Felicitas (also otherwise known as Felicity in English version of the film) was a wise, beautiful (according to Francis) and perceptive Russian Blue she-cat who briefly befriended him during his quest to solve the first novel's case.
Appearance[]
Felicitas is a Russian blue she-cat. Her fur, like all Russian blues, is a dark blue-grey color. She has blank blue eyes with small pupils that arch outward in the middle of her eyes, giving her a vacant stare. She has an orange collar or ring around her neck. However, in the comic, she has white fur instead of blue fur and she doesn't have her collar or ring around her neck.
History[]
While escaping from the Church of Claudandus, Francis accidentally falls into the apartment where Felicitas lives through its skylight. As the two cats speak, he quickly realizes that she is in fact blind, however this doesn't keep her from recalling the events around the block, giving Francis vital information regarding the massacres.
During their conversation it is strongly implied that she was one of the cats kept in Dr. Preterious' laboratory and that her visual impairment was caused by one of the experiments. Despite this she seems content living with her current owner despite displaying a fairly sarcastic view upon human nature, either from the possible trauma beforehand or the fact many tend to overlook her due to her disability.
After first speaking with her, Francis goes on to talk with Pascal, where he receives the news that Felicity has been murdered. She was brutally mutilated, having been decapitated and left to rot within her home, and this not only upset Francis but also caused great grief in her owner, as shown in the novel.
Trivia[]
- In the book, Francis witnesses Felicitas' owner shattered after discovering her body, showing that they cared for her. In both the movie and comic, her owner does not appear.
- Unlike most of the other cats murdered in the first novel, she was merely killed to keep silence while the others were killed to help keep the Felidae breed genetically pure.
- Her appearance and interaction with Francis in the movie make Felicitas a popular character among fans, who often portray her as a romantic interest for Francis.
- In the novel, despite Francis considering the she-cat beautiful, there is no indication of romance and Francis himself is quite prone to physical attraction toward she-cats in heat (such as Nhozemphtekh).
- Only in the novel Salve Roma! does Francis take up an official relationship with a she-cat by the name of Sancta, who curiously bears a blue-grey pelt similar to the Felicitas'.
Gallery[]
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