Basic Attributes
Name;
Binturong (Bearcat) is the name given to it by the people who discovered it.
Nickname/s;
Bearcat is the nickname given to this creature due to it's appeace of being bear-like, but only the size of a house cat.
Age and D.O.B.;
The age of the Binturong is unkown, so is it's date of birth.
Race/ethnicity;
Is of the Viverridae animal family, which includes Civets and Genets.
Social class;
Currently stands as a outsider, the first one of its kind to enter the forest.
Physical Appearance
Current height and weight, and basic build;
Standing at 49.7 cm from shoulder to toe with a length of 78.4 cm from nose to tail tip. Weight is usually balanced between 18-24kg. Burly and omnivorous, the Binturong is sometimes compared to a bear, but is closer in size to a large cat.
Posture and stance;
Posture is usually hunched over, nose is closest to the ground in a searching manner, searching for seeds, fruits, or burrows of rats or feild mice. Stance when threatened is slightly hunched forward, standing on tip-toe as to appear larger in size.
Gait;
A slow and lumber gait when moving on the forest floor. Quite faster then when in the tree canopies.
Hair colour and style;
Body is covered with coarse and thick black fur, slightly bristled. Lighter black or sliver fur upon it's face to make it appear larger to other animals. The tail, bushy and thick with black fur, and is fully prehensile, can act as a fifth hand and is nearly as long as its own length.
Eye colour and shape;
Small round eyes and always a brownish-copper color with a black pupil and no sclera is visible.
Physical Abilities
Abilities and limitations;
Gathering foods is one of the major activities of this Binturong, which includes storing it for further use. It navigates much easier and are less likly to be attacked when it is in the canopies of the forest trees. While on the forest ground, its agile, but not as agile as it wishes to be when in the trees. This Binturong has a few health conditions such as respatory distress and easy to catch diseases and illnesses. When it is in an enclosed area, it will go into a full fledged panic attack and do anything to get out of the small area.
Strengths and weaknesses;
Its body is intimidating when it feels threatened, but can't really pack a serious punch unless its life depended on it.
Favourite / worst activity;
The favorite activity is to laze around in the low branches of trees and sunbathe. Other times it will be on the forest floor, searing for seeds that the flowers provide and nectur. It isn't too fond of being cramed into small areas or packed between two individuals and might develop a fear of said individuals. Why it develops fears easily is because it has developed the fear of small spaces thanks to its previous home, where it was abused and kept in a very small cage with no high branches to rest on or sunlight to bathe in.
Lifestyle
Accomplishments;
Sucessfully escaped its captor's territory. Acheived this at a very young age, when it was still considered adolecent.
Past time activities;
Enjoys eating, sunbathing, dustbathing, sleeping, and learning.
Psychology
Basic personality;
Solitary, confined, intelligent, wise, understanding, compassionate, trustworthy, distrustful.
Defining characteristics;
The ability to trust and distrust depends on whom it is confronting. Say it was a small mammal, it would trust it, seeing that it was smaller then it, which would mean that it wouldn't suspect it of attacking it. A large animal would make trusting difficult and would take time to warm up to said animal for fear of being attacked.
Outlook on life;
Although it lives a secluded lifestyle, it does enjoy being with others to keep its socal needs at a minimum. Binturong is an introvert and extrovert, somewhere in the middle.
Mental vs emotional;
Binturong mainly relies on thought then feeling and trusts fact then faith. Although it might switch on occassion.
Humour, or lack of;
Binturong does not know if it has humor or not.
Motivation;
Birdsong and the first kiss of sunlight on its face motivates it to get up and do its daily needs, such as search for food, take a dust bath, or just explore.
Goals;
Live what was lost.
Desires.
Friends, trust, and hope.
Phobias;
Enclosed spaces or lack of space thereof.
Secrets;
Abused as a youngster by chemicals and forced to breathe cleaning supplies that surrounded its cage in the basement of its captor's home. This has not been told to anyone yet, it assums that the respetory distress was genetic when it was not.
Superstitions;
Believes in the afterlife, spirits, and anything that is 'unnatural'.
Mental Abilities
Abilities and limitations;
Problem solving is an ability it knows from its life in a cage since all it had was time. It can't decipher truth from fiction as easily as others.
Strengths and weaknesses;
Best at problem solving and puzzle solving, but not good at truth vs fiction. Often is ethusiastic when solving a puzzle for the first time, but when deciphering fact/fiction, often gets angry.
Favourite / worst activity;
Problem solving and finding out ways to develop rescources into tools. Worst activity is having nothing to do to exercise the brain.
Personal History
Place of birth;
Would rather not say.
Childhood;
Average childhood, trauma developed later.
Adolescence;
Truma occured early.
Hardships;
Endured with abuse and mistreatment.
Regrets;
Regrets being captured so easily.
Direction;
Broke free and chose a direction, kept following the path and ended up in the forest.
Trauma;
Chemical abuse which developed into respatory distress and the fear of being in a cage too small for a large animal.
Family History
Parental figures;
Mother and father.
Siblings;
A liter of four (two brothers and a sister).
Immediate relatives;
No children.
Brief family history;
No memory of the family due to trama.
Relationships;
Currently has no friends.
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