Buckwheat

**Buckwheat** is a red and white tabby cat with olive eyes.

**Buckwheat** was born as an outsider to unknown parents.

## Appearance

Buckwheat is an Oriental Shorthair with orange tabby patterning on his back and going up his neck. His chest, underbelly and face are white apart from the corners of his cheeks and the top of his head, which share the same orange tabby pattern as his back. Buckwheat has wide olive eyes, large ears, and long limbs.

## Personality

Melancholy and gloomy, Buckwheat is the personification of teen angst. He views the world in a sad, dreary sort of way and points out the negative things that he sees with little regard for other's feelings. Instead of making himself feel better when he's sad, he often chooses to worsen the feelings by isolating for hours or days at a time. Buckwheat is an anxious cat and makes broad assumptions about cats before he meets them, oftentimes getting anxious or upset when they differ from the mental image he made of them. Despite his introverted personality he will socialize with others when given the chance, especially with Clan cats. His way of thinking could be described as wistful, a mix between sadness and longing, and he often wishes for the things that he doesn't have, especially romance. He wants his life to be beautifully tragic.

Buckwheat does think positively about some things, one of which being death. He has accepted and embraced the fact that death is inevitable and finds it fascinating how the world will continue to go on without him or any of the cats he knows long after they are gone. He tries to treat his surroundings with respect whenever he has the chance and is passionate about the natural order of the world. While some may find his fascination with death morbid, Buckwheat thinks of it as normal and scorns those who are afraid of dying.

Spirituality is a large part of Buckwheat's life, introduced to him as a child by his parents. He believes in his own version of StarClan, slightly different than what the Clans believe, and knows that the spirits of deceased cats guide him through life. He believes in ghosts and thinks that cats are visited by the spirits of their loved ones when going through hard times or are in trouble. Rather than a single place, Buckwheat believes that StarClan is whichever place made a cat the happiest in their life and changes for every cat. His personal idea of StarClan is a sprawling field filled with a rainbow of flowers and stars that shine bright when the sun goes down (plus a bunch of angsty stuff for him to wallow in...).

Despite Buckwheat's negativity and antisocial energy, he can form close bonds with others, especially if they're somewhat odd like he is or a listener rather than a talker. It is quite hard to earn his trust, though, and when he does feel close enough with someone, he will get almost annoyingly clingy and overprotective when around them and when they seem to be in any trouble, scared of losing them. When he feels comfortable enough around someone, he will open up a bit more to them and talk to them about where his sadness stems from, although it takes quite a while for someone to reach that level of trust with him. He holds his family close to his heart and considers his close friends his family.

When Buckwheat was seven moons old his mothers left him in a small corner of the forest to go hunting, promising that they'd be back by sundown. He waited, practicing his hunting skills, until sunup the next day, and his mothers never returned. After wandering too close to the Twolegplace they had been taken to a shelter, but Buckwheat had no way of knowing so and fell into a deep despair that lasted multiple moons before he recovered from the loss of his parents and continued living. This is where his trust issues stemmed from, and he still has nightmares about it often. He believes that they're in StarClan watching over him and guiding his life on the correct path.

## Family

**Sibling:**
Cricketpaw (living, confirmed)