Permafrost

## Personal

### Likes

River, Burn, Toad, Indestructible Pillow, the rest of her citizens, Skittles, Strawberry Fanta

### Dislikes

being asked a lot of questions, making important decisions, seeing River upset, Kitten, Kiera

### Family

Firn (mother)
Jadeite (father)
River (unofficial adoptive son)

## Description

Permafrost is a very tall fluffy snow leopard with pearly white and gray-cream fur and dark rosettes. She has wide pale cornflower blue eyes and a pale pink nose, inner ears and paw pads. She is almost always wearing a tiara with clear pale blue diamonds, some kind of blue eyeliner, and a multitude of small bracelets and bands on her wrists. Alongside that, she carries a warm (if not slightly anxious) or motherly kind of expression, although lately she has appeared more snappy and harsh since River's disappearance.

## Personality

Permafrost is the kind of cat who tries as hard as she can to benefit people, no matter how difficult it is, to the very best of her ability. She is very caring and almost like a big sister to her citizens, spending the greatest amount of her time worrying about them, their problems and the state of their lives. She is also hardworking and quite protective of those that are close to her, willing to sacrifice herself to keep them from harm selflessly.

Permafrost has a hidden layer that she has only revealed to very close friends in which she can be a very silly, competitive, chaotic person who lives for fun and energy, but she has buried that side of herself deep in her anxiety and doubt, which is why only a few select people have ever managed to get it out of her. She believes she makes her worst choices in that mood (which is partially true, considering what she did with Wish) and refuses to let herself get there. (The only exception to this is when she is playing games with Burn, in which silly Perm is the only Perm you get to see.)

She is a talented worrywart, and as optimistic as she might appear to others is incredibly pessimistic towards herself. Permafrost is fairly certain nothing will work out for her no matter what path she chooses. Her mindset was fixed to this after her mother and father's death- although she disliked them it shook her deeply that she helplessly watched their demise- and abrupt fits of panic are not uncommon for her, no matter the time of day. Permafrost often describes herself as 'unqueenly', feeling that she isn't capable of supporting her kingdom as much as she needs to be, even when she is doing well.

After River's disappearance she has become more bitter and cold, somewhat resembling her mother's attitude towards the kingdom. She seems to find enjoyment in watching people struggle instead of facing her grief. Permafrost is determined that now that River is gone she is able to be as perfect of a queen as possible, slowly destroying herself from the inside as she is torn by the love she had for him and her spite she has grown for the situation.

## Relationships

### Firn

Permafrost always had a tense relationship with her mother, as Firn was controlling and cold and wanted her daughter to be the same way, when Permafrost was not. This led Permafrost to fear and resent her presence, (one of which was partially intended) giving way to whatever she was doing to listen to Firn if only to get it over with. She did take in most of Firn's words, however, which is a large insecurity of hers. Despite the negativity surrounding her mother, Permafrost still mourned her death as she would have anyone else.

### Jadeite

Although Permafrost generally agreed with her father more than Firn, she was never very close to him due to how reclusive he was. When she was younger she would seek him out for company, but Permafrost slowly stopped as he rarely wanted to talk with anyone but her mother. She was very sad at his death, wishing that she could have bonded with him as a father and daughter should more than she had when he was alive.

### Burn

Permafrost's closest assistant and friend, and one of the only people she feels comfortable talking openly to. She loves him (platonically) deeply and could sit with him for hours in conversation like she could with no other person. She enjoys messing around with him greatly and feels as though being with him relieves the tension she has in her thoughts. Firn was unhappy with their closeness when she was alive and did as best as she could to separate them as much as possible, but Permafrost and Burn would hang out together anyways and Perm could be as unqueenly as she wished without any judgement or doubt of her ability. Plus, he actually calls her Perm. She became more distant with him after River disappeared.

### River

Permafrost loves her adoptive son as she has loved nothing else. Even through all of the loathing he has for her, Permafrost cares for him with all of her soul and wishes for nothing other than for him to be happy with her. She is almost selfish in her loving, visible in the way she kept him inside the palace for about three years in the fear that he would run away and try to get back to his true home. Permafrost is very protective of him and would give her life up to defend him, even with the knowledge that he would abandon her in a heartbeat if he was in the same position. She is willing to do anything to make him a better person and although he is a (aka the) main source of her self-doubt, nothing in his spite or disorders or defiance could ever make her love him less. When he disappeared, it was like a blow to the chest for her, especially after how much he had changed.

### Toad

Knowing that River has finally found someone he trusts and will be around makes Permafrost happier than words can describe, even though she is slightly sad it isn't her. Permafrost seems to enjoy Toad's presence and is very interested in him, partially in the curiosity of what made River do attached to him and partially because her and Toad seem to be somewhat alike.

### Magic Carpet

She is adamant that Magic Carpet is a cool shawl and refuses to hear otherwise.

## Trivia

* she was previously a large, fluffy brown tabby cat with an off-white chest, throat and lower tail until it was decided (with help from the APoF discord) that Onyx wanted TATOK to have more diversity, thus making Permafrost a snow leopard.
* Permafrost has a massive sweet tooth and absolutely loves Skittles.
* Permafrost's personality in the beginning was inspired off of Tui T. Sutherland's Wings Of Fire, the line 'thrilling' replaced with 'uncaring', which Permafrost did say a lot. Additionally, the main area of the Sunken Kingdom's palace was arena-shaped.
* Onyx has described that Permafrost as a human would look strikingly like Mayor Goodway from Paw Patrol. She would also probably carry around a chicken.