[WPR] Sia | Wanderers

 GENERAL INFORMATION
Name: Sia   
Spelled: shee-ah
Meaning: Victory
Nicknames: none     
                     starfish lol

Species: Snow Leopard (100%)

Age: 6 y 10 m (Aug21)
Birthday: 19th October 47 BC
(Created: January 2017 )

Gender: Female
Pronouns: She/Her
S.O.: Demisexual

R.O.: Biromantic

Rank: Vagabond
Faction: Wanderers

 APPEARANCE, HEALTH, ACCESSORIES
Height: 60 cm / 23 inch
Weight: below average
    slightly underweight due to her blindness

Health issues and Disorders:
- Anxiety
- PTSD 
    Triggered by being cornered
    Also suffers from flashbacks and especially nightmares
- Blindness (partial) - example of what Sia sees
    Lost most of her sight due to a nerve-disconnecting disorder
    Can see shapes but has very little color vision, no night vision

Traits
Dominant: 
Thick fur, Long tail, Big rosettes, White spot on ears
Recessive:
Dark rosettes, Pale base fur, Bright blue eyes 
Carrier:
Yellow eyes, Dark base fur, Missing Tail 

Items: 
- Matching earrings with Udi
- Her old red scarf & a blue gem gifted by Udi built into her armor

 PERSONALITY
INTROVERTED / QUIET 
While Sia was never much of an extrovert, she became more and more introverted and quiet over the years. She usually keeps to herself and rarely makes the first move towards other cats, enjoying the small circle of her family and the cats she has grown to befriend and trust. It takes a lot of effort to speak her mind aloud about serious topics, and even if she does, she does so carefully.

LOVING / CARING / KIND
GENTLE / AFFECTIONATE
A simple word to describe Sia is soft. Sia cares deeply for others. She enjoys spending quality time with family and friends, helping others - and despite everything, likes to make friends under the right conditions. Sia has always been a very affectionate feline, but especially after the loss of her sight, physical touch has become very important to the snow leopard.

OBSERVANT / MATURE
Life has taught her enough to know that life is not easy and definitely not a joke. One has to always be ready for anything life can throw at you and while her anxiety and overthinking often makes it difficult, Sia tries to handle every situation as calm and thought-through as possible.

LOYAL / PROTECTIVE
Sia treasures everything and everyone she has in her life. After so many losses suffered, she does everything in her might to protect the ones she cares for and always puts others first. She never would intentionally do anything to hurt and disappoint her loved ones. Yet the fear of loosing them is always present in the back of her head.

DISTRUSTING
A lot has occured in the past that caused Sia to trust others less and less easily. She takes a lot to really trust someone and is often suspicious and questioning of other's actions and their purpose. It also can only take one wrong move for her to loose all trust in someone she has trusted before. She rarely shows her distrust though and keeps up her usual, friendly attitude unless the situation requires otherwise.

OVERTHINKING / ANXIOUS
Sia doesn't only overthink other's actions but her own actions too. She tends to overthink a lot especially when she is by herself or has no distractions from her own thoughts. A lot of self-blame comes with her replaying her own actions in her head - but also the ambition to do better next time.

 HISTORY
Sia has spent most of her youth in cages. She was born in the wild with her two siblings, Hysi and Banshee. Just weeks after being born, her entire family was captured by humans and taken to Massilia to be sold to a wealthy man. They had all been kept in a dark cellar together until their dad had been sperated from the family and used as a fighter in the rings. As Sia and her sisters grew old enough to be trained, their owner started abusing the young cubs, trying to bring agression out of them. Soon, once the cubs were independent of their mother, she was taken away and Sia has never seen her again. Their owner would use many different methods to train the young felines, from physical beating to pitting them against dogs. Sia quickly grew to hate humans and the world, distancing herself from even her sisters, often fighting with them in their cages, even phsically. Soon Sia too was pitted in the rings. That's where she first heard about the empires.
A year later, a moment came Sia had always dreaded. Being pitted against her own father. The once loving father, who now had only one goal, killing her. The fight went as far as her father insulting her sisters, threathening to kill them and revealing that he was the one who had killed their mother. Every bit of love and hope Sia had left for her father vanished and knowing there was only one way for her to protect her siblings and make it out alive, Sia killed her father in the arena. Overwhelmed by everything and completely devastated by her father's words, Sia decided she had enough. Her owner, drunk after celebrating Sia's win and the money she had earned him, was too tipsy to properly defend himself as Sia turned on him. A hunter came to aid the human yelling for help. Fortunately, the cat was still young and inexpereinced - otherwise Sia wouldn't have been able to deal with him due to her injueries and exhaustion from the fight. Knocking the Hunter unconscious, Sia ran. Despite the alarmed hunters chasing after her, she made it out of the city. 
Sia lived as a loner until she stumbled into a patrol of Stone cats who lead her to her new home.

