Quillflame

Quillflame is a pretty, long-furred torbie-and-white molly with sharp golden eyes. She has kitty asthma.

## Personality

While Quillflame is most certainly quiet and doesn't like talking with strangers, one thing that she isn't is shy.  She's one of the most stubborn cats on the face of the earth, and if she decides that she wants something then she isn't going to let up until she gets it or it's been made abundantly clear (probably more than once) that she won't be getting whatever it is.  She doesn't have much patience for cats that try to get in her way, and she's liable to snap at them — or, rather, she *would* snap at them.

One of the most important things to know about Quillflame is that she's mute — as much as she wants to, she can't actually speak.  The fact that she can't annoys her to no end, even if she’s more adjusted to it than she once was.  Sometimes, though, she'll still open up her mouth and try to speak or to laugh, only to be greeted with a weak croaking sound that makes her even more frustrated, or just like some sort of dying animal.  She only sees her disability as another hurdle to get over, and the way she sees it, she's either going to get over it or die trying.  Quillflame also has some breathing issues that she was born with, and she's developed a hatred of being underestimated.  Insults get under her fur easily, and she's likely to lash out however she can at any cat who speaks poorly of or to her.  If she still had the ability to talk, Quillflame would be lashing tongues with the best of them, dishing out insults as easily as breathing.  Now that she can't speak anymore, she's liable to resort to launching herself at whoever's opposing her — or, if someone's getting on her nerves, then she's likely to swat at them or shove her paw in their muzzle to shut them up (she also tends to greet those that she’s close with by knocking her head into their shoulder).  She doesn't necessarily have a short temper, she's just very touchy about certain subjects.  Other subjects she's touchy — and more than a little hypocritical — about are being lied to and being the butt of a joke.  However, she has no problem with lying herself, and her sense of humor can be brutal towards other cats at times and more than a little dark at others.

She also doesn't like it when other cats are trying to beat around the bush — she could be called impatient when it comes to just about any aspects of her life, but it shows the most when cats are obviously trying to avoid telling her something.  She, herself is a blunt cat, who wants to get to the point as quickly as possible, and she doesn't understand why other cats would want to waste their time dancing around the subject.  She also has a problem with cats trying to make things sound nicer than they are, as she'd rather be told something plainly than have to figure it out by herself.  She has a distaste for most cats around her, most of the time only dealing with the cats around her rather than actually enjoying their company.  Most of the time, she only puts up with others, rather than actually deal with them.  She’s known to simply pretend to listen to other cats if she’s uninterested in what they say, since it isn’t like she can actually respond.

## History

Quillflame was born with breathing issues, and as such, she has always been just a bit weaker and more sickly than her peers.  She’s never let that get her down, though, often pushing herself too hard in games or during training and having to go to the medicine den or back to her nest and recover.  When he was three moons old, her parents took her and her sisters out on a walk, but when they stopped by a river to rest it overflowed and swept the kits away.  Quillkit injured her throat against the river bed as she got dragged along by the currents, and while she managed to be saved by her mother, her sister and fathers weren’t found until days later, when their bodies were found washed up on the river bank.  As a result, Quillkit was left with only her mother for family, the injury to her throat left her mute, and the entire incident left her with a fear of water.