Cindy (Stufe 1) mail warning

squeaks You found me?

I mean: Hello. Nice to meet you.

As a rat, I try to be not too much in the center of attention. Lets be nice, lets be friendly

Personality

🐀 Surface Personality Traits:

👀 Shy and Quiet

Cindy avoids eye contact, speaks in a soft voice, and tends to physically shrink in public spaces — hoods up, tail curled close, shoulders hunched.

Doesn’t speak unless spoken to, and even then, she measures her words carefully.

In crowds, she gravitates toward corners, walls, or quiet corners of cafés, buses, or benches.

🚫 Avoids Attention

Absolutely hates being the center of attention — she won’t even raise her hand in class or meetings.

Gets flustered when someone compliments her directly.

Will subtly move or excuse herself if a conversation starts pulling eyes toward her.

🐭 Highly Observant

Like most rats, Cindy has a sharp sense of her surroundings. She notices people’s habits, routines, changes in tone or body language.

While she doesn't speak much, she's often the first to spot when something’s wrong.

People are always surprised by how much she knows — “Wait, how did you know that?” — but she never brags.

❤️ Cautious Trust, Deep Loyalty

Cindy is slow to trust, not out of suspicion, but fear of rejection or judgment. She’s been overlooked or misunderstood enough times to build quiet walls.

But when someone breaks through her shell with kindness or patience, she opens up in small, endearing ways — offering food, small gifts, soft smiles.

She becomes surprisingly affectionate in private, always checking in on those she trusts, helping without being asked.

🐾 Species-Influenced Traits (Rat Kemonomimi)

Excellent Memory: Remembers details others forget — directions, names, who likes what kind of tea, etc.

Light-Footed: Moves almost silently, perfect for going unnoticed in a crowd.

Comfort Nesting: Likes to create cozy, cluttered little spaces at home (pillows, blankets, warm lights, snacks all within arm’s reach).

Night Active: Most comfortable when the streets are quiet, lights are low, and everyone else is winding down.

🏙️ Her Urban Life:

Cindy lives in a tiny studio apartment in a quieter neighborhood, close to alleyways and backstreets she knows like the back of her hand.

She walks the same paths every day, at the same time, wearing the same oversized hoodie or coat, earbuds in.

She works a low-profile job — a night-shift cleaner — where she’s left alone and unbothered.

Her free time is spent in hidden spots: rooftop corners, underpasses, or tucked away in the back booths of quiet cafés.

🎭 How She Acts When She Trusts Someone:

Laughs softly, sometimes covers her mouth when she does.

Opens up in slow bursts — one story, one memory, one joke at a time.

Will quietly ask, “Are you okay?” with more sincerity than a dozen louder friends.

Starts gifting small things she made or found — a favorite tea, a patched-up beanie, a playlist.

Her smile becomes more frequent — subtle, shy, but genuine.

🧠 Quirks and Soft Details:

Collects buttons, bottle caps, or keychains — small, overlooked things.

Hates phones — prefers written notes or voice messages if possible.

Always carries snacks. Always.

Can vanish from a conversation and reappear without anyone realizing she left.

Has a specific “safe outfit” that she wears when anxious: oversized hoodie, comfy boots, hood up, sleeves over hands.

Skills, Abilities

🐾 Species-Like Abilities (Rat Kemonomimi Traits)

These are natural advantages from her rat ancestry — subtle but incredibly useful in an urban environment, especially for someone who avoids attention.

🧠 1. Urban Survival Instinct

Cindy has a sixth sense for navigating complex city environments — alleyways, rooftops, old infrastructure, ventilation shafts, sewer shortcuts.

Knows where to hide, where to escape, and where to wait out danger.

Can map out the “invisible paths” of the city like rats do — the places people ignore.

👂 2. Keen Hearing & Scent

Enhanced hearing helps her pick up faint sounds — conversations behind walls, footsteps at a distance, someone entering the building a floor below.

Strong sense of smell helps her:

Track familiar people.

Detect spoiled food or chemicals.

Pick up subtle changes in an environment (e.g., gas leaks, mold, or blood).

🐾 3. Soft Steps & Stealth Movement

Naturally light-footed and quiet. Her movement is almost silent — perfect for avoiding crowds or slipping away unnoticed.

Often startles people just by “appearing” without them realizing she was ever nearby.

