Post by Eppy on Feb 20, 2015 14:08:40 GMT -6
Name: Opie
Species: Cayuga Duck
Gender: Drake (male)
Color and Markings: Black with brown rust on wings, emerald green and purple/blue highlights on head, back, belly and wings. Black legs, webbed feet, and bill. Black eyes.
Belongs to?: Eve
Personality: A docile, friendly bird to his feline friend, Opie does display many of the normal duck-like characteristics. He is extremely observant, with brilliant eyesight (because he's a bird, not because he's special), and can spot a bird of prey in the sky that a human eye couldn't even see as a speck of colour. He is quick to protect his friend, whether it be from other cats or from dangerous predators, and although he isn't that powerful, because all he has is a bill, wings and claws, it can be a bit of a surprise of an aggressive cat to have a large (but not too large) black bird come lunging at your face. In fact, ducks are a bit underestimated. Sure, they seem friendly enough when eating bread that's thrown to them from a dock (bread is bad for duckies, they can't actually digest it and it makes them sick), drakes are extremely protective of their mates. And since Opie doesn't have a mate, he puts his protectiveness onto his best friend, and his imprinted feline, instead. Ducks may not have teeth or hands, but their bills are perfectly designed for grabbing, crushing, and ripping. They're made to rip roots out of the ground by gripping the plant above, or for crushing the body of a fully grown frog before swallowing it whole. Their hind legs have 4 sharp claws (and they are sharp... ouch) to protect themselves, 3 on their webbed toes and one off on a back toe growing out of their leg. The least underestimated part of all is their wings. Cayuga ducks cannot fly, except maybe a few feet off the ground for a few seconds, but they have large and powerful wings that have given handlers a bloody nose a few times. And Opie is not afraid to hurt any other creature in order to protect his best friend.
Other: To be more clear, imprinting should be defined. It is a force hardly understood by nature and science, at least by us humans, who do not form such bonds, but is a powerful force among waterfowl: in particular, geese, swan, and ducks. A duck who imprints on another duck will not tolerate being separated for long. If one member of an imprinting pair dies, the other will often starve themselves to death within a week out of depression. It will be noted that if Eve dies in character, Opie will join her soon after. Such is the relationship of imprinting. A duck, or any animal capable of imprinting, can imprint on any creature. A duck itself will treat the first creature it sees, once hatching, as its 'mother' whether it be the actual mother duck, a human, a dog, or a cat. Or anything else. It can imprint on anything following hatching, including any of those animals. It does not recognize a difference between itself and said person. A duckling is a very delicate creature that trusts more than it fears, and will not recognize a threat because they think everything is its mother or of the same species.
Just a little info on that in case you're curious!
Echo-Doodle
