Cracker France

**Cracker France** is the fifth child of Holly Sarah France, and the co-owner of a botany shop alongside his sister, Petal France. He is one of the original eight children in the first litter Holly gave birth to. He made a soft debut alongside his littermates in Chapter 28.

## Appearance

Cracker is a lithe male guardian with soft feathery cream fur fluffing up around his neck and cheeks, on occasion depending on how his coat grows in after shedding, paler patches can show up around his eyes. His nose and hooves are a pale greyish brown, and his eyes are pale lime green, he also wears a 4-point silver star earring in his right ear.

## Personality

Endlessly sweet and kind, Cracker has an absolute heart of gold. He is gentle to all, even being a vegetarian from fear of hurting animals, he enjoys spending his time outside mainly in the gardens or natural areas outside the noise of the city, liking sunbathing and studying flowers, also running a botany shop with his sister. Cracker holds a lot of fear towards humans from being captured by them as a fawn, and though most of his life has been plagued by the resulting paranoia, in present times he has infact been healing incredibly well, currently enjoying a peaceful life on Custos free from the stress of his past.

## History

### Pre-Series

Cracker France is the fifth child of TG Holly France. He was born on world 8 August 17th 2006 in northern England alongside his 7 other littermates, and grew up in the forest outskirts around Yorkshire with Holly and the rest of their growing pack, stealing food from humans and avoiding capture. He was infact born intersex, though due to only very minor and mainly internal female attributes this has never actually been noticed or diagnosed, and he presumes himself as a standard bio male. Cracker has an absolute heart of gold, he is endlessly sweet and kind and gentle to all, even being a vegetarian from fear of hurting animals. He enjoys spending his time outside mainly in the gardens or natural areas outside the noise of the city, liking sunbathing and studying flowers.

In September 2007, Cracker was captured by humans hoping to sell him or present him to the media as the first of his kind to be caught, and before the others had chance to rescue him, he tried to escape by flying away, leading to his captors doing anything they could to stop him by shooting, knifing at, and throwing things at his wings until they were completely shredded. Because wings are tied to the guardian summoning them, his are permanently ruined, and he can no longer fly, sometimes in present day he will ride on or be carried by one of his larger siblings backs whilst they fly instead. Following the incident, Cracker began to quickly go downhill, being riddled with paranoia and extremely jumpy and alert, he would not sleep and struggled to function, utterly terrified of humans since the attack and freezing up at the sight of danger. Having already been close since childhood, Mica took Cracker into his personal care and protection, monitoring him 24/7 to keep him safe, which over time began to ease his fears and slowly guide him back to normality. The two remain the utter best of friends, and still spend a lot of time together whenever they can.

After moving to Custos Isle in 2012, Cracker alongside some of his other siblings settled into a house in Altrum residential zone where they all continue to live. He was part of a group that after first getting TV access all decided on getting a silver piercing in their right ears as alleged ‘good luck’ seen on a program, the piercing itself is fairly botched and loose. When Orizon first showed up to the island in 2016, Mica valiantly defended Cracker from the god, though his left shoulder was damaged with a large ‘X’ shaped scar during the conflict, coincidently matching the shape of Cracker’s earring. With the calmer lifestyle on Custos and frequent help from therapy, Cracker actually began to improve from his condition, and now is as close to fully healed from the trauma as he’ll probably ever be, doing infinitely better in modern times despite the odds against him. He would later take over a botany shop with sister Petal, and enjoys the time he gets to spend out in the sun gardening, with the shop self-sustaining from produce on Custos, they are free from the looming threat of import, and so currently enjoy peaceful lives free from the stress of his past.

### Series 1: Means to an End

Cracker reunites with his litter on the 29th of May in 2020, receiving lunch and hanging out at the The Cadet Cafe.

## Trivia

* Cracker is permanently unable to fly due to an injury dealt to him by a human when he was a fawn.