Sticky

Sticky is the titular character of Sticky Paws. As such, he is the main protagonist and focus of the franchise. In-game, he can pounce and jump but cannot double jump like Catlyn though he is generally faster. Sticky has been in the game since the beginning, as the rough idea has stayed in development. He has been a kind of mascot to Jonnil ever since he finished the game, and is the face of the Sticky Paws Discord.

Appearance
Sticky is a pink cat with pointy ears, long whiskers, blue eyes, and a little round nose. His paws are white, unlike his feet which are pink, it makes it look like he wears white gloves, but if you look closely he actually has pink pads on his white paws. He also has blue pants and a red hoodie with a massive zipper.

Personality
Sticky loves adventure and having fun. His favorite food is cake, and he eats it all the time. If someone takes his cake away, he will take it back. Sticky is also somewhat of an airhead given his young and naive demeanor, and often rushes ahead with ideas and plans he has without extensive forethought. This doesn't make him bad, however, and he has shown immense empathy at times even when it was at his own expense.

Sticky also has a strong preference for wearing hoodies, no matter the weather or setting. The exact reason for this in canon has yet to be revealed, but it's possible that he likes the little bit of extra weight on his shoulders and head that the hood part gives him. His reasons for always being barefoot are also yet to be revealed, but him strongly looking up to his other mother Meowlyn in the lore (almost to the point of idolization, given her separation from him during the first half of his life) could very well be an explanation. After all, she also goes around barefoot all the time.

Role in The Game
Sticky is eating his cake one day, as he often does when suddenly, a mouse comes and steals it. Sticky travels the land, defeating mice along the way when he meets Mousette. After defeating Mousette, his adventure continues, and he eventually finds the mouse that stole his cake. Sticky defeats the mouse and enjoys his cake in The Pink Tree Café.

Role in Lore
Sticky is the son of Catlyn and Meowlyn Paws, as well as Slippy Paws' cousin. He is sometimes seen as Evil Sticky on rare occasions if he is in a strongly negative emotional state.

Initially born into great wealth from both of his mothers, he only knew Meowlyn very briefly as a baby before she disappeared from both his and Catlyn's lives. Unbeknownst to both him and his remaining mother, Mousette kidnapped Meowlyn in a grand scheme to have the latter be announced legally deceased so that she could marry Catlyn and take their life savings for herself. Catlyn was devastated by this turn of events and entered a deep depression with practically the only thing keeping her sane being Sticky, who at this point was still too young to comprehend his mother's sadness and why Meowlyn suddenly vanished.

As he grew through being a toddler and into his childhood, he had heard many a tale from Catlyn about Meowlyn's great heroism and strength, as well as her seemingly supernatural martial arts training and powers. Although having no frame of reference of who she was apart from those romanticized recounts and his very short time with her as an infant, he surely knew that his other mother was a remarkable individual and only became more and more determined to find out exactly what happened to her and where she went.

Things took an unexpected turn yet again years later when Catlyn brought home her new love, Mousette. On the surface, she had been consoling Catlyn about the loss of Meowlyn and helping her feel love again but in reality was manipulating Catlyn so that she could get closer to the family's leftover savings and use them to her own devices. Sticky was immediately skeptical about his new mother, unable to explain why at the time, but Catlyn was too deep in love and emotionally invested in her to understand this.

Eventually, Mousette struck again and, like the woman before her, left Sticky's mother suddenly and without notice, along with their money as per the fiend's plan. Unable to live in the lavish dwellings they had before, Sticky and Catlyn moved to the small town of Sphincterton, where his mother found work at The Pink Tree Café as a pastry chef. Although deeply upset and traumatized by yet another unexplained loss, she made enough money from this job to earn a living for her and Sticky. Fed up with seeing his mother in such an endless state of misery and misfortune, Sticky took it upon himself to track down Meowlyn and Mousette himself.

As he was about to chow down on a cake he bought with his own money, a Mouse snatched it from him and sped off. Having one of the few remaining pleasures in life stolen from him like the rest, Sticky had finally reached his breaking point and, against better judgement, spontaneously set off and ran after the rodent. He later found out that this mouse was one of the many sent by Mousette to steal others' belongings and take them for herself. Sticky had known that Mousette was not to be trusted at all.

With the help of his remaining family and a few friends he met along the way, he eventually found The Rats' Lair and confronted Mousette about everything she had done. It was then that she revealed her entire plan, as well as the fate of Meowlyn, to the group. Too high and mighty in the belief that she had triumphed, she vastly underestimated Sticky and didn't expect him to break Meowlyn out of where she was being kept. This, alongside Catlyn's own realization of who Mousette truly was and her own confrontation of her, distracted the villain from the fact that Sticky had stumbled upon the prison cell that Meowlyn had been in for most of his life.

After an emotional and tearful reunion with his other mother, Sticky broke the weakened Meowlyn out of her cell and attempted to bring her with him out of the lair. However, they had been caught by Mousette, who was enraged at her long elaborate plan being dismantled in front of her. She tried to take out her rage on him, his mothers and his allies but in the end Mousette was defeated by them. With his close family united at long last, Sticky was ecstatic and soon enough peacefully went back to enjoying life with his parents and new friends, though he also solemnly swore to himself that he will protect his family the best he can if such a situation like this ever occurred again.

Trivia

 * Sticky's character design seems to be heavily influenced by that of Mario, down to his cheerful personality and the colour scheme of red, white and blue.
 * The clothes line object in the game includes hung up trousers and hoodies like his, but also features hung up socks that he never wears in-game. This either implies that they are catlyn's socks being hung up alongside Sticky's laundry or that Sticky has, at least once, canonically worn white socks.
 * Sticky had a snowboard at some point, according to Jonnil he had made drawings of Sticky in Sonic the Hedgehog's poses.
 * Sticky has been confirmed to be Jonnil's mascot.