Stormfire

basic description > a black and dark blue-gray she-cat with some white
build > she's rather muscular and tall; her build is one of a fighter
fur description > messy; it's obvious she doesn't make a lot of time to groom it daily
breeds > moggy
height > 26 cm
weight > 7.6 lbs

voice > yuqi
scent > mint and rain

scars > bite scar on her back (salmonstar)
accessories > one silvery blue butterfly wing behind her right ear
banned traits > n/a

Positive Traits
positive >
    >> brave > maybe it's because of her huge ego, or she simply doesn't care; stormfire will run head first into danger or trouble without a worry. she loves the rush of adrenaline.
    >> adaptable > she's not stubborn when it comes to change. her mindset is to stay positive and take whatever comes at you without problems, else it gets worse.
    >> warm > once you get past all her walls and layers, you'll find that she's actually very nice and caring. it's a sight to see her go out of her way to be selfless.

neutral >
    >> independent > although she loves her family, stormfire likes to keep her distance. she has no plans to get very close to anyone else and loves being alone; this won't stop her from making friends still.
    >> competitive > to this apprentice, life is a competition. she wants to be the best and first among her siblings to do things — whether it's getting a cool scar or learning the best technique for catching prey.
    >> blunt > if you're acting mouse-brained, stormfire will tell you. if she really likes you, she'll still tell you. this molly doesn't see the point in lying or talking around things, even if it'll hurt your feelings.

negative >
    >> conceited > confident doesn't begin to describe how much she loves herself. stormfire knows how capable she is and won't keep that to herself.
    >> deceitful > secrets are something that stormfire hates to dabble with. however, that doesn't stop her from doing so. if she overhears something, she just might spread and gossip about it to hear what others think.
    >> irritable > more in terms of meeting cats very similar to herself — she hates when others think they're better than her. she's determined to be on top one way or another.

Parents
 parents >
    >> snow-whisker (father) > a white-furred tom with gray spots and stripes . deceased
    >> levi (donor) > donor tom used to get snow-whisker pregnant

    >> irisdawn (step-mother) > dark spotted torbie molly with one blue eye and one yellow eye . deceased

siblings >
    >> frostwind (sister) > pale white-and-blue-gray she-cat . deceased
    >> nightpatch (sister) > black-and-white she-cat . deceased

    >> berryshine (step-sibling) > pale brown and white classic tabby cat with green eyes . deceased
    >> yewberry (step-brother) > dark classic caliby tom with yellow eyes . alive
    >> mintbreeze (step-sister) > spotted brown she-cat with green eyes . alive
    >> hollyblossom (step-sister) > dark grey — almost black — and white spotted tabby she-cat with blue eyes . alive
    >> ferntail (step-sister) > tortoiseshell she-cat with a bob tail . alive

    >> smokefeather (half-sister) > blue and black she-cat with emerald eyes . deceased
    >> shadowfeather (half-sibling) > white and blue shaded cat with sky blue eyes . alive
    >> stonewhisper (half-sibling) > smoke tabby cat with white tones and yellow eyes . deceased

mate >
    >> n/a

kits >
    >> swallowkit (daughter) > blue mackerel torbie she-cat with hazel eyes . alive
    >> monarchkit (daughter) > black ticked torbie she-cat with golden eyes . alive
    >> skipperkit (daughter) > blue torbie with purple-blue eyes and extra toes . alive
    >> bluekit (daughter) > dusky blue mackerel torbie she-cat with amber eyes . deceased

extended >
    >> n/a

kithood [ 0 - 6 moons ] >
    stormkit was born to snow-whisker amidst the calm of emberclan despite the events happening in the rest of the territory. she was curious and asking for details from warriors about battles, enjoying the stories, while onyx and his storm took claim over cloudclan. the she-kit dreamed of becoming a warrior to rid of any trespassers — be it for her clan or the good of them all.

