gingerstorm -- riverclan

[hope <3]

name ; gingerstorm

age ; 37 moons

rank ; warrior

clan ; riverclan

appearance ; gingerstorm is a medium-sized orange tabby she-cat with usual viridian green eyes. although, in the the summer and spring her eyes are a lighter emerald color. she has a small cripple from a resulting badger injury. her battle scars are healed, most of them are not seen because of her orange pelt. the most recent one, a longer gash along her neck to her left side, is shown. she has a rather small, triangular head, her muzzle now has a few white furs on it, not many, but a few. a small piece of her left ear has been ripped out, and there is a wound on her neck. her legs are long and muscular, for she is a great runner. her tail is thin and orange, just like the rest of her- but it is slightly crooked at the end. her claws are usually sharp and clean, ready for anything. her fur is always groomed, so it's shiny sometimes glossy. she has tuffs of white fur near her belly.

personality ; the orange she-cat is an interesting cat. she's a picky eater, only eating mice, rabbits, and shrews. if she sees a sparrow in the fresh-kill pile, she avoids anything that touches it. her love of sparrows more than likely comes from her name- and the fact that they have 'beautiful voices' as she tells others. she has many friends, but the ones that she trusts with her life are blackface, smallclaw, a loner named memory, a kittypet named tigger, and sweetmelody. she's one to flirt; but tries her hardest not to fall for anyone. she would like kits- but can't stand the thought of sitting in the nursery for six moons without doing anything. gingerstorm is a warrior through and through, she enjoys hunting and fighting- would do anything to defend her clan and her clanmates. her fierce loyalty is well respected among the clans and the forest. her favorite seasons are ones where it's not too hot and not too cold, during the summer and the winter she doesn't like to do much except sit around and talking to other cats. she's a social butterfly, and couldn't live without talking to anyone. she can't stand awkward silences, and she does her best to avoid cats who are socially awkward. the orange tabby likes loners and kittypets because of her past experiences, though none of the other clan cats can understand why. gingerstorm is also sarcastic and not afraid to speak her mind- she doesn't think before she talks, and rarely apologizes for anything. she's confident, strong, and has high self-esteem. her respect for her clan leader, medicine cat, and deputy only goes so far- she will talk back at them if she doesn't approve of their decision.

history ; featherkit and fawnkit became best friends since the moment they opened their eyes. as soon as they were apprenticed, the two cats were closer than two peas in a pod. featherpaw and fawnpaw developed feelings for each other over time, it was the whole clan thought they would become mates. featherpaw earned his warrior name, featherstorm, first. he was a good-looking, strong, black cat with green eyes, and earned the reputation as the clan's heartbreaker. the she-cats had crushes on him, but in his eyes, the only one for him was fawnpaw. fawnpaw, an orange she-cat with blue eyes, was in the middle of all the drama, however. icegaze, a brown tabby tom with green eyes, also showed affection for fawnpaw. fawnpaw was able to ignore all of her conflicting feelings, until she became a warrior. fawnheart, stuck in the middle of two popular tom-cats, had no idea what to do. as time went by, her feelings for icegaze grew, and featherstorm was pushed out of her mind. icegaze died a few sunrises later, ambushed by a group of rogue cats. nobody had any idea what fawnheart was feeling. the whole clan thought that icegaze had committed suicide, taunting the rogues so they would attack him because fawnheart picked featherstorm. as the rumors went around, fawnheart found out that she was expecting kits. the rumors died down. featherstorm and fawnheart's relationship grew, featherstorm and the rest of the clan suspected that fawnheart's kits were his kits. instead, fawnheart knew that the kits were icegaze's. she kept the secret to herself. fawnheart gave birth two she-cats and a tom. she lost a lot of blood in the process. the next day, she was announced dead. a terrible outbreak of whitecough killed one she-cat and the tom, who were never named. the smallest of the litter, a orange tabby she-cat with emerald green eyes, survived the harsh leaf-bare. featherstorm named the kit gingerkit.

when gingerkit became apprenticed, her mentor was brittlehope, a cranky brown tom with blue eyes. gingerpaw became known for her excellent hunting skills. gingerpaw and featherstorm went out for a walk together one day, but the same rogues that had killed icegaze attacked. featherstorm was killed. gingerpaw, struck with grief, wouldn't do anything. the whole clan was starting to lose hope on her. brittlehope, who never said anything encouraging to the she-cat, sat next to her one day and told her his life story. he was a single kit like her, whose mother died before he got to know her. brittlehope never knew who his father was, but he spent his whole life, bitter and hating relationships between cats. he became so self-centered and independent, that the clan leader back then told him that he could start acting more like a clan cat, or he could leave riverclan. after opening up to the apprentice, he told her that life goes on, and that he only has one regret- that he didn't live life to its fullest. he then told her, that he was planning on retiring after she got her warrior name. no one knows what part in brittlehope's story made gingerpaw stop grieving, but the next day she set out and worked harder than any cat. she brought back the most freshkill out of the apprentices, and improved her battle skills faster than any other.

when gingerpaw reached her thirteenth moon, she earned her warrior name- gingerstorm. just like brittlehope said, he became an elder in that same ceremony. when she went to the gatherings, she met a windclan tom named blackface. he was the tom who first stole gingerstorm's heart. but before she could admit any feelings toward him; a riverclan warrior named smallclaw came into her life. just like her mother, she was stuck in between two toms who both had pieces of her heart. she was leaning more toward smallclaw, after all- it would be the better choice, they were both from riverclan. before anything could happen, she was given an apprentice, sweetpaw. the little tabby was reluctant to do anything, she was more like a kittypet than a warrior. but gingerstorm worked as hard as she could to motivate the apprentice. one day, when gingerstorm and sweetpaw were out to practice hunting, they met a badger. in order to save her apprentice from dying, she put herself in between the badger and sweetpaw. she was close to death and ordered her apprentice to go back to camp and to announce her death rather than wasting time to get a medicine cat. sweetpaw agreed and went back to camp. a kittypet named tigger found her, and brought her back to his twoleg home. the twolegs there nursed the cat back to health, and she and tigger became close friends. soon enough, gingerstorm told him that she had to go back out and to her home, tigger reluctantly agreed and watched his friend disappear out the twoleg door.

gingerstorm didn't know where she was, but she met a loner named memory. memory was a former windclan member, but decided that clan life was suited for her. memory led gingerstorm back to the forest, along the way- they also became good friends and the she-cat saved the warrior's life more than once. gingerstorm gave her thanks and promised that she'd see her again soon. memory shook her head, telling gingerstorm to go back to riverclan and to not think about meeting her again. she didn't give the reasons why, but gingerstorm agreed and went into riverclan territory.

she's reluctant to go back home, not knowing what to say and how to explain that she never really did die. most of all, she's afraid to face smallclaw and blackface- still in love with both of them and not knowing how to choose between the two cats.

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