A Night in the Woods as the crowd sang. The cat was accompanied by two signs which read, “From Stonewall a brick, and Portland an axe, respect our pride or expect our wrath.”The display occurred at the May 29 Portland Timbers match against the Houston Dynamo.
At the game, a group of fans known as the Timbers Army held up tifo, large images or banners commonly displayed at sports events, showing the aforementioned cat and slogan.
Other fans held up signs with anti-LGBTQ legislation for the cat to “axe,” Waypoint reported.The cat was Mae Borowski, a bat-wielding, pansexual character from the visual-novel style game A Night in the Woods.
In the game, Borowski returns to her fictional Rust Belt hometown of Possum Springs, only to find that a mysterious cult is kidnapping locals and sacrificing them to a cthonic entity known as the Black Goat in order to revive the town’s economy.Borowski is known as a tomboy and a troublemaker who has a habit of smashing things when she’s angry.