Nightpaw

• His scars are only one the one side- where the impact actually occured. 
• His tail is half-gone/cut in half 
• His leg DOES still function, and he can put his own weight on it, but it sometimes gives out on him and significant impact will cause it to give way.

✔/ Passionate - Outspoken - Hardworking - Logical - Justice-driven

X/ Self-critical - Gloomy - Rebellious - Tunnel-visioned - Stubborn

Nightpaw is a passionate apprentice who has a strong sense of doing what's right. To the point he often gets frustrated when someone settles for "A lesser of two evils" because he thinks that you should always fight for a way to save everyone. He's self sacrificing, loyal, and earnest, but can be argumentative solely out of wanting to do the right thing. He's logical and the best way to convince him to listen is with calm and reasonable debate.

He is frustrated with his own weakness and the position that his injury has placed him in, and the fact he has to rely on his new clanmates frequently- he wants to do more but is subject to his physical abilities. His mood of the day can often be sour depending on how limiting his weakness feels to him and how much he wishes he could do more. While he is incredibly determined to still be the best warrior that he can and somehow find a way to repay Pitchstar and Reefclan's kindness, he often does it at the expense of his own health and wellbeing. 

He has a great desire to do good and help other cats, regardless of clan affiliation. He hates the culture that his birth clan had fostered of rejecting outsiders and making no effort to help cats in need based solely on the origins of their birth. He holds a great deal of respect for Pitchstar for being the opposite, and sharing in his mentality that there's always some way they can try to help.

He may be limited in body, but not in mind. Nightpaw is very intelligent and good at observing situations. he can always be turned to to have a creative and thoughtful way to get out of a situation. He is extremely fascinated by Twolegs, and studies them to try and learn why they do some of the odd things that they do.

Nightpaw is a clanborn apprentice of Fernclan, who lived in the deep forests with his family. A promising young apprentice...but one who was too smart for his own good- he got into more than a few spats with his elders over traditions he didn't agree with or like. He was never reserved about sharing his opinion or making his displeasure with the clan's strict ways known. While he loved his family- and his clan, he felt stifled by ridiculous expectations. Most within the clan assumed it was a phase- an adolescent lashing out at authority and wrote it off as annoying but passing. 

When he went to his first gathering after becoming an apprentice, he met Inkpaw, an apprentice of a different clan. The two bonded over their frustrations with the way that things were, the clan's refusal to help one another and their hostility towards change. They started sneaking out to see each other and a plan began to form. They decided to run away from their clans, fleeing into the night together with their clanmates on their heels trying to drag them back to their respective camps . It was while fleeing the Fernclan warriors they tried to cross a thunderpath and Inkpaw was nearly hit by a running monster. Nightpaw panicked, shoving her out of the way and taking the hit himself. Inkpaw dragged him from the road, bleeding and severely injured, where they were found by Pitchstar, Runningroar, and Aquagold out on patrol. While initially hostile, Pitchstar was able to convince Inkpaw to let them bring Nightpaw back to their camp for Swanwhisker's help to keep him from dying there.

Their former clanmates tracked them to the thunderpath, where they smelled nothing but blood and saw matted fur on the pavement. Assuming the two were dead, they abandoned the chase. 

Nightpaw survived with Swanwhisker's assistance, though he was both emotionally and physically scarred for the rest of his life. He may have considered continuing on with Inkpaw if he didn't feel like dead weight, but finding themselves in Reefclan- with new possibilities and a leader willing to listen to reason unlike their former leaders- the two decide to stay in pursuit of a chance at life. Pitchstar is sympathetic towards their plight, and does all he can to help Nightpaw retain his independence despite his injuries.