Backstory
[Coconutkit] • [Coconutpaw] • [Coconutsplash]
Early Life
Coconutkit was born to Aspenstar in the cliffs of Highclan. Seaclan had been fleeing from a hurricane, and Aspenstar had lost a life to exhaustion and bloodloss during this time. From the beginning, she was always an excitable little thing, and spunky as well. She was so excited to meet cats in Highclan, knowing that the probably couldn't stay there. She met Dashkit, Dragonkit, Starlingkit, Solarpaw, Shiningpaw, and even a kindly warrior named Shadowcliff. This was her father, though she did not know this. Coconutkit loved her mother, and all her new friends. And how delighted she was, that when they had to return to Seaclan, that the newly apprenticed Dragonpaw was going to go with them to help.
Nearing her older moons as a kitten, she met an apprentice named Lynxpaw. He was a kind tom, and she nearly attached herself to him. The two were basically partners in crime. Aspenstar was displeased with this, and told Coconutkit all sorts of lies. One being of cooties, and how you could get very sick if you hung around toms for too long. Of course, being the trusting kit that she was, she believed this. This was later disproven, but that was during her mid apprenticeship.
Adolescence
Coconutpaw was apprenticed to a kind she-cat by the name of Honeydew. The two hit it off awesomely, and Coconutpaw was so excited to start training. She was determined, and she worked very hard while she was under Honeydew's watchful eye. Come to find out, the gentle she-cat was very talented at fighting, and could easily overpower someone if she so chose. Coconutpaw kept this a secret, as she didn't want to fight anybody, and hurting anybody was a thing she feared.
A tom from Frozenclan joined the clan, along with a small friend of his. He was named Mothpaw, and would later be known as Mothlight. She saw good in him, and she would tell him each time she saw him. The round apprentice saw that something was bothering him, that there was something wrong, and she wanted to fix this. She told Lynxspark this, and he listened to her. It was the worst, knowing that something bad might've happened to her friend. She did not know this, but Mothlight was the catalyst to the fall of Frozenclan, and he was being visited by The Dark Forest in his dreams.
During a gathering, her brother Tadpolepaw told the clans there that their father wasn't whom they thought. The tom that had actually fathered them was Shadowcliff, a Highclan warrior who'd already had a mate at the time. Her friend, Dragonpaw, leapt to her defense, ready to slash the deputy, Tigershark, for going near her. Coconutpaw felt deceived, but she was overjoyed to have a father that she knew loved her. The tom who had originally been claimed as her father - Ghostlight - had disappeared a long time ago, and had never really played a part in her or her siblings' lives.
Her friend, Lynxspark, fought in the war against the sharks, and she was ever so worried for him. She wasn't particularly keen on fighting, and her mother kept her at home. Despite this, she felt like she should be fighting, and there were cats that were out there, dying, and she couldn't help them. He returned, indeed he did. He was bloodied, he was missing his tail. He looked horrible. For once in her life, she felt something akin to hate, something that made her stomach drop. She wanted to have been there, to find the shark that had done it. This is the main time that she found out that she indeed harbored feelings for Lynxspark.
It was during the time that he was healing that she had gone for a walk at night. She'd told her mother, so that she wouldn't worry. When she returned, she saw something no child should have to see. Mothlight was standing over her mother's dead body. She had lost a life. As the pieces clicked in her mind, she stared at her friend. She wanted to cry. She wanted to scream. But, Mothlight, however hurt and pained his expression was, he was going to kill her mother again if she didn't move. Screaming, she had flung herself at him, and shoved him away from Aspenstar.
He hit the wall.
And he never moved again.
She panicked, going to check him over, and his lifeless eyes were all that stared back at her. Coconutpaw felt sick. She hadn't realized fully he was dead, trying to wake him up. But he was dead. And her mother was waking from losing a life. The grief from losing both her mother and closest friend shook her to her core, but she worked hard to just... Get through it. She was torn about her friend killing her mother, of course it was abhorrent the thing that he'd done, but they'd been friends. She couldn't just forget that.
Coconutpaw would visit Lynxspark in the medicine cat's den, and she knew he was having nightmares, he was having a rough time. She would do what she could to help him, but the fact she had murdered her friend still lingered fresh in her mind. During one of the nights that they were hanging around, Lynxspark dead set that he had killed someone because he hadn't been fast enough, she fell into choking sobs, and she spilled the secret that she had been hiding. That she had killed her best friend, and that it had been her who had dealt the blow. The two spent that night together, just existing in one another's company.
