Duskblossom

is owned by Whiskers
Duskblossom is a pretty seal tortoiseshell she-cat.
==Description==
===Physical===
Do not stereotype Duskblossom as one of those "basic" she-cats, as she's a proud CloudClan warrior littered with muscle that could intimate just about anyone. While her muscular build can be described along the lines as compact and lean, she's certainly a little more buff than most females in her clan. Nonetheless, she's capable of moving with grace and precision on the ground, even if she's far from being the best tree-climber in her clan.
Her coat is certainly a sight to behold, and also symbolic of her mother. Like her clan's leader, Duskblossom as a cute black splotch over her coal-colored nose. She's a seal point tortoiseshell by pattern, dappled with mocha-and-black patches and cream splotches. The warrior also wears a coat that has a decent amount of white spotting, fracturing her rich, colorful patches. Her fur is short yet thick to provide her with ample warmth in her CloudClan home. Most shocking of Duskblossom is her deep blue eyes, which are complimented lovingly by her chocolaty dappled background. She has a handful of scars, thanks to her fiery temperament and thorny tongue. Most notable is a bite-shaped scar on her shoulder from a badger, in addition to a tattered right ear from her fight with Smokepaw.
===Personality===
As a kitten, the aspiring she-cat wanted nothing more than to live up to her mother's might. She has always respected and cherished her relationship with Willowstar, but overtime, she grew sick of others holding her up to the same expectations. Duskblossom has since developed a rebellious tendency, although the determined she-cat makes herself very useful. She's respectable when working and occupied, because she has an insanely high drive and sickening amount of energy. She can be sharp-tongued and sarcastic towards those who think they can control her, or "expect x-y-z" out of her.
Nonetheless, the warrior does have her tender side. While she may not acquire many friends due to her wild yet dedicated personality, there is no doubting that she's humbly loyal towards those that she loves. In fact, she has a tendency to smother, which can grow old awfully fast. Thankfully, Duskblossom seems to get distracted with "work" or "sassing that cat over there" relatively quickly.
==History==
===Background===
Duskkit was born to Willowstar and Barkclaw of CloudClan without any littermates. The she-cat was raised only by her mother and never got to properly meet her father, or the half-siblings that he fathered. As a result, she is clueless as to who they are. Regardless, the kitten grew up with bright aspirations to be as great as her mother.
As an apprentice, the young feline grew a little more...adventurous, and a little more "tired" of the senior warriors who preached about her having to be perfect because of her leader mother. Overtime, her rebellious attitude grew, although her admiration and affection for her mother never faltered.
Duskblossom was relieved to become a warrior, as it gave her an excuse to leave camp and train/hunt more. As her energy levels increased, she began to realize that if it wasn't put towards something productive, she would become quite...well, destructive and rebellious.
===Roleplay===
Duskblossom frequently hunts and patrols, as she otherwise tends to shred her nest or poke her nose into trouble to release some energy. She has several tender moments with her mother, Willowstar, and appears to listen only to her command.
One day while out hunting, she hears distant arguing and comes across a patrol confronting a trespasser by the name of Sandfly. Duskblossom immediately invites herself into the conversation by creating a heated argument with the rogue in an attempt to drive him off and possibly make him jump the gun into a fight with her. She gets nowhere, and is left with no other choice than to get Willowstar before she ends up initiating the fight herself. To her dismay, the tom is accepted into the clan. 
Not long later, Cloverfur is hit by a monster and killed, leaving her kittens motherless. While Duskblossom evidently has no interest in kits and finds them repulsive, she can't help but to be upset by the death. She leaves camp in the frigid night to star-gaze, and immediately regrets it when she becomes fatally cold. Tigerfrost offers his tail to keep the warrior warm, which results in a verbal lashing from Duskblossom at dawn.
While out hunting, Duskblossom comes across a pine with a squirrel nest. Longing to taste squirrel, she decides to climb the tree and invade the nest, only to fall and land in a snow drift, leaving her to roll one of her front paws. Relatively unbothered, she helps her mother and cousin confront Deadmist after she threatens kittens. When the rogue flees, Duskblossom is one of the first to engage in the chase. She nearly catches the exiled cat before her paw gives out and causes her to roll. Deadmist reveals that they're half-sisters before Hayleap finally kills her.
