SHRIKE { noun } a songbird with a strong sharply hooked bill, often impaling its prey of small birds, lizards, and insects on thorns. ——— ❝ run like the devil's after me ❞ ⋆˚꩜｡. ··· { death is inevitable ⠀i won’t be scared though ⠀i’ll embrace it ⠀life is too short to care ⠀i do, but i pretend not to ⠀it's easier that way } BURNING WILDFLOWERS ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀i live like death wants my head. 23.09.25 to present overview. ⚘ full name ~ shrikeventure ⚘ former names ~ shrikekit, shrikepaw, shrikeear ⚘ nicknames ~ n/a ⚘ prefix reason ~ ⠀⠀⠀・bird litter theme. ⚘ suffix reason ~ ⠀⠀⠀・his passions and his desire to live his life without any care or regrets. ⚘ status ~ dead. ⚘ age ~ 40 moons. ⚘ creation date ~ 09/23/25 ⚘ death date ~ 10/01/25 ⠀⠀⠀・death place ~ urchinclan ⠀⠀⠀・death cause ~ major illness ⚘ rank ~ warrior. ⠀⠀⠀・❝ i wasn't meant to be here this long. ❞ ⚘ former ranks ~ kit ⚘ affiliation ~ urchinclan. ⠀⠀⠀・❝ who cares 'bout good and evil, heaven and hell, when we die either way? ❞ ✦˚₊‧ ~ important links. ⚘ litter link ~ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1059326033/ ⚘ application link ~ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1064480060/ identity & orientation. ⚘ gender ~ cismale, amab, he/him ⚘ sexuality ~ bisexual, aromantic. ⠀⠀⠀・50% male ~ 50% female ~ 0% other ⚘ eye candy ~ idk. ⚘ heart candy ~ a. incredibly patient cats, those who take his biting and cruel words with a smile and can still somehow believe there's something good in him. b. cats he ends up finding a lot of joy in annoying (bc they give him a really entertaining reaction or whatever), which pushes him out of his comfort zone to actively seek them out. ⚘ marital status ~ single. appearance. ✦˚₊‧ ~ allegiance. a golden-brown and black bicolour with a sleek, windblown frame and liquid gold eyes. ✦˚₊‧ ~ detailed. a perpetually windblown rascal, shrike never spends a single day neat and tidy. how could he, when he's always on the move, always racing against time? standing at 11 inches, golden brown and black hues adorn our devilish prince, somehow sleek yet scruffy at the same time. golden threads weave a wing pattern on his back, like a laughable joke of freedom from his hatred that never comes. similarly, his sharp, intense gaze is drenched in pools of liquid gold, like the sun itself decided to discard a ray of light for him. ✦˚₊‧ ~ other details. ⚘ height ~ 11 inches. ⚘ weight ~ tba. ⚘ build ~ tall, sleek, spiky. ⚘ design notes ~ ⠀⠀⠀・very spiky shapes ⠀⠀⠀・expressive ears ⠀⠀⠀・smiles always look forced or condescending ⠀⠀⠀・lithe and long-limbed ⠀⠀⠀・constantly wild and unkempt appearance ⠀⠀⠀・tail is always up and alert (unless sleeping) ⠀⠀⠀・hunched shoulders when simply standing ⠀⠀⠀・constant furrow in his brows ⠀⠀⠀・only one eye drawn in front view (cluttered) personality. ꒰ + ꒱ passionate, observant, energetic, spontaneous, venturesome. ꒰ = ꒱ (brutally) honest, sharp, wild, emotional, brazen, non-committal. ꒰ – ꒱ nihilistic, callous, condescending, apathetic, aggressive, volatile. shrike is a flower. beautiful and eye-catching and forever drenched in sunlight, but he's temporary. he's not a perennial, and he knows that. he feels like his death is inevitable, always just around the corner, and he lives like he knows it's coming, not caring about himself, not caring about the world, only focused on living every moment like it's his last. a daredevil at heart, while he doesn't remotely like other people, he'd happily go back and forth with them until they crack and break. he'd never crack and break though — there's nothing they could insult that would hurt him deep. he notices everything, more observant than he really let's on, but he doesn't feel like he needs to care about it so often disregards it, which makes it easy for others to think he just doesn't care to notice things. unlike a flower, he doesn't need the sun — he doesn't need attention to feel validated, and much prefers being alone. though, biting others where it hurts does entertain him greatly when some annoying bug decides they want to have a bad day by approaching him. his words are biting, honest in a brutal way, snarky and callous and condescending, completely unconcerned with anyone but himself. but he's also passionate and always on the move. you'll rarely see him idling around like a flower rooted in the ground, always having something on his mind, something to do. he is the sun — not with its usual metaphor of being a bright and benevolent beacon. no, shrike blinds. burns. withers whatever’s around him with no care for it. he is his own star. +
