Fondue - Male - Pallas Cat

♕ FONDUE

♕ TRAITS

♕ OTHER INFO

APPEARANCE

Despite the long and dignified history of the pallas cat nothing can change the fact that Fondue is anything but a fluffy, gray marshmallow. Underneath all of the fluff Fondue is no bigger than your average house cat, though he is much stockier.

SOUL STONE

Fondue's Pente soul stone hangs from a simple leather cord around his neck and is hidden from view by his thick fur. A dark, twilight blue it provides Fons with extra strength and immunity from many of the illnesses that his patients are afflicted with.

PERSONALITY

Perhaps the grumpiest of grumpy cats, Fondue will take no nonsense from anyone at anytime. If he tells you that you need to do something in order to live a long and healthy life then you'd better do it asap or face his prodigious wrath! Brutally honest, he often has difficulty sensing when he's gone too far and doesn't understand why kits keep breaking down in tears after he has insensitively told them about all the things that could go wrong in pulling a thorn out of a paw.

Extremely intelligent, Fondue can often be found on the Third Level of Lucis temple reading five or six books at a time. He has a through understanding of soul stones and can help anyone to increase their level... that is everyone but himself. Despite knowing theory after theory Fons has difficulty using them in practice and is ashamed of his low level of stone which is why he is always sure to bury it deep in his fur.

Despite his lack of progress with his stone, Fondue thinks quite highly of himself and doesn't tend to talk to anyone except for his patients. Ever since he was a kit there weren't many felines (or canines) who could keep up with his stream of thoughts. Due to this he has developed hermit-like tendencies and social skills, constantly talking to himself and unsure how to join conversations that interest him.

On the occasion that a stranger deigns to speak to him, Fondue will attempt to run literary circles around the unfortunate mammal, testing their brain capacity and insulting them with large words. If they manage to prove themselves competent he will become much more civil.

Not being able to do much physically in the way of fighting, Fondue doesn't put much value into brute strength and isn't shy about expressing that opinion to a warrior 20 times his size. This display of tactlessness is a product of being raised in small tribe whose warriors were hardly much stronger than him and a whole lot dumber.

HISTORY

Born to a small rural tribe of pallas cats, Fondue quickly gained the reputation of the oddball. While his brothers and sisters were busy play fighting and hunting small insects, he would sit silently by himself observing shoots of grass. In fact, he was so quiet that he didn't speak his first words until he was nearly one and a half years old and those were: "Mommy, why is the entropy of the universe always increasing? How can we sustain chaos?"

Being the equivalent of country bumpkins, his parents were baffled and extremely concerned for him and took him immediately to a traveling healer where Fondue diagnosed each and every patient there. Thinking that their son was possessed by some kind of demon, it took the Healer quite some time to convince them otherwise and even then they refused to let him return to their den.

The healer, a bobcat by the name of Cindy, took Fondue under her care and taught him all that she knew about her trade. Together they traveled here and there, a team that would put any other mother-son duo to shame. Throughout the years Cindy would tell a wide eyed Fondue stories about the grand temple where she had grown up and learned about healing. It didn't take long before the fluffy little pallas cat was imbued with a strong desire to go and join the Lucis Temple ranks.

However, Cindy was no longer able bodied enough to take him there and he would not leave the cat who had become his family. At least not until he knew that she was well taken care of. One day while he was assisting Cindy over a rocky slope, they came across a group of felines struggling to forge a new society. Nestled in a lush valley, it was the ideal spot for a colony however they had lost their healer to an unfortunate rock slide and the apprentice didn't know how to cure the illness that was sweeping over the group.

Fondue and Cindy quickly patched up the felines, but when it came time for them to move on, Cindy didn't want to. She had fallen in love with the colony and saw the young apprentice in desperate need of a teacher where Fondue had learned all he could from her. At five years of age Fons had been ready to strike out on his own for some time, but couldn't bear to leave Cindy all on her own. However now that she had found a permanent home with a colony that would care for her, he squared his shoulders and set out for the fabled Lucis Temple.

Finding the temple was no easy task and with every misstep he took, he became a little more cynical and grumpy. After two years he finally he found it, and was overawed with the amount of knowledge cocooned in the hallowed halls. With a letter of recommendation from Cindy he was accepted into their ranks and allowed himself to become completely lost in the scholarly world.

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