Mat's little ones

[matuski]

(THE SMALLER FEATURES);

Character name: Figurine Figure
Age: 3 years 2 moons
Gender: Female
Animal: Canine
Breed/s: pure Saluki white(cream)

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Personality: Figurine is ... well, she's just living her life. Surviving. This has caused her to have an easy-going and carefree attitude, enjoying teasing felines and canines with her never-quiet mouth. She comes up with quite clever small quotes, and those she directs these words to can be heavily amused, or feel provoked. Either way, Figure doesn't seem to care.
She has quite a short temper, and does not forgive anyone easily. She has, basically, now mercy. No one's even been very forgiving and nice to her, so she's learned how to survive on the streets and that's not by trying to be everyone's friend and always be of help.
Figure is a loner. For the moment. She streaks around Hexasol, and could not care less who's territory she's on and if she's offending anyone. They should just stay out of the way.
She loves causing mischief, like confusion, misunderstandings, and just making life hard for others. Though all this has a kind of amusing side, and some canines or felines are probably even very amused by her behaviour.
If you seek Figurine, it is very unlikely that you will find her. But she has a habit to show up at the most unneeded times, and seems to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. So if you're just exploring, you might very well stumble into her.
She doesn't really treat felines much different than she treats canines. She doesn't hate them, neither does she love them. They're just there, and they don't differ from the crowd very much as long as you dont think about them actually being a whole other race. She does like canines' company a bit more though, since they are, after all, her equals.

Three strengths:

• Her speed and agility. If you can outrun her, you ought to be among the best. She can bend in the most amazing ways, flexible both in mind and body.
  
• Streetsmart. Figure is very experienced though she is not that old, and capable of thinking clearly in almost any situation(ones when she is angry not counted in - read below). A key to survival. She is very inventive and flexible when pressed, twisting out of almost any bad scenarios.
  
• Though her tongue is sharp like a knife-blade and she loves making things hard for many felines and canines in Hexasol, it is actually quite easy to like Figurine. When(if) you get past her shell, she is actually a pretty warm and caring female. But even in her 'surviving' attitude, which means a lot of so-you-think-I-care-talk and a dominant attitude, you can be friendly to her and she'll return the kindness. Either you are extremely irritated by her, wanting nothing more then to have her gone, or you love her carefreeness(that is false, of course, but do you know that? no.) and enjoy having her around to cheer you up.
  

Three weaknesses:

• She can be too impatient at times, too impulsive. She is easily provoked and even though her mind is sharp in all scenarios it tends to kind of ... well ... let's just say she loses most of all her common sense when angered, leading to negative and/or dangerous situations.
  
• Though she seems to be a strong and determined female, she is actually quite unstable emotionally. It rarely shows on the outside, but it has done her mind and soul much damage. This causes sudden blackouts now and then, when she can't figure out anything to say or do, she's just paralysed in some way, and sudden words she normally wouldn't care about hit her very hard.
  
• She might be tall, agile and very fast, but she's not strong. She is easy to unbalance because of her long legs and lean body, and she has had to develop an unique fighting technique, when she relies on her agility and speed only, running in for swift attacks and staying on the move all the time. This is very tiring, but the only way she can manage. If it confuses her opponent, though, that might give her a leg-up. But still, she is not physically very strong, although she is hardy.
  

(I KNOW YOU DON'T CARE WHAT MY MIDDLE NAME IS);

Height: 66 cm
Weight: 23 kg
Appearance: Figurine is a typical example of a saluki. Long and slender, stream-lined with feathered hair at her ears, legs and tail. She wears a delicate creamy white colour that always seems to be clean and free from any dirt, as if she would have cleaned her fur like a cat(of course, she hasn't - what rumours would that raise?).
She has very long legs, and along with her lean, slim body, she is the impersonation of speed. A slender beauty.
She moves elegantly, with low, but almost floating steps, and her movements are very soft, the opposite to what you would think - she should be strong and sharp in her moves, but she clearly isn't. She does always wear her tail and head high, though, and moves confidently, though not dominantly. She prefers not having any arch-enemies, which she could easily get by strutting around in someone's territory like she owns the place. Of course., she really doesn't care. But she does care about survival.
She is quite light-weight in comparison to her size - she is very tall for being a female Saluki, but certainly not 'big'. She seems almost ... delicate. That would be the best word to describe it. Delicate. Gracious.

(REMINISCING LIKE HELL);

History: Figurine - that is the name she was given by her owners, though she mostly uses Figure - was born at a small saluki kennel. They were aiming for cream-coloured and chocolate salukis to show, and Figure was the biggest hope in her litter. Her siblings(free to play, send a pm to me if you want to play one (: ) were quickly weaned from their mother and sold, and she does only remember how they looked and smelled. Figurine was allowed to grow up alongside her mother, Sorayla, and they became very close, almost inseparable. back then, Figurine was a soft-spoken and calm female, that preferred lying like a beautiful statue somewhere in the house when she could not run around outside.
But then, just before she was about to start showing, the humans started dying. Not anyone in their house, but they stopped going out for walks and the humans rarely left the house. But all of them were already carrying the disease. Suddenly they were all lying on the floor, not moving. Some of the Salukis escaped, others soon died of hunger. Sorayla and Figurine stayed, along with a young, black male named Nero(also free to play - PM me). But one day he was gone, too. He had probably grown tired of waiting for something to happen and decided to go find his own luck somewhere.
Figurine decided for her and her mother. They should go too, or they would die. They found a way out through an open window at the second floor. Figurine cleared the jump easily and landed softly, but when Sorayla landed she stumbled and one of her back paws got twisted. Limping, Sorayla survived for several weeks. She had run away from her owners once and been gone for several weeks, so she knew how to handle the streets. She taught her daughter everything she knew, and then, one morning, she had disappeared. Figurine was left alone to fend for herself.
After a few moons she began settling in, growing a new attitude to handle the streets. Her mother had probably travelled back to their former owners' house to die peacefully. Figurine didn't go there to look for Sorayla. She just carried on. But even today, she wears the black collar her owners put on her. It's a black piece of fabric, tied together at the neck, so it's not really a collar. It's very wrinkly and worn-out, but it's as clean as her creamy fur.

Major turning points in life:

• The death of her owners[was left to survive without any human help]
  
• The disappearance of her mother[had to start surviving only by herself, caused a harder attitude]
  
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