Moonmist

Moonmist is currently a queen of OrchidClan. She is a member of the holy mom trinity along with Cedarpoppy and Skyflower. She is sort of known for raising every random kit that comes her way. I'm serious. She has fifteen kids as of now (not counting Murderpelt). Count them, coward. I dare you.
Name- Moonmist
Gender- She-cat
Clan- OrchidClan
Rank- Stationary queen (she doesn't have bio kits to watch atm, but she's p much raising everyone else's kits)
Family- Palekit, Mistykit, and Sageblossom (daughters), Flyspark, Ravenflower, Piperskip, Pigeondash, Petalfrost, Lilypaw, and Minkkit (adopted/foster daughters), Lilacpaw, Talonpaw, Redpaw, Dashpaw, and Badgerkit (adopted/foster sons), Slash (ex-mate), Thornstep (brother), Sandslip (mother), Shadefeather (father), Hootheart, Robinpaw, and Grasspaw (nephews), Briarpaw, Brindlekit, and Burnetkit (nieces)
Friends- Leafshine (bestest fren), Wrensong, and probably Lionspark
Enemies- Myrtlepelt, although they used to be kind of buddies and Moonmist tried (and failed) to be her mom
== Appearance & Personality ==
==== Appearance ====
Moonmist is a soft-furred white she-cat with pseudo-tuxedo-patterned markings of pale silver-beige, mottled with gray-brown. She has a few faint tabby stripes, and her eyes are a shade of light green.
==== Personality ====
She's generally pretty quiet and chill. She's sweet and gentle and about as kindhearted as she can be. She has a tendency to overthink and overreact, though, which sometimes causes issues. She's also pretty overprotective of all of her kits, adopted or not, and of Sageblossom in particular. She always sees the best in everyone, which seems like a good thing at first, but it really isn’t. For example, it causes her to do unfathomable things, such as sympathize with Myrtlepelt. No one should ever sympathize with Myrtlepelt. Ever. It’s a bit of a problem.She has a pretty bad tendency to always want to reach out to anyone in need. Yes, I said bad. Like... she saw Slash, Myrtlepelt, and Redpaw, and it was evident to her from the start that they were both a complete mess and pretty much beyond repair. But she didn't want to believe that - she wanted to believe that she could help, that perhaps she could fix them. So she got as close with them as she could, but ultimately, it only ended up hurting her. Her greatest flaw is just that she cares too much.
== Backstory ==
==== Kithood ====
Moonkit was born to Sandslip and Shadefeather alongside her brother, Thornkit. She got along well with her brother and both of her parents. She loved hearing their stories of their lives before joining OrchidClan, and she was always curious about what it would be like to be a loner. She was an adventurous little kit, always sneaking out of the nursery and occasionally out of camp, although she always got anxious and never went too far. She liked to bend rules just enough so as not to break them, but to tread on thin ice. She was a bit of a pawful, but she was overall a good kit.
She became friends with young Leafkit after the death of Leafkit's mother, Brightbark. Leafkit was four moons older than Moonkit, but Moonkit was strong and relatively smart for her age. She liked keeping the older kit company, especially since Leafkit was trying to avoid her brother, Coniferkit. Leafpaw eventually became an apprentice, though, and Moonkit was left in the nursery with Thornkit, Palekit, Lionkit, and Cornkit (unless Corn wasn't born in OrchidClan; I don't really know her backstory).
Moonkit developed a crush on Lionkit right away. Holy heck, did she like Lionkit. The way she handled the crush, however, was by flipping out and trying to avoid him. Not the best way to go about it. Whenever he showed up, she'd panic and run away or try to hide or something. So... that didn't really go in Moonkit's favor, as no one could have guessed. Thornkit liked making fun of her for the crush and would tease her about how obvious she was all the time. Moonkit was embarrassed and tried to ignore him, although she couldn't shake off the anxiety of being exposed, even though everyone in the whole Clan already knew about how adorably smitten she was.
