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These kits are the result of a deal struck between Kier and a, to use his words, poverty-stricken, gold-digging rogue. She got food and riches, he got a legacy. His mate, Eris, fell pregnant at the same time as the rogue and the deal was more or less moot; he had no need for them anymore. But then Eris miscarried. Though he was grieving and resented them for surviving when the kits he had truly wanted hadn't, he made the decision to keep them, purely for royal lineage purposes. Rather than fulfilling his end of the bargain with the rogue, he ordered that she be killed and gave the kits to a loyal nursery queen.
Kier has complex feelings for his kits, and Eris outright despises them (or may have various feelings now that she’s started to go mad with grief and convince herself their kits were taken.) Though Kier has complicated love for them, they can never live up to his impossible expectations and are always failures, mostly because he imagines the kits he'd lost would have been perfect. And though they're royalty, they're not truly treated like it - they all share the same den, in the shadows, away from the Clan, and Kier only pulls King or Maiden out when he needs them for appearances.
But he did help raise them, and there's a lot of complex, conflicting emotions between all of them. They only have each other and never knew their mother, so they're all they have.
They were named with their suffixes in mind, so even as kits that's what they're mostly called by.
There will be a second litter coming soon, their half-siblings by Eris <3
i've included a lot, but these are all just ideas and should be read as inspiration, not as anything binding or constrictive!! you can do whatever you want with them and their relationships <3
please be active with them! <3
ROYALBRAT (BRAT) TAKEN BY ME
the family burden
'that's an echo, gentlemen, just a little something we have here in louisiana — a little parlour trick, don't worry.'
The voodoo queen, the family dissenter, the thorn in Kier’s side. While one of her sisters is the crown prince and the other is the perfect princess, Brat is the unneeded spare who lost her way. As a young royal, she traded in her father’s Celtic paganisms for voodoo; and, with her father paying no attention to her, she took to charging for reading fortunes. A scam artist. As she grew older, these cons took a darker turn. The certified embarrassment of the family, she’s only one who can get away with mocking her father in public, with showing up to important events hammered and passing out on the throne. She’s all over-confidence borne of necessity, all mocking bows and curtsies, asking visiting leaders about their messy divorce, and encouraging kits and apprentices to ruin her father’s important day. If Kier hadn’t given up on her a long time ago, he would still spend half his days yelling at her. All that said, she doesn’t hate her father, more loves him in a deadpan, entirely-aware-of-his-failings way; she’ll roll her eyes and show up to family gatherings and give him a hug and deadpan ‘hi dad.’ She still loves him and wants their messed up family to be happy. A small, dusty grey-brown she-cat with large ears, narrow green eyes, and her father’s inherited Adie syndrome in her left pupil. She has a constant smile on her face.
Maiden's twin, but where Maiden is dainty and soft, Brat is bony and awkward, parts cobbled together.
Brat initially resents her younger half-siblings for having her father’s unconditional love and a mother. She’s loyal to only HER siblings; it’s a closed club, and she’s hostile to any outsiders. But she’ll probably end up taking them under her wing and corrupting them.
You could argue Brat and Kier have the best relationship, because he has no expectations of her; all the pressure is on King and Maiden, Disappointment is actively ignored, but Brat so proved she had no future in the family that he can just roll his eyes and put up with his errant daughter. She gets to be herself — except, that ‘herself’ is just a result of making ‘the family disappointment’ her entire personality.
current arc vibes: ‘friends on the other side’ by annapantsu
future arc after kier and her family lose power in nightclan: ‘my lullaby’ from the lion king 2
probs gonna end up a directionless, tortured villain haunted by the fact she’s nothing but her family.
if this were another universe, she’d be a shapeshifter who used her ridiculous forms to make people laugh.
Brat has her dad’s dirty mind and always speaks in deadpan, hooded-eyed innuendos.
She has a home-made tarot deck made from paper-thin stones and crushed-stone ink. She carries them in a velvet bag she found.
playlist (and basically playlist for the family cuz there's a bunch that remind me of all of them): x
LITTLEKING (KING) TAKEN BY WOOF
the perfect soldier
'now the past i've tried forgetting, and my foes i could forgive. trouble is, i know it's petty, but i hate to let them live.'
