Argentum Alba

❝You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.❞ - Argentum to herself

✂ - - personality
Argentum represents every trait of a person that you should avoid. Her manipulative and untrustworthy tendencies make her dangerous to be around, and her apathy makes her hard to read and this could be seen as her being insensitive. She is extremely observant, noting the slightest twitch of movement in a cat's face. Argentum is tenacious, and will do anything to get what she wants, and her patience will often greatly reward her. If something doesn't happen to go her way, her quick-thinking skills will solve the situation in minutes. her height makes her intimidating as well as her emotionless expression, and she can be very unpredictable.

✂ - - backstory
CW for Abuse, Neglect, Crimes, Murder, Attempted Murder (basically not child friendly-) //

Argentum was raised at the time the war between the Districts was going on, and as her family wasn't getting too involved, there weren't many raids on their mansion. However, food was not plentiful, and she had to steal to get by. One day, her mother happened to notice her stealing and saw the potential in her right away. Her mother had ignored and neglected her along with her two other siblings for years now, and Argentum, impressionable and starving for attention, did what her mother asked of her. After weeks of this, she slowly realised that it was bad, and told her mother that she was going to be the hero in the end.

Throughout all of this, Argentum only had one friend- a cat named Sirius (NPC) that she met during career training. Her mother used this as an opportunity to teach her how to manipulate others, and Argentum ended up using Sirius for her own gain. After years of being used like this, Sirius finally caught on and left Argentum, leaving her heartbroken and angry at herself. The most disturbing thing to her about this was that she had enjoyed using Sirius like a tool, but her mother encouraged this from her. Nothing noticeable had changed about her, other than she seemed much quieter.

It was her that found her mother inside her bedroom, an arrow through her heart. Argentum pulled out the arrow and hid it, informing her father that she must've died from a heart attack in her sleep. So, only Argentum knew that her mother had been murdered in her sleep, and that's a secret she is going to take to the grave.

She was too affected to move on and become the hero like she had always dreamt of being. She would steal random things and hoard them in her room, much to her father's dismay. Eventually, her father had had enough and locked her in her room. Argentum managed to break out and went on the run, where she met up with another molly named Vixen. Turns out that Vixen had been a part of a gang that she was looking to take over, and impressed by Argentum's herb skills (thanks to her mother), she asked Argentum for help. Argentum accepted this request, giving Vixen the berries she needed to go through with the murder. The gang leader's last moves had been to attack Argentum, drawing his large claws across her shoulder and down to her stomach in a vain attempt to bring her down with him.

After all was done, Vixen offered for Argentum to join their gang, which Argentum accepted gratefully. Argentum managed to become co-leader within her first day as thanks for helping Vixen, and the two mollies slowly became closer over the time they spent together. Vixen stole hair-dye and dyed Argentum's hair, and Argentum bought them matching triangle earrings. It was clear that the two had fallen for each other, but just as they were about to confess, a group of peacekeepers swarmed them, using a tranquiliser to knock Argentum out. The silver cat could hear Vixen hissing before it all went dark.

Argentum woke up in her bed at her mansion and promptly destroyed everything she could get her claws on. She ran outside her room, only to see a small blue cat staring up at her in curiousity and fear. That was... new. Behind the smaller cat stood her older sisters, Chalceus and Aes, who stared at her in disbelief. Ah, that was not new.

After asking her father about the stranger in the house, he explained that as soon as Argentum went missing, he went to the orphanage to adopt a new potential daughter. Argentum was furious, and immediately went to find "Lapis" with claws unsheathed and ears flattened. She found the cat in her room, watering the plants. ``I'm sorry, I didn't know it was your room!`` Lapis had squeaked, ``I've been watering these plants every day because they were all withering.`` Argentum immediately cooled down, asking her a few questions about what had happened, learning that her father had never told Lapis about his missing daughter and kept her away from Chalceus and Aes in case they spilled anything.

Dinner at the table was... not great that night. Argentum had been staring at her father murderously for the past five minutes, while the three other siblings were watching Argentum in what looked like fear. The entire time, a voice that sounded like her mother's had been telling her to "do it" over and over. So when her father had finished his drink, she offered to refill it, pouring toxic plant sap into the drink. She watched her father choke with an expressionless face, going back to her room while the rest of her sisters dealt with her father.

Argentum didn't get in any trouble for this, and her father didn't tell anyone about this. It was just another "Alba Family Issue".

When she finally went back to school, the quiet and shaky molly at the back of the class had slowly become a manipulative and condescending figure to be feared. Rumours had been spread about her, and she didn't ever dismiss nor confirm them.

✂ - - training
The first cat Argentum met during training was Clove, a cat she had met previously during her time in District 1. After Clove briefly teaching her to climb and a conversation, they decided to become allies.

Argentum met Arson again, a cat she had also met during her time in District 1. They weren't exactly on good terms due to an argument, but they managed to tolerate each other enough to not become full-on enemies.

Argentum met a cat named Croissance, who was sent her way by Hyacinth, though he desperately pleaded Croissance not to talk to her. Croissance's iris needed to be revived, and though Argentum taught Croissance how to keep it alive, she immediately took it, placing it in a drawer and using it as a bargaining tool. Croissance ran away from her to get back to his iris, tears in his eyes, and managed to grab it before she did.

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