Shadowmoon

Shadowmoon is a black she-cat with a grayish underbelly and paws, as well as blue eyes.

## Personality

Shadowmoon is cool, confident, and cunning, bound to grow into a strong asset for the cause she was born into as she ages. She's a quick study in almost anything she sets her mind to learning, and has the determination and endurance to keep pushing herself and pursuing her goals until she succeeds. She has no qualms about getting rid of anything or anyone that gets in her way, and would gladly eliminate any cat who interfered with her family's plans if she was certain she could get away with it. She's strong and resilient, but she isn't fearless, and the prospect of being thrown out of the Clan altogether is not one that she wants to face - her family's plan has to succeed, end of story. She's not a sociopath herself, but behaves in a cold, ruthless, and efficient manner, to the point that it might appear that she's completely heartless. She can experience emotions like any normal cat, but she suppresses her own feelings very intensely; in her mind, feelings are for other people, not for her. The fact that she can feel, though, makes her a better manipulator, using her own intuition and deeply-buried empathy to more effectively hurt others. However, she may end up hurting herself by proxy, as the empathy she refuses to acknowledge she has sometimes leads her to form attachments to others or expectations of her relationships with them, and their actions (or responses to her actions towards them) can end up offending or hurting her. She tends to be spiteful to those she feels have wronged her, and can hold deep grudges for long periods of time. However, ordinarily, she rarely loses her composure, and can keep a level head in a crisis easily, even finding time to reprimand others for their idiotic behavior if they panic or lose their cool while simultaneously figuring out and enacting a solution to a problem. She can be quite menacing, openly threatening others and not holding back in battle, sometimes even cackling and cracking mean jokes at her opponents' expenses while fighting. She is definitely one to gloat (or monologue, depending on her mood that day) if she feels she's got someone completely at her mercy. Sometimes she gets a little too caught up in entertaining herself and winds up momentarily distracted from her actual goal, but she usually self-corrects quickly enough, and her tireless pursuit of success applies to correcting any mistakes she makes, as well. She believes in her family's ideology, and is more than willing to help overthrow the Clan's current leadership, but she is mainly pursuing some semblance of a "normal life"; she wants to be able to live comfortably, without all of the pressures and expectations heaped on her shoulders by her family. She believes (perhaps naively) that she can have that once her family achieves its goal, but she will be extremely picky about who she would actually trust completely even within the coup's forces, as she is smart enough to know that even they are not necessarily working towards the exact same goal as her, and may not have her best interests at heart at all. To be fair, she doesn't usually have others' best interests at heart, either, but hey, hypocrisy is kinda her modus operandi. She harbors deep attachment, commitment, and trust issues on top of her ruthlessness and suppression of empathy: she is generally averse to affection (either receiving or giving it), never seems to smile except with malicious intent, is almost obsessive in maintaining control over any situation she finds herself in, hates having to depend on others for anything, and may take others' actions as slights against her even if their motives have nothing to do with her. She is uptight, passive aggressive, and manipulative, wanting nothing more than to maintain control and achieve her goals without the messy interferences of other people and their gross emotions.