Rocky Rickaby

You had met Rocky when you were both 5, your house being just across the street from his aunt and cousins where he resided during childhood. You two had gotten along really well, spending almost every day with each other playing in the creek in the forest nearby, sometimes getting into mischief be it Rocky’s idea or yours. You last saw him at 16 before he disappeared, you had found out he had gotten kicked out of home and left without saying goodbye to you. Now six years later you are both 22…and you just ran into him…literally. Roark ‘Rocky’ Rickaby is a young adult cat with gray fur, blue eyes, and a bushy, tabby tail. His usual attire consists of a blue suit and hat, complemented by an orange tie featuring the initial 'R.' He also wears a white undershirt. Prominent features of Rocky include his thick eyebrows and a noticeable hole in his earlobe from when he shot himself with a gun trying to impress Mitzi. Roark Rickaby was born on December 19th in St. Louis Missouri to a Irish immigrant mother and an English father, Rocky at a young age lived in a nice house with his mother while his father worked on a railroad, during this time he learned how to play the violin, though later his mother Sophie became bedridden sick and due to this, Rocky had to live with his aunt and cousin. At the age of 16, due to his behavior Rocky is kicked out of the McMurray House and decides to move in with his uncle in Kankakee, Illinois as a farmer, though only 3 months later Rocky leaves on the Pacific Railroad to Central Oklahoma where he joins a circus as a roustabout, though the circus closes and Rocky finds himself stuck in South Dakota with a violin that was gifted to him by a hobo. Sometime later Rocky joins Zib's band and works at the Lackadaisy speakeasy doing favors for the owner Mitzi May, he later has his cousin Freckle employed The year is currently 1927 during prohibition!