TW: Kit Death, Neglect, Emotional Abuse, Bullying

kithood

Stormkit was not supposed to survive. Two sick kittens, one more beautiful than the other at least in the eyes of their parents. Pebbleberry and Grassjaw held looks highly, much more than what was considered normal for BloomClan cats, and Stormkit was not up to their standards like Breezekit was... However, as fate would have it, Stormkit would be the one who pulled through while Breezekit passed away. The resentment Pebbleberry and Grassjaw felt for their surviving kit was immediate, how dare this child survive while their baby, their real baby, died. So they took out their hatred and grief on the small Stormkit as quietly as possible, trying to avoid others stopping them as they knew nobody would understand them, just as nobody should. It was a crushing and lonely kithood.

apprenticeship

Due to her lack of proper socialization as a kit when Storm became an apprentice, her awkward nature lead to plenty of bullying by her peers. Resulting in Stormpaw being somewhat of an outcast during her entire apprenticeship. With her lack of social ability combined with high expectations, her parents were hyper-critical and unflinching in laying into Stormpaw over every little thing. Eventually, they got tired of her "failures" and declared they were no longer her parents. A harsh blow to the child who desperately wanted to impress her parents, yet a relief at the same time. The young apprentice refused to talk about such things with her mentor, to her there was nothing to talk about at least at this time anyways. While her mentor, Stonefoot, never confronted her about these things he did notice when she was struggling and praised her when she did well.

However the moon before she became a warrior, Pebbleberry and Grassjaw were just two of the many cats taken by a surge of Twolegs alongside their deputy, Skyrise. It is noted that Stormpaw mourned everyone taken save for Pebbleberry and Grassjaw. After her parents were gone eventually she did end up telling Stonefoot about what all occured, her mentor saying he never much liked her parents anyways and that seemed to cheer her up slightly from the feelings that brewed from speaking about this.

warriorhood

The next moon she was named Stormhaze. Her personality was distant and hard to exactly pinpoint, just like your surroundings in the morning fog. She took to it well, the duties, the system, the organization. The work gave her something to do and now not having their faces around camp made it easier for Stormhaze to begin starting to realize what happened to her and how it affected her. She did what she always did, tried her best, and worked within the system. In all honesty after her wild childhood, her life became a good kind of boring. A steady pace she liked to keep up with. She enjoyed patrolling and hunting, the basic aspects of being a warrior, fitting in with other similarly slow-paced or average cats as well. Cats outside BloomClan probably hardly even knew her name, nor could her clanmates think of anything major she did. There was no moment of "Oh that's Stormhaze" and she was completely fine with that.

Even as their leader began her decline, Storm remained quite average. She offered help to their young deputy Dragonrise when she could, but mostly tried to keep some semblance of structure together...

deputyship

Now imagine her surprise when her leader dies and she was named the next deputy. Not someone who did something grand, not someone whispered about as having potential... Just her. It wasn't exactly something that many members of the clan felt either way about, after all its not like Storm was ever a bad cat, she just wasn't exactly a truly notable one either. That proved to be beneficial, with her calm stability despite everything BloomClan went through in her almost two years as deputy there was a certain order to be found that cats could cling to, including Dragonsun himself.

Her first notable challenge and what got some cats thinking about things was the stampede that struck the clan, Dragonsun ran out to search for his friend, Starweaver who had been out of camp at the time, leaving Stormrise to take charge and organize the patrols that would be sent out to find the cats wandering the territory. While there were casualties there may have been more that day if not for her quick actions, then she took charge once more when Dragonsun fell ill and needed someone to guide the gathering, this one being notable as it was where her composure in tense situations led the gathering to not go as poorly as possible when a illusionary stampede clambered through the Gathering ruins. The feats not stopping there as when Oleanderhush gave way after the death of his son, Hemlocktail, Stormrise is the one to physically restrain him as Dragonsun distracted him. None of it was flashy, yet all important, all of it showing something BloomClan needed.

Stormrise was never one to spill secrets, keeping one when she knew of the crowd of cats who wanted to confront Dragonsun about his decline and this one when it came to light he fully intended to step down, which would likely mean she would be leading. While Stormrise has reservations about herself, believing that not many cats would like her as leader as just like she came in as deputy she hasn't been a flashy cat, not one that did amazing things or anything like that, she knew that none of that mattered truly and that she did, even if she didn't start out wanting it, wanted to be leader, for herself and for BloomClan. While it didn't sink in at the time with so much happening, but when the announcement was made that she would be taking her place as the sun that BloomClan had grown to support and care for her despite being just another cat a mere two cycles ago.

leadership

To be seen...