#coev: jasmine

[cats-of-eden-valley]

name: Jasmine

roles/skills: Hunter (canopy), Sewing, Warrior

age: Adult

sex: Molly

traits: Quiet, Curt, Serious

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parent(s): Pigeon, Arbutus, Aster (adopt)

sibling(s): Meadowsweet

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- Practically from the moment she could speak, Jasmine knew she'd been unwanted. She grew up on the story of a tragic night, when the Waking Storms finally crashed like a wave into the Valley, and her mother, Aster, was caught in the woods giving birth. Though her two kittens didn't make it, the ancestors had sent her two more on that terrible night: Jasmine and Meadowsweet.

- The pair are presumably abandoned by some Windveldt molly. At the time, relations with the newcomers had been touchy, and the founding of abandoned kittens fueled the distaste even more. All that mattered to Jasmine was that she'd been the one left to die.

- Aster had never let her feel that way, though, and her mate, Dogsbane, had been nearly as much a mother as Aster herself. Not long after becoming a paw, though, Aster was killed and Dogsbane took up an obsession of revenge, leaving Jasmine and her sister more alone than ever.

- Cypress became the only family they had left, and though she threw herself into training Jasmine in lieu of raising her own litter, she'd never been emotionally available. She taught Jasmine how to be strong, clever, and efficient, but none of that made her feel needed.

- As adults, Cypress and Arbutus met with Jasmine and Meadowsweet to confess their true heritage. The meeting went poorly, as Jasmine was outraged that the secret hadn't come out sooner, and they'd been left intentionally without a parent.

- It did open up something special, though: Amaranth, her grandmother, had also learned of their secret, and the two struck up a relationship.

- Eventually, the wound scabbed over again, and Jasmine grew close to Amaryllis. The pair are talking about kittens.

- Jasmine doesn't know about Amaranth's desire to make her heir--had always thought it was off the table, given the nature of the affair that conceived her.

- Keeps her pelt trimmed and well-groomed. It grows thick and woolly like a Wind's and retains heat. She keeps a mane, though, to look as much like Goldspring as possible

[cats-of-eden-valley]

So Jasmine is a fusion of whitestorm and frostfur?

more like if Frostfur had subsumed Whitestorm's narrative role entirely. She'll serve as the one stepping up as Cypress's health fails, like Whitestorm did, but that aspect will be compounded by the complicated relationship between Jasmine and Cypress, and the character herself will probably remind you more of Frostfur overall than Whitestorm

[cats-of-eden-valley]

cloudwhisker (no new name yet) and jasmine (frost) and meadowsweet (brindle)

I like bits of Jasmine and cloud, but I don't think I'll keep much of meadowsweet's design

[cats-of-eden-valley]

windswept redesign...