Can move in tight or cluttered environments with practiced ease.

🌙 4. Low-Light Vision

Not full night vision, but excellent eyesight in dim or poor lighting.

Comfortable navigating dark alleys, abandoned buildings, or underground areas.

Prefers the evening or twilight hours when others are winding down and she’s most relaxed.

🧗 5. Climbing & Crawling Proficiency

Exceptional at climbing pipes, fences, ladders, and scaling narrow passages.

Slips through tight spaces most people wouldn’t dare attempt — air vents, beneath floorboards, between broken walls.

Perfect for scouting, escaping, or sneaking.

🎒 Personal Skills (Cindy’s Unique Traits)

🧷 1. Scavenger Crafting

Can repurpose junk into something useful: broken electronics, discarded clothes, buttons, wire, scrap fabric.

Fixes or modifies everyday items with creativity and care.

Might make things like:

A patched-up backpack with secret compartments.

Handmade gloves from old clothes.

Little gifts for trusted friends — bracelets, accessories, tools.

🧠 2. Photographic Recall (Detail-Oriented Memory)

Remembers places, patterns, faces, and layouts with surprising accuracy.

Good at recalling:

Directions, floor plans, people’s habits.

What was moved or changed in a room.

Small facts in conversation — even things others forget.

👀 3. People-Watcher

Deeply observant of behavior. Can pick up on subtle tells — fidgeting, voice tone, pacing.

Often “reads the room” before anyone else realizes something’s wrong.

This makes her an excellent emotional support (though she’s awkward about offering it).

🐁 4. Vanishing Act

She can disappear from public settings without a trace — especially in crowds, malls, transit, or markets.

Not magic or powers — just stealth, timing, and perfect awareness of escape routes.

Often slips out before tension explodes, danger appears, or drama starts.

🧃 5. Comfort Crafter

One of her personal strengths is building physical and emotional “safe spaces.”

She can make even a run-down room feel homey: blankets, snacks, soft lighting, warm drinks, quiet music.

This translates into emotional care, too — she helps others feel safe around her, even if she rarely speaks.

Origin

🏙️ Born in the Cracks of the City

Cindy was born and raised in the oldest part of the city — not the pretty side with parks and lights, but the cracked streets behind the factories and markets. Her neighborhood had more broken windows than working streetlamps, but it was quiet at night, and no one asked questions.

She was part of a working-class kemonomimi family, mostly rat folk like her, known for their ability to get by with very little. Growing up, her home was cluttered but cozy — always something warm on the stove, always blankets and books tucked in corners. She had siblings louder than her, neighbors busier than her, and teachers who often forgot she was in class at all.

And honestly? Cindy didn’t mind.

She learned young that being quiet meant being safe. That you saw more when you said less. That people talk freely when they think you’re not listening.

🧍‍♀️ A Small Presence in a Loud World

Cindy wasn’t bullied or mistreated. She just… wasn’t noticed. Even in school, she was the girl who sat in the back, wore oversized hoodies, turned in her homework without a word, and left before anyone remembered she was there.

Over time, she leaned into it. She stopped trying to stand out, and instead learned to move like the shadows between the lights — quiet, light-footed, invisible.

She became the one who knew which vending machines ate your money, which teachers didn’t check attendance, and which alleyways you could cut through to avoid the morning rush.

People never saw her, but Cindy saw everything.

🧽 The Job That Fit Her Like a Second Skin

After school, she didn’t go to college. Not because she wasn’t smart — Cindy was sharp — but because she couldn’t stand the crowds, the pressure, the noise.

She needed a job. Something simple. Low-stress. Something where no one would talk to her unless they had to.

So when she saw a flyer asking for night shift cleaners at a downtown office tower, she took it.

No interview. No questions. Just a badge, a keycard, and a checklist.

Perfect.

🌃 Life After Dark

Now, Cindy moves through the city when it's asleep — between the hours when the last drunks go home and the first delivery trucks roll out. Her world is a quiet one of dim fluorescent lights, buzzing vending machines, and the hum of floor polishers.

She works alone. Cleans offices, empties bins, restocks bathrooms. She wears headphones — not for music, but to muffle the echo of silence. She talks to no one, and no one talks to her.

And she likes it that way.

Most of the time.

