Thistlekit

A small tom with a luxurious, long cream colorpoint fur and dark blue eyes. He has faint stripes on his color points and appears twice as big as he really is due to his thick pelt.

His pelt most ressembles his mother, though whether anyone notices or sees it as coincidence is to be determined.

He's currently young and impressionable due to his age but generally is a bold kit unafraid to speak up. Thistlekit already started developing a strong belief in Star Clan and seems to have some jumbled knowledge of the Sunningrock tension, though is too young to really understand and pick a side.

With so much change in his young life currently, Thistlekit has taken on a somewhat defensive demeanor at times as he tries to take it all in. The young kit is filled with uncertainty of where he stands in life. Missing his father, Lakeshade, and his siblings in Riverclan that he knew oh so briefly. While Dawnstar has taken a role of a loving adoptive father, Thistlekit can't help but feel worried about others disliking him due to the fact he was the result of code breaking.

DURING RP (starting age: 0 moons)

He was born outside clan territory to the former Shadowclanner, Swanflower. Thistlekit mostly knew his father, Lakeshade though, as the Riverclan deputy (in reality ex-deputy) would often visit towards the end of their first moon with prey and stay to play with him and his littermates for a while before heading back to the clan with the promise of returning and one day taking them back once they were strong enough. Apparently when he'd been even younger, his cousin Rainbreeze had visited as well, though he was too young to remember. When Lakeshade wasn't around, Thistlekit would see a lot of the former Windclanner, Ashjump who was friends with his mother. She often told them about Star Clan and how powerful they were—how they would do well to obey their ancestor's prophecies and signs.

Still young and only knowing a life of leafbare, one day their mother would take them to a place called Sunngingrocks. Telling them to hide and that Lakeshade would come to fetch them soon. Thistlekit didn't understand why Lakeshade didn't come get them from their usual place but obeyed and shivered with cold as he waited... and waited. Lakeshade came with a patrol of other clan cats and that was where chaos started. Thistlekit remembered a crimson stained cream and brown color point tom lying on the ground with warriors standing over him. Then more showed up from the forest. Thistlekit cried out as he and Piercingkit were taken away by the forest cats—Thunderclan, he'd learn in time. The young tom didn't understand what was happening, why they were being separated, or why everyone was mad at his father.

Thunderclan's leader, Dawnstar, he'd learn, was kind and empathetic to his distress, yet firm in the fact Thistlekit lived here now. Overtime, he'd see the leader as an adoptive father of sorts, but he still missed his real one. At the very least, Dawnstar seems to share the same strong beliefs in Star Clan that Ashjump did and that provides a comfort that perhaps this clan wasn't so bad. He even got to stay in the leader's den instead of the nursery! Sometimes he feels as though others whisper and give unnerving stares behind his back: half-clan, Lakeshade's son, untrustworthy. It certainly makes him nervous, especially as following the importance of following the code is taught to him. How can he ever be a good warrior when he was a result of code breaking? Time would tell he supposes.

But so far time has felt harsh. Famine was hurting the clan and while the young tom doesn't understand the full scope of that, understands that cats are dying because of it. Dawnstar however, has been making sure they're as well fed as possible with fish some days. Thistlekit is pretty sure some of the clan has been eyeing him with dislike because of the priority to get with eating.