Eclipse

Appearance
Eclipse is a sort of brownish black she-cat. She has long, rather unkempt fur and pretty blue-gray eyes. She has very distinctive, creamy-white markings. On both of her front legs and her tail, she has a sort of "I" shaped marking, with a small dot above it. On the tail, the dot is hollow with a smaller black dot inside of it. There is also a small cream ring on her chest.

Personality
Eclipse is a gentle cat. She does not feel like she really fits in with the other cats in the group and she feels more alone and scared by the day. She was taught to be kind to everyone and she does that as best she can. She is very shy and rarely talks when she's not directly spoken to. She is very giving and will give up anything that is asked of her. Ruby very much scares her and, more than anything, Eclipse would like to get away.

Kithood
Eclipse was born in a bush just outside an animal shelter in the middle of winter. She was her mother's only kit and was very close to her for most of her life.

Eclipse's mom had never been given a name. She had been orphaned at a young age and, though many cats had tried to name her, none of them really fit her, so Eclipse just called her Mom and left it at that.

Eclipse and Mom had a lovely first few moons of life before the animal shelter realized they existed and tried to nab them off the street. At that point, they decided to book it out of there.

Mom taught Eclipse how to be polite, how to hunt, how to defend yourself, and to always stay true to what you believed in. All those good, Disney-esque messages than then some. Eclipse was a good student and learned to be a good citizen from a young age.

One day when she was eleven, Eclipse was separated from her mom while hunting. She was cornered and attacked in an alleyway and, while she thought she was going to die, two cats saved her. They introduced themselves as Ruby and Comet and asked her to join their group. Eclipse knew her mom wasn't far away, but there was something about the hulking Comet and smaller Ruby that was dangerous, that Eclipse didn't trust. Unwilling to say no to these two very clearly dangerous cats, Eclipse said yes.

Eclipse, it would turn out, would come to regret that decision.

Adulthood
~This will be filled in when Ruby and Comet's pages get filled in more.~

When she was nineteen, two young she-cats named Violet and Iris joined the group. Eclipse got along really well with them.

When she was twenty, Eclipse was ordered by Ruby to be mates with Comet. Eclipse lacked a spine just as much now as she had when she was eleven, but she went along with it. Comet wanted kits (read: Ruby wanted kits), but Eclipse was firmly against that.

All in all, Comet was a respectful mate and mostly left her alone, until about ten moons later when Ruby approached Eclipse and told her that her options were go live alone on the streets with Ruby as an enemy, or stay here and have babies. Eclipse took the babies option because, lest we forget, Eclipse is a total pansy. So soon enough, Eclipse was expecting Comet's kits.

This would have been well and good, but Comet seemed to change after that. He became angry, surly, jaded, and seemingly eager to lash out at his mate. The change confused and scared Eclipse, so she just did her best to avoid him and left it at that.

When she was 30, her kits were born. One of them, a she-cat, was stillborn and that was terribly sad for Eclipse, but the other five were healthy and looked like they were going to make it.

Other Info

 * Eclipse's father had vitiligo and, while Eclipse does not, she is a carrier and her son Orion does have it.

Trivia

 * While writing this backstory and Comet's, I royally screwed up the timeline. Yay...