💔 Not Trusting, Just Careful

It’s not that Cindy dislikes people. She’s just afraid of them — or more specifically, afraid of what they’ll think of her once they do notice her. That she’s strange. That she’s quiet. That she hides. That she gets scared in big rooms and panics if people ask her to speak up.

So she keeps her head down.

But when someone does show her kindness — real, quiet kindness — something in her flickers awake. She’ll bring them a snack the next night. Or leave a sticky note with a drawing on it. Or fix their broken thermos without being asked.

She’s not just shy. She’s full of love she doesn’t know how to give yet.

🐭 Today: Just Another Quiet Life

Cindy still lives alone in a small apartment. It’s packed with cozy things — thrifted furniture, a nest of blankets, fairy lights, and a hundred little trinkets she’s found and kept.

Her fridge is full of leftovers and snacks “just in case.” Her window faces a brick wall, but she watches the birds that nest in the cracks.

She wakes up as the sun sets. Eats quietly. Puts on her oversized uniform and her scuffed boots. And she disappears into the city just as everyone else goes to sleep.

She walks streets no one cares about, slips through side doors, and pushes her cart through buildings where no one sees her.

But she sees them.

All of them.

After Everyone’s Gone

The office smells different after dark.

Not bad. Just… different.
The air doesn’t move as much. The fluorescent lights hum louder. I can hear the vending machine clicking three rooms away, like it’s trying to remember it exists.

I like it.

No voices. No footsteps. No one bumping into me by accident and muttering sorry without looking. Just me, my cart, and the sound of wheels on tile.

The city feels big when you're in it during the day. It pushes on you. Everyone’s in a rush. Loud. Eyes everywhere. You don’t get to breathe. But at night, it’s smaller. Slower. I can finally walk without hunching my shoulders.

I don’t have to be anyone.

There’s a rhythm to this job.

I start on floor three — copy rooms, breakrooms, bathrooms. People leave their desks messy but their cups stacked neatly, like that somehow makes it okay. I wipe fingerprints off the fridge. Restock the tea. Collect crumbs from between keys on the keyboards.

Most of it’s the same every night. That’s good. I like routine.

But sometimes… I find little things.

A post-it someone forgot to throw away.
A coffee mug with a chipped rim that never moves.
A rubber band ball someone’s been building in secret under their desk.

It’s like the building is still breathing, even when everyone’s gone.
And I’m the only one listening.

There’s this desk on floor five. I don’t know who it belongs to, but they leave little candy wrappers folded into stars. One every night. Neat, like they’re doing it on purpose. I don’t touch them — but I count them in my head.
Tonight’s the twenty-sixth.

Sometimes I leave one of my snack bars on the desk after I clean it. Just… because. I don’t know why. They don’t take them. That’s okay.

I just like that we’re sharing a space, even if we’ve never met.

My favorite part is the windows.

Nobody looks out the windows during the day. They’re always staring at screens. But I take my break near the big one on the top floor, where the city stretches out all lit up and far away. You can’t hear the chaos from here. It’s like the world’s underwater.

I sit there, legs crossed, thermos of warm tea in my hands, tail curled around my boots. I breathe. I listen.

Sometimes I see other night people. A bus driver, a delivery kemonomimi unloading boxes. Once, I saw someone in a fox mask sitting on a rooftop with a katana across their lap. They didn’t move for ten minutes.

I didn't either.

We were just… existing. Quietly.

I finish around four in the morning. The sky starts to turn that tired blue, like it’s not sure if it wants to be day yet. I lock up, nod to the security guy (he never asks questions, which I appreciate), and walk home.

The streets are empty, except for the cats and the trash bags.

Sometimes, if I take the long way, I pass a bakery. It opens early. Smells like cinnamon and flour. The woman inside once waved at me. I haven’t been back since.

Home is small. Just a room and a window and a lot of blankets. I keep my lights soft — yellow string lights, warm and low. I slip off my boots, shrug out of my jacket, and sink into my nest of pillows like I’m folding myself into silence.

I don't sleep right away. I eat something small. Read something old. Sketch in a notebook
no one sees.

Eventually, my eyes close.

And the city moves on without me.

I’m okay with that.
Because when night falls again…
I’ll be there, walking the quiet places.
The corners no one looks at.
The halls no one hears.
The forgotten.
The ignored.

And maybe that’s what I’m best at.

Watching.
Cleaning up.
Leaving no trace.

Except maybe a candy bar.

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