#he does have some cptsd triggers that also thankfully for him rarely come up ever

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so was qruhka a scrungly cat child before he became a majestic miqote of high fashion and great alcoholic taste like in the various art you do for him?

Uhh

Qu'ruhka wasn't well kept as a kid, he was chronically underfed, and terribly stressed from being the main caretaker of his six half-sisters, and generally being the scapegoat of the tribe. He was extremely scrungly. He didn't grow up in the main Puk tribe off of Aleport, he was in a splinter tribe out in the Sagolii because the leader of said splinter tribe was actually off her rocker. He didn't start going by Q'ruhka (or usually just Ruhka), mostly for safety, until he settled in Gridania and the Botanist's guild.

Though, traumatic backstory aside... Him being malnourished as a kid is probably the leading reason he's so short, but on the other hand he did always have a significantly longer tail than miqo around his age. Which did make it difficult to figure out how old he was when he eventually left, he was at an age where tails were usually just starting to grow out, but he already had about a normal adult length one (and it kept growing lmao).

He took to society a lot better than he really had much right or reason to, working for the Botanist's guild and the Gridanian orphanage helped. But he wasn't even introduced to the concept of gil until he was in his early teens, he was thankfully just always pretty good at numbers and being forced to be frugal.