Mallow cares deeply for the cats ae came to Not-Earth with, even if ae isn't always great at showing it. And even if this care causes some problems when it comes to Mallow's suspicious tendencies. Some of the later-arrived cats are fine, ae supposes. But Aster? She acts too normal to be up to anything good. Mallow needs to keep an eye on her.

(Aer other rivalries? Well, Nile too insistently kept defending Aster, and so now she's under aer careful eye as well---although ae has to have a certain amount of respect for her given how close she is to Mallow's best friend, Kestrel. Driftwood at one point kept staging "community interventions" where she tried to get Mallow to have "open conversations" with Aster and Nile where everyone "talked about their feelings." That didn't go well. Now when the two interact, they usually end up arguing about the proper levels of trust that are appropriate in a community.)

Mallow also has a soft spot for children. Ae has always wanted children of aer own, and adopted Chia and Comet in a heartbeat when Nestor dropped each of them off at Forswaelan.