ENID

Born and raised in the Metro, just like her sibling, Enid has lived a difficult life. Having lost her mother at a young age, and never having known her father (a tom cat, who moved on from his relationship with her mother almost as soon as it had started), Enid was left to take care of her younger brother and raise him for most of her life. Enid was indoctrinated into the ways of the Nyakuza when she was very young, her and her brother having been taken under the Empress' wing, per say, when she inevitably discovered them via intel gathered by the various Nyakuza cats roaming the Metro.

Growing up in such a hostile environment gave her some unhealthy views on the world around her, but a part of her still wanted something more out of life, a spark of an idea based upon her late mother's tales of the wider world at large.

After years in service of the Empress, a chance meeting with a cat named Cheyenne during her young adulthood proved to be fateful. The two met at the tail end of one of Enid's heists, and the two struck up a deal before Cheyenne could flee – in exchange for her own safety when traversing the Metro, Cheyenne was never to mention this particular incident again. Cheyenne readily agreed.

This partnership eventually developed into a tenuous-at-first friendship, with the two trading first short and sweet stories then the intricate tales of their own lives back and forth. Enid began to grow softer towards the idea of a life above the Metro, somewhere she'd have the freedom to start anew and make a new name for herself. After much deliberation, Enid eventually decided to begin taking strides towards this new end goal, firstly and foremostly through becoming an informant and reporting on various... crimes that were taking place in the seedy underbelly of the Metro, under a pseudonym. Cheyenne was there to support her, as a friend, and the two knew that despite everything they would always have one another. From that point on their friendship blossomed further, until the two started dating in secret.

... Of course, her status as a secret police informant was eventually found out by the Empress. She managed to fend off multiple successive attempts on her life, before her own brother Ned was sent put an end to her, thanks to his skill in taking out targets. Rather than kill her, however, he decided to let her live; he could not bring himself to kill the only person who had supported him unconditionally since the beginning. He ended up helping her escape unnoticed, and took only a patch of her fur to ascertain to the Empress that she truly was dead. On the run, and unable to contact Cheyenne for the time being, she first fled to the Alpine Skyline, finding refuge there with the Lazy Paw Gang. There she stayed for a year or two, biding her time until she was able to safely explore the rest of the planet without fear of being caught and of subsequent retribution.

When she deemed enough time had passed, she departed the peaks; raring for adventure. She roamed until she found herself in Subcon – a suitably dangerous place, she thought, having heard various ghost stories about its unusual residents. She thought the Forest would be more than enough to satisfy that craving for something adventurous in her life. There she met Charlotte, who saved her from being caught in one of the Snatcher's traps, and allowed her refuge within her hollow. Charlotte also taught her the intricacies of getting around and avoiding trouble in the forest.

Developing an almost-begrudging but mutual friendship with the fire spirit, she finds herself beholden to their cause, and is keen to help the fire spirit unravel what exactly happened to her home in the time she missed. She corresponds regularly with Cheyenne via hand-written letters, though how exactly the letters make their way in and out of the forest is something she doesn't know. Charlotte takes care of that.