Rodrigo Ortiz, better known as Cat Hunter, is a Proxy of the tall, faceless creature known as Slender Man. Follow his story of stalking, manipulation and loss in Cat Hunter: Origins, and his traits as it follows.
Origin[]
After moving to the United States from his home country, Chile, Rodrigo started feeling neglected by his father as the older man wouldn’t pay attention to him due to his work. One fateful night, Rodrigo sneaked into his father’s car after overhearing a conversation between his old man and a colleague; they had found a lead on a murder case. Holding onto his doll tightly, Rodrigo waited for his father to start the car and set off.
After arriving at an old, abandoned cabin, Rodrigo stayed inside the car as his father met with his colleagues and went into the building. As Rodrigo was deciding his next move, a masked person stood outside the car door and stared at him through the window. The person smashed the window and grabbed the kid by his legs, dragging him outside. The masked person accidentally ripped open Rodrigo’s doll which caused the kid to start screaming and kicking. In return, the masked person made a cut on Rodrigo’s left wrist. The screaming alerted his dad, who ended up shooting the masked person dead.
Rodrigo’s life went downhill from there, he developed PTSD and had to attend therapy sessions. Even though he got a little better, he was now experiencing weird events: the power would go out at his house, static affected electronic devices, he saw shadows and heard whispering. The weirdest event was the cut on his left wrist changing into an ‘X’ shape. It wouldn’t be until a few years later, at 20, that Rodrigo would experience a sharp pain on his wrist: the ‘X’ now had an ‘O’ over it. He then started to experience migraines, the voices in his head were louder and his hallucinations got worse.
The voice told him to look outside his window one day, that’s when Rodrigo saw Slender Man. The tall creature had a favor to ask of him: steal the documents his father was working on and kill him. Physically controlled by the creature, Rodrigo walked to his parents’ house and did what the creature asked him to do. He got the documents and his father’s laptop. Sadly, his father turned on the lights and asked his son what he was doing. Slender Man gave Rodrigo instructions to kill his dad with a gun stored in one of his dad’s desk drawers. Rodrigo failed to follow the order, and Slender Man started choking the old man to death. Desperate, Rodrigo rushed to his dad, trying to get Slender Man’s tentacles off of him, that’s when his mom walked into them. Rodrigo was the only one holding his dad by his neck. Confused and afraid, Rodrigo ran away and begged Slender Man to not hurt his mom; he’d do anything. Slender Man then took Rodrigo with him, not before giving the man his old doll and telling him, ‘It reminds me of you’.
Appearance[]
Cat Hunter has a tanned skin tone, long and messy wavy hair, light-brown eyes and three scars on his face: one over his lips, one on his right cheek bone and one across his face. He is also missing part of his left ear, has a short, unkept beard and the operator symbol is located on his left wrist. His main attire consists of a damaged, white cat mask, a worn out wool coat, a thin, black turtleneck sweater, a blue shirt under the sweater, black running shoes, a single strap backpack and his metal clawed gloves.
Personality[]
Cat Hunter is a very calm and reserved individual, he doesn’t like talking about himself (and in general to others) and appears to be absent-minded most of the time, but that doesn’t mean he is not paying attention. He has a tendency to lie about himself whenever Proxies ask him questions about his personality, there’s at least seven versions of his real name going around. Cat Hunter is also very protective of his belongings, specially of his doll (storaged in his backpack) and his cat, Loki. Despite this cold facade, Cat Hunter is one of the few empathetic Proxies out there and knows when his fellow colleagues are going through something hard. Putting away his reserved personality for a little while, he will make an attempt to listen to their complaints and/or will leave small gifts for them.
Extras[]
- He was originally created in 2013 by DeviantArt user Blazexdx. She changed accounts to Trashy-Blaze and is still producing content of Cat Hunter.
- He is 28 years old.
- He has a black cat named Loki who is now his pet, friend and helper. The two of them are inseparable.
- Cat Hunter doesn’t like removing his mask around other Proxies, and whenever he has to walk around without it he will wear a face mask.
- It takes Cat Hunter a long time to warm up to people.
- Cat Hunter barely gets any sleep, resting a full two hours per day at best. However, when he gets extremely exhausted, he can crash for more than 14 hours.
- Cat Hunter tends to steal different kinds of foods to at least keep a balanced diet instead of just eating junk every day. He never fails to have more food for Loki than for himself.
- He still suffers from hallucinations. He sometimes has long conversations with Loki due to this.
- Every single cut and scratch his doll gets, Cat Hunter will cut himself in the same place due to what Slender Man told him back then (‘It reminds me of you’). Most of the cuts on his doll come from Cat Hunter himself.
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