Eight

**General Info:**

* **Species:** Burmese Cat
* **Gender:** Male
* **Personality:** Confident, persistent, loyal, caring, can often become overwhelmed
* **Powers/Abilities:** Explosive nature and some pyrokinesis
* **Weaknesses:** His powers are very unstable, and most often lead to blowing things up
* **Important Design Notes:** X-shaped scar on right shoulder, spiky fur, notch in right ear

**Relations:**

* Okami (Adopted mom)
* Safia (Mate)
* Opal (Best Friend)
* Grold (Friend)
* Rio (Brother)

**Backstory:**

Eight grew up in a small private laboratory in the city. He was one of multiple kittens that were purchased from a nearby animal shelter that would often donate animals to the lab instead of putting them down. The experiment that Eight was used for was a privately commissioned project to create bioluminescent animals that could be sold as pets. He and another kitten, Rio, were given the same treatments, and were raised together as brothers. However, the experiments did not quite go as planned. Eight ended up with the ability to cause pyrotechnic explosions around him, blasts of fire that could get very destructive very quickly. The laboratory that he was created in was a good place that took care of their animals, but they did not know how to harness Eight’s abilities… and neither did he. It was only a few months after his mutation that one particularly bad outburst of his abilities caused critical damage to the laboratory and ended up instigating a huge fire. In the panic that followed, Eight managed to escape the burning building. However, there were test subjects and scientists alike that were not as lucky as he was; as far as Eight could guess, Rio was one of these unfortunates. Eight ended up wandering the streets of the city, aimless and completely lost as to how to survive and how to control the abilities that threatened to consume him. Luckily, he stumbled across Okami. The giant wolf-bat hybrid had recently escaped a situation similar to Eight’s and was busy scavenging to survive in the city. Eight ended up following her around, something that annoyed Okami at first. But after a few weeks, the two of them began to work together, and the older mutant eventually became protective of the tiny, explosive cat. They mutually adopted each other, and Eight grew up in the city with an overprotective murder mom.

Nowadays Eight lives just outside the city he grew up in with his mate, Safia. He spends his days with her and with their friends, introducing them all to Earth culture and ensuring that everyone is comfortable in the unfamiliar surroundings. However, the threat of Vixquen is something that looms over all of their heads, and he is constantly concerned when Safia has to return to her dimension.

**Fun Facts:**

* When he was first given the serum that enhanced him, the scientists thought it had killed him. When they realized he had survived, they said it was like he had used up one of his nine lives. That’s why they began to call him Eight.
* Eight and Safia met the first day that she came to earth, when she nearly drowned in a river. Eight managed to pull her out, and for him it was love at first sight.
* Eight’s tactic to get people to like him is to just follow them around until they decide they like his presence. So far he has used this tactic with Okami, Safia, and Grold; it has yet to fail him.
* After growing up in the city and scavenging for food, Eight has a very strong stomach and can (and will) eat anything.

**Main Theme Song:** “In My Blood” by The Score

**Appearances:** Fallen Renegades Book 1, Fallen Fire