Ny'Obi Puddlefoot - XERES LIVE!

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Basic Information

Full Name

Ny'Obi Puddlefoot

Nickname

Born of Night

Race (Grade)

Catfolk (F)

Class

(None)

Height

2'8"

Birthday

Goldenleaf 10, 1304

Age

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Birthsign

The Phoenixborn Ifrit

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Bloodline Ability

🔮Unknown

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Physical Description

Ny'Obi Puddlefoot, Born of Night

Appearance

At three, Ny'Obi is a little taller and a little steadier on her feet, but otherwise she has not changed much, and she would not want to. She is still an extremely fluffy dark grey catfolk kitten with the kind of fur that goes in several directions at once and seems to have opinions about this. Her coat is a deep charcoal with subtle darker stripes running through it, and it is still almost always somewhat sandy. Her eyes are a vivid, electric blue that take up a large share of her face, and these days they are usually paired with a wide, open-mouthed grin that shows off two tiny fangs. She is, as ever, nearly always holding her purple scoop.

She has graduated from overalls to a cream-and-blue striped shirt printed with a little sailboat, its sail marked with a paw print, and navy drawstring shorts, all of which collect sand with the same efficiency the overalls did. Her sandbox has acquired an orange bucket, a set of teal cups, and several shaped molds, but the scoop remains the senior instrument. Her small dark paws have soft pink pads and are very good at gripping things, a skill she has now extended to gripping the hands of new friends.

Unique Characteristics

The electric blue eyes are striking in a way that people notice immediately and tend to mention, which Ny'Obi now takes as an excellent opening to start a conversation. Her ears are mobile and expressive in the catfolk way, swiveling toward interesting sounds before the rest of her has registered them, and her tail still communicates her emotional state with a specificity she has not yet learned to moderate. A twitching tail tip means she is thinking. A lashing tail means she is deep in a sand project and would prefer not to be interrupted. A high, curled tail means she has just spotted someone new to talk to. A full puffed tail means something has startled her, which at school usually means too many new faces arriving at once; it settles quickly once she has picked one of them and said hello.

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Personality

Positive Traits

Friendly and chatty with absolutely everyone
Easy to like; other children warm to her fast
Endlessly curious about the world and its people
Shares her discoveries (and now, briefly, her scoop)
Bounces back quickly once she finds her footing

Challenging Traits

Will dig anywhere that seems interesting, sandbox or not
Overwhelmed when too many new faces arrive at once
Misses Papa during the school day, and says so
Her tail broadcasts every feeling to anyone watching
Sand follows her everywhere, including to school

"Hi! I'm Ny'Obi! This is my scoop. What's your name?"

"Look! Look what I found!" [holding up a perfectly ordinary pebble to a complete stranger in the school sandbox, blue eyes enormous]

"Papa! I talked to FOUR new people today. One was a teacher. She liked my pebble."

Likes

The sandbox, at home and now at school too
Her purple scoop, still hers, mostly
Meeting someone new and learning their name
Papa Puff, whom she still follows with total devotion
Finding treasures in the sand to show her new friends

Dislikes

Being removed from the sandbox mid-project
Saying goodbye to Papa at the school door
Crowded rooms full of people she hasn't met yet
Baths, which are sand removal and therefore bad
When someone fills in a hole she dug without asking

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Background & History

Born of Night

Ny'Obi Puddlefoot was born on Goldenleaf 10, 1304, the first child of Puff and Shadow Step. The nickname came quickly, a nod to her dark grey coat and the late hour of her arrival, and it has stuck with the easy permanence of names that simply fit. She came into the world with her eyes open wider than seemed strictly necessary for a newborn, which her parents took as a sign of character. They were correct.

She has the Phoenixborn Ifrit birthsign, which among those who track such things is associated with intensity, curiosity, and a particular kind of persistence that does not respond well to obstacles. The sandbox, in this context, is less a toy than a vocation.

