Eclipsepaw "Chains" // Xey/Xem/Xeir (neopronouns) but everyone uses she/her pronouns // 28 moons, warrior age // in-the-closet pan // trans male // mute after a big ole sickness, but can still move around and stuff // Chains sat at the back of the medicine den. Forever xey would be trapped here, in this claustrophobic space of sadness. "Don't worry, she's doing fine..." the medicine cat, Cinnamonheart, told xeir mom. "Those dummies. If they're so worried, can't they take a moment to listen to you?" scoffed Otis, the kittypet elder. He ran away from his twolegs, but had to leave his mate, Sushi, behind. Chains felt grateful SOMEONE understood xem. Xey scratched in the dirt with xeir claw: *Thanks.* Ever since Otis had come, xey felt accepted. Finally someone who could listen, even if xey couldn't speak. "Don't be thanking me. This should be normal behavior." Otis laughed heartily. "I've been wondering, though... why do they call you 'she'?" Chains gave Otis a bit of a wary look, but scratched into the dirt: *Happened after no voice.* "Ah, okay. You know, I could always tell them for you!" Otis offered. Chains shook xeir head vigorously. Nobody wanted to know, anyway. The straight she-cat known as Eclipsepaw. That was what they wanted to know. They didn't know xey had a crush on Swiftstep, the very male, very straight deputy. They didn't know that Eclipsepaw was not Eclipsepaw, Eclipsepaw was a tom named Chains. A loner. A cat with no home, almost nobody who would listen to the speechless. A cat who wouldn't be here the next morning. *I'm leaving,* xey wrote.
song is alone by marshmello Otis was my cat, Sushi still is my cat. both are male >:)
