Aelurus

## Birth and Childhood

Aelurus was born to two human parents. Her mother, a fair-haired and kind maiden, was a mortuary assistant. Her father, an easygoing and patient gentleman, was a zookeeper. They took good care of Aelurus for the first few years of her life, but once she turned eight, the two got a divorce - they had started to feel that they weren't fit for each other, and they departed without the surfacing of hard feelings. Her father took Aelurus with him since the two believed that having Aelurus stay with her mother would have detrimental effects on Aelurus' mental health.

Every day, Aelurus would peg her father for one of two things - a visit to her mother or a tour of the zoo. However, as time went on, Aelurus asked for visits to her mother less and less: she felt that her mother had a life of her own and that she shouldn't bother her as much. Instead, to fill the gap that the visits had left, Aelurus would follow in her father's footsteps. She took care of the animals and studied her father's actions carefully, so as not to accidentally mess up. It was in this manner that she developed a liking for felines and the like.

## Teenage Years

Loneliness started to become a major factor in Aelurus' life as she moved forward in the board game called life - she was diagnosed with depression, which her doctors speculated the cause of which to be the lack of a mother figure in her life. Aelurus' belief that her mother thought of her as a nuisance had developed into something worse, and soon enough she'd lost most of her friends in favor of staying home and taking care of the animals at the zoo. She decided that she would become a zookeeper, just like her father, and took several courses in high school about that subject.

In the meantime, she got a part-time job working at a nearby diner, where she managed to regain some of her socializing skills and gained a friend or two. After saving enough money, she moved into an apartment that was closer to the college that she was planning to attend. It was somewhat farther from the zoo, but she could still easily access it. She also became interested in being a one-book writer - she would be able to put her ideas into a single book detailing the life of another, and it would be a compendium of her hopes and dreams.

## Adulthood

Eventually, her studies led her to a chance meeting with Floppa. The two fell in love over time, as both of them found that they had more and more in common. The two had three children: Anguis, Corco, and Medella. When Aelurus found out that Floppa was a primordial god, she was shocked - he didn't look like one, much less act like one. However, after getting over the initial shock, she asked to see Caelum - the prospect of actually having a confirmed "heaven" excited her.

Floppa elevated her to the status of a major god, and Aelurus would roam Caelum whenever she needed a break from her life in the mortal world. Many angels have asked her why she didn't move to Caelum, but she never disclosed the reason. A couple of years after she and Floppa got into their relationship, Aelurus' father died (happily) in his sleep. The other gods supported her during this rough time and made sure that she didn't feel too lonely or sad. She visits Big Flappy often, for he reminds her of the animals she took care of when she was younger. Deciding that it wasn't very nice to keep animals in captivity, Aelurus released all of the animals in the zoo.