Enraged once more, Duskblossom and her mother have a private conversation in the leader's den about Duskblossom's parentage. She learns the truth, and also discovers Smokepaw trying to eavesdrop on them. The warrior wants to murder him again, but leaves before she can cause much more damage. Sore from the fight, the still-bloodied Duskblossom eats a ton of poppy seeds to pass out outside of the warrior's den.
Tigerfrost finds the warrior looking irritated again, so he tries to offer to do something with her, in hopes of saving his nest from being shredded by Duskblossom. He takes her hunting, and she selfishly refuses to help with the badger attack in fear that she might fail and prove herself weak. Tigerfrost talks sense into her and promises to help, so she agrees to help fight off the creature. The badger dies, and Duskblossom is left with a tooth in her shoulder. She ponders about what badger might taste like, but concludes that it's horrible. 
She gathers herbs to keep herself busy, and discovers that she finds them bitter. Disgusting, even. She takes Tigerfrost out of camp and tells him about his true parents: Wolfstar and a loner that he was stolen from. Once more, Smokepaw eavesdrops, leading Duskblossom to engage in a serious physical fight with him. Heatherpaw comes across the two, but the warrior quickly comes up with a lie, pinning their wounds on an attack from an outsider. She is left with a tattered ear as a result of their fight.
==Relationships==
===Family===
Willowstar:
:Words cannot describe the love and devotion Duskblossom feels towards her mother. Indeed, the warrior does grow aggravated with how willing Willowstar is to let rogues into the clan, but that feeling of irritation is only brief with her mother. Her loyalty to her clan is exceptional, but towards her mother, it is tenfold. The warrior would die for her mother and do practically anything for her sake. Everything she does is in hopes of making Willowstar proud- and she fears the day she'll lose her last piece of family.
Barkclaw & Deadmist:
:Duskblossom was unaware of her half-sister and long lost father for several moons. Her feelings about them are very mixed, although she tends to dislike her half-sister for being a murderer.
Hayleap:
:When they were younger, Duskblossom found herself to always be relatively chummy with her cousin, but as they grew, it seemed that their interests split. She found that Hayleap had ambitious purposes, while Duskblossom herself was more interested in improving her clan (and kicking butt all the meanwhile), rather than rising up in the ranks. She shares her cousin's distaste for outsiders, but has since been appalled upon his murder of Deadmist. Currently, she is somewhat cautious of him, considering that he's clan deputy and Willowstar is the only thing keeping him from leadership.
:If it comes down to it, she will kill him in order to keep her mother safe.
===Friends===
None
===Love Interests===
None
===Other===
Smokepaw:
:Scratching post; would make a nice coat.
Tigerfrost:
:Duskblossom is unsure of what to think of the smoke tom. She finds him repulsive because of his loner ancestry, although she secretly knows that his father was originally a member of CloudClan. She knows she should tell him the truth. He doesn't seem half-bad, he's awfully kind and patient, but she still finds the fact that he was a loner to be...irritating. Because his father was her mentor, she holds inklings of respect for Tigerfrost. But the fact that she finds him hopelessly mouse-brained significantly overwhelms whatever appreciation she has for him.
Wolfstar:
:Her mentor, the cat she's respected more than anyone else. He amazed her as an apprentice, almost like he was a messenger from StarClan themselves. She learned much underneath his tutorship, he taught her the importance of being her own warrior regardless of what her superiors might say. Perhaps she interpreted this message a...little more extreme than Wolfstar intended, but nonetheless, she admired him very much. So much, that she might have even considered him to be the father figure that she never had.
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==Trivia==
*She's 99.9% vinegar.
*She'll probably have kits, some day.
**Would be depressing if her mom died before she could ever have the joy of being a grandma.
*She's an "adventurous eater".
**If Duskblossom were human, she'd probably be a head chef, especially due to her "leadership" skills.
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