he's wild and spontaneous and he embraces that, venturesome and brazen in how he acts with absolutely zero regard for possible consequences. he's a bright lone star, basking in sunlight and taking it all away from everyone he shares the sky with, and like the stars, his edges are sharp. too sharp. it leaves most who try to get too close burnt and cut and bruised, and if he acts like he could care less, maybe that's the truth. most of the time, at least. he thrives alone, his voice loud but only truly speaking for himself, and he lives like he's the embodiment of living — bold, unafraid, alive. ꒰ mbti ꒱ ⚘ istp-a (the virtuoso) ꒰ enneagram ꒱ ⚘ 8w7. ꒰ temperament ꒱ ⚘ choleric-phlegmatic. trivia. ꒰ voice claim ꒱ ⚘ player ~ carmen sandiego (kit-apprentice) ⚘ aventurine ~ honkai star rail (adult) ꒰ playlist ꒱ tba ꒰ misc trivia ꒱ ⚘ favourites . . . ⠀⠀⠀・colour ~ red. ⠀⠀⠀・weather ~ thunderstorms. ⠀⠀⠀・season ~ summer. ⠀⠀⠀・time of day ~ midnight. ⠀⠀⠀・scent ~ smoking wildflowers. ⠀⠀⠀・flower ~ spider lilies. ⚘ he refuses to be called by any nicknames. it's either shrikeventure, or shrike. ⚘ shrike has a heart of hate. it’s just so much easier to hate than to love, in his opinion — he hates living, he hates dying, he hates those who live for others and pretend to be more righteous than everyone else, he hates those who waste away because they make themselves suffer because of things that don’t matter. he hates those who abuse their power to achieve their goals. he simply hates, because hatred makes him feel alive. ⚘ you only live once, but in his opinion, even that singular chance isn’t worth it. life’s too short to matter and there’s nothing you’re building up to doing, especially since you’ll just waste away in the afterlife and eventually disintegrate back into nothingness once you die. so it’s better to choose to view every day like a game you play just to stall the inevitable. he makes decisions callously, with little care for consequences and how they’ll affect the people around him. as long as it’s fun for him, then it’s fine! ⚘ dwelling on others is a mere waste of time to shrike. no one lasts forever, and it is wrong to just hope and pray that they do, so he protects himself inadvertently by rolling his eyes and snapping and biting at those around him with his teeth bared. it's easier to be hated than loved, and shrike intends to live by that as much as he can. ⚘ home is himself, and himself alone. there's no one else truly there for him, and all he must do to feel at peace and satisfied is if he is true to himself. there is no one else to live for, no one else to disappoint, no one else he owes anything to. he feels safe alone, living, and simply waiting for death's cold embrace to welcome him to his first and final state, nothingness. home is nothing but himself. ⚘ dying is inevitable — we are made to die, for no reason other than letting it laugh in our faces. he doesn't see a point in waiting and sitting around for the end to come and claim him, not when it could be either twenty moons from now or tomorrow, so he intends to live vicariously like every day could be his last. he hates the thought of leaving the world with regrets, so he wants every day to be filled with something, anything, to seem fulfilling as he waits for end's embrace to come and suffocate him finally. ⚘ starclan, dark forest, pssh — who cares about the difference. there's no true good or bad, everyone will always be both and neither at the same time — it comes with being alive. his clan revolves around the darker of the two, but shrike doesn't particularly care to prove himself to evil. he does the bare minimum for his clan's beliefs, and calls it a done deal. whether he ends up in the light place or the dark is unimportant to him, because death is death, and it's inevitable regardless. ⚘ morality is a fine line that shrike has no qualms with stepping over whenever he needs. his mind is sharp, but his moral compass is like a broken tool that needs fixing. his conscience keeps him making moral decisions most of the time — it’s not like his intentions are ever truly malicious — but remorse for those he hurts regardless are hidden behind anger and rage. the world is cruel, and it shapes everyone cruelly, so why would one cat being kind make a difference? credits. ⚘ character owned by @lapisfox2010 ⚘ design by @wyn3g4rd3ns . ݁₊✦⋆.
