Nepeta Leijon - [ HOMESTUCK ]

Like all of her kind, Nepeta has pale gray skin and messy black hair - Hers jawlength, and particularly mussed. She normally wears a little catsmile that shows her fangs, and from beneath her blue "cat-hat", cat ear-shaped horns poke up and out.

As well, she wears a fake blue cat's tail that hangs limply from where it's hung in place. She normally wears a black t-shirt with the sign for Leo in the same green as her text on the chest, underneath a long coat; in addition to gray jeans, and worn blue boots.

Nepeta is usually smiling, and has an air of vitality and friendliness about her. Her voice is rather high-pitched and girlish, and she has a feeling of just being hard not to like as a person.

Nepeta likes friendly roleplayingHS, though not the dangerous kind that caused a certain debacle which hurt a couple of people. She has a naïve view of everything. She lives in a cave and hunts and eats animals, then occasionally wears their fur and paints with their blood. In fact, she uses this blood along with soot and ash to create wall art, such as storyboards for a comic and her shipping wall.

Nepeta seems to have a lot of similarities with Kanaya, which may or may not be significant. They (despite Hussie's noted lack of perfect analogues) have blood colors closer to jade than any of the other post-scratch trolls. Both of them are also green-blooded middle-caste trolls with friends on either side of the blood spectrum whose relationships they observe and moderate to some degree. (Kanaya is the meddler, and Nepeta keeps a shipping wall while being generally agreeable to everyone.) Nepeta was the one to see Aradia and Equius's kissHS, and Kanaya was the one to see Vriska kissHS a helpless Tavros. Although Kanaya reacted with shock (due to her mating fondness for Vriska), Nepeta just updated her shipping wall.

She held conversations with Terezi in which the two of them roleplayed. HS Nepeta roleplays as a two-mouthed feline anthropomorph (similar to Jade's fascination with furry fandom). Her feline hunting roleplays are linked to her real-life routine.

Nepeta also has an interest in drawing comics on her walls depicting tales from her hunts, as well as stories involving her and her friends. One wall is her shipping wall, where she keeps track of potential and confirmed relationships between her friends (including herself). Once in the veil, she recreates her shipping wall to a larger scaleHS, but doesn't want to update it to accommodate the grisly developments of late.

According to Jasprosesprite^2HS, Nepeta's interest in shipping stems from her own loneliness as it makes her feel less alone. Shipping might have been a coping mechanism, since she lived isolated from other trolls and had an unrequited flushed crush. It's unknown how Jasprosesprite^2 knows about Nepeta's feelings, however Nepeta and Jaspersprite openly talked quite a few times HS, and it is possible that Nepeta confessed it during these conversations.

Relationships

Karkat Vantas

Nepeta has a strong interest in various relationships. Her shipping wall hints strongly at red feelings toward Karkat, as the ship between the two has a “oh yessssss!” scrawled under it, but their relationship ends there, as there are no signs of reciprocity. The ship between Karkat and Vriska is underscored by an “oh nooooo” HS . A large portrait of Karkat and Nepeta making out HS is seen on her revised shipping wall followed by a large “OTP” (one true pairing). Upon inspecting this, Nepeta says “NO ONE MUST EVER S333333333333333333!”. Karkat, however, seems to be aware of these unrequited feelings, and has apparently been trying to avoid them for some time. He also seems to respect Nepeta and her red feelings. Nepeta's feelings for Karkat parallel those of her ancestor the Disciple with the Signless, Karkat's ancestor. It is implied that their relationship [“went beyond the four quadrants, transcending the grid entirely”] HS . When she was spared by the E%ecutor, the Disciple hid in caves and used the blood of animals to write the scripture of the Sufferer from memory on the walls (which is possibly the origin of Nepeta's shipping wall).

After Nepeta's death a version of her is seen HS with a god tier Karkat, and it seems she has finally found happiness with (a version of) Karkat. This is an allusion to her conversation HS with Jaspersprite, where she surmises that she'll have to die in order to be happy with him.

Equius Zahhak

FlusteredNepeta Nepeta expressing frustration with Equius Nepeta is Equius's moirail; she considers herself his pacifier and likes to calm him down. All of her conversations depict a sense of playfulness, and when interacting with Terezi she tries to pacify her rather than fight back. She insists on consulting Equius HS before joining the red team; her procrastination in doing so leads one to believe she was well aware that he would refuse and insist on her joining the blue team. Regardless of their 'fighting' it is clear that they have a deep understanding of each other, that they care for each other quite a lot, and that they both truly believe that the other is “lucky to have me to k33p an eye on you” HS . In a conversation HS with Tavros, it is hinted that Equius actually kept her from joining the Flarp session that caused several players severe injuries. In LOLCAT Nepeta seems very happy to see Equius and greets him with a friendly “pouncegreet!” HS . Nepeta's moirallegiance with Equius may be based on the good compatibility between Leo and Sagittarius. During her first conversation with Terezi, she tells her that she’s “kind of scared of him” HS .

Feferi Peixes

Nepeta and Feferi seem to have bonded after they were fused into Fefetasprite, as well as mutually messing around in dream bubbles as the "joke ranks" of Vriska and Meenah's armada. They continue to behave as one person, indicating that they enjoyed being a single sprite and may want to carry on that way.

Eridan Ampora

Nepeta is not particularly fond of Eridan, having said “if you are talking about mr ampurra, he has always given me the cr33ps anyway!” HS . Eridan also states that she rejected him, despite him being her server player. However, when she heard of his death during her date HS with Jasprosesprite^2, she said, “:33 < i mean... he could be kind of a jerk sometimes but that is still a shame :(( ”, which could mean that she still thought of him as a friend.

Other Trolls

Nepeta is good friends with Terezi, and the two frequently roleplay together, although Terezi's RPing is meant “f4c3t1ously” HS .

She gets along with Tavros, though he has to pretend he's not allergic to cats in order to roleplay with her. HS She seems genuinely sorry she can't be his server player, and he seems to understand. HS

Nepeta seems to have been good friends with Aradia and is one of the few trolls to get along well with her after her death. As her server player, Nepeta is one of the first trolls to discover HS that Aradia has, in fact, been dead the whole time.

She tries to interact friendly with Vriska and attempts roleplaying with her, but is usually put off by Vriska and her spidersona always doing “terrible things” HS . She also tells Equius that she is “plenty scared of her” HS .

Jade Harley

In Alterniabound, Nepeta has stated that Jade is her favorite human and has tried to make friends with her, but Jade thought Nepeta was just teasing her. She decides to keep trying.

Dave Strider

While there aren't any interactions between Dave and Nepeta that we see, in a conversation with Terezi, she calls Dave “akwete purrmusk”, indicating they may have had a friendly relationship involving role play, and says “he is pretty cute”. HS