Allium

Allium is a long-bodied, scrawny, gray mackerel tabby tom with yellow eyes. He has pointy ears, short fur, and a small muzzle that tapers at the end. Lower parts of his body are lighter but no white. He walks slowly with a sagging bounce in his step. Allium is average height but being so thin and long makes him look small.

Youth
Allium was born as "Jackie" to a large litter of kittypets. They lived mostly in and around their owners' greenhouse, left to their own devices by the nonchalant twolegs.

His mother was a small, lithe kittypet named Audrey who was never very "present." Her memory was terrible, she could never remember which kit was named what, and she slept too often. For this reason, her five kits didn't have much in the way of discipline nor motherly attention. They became aggressive and needy. Jackie merely became distant. He wasn't the smallest kit but was bullied the most due to his absent disposition reminding them of their neglectful mother.

When their twolegs finally decided to get involved, a vet discovered a tumor in the mother's brain (the cause of her behaviour) and took her away to be put down. They figured the 6-month-old kits could take care of themselves by now.

The kits dispersed, some in pairs, but Jackie went alone. None of the kits were told why their mother had neglected them/vanished/about her brain tumor, leaving Jackie to invent stories to cope with the loss. His favorite was that his mother was being contacted by spirits and was too busy helping them to pay attention to her kits.

When cats asked why such a young, skinny thing was alone, that was what he would tell them: his mother was a prophet who had left on a sacred mission, abandoning him. Eventually, the question came up of whether he had inherited his mother's powers. He said yes.

Proving such was a trail that took up a sizable chunk of his life. He'd been chased out of entire blocks, begged to for mercy, bossed around, treated as garbage and a wiseman both...but eventually, he had built a name for himself.

That name was Allium.