Post by Arey on Mar 28, 2017 18:30:12 GMT
Name
Age
6 moons
Rank
Apprentice
Clan
RootClan
Description
A lithe cream mackerel tabby she-cat with a white belly, some white toes and yellow eyes
Appearance
The smallest of her litter, Lightningpaw will never be as large as her father or most other RootClan cats. Her short fur and long tail only help to make her size more apparent. Her fur is a pale orange that only makes her stand out further among the dark and amber RootClan cats. Her yellow eyes are oval in shape but look more round when she gets excited, which is often. Most of Lightningpaw's toes have at least splotches of white on them and her belly is mostly white as well. In addition, her ears are a little too big for her head which, along with her long thin tail, makes quite the image when she trots about with her ears up and tail straight in the air.
Personality
Youthful - Uncomplaining - High-spirited - Naive - Thoughtless
To say that Lightningpaw is youthful and high-spirited is something of an understatement. She is mostly a small ball of energy, with only the firm paw of her mother keeping Lightningpaw out of too much trouble. That said, she has her goals. Namely, to become a warrior. It is in the pursuit of that goal that Lightningpaw shows the most maturity. She can understand that in order to become a warrior, she will have to do things she doesn't want to do and if she believes that an action will help her achieve that goal, she will do it quickly and without complaint. But that stubbornness and one-minded drive can lead her to be thoughtless. She's the sort of cat who, upon hearing the beginning of a plan, will rush off to do it, only realizing that she doesn't fully know what to do after she has made a mess. But that same eagerness will also one day make her the sort of cat who will fight for her Clan until her last breath. For the time being, however, Lightningpaw has just started her apprenticeship. To her, being a warrior of RootClan (which she has been told is the best Clan and, having never met a cat from another Clan, she believes this) is the best thing ever. For her whole life she has lived in the nursery or in the camp. She doesn't understand danger and despite warnings, can't really understand that her path in life comes with a certain level of danger. This is something she will have to learn before she can become a warrior, but for now she is just excited to be an apprentice.
History
Lightningpaw's history begins with her father, Hawthornstripe. When he was a young warrior, he fell in love with a she-cat named Nightcloud. Time passed and they grew close and became mates. It wasn't long before Nightcloud became pregnant. The couple then became parents of a single kit: Sootkit. The kit grew strong and large and was the pride of his parents. Until one day, not long after Sootpaw became an apprentice, Nightcloud was injured by a fox and died. Hawthornstripe was distraught and, in his despair, failed to notice that Sootpaw was hurting as well. A rift formed between father and son that would take many moons to heal.
But time heals all things and Hawthornstripe learned to live without Nightcloud, eventually mating again with a young warrior named Salamanderstorm. She was fierce and headstrong and in some ways, Salamanderstorm's strength became Hawthornstripe's as well. The two were happy together, but again Hawthornstripe failed to take into consideration the feelings of Sootpaw, now Sootwhisker.
Sootwhisker felt that for his father to find another mate was disrespectful to Nightcloud and anger grew inside him. That anger became pointed at Salamanderstorm and when she became pregnant and started spending more and more time in camp, Sootwhisker found cause to be anywhere else.
It was then that Lightningkit was born. The first kit of the litter was stillborn and the young queen worried about her other kits, but both were healthy. The second kit was a large brown tabby tom, a kit named Batkit. And then Lightningkit was born, small but squirming and mewling. Once Salamanderstorm brought her two kits from the isolated birthing den into the camp, it could be seen by all that despite Lightningkit's small size, she would be active and strong. As the kit grew, this became more obvious. Unlike her calmer brother, Lightningkit wanted to be everywhere at once. She wanted to see and smell everything she could, and any cat passing the nursery had the danger of their tail becoming her play thing. It seemed to her that being a kit, being stuck in the nursery, and then stuck in the camp, was the worst thing possible. Although she knew that actually leaving camp would keep her from her apprenticeship longer, Lightningkit watched the opening as often as she could. But somehow, Salamanderstorm was always around to keep her kit inside the camp and so Lightningkit had to entertain herself. This was largely playing with Batkit, but she had no issues with trying to rope some other cat into playing with her, or chasing them even when they declined. So her kithood slowly passed under the watchful eye of her mother and inside the restrictive confines of the camp until finally there came the day that she and her brother received their apprentice names.
Family
Mother - Salamanderstorm - a dilute tabby tortoiseshell
Father - Hawthornstripe - a large orange tabby tom
Siblings - Batpaw - a brown tabby tom;
Extended - Sootwhisker - a large solid black tom (half-brother)
Genetics
Short fur - Dilute - Orange - Mackerel tabby - Classic tabby (doesn't show) - White spotting
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