She spent her final moons as an apprentice training, trying to make her family proud. Her mother had had a second litter, and she was very close to them, doing her best to keep them safe and protected and happy.
Adulthood
Coconutsplash told Lynxspark that she loved him, and he shared the same feelings for her. The two became mates, and they were very happy. It was like a fairytale romance.
Wanderstep, Coconutsplash's younger sister, was due to have kits, and wouldn't you know it, Coconutsplash was due to have kits soon as well. She and Lynxspark were so excited, they'd not expected to be parents, but they were so excited to have a liter. She gave birth to four kits; Pondkit, Clearkit, Fernkit, and Floodkit. One tom and three she-kits. Coconutsplash took good care of her small litter. Their time as kittens passed so quick, and before she knew it, they were becoming apprentices.
A little after their ceremony, she had an argument with her younger sister from her mother's last litter. Snowpath. The white she-cat ran off, and Coconutsplash to this day has no idea what happened to her baby sister. Her sister's friend, Quiverfrost, seemed very keen on spending more time with the round warrior. Not that she was complaining, it was just very odd how that worked out. Not long after that, Lynxspark passed away. Coconutsplash was distraught, but she had to be strong for her kits, and she knew he wouldn't want her to be sad.
Aspendew and Shadowcliff passed away, very close to one another. Coconutsplash started to draw within herself, but did her best to not let others in on her struggles.
She had to pick herself up, continue with life supporting those around her. It's what she'd always done, after all.
Her kittens became warriors, and Coconutsplash was the loudest cheering their names. Pondsilence, Clearpool, Ferntail, and Floodheart. Not long after their ceremonies, Clearpool became mates with Smoothstone. Coconutsplash was overjoyed for her little daughter, and would tease her lovingly about it.
After all the grief in her life makes it more and more difficult for Coconutsplash to work through things in the clan, she requests that she move to the elder's den. Tidestar is understanding; even if she's still young, Coconutsplash had been through enough in this lifetime to last lifetimes.
Leafclan's territory was destroyed, and few cats came to seek refuge in Seaclan. Coconutsplash did her best to offer support to these cats as well, praying to StarClan that they would be kind to them; protect them. This prayer goes unanswered as SeaClan's territory is destroyed as well, forcing the cats to go to StoneClan for help. She works to keep the kittens of all the clans busy, distracted. Having had to experience trauma as a young cat, she wanted to try and offer some solace to the younger cats as best she could.
When a gathering is called, and cats come forth with prophecies and visions that they've received, Coconutsplash was hesitant to believe them. Not because she thought they would lie, but because if someone had known something, why wouldn't they have said so before now? But as spirits of StarClan descended upon the gathered clans, and she saw the eyes of the family and friends she'd long since lost, how could she deny it? The ache in her chest that Mothlight was not among them, though she knew he never could be now, was one she would carry with her.
The clans travel for a year to get to their new territory, and Coconutsplash struggles. She's not as old as many of the cats here, but leaving behind the buried bodies of loved ones was hard, and seeing everyone suffering only raised this tenfold. She offers a shoulder to lean on to the mill cats who join the clan, offers to tell stories to any young cats who would like to have their minds off of things. She only wished that Lynxspark was there to help her tell them. Her aching is only made more as she watched her son, Pondsilence, begin to distance himself from the clans.
They find their new territory, and while Coconutsplash isn't among the many patrols to help scout the area, she keeps an eye on the younger cats. Pondsilence is still distant, and once Eelstar's mate joins the clan - a tom from HighClan - he disappears into the night. She can only pray that he remains safe out there in these unknown territories.
Life goes on. It always does, for Coconutsplash. She tries her hardest to heal form the grief, but it only grows as she loses more family, and her only remaining daughter, Clearpool, passes away. It's almost too much to bear. She begins to talk to Shallowreef about her worries, knowing he, out of anyone else, would understand. The siblings lean on one another, now the only remains of the children of Aspenstar and Shadowcliff.
More cats die, they leave. The clan has to relocate their camp after a cave-in, then again when the water is poisoned by bad prey. The clan begins to starve, and Coconutsplash grew so much more afraid. No matter how hard she prayed to StarClan, they did not answer. Everytime she looked to the stars, hoping for any response, all she got was the glittering coldness of the night. Her brother, Shallowreef, was also struggling. There was something he wasn't telling her, she knew, but she wouldn't press him about it. He was stressed as it was, the only high rank of SeaClan and only connection to StarClan that SeaClan had left.
