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Post by Fia on Jan 27, 2011 15:55:58 GMT -8
This, dear friends, is how our kitties will age and develop, so that we may avoid confusion such as when two members roleplay moon-old kits and one has them baby-talking and the other has them talking like adults. Let it be known that I will pop up in threads and point out anything that has a kit behaving too young or too old, so be sure to refer to this real quick before you start roleplaying your furry little bundles of love and silliness! ^____^
Newborn = newborn. Blind, deaf, helpless. Cannot speak, cannot understand speech; exactly like a human newborn. Forget Bluestar's Prophecy. No one is born knowing how to talk.
One week - crawling; may recognize voices but not words
Two weeks - eyes and ears open, vision and hearing still fuzzy; not talking yet
Three weeks - understands speech, may have begun to attempt baby-talk
One moon - baby-talking fluently, wrestling with litter mates
Six weeks - eyes will have begun to turn different colors (mix of yellows, oranges, greens - funny murky look)
Two moons - growing up rapidly; speech improves; like a human four-year old; permanent eye color will set in about this time
Three moons - like a human six-year old
Four moons - like a human 7 - 8 year old
Five moons - like a human 8 - 9 year old
Six moons - like a human ten-year old; apprentice age
Seven to twelve moons - rapid growth until the cat reaches mid-teens mentality
Thirteen to eighteen moons - slower growth until the cat reaches young adult mentality; warrior age at approximately thirteen moons
Eighteen moons on - ages a 'year' per moon; twenties = young adult, late thirties to fifties = middle aged, late fifties to sixties is getting old, and beyond that is way old and/or dead. No, this is not consistent with reality. Get over it.
NOTE: When a queen leaves the nursery depends on the individual queen. Some'll stay as full-time moms until her kits are apprentices, like Ferncloud; some take afternoons off when they're comfortable leaving their kits with babysitters; others sleep in the nursery but leave the mothering increasingly to the more motherly queens as their kits get older, because by the time the kits are old enough to be apprentices, they're the equivalents of human ten-year olds and don't need mom there constantly (just adult supervision, because leaving ten-year olds unsupervised for more than half an hour is a reeeaaally bad idea...). It totally depends on the she-cat, but queens are generally encouraged to stay on as full-time moms until the kits are at least three moons old.
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