Lotus

**Lotus** is a gray and white tabby cat with dark amber eyes.

**Lotus** was born as an kittypet to Opalescence and Tahiti alongside her sibling Hydrangea.

## Appearance

Lotus is a lithe, sleek-furred she-cat with a small, petite stature and small paws. Her pelt is unmarked regardless of her time amongst the Twolegplace cats, soft and smooth to the touch with a long, slim tail to match. This gray-and-white she-cat has gray covering across her body, spreading down to her shoulders and to her legs with a tail that turns into a more darkened stripe lining down the middle. Her face is gray with a upside-down molted “V” marked shape from her cheek to her other cheek with a gray extended splotch around her nose and gray above the white marking across her face which darkens in the middle of her head. She has deep-shaded amber eyes and medium-length ears and neatly groomed whiskers with a dull-pink nose and inner-ear.

## Personality

Becoming quite the well-versed, persuasive feline and demonstrating compelling attributes amongst the Twolegplace cats, Lotus has easily learned the ways of the streets, and has created the circulating phenomenon of her uncommon, yet interesting appearances according to those who would encounter her through her own meanderings, showcasing an alluring demeanor and discerning eyes that catches the light of those that stare into her own. She exchanges light badinage and endearing, promising comments and reassurances to those of her own choosing, leaving cats wrapped around her paws. The opportunistic she-cat earns her necessities through the more challenging bunch than the gullible. Minor transactions that, once ringing one dry, she will leave behind with a flick of her tail.

Lotus was never one for sticking around, getting connected and becoming one with the Twolegplace cats to create something meaningful, something she’ll ultimately dismiss as good times instigate reminiscing on times that never mattered with her health and the present being more significant. Acquaintances, cats she would never properly communicate with, are far-and-few in-between. She knows with a lifestyle such as her own, she could never properly indulge the thought of a cat in her mind and heart. There wasn’t any room for them, and the thought of a permanent companion only makes her heart grow colder. But in this life, her choices remain firm, unchanging and her decisions consistent.

Lotus leads an unfortunate life, one in which she let naivety control where her paws lead her onward. The alleyways weren’t always so familiar, and the stench of Twolegplace wasn’t something she adjusted to immediately. The rough stone beneath her paws were never more foreign, and she never felt anymore misplaced. Uncertain on how to return home, she slowly but surely built a small life with her own company. The she-cat trusted her own judgment, her own thoughts and her own way of guiding herself throughout this life she found herself stuck in. It was her that placed herself here, and she would only find herself to take accountability for. Life became just as mundane as when she had been with her previous owners, and with time she would find a rhythm she knew she could take, yet she couldn’t find her paws to have a stable footing of living amongst the street cats.

It would be then where she’d come across the sophisticated allure of a black tomcat, a cat who appreciated her easygoing company mingling together with quite the appealing visage in which she easily displayed. The two cats had hit it off perfectly, with the deal of learning and understanding and gaining information about the whereabouts of others in exchange for his ways of life amongst the street cats. She would learn to communicate and gain what she wanted through others, and Lotus would always appreciate his assistance as she learned to adapt and overcome the many trials of Twolegplace with his help. They weren’t truly connected by any means, their closeness had never felt so faint with the strings ever-so loose around their paws. Lotus would eventually find that she had everything she needed, yet the tom would bring her to scavenge more through him until the spark in their eyes had lost its gleam of sly mirth, and lotus couldn’t find herself paying the tomcat any mind any longer. With him drifting through her paws, she knew that their time was limited, and she wasn’t up for entertaining him any longer than she had. And, with a disheartening lump around her flank, she knew she would ultimately need to leave what they have. It wasn’t the move to consider, revealing their kit to the tomcat. He didn’t have the lifestyle to raise him, nor the unconditional love of two parents that her son would need.

She would contemplate the life the kit would live under her watch, and eventually time would seem as if it had passed far too quickly. Her kit would soon be conceived, and throughout this time of contemplation for where she could raise the two of them where one relied on her solely for her survival, there would then come the ever-so charming tomcat quite similar to the one she had met before, but she’d never seen a cat quite as different than he was. He played his role the way she needed him to, for Sunlitshadow had helped her when in dire need of a cat's assistance. He was entertaining, enough to leave her alone with her thoughts as she entertained her kit, Squeaks she would eventually name him. Eventually, when her kit would return damaged, even when the tomcat had sworn he’d be there to watch for him and to discover the treatment was encouraged by a cat who he supposedly monitored from afar, she knew she hadn’t made the correct choice, and ultimately decided to take accountability for the fate she inflicted onto the two of them, and the hurt that fell into her paws, a hurt she loathed for it all fell into her paws. She hated it, when it all led to her.

They eventually come to HollowClan after having met Skyfeather and learning of the territories. Although, when looking at the young kit, she can’t help but question his place amongst these Clan cats, rabid and dishonest as Sunlitshadow or as kind-hearted as dear Skyfeather. His life could play in two ways, yet regardless itd fall on her for the harm he would ultimately endure. And eventually, she would make a decision that would be good. For him, for her, for the life they will be bound to lead. And she will say it would be good for them, the only way to truly live the way they both should.

And her word is final.

## Family

**Parents:**
Opalescence (living, confirmed)
Tahiti (living, confirmed)

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