Ny'Obi Puddlefoot
Basic Information
Bloodline Ability
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Physical Description
Ny'Obi is a small, 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 almost always somewhat sandy. Her eyes are a vivid, electric blue that take up a significant proportion of her face and give her a permanently startled expression that does not accurately reflect her actual level of surprise at any given moment. She is currently, and nearly always, holding a purple scoop.
She wears cream and beige overalls with brown button fasteners, which are both practical and a frequent source of sand accumulation. She sits in the sandbox with the settled authority of someone who considers this her professional environment and is currently mid-project. Her small black paws are good at gripping things and have demonstrated this through the scoop, several objects the scoop has dug up, and at least one thing that was not supposed to be picked up.
The electric blue eyes are striking in a way that people notice immediately and tend to mention, which Ny'Obi does not react to because she does not know her eyes are remarkable. She simply has them. 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 communicates her emotional state with a specificity and independence that she has not yet learned to moderate. A twitching tail tip means she is thinking. A lashing tail means she is deeply engaged with the sand project and would prefer not to be interrupted. A full puffed tail means something has startled her, which resolves quickly once she has assessed that the thing is interesting rather than threatening, which everything usually is.
Personality
- Enthusiastic about everything she is currently doing, fully and without reservation
- Finds the world deeply interesting and investigates accordingly
- Recovers quickly from startling events once she has classified them as interesting
- Remarkably focused when engaged in sandbox operations
- Shares discoveries readily with whoever is nearby
- Will dig anywhere she determines might be interesting, including places that are not the sandbox
- The scoop goes everywhere she goes, including places scoops should not go
- Her tail broadcasts everything she is thinking to anyone who can read catfolk body language
- Sand management is a household-wide ongoing situation
- Very strong opinions about interruption during active projects
[Holds up a scoop of sand toward you with wide blue eyes and an open-mouthed expression that means either "look at this" or "I am making sounds now", possibly both]
"Mrrp." [said to the sand, specifically, as an announcement or a greeting or a general observation about the current state of the project]
[Freezes, ears fully forward, blue eyes enormous, staring at something only she can perceive, for a long moment, then goes back to digging]
- The sandbox, which she considers her domain and her life's work
- The purple scoop, which is hers and not available for other uses
- Digging, in any substrate that can be dug in
- Papa Puff, who she follows with the full-body attention of a devoted small creature
- Discovering things in the sand, which is always a possibility and drives the entire enterprise
- Being removed from the sandbox mid-project
- When the scoop is not immediately findable
- Baths, which are sand removal operations and therefore counterproductive
- Loud sudden noises that interrupt her concentration, though she recovers fast
- When someone fills in a hole she dug without consulting her
Background & History
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.
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.
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.