I wanna talk about Shine. Shine is a chrysalis now, as an apprentice. Her life I'm gonna chop into two pretty parts: Reclusive and cordial. Two parts for the "bright" side and the "dark" side, the saidin and the saidar.. Reclusive!! Kit stage .. moth. Shine is a moth. She is a small, night-dwelling creature only spreading its wings in the dead black, wings paper-thin and easy to poke through. Surviving off of mimicking the larger creatures, pretending to be a butterfly. Juvenile stage .. chrysalis. Now, she is metamorphosing. Quite literally. Here the moth begins to wrap in its wings and wonder if it was ever, at all, more than a caterpillar, and steps away into its dreams. The shell protects her, and her torn wings, as she heals and begins to understand herself and handle this large change in her life. Adult stage .. butterfly.* Shine is living up to her name now. Spreading her gorgeous, glistening wings and wholly herself. There are the flaws in her wings, still easy to break but now she can avoid the strikes. The color of her pelt, dyed and styled during her metamorphosis. She is a butterfly. *Concept. Cordial!! Kit stage .. novice / rookie When it comes to being social, she’ll be first poking her nose into life and developing interests. Her wings will be damaged easily, and she torn down. Juvenile stage .. apprentice / deckhand As she develops, she will learn to lie and to pretend, learning of mimicry. She will practice and start developing more of who she is. And she will be two-faced. One as her, truly her, and one as a defense mechanism. Adult stage .. ship captain / privateer* Finally, Shine will be perfectly fit into herself. She will lean more into a fresh captain now, spending her life around the sea, more capricious than ever but exactly what she needed to be. Smiling and snarling and laughing and crying and developing even then, into a captain dealing in knowledge. *Concept. okay tell me what yall think, my first time planning/categorizing stages of a cat’s life..