At one point, at five moons old, she was playing with Thornkit outside in the camp while Sandslip was off on a walk with Shadefeather. Leafpaw had agreed to watch over them. Whoops, an owl saw them and tried to snatch 'em up. Leafpaw protected them, but at the cost of several notches in her ears. Moonkit felt horrible about it, but Leafpaw assured her it was fine. 
Then the inevitable unthinkable happened. Only a couple of days before Moonkit and Thornkit became apprentices, Shadefeather fell off of a tree while trying to catch a bird in HorizonClan territory. Sandslip had requested a bird, wanting Moonkit and Thornkit to get a taste of one before turning six moons old. Unfortunately, Shadefeather died upon impact with the ground. Not very great. Sandslip was all traumatized and felt responsible, and she started sort of neglecting her kits. She didn't even leave the nursery for their apprenticeship ceremony, much to their dismay.
==== Apprenticeship ====
Moonpaw was apprenticed to Fallowfleck. She trained fairly well with her mentor, and they established a pretty good relationship. Fallowfleck had always wanted kits of her own, and Sandslip had become rather distanced, so Moonpaw and Fallowfleck soon developed almost a mother/daughter sort of dynamic. They were really close and it was sweet.
Moonpaw was still tight with Thornpaw and Leafpaw, and she still had a massive crush on Lionpaw. As her apprenticeship progressed, however, these feelings grew less strong as she realized he didn't have much interest in her. She remained friends with Leafpaw, though, and Leafpaw advised her to forget Lionpaw, because "all toms are stupid and dumb. Yeah, those have different meanings". Moonpaw decided she might as well move on, and although she was disappointed and a bit embarrassed, she was glad to no longer be teased by everyone she knew and relieved that she no longer felt like becoming invisible whenever Lionpaw came near her.
At her second gathering, she met a HorizonClan apprentice named Wrenpaw who was the same age as her. They talked a bit and became friends. Later, they would go on to seek each other out at every gathering and exchange news.
When Moonpaw was nine moons old, Sandslip was found dead in her nest one morning, having passed overnight in her sleep. There wasn't really an identifiable cause to her death, which greatly upset Moonpaw for reasons she couldn't ever quite put into words. She and Thornpaw were devastated, but they mourned separately, drifting farther apart due to their shared grief rather than coming together. Moonpaw missed her parents dreadfully, and feared that she had done something wrong to invoke StarClan's wrath.
She continued training mainly with Leafpaw until her friend received the full name of Leafshine and became preoccupied with her warrior duties. Moonpaw was a bit bored then, but her spirit had been dulled considerably by the loss of her parents, so she didn't really mind lying around doing nothing in most of her free time. Fallowfleck did the best she could to console her apprentice, but Moonpaw was still pretty depressed.
==== Warrior Life ====
She passed her assessment on her first try, albeit barely, and gained the full name of Moonmist. Only a couple of moons after earning her new name, Thornstep approached her and told her that he was moving to HorizonClan. Moonmist was horrified, having always been uneasy around HorizonClan since that had been where Shadefeather died, and she demanded to know why Thornstep was going there. He explained that he wanted to be with Wrensong, as the two of them had struck up a relationship. While she was still very unhappy about the turn of events, Moonmist wished him well, and congratulated Wrensong on winning her brother's heart.
She hadn't been a warrior for long when she began running into a young loner named Slash near the outer border. He seemed strong and charismatic, and he wasn't bad looking, either. He appeared to be determined to seduce Moonmist, and, well, it worked. She was drawn in by the strange tom, and he had her promise to meet him many times in the future. As time went on, they quickly fell into a real relationship. Just from looking at him, Moonmist could tell he’d gone through a lot, and wanted to try and help him - but that was all a trap. Pretty soon, she was pregnant, but to her shock and dismay, Slash left and moved dens as soon as she told him the news.
