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Totally had to heavily and shamelessly reference the pose.

Part of the fragmented memories of Sparkz. poor guy.

Thanks to the super awesome

and

help supplement the time before Sparkz was... well, Sparkz. and the reason he's missing the paw in those pictures is creative licensing, btw. you don't wanna see a gnarled paw drawn. it's nasty.

If you don't have a weak stomach, you can read on for Reyssa, excuse me, Spark'z little history lesson...

But don't say i didn't warn ya.

This is your last warning...

So what is it you’ve heard so that we can set the record straight? Something about after he was born, he and his sisters were adopted, but the parents couldn’t afford to give him the surgery for his eye so they took him back to the orphanage? Sorry, but somebody lied to you. None of his sisters made it past the first week. He was actually the lucky one, as only his eyes were affected. They spent all their money trying to save his sisters before the red eye showed up on him, so the dad took him to the park instead of the hospital or the orphanage. I don’t know why he did it, but that’s what he did.
So he has this green eye, right? Did you know he can’t see anything out of it at night? It’s not all the great in the daytime, either. The red eye’s got the opposite problem…well, sort of. The thing is, he has something like thermal vision in it at night, but it can’t detect anything in the presence of light. Strange disease, I tell ya. No one really even knew about it while he was a little kitten, I mean, he never went to any hospitals or anything, so he didn’t even know he was essentially half blind or whatnot. Either way, he’s not glaring at you, he just has to squint really hard when he’s looking, is all.
He does have great hearing, though, which counterattacks the effects of his poor vision somewhat, but his strongest sense definitely comes from his nasal cavity, hence his moniker. ‘Sparkz’? No, his real name. Yeah, she gave him a name just before she sent him to the hospital. Funny thing is, no one knew this name for him and they all used it anyways; Reyssa. I can’t remember the language off the top of my head, but it has a few connotations. Depending on how you say it, it’s either an insult or a cute pet name. It basically means “dog-like” or “sniffer”. I mean, he literally sniffs at everything, mostly because it tells him the proximity of how close something is to him so he doesn’t run into anything.
Well when he was in the park, there was this pack of stray dogs there that found him sniffing around, confused. They took a liking to him for whatever reason and taught him how to hunt and stuff. They always seemed to get a kick out of watching him catch food. Weirdos. He is a great hunter, though… didn’t have a food dish or a saucer of milk waiting for him, so it was a necessity. Anyways, so one day a few years later, I guess, a dog catcher nabbed him. You’d think they only went after dogs, but people would complain about the lack of birds in the park and they decided to blame him for it. Even though they were right, they had no proof, so it’s still not fair.
There wasn’t any room in the feline ward, so they ended up putting him in a kennel with a few dogs. He didn’t know any better, he’d been around dogs since before he could remember, so he wasn’t really prepared for that month. I’ll spare you too many details, but basically, every night they would trade using him as a cushion. Every time he tried to get away, they’d gnaw on his paw until he stopped. Now this went on for about a month, so the fact that they only did it to that one paw was a bit of luck because they might has escalated to another before long. As luck would have it, though, somebody came to adopt the dog that was using him as a pillow at the time; a mutt named Zachery. As soon as the door opened, Reyssa smashed Zachery in the muzzle with his gnarled paw and ran out of the cage, escaping out of an opened window. Now Zachery was offended by this. He had never gnawed on the kitten’s paw and only used him as a cushion when the others were awake. You’d think Zachery would let it go, considering, well he was being adopted and didn’t have to stay in the pound anymore, but unfortunately for Reyssa, this wasn’t the case.
Back on the street, Reyssa tried to find his way back to his park, eventually succeeding after a few… hiccups along the way. He’d lost a lot of flexibility in his injured paw and pounding the pavement for miles wasn’t exactly helping matters. In the meantime, Zachery decided to round up his old gang to help him track Reyssa down so he could teach the kitten some manners.
As it turns out, it happened to be the pack that Reyssa had been with, so they found him in no time, resting in a tree. Frightened, confused and disoriented, he dove out of the tree, trying to run away, but with his injured paw, was quickly surrounded by the pack who treated him as though they’d never seen him before. Zachery dragged Reyssa by the paw to a water fountain. Around this time, the epitome of the word “mutt”, Socks came over to investigate all the noise. Offended by the display of cruelty of his genus, Socks knocked Zachery off Reyssa, and grabbing him by the scruff of the neck sprinted off to safety, losing the pursuers in a construction site.
The immediate danger quelled, Socks put Reyssa down, attempting to examine his raw paw. Out of a combination of instinct and terror, Reyssa took a swing at Socks and hobbled off.
So fast forward some time to the incident at the pet shop. So the story goes that Reyssa was starving, found the bird in the cage outside, ate the bird and then the pet shop owner pulled a Hammurabi on him, right? You know, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, paw for a bird? Well, the truth gets a bit deeper than that.
See, first of all, Reyssa was indeed hungry, but not enough to resort to taking a bird out of a cage. Understandably, he despised cages. The bird actually called him over and asked him to end it for him as he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in that round prison. Instead, Reyssa decided just to open the cage to free him. The bird had been locked up so long that he hadn’t even considered that as a viable option and thanking Reyssa, started to fly away. The shopkeeper meanwhile runs out with a knife, meaning to scare Reyssa off, afraid for his bird’s safety. It wasn’t just a pigeon (I mean, not that that should matter but Macaws are decidedly pricey). So the bird flies off and the man’s angry, he’s swiping the knife around, trying to scare Reyssa off. Wasn’t even aiming anywhere near him. He’s a pet shop owner for cripe’s sake he’s not gonna want to hurt a cat. The thing is, Reyssa’s lame paw is starting to bother him again and he suddenly has a flashback to the kennel. Whether it was a lucid or subconscious decision, Reyssa threw his paw in the path of the blade at the last second and... well yeah. The shop keeper’s story didn’t make a lick of sense to the cops and there was no trace of the bird so they came to their own conclusion and Reyssa, with the sudden physical trauma eventually bought the story. There’s really no way of knowing for sure if he remembers what really happened… But personally I hope he never remembers… after all, he has enough to feel guilty about.

