Tanatia

Family: Mother - Nyx, Father - Unknown, Twin Sister - Deceased, Half-Sister - Dahlia Anything else is unknown but open to any family relations.


Personality: Tanatia tends to be on the quieter observing side of temperament, coming and going with little noise or fanfare.  Her observations can be disconcerting upon first meeting with Natia as she silently adjusts and takes in a cat's aura with her amber eyes floating around a cat rather than properly looking at them for a few seconds.   That combined with her ability to pick up on another's moods and generally adjust to them can give the vibe of Tanatia being just a little odd.  Just off enough to have it noticed but remain as a vague sense of that in an initial meeting.  This off feeling combined with her habit of sometimes being a quiet and lower energy cat can give off the impression of Tanatia being rather aloof.  Her habit to seclude herself when auras begin to wear on her and tendency towards less colour and a degree of morbidity in her decorations really doesn't help that reputation.  The morbidity also expends to her humour, often combined with a self deprecating twist or deadpan comments.  Usually a small twist upward of her lips is the best indication of her humour.  

That calico often comes off a incredibly empathetic and intuitive of other cats, easily tuning in to and adjusting to the emotional climate of a setting yet remaining a little distant from the auras that give her the information that causes others to come to the conclusion.  However despite her aloofness, Tanatia is often a quiet observer and rather calm soul as she has a better insight to cats' outwards actions, and this quietness and calm is often best felt in the early hours of the morning when she haunts to streets and her aloofness tends to melt away and she feels more approachable and little bit less offbeat.  Natia is an especially good sounds board during this time.

Due to growing up and having such a close and open relationship with her mother, Tanatia doesn't consider many topics taboo and is willing to engage in just about any conversation topic.  Sometimes Often times this leads to social awkwardness and weird pauses in conversation before Natia hastily excuses herself.  Despite this happening often times she cannot manage to get out of this habit and still has her tendency to veer into not exactly socially acceptable conversation with little regard to them not being socially acceptable.

Overall Natia is a quiet tempered queen who is open with almost everything except for her ability to read auras, who is just a little off beat and slow to anger.  When she isn't taking refuge by herself away from auras she's a surprisingly open and warm heart Hench especially considering her occupation and connections to a large number of less than savory characters and their intoxicating habits.  Though it's not surprising to learn she also using that knowledge to turn herbs into medicine.  Tanatia is an offbeat queen who finds her best stride in the quietest hours under the moon.


History:  Natia and her twin sister were born to a queen within the Hench tribe, however the only thing that Tanatia is able to remember about her sister is the colour of incredibly dark green; which she later learned communicates illness or disgust.  It's all she can remember about her sister, and the grey that surrounded her mother Nyx at the time.  Dark green and grey are her first memories before indigo took over and her mother concentrated on keeping Tanatia alive and providing a good life for her.  While Natia never knew her father - it was something her mother didn't exactly care about remembering - but her mother doted on her surviving kit and the two grew very close.

Nyx had previously been the cat of a wiccan crone and her more rebellious daughter and from the two Nyx had amassing an extensive knowledge of herbs as well as drugs.  Knowledge that was passed on to Natia at a very early age as the kit began helping her mother prepare salves, medicines and drugs that Nyx often supplied the cats of the tribe with.  Either out of sympathy to the cats she knew well or trading for things the mother and daughter needed or wanted.  

From a very young age, Tanatia would often comment on the cats' colours that came by to get their needs, the colours generally clustered around what the cats were coming to them for.  Browns, dark greens, magentas, oranges and teals among the most frequent.  Something about her daughter tugged at Nyx's mind, and the two took a trip to visit her old owners (who'd been unable to continue to care for Nyx prompting her to permanently move to the warehouse) who held strong beliefs in psychic energies and had an odd affinity for being able to relate to animals.  The usual aloof but calm Tanatia became agitated and uncomfortable whenever the wiccan's daughter was around - the human girl's aura was too bright for a young Natia to handle and through her mutterings about the pain in her head Nyx had been able to figure out and decipher Tanatia's ability to read auras.   From there it was a trial and error of the two exploring Natia's ability and deciphering the meanings behind the colours that made up the auras that surrounded the young queen.  The fact that a colour could have more than one meaning made things a little tricky for the duo.