apprenticeship [ 6 - present moons ]
    now named stormpaw and finally an apprentice, this feisty she-cat was ready to learn everything. her sights were set on having her mentor, pinemask, teach her every battle technique there is. she also wished to memorize the entire territory so that she could know the best places to protect her clan. fighting is her passion, and she's determined to be the best warrior when the day comes.
    at around nine moons, she snuck out of camp one night. it wasn't a regular thing for her to do, so go figure that the night she went out to scope out hailclan, she came across a cat. smallpaw was a newly made apprentice at this time — maybe only a few days into his apprenticeship — and due to his small size, stormpaw mistook him for a kit. she approached to help him find his way back, only to attack once she found out he was an apprentice. it was a brash and poorly made decision. perhaps because it was the morally wrong thing to do, she was the one that ended up injured the worst.
    the apprentice hurried back to camp an embarrassed mess. all stormpaw wanted to do was to curl up in her nest and scold herself for being so... pitiful. however, she was caught by the cat on guard that night — cricketstorm. while scolding her at first, the two quickly began to joke with one another on their way to the medicine cat's den.
    around a moon later, stormpaw finally had her first interaction with cricketstorm and fireflydawn's nearly infamous mother: lakebreeze. she has pretty much sworn to herself that she would avoid the torbie at all possible, having been terrified by her cold and unforgiving words. this was the apprentice's first taste of fear. and she hated it.

