Birdbat

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Name: Birdbat
Age: 18 moons
Gender: Tom
Desired Rank: Warrior
Desired Position: LabrynthClan
Apprentice/Mentor: none
Mate/Crush: none
Kin: Ridgeheart, sister
Short Description: Birdbat is an attractive grey tabby with black stripes, a light grey underbelly and inside of legs and a brownish grey chest. His eyes are green with a hint of yellow.
Appearance:

Birdbat is certianly the more attractive sibling, with jet black stripes that are so thick on his back it is completley black, but the stripes thin out to a few black rings around his neck, legs and tail. He has stripes on the top of his head and a long stripe on each side of his face, leading from the outer corner of his eyes down his neck. His fur under his stripes is mainly grey, l;ighter on his belly and the inside of his legs and pale greyish brown on his chest. He is large and fairly muscular with medium length fur and a long tail. His eyes are mostly green, with yellow around the edges.

Personality:

To outsiders, Birdbat may appear to project an aura of self-confidence. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple arrogance by the less decisive, is actually of a very specific rather than a general nature; its source lies in the specialized knowledge system that Birdbat had started building at an early age. When it comes to his own areas of expertise -- and he has quite a few-- he will be able to tell you almost immediately whether or not he can help you, and if so, how. Birdbat knows what he knows, and perhaps still more importantly, he knows what he doesn't know.

Birdbat is a perfectionist, with a seemingly endless capacity for improving upon anything that takes his interest. He has an unusual independence of mind, freeing him from the constraints of authority, convention, or sentiment for its own sake.

Birdbat possess the unusual trait combination of imagination and reliability. He can be unsparing of both Himself and the others he is working with. Anyone considered to be "slacking," including superiors, will lose his respect -- and will generally be made aware of this; Birdbat has also been known to take it upon himself to make critical decisions without consulting others. On the other hand, he does tend to be observative and even-handed about recognizing the individual contributions that have gone into an effort, and has a gift for seizing opportunities which others might not even notice.

Personal relationships, particularly romantic ones, can be Birdbat's Achilles heel. While he is capable of caring deeply for others (usually a select few), and is willing to spend a great deal of time and effort on a relationship, the knowledge and self-confidence that makes him so successful in other areas can suddenly abandon or mislead him in personal situations. This happens in part because Birdbat does not readily grasp the social rituals; for instance, he tends to have little patience and less understanding of such things as small talk and flirtation. To complicate matters, Birdbat is usually extremely private, and can often be naturally impassive as well, which makes him easy to misread and misunderstand. Perhaps the most fundamental problem, however, is that he really wants people to make sense. :-)

Probably Birdbat's strongest assets in the personal area is his intuitive abilities and his willingness to work at a relationship.

History:

Birdbat and his sister Ridgeheart were born to their mother Dewscale and father Sootfur. They had a third sibling, Hailkit, who died of a vicious fever just over two weeks after birth.

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