However it was mostly figured and they continued to supply the cats of the warehouse and even the occasional gang cats as well if they were convincing enough.  However Tanatia quickly learned that many cats didn't enjoy the idea of her being able to see their emotions and occasionally health or mental states if drastic enough.  A lesson learned in the form of a pawful of times she was jumped and beaten for the perceived invasion of privacy.  By the time she was 15 Tanatia rarely spoke of or hinted to her ability with the exception of close friends.  It was also around that time that the effects of her aura reading seemed to become a little more dramatic and the calico queen seemed to become a little more aloof to her tribe by her occasional bouts of seeking isolation and often utilizing the quiet hours or extremely early morning.  

That was also around the time that Natia moved into her own den, not far from the one her and her mother had shared but far enough to allow the young queen the freedom she craved.  And the ability for her to have full control over the amount of light let into her space and drained it of much of its colour - living surrounded by the colours of auras wore on her and she preferred the monochromatic of white, grey and black.  Combined with a mass of pillows and draped cloth around her den to create a soothing, warm and ultra comfortable den to escape to when needed.  Her own den also allowed for Natia to further explore with her sexuality without worry of being caught mid act by her mother.  They were open in discussions, especially once Tanatia was old enough to understand the answers to the questions she was asking her mother - which began with asking about her father, whom Nyx had no romantic affection for and barely cared to remember - and lead to Natia discovering that she had little preference other than not being bothered by a cat's aura.  

Through the years, Tanatia has remained with the Hench cats, aware of its reputation but too rooted there; it is her home after all.  And despite supplying both healing and intoxicating concoctions, Tanatia has managed to avoid getting addicted to them (although she has tried a few in experiments as to their affects on her abilitiy).   Additionally she began venturing out to haunt clubs in the city and the dirty and less savory parts of the city to expand her and her mother's options in their work as she would have a better warning and insight to who would want some and who would be more dangerous and potentially turn it into a fight.


Powers(Optional): Aura Reading -> Tanatia has the ability to perceive the fields of energy that surround living beings.  For Tanatia she perceives auras as colours that glow and surround an individual, the colours of which communicate the general emotional and sometimes physical health of the individual to Natia.  Each individual's aura is different for her, from different emotional composition, how the colours interact and how bright the aura is, though auras fluctuate as the emotional and mental climate of an individual changes reflecting on their moods. 

In order for Tanatia to be able to perceive someone's aura she actually has to be able to physically see the person.  She also has no idea as to the motivations behind the things communicated to her through the aura.  For example is anger is radiating out of someone she has no idea why they are angry, she only can guess based on other clues in the aura or the cats demeanor in general.

Tanatia is incapable of seeing her own aura.


Weaknesses(Optional):  Being exposed to too many auras for too long or to individuals with too bright of an aura cause severe headaches that will have Tanatia hiding away in the darkest corner of her den.  If she ignores a building headache the drain strain of too many or too bright auras can cause more severe physical symptoms such a joint pain, muscle spasms etc.  The constant exposure to the glowing colour around others affects Natia's ability to perceive light, specifically interfering when her normal sight while in dark spaces as the light of an aura doesn't lend itself to aiding in lighting the area or objects physically around her and other cats.  Tanatia is also more sensitive to colour, often avoiding bright and especially neon colours for dimmer and more washed out colours.  She is also incapable of turning her ability off.

Additional to the physical effects of her aura reading, Natia's ability causes some social complications as her ability tends to rub those who view it as an invasion of privacy, as well as the occasional isolation she engages in in order to avoid the severe headaches.