What?

Oh yeah… he got his revenge on Zachery. But I’ve worn out my welcome and that’s probably a story for another time. Good day!

...

Told ya. and yeah i've got issues. but so does everyone else.

Sparkz @ me

Sparkz' design @

Description
Totally had to heavily and shamelessly reference the pose.

Part of the fragmented memories of Sparkz. poor guy.

Thanks to the super awesome

and

help supplement the time before Sparkz was... well, Sparkz. and the reason he's missing the paw in those pictures is creative licensing, btw. you don't wanna see a gnarled paw drawn. it's nasty.

If you don't have a weak stomach, you can read on for Reyssa, excuse me, Spark'z little history lesson...

But don't say i didn't warn ya.

This is your last warning...

So what is it you’ve heard so that we can set the record straight? Something about after he was born, he and his sisters were adopted, but the parents couldn’t afford to give him the surgery for his eye so they took him back to the orphanage? Sorry, but somebody lied to you. None of his sisters made it past the first week. He was actually the lucky one, as only his eyes were affected. They spent all their money trying to save his sisters before the red eye showed up on him, so the dad took him to the park instead of the hospital or the orphanage. I don’t know why he did it, but that’s what he did.
So he has this green eye, right? Did you know he can’t see anything out of it at night? It’s not all the great in the daytime, either. The red eye’s got the opposite problem…well, sort of. The thing is, he has something like thermal vision in it at night, but it can’t detect anything in the presence of light. Strange disease, I tell ya. No one really even knew about it while he was a little kitten, I mean, he never went to any hospitals or anything, so he didn’t even know he was essentially half blind or whatnot. Either way, he’s not glaring at you, he just has to squint really hard when he’s looking, is all.
He does have great hearing, though, which counterattacks the effects of his poor vision somewhat, but his strongest sense definitely comes from his nasal cavity, hence his moniker. ‘Sparkz’? No, his real name. Yeah, she gave him a name just before she sent him to the hospital. Funny thing is, no one knew this name for him and they all used it anyways; Reyssa. I can’t remember the language off the top of my head, but it has a few connotations. Depending on how you say it, it’s either an insult or a cute pet name. It basically means “dog-like” or “sniffer”. I mean, he literally sniffs at everything, mostly because it tells him the proximity of how close something is to him so he doesn’t run into anything.
Well when he was in the park, there was this pack of stray dogs there that found him sniffing around, confused. They took a liking to him for whatever reason and taught him how to hunt and stuff. They always seemed to get a kick out of watching him catch food. Weirdos. He is a great hunter, though… didn’t have a food dish or a saucer of milk waiting for him, so it was a necessity. Anyways, so one day a few years later, I guess, a dog catcher nabbed him. You’d think they only went after dogs, but people would complain about the lack of birds in the park and they decided to blame him for it. Even though they were right, they had no proof, so it’s still not fair.