The Empires
Joining Stone, Sia quickly became friends with Narreth and Rith while she slowly adapted to the ways of Empire life. It was a journey, to say the least. Especially when she first came to face the reality of what Hunters could do when they raided Stone just months after she joined. While Sia managed to get away during the night of the raid, she was captured by Vetitum just days after while hunting. That day she made an enemy whom she hasn't been able to get rid off ever since. She spent almost an entire year away in Massilia, back in the exact same situation she had escaped from. But when she made her escape, she wasn't as lucky as the first time and received serious injuries, almost not making it. She made it out of the city and into the wild, but collapsed due to blood loss and the coldness of winter. 
The female woke up in the healers den of Fire Empire. Lazarus had found her and taken her back to the healer who treated her injuries. Sia remained in Fire for the entire winter, making a full recovery before she returned home to fire.

Brighter Days with Darker Clouds
Just shortly after finally making it home, Sia adopted two young cats as her own. Jule and Sage, two precious young boys whom she treasured and cared for a lot. And meanwhile, Sia had grown closer to the Silver of the empire, Udi, soon spending more and more time with the male. She enjoyed his company a lot and Udi always managed to brighten her days. He also cared for her, staying by her side often when her nights were sleepless from nightmares and helped her through the pain and despair of Jule's loss when her son was captured. They soon became mates after Udi proposed to her at the beaches of the empire. The two have been through quite a lot together, both good and bad. 
But as time passed, Sia started to agree less and less with the ways of Stone Empire which resulted in her loyality being tested, alongside her best friends, by having to kill a captured hunter infront of the entire Empire. After those events, Sia knew that the only thing keeping her in Stone was Sage and Udi. But soon there was even more to stay for as she became pregnant with their first litter. 
Sia gave birth to three cubs, Jarred, Azalie and Larkspur and adopted an orphan cub, Lotus, with Udi. Life seemed almost too good and beautiful to be true as the fresh parents raised their cubs in peace, surrounded by friends and family. Until one morning, Sia woke up blind. Despite receiving treatment from the healers, she never gained her sight back and was left partially blinded. But thanks to the support of her family and friends, Sia adapted to the new situation quickly, learning how to fight and defend herself even with one of her senses gone. 
One thing not even she saw coming was the betrayal of an empiremate, who lead an entire patrol into a trap and right into the grasp of the hunters - while also taking her best friend. Fortunately, Udi found Sia just in time before she would have been taken back to Massilia once again.

But they wouldn't stay in Stone for much longer. Soon the both of them were captured as Stone was raided once again. Despite being captured together, Udi and Sia didn't know they wouldn't make it to Massilia together. Heavy rain fell from the sky, causing Sia's caravan to get out of control and fall over the bridge, down into a river. As the metal cage crashed down into the river, the lock cracked open when the metal hit a rock at the bottom of the river, allowing Sia to free herself and swim up for air. 
Her next memory was waking up in the shadow of a tree with her wounds treated - and a caracal sitting by her side who had been waiting for her to wake up. Someone she recognized upon first glance.

IN-GAME HISTORY
 
[March 40 BC] Reunion with Sage


 FAMILY AND RELATIONSHIPS
Father: Naurins | Deceased
Mother: Giywa | Deceased
Siblings:
- Hysi  | Deceased
- Banshee | Unknown

Mate: Udi | Dargotan
since 1st August 43 BC

Cubs:
Azalie | VertigoCrime
Jarred | MostlyMoose
Larkspur| Tickisha

Grandkids:
Tallulah | Decaymish
Fireweed | Forest7Echo
Mingan | MJaeK
Dasan | Vertigocrime

Adopted family:
Jule | Noverutio
Sage | deadwing1
Lotus | NiaWolf15


 FACTS AND OTHER INFORMATION 

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