TBT | Turtlepaw | Application

Name: Turtlepaw
Past Names: Turtlekit
Nickname: N/A
Age: 12 moons
Gender: Female|She-cat
Size: Small
Body Type|Build: Slim|Graceful
Breed: American Shorthair/Oriental
Fur Type: Longhaired

Clan: SkyClan
Rank: Apprentice
Mentor: Cloudchaser
Origin: SkyClan
Blood Status: Loner/Rouge|Kittypet|SkyClan

Orientation: Straight
Preference: Toms with sweet voices (the voice of the tom does affect how she acts around them) and a slender build.
Activity: Turtlepaw flirts with everyone despite her age but doesn't like the idea of kits.

[Stubborn] Turtlepaw is quite stubborn. She doesn't like others telling her what to do, and when they do, she doesn't like doing them. She often sits around camp all day, snapping at the kits. On other warmer days she'll climb trees and stay up there all day, gazing at the sky or the stars. If someone tells her to do something, she'll do it, but has the "only doing it because I want to, not because you told me" attitude.

[Kit-Like] Whether it's batting at butterflies or pawing at snow, Turtlepaw acts like a kit. She squeaks when she's startled and rolls onto her back, drawing up her paws to her chest when she meets cats older than her. She also absolutely loves snow, and rolls around in it, throwing it to other cats with her hindpaws. She loves to play, tossing fresh bodies of mice back and forth to the apprentices and moss balls with the kits.

[Snarky] Turtlepaw loves to make fun of others. She'll leave a snide comment to anyone and is very critical.

|Kithood|

Turtlekit was born in SkyClan to Sharpclaw and Cherrytail in leafbare along with her brother, Cloudykit, and sister, Mossykit. The hunting wasn't too good then, and they often went without eating for a day. Turtlekit and all of her siblings opened their eyes a moon after they were born. Soon after, the other kits started bullying Turtlekit about her small size and her tendency to fall over for no reason. Hurt by this, the cat ran away often, out of the territory. She had little contact with her fellow Clanmates and in the night, she would run back to her mother, knowing that she was the only one who wouldn't make fun of her. Turtlekit had a hard time listening when the Clan leader called them for meetings and often didn't understand what was going on or what was said, even though she was just peering at them from the nursery. Over the next few moons Turtlekit had trouble batting at butterflies or playing with the other kits. She would often turn her head when the mewed to her and she would tell them to stop whispering. Her mother, Cherrytail, grew concerned and took her to the medicine cat. After examining her the medicine cat confirmed that she was deaf in one ear and half-deaf in the other. Distraught, Turtlekit's mother realized she would never survive in the wild. One night she picked up her kit by the scruff and carried her to Twolegplace, to become a kittypet. Cherrytail knew she already had kittypet blood and she could make her home there. Turtlekit obliged, not understanding what was really happening but calling it 'an adventure to the unknown'. She was left in a Twoleg's garden overnight. The next morning Turtlekit woke up in the garden and was shocked to find her siblings and mother weren't there. She worked her way to get out, scrabbling with tiny feeble paws at the base of the fence. The owners of the Twoleg nest never found her; days passed but eventually Turtlekit dug a hole large enough for her to get through. She escaped from the Twoleg nests and made it back to the SkyClan border before collapsing of hunger and weakness. A warrior found her and brought her to the medicine cat's den. Turtlekit woke up there unharmed, but she was scarred forever. She concluded that her mother abandoned her because she didn't want her. Turtlekit then hated her mother and never asked her for help, instead turning to her father Sharpclaw or hiding with the elders while they told her stories in high voices.

|Apprenticeship|

The day came for Turtlekit's apprenticeship ceremony, but it wasn't a happy one. It had been raining for days and everyone was irritable and impatient. Her siblings were already apprenticed with the new names Cloudypaw and Mossypaw. The medicine cat had told the young brown kit sorrowfully that because of her deafness she would probably never become a warrior. She was held back two moons before the Clan leader decided to make her an apprentice. On the day of her ceremony, Cherrytail tried to lick her daughter's fur down; with a hiss Turtlekit jerked away from her and huffed, sitting down beside her father. He glared down at her but said nothing. Turtlekit was apprenticed with the new name Turtlepaw and wished 'luck and good hunting'.

|Warrior|

[coming soon]

Immediate Family:

Mother: Cherrytail
Father: Sharpclaw
Brother: Cloudypaw (nose)
Sister: Mossypaw (fur)

External Family:

Grandmother: Jessamy
Aunt: Flower
Uncle: Sparrowpelt

see Turtlepaw's heart chart here

Availabilty:
Chat RP - Only if we're the only ones in the chat, otherwise I'll get confused.
Note RP - Anytime! Just send it in note.
Comment RP - Not ever, sorry.
Time Zone: Eastern Standard Time|USA
Role Play Example:
Turtlepaw yawned and stretched. It was dawn and no cats stirred. The small cat rose from her nest in the apprentice's den and crept out silently. She dipped her head to the cat on watch and shook out her fur once on the territory. She wasn't hungry now, and wandered around on SkyClan grounds, observing the birds and mice even if she couldn't hear them well. Turtlepaw wasn't aware of how far she strayed and in a couple heartbeats she was out of the territory. She looked back and her hindpaws were resting on the invisible line of everything that belonged to SkyClan. She'd never been out this far but shrugged and kept going, curious to see what lay beyond the border. "Anyone there"? she called out loudly, half because of her near-deafness and half because she wanted to make sure anyone in the area could hear her.