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PIKECLAW
- Age 12 moons
- Gender Cis Molly (She/Her)
- Coat Dilute Tortie
- Rank Warrior
- Alignment Lawful Neutral
IS IT A COMFORT OR A CURSE, THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WE COULD HAVE AVOIDED ALL THIS?
Pikepaw was, as standard of a Willowclan cat, competitive and reckless. She wanted to be the best of the best and considered herself already well on her way to being so. She was bursting with the need to show off and prove herself to her clan, and she was willing to do almost anything to do it. She was pretty loyal to her clanmates, but especially to those in power, both because she wanted to endear herself to them to move up in rank as quickly as possible, and just because she looked up to them and wants to stand where they stood someday. She was pretty tactile-- she'd boldly reach out to touch others, pressing her head into them or just giving them affectionate noogies to express happiness, or, on the other side of the spectrum, cuffing others across the ears or shoving them to express displeasure.
Or, uh… well, she used to be. Ever since what happened at her warrior ceremony, it’s like Pikeclaw’s personality has become completely changed. She’s taken to spending most of her time outside of camp, as she can hardly bear to be looked at or spoken to, and guilt dogs at her heels every waking moment of her life. She’s terrorized by nightmares, and she can hardly eat prey without tasting her brother’s blood. She’s still kept her temper about her, and she’s still unrelentingly loyal to those she cares about, but she’s having more and more doubts about those in power. She hesitates about every move she makes more than she ever did before, and she’s become a lot less snarky. It’s like the life in her was just… snuffed out.
She doesn’t really enjoy being dirty, but nowadays it’s hard to muster up the willpower to groom herself, so she looks more messy.
She has strangely large and wickedly sharp claws on all four paws that she either can't, or doesn't bother to ever sheathe.
Trivia
- excelling
- making people laugh
- being looked up to
- herself
- nightmares
- warrior ceremonies
- being stared at
Character
History
Pikepaw was raised by Goatfur and Tansyshine, her two fathers, alongside her brother Wheatpaw. She excelled in training, especially in battle, while Wheatpaw lagged behind a little. But, neither of them really cared. Wheatpaw was proud of his sister, and Pikepaw was glad to push her brother to be his absolute best whenever she could. They worked well together. They were close.
Around the end of Pikepaw’s apprentice days, her leader, Swallowstar implemented a strange new rule: Two apprentices of similar ages must engage in extreme battles with each other, possibly to the death, in order to receive their warrior names.
This, of course, sparked chatter and concern within the clan, but at the time, Pikepaw didn’t really think too much of it. So what if they had to spar a little? So what if they got a few new scars by the time they were done with it? They’d be warriors by the end, nothing else mattered!
Pikepaw and her brother, Wheatpaw, were forced to ‘spar’ with each other on the day of their warrior ceremony, but this time, they were told to go at it with everything they had. To tear at each other with unsheathed claws, draw blood-- to hold nothing back. Pikepaw was a little nervous, but, again, didn’t think much of it. She was so, so excited to be a warrior that it drowned out every anxiety, and really, it was just a spar, right?
She was quickly proven wrong. She did exactly as her leader told her to, went at her brother with everything she had, desperate to prove her worth, and she quickly overtook her brother and accidentally murdered him after accidentally biting at his throat while he was pinned down.
Her brother’s death sparked outrage across the clan, and cast doubt on Swallowstar’s leadership. Who knows where this will lead…
Trivia
• She used to be a real cool big sister type (who had to try very hard to seem cool.) She even offered to take a kit under her wing and act as a pseudo-mentor before everything, uh… happened.
• She started hardcore dissociating like halfway through the apprentice ceremony fight, and she wasn’t really all the way there by the end because of the shock. She had to be told what happened, and what her warrior name was, after the fact.
• She doesn’t know how to handle not being blamed for what happened. She feels like everything would be much simpler if she was the bad guy and she just left.
• She is a currently active roleplay oc in https://unwantedgifts.tumblr.com/ ! (Applications open sometimes, if you’re interested! Keep an eye out!)
WHEATCLOUD
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Pikeclaw’s dead brother. He was posthumously given his warrior name, Wheatcloud. The two of them used to be very close, and Pikepaw used to dream of the two of them being warriors together, taking the territories by storm. She never wanted this for him.
TANSYSHINE + GOATFUR
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Pikeclaw’s fathers. They’re both elders now, but they’re still very involved in clan life and politics. After Wheatcloud’s death, Pikeclaw expected them to be disgusted with, or afraid of her. Or just… just hate her, at all. She didn’t know how to react when they instead reacted to her with love and acceptance. She still doesn’t know how to take it, and she doesn’t think she deserves it at all. She doesn’t think she deserves them in general. Now that Wheatcloud is dead, they're all they've got.
SWALLOWSTAR
💔💔💔❤️
The leader of Willowclan. Pikeclaw used to look up to him a lot, so to have this suddenly happen has muddled her emotions and confused her. She doesn’t know how to feel about him, but she doesn’t blame him for what happened nearly as much as she blames herself.
SLEETPAW
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Pikeclaw considers them her closest friend. She thinks their ‘bullying’ nature is really endearing, especially since they get so flustered when she turns the tables and teases them. Not to mention that they always manage to make her laugh. Pikeclaw is really glad she has them around.
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