Personality + Physicality

Physical Description

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Scars / Injuries

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Backstory

[Velvetkit] • [Velvetpaw] • [Velvetfang]

Early Life

Velvetkit and her brother Hauntkit grew up amidst hunger and impending war. She was always the one in the spotlight. What the kits of this era lacked in resources they made up for in personality, and she was no exception. Velvetkit was a bright molly with a lot of potential. She was told that from a young age and seemed to internalize it- becoming an intellectual with a lot of thoughts she had to tell you. Oriolekit, Starlingkit, Batkit and Shadedkit were her best friends, and as they grew up and prepared for war she believed they were inseparable.

Adolescence

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Adulthood

Velvetfang felt the war was justified, given the famine, and participated willingly. In their young warriorhood, Velvetfang and Orioletooth began seeing each other casually – or they called it casual, at least. They agreed to an open relationship and were never officially “together” themselves, but their attachment to one another through old friendship and increasing shared trauma made them both more jealous than they had planned to be. She, Orioletooth and Starlingstrike also increasingly brought out the worst in one another; while they were never cruel to each other, being raised in the war brought out violence in all of them, and they often egged each other on during battle. They were glad to kill, and eager to torment their victims as they fell. Hauntsight hardly spoke to Velvetfang, but they didn't care. He let guilt and false nobility get in his way.

When Starlingstrike died, suddenly everything seemed to go wrong. Shadedsky completely disappeared, presumably killed and never found. Velvetfang and Batshadow grew more sour towards one another and eventually stopped talking completely. And all she had left was her Orioletooth...or was it Whispershriek? Whispershriek’s sudden disengagement from the world unsettled Velvetfang. They felt they were losing the cat they cared for most, even more so than they already had, especially after Sandstar was overthrown and Whispershriek seemed to only become more apathetic. This was no longer the passionate cat they knew, the cat who cared about their Clan cared about them more than anything. This was someone else.

If you replace every twig in a nest, day by day, how long before it is no longer the same nest? Or more relevantly, how much did a cat have to change before they became a completely different entity? How much of Orioletooth was left? Did he cease to exist when Starlingstrike did, replaced by a stranger? Or had it been a slow painful death- a metamorphosis that purged him from that which was now Whispershriek? This little thought experiment of Velvetfang’s became a topic of obsession- and drove Whispershriek further from her. She looked at him with an almost superior scrutiny, as if she were watching an insect. Studying his very sense of self.

There was no blowout fight. The two of them drifted apart after the war ended with only a few bitter remarks exchanged. No, the fight came with the final bridge they managed to burn- an argument with Hauntsight, culminating in them granting him scars across his eye. Now completely alone, Velvetfang is frustrated and doesn't understand why everyone keeps turning against them. It can't be their fault. There's no way.

Relationships

STANDING

CanyonClan

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"A home is just a group of objects connected by a shared personal experience of time – our past, our present, our assumed future." Velvetfang's opinion of her own is...uncertain.

STANDING

BriarClan

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What's in a name? Can a change of name change who you are, deep down? Does it signify being full grown? Is BriarClan the warrior to AspenClan's apprentice? If it does change who we are, why do so many BriarClan cats seem keen to uphold AspenClan grudges? If it doesn't, then what a raging hypocrisy!

STANDING

CreekClan

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What is loyalty? To what must we be most loyal? To a family? A family creates us, but a family can be cruel. To a leader? A leader can be beloved, but a leader can be wrong. To a clan? Well that is precisely the question, isn't it! Is it more important to uphold our personal code, or to hold onto the ties that bind us to a place, a group? To have cats she knows, old dear friends, abandon her for this place...what exactly has divided them?

[ Brother ]

Hauntsight

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Call us snakes one more time.

[ Enemy ]

Whispershriek

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Are you entertained, shade? Does our tired pastiche entertain you? Was it funny when you took everything from me?

[ Ex-Friend ]

Batshadow

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We used to be friends, you worthless two-faced brat.

[ Friend? ]

Splinterstep

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He's sooooo pathetic...kinda cute though ;o

Miscellaneous

Trivia

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