TW: Back Injury (Crushed by rocks) mentioned

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Born in Scarletsun's reign to Pepperscale and Saltscatter alongside Bitterkit and Drykit, just after the announcement of Vinemoon's demise. Of course in the era of Scarletsun it's hard to say anything was very normal, but given the era he was born into him and his siblings had an average childhood, Sweetkit being the leader of their trio.

apprenticeship

It was when they all became apprentices that problems started happening. Drypaw's mentor began enabling the worst of his behaviors, despite his parents' complaints they went unheard as at least physically he was shaping up to be a fine warrior who Scarletsun could see would support him and his ways. Drypaw became a bit of a bully to Bitterpaw and Sourpaw using his size and musclemass to push his brother and sister around as much as possible. This resulting in one of the many fights that would occur between the brothers.

Sourpaw's mentor on the other had, was a strict, displined cat who wished to bring BloomClan back to its former glory and saw Scarletsun as a stain to the reputation and glory their previous leader, Lionsun, had brought them. At first Sour and his mentor were a horrible match, and clashed frequently, but as he drifted from Drypaw he ended up getting closer to his mentor and began to mirror his mentor's behaviors.

warriorhood

This included a rather obvious disdain for Scarletsun, his backtalk getting him the name "Sourbreath" once he and all his siblings earned their names, Drybolt and Bitterdream. Things seemed to normalize for the siblings, Sourbreath even becoming close with a molly named Skunkhiss, the two eventually becoming mates. Sourbreath even was able to become a Spelunker, much to the joy of almost everyone he actually cared about.

However something else was brewing, Drybolt from a mixture of jealousy over his relationship with Skunkhiss and out of devotion to Scarletsun, Drybolt wanted to be rid of his brother. So, not too long after Scarletsun took hostages from BlizzardClan, Drybolt's plan came into action and with the help of two of his friends, one being a Spelunker himself they made it so Sourbreath would be trapped in a part of the caves.

For moons Sourbreath was trapped, surviving only barely. Haunted with the knowledge that his brother had done this to him, having heard him once the two were seperated by the rocks that sealed him in. His fur grew unkempt and his eyes grew far too use to the darkness. Eventually when the cave in occured it opened up a path that Sourbreath was traveling, if not for the desperation to free those trapped under the rubble the cats that managed to avoid being crushed would have probably been stunned with shock to see Sourbreath was still alive despite being told he was dead.

He returned to a completely different BloomClan, baffled to see a cat as young as Cicadasun at the head of the clan, however that was quickly overshadowed by his anger and deep feeling of betrayal when he came to find Drybolt and Skunkhiss had become mates shortly after he was sealed away, the two of them even having a kit together... And tradgically Pepperscale and Saltscatter had died without knowing what had ever happened to their son...

Despite how long he spent in the caves, he couldn't escape their pull and chose to remain a Spelunker, which was of course allowed by Cicadasun. Throughout the moons after his return Drybolt's friends died, one executed after being revealed to have caused the death of his own father in cold blood, the other by BlizzardClan after they mysteriously figured out he had stolen their prey... As for Drybolt he eventually brought forth his own exile, after which he attempted to kill Sourbreath only for Sour to be the one who won their duel...

Sourbreath on the other hand returned to his life. Continuing to work as Spelunker for many moons until some rocks fell loose from the caves during one exploration and left him paralyzed. This however did not stop him and while he could not continue his work as a Spelunker he rejoined the rank of the Warriors until his retirement.

Elderhood

Sourbreath retired not too long ago, some moons before the rise of Dragonsun. He finds it quite distasteful that his Clan has been ruled by not one but two children now, however he seems to spend most of his time enjoying his retirement, albeit annoyed by the newest resident of the elder's den, Charm.