Post by iPepper on Apr 4, 2011 18:45:49 GMT -6
<---- SNAKEWIND
tom, 42 moons old
RANK: Warrior
ALLIANCE: HillClan
APPEARANCE: a black tom with large, amber eyes.
PERSONALITY: There's nothing overwhelming and extremely noteworthy about Snakewind's personality: He's got a balance of gentleness and harshness with each coming out at appropriate times, such as when looking after young apprentices. His Clan is his life, as are his friends and leader. He'd fight to the death for any of them, though his excellence in battle rarely makes him need to worry about injury in battle. He's not perfectly loyal, and does question the judgements of his leader sometimes, but things like that are only natural because leaders are not perfect, either.
He's definitely not one of those cats who act like a young kit even when they're tens of moons old, but nor is he a moody mouse brain who only respects of even considers the opinions of others if they are years older than himself. He's a pleasant tom who enjoys being involved in Clan life and spending time with others. While he might not jump to be the first assigned to a patrol, if the HillClan deputy is looking for volunteers he'll offer himself up. He likes wandering the territory hunting or on a border patrol and spending time with his Clan mates. In his opinion, it's a far more enjoyable thing to do than just sitting around in the camp watching the time passby when there isn't an apprentice to train.
He adores young cats, and has always wished that he could be a father, but his heart won't really allow it, and he's been forced to accept that. Though his softness for young cats remains despite his inability to have kits of his own. If there is any reason that a mentor can't train their apprentice for a day, Snakewind would be all too happy to jump in if he has no other duties.
REASON FOR NAME: Snake - for his love of lying in the sun that became very obvious when he was a newborn.
Wind - for his speed and skill of running and moving agilely, especially in battle.
FAMILY:Ripplepelt- Sorrowheart - Mother - Missing
Ravensong - Father - Deceased
Fuzzfur - Sister - 42 Moons - HillClan Warrior
HISTORY: Snakewind has no amazing family. His father wasn't a Clan leader, and his mother wasn't a hero. They were a normal young warrior couple in love, and Snakewind and his sister were the results of that love when their parents were only twenty moons old. Snakewind's coloring comes from his father. Actually, he's practically identical to what his father looked like. Pure black pelt. Large Amber eyes. He was his father's pride and joy from the moment he was born. Shortly after him came along his little sister, Fuzzfur, who took after their mother with grey tabby markings.
There wasn't anything really daring about their kit hood. No daring nursery escape attempts, no kidnappings by other Clans, it was peaceful and calm. Snakewind spent a lot of time trailing his father along the camp once he was allowed out of the nursery, being closely watched by his mother as she looked after his sister. His father was his idol, and Snakewind eagerly awaited the day when he would be just like his dad.
When the time finally came for Snakekit to become Snakepaw, it was with extreme joy that he found out his own father would be his mentor, while his sister got a Warrior she'd never met before. Snakepaw and his father rushed into training. It soon became obvious that hunting was not Snakepaw's forte. He'd often step on a twig, or move too quickly, and the prey would scuttle away into the bushes unnoticed, leaving Snakepaw disappointed and hungry. Battle training, however, was a completely different story. He excelled, even catching seniors warriors by surprise with his moves when they helped him in his training. Though he was clumsy to the point where it was embarrassing when hunting, he was able to easily focus in battle and became swift and agile.
He was eight moons old when Willowpaw became an apprentice, and he didn't notice her for a very long time. He had no reason to- she was the apprentice of the medicine cat, and he didn't interact with her much. It wasn't until the end of his tenth moon that he really got a chance to notice her. There was a border dispute with BrookClan that Snakewing and his father was involved in, during which Ravensong was severely injured. Snakewind's father was immediately rushed back to camp, to the medicine cat den. Snakewind visited him regularly, though he couldn't stay in the den for fear of getting in the medicine cat's way if they needed to do something quickly. That was the first time he noticed Willowpaw, aiding her mentor to look after his father. Despite the medicine cat's efforts, though, Ravensong didn't make it through the night.
Snakewind sat vigil with his father's body, mother, and sister, and the three mourned for many days. When they had been given time to recover, Snakewind was assigned a new apprentice and life returned to normal, with a few changes. The first was Snakewind's mother. Ripplepelt had been extremely close with Ravensong. They'd always acted like young warriors who had just fallen in love. They had been each other's best friend and companion. His death absolutely crushed her. Six days later she approached the Clan leader for a request of a name-change ceremony, and he couldn't turn her down, so Ripplepelt became Sorrowheart. A moon later she just... disappeared. No one knew what happened to do. Her scent was traced to the Clan border, and went on too far for the patrol to follow. She's never been heard from again.
The second change was in Snakewind himself. He began noticing others around the camp more; in particular the medicine cat apprentice, Willowpaw. Sure he'd seen her out of the corner of his eye once or twice before, but he'd never really noticed her. Now though, he found his mind straying to her quite often... often enough that it was confusing to him. He didn't know why: she was younger than him, and she was a medicine cat. The only thing he did know was that he wanted to get to know her better.
He kept on to his quiet observations and thoughts until he became a Warrior and was given a Warrior name of Snakewind. Surprising even himself, he found excuses to end up in the medicine cat's den. Accidentally step on a thorn here, complain of a belly ache there... eventually the two began to talk, and pretty soon any hope of Snakewind distancing himself from her was completely lost. Their relationship seemed too good to be true, and it was because they could never be together thanks to her position... He let himself hope that she might give up on a life of a medicine cat- that he meant more to her than her position. And for a while it seemed that he would. She was just an apprentice. Her life wasn't set in stone yet. She had time to leave... and just when he thought she was going to, her mentor passed away.
Everything happened too quickly, then. Willowpaw, soon Willowheart, was the medicine cat. There was no turning back. Snakewind's heart was broken. He distanced himself from his sister, his friends, and especially Willowheart. When she came near, he'd look away. He wasn't sure how he felt. Angry? Sad? Nothing? She should have made her move sooner. She shouldn't have led him on. She should have done something differently to save him his heartache. He was sure of it.
When he was twenty-two moons old he decided he couldn't take the stifling silence anymore. He searched Willowheart out, and when he found her alone he let all of his emotions come out, specifically the emotion of the love he still felt for her. But nothing changed. She couldn't turn her back on her Clan, and friendship would just feel too... wrong when Snakewind knew he wanted so much more. So they just stopped speaking to each other all together. Where there had once been love, now there was only stiffness and forced indifference. Snakewind now tries to avoid Willowheart as much as possible, focusing most of his time on apprentices, young cats, patrols, and battles so that he doesn't focus on her. He's done well of it for the last twenty moons, except for a few awkward brief meetings, but who knows what will happen in the future.
RP EXAMPLE: See Pantherstar
PASSWORD: [fae edit]
