Leiko - Cranepaw

[Crane]

l e i k o .

If you want to play it like a game
Well, come on, come on, let's play
Cause I'd rather waste my life pretending
Than have to forget you for one whole minute

xxo .definition.
arrogance - overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors;

xxo .female
xxo .19 moons
xxo .loner

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But then it's 1,2,3 and you're back to me,
And all the pieces fit together oh so perfectly
Enough to take me home
Just take me home...

xxo .physical.

From ear-tip to tail-tip; so let's start with the ears.
Leiko has perfectly average ears, however her ear-tips are very well-rounded, more so than average. The soft fur in her ears in a creamy white, and very sensitive. Leiko has excellent hearing. Her head is narrow, and her eyes are slightly sunken. Her eyes are quite large, and can look a little out-of-proportion with the rest of her head. They are a brilliant, vibrant emerald colour, and the intensity varies, depending on her surroundings and her current emotions. Her muzzle is quite prominent, and narrow like her forehead. Her nose is a pale shade of pink, and her whiskers are quite short. Her teeth are a bright, clean white, and very sharp and quite long. Leiko is proud of her jaws, and takes care of her teeth by licking them after meals. Her tongue is the exact same shade of pink as her nose, and blunt and rounded like her ears.
Leiko has a very odd throat - her head is slightly forwards from her chest, and that means her neck is arched slightly. Her vocal cords are stretched, which allows her to raise her voice and lower it quickly, so that she can do a cat quivalent of singing. It's a very odd talent, and when she's alone, she practices it a lot.
Like the rest of her body, Leiko's shoulders are quite narrow and so is her chest. Don't be fooled though; although her pelt may not be strained with muscles, Leiko is still quite strong for a she-cat from living alone most of her life. Her muscles are just subtler, the long, oval kind. Her legs are not very long, but like her body are strong and muscled. Her paws are broad and the pads tough, so tough that Leiko could probably walk across gravel and not even feel it. She has a long, flexible mid-section, and can twist and turn veru quickly because of it.
Her hind legs are well-muscled, possibly from diluted SkyClan blood. Leiko can jump to heights that most cats cannot reach, such as the window in her room in the Old Motel. Leiko has a long tail, which she uses for balance when she's jumping. The tip is slightly feathered, just enough fur to blow about in the wind.
Leiko's fur is a medium length, and a very pretty colour. It's an incredibly pale, soft ginger colour, and very thick. Across her tail, back, neck, head and legs are darker ginger stripes, almost a red colour. Leiko's chest and stomach are a creamy white, just like her ear-fur.

I won’t soothe your pain
I won’t ease your strain
You’ll be waiting in vain
I got nothing for you to gain

xxo .mental.

Years of living alone have toughened Leiko up, and now she lives a completely self-centered existence. It is not pure selfishness that causes Leiko this way, she has never known anything but looking out for herself and nobody else. Around other cats, she is awkward and shy, because she rarely speaks to them. Occasionally she stutters, thus embarrasing her further and causing her to stutter more. It's a vicious circle.
Leiko may seem shy at first, but as you get to know her, she becomes more and arrogant, sarcastic and irritating. You catch her a piece of prey, she'll respond with, "Oh, jeez. Thanks for the mousetail, O mighty hunter," and stalk away - taking the prey with her, of course.
So, as you may hve picked up already, Leiko isn't the friendliest of cats. However, because she seems untouchable, those toms who like a challenge are drawn to her; luckily for Leiko, there aren't many of those. Or she'd spend all her time grooming the blood off her paws - any toms come too close, and their ear is gone.

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I don't care if it hurts,
I wanna have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul

xxo. history.

Leiko was the first-born in a litter of kittypets in the Twolegplace. She had three brothers, Kami, Kioko and Yoshiko. The four kits took great delight in exploring the Twoleg nest, as well as the garden, and when they got older, the surrounding gardens as well. Every time they went out Leiko's senses would tingle with excitement, and anticipation. She began sleeping under the bushes outside more and more often, and stalking the birds in her garden.
One warm Greenleaf night, not long after Leiko was weaned, Kami, Leiko's favourite of her brothers, came up to her with a proposition. He wanted to explore the forest outside their kittypet home, and so at midnight the two kittypets slunk over the fence and out to the forest. Unluckily, they ran into a patrol of creepy forest cats. They tried to flee, but the forest cats were fast. They had a head start, and were just a few pawsteps away from the Thunderpath when the patrol caught up with them. The two kittypets tried to flee across, but Kami was a few heartbeats too late, and a monster crashed into him. The forest cats were distracted by the tragedy and Leiko made her escape to the Old Motel.
After a few days of starvation and terror, Leiko's hiding place under a bush was discovered. A black paw reached in, and Leiko yowled in fury and swiped at it. That was how she met Julian, the friendly loner. He taught her the ways of the forest - how to battle and hunt, stay out of the Clan cat's ways and respect those cats bigger and stronger than you. Leiko took to the forest like a fish to water, and battled a smaller cat for one of the choicest rooms in the Old Motel. There she lived for a few moons with Julian, until the two BloodClan cats came.
They were weak, but still just as strong as the loners. They fought with Leiko and Julian, who managed to kill them. But Julian had lost a lot of blood, and he slipped away into the void. After that, Lieko would never speak to another cat unless she was asked a direct question, or threatened. Every night she would hum mournfully, until she fell asleep with Julian's imagined voice in her ears - and only after she realized he was dead that she loved him.
She practiced her 'singing' often, until it became habit for her to sing instead of speak. She became more and more alone... Until she became what she is now: unloved, unhappy and alone.

Because I'm just one of those grains you see
Slipping down the neck of the bottle
Soon the top will be empty
And you'll be out of me

xxo .family.

parents::sir tinkles amity
siblings::kami kioko yoshiko
friends:: julian
enemies:: longclaws ginger

Empty belly life!
Rotten smelly life!
Full of sorrow life!
No tomorrow life!

xxo .password.

antediluvian

[Silver]

Lurvely Cranepaw <3 Accepted