♙ frogleap

The younger of two sisters, and born into a family with loving parents, her father (Boulderbelly) mostly letting his actions do the talking, and her mother (Clearwhisper) 100% just talkative - a cat who's familiar with everyone, it seems. Frogkit must've picked up her chattiness from her mom, and it was surely reflected in how she would bounce around the clan, playing around with some of the other kits and listening to the elders, much to her parents' dismay, as they thought that they had rather outdated opinions sometimes.

Frogkit was fascinated by and curious of all things nature, relentlessly asking questions with her clan members, eventually, her sister, Rubblepaw, dragged a live frog to her to shut her up for a bit, and she took it as a gift, making frogs seem a little more special than all the other stuff.

Shortly after becoming an apprentice, her parents retired to the elder's den, having been rather older than usual when they had her. That didn't stop her dad from fixing up things around the place or her mom from gushing about how proud she is of her daughters, which annoyed Frog's sister to no end. Frogpaw visited them quite frequently, occasionally bringing a pretty feather or a flower back for her mom.

In the meantime though, as an apprentice, she would work hard to learn and provide for the clan, although a bit.. dinky, to say the least; pouncing directly into mud, getting things stuck in her fur, forgetting important protocols when out on patrol... At least she picked up fighting rather quickly, although apprehensive when it came to actually hurting a cat... But luckily, she had a rather patient warrior teaching her, as well as a new friend, Honeypaw, to help her out - not without some teasing or some exasperated sighs, of course. It was during this part of her life that she grew more involved with his life, helping him out with taking care of his younger half-siblings and checking in on him when he's sick.

Frogpaw was given the name Frogleap, along with the pawprint on her chest to represent her rank as warrior within the clan, the placement of it to represent her compassion. She practically vibrated as she watched her fellow apprentices go up to receive their names, and cheered loudly when Honeypond got his name and pawprint. Her family celebrated with her, almost a bit embarrassingly, and her sister even smiled and complimented her, which absolutely took Frogleap off guard. Much afterwards, when the natural - unnatural? - disasters started happening, she felt increasingly worried for her clanmates, and one of her worst worries came to be when she heard Honeypond in the clearing, yelling at Spiderweb, who was the mentor of his brother Bearpaw at the time. Frogleap had pushed through the crowd to take Honeypond away and stay with him as he wailed and grieved over both of his siblings lost in the flood, not sure how to help, and she felt her chest seize with every passing second of seeing her best friend like that.