Cayenne Cattle

Cayenne Cattle (née **Queensland**) is a tertiary character in the fanmade spinoff series, ***And Bluey!***. She was the wife of Mort Cattle and the mum of Brandy, Chili, and Saffron.

## **Appearance**

Cayenne got her name from her bright orange-almost red patches of fur. She had a mullet-like hairstyle. She had one white ear, as well as a half-white-half-orange coat. Cayenne had three orange spots on her chest and fluffy legs.

## **Personality**

Cayenne was very playful with a wry personality. She was young at heart, often enjoying whatever music and trends were popular and learning to appreciate them. Cayenne was also a pretty anxious person and often turned to music to keep herself level-headed.

## **Backstory**

##### 1949

Cayenne Queensland was born to a family of farmers. She grew up harvesting her own food and tending to the family's horses, which she loved. However, as she got older, Cayenne quickly realized that while this was fun, there was so much more to life than just crops and horses.

#### 1967

Cayenne graduated high school and left for the open road. She loved wandering aimlessly and just seeing where the buses took her. Well, she ended up all the way in Sydney where she fell in love with the atmosphere. A big, bustling city was definitely the perfect place to get her career started! Cayenne set up shop right along the beach with her guitar in-hand and began belting out some of the prettiest tunes the locals had ever heard. This eventually caught the attention of a local indie band, who pretty much adopted and took her in; one of these band members was named Breezy, who would just so happen to be Indy's grandmum in the future. The band stayed in Sydney for a little while and gained a pretty respectable following, but it was the craving for the open, empty air that pushed them further north. Eventually they ended up in Brisbane, where Cayenne and her friends found a nice marshland that they wanted to settle at. The group would continue to play around the parks of Brisbane, and one night, they gained a pretty large audience of loud, rowdy college kids.

#### 1975

After their largest show had concluded, Cayenne had exited the stage in search of some fresh air and a smoke. While she loved playing for her fans, sometimes the crowds would make her a bit anxious. She was then approached by a group of 5 college guys; in this group was none other than Mort, who was probably the shaggiest looking dude she'd ever seen (next to Breezy, of course). They'd come to shower her in complements and convince her to do an encore, to which she sarcastically asked, "And what do *I* get out of it?" The boys, stumped, sputtered and stumbled, but it was Mort who spoke up and offered to get them to play their next performance at their college. He promised that the turnout would be *huge*, especially since finals week was just starting to wrap up. Cayenne agrees, informing her friends of the deal. Excited, they go to scope out the area a week prior, meeting Mort at his dorm. Scanning his room, Cayenne notices a record player sitting on his desk with a few AC/DC vinyls and instantly fan-girls. The two start a conversation over their shared love of rock music, chatting nearly the entire time the band is supposed to be looking at the venue. Cayenne's band members notice her take a liking to the other cattle dog, and make a new plan to get the two together.

Next week comes and goes, the band having successfully played their music. As predicted, Cayenne immediately rushes off to find Mort once the show ends, and being the great friends that they are, they decide to pack up and leave while Cayenne is distracted. It takes her 10 minutes to realize that she'd been left alone, Mort actually being the one to point it out. At first she's pissed, stomping off to find a payphone to call them, but calms down a bit after Mort offers her a ride home. Cayenne agrees, but first wants to listen to some of Mort's records since she's not in much of a rush to get home now. Mort happily agrees, and they spend nearly all night singing along, much to the annoyance of Mort's roommates. The next morning, Mort buys Cayenne breakfast and drops her home. She secretly wishes they could've hung out longer, but oh well...wait, there was a way around this. The idea pops into Cayenne's head after one of her bandmates says how this was in fact their biggest show to date. She suggests they keep playing at the campus; it's more people and more money in their pockets. Her bandmates see right through her, but are supportive nonetheless. Cayenne and Mort start spending more and more time together, eventually becoming official before Mort graduates. Cayenne ends up going home with Mort, the band on temporary hiatus until further notice.

#### 1976

Mort and Cayenne date for a year, driving around the country and playing their favorite songs and discovering new bands. They eventually decide to get married, having a small, private wedding on the beach.