Life in the Puddlefoot Household

Ny'Obi has been a fully present and physically active participant in the Puddlefoot household since approximately the moment she learned she could move under her own power. She has investigated most of what is in reach and a surprising amount of what technically was not. The sandbox was introduced as a controlled environment for this energy, which was a sound theory that has worked well within the sandbox itself and not at all for sand distribution across the rest of the house.

Puff she follows with particular devotion. Shadow Step she studies with the attentive curiosity of someone collecting information. Together, her parents have accepted that small amounts of sand in unexpected locations is simply a feature of their current life and have adjusted accordingly.

The Scoop

The purple scoop arrived when she was still very small and has not left Ny'Obi's possession in any meaningful sense since. It is with her in the sandbox. It is with her approaching the sandbox. It has been found in three rooms that are not the sandbox, one of which does not have obvious access from the sandbox. She sleeps near it. She wakes up and locates it before most other things.

No one remembers exactly when the scoop became the scoop, but no one has questioned its importance. In the Puddlefoot household, the scoop is simply a fact, like the sand and the blue eyes and the way Ny'Obi greets a new hole with the specific open-mouthed trill of someone who has just discovered something wonderful.

Starting School

Ny'Obi has just started school, and it has been the biggest change of her life so far. For the first time, Papa is not in the same general area as her, and the room is full of people she has never met, all of them talking at once. The first few days were hard. Her tail spent a good deal of time fully puffed, and she stayed close to the school sandbox, where at least the sand behaved the way sand should. What saved her was her own nature. Ny'Obi likes people, and people like her back almost immediately. She discovered that holding up a pebble and saying "look what I found" works just as well on a stranger as it does on Papa, and that most strangers, once they have looked at the pebble, are not strangers anymore. She is still learning to cope when too much happens at once: to stop, breathe, pick one person, and say hello. But she is learning it quickly, and she comes home every day with a new name to report. She has even, on one remarkable occasion, let another child hold the scoop. Briefly.

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Goals

To Find Out What Is Under the Sand

This is the primary organizing principle of Ny'Obi's days. The sand contains things. She knows this because she has found things in it before, and logic dictates that if things were there once, there could be more things, deeper, or in a different part of the sandbox, or possibly in the dirt near the sandbox which she has also been investigating. The scoop is the instrument of this research. The school sandbox has opened up an entirely new site for investigation, which she is surveying with great seriousness. The research is ongoing and shows no signs of reaching a conclusion, which is fine. The process is the point.

To Be Where Papa Is

Ny'Obi still follows Puff with the easy certainty of someone who has identified the most important landmark in her world and keeps it in view. School has complicated this arrangement considerably. She is learning, one day at a time, that Papa does not stop existing when he walks away from the school door, and that he is always there again at the end of the day. Saying goodbye in the morning is still the hardest part. Running to tell him everything that happened, the moment he comes back, is quickly becoming the best.

To Show Everyone What She Found

Discovery is still not complete until it has been shared, but Ny'Obi's idea of who to share with has grown enormously. When she finds something in the sand, whether a pebble, a leaf fragment, or a small interesting piece of nothing in particular, she no longer just looks for the nearest family member. She looks for whoever is nearest, full stop, and presents it with the wide-eyed urgency of an important announcement. The correct response is still to look at it and make an approving sound. She has discovered, to her delight, that this is also how you make friends.

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Current Status & Relationships

Residence

Goodberry

Role

Child

Relationships

ATTENTION!

Ny'Obi is three years old, dark grey, and in a sandbox, now including the one at school. She has a purple scoop. She is the daughter of Puff and Shadow Step. The electric blue eyes are not a trick of the light. She has just started school and is still learning to cope with so many new faces at once, but she is friendly, easy to like, and loves to talk. If you stop for a moment, she will introduce herself, tell you about her day, and show you what she found. Please respond appropriately. She is watching.