Spring France

**Spring France** is the owner and head of The Cadet Cafe, and one of the 78 children of Holly Sarah France.

## Appearance

Spring is a stubby female guardian with a short woolly coat of greyish-brown fur and a lighter undercoat around her muzzle and lower chest, her nose and hooves are a darker grey, and her eyes are a deeper green matching the leather tag with leaf decal on her left ear. Her ears tips are slightly more rounded than normal. She lost her tail to Arrow in 2016, and now sports a stub in it’s place and a large scar across her lower back.

## Personality

Owner of the Cadet Cafe in New Cross City, Spring is always ready to provide a warm and welcoming atmosphere to anyone who walks through the shop doors. She is kind and endlessly optimistic, always loving to chat and befriend anyone, though at times can often appear beyond aloof and oblivious to the world around her, and struggles to process anything negative, preferring instead to try and smile through it. With the island in crisis, Spring knows her shop will never last in the long run, though she remains determined to keep the Cadet going for as long as she possibly can, staying resourceful and not letting it get her down, hopeful she will find a solution to save her business before it’s too late.

## History

### Pre-Series

Owner of the Cadet Cafe in New Cross City, Spring is part of Holly’s third litter of fawns born June 2nd 2007 in the forests of northern England. She is kind and endlessly optimistic, always loving to chat and befriend anyone, though at times can often appear beyond aloof and oblivious to the world around her, she struggles to process anything negative, preferring instead to try and smile through it. Spring set up shop in the abandoned cafe building upon moving to the island in September of 2012, and has ever since worked there and lived in the above apartment. Located towards the centre coast of New Cross, the Cadet is regarded as the most popular coffee shop on Custos, being a regular meeting spot for many and beloved by all for it and Spring’s warm and welcoming atmosphere. She is helped by a small team, mainly consisting of sister Nova and at times good friend Apollo, being the first on Custos to successfully befriend him upon his revival due to his love for the shop, and he has continued to help out there since 2019. During an altercation amongst her family with her immediate brother Arrow in 2016, Spring lost her tail to him near the base while trying to defend Murphy, and now sports a stub in it’s place and a large scar across her lower back.

Despite the import crisis on Custos in the modern era, Spring continues to battle on and often slip under the radar for how little she tries to ask for from the crew to run the shop. She makes do with recycling whatever she can to save money, and gets as many resources as possible from the island itself rather than requesting them via import anymore. Spring is aware that as an entertainment esc business, her shop will never last in the long run of the island as growing demand from the clinic and labs overshadow it, though she remains determined to keep the Cadet going for as long as she possibly can, hopeful she will find a solution to save her business before it’s too late.