The daughter who became a prince; the royal child who, while her sisters were dressed up in dresses and ribbons, was put in armour.
But rather than being happy to be the heir apparent, the crown prince, she stumbles through the day with a numb, unsmiling face, bowing through muscle memory and sitting silent, hunched, and unhearing while her father entertains and discusses business. She self-medicates to get through the day, dutiful for her father through the numb fog of her eyes and collapsing back into oblivion when his back is turned. She’s the prince who slips whisky into her tea and wine into her cake, who sits slumped and unladylike at state banquets because she knows her father is too busy to reprimand her, who can get away with murder and butchery and lies for lies’ sake, who can point to two cats and say ‘I want them to fight to the death’ while she eats her supper and watch with uncaring eyes as they follow her commands because of who her daddy is. And she doesn’t do any of it because she’s cruel — she does it because she can get away with it; because she can pinch servants at dinner and whisper an airy, insincere ‘sorry’ with her eyes hooded and dead and drugged to the brim; because she can knock over a wine glass and blame the staff and watch their execution; because she’s so soul-achingly bored. No matter how much she eats, she never gains weight, never looks like royalty — she’s always just the daughter of a rat who made himself a king. She usually has a glare on her face.
King is the perfect soldier, the heir, but she hates Kier for robbing her of her childhood, for stealing it from her so she could be groomed to be his successor. Littleking’s training has left her a killer, a perfect killing machine, and there’s nothing left behind her eyes; it was the only way she was going to get through her childhood.
A she-cat, but because she’s the most promising of the litter, Kier raises her to be his son and heir. She shadows him everywhere, sitting up beside him at every clan and guard meeting and at gatherings, even when she’s just a kit. It’s a tremendous amount of responsibility and trauma for a child to be saddled with, especially because her father refuses to even acknowledge that she’s his daughter — he always just calls her his son, and a prince. Kier is tremendously proud of her and aways shows her off and brags about her. She’s never away from him and is being groomed to be the next leader of NightClan — or wherever Kier ends up next.
When she’s done with business for the day and away from Kier, her self-imposed, glowering vow of silence breaks and she’s deadpan, biting, and speaks almost exclusively in a bitter, sarcastic growl. She has the biggest presence out of her siblings; when she enters a room, all the air is sucked out of it and she hangs over it like a heavy, crushing weight. Maiden is vaguely terrified of her and always ends up babbling. She truly is the prince, self-confident and unflinching and unafraid to take up space and oxygen. Hooded, dead eyes; violent; short fuse; always has to be physically held back from just leaping into confrontation and just slaughtering someone; despite her father’s attempts at teaching her diplomacy, still only knows how to use her teeth and not her mind to solve disputes; a growling, hunch-shouldered attack dog. She's terrifying.
Has her father’s narrow grey eyes and black fur. Really, she’s the spitting image of him, which contributes to her feeling of not knowing where her father ends and she begins; she feels they’re irrevocably linked, that she’s him forever, that he can practically hear her thoughts. Nothing is private or hers. For that reason, she’s both resigned to being his shadow, his solder, his prince and companion until one or both of them dies, and desperate to sever herself from him. Her siblings don’t know any of this; all they see is her tough, unflappable front — she always seems grumpy and okay. She both wants Kier dead, wants to kill him, and feels that if he dies, she does too. She hates him and needs him. Is connected to him. They share a special, unknowable, and incomprehensible bond and spend the most time together, away from the rest of the siblings.
She’s ‘one of the guys’, a soldier who can’t stand Maiden’s prettiness.
SWEETMAIDEN (MAIDEN) OPEN
the traumatised princess
'what could i do if i just knew it didn't need to be perfect, it just needed to be? and they'd let me be?'
A dainty grey-brown she-cat with soft paws and grey-green eyes. Brat's twin.
