★[color=black] Once upon a time, Arrow was a simple loner in what she remembered was a city scape, old metal buildings and street lights adorning the corners, shards of broken glass and the dim lights of windows shielding those at night who were still awake, those who had yet to turn off the light. In such a place she'd only ever run into a very limited group of animal species. Cats, dogs, birds, and rats. And it was no walk in the park, either. Everyone was out there fighting for resources, there was some nasty injury, some death, no games were being played. As pretty as it was, she knew she had to pick herself up and move elsewhere where she could actually live out her days peacefully. Originally she'd planned for a body of water, a river or some rocky coast where she could feed herself and still live in peace. Instead, she wound up here. And what came with living here? Getting to see various animals of all kinds wandering around in the swamp. Hellhounds and the like, a crash landed angel, whatever the hell Fen was, and of course, the newest addition. Tigers. Tigers with some badass piercings. Inspirational, really. She wished she was that cool.

But you know what she was instead? A stick. A living stick with stick legs and a stick tail. Nothing to write home about, hell, you could snap her in half. Well, you could but she'd probably still be talking. No piercings or anything cool. This was a revelation she had after catching her reflection in a puddle of water. She scoffed, flicking one of her large ears with a small paw. She'd never dealt with such a level of self consciousness before, but she was just....so uncool. She wanted a bigger body now, she wanted muscle, she wanted some sweet, sweet thighs. "Ya look like a dirty praying mantis." She muttered, turning her nose up at her own watery reflection. Shame.

★[color=black] Speak of the devil, it looked like one of the aforementioned pierced trio had found her. Arrow turned around to meet her, feeling a sharp jab of dejection when she truly picked up on the size difference between them. Mimi could break her back with a single step.

Still, she smirked at their inquiry about her current mood. "Boy problems? Never." She almost scoffed at the idea, albeit playfully. She wouldn't be caught dead wasting her breath and time on such an issue. She was a strong, independent woman. Not to mention her exposure to seeing someone fall apart over someone else was an awfully convincing argument to distance herself from all that. She looked up, squinting slightly and frowning. "You're so big, and cool looking. I feel like a rat next to you." Arrow whined, sitting back and reaching up with her front paws, swiping at the air with no particular target. Haha, puns.

Maybe she looked a little ridiculous, but it was just such a wild concept to her, something so big. She even took it a step farther when she popped her shoulder from reaching to high, wincing and sitting back down fully in shame. She rubbed her shoulder, cursing under her breath. Nothing was out of place, throwing your shoulder right out of the socket from stretching would definitely be the Ultimate Weakness. "La'miyla, right? The lesser of three evils." Arrow grinned. "I'm just kidding, you're all pretty cool. Sorry that the swamp isn't that beach you were looking for. I got pretty damn lost myself, it just comes out of nowhere, man."

// this post is all over the place aaaa i'm tired

★[color=black] "If it weren't for the fact you spoke up i never would have known you were there. that's badass. like some sort of stealth master."

The very word badass sent a wave of validation through the girl, green eyes widening as she let the compliment sink in. She shifted her front paws, grinning from ear to ear as she involuntarily began to purr quietly like a little motor. "I'm a badass..." Arrow chirped, for some reason absolutely smitten with the idea. Nobody would ever know why, she was just a strange little alien-like cat.

"You'll have to take me to the beach one of these days then, I could use a break from the radiation water." It couldn't have been that far now, could it? If she was bouncing back and forth anyway, unless she had one of those crazy powers everyone else seemed to possess. That was not something else she could do, and automatically made any list of accomplishments she had boring to her. "Oh, well, I'm not much of an interesting person really..." Arrow admitted sheepishly, feeling her face burn ever so slightly. What could she say that would hold any interest? "I can...find things? That's not much but there's a lot of abandoned shit around the town and I navigate through it a lot. I collect glass and metal from it, plan on making something..." She puffed out her cheeks for a moment, whiskers twitching. "Wait, that sounds kinda gross. Uh...I don't have a lot of strengths." She knew she was being pathetically vulnerable right now, it was laughable. She wasn't the coolest, or the fastest, or the prettiest, or the nicest....or much of anything. "But Tanglewood hasn't thrown me to the gators yet so I must be doing something right." She joked, attempting to divert herself from the self consciousness that came at her full swing.