Headcanon Masterlist
Yeah, I’ve been thinking recently of my various headcanons for the characters, and I thought it’d be nice to compile them; just as much for my own references as for anyone who’s curious. ^.^ It’ll probably be periodically updated with things I’ve missed, and some of the background relationships may change. But here we go for what I have now anyway. xP I’ve been referring to the character portraits I made way back when for all the ones listed.
Cats who actually live in the junkyard and special tribe titles
Munkustrap (Guardian and de-facto leader; His human is the yard’s day watchman, though he spends time at his home too, so he’s half-and-half)
Demeter (Honorary Protector)
Bombalurina (Head Queen/Protector)
Coricopat and Tantomile (Protectors/Mystics)
Asparagus Jr. (Most of his time is spent there anyway; he tends to be the go-between if messages need to be sent to Jellylorum and Gus)
George
Alonzo (Second-in-command Protector)
Plato (Protector-in-training)
Pouncival
Electra
Etcetera
Jemima (Mystic-in-training via the twins)
Cats who have human homes, but live close enough to visit
Jennyanydots (Head Queen)
Rum Tum Tugger
Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer
Mistofelees (Honorary Protector/Mystic-in-training via the twins)
Jellylorum (Head Queen)
Cassandra
Exotica
Victoria
Tumblebrutus
Cats who live far away or visit on special or rare occasions
Old Deuteronomy (Official and spiritual leader; visits on the Jellicle Ball of course--but only when someone needs to go to the Heaviside Layer--and will often visit just because. He’ll even appear randomly to cats who have a connection to the Jellicles or just might need him somehow)
Gus (He actually lives with Jellylorum in the theater, but he’s very old and too tired to visit the yard as often)
Bustopher Jones (On special occasions or if invited, mostly)
Skimbleshanks (Visits every time the train is back in London)
Outcast Cats
Grizabella (Now re-accepted and waiting to be reborn, former Head Queen)
Macavity
Familial/Friendly Relationships
Munkustrap and Tugger are blood brothers, sons of Old Deuteronomy; Alonzo is Munkustrap’s best friend and honorary brother, and Mistofelees is the same for Tugger. Alonzo tends to watch the other kittens along with the Head Queens if Munkustrap is busy.
Macavity is Grizabella’s son by Deuteronomy (though nobody in the tribe but Deut knows of this connection at present). Munkustrap and Tugger are her blood nephews, adopted along with a few other abandoned kittens by her at the time. When Grizabella left, Jennyanydots took over their care.
Demeter’s best friend and adopted sister is Bombalurina. Jemima is (secretly at present) Demeter’s daughter by Macavity. Plato is (also secretly at present) Bombalurina’s son by Macavity.
Coricopat and Tantomile are blood siblings; Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer present as siblings, but aren’t related (their humans got them together as a hopeful breeding pair of Toyger cats).
Asparagus Jr. is Jellylorum’s son and Gus’s grandson; Jellylorum is Gus’s daughter. Jellylorum’s last kitten is Etcetera, and Jennyanydots’ is Electra (by Bustopher); they were raised together. They adopted Pouncival and Tumblebrutus (who are brothers and were abandoned) as their own later.
Skimbleshanks and Jennyanydots are blood siblings. Both are the tribe’s mother/aunt and uncle figures along with Jellylorum. Bustopher is an uncle figure to Mistofelees and Victoria, who live next door to each other and grew up together.
Cassandra and Exotica aren’t related, but live together. The former has recently taken on an older sister sort of role to the latter, who is a little shyer and less outgoing.
George isn’t related to anybody (as far as we know), he wandered in not long before the Jellicle Ball looking for friends, and he’s been welcomed with open arms, as with everyone.
Romantical Things
Munkustrap and Demeter are mates (Quite obviously :3), and are exclusively with each other. That makes them kinda the odd ones out of the tribe, as cats don’t often have mates for life.
Plato is heavily smitten with Victoria (mutually), though also understands that she likes Mistofelees as well (Plato’s only just discovering that he’s bisexual, so he doesn’t mind in that he finds Misto kinda cute too x3). Mistofelees also likes Victoria and has always been friends with Plato, so he doesn’t get jealous either.
Cassandra and Alonzo are a couple, and though not exclusively, they are each other’s favorites.
Jennyanydots is smitten with Bustopher, and they seem to have little flings from time to time.
Tugger flirts with anyone he feels like (even toms if he knows they’ll get flustered); more commonly seen with Bombalurina and sometimes Cassandra.
Bombalurina is similar to Tugger, but flipped. x3 More commonly seen with Tugger and Alonzo.
George has a love-from-afar crush on Exotica, and is mustering up the will to talk to her (since these two are most often in stuck in the background, it struck me as cute that they’d bond over being the wallflowers of the tribe x3).
The kittens are all young and only just thinking about who they might like. Jemima has always liked Tumblebrutus, but also finds Mistofelees cute (as does Electra). Quite obviously, all the girls have puppy (kitten?)-love crushes on Tugger (except Jemima, who figured out a while ago that he might be her blood uncle), and the young toms all have the same kinda crush on Bombalurina.
Cats With Known Alternate Names
Old Deuteronomy -- Probably has WAAAAY too many to list here
Munkustrap -- Peter (given by the Guardsman)
Rum Tum Tugger -- Fluffkin (given by his elderly human)
Quaxo -- Mister Mistofelees (”Mister” was given by the young nephew of Bustopher’s owner, and “Mistofelees” was Quaxo’s own addition)
Bombalurina -- Sekhmet (given by her and Demeter’s old owners), Scarlet (given by the Guardsman), Athena (given by the flower shop owner; probably has a few more nicknames from a few more humans)
Plato (given by the Guardsman) -- Malterideas
Pouncival (given by the Guardsman’s daughter) -- Carbucketty
Tumblebrutus -- Bill Bailey (given by his humans)
Jemima (given by the Guardsman) -- Sillabub
Griddlebone (theater name, probably a variant of her true name) -- Madame Alexandra le Chateu (given by her humans)
More alternate names will come when I think of them (or when they’re revealed in a story/comic!)
Aaaand...I think I’ve covered everybody. :3 These are only my headcanons, they don’t have to apply to everybody’s tastes, I just thought it’d be fun to compile and share what I have in my head. ^.^
