kithood

• Sproutkit was born to a large litter of four, with her three brothers named Rootkit, Seedkit and Flowerkit. They were named after the growth process regarding their order of birth: seed, root, sprout and flower.
• Being born only shortly after the takeover of Blueberry Grove, Sproutkit wasn’t aware of the lost territory, or the chaos ensuing between SkyClan and TideClan, and within her own Clan’s ranks, because of it. She might have heard her parents talking about it, but being in the nursery meant that she was most likely sheltered from it — especially since such talk probably would be banned from such a place. As the weeks go on, however, she would’ve become much more aware and definitely susceptible to the negative feelings towards Lilacstar, even if they were biased.
• Still being fairly young, Sproutkit continued to remain unaware of the rising tensions within her own Clan and between the two Clans as a whole. She does notice some tension between the adults, but doesn’t really have the understanding to form a coherent opinion on what’s going on, though the words ‘war’ intrigue her. She is nowhere near old enough to fight, but the little kit can’t help but feel some fighting spirit at the mention of it. She was also completely stuck in her own little world, so she didn’t notice the absence of the leader at all — she did, however, notice that her parents were very distracted… although Seedkit’s sickness probably didn’t help with that. Their attention was completely on her brother, which meant she had to “lovingly” annoy her two other littermates in order to receive the attention she was so desperately craving.
• Sproutkit heard about Tidestar’s and Lilacstar’s deaths through her older clanmates, and felt a little confused about it… she didn’t really get all of the hassle, though she knew that leaders were really important and that was probably why everyone was so obsessed. Russetstar replaces Lilacstar, which the kit is excited about solely because, in leader’s terms, the new leader is quite young. This only drives her own ambition, because she thinks she would make a great leader — her best skill was bossing others around!
• Apparently the Clans hadn’t been having Gatherings, which Sproutpaw only cared about because she wasn’t yet old enough to go to them. She was glad that they’d at least resumed a few moons before she was expected to rank up — and they better stay that way, or she’ll have to insult the leaders themselves! No one was going to ruin her apprenticeship and get away with it. The rumours of the beasts only caused her to scoff. It sounded like a bunch of nonsense, and the rogues were probably to blame for all of it — they had always been jealous of the Clan cats, so why were her clanmates believing these ridiculous tales? Plus, even if they were real, none of them were as cool or smart or perfect as she was, so it didn’t matter, anyway.
• Well, the creatures had been confirmed. A patrol returns speaking of an interaction with one they’d named the Ancient Eagle, who understood them enough to initiate a trade. It’s revealed later that TideClan also encountered another aviary, the Ancient Owl, though it had been a lot more aggressive than its relative. The fact that these creatures are sentient doesn’t bother her, because she believes that they’re still stupid anyway, and they still make dirt just like any other creature. What made them special, the fact that they were big? Well, she was small and still special, so Sproutkit was less than impressed. She’s mostly just excited to become an apprentice so she can finally see these things for herself, and do a much better job than the warriors have been doing.

apprenticeship

• Sproutkit is named Sproutpaw and given Stormstrike as her mentor, who she absolutely despises. She thinks that the other molly only has bugs in her brain and runs at anything that makes noise. Sproutpaw couldn’t have thought of a worse mentor for her, and she’s always actively avoiding her whenever Stormstrike tries to talk to her or invite her to do anything. Despite this, Sproutpaw also has an incessant need to make her proud.
• SkyClan encounters the Ancient Eagle again, though this time it comes with a warning. The patrol that interacted with it were soon after attacked by a pack of coyotes, and beat them due to the warning they had been given. Sproutpaw thinks they’re all a bunch of losers for having to need a giant bird to tell them that a noisy and stinky coyote pack is coming to get them, and lifts her nose at them. She couldn’t care less about what the Eagle’s intentions were, and wished that it would just go away so she didn’t have to hear anything about it anymore. If she ever met it face-to-face, she’d tell it to go shove its head in a hole and stay there.
• Sproutpaw has to hear about another event by word of mouth, which frustrates her to no end. Some weird tom called Cap’n had apparated around everywhere and told them a load of nonsense before disappearing. And, to make matters worse, the ancestors then sent a foggy vision and called it a day. How amazing. Now she had to go on a bunch of patrols with a bunch of annoying TideClan cats, all while having to be ‘well behaved’ as Stormstrike told her. It sucked, and she couldn’t wait for this stupid mystery to be solved so she could go back to being cool again.
• The mystery is uncovered and it’s revealed that the Ravager, an Ancient Shark, is at fault for the deaths of the leaders. The Ravager promises to continue spilling the blood of the Clan cats until she has her revenge for her dead children, but is satiated when Rainstar reveals she lost her own children and mate because of the Ravager’sactions. Sproutpaw attended this Gathering… and didn’t really get what all the fuss was about. The leaders died and Rainstar was said — so? Why in StarClan’s name did she had to care one morsel, let alone sit here and pretend she was also grieving? She didn’t know about about Rainstar, and quite honestly believed she would’ve been better of staying back at camp. Sure, finding everything out had been interesting, but it didn’t actually benefit her in any way so Sproutpaw found it increasingly difficult to continue caring about it. The molly was glad that the big shark wasn’t about to kill her when she fished in the ocean, though.
• Russetstar becomes very aggressive, and Sproutpaw is interested as to why his personality had completely changed. She didn’t agree with his wishes, thinking that thoughtless attacks were stupid and downright meaningingless, though she did enjoy the drama of it all. Hearing the news that Russetstar had died at the Gathering before his plan ever found fruition, with Pearlstar taking his place, had admittedly shocked her. It had come so suddenly that even Sproutpaw found it difficult to pretend not to be interested. She was grateful that his death meant she wasn’t being dragged into any dumb battles, at least — Pearlstar was already much better, because he’d decided to drop that plan quickly after being promoted. Wolfpetal is named Pearlstar’s deputy, and Sproutpaw thinks that such a choice was a poor one because, what, she was big?! Sproutpaw has a bit of a complex when it comes to size…
• It’s soon revealed that Pearlstar has become completely and permanently blind. Well… that was a great start. Sproutpaw can’t help but sigh at the continuous frenzy of things that keep happening, and she wonders if she’ll ever be able to have a normal life… which isn’t what she wants, duh! Have you even met her? She believes that Pearlstar will only become stronger, despite his blindness, because the alternative is that he’ll be a huge embarrassment and there’s no way that she’s going to be associated with the lame Clan. She’d sooner be a rogue than seem weak because she was a part of SkyClan. If it had been Sproutpaw who was blind, she would’ve lied until the end of her days and she vehemently believes that Pearlstar could’ve gotten away it, if he wasn’t a boring tom wrapped up in caring about the entire Clan. Sproutpaw believes that if anyone is stupid enough to not notice Pearlstar was blind, it’d be all the TideClan cats, so the secret was probably safe for a little while at least.

warriorhood

• Not yet.