The princess, the bastard, the soldier, the king. In the twisted fairytale of her childhood, there was never any question of which she would be. The scrawny, weak, good-hearted daughter, her curse was being born both the neglected daughter and the favourite; while her sister was groomed to be the heir, the son his actual son was too out of favour to be, she was raised to do the only thing a she-cat ought to aspire to: being a mother. Continuing the royal line. She’s the daughter Kier allows - and insists, in fact - to be feminine; she’s the princess, the perfect daughter, the child he dotes on most because she’s everything he thinks a she-cat ought to be. He shelters her from talk of politics and violence, thinking they’re distressing to feminine ears. He spoils and shelters her, and as such she’s out of touch with the real world, just her father’s perfect, isolated doll, the lonely queen of her castle. She’s the perfect entertainer, the one who visiting dignitaries call ‘charming’, who curtsies so prettily and smiles and laughs and asks questions at the dinner table, who lets herself be paraded.
She stress eats.
She carries a lot of trauma, PTSD, and guilt/grief about the things she knows her father does to other cats; she thinks it’s somehow her fault, that she shouldn’t be allowed to have so privileged a life while others suffer. She has a huge heart and feels everyone’s pain too deeply. Too much empathy. Kind, poorly socialised, haunted, deeply sad, preened to be a happy, smiling, girly princess but her mouth is always downturned in her pink dresses like she’s holding back tears. Still, she loves her father deeply because he’s her dad and genuinely wants to make him happy, so she does everything he asks and behaves and grooms herself the way he wants. The third sister — where Royalbrat’s disdain has left her strong and Littleking’s training has left her a killer, Maiden’s innate gentleness and timidness has left her lost and out of place in the royal family. She’s not tough or callous like her sisters; she admires them and thinks herself weak and complicit.
Royalbrat’s twin; they were raised the same, but where their upbringing left Royalbrat numb, it left Maiden with a desperate need to please.
While Royalbrat is the rebellious daughter who deadpan glowers at the camera during family portraits, Sweetmaiden is the one who beams bright and beautiful to over-compensate for the shadow over the rest of the family. She’s the people-pleaser, the one who decorates all their balls because she wants everything to go off without a hitch and be a success, the one who takes the time to cuddle with her father because she wants him to feel loved. She’s innocent, out of touch, and dangerously repressed, lying to herself that her family is happy when it’s falling apart at the seams.
The perfect daughter. She’s Kier’s favourite and he genuinely loves her.
She’s going to kill herself keeping her family smiling and positive, and always arranges bonding activities to try and keep them together.
Maiden will never hear a word against their father, acts like a child, would love Christmas because it’s family time.
She’s the only one of their siblings to look like the mother they never knew.
She’s not resentful, because resentment would require some idea of what life is supposed to be like; really, she thinks she’s very happy and is thankful for her life. She’s oblivious by choice and by training; she learned to turn a blind eye and not pay attention, to bow her head when politics was discussed. But far from being naïve, she’s easy to underestimate — if you really want information about what Kier’s planning or what he’s afraid of, you go to Maiden; constantly with him, she knows everything, even if she’s silent and obedient. But that makes her dangerous, too; she could well be a turncoat, and no one is ever truly sure where her loyalties lie or whether she can be trusted.
Maiden is the most devoted to Kier and loves him deeply, despite her grief and guilt about it. Beyond everything, he’s just her dad — but that doesn’t stop the internal conflict she feels about the things he does.
She’s too afraid to have a personality of her own, and as such she doesn’t know who she is beyond Kier’s puppet - but at heart, she suspects she isn’t a villain.
She’s Kier’s model pet and greatest joy. The innocent one. The hopeful one. The wilfully blind one. The destructively optimistic one.
sometimes gets upset and throws tantrums when her siblings don’t play their parts. in her world, everyone has a script to follow and anyone deviating from theirs throws her entire life into disarray.
v mirabel-meets-isabela from encanto vibes. ‘what else can i do?’ would be such a good breaking free song for her. or 'where the watermelons rot' by madelynne whitt for a maiden villain arc? bye
STRAWDISAPPOINTMENT (DISAPPOINTMENT) TAKEN BY CHILDE
the unloved son
'isn't it a laugh? isn't it a shame? thinking there is someone in heaven to blame.'
Disappointment is an echo of Kier’s older brother, Mal — different pelt, but same blue eyes and bone structure. The second Kier saw him, he was plunged back into his terrified childhood being beaten by his brother and he whipped his head away. Now Kier hardly speaks to him, and when he does he makes a point of not looking at him. He doesn’t bully or abuse his son — he won’t be what Mal was to him, won’t have his son be afraid of him — but instead he just pretends he doesn’t exist. Most of it stems from fear on Kier’s part; he’s scared to look his child in the face and see his big brother staring back. A bit of superstitious paranoia, too — could the gods curse him with Mal reborn? Deep down though, Kier is just a father who loves his son and carries this guilt around — but he won’t show it.
