Thicketshade

Thicketshade is a mottled black-and-russet tortoiseshell she-cat with a white chest, amber eyes, and folded ears.
== Personality ==
Thicketshade has a tendency to come across as one who has insight and curiosity of a cat much older than herself. This isn't due to any inherited or special intelligence acquired at birth, but Thicketshade lives in a hyper-aware state, extremely observant of her surroundings, situations, and cats and their behaviors. This being said, she is aware when something about others, herself, or her family is not congruent with the general populous around her, which leads to extreme embarrassment, which doubles in collateral damage when taken into account her biological family's tendency to get aggressive and angry more easily. She also experiences extreme secondary embarrassment. This often results in being too critical on the cats around her, herself, and especially her family, which causes her to be very uncomfortable in her own skin. It isn't a conformity issue, but just a lack of congruency triggers her stress, and her impulse is to fix it, no matter what the cost. It interferes with her daily life; inconsistency is torture if she cannot fix it, and is a serious pet peeve when she fixes it anyway. The Type C personality in her - the part that tries to be pleasant and keep the peace, but has difficulty expressing emotion, especially negative emotion - feels as if she is the only one living in this never-ending process of unspoken rules in her mind, which leads to loneliness and separation from the general populous that she constantly feels responsible for keeping in just the right order, which in turns leads her to feel guilty for abandoning the duty she assigned herself. Thicketshade IS a pleasant cat to be around when everything's just right to her at that moment - she'll crack jokes, hold perfectly normal conversations. That's another thing - everything has to be normal based on the majority (again, not conformity, but it is easier to change the minority than the majority). If something changes drastically, her whole existence is questioned and the sky is falling and NOW she has to readjust, which doesn't quite suit her fancy, especially when she just got that thing in order. She seems to also give off the "something bad is going to happen, I can feel it, it CAN'T keep being so good!" when quietly suffering through one of her manic episodes of cleaning and organization. Overall, Thicketshade definitely looks and acts like she had everything together, and for the most part, she is - mainly due to the factor that also causes her a great deal of discomfort daily.