#### 1977

The couple continue their cross-country escapade until Cayenne starts to feel icky and gross. Curious, she decides to go to a local hospital and learns she's pregnant. Both are ecstatic, deciding that now would probably be a good time to start looking for a permanent home. They agree to settle in the little home Cayenne's band had stayed at, it just needed a *lot* of TLC. Scraping together whatever money they had, Mort and Cayenne gutted and fixed up the home, finishing it literal days before their daughter was born. The baby was named Brandy, after Mort's late grandma, whom he was very close to and loved dearly. The little family was very happy and cozy in their marsh-swamp home.

#### 1980

When Brandy was 2 1/2, Cayenne and Mort started to discuss expanding their family once again. Fraternal twins Saffron and Chili were born in the winter of 1980, this time being named by their mum. They were a huge surprise to their parents, neither expecting or preparing for two babies at once. For the first 14-17 years of the kids' lives, they all had a pretty regular childhood; the family would go swimming, hiking, and even go on horse rides along the beach. Realizing how much she missed her life around the farm, Cayenne decided to buy a horse and take up racing. She was decent at it, but enjoyed it nonetheless.

#### 1992-1994

After a riding accident that resulted in a broken rib, Cayenne was sent to hospital to heal. While doing her x-rays, doctors discovered mysterious white spots scattered all over her body: cancer. That's why she'd been feeling so lethargic and out of it lately. Doctors gave her mere months to live, and that was being generous. The sad news broke and the Cattle siblings each expressed their sadness differently.

For Brandy, she was stubborn and in complete denial. Her mum couldn't *die*, that was her mum! She was young and strong, weren't old, dusty people the only ones that died? Brandy wasn't sure *what* to think, but slowly began to keep more to herself, only confiding in her best friend Calypso for support.

Chili was the most emotional and expressed her sadness frequently. She refused to leave her mum's side and rarely took care of herself; Chili's grades began to slip and she stopped talking to her friends, save for Frisky.

In Saffron's case, he began to withdraw emotionally and his usual friendly self vanished. He became a recluse and refused to talk about his mother's situation and started to hold a lot of emotions inside. Regretably, Saffron blew up on his sisters and father more times than he'd like to admit, unintentionally making them believe he wanted to be left to grieve alone. In reality, Saffron wanted nothing more than to be held and reassured that everything would be okay.

It hurt Cayenne so much to see the affect her health was having on her family, wishing nothing more than to be able to heal and comfort them, but she began to grow weaker. Asthe days went on, she started crying out in pain, whimpering and groaning incomprehensively. Saffron and Brandy couldn't stand to see her like that and didn't want to remember their mum, so they sstopped visiting. Things between Saffron, Brandy, and Mort soured a bit during this time, Mort not understanding his children's thought processes. The siblings, however, understood and respected each other's wishes; both felt naturally guilty, but needed their time to properly process what was going on without further affecting their mental health.

About three weeks later, Cayenne was placed into hospice and could no longer eat or drink. She barely made noises and had a blank, empty stare as she waited for the inevitable. Hesitantly, Saffron and Brandy decided to accompany Chili to the hospital, the later of which rarely left her mother's side.

Cayenne passed away five days later surrounded by her family. Chili and Mort cried the loudest, Brandy shed silent tears, and Saffron sat quietly in the corner. No one in the Cattle family was the same after Cayenne's passing, each taking their own amount of time to grieve and process their trauma. Chili ended up being the most well-adjusted, choosing to accept what happened and share her mother's story with the next generation. Mort kept a lot of Cayenne's old items and stills talks about her frequently, refusing to move on and find another partner. He learns from Chili and tells his favorite memories of her with his granddaughters. Brandy decides to throw herself into her studies, attending school to become a doctor. While there, she learns more about her mum's condition and learns to accept what happened; there truly was nothing she could've done and slowly learns to accept what happened. Saffron, on the other hand, has the hardest time dealing with Cayenne's death and has become emotionally stunted; he acts very immature and refuses to grow up, even having a hard time connecting with women in general.

## **Trivia**

### **Likes**

* Making music
* Riding horses

### **Dislikes**

* Not getting to see her children grow up

### **Talents**

* Was musically-inclined. She learned how to play the guitar and would play for her children.