Kier is also threatened by his son as being able to usurp him as head of the family; lots of weird jealousy towards Disappointment.
A gentle, shy kid broken by his father’s disapproval for the simple crime of having been born with the wrong coloured eyes. His head is usually bowed submissively. He wants Kier to love him, and he tries to win his approval — but he always fails. He loves stories and mysteries.
More than Maiden, he’s the baby of the family that all his sisters try to shelter and protect — Maiden always tries to cheer him up and makes him flower crowns, letting him be a princess with her; King gives him painful whacks on the back that are meant to be encouraging and instructs him in battle training, which he’s always dismal at; Brat tries to make him laugh. While Brat and King are closest to each other, Disappointment is closest to Maiden. They’re the soft ones of the family. If Maiden weren’t the princess, she and Disappointment would be the unpopular losers of the school, while Brat and King would be the jocks.
When he grows up and realises he’s never going to reconcile with his father, he could become more cynical and deadpan, resigned to being the disdained son and turning to hedonism and bad behaviour to dull the ache. (‘they’re only human’ by annapantsu and caleb hyles vibes)
Or maybe he and Kier do go through an arc and repair their relationship. Who knows! Lots of potential.
A pale tan-ginger tom, taller than his father and the tallest in the family. Mockingly, dismissively named after Kier’s humble origins when he was born in a barn.
Name could be shortened to Isa or something <3
he's baby, but he COULD be Menace. rich, errant eton boy vibes, untouchable because of who his daddy is
Disappointment has been twisted by Kier’s disdain of him into craving his approval, by whatever means, and all the others are sympathetic to him and give him the care he doesn't get from Kier - he's the baby of the family; King is the perfect soldier, the heir, but she hates Kier for robbing her of her childhood, for stealing it from her so she could be groomed to be his successor; Maiden adores her dad and won't hear a word against him, and this garners a lot of suspicion from her siblings because she's seen as complicit, when really she's just traumatised; Brat is the family disgrace, close to and protective of all of them while all the others are in-fighting. They're all close, but Maiden is on the outs with King - and King's opinion is powerful and influential. When Maiden walks in to a room, all the siblings stop talking. They don't trust her. Brat still tries to involve her, even if she doesn’t condone her perceived willingness to throw her siblings under the bus for Kier — she’s still her sister, despite their differences. King just sneers and glares.
King and Maiden don’t get along; Maiden admires her and wants to be friends, but King resents and looks down on her for her blind love of Kier. King feels she’s more worldly, more jaded, that she understands their father is a liar while Maiden just collects flowers and tries to ignore it. King thinks she’s a frivolous idiot, stubborn and unwilling to be fair to her. King makes Maiden so nervous and flustered; because King refuses to be cheerful and flowery, Maiden babbles and over-compensates because the family has to be happy, we're all happy! Haha!
There’s a lot of tension between King and Maiden; King usually ends up snapping at her to grow a spine and get her own personality. She can’t stand how weak and complacent she thinks her sister is and is infuriated by her and how she panders to Kier. King argues she’s not being hypocritical, because she’s only letting Kier train her so she can kill him, take his place, and free the family. But she knows that’s not true.
Though Maiden and Brat are twins, Maiden is closest to Disappointment and King is closest to Brat. They’re nearly inseparable. But while King can’t stand Maiden, ostracising her from the group and trying to keep her out of the loop so things don’t get back to Kier from his little spy, Brat is grudgingly sympathetic to her and tries to include her. She knows it’s hard for Maiden. Brat is the most loyal to her siblings: while Maiden is loyal to Kier and King is loyal to herself, Brat is devoted to keeping her sisters and brother alive and together. Maiden is the perfect PR face of the royal family, King is the one who would be more than happy to see it crumble, and Brat is obsessed with ensuring everything stays afloat. The whole dysfunctional, surface-polished circus.
So there's lots of tension, but they're also royal children!! So lots of potential for privileged shenanigans <3
