And the bodyguard too. Dang, writing down your thoughts in limited time frame was
a lot more harder than I thought. Might be writing too much on something trivial and missing out something more important
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I'm bad at bringing my ideas open via words.
Name: Mostly known as the 'Riddle', real name Riley.
Appearance: A rather normal looking house cat. Mostly black and white fur, with hint of brown in the mix, most notable above his right eye where there is a big brown spot. Wears an expensive and stylized collar.
Personality: Riddle is mostly rather laid back cat, not really giving much thought the fates of the pets around him. Being raised on the streets have made him think realistic and cynical.
He has no helpful nor friendly attitude towards pets he hasn't ever met, but neither does he take any satisfaction from leading pets to their doom. He likes to stay neutral so to speak, judging first all possible outcomes before taking the side he's most comfortable with/most beneficial to him. Selfish? Yes, but that's one thing life as a stray has taught him, you _have_ to look out for yourself, because no one else will. Deep down he just wants to live a normal pet life without having to deal with constant danger.
For leisure he watches a lot of movie and it shows. While he watches wide range of different movies, he mostly like all kind of gangster movies mostly because of the environment/business he lives in. For example Godfather/Scarface and such.
History: Riddle was born as a stray in the Isla de la Paz, in litter sporting with couple sisters and a brother as well. Life on the streets was hard. Hardly enough food to feed everyone, everything was dirty and the possibility of other stray animals attack was ever present. Luckily the poor cat family managed in the streets long enough for Riddle to start managing on his own. Thrown early to the chaotic, hard life Riddle was first completely lost, but soon in face of cold truth about survival he discovered something about himself: He could conjure magic to his aid, creating illusions and manipulating objects around him!
Months went by and Riddle's powers grew stronger, he was ready to use his powers by command to help him get through the stray lifestyle. With his illusions he could secure a rather safe source of food, but he still knew his life could collapse around him easily. Being stray he didn't have no one to look out for him, no one to trust, no one to protect. He needed something more reliable to keep him from suffering the hardships of the stray life.
That all changed the day when a man clad in expensive suit came ask him for some information. Not completely sure what to do, he did tell everything the man asked about strays around the area. First it felt like one time odd event, but when the same man returned to ask him more information, Riddle started to realize ther was business potential in his skills. His stealth, charisma and potential in magic were excellent for gathering information.
It surely didn't take long before the man in expensive suit offered a full time job, Riddle knew he had found something was good at. Gathering information around the area was first mostly his full time job, but seeing him use his abilities his new owners decided to extend his contract to bodyguard champions.
Finally having a new real purpose aside of just surviving for his life, he accepted the new job gladly. Only later on he would realize how deep down in bad business he got himself into, but there was no going back. He never wanted to work for a pet fighting ring, he didn't even know the strays he gave information about was captured for the fights.
Doing as told, he did terrific good job protecting the King of Champions. While he had some agony of conscience, he wasn't exactly bitter about the luxury life he gets as the bodyguard. Doing the same job for many years only now with the current champion he has felt some connection, mostly because he just isn't the same as the kings before him. He isn't bred to be killer neither he is a bloodthirsty monster, but rather a normal dog who has a bit same kind of bad luck as he does. He quickly befriends him as Riddle was contracted to bodyguard him, though this time the deal was a bit different. Usually Riddle just kept the fighters safe, but this time he also had to use his powers to keep the king of champion fighting.
He doesn't like the idea of messing someones head like this at all. It feels even worse when you befriend with the champion to the point he treats you like his best friend, but contract is a contract and he has to mess with his head in order to keep him fighting. While Riddle doesn't exactly like how his life is currently plummeting down to self hatred, there's nothing currently he could do to save him and his friend. He just needs the right chance to make his escape, but currently it just looks impossible.
Skills: Dealing a lot with strays and people, he has developed a good sense of business and reading peoples/pets body language. Being a smooth talker he can turn pets head around for his own goals, but mostly just uses it for his own amusement and joke around. Stray life also has taught him to use shadows to his advantage, finding good covers to hide himself from threat.
He's also a magic user. Most of his powers revolve around illusions, but also has some knowledge of mind control. He can create shadow images of himself or someone else, imitate other pet's voice, hide objects/persons from sight and some other similar spells. His mind control tricks are easily less developed than rest, but still Riddle has some control over that. While he haven't learned/cannot control people's minds or anything, he can manipulate existing mental problems. As in Darius case, he can prolong his amnesia forever should he want to, but also could break it down in an instant. The most typical use of this power is to strengthen someones fears.
Relationship with King of Champions:Has very good relations with Darius. Finally a pet who isn't a complete lunatic and can appreciate the small good things like movies instead of living only for blood lust. Feels bad about denying him the truth about his past, but considering the consequences he just can't. He wouldn't return to stray life, and revealing the truth would make Darius stop fighting which would mean the death for both of them.