There wasn’t any room in the feline ward, so they ended up putting him in a kennel with a few dogs. He didn’t know any better, he’d been around dogs since before he could remember, so he wasn’t really prepared for that month. I’ll spare you too many details, but basically, every night they would trade using him as a cushion. Every time he tried to get away, they’d gnaw on his paw until he stopped. Now this went on for about a month, so the fact that they only did it to that one paw was a bit of luck because they might has escalated to another before long. As luck would have it, though, somebody came to adopt the dog that was using him as a pillow at the time; a mutt named Zachery. As soon as the door opened, Reyssa smashed Zachery in the muzzle with his gnarled paw and ran out of the cage, escaping out of an opened window. Now Zachery was offended by this. He had never gnawed on the kitten’s paw and only used him as a cushion when the others were awake. You’d think Zachery would let it go, considering, well he was being adopted and didn’t have to stay in the pound anymore, but unfortunately for Reyssa, this wasn’t the case.
Back on the street, Reyssa tried to find his way back to his park, eventually succeeding after a few… hiccups along the way. He’d lost a lot of flexibility in his injured paw and pounding the pavement for miles wasn’t exactly helping matters. In the meantime, Zachery decided to round up his old gang to help him track Reyssa down so he could teach the kitten some manners.
As it turns out, it happened to be the pack that Reyssa had been with, so they found him in no time, resting in a tree. Frightened, confused and disoriented, he dove out of the tree, trying to run away, but with his injured paw, was quickly surrounded by the pack who treated him as though they’d never seen him before. Zachery dragged Reyssa by the paw to a water fountain. Around this time, the epitome of the word “mutt”, Socks came over to investigate all the noise. Offended by the display of cruelty of his genus, Socks knocked Zachery off Reyssa, and grabbing him by the scruff of the neck sprinted off to safety, losing the pursuers in a construction site.
The immediate danger quelled, Socks put Reyssa down, attempting to examine his raw paw. Out of a combination of instinct and terror, Reyssa took a swing at Socks and hobbled off.
So fast forward some time to the incident at the pet shop. So the story goes that Reyssa was starving, found the bird in the cage outside, ate the bird and then the pet shop owner pulled a Hammurabi on him, right? You know, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, paw for a bird? Well, the truth gets a bit deeper than that.
See, first of all, Reyssa was indeed hungry, but not enough to resort to taking a bird out of a cage. Understandably, he despised cages. The bird actually called him over and asked him to end it for him as he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in that round prison. Instead, Reyssa decided just to open the cage to free him. The bird had been locked up so long that he hadn’t even considered that as a viable option and thanking Reyssa, started to fly away. The shopkeeper meanwhile runs out with a knife, meaning to scare Reyssa off, afraid for his bird’s safety. It wasn’t just a pigeon (I mean, not that that should matter but Macaws are decidedly pricey). So the bird flies off and the man’s angry, he’s swiping the knife around, trying to scare Reyssa off. Wasn’t even aiming anywhere near him. He’s a pet shop owner for cripe’s sake he’s not gonna want to hurt a cat. The thing is, Reyssa’s lame paw is starting to bother him again and he suddenly has a flashback to the kennel. Whether it was a lucid or subconscious decision, Reyssa threw his paw in the path of the blade at the last second and... well yeah. The shop keeper’s story didn’t make a lick of sense to the cops and there was no trace of the bird so they came to their own conclusion and Reyssa, with the sudden physical trauma eventually bought the story. There’s really no way of knowing for sure if he remembers what really happened… But personally I hope he never remembers… after all, he has enough to feel guilty about.

What?

Oh yeah… he got his revenge on Zachery. But I’ve worn out my welcome and that’s probably a story for another time. Good day!

...

Told ya. and yeah i've got issues. but so does everyone else.

Sparkz @ me

Sparkz' design @