s parents hold snake to pretty high standards, Hollow will hold himself to even higher standards. If he’s not perfect the first time, then there’s no use trying. Because of this, I think it’ll have a very hard apprenticeship, the inevitable failures piling one on top of the other until they explode at anyone who’s around him. When that happens, it’ll need someone to bring it back down to earth and shed some perspective. This can be either Bracken or Falcon, I think it’ll depend on who Hollow is closer to. Perhaps it’s realized that… maybe high expectations aren’t always the healthiest things to force onto a cat so young and there should’ve been room and conversations allotted for failure, there should have been some leniency.

Hollow will not accept the words said to them right away - feeling like it’s too little too late and the damage had already been done, but he’ll come around to the idea of failure, of not being perfect all the time. It will take a lot of work to get there, but Hollowviper will be a warrior who can accept failures with little more than a grumble and a vow to try again.

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Everything stays right where you left it,
Everything stays, but it still changes.
Ever so slightly,
Daily and nightly,
In little ways,
When everything stays.

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@poppy. @els