Tanglebranch

Tanglebranch is an underwight cat standing at 8.4 inches tall. She is very skinny and has larger than average ears. She has a cream colored pelt with a dark gray pointed face, back, and left front leg. In theses dark gray areas, she has black tabby stripes and one stripe on each side that goes outside the boundary of her marking. Outlining the tabby spots is a medium gray color. She also has two spots on her front right leg as well as a black tail and chin. Her fur is very short. Her eyes are ice blue in color.

She has a scar on her left shoulder from a rouge attack. She wears a pair of collered dove feathers at the base of her tail. One was given to her by Ivysong and the other by Dovespring.

Based on the way she speaks, you've never guess but Tanglebranch is very outgoing. She's not afraid to strike up a coversation with anyone. She's always been very clever and curious, though her curiousity has died down since she's become a warrior. There is less to be curious about now.

Another thing that might come as a shocker is that Tanglebranch is a loud talker. especially if you make her laugh, which is hard. She's very ambitious. She has big dreams and would have loved to be leader if the opportunity had arised. Her stubborness can be seen as a good or bad thing. She won't give up on what she believes even if she is wrong.

It's rather easy to rile up Tanglebranch so you can see her rowdy side by telling her something she wouldn't like to hear. She believes she is dominant over many others and it makes her very assertive. Tying in with her stubborness, she's argumentative. Do not challenge her views unless you want an earful.

Tangle was born to a Siamese ex-kittypet and a wild loner. She doesn't remember her father but just barely remembers her mother. She can still recall the sweet smell of her mother when she would nurse in the first couple moons of her life. Her only littermate was a tom cat named Spider. Once the kits were done nursing, their mother left them alone in their den and told them she'd be back shortly with food. She did not return and neither of the kits knew what had happened to her. A day passed and the kits were hungry, upon venturing out of the den, Tangle's idea, they were spotted by a fox. Tangle barely escaped with her life. Her brother was not as lucky. Still hungry, and mostly hopeless, she wandered around. Blizzardclaw found Tangle and brought her back to the clan. Her name was changed to Tanglekit. She adopted Blizzardclaw as a father figure.

Tanglepaw became close to Ivypaw during their kithood and their friendship continued into apprenticeship. They spent many days training together with their mentors. Tanglepaw was very excited to receive Tallspring because she wanted a no-nonsense mentor to whip her into shape. She spent many nights sneaking out with Ivypaw to go to a tree they marked as their tree. Once Ivypaw got hurt and he couldn’t come to the tree, Tanglepaw continued venturing out to the tree and learned to climb it. She realized she was a really good climber. She also realized she might just have a crush on her best friend. Which bothered her because when Ivypaw confessed his feelings for her she reacted poorly. Now she stuck between a rock and a hard place about accepting her feelings and telling Ivypaw about them.

Tanglebranch was given the name branch after recognition for what an amazing climber she has become. Ivypaw cheered loudly for her at her ceremony which made her blush. One day when they were visiting their tree, Tanglebranch caught a dove and gave Ivypaw one of the feathers. She took this opportunity to tell him she has feelings for him. A couple of moons later, Ivysong did the same for Tanglebranch and the two became mates officially. She was shocked to receive Rabbitstrike’s son, Hawkpaw as her apprentice. Despite the issues Tanglebranch had with Rabbitstrike, she trained Hawkpaw up to become a good warrior now named Hawksun. Ivysong and Tanglebranch adopted a kit, Mousekit, who had three legs like Ivysong. He even became Ivysong’s apprentice for a while until the rouges came and Mousepaw was murdered in cold blood. Tanglebranch and Ivysong were sent on a patrol in hopes to avenge their son. During this she recieved her scar on her shoulder.

Moons later, the pair had kits of their own, Dovekit and Cedarkit. Complications with the birth worried Tanglebranch. She did not produce as much milk as she was supposed to and visited the medicine den often. Tanglebranch is working on being a good mother to her kits but it is hard for her since she never had a female role model besides Tallspring growing up. Dovekit grew up to be much like her father while Cedarkit grew up to be a lot like Tanglebranch. As they grew up, Dovepaw grew close to Bramblepaw much to Tanglebranch's dismay. She wasn't a fan of Duststorm nor his kin. Tanglebranch watched as Dovepaw was slow to learn and blamed her mentor, Leafpelt, for not teaching her properly. Dovepaw was so bad in fact she was held back from ranking. Cedarpaw was also held back due to illness. Tanglebranch worried he wasn't going to make it for a long time.

She was given a second apprentice, the son of Lioncall and Rustfang, Talonpaw. They pair only trained for a couple moons before Tanglebranch was pregnant with her second litter. During her pregnancy, a famine stuck the clan and Ivysong made she she ate all of his rations causing him to die due to starvation the day before the kits were born. She had four kits in this second litter; Salmonkit, Springkit, Spiderkit, and Featherkit. Alongside her litter, Leafpelt had her second litter as well. Tanglebranch had to put her grudge aside and help nurse Leafpelt's six kits since she was producing more milk this time. Due to Tanglebranch's grief at losing Ivysong, she started being foul to her new litter. The one she liked the most was Salmonkit because he reminded her of Ivysong in personality most. Springkit was abnormally large and Salmonkit had a crooked jaw. She blamed this unfortunate malady on Springkit for being too large in the womb and not letting Salmonkit form properly. As her kits grew up she became a better mom to the slowly as she processed her grief.

Tanglebranch, after recovering from pregnancy and raising her kits, was given Littlepaw after Dogwoodsnarl couldn't handle her. She promised she would whip the young she-cat into shape. Unfortunately for her, Littlepaw saw Bramblesnap as her dad and since Bramblesnap and Tanglebranch hated each other she didn't listen at first. Tanglebranch promised she could make Littlepaw the best warrior in the clan and the tides began to change. The two came to really respect one another. One day, Tanglebranch asked for offical custody of Littlepaw from Bramblesnap which he granted her. Littlepaw wanted nothing to do with that but quickly changed her tune when ranked up and fell pregnant. Tanglebranch became an instant grandma to Littlemoth and a great grandma to her kits. When it was revealed that Feathersong was also pregnant, Tanglebranch went on a hunting trip with Spidermask and Salmonpaw (who had changed professions from training to be a warrior to kitwatcher which prolonged his graduation and upset Tanglebranch) to find her daughter some fresh kill. She ended up falling from a tree and breaking both her hind legs beyong repair. She spent a few moons in the medicine den before retiring to the elder's den. While the kits were still young, a fox terrorized the valley and Vinekit, one of Feathersong's kits, wandered off. Dovespring went after him and both of them perished at its paws. Tanglebranch is now trying to deal with the grief of losing both a daughter and grandson.