warriorhood [ 12 - present moons ]
     now a warrior with her new name, stormfire, she already feels the changes happening. her heart is stirring with new emotions and she's discovering the more mature side to herself — however late that may be.
    just as things were beginning to finally calm after onyx's dark reign over the clans, wildstar declared war on cloudclan. the dark molly was ready to finally be in battle — especially against the prey-stealing rabbits. her only concern was their allegiance with marshclan...
    shortly after the announcement of war, lakebreeze was pronounced deceased. her sickness beat her and the passing sent parts of the clan reeling... in grief, or in subtle joy. stormfire was in between; her concerns were more on the fleeing of cricketstorm. she decided to distance herself for the time being. because of this, she decided to branch out to make more friends, and had a rather sour first encounter with copperblaze. though, she thinks it turned out okay in the end.
    with the deputy (shadowrunner) passing onto starclan, stormfire was given his apprentice his last moon of training. though she didn't have to do much, she tried her best with hoped that wildstar would give her one of drizzlesong's kits once they were old enough! stumpypaw was quickly given his name of stumpytrail, and the molly gave her best wishes for his warriorhood. alongside training stumpypaw, wildstar made the announcement of not choosing another deputy. why? it baffled stormfire when it was announced. she should be keeping traditions! or was it time for the clans to start a newer one?
    the biggest battle finally happened. stormfire was on the front lines, naturally, and gave her best against a hailclan warrior named salmonflight. he ended up leaving first — but for other reasons than a loss... a bear woken by running cats near hailclan and hope bridge awoke, breaking legs and chasing the clan cats away. the chaos of loss and fear was a memory to have indeed. at least she got her first scar to show off!
   one day, wildstar returned to camp in a panic — and with her, brought the limp body of heatherbounce with her. she raved that the cat had been bitten by a snake and they died, but just before that, a few cats had heard the two yelling at one another just out of camp. drizzlesong later called out the ginger molly and they fought! it was decided after the loss that wildstar would be exiled from emberclan.
   because there had been no deputy picked beforehand right out, one had to be picked. and reedshine ended up being decided on and became reedstar! they chose lotusbreeze to be their deputy and a moon later decided to end the war with the remaining clans.
   eventually, before stormfire knew it, she had so many little siblings! her father fell for a molly that had a litter of five, and snow-whisker had three kits of his own soon after. the sudden growth in family honestly overwhelmed her, but at least she finally had the younger siblings she had been wanting. and it also put further into realization that she truly did fall for her best friend, cricketstorm.
   but her joy ended up being short-lived when she decided she'd had enough of his sneaking around. cricketstorm had become suspicious to her despite wanting desperately to believe otherwise in it. during the winter festival of her 36th moon, she decided to confront him after spotting him with the molly he had to be seeing the past moons. and it couldn't have gone worse.
   stormfire grew increasingly upset, grieving for the loss of her friendship with cricketstorm despite being the one to cause it. she didn't want it to end that way because all she wanted was answer. but like her name refers too, her emotions got the better of her and caused her to say things she regret. four moons passed and she watched her half- and step-siblings grow into full warriors which made her proud beyond measure despite not having the energy to show it. but as if starclan had the most bitter of plans for her, snowwhisker's whitecough that had slowly gotten worse and worse eventually ended up taking him when she was 40 moons. this threw her into worse grief — who could she really confide in now? stormfire felt more alone than she had ever felt before. at least she had her younger sibling, yewberry, to be proud of as they became a full medicine cat.
   three more moons later, just as she was starting to feel a little better about herself and those she had lost, both her mentor and short-term friend died. what kind of sick joke was being played on her? these events were causing her faith in starclan to waver. adding more on top of that, wild had returned to the clan to cause more chaos. she saved reedstar's life with some knowledge she managed to have... and mentioned there being spies in all the clans. spies? how dare she accuse them! emberclan was fine, right? she even dared to accuse her father's friend, tigerfrost, of being one! he wouldn't dare; stormfire knew him to be the most loyal and kindest warrior ever. with wild being held prisoner in camp, the dark molly made sure to keep an eye on her whenever given the chance. a moon later, hailclan sought refuge in the different clans, and emberclan let them in despite some possibly disagreeing.
   then at 46 moons, hootsong stumbled into emberclan with a suspiciously round belly. reedstar allowed her to join! and on top of that, her suspicions were right — hootsong was carrying cricketstorm's kits. stormfire went out of her way to avoid the couple as much as she could despite just learning to cope with everything that was thrown at her. even though she thought she was ready to move on, the sight of the two finally united had her realizing she wasn't. she got to briefly forget about the pair when there was a solar eclipse and revealed appearance for blizzardfang! she was present and stunned. how could a dark forest cat make a physical appearance? somehow, she considered it all kit's tales, but apparently they were real. there was an argument that ensued, and with it caused the burning of the hope bridge.
   in two moons, hootsong gave birth to four kits: hyacinthkit, parsleykit, fennelkit, and primrosekit. they were cute and adorable, stormfire couldn't deny it, but it tore her heart to pieces every time she looked at them. those could have been our kits. that bitter thought was such a horrible thing to have. a selfish thought. she felt guilty more than anything because she knew she should be happy for them at the very least but it was so difficult...
   soon after their birth, snakeheart was revealed to be a spy for blizzardfang in the chaos that was happening to the clans. the father to her half-siblings, and the cat that her father had foolishly fallen for before irisdawn... she knew she had a good reason for not liking the two-faced tom.
   a moon later, after blizzardfang's death and the reassurance of her leader finally getting their second life, stormfire for once started to feel at ease. she had quickly come to terms with hootsong and cricketstorm's kittens and happy life (despite continuing to avoid them as a whole). her emotions felt like they would begin to mellow with the passing of the chaos.
   and heal it did, because once she turned 52 moons, stormfire decided to have kits of her own using a rogue donor. it may have seemed selfish to some but she wanted kits to fill the void of her immediate blood family being mostly gone. her father, her sisters, a few of her siblings... she felt like it was time to heal, and that the kits would help keep her calm and provide her the comfort she was missing.
   just after deciding she wanted to expand her family, the crystal falls were attacked. news returned to emberclan with yewberry, who's life was put in danger. stormfire felt horrible and sorrowful for her younger step-sibling. starclan was quick to strike fear into young apprentices, warriors, and medicine cats... she was sure yewberry was terrified, but she couldn't find the courage to help as she wasn't very present in their life growing up.
   and two moons later, she gave birth to four beautiful kittens: swallowkit, monarchkit, skipperkit, and bluekit. the name theme she gave them were butterflies and was decided even before they were born; it was a nod to how she knows they'll grow into amazing personalities, but also to insects... to cricketstorm. and what she least expected was the stark resemblance one of kits had to his mother, lakebreeze. when stormfire first saw skipperkit, she was shocked at how the first thought she had was that she looked just like mean and bitter molly she knew before. maybe it was just a coincidence. either way, stormfire would care for all her kits equally and provide the best for them that she could.
   much to the molly's relief, hootsong's kits became apprentices soon after and the two's minimal interactions could return to none. stormfire dedicated her full attention and time to keeping her kits happy for the next moons — she wanted to be just like snowwhisker to them.
   when news of hyacinthpaw drowning after falling through ice reached stormfire, she felt sick to her stomach. she may not have been the happiest for them, but after having her own kits, she could easily imagine the grief both hootsong and cricketstorm were feeling. how was cricket dealing with it...?
   it seemed starclan loved toying with the dark molly. shortly after, her sweet sweet baby, bluekit, wandered off by herself to look at some pawprints. she didn't realize how close she was to the edge, or just how slippery it was, and slipped. she fell into the water. stormfire didn't know — she couldn't hear her from where she was. how could she have taken her eyes off of her like that? why was it the one time bluekit wanted to explore on her own a little more, she couldn't be saved from a horrible fate? stormfire fell into grief at the passing of her kit and the still fresh passing of her step-mother, step-sibling, and leaving of a half-sibling.