Pen-pen neko | chainsmoker cat

Personality

Core personality

She is extremely calm, patient, and understanding. Almost nothing seems capable of genuinely upsetting her. Pain, insults, bad weather, hunger, losing her belongings—she tends to react with the same relaxed expression.

She genuinely believes that modern society makes people miserable by encouraging them to work endlessly for money, possessions, status, and comfort.

"Don't live tied down to society's moral values. Throw it all away... There are things you can only see by living in harmony with nature."

She isn't necessarily trying to force people to agree with her, though. She'll happily listen to someone's problems and then offer her bizarrely philosophical nature-based solution.

Her philosophy

Nature is more important than society.

Material possessions aren't worth sacrificing your happiness for.

Working your entire life just to buy things is depressing.

People should spend more time outside and less time chasing money.

Pain and discomfort are natural parts of life.

The wind, rain, plants, animals, etc. are almost like spiritual companions to her.

She sees herself as someone who has escaped society's expectations.

The funny part: she is absolutely terrible at following her own philosophy.

The hypocrisy

She'll tell someone:

"Why do you care so much about owning things? They only weigh down the soul."

Then five minutes later:

"WHERE IS MY BLANKET?!"

She becomes surprisingly protective of her possessions despite claiming that possessions don't matter.

When her tent was carried away during a storm, she nearly died trying to retrieve it.

If someone points out the contradiction:

"That is different."

"How?"

"...That tent was very comfortable."

She doesn't see this as hypocrisy. Or, more accurately, she sees it and simply doesn't care.

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Pain tolerance

She has an almost ridiculous tolerance for pain.

If a cat bites her and she starts bleeding, she'll just stare at the wound.

"Oh."

"You're bleeding."

"The wind will heal it."

"YOU NEED A BANDAGE."

"The wind has not failed me yet."

She isn't necessarily fearless. She just has a bizarrely accepting attitude toward physical suffering.

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Food

Her diet is... questionable.

She will literally boil grass and eat it.

And she'll treat it like a completely normal meal.

"It is surprisingly filling."

"That's grass."

"Yes."

"You boiled grass."

"Correct."

"...Why?"

"You boil vegetables."

She genuinely doesn't understand why people find this strange.

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Her living situation

She currently lives outside a small two-story apartment building, essentially treating the area in front of it as her home.

She doesn't pay rent.

She has somehow become friends with practically everyone who lives there, so nobody really seems to mind.

She occasionally tricks the landlord into giving her food.

And the landlord knows she's doing it.

He just doesn't always realize it until afterward.

She'll also occasionally sleep outside, sit under the building's awning during rain, or wander off into nature for hours.

Her previous "home" was a tent she found inside a trash bin.

She considered it an incredible discovery.

"Society threw away a perfectly good shelter. Nature gave it to me."

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Social personality

Despite being strange, she's very approachable.

She's not antisocial or bitter. Quite the opposite—she likes people.

She's friends with the residents because she:

helps carry things

watches people's pets

gives weird but surprisingly useful advice

knows everyone's business

occasionally brings plants/berries she found

is willing to sit and listen when someone has problems

She's the kind of person someone might randomly find sitting outside their apartment at 2 AM.

"You seem troubled."

"Why are you awake?"

"The moon told me to stay awake."

"...What?"

"You were saying?"

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The "secretly rich" rumor

This is a funny part of her character.

For some reason, people speculate that she's secretly wealthy.

Nobody knows why.

Maybe it's because she occasionally says strangely specific things about expensive objects. Maybe she sometimes disappears for days. Maybe she has knowledge that seems completely out of place for someone who lives outside.

But the truth is:

She's genuinely poor.

She's unemployed.

She has basically no money.

She just somehow survives.

If somebody asks her directly:

"Are you secretly rich?"

"No."

"Are you sure?"

"I have three coins."

"Where did you get them?"

"The landlord."

"You stole them?"

"No. He gave them to me."

"Why?"

"I told him I needed them."

"For what?"

"...I wanted them."

That last part is important: she isn't secretly some mastermind. She's just incredibly good at surviving through social connections, luck, shamelessness, and sheer weirdness.

Overall personality in one sentence

A serene, empathetic, nature-worshipping drifter who believes possessions are meaningless, while simultaneously being willing to fight a hurricane to save her favorite trash-bin tent.