"Twisted Flame" BurnedShame Ref!

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☆ - - - ☆ Bio Layout: ☆ - - - ☆ Ello, it's Dark! This is BurnedShame's ~official~ ref! I don't typically do in-depth refs like this one, but @SkipperTheSilkwing offered to draw her a ref, and I really love how she's grown as a character from an easygoing little apprentice to a loner who carefully weighs the consequences of her actions. ☆ - - - ☆ Name - BurnedShame Nicknames - Burn, BurnCrackle (No longer in use). Prefix Meaning - destroyed, damaged, or injured by heat or fire. Suffix Meaning - a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior. ☆ - - - ☆ Current Rank - Runaway Past Ranks - Forsaken, Hunter Apprentice, Kit Current Group - Daffy's Rebellion Past Groups - NewClan Age - 20 moons ☆ - - - ☆ Gender - AFAB Female Pronouns - She/Her Sexual/Romantic Orientation - Straight ☆ - - - ☆ Simple looks: BurnedShame is a ginger tabby with bright blue eyes. In-Depth Description: Limping along at 7 inches tall, BurnedShame is a somewhat small she-cat. Her short fur conceals skinny but once powerful muscles, as during her time as an apprentice she frequently climbed trees, apt at hunting birds in the trees to voles underground. Her thin coat of ginger tabby fur is marred by deep scars around her left foreleg and along her back. Her eyes are a bright, fiery blue, and are occasionally filled with tears when she's alone, or sometimes with Candle. The square carved into her right pad signifies her past as a hunter of NewClan, and the left pad's seven slashes show her forsaken status. She's always limping due to her permanent leg injury. Design Notes - - Do whatever you want, really, with the stripes, or even just omit them entirely. I recently remembered that she was originally a tabby and haven't settled on a firm pattern for the stripes. Skipper has a good design here. - Make sure her left forepaw is off the ground if she's standing or walking, though sitting, fishing, and laying down are all fine. ☆ - - - ☆ Detailed Personality / History: As an apprentice, BurnedShame was easygoing and a bit hotheaded, always more believing in what seemed right more than the rules themselves. Upon being forsaken, thanks to her older brother outing her for speaking to a loner, BurnedShame lost all her previously easy trust. She replaced it with careful hesitancy, weighing the outcomes of decisions. But even that vanishes when she feels she has no choice. BurnedShame then met Candle, the one light in her new life. Before that, she had lost everything. She couldn't climb, couldn't run, couldn't pounce, couldn't dig, couldn't use any of the skills she'd learned as a hunter apprentice. She was sure that she would starve, unable to hunt and unallowed to take from the fresh-kill pile, but Candle changed that. He taught her to fish, and together they were so at ease they eventually decided to become forbidden mates. But things took a bad turn. Soon, BurnedShame was expecting Candle's kits, and knew they could never be born in NewClan. So she left, with Candle, and together they sought out DaffodilPetal, a runaway they'd both met before, in hopes they would have somewhere to go, another cat to work with. Now that her kits are born, she'll do anything to protect them and Candle. Anything. Defining Traits: - [Careful] (+) - [Wary] (=) - [Stubborn] (-) ☆ - - - ☆ Relationships - Family: - SilentSong - He/Him - Fighter - NewClan - Siblings/Enemies - - "If I ever meet him again, outside of my nightmares, we won't be play-fighting." Friends: - SilverLight - He/Him - Fighter - NewClan - Sympathizer - - "I'm not sure whether he'd help me... But he seemed a decent cat." - DaffodilPetal - Any/All - Runaway - n/a - Ally/Friend - - "A runaway like me, they're one of the cats who understands me best. They somehow twisted my awful name into something to be proud of." - Name - Gender - Rank - Clan - Relationship (example: acquaintance, friend, best friend, etc) - Username - Short explanation of their relationship (example: _ has a good relationship with _) Mate: - Candle - He/them - Loner - n/a - - "Candle is the kindest cat I've ever met. If not for him, I would've starved, and I'm happy to be the mother of our kits." Kits: - FlickerKit - AFAB - Unborn kit - n/a - Her first litter - - "I'd do anything for their sake. Anything." - FlutteringKit - AFAB - Unborn kit - n/a - Her first litter - - "I'd do anything for their sake. Anything." - AshKit - She/Her - Unborn kit - Newclan - Her first litter - - "I'd do anything for their sake. Anything." Name - Pronouns - Rank - Clan - Litter (example: first litter, etc) - Username - " " ☆ - - - ☆