Nepeta Leijon

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Name: Nepeta Leijon
Height: 5'3''
Blood Color: Olive
Weapon: Claws
Sign: Leo/Heart
Screen Name: arsenicCatnip
Typing Quirk: Starts all sentences with :33 < and replaces double E's with 33, both to represent the two mouths of her lusus. Uses cat puns whenefur pawsible! :33
Age: 6 Alternian solar sweeps (13 earth years) I use August 12 for her birthday to make it easier on my brain.
Grub scars(these seem to be a common thing so I'll give my trolls this as well): on her back between her shoulder blades.
Bio: (Wiki Bio start) Nepeta likes friendly roleplaying (which was said quite a while ago), though not the dangerous kind that caused a certain accident to a couple of people. She has a naïve view of everything. She lives in a cave and hunts and eats animals, then occasionally wears their fur and paints with their blood. In fact, she uses this blood along with soot and ash to create wall art, such as storyboards for a comic and her Shipping wall.

Nepeta seems to have a lot of similarities with Kanaya, which may or may not be significant. Both of them are - despite Andrew's noted lack of perfect analogues - the most similar to Jade of the trolls. Both of them are also green-blooded middle-caste trolls with friends on either side of the blood spectrum whose relationships are observed and moderated to some degree (Kanaya is the meddler, and Nepeta keeps a shipping wall while being generally agreeable to everyone). Nepeta was the one to see Aradia and Equius's kiss, and Kanaya was the one to see Vriska kiss a helpless Tavros. Although Kanaya reacted with shock (due to her mating fondness for Vriska), Nepeta just updated her shipping wall.

Once in the veil, she recreated her shipping wall to a larger scale, but doesn't want to update it to accommodate the grisly developments of late.

According to Jasprosesprite^2, Nepeta's interest in shipping stems from her own loneliness as it makes her feel less alone. Shipping might have been her coping mechanism, since she lived isolated from other trolls and had an unrequited flushed crush. It's unknown how Jasprosesprite^2 knows about Nepeta's feelings, however Nepeta and Jaspersprite openly talked quite a few times and it is possible that Nepeta confessed it during these conversations.

In her first conversation with Karkat, he called her autistic. Nepeta carries many traits which are both stereotypically and genuinely linked to autism, such as doodling a cat avatar next to her Pesterchum messages, biting her hat in frustration (stimming), living in social isolation, adoring cats altogether, creating the shipping wall as a "special interest," and generally being seen as unusual by her peers, Equius once having described her as unfit for the role the Mother planned for her which perhaps referenced neuroatypicality. However, whether or not Karkat's statement is accurate or just him being his usual abrasive self is unknown. Additionally, it's difficult to diagnose a character from a different species with a human trait. (Wiki bio End)
Head Canon Start:

Secret Wall


Other forms
Trickster