She was somewhat heartbroken, and in an attempt to cheer her up, Leafshine took her hunting. Oops. She ended up being attacked by a smaller, younger loner named Myrtle. Myrtle was an angry young she-cat, but she accepted when Leafshine invited her into OrchidClan. The newly-named Myrtlepaw was causing a ton of problems. For more details, go to Myrtlepelt's page. But Moonmist was patient with her, having decided that she wanted to do her best to help Myrtlepaw and possibly calm her down a bit. They sort of became friends. Kind of. I mean, it's debatable. But they were mostly chill.
Moonmist's kits were born when she was twenty-four moons old, but a couple of weeks early. Unfortunately, Palekit (not to be confused with Palestep) was dead at birth. Mistykit survived for a couple of moments, but she died as well while Moonmist tried in vain to lick her back to life. Moonmist's only surviving kit was Sagekit, and even she was dangerously weak and small. Moonmist was devastated by the loss of her daughters, but she tried her best to stay strong for Sagekit, wanting to do a better job than her mother did for her. She tried to be the best mother to Sagekit that she could be, and was more proud than ever when Sagepaw finally became an apprentice.
Later that same moon, though, Myrtlepelt was exiled from the Clan for killing a loner on the outer border. Moonmist was shocked and somewhat revolted, and couldn't bring herself to support her old friend, instead agreeing with the sentence of exile. Even so, she felt guilty, and thought that perhaps things wouldn’t have turned out in such a way if she’d done more.
Not long afterwards, the plague happened. She was sort of worried when Leafshine caught the illness, but she recovered, so all was well in that field. Not in others, though. Cornflower died, along with her son Jagkit. Moonmist was saddened at the loss of her old denmate, but that wasn't all. She'd left her daughters, Flykit and Ravenkit, without parents, and also sort of depressed. Moonmist felt terrible for the two little kits and decided to move to the nursery to be a stationary queen so that she could watch over them and try to cheer them up a bit. She wanted to encourage Lionspark, who was their father figure, to be there for them, too. The truth was, she'd missed her time in the nursery. It had felt right raising Sagepaw. She'd loved it. And now that she had the opportunity, she wanted to get that feeling back.
Not long after, a random kit named Piperkit joined the Clan and needed a mom. Moonmist already had Ravenkit and Flykit, so she figured "why not?" and took her in as well. So... yeah, that happened. Piperkit chilled with Cornflower's orphaned kids for a bit. Moonmist was very fond of all three of them.
About a moon or so later, the little ex-loner Pigeonkit was also sent to OrchidClan by her parents. Moonmist decided that she didn't mind looking after four kits at once. The more the merrier, right? Right. So Pigeonkit joined the party. And thus began the endless cycle of adoption.
She went on a walk outside once with Flykit and Ravenkit. Piperkit and Pigeonkit were probably just chilling elsewhere. Anyways, the three of them looked at the borders, collected some flowers, and watched the sunset. She encouraged them to give the flowers to Lionspark, and they did, It was sort of sweet. She reassured them that their mom and brother would be proud of them for living on, and they had nothing to be ashamed of. She understood the feeling of loss that they were going through, and while she felt terrible that they had to experience it so young, she did what she could to alleviate some of their grief.
Soon after they (as well as Piperpaw and Pigeonpaw) became apprentices, Lionspark came to her with a young kit named Petalkit who’d been given to him by a random loner, and Moonmist decided to raise her, too. Why, you ask? Because Moonmist is one of the roleplay's ultimate moms. She wasn’t originally going to be, but here we are. Lionspark said that the loner had told him that Petalkit had a sister whom she wasn’t allowed to be reunited with, but hadn’t specified who or where she was. Moonmist thought this was curious, but she didn’t keep the information from Petalkit. She told her everything she knew.
Somewhere at around that time, she also joined the OrchidClan rebellion, led by Leafshine and Palestep, and spoke out against allowing apprentices to join, concerned for the safety of Sagepaw and her adopted daughters. She was also just concerned in general and wasn’t sure if joining the rebellion had really been a good idea, but she vibed anyways. Lavenderstar's mental health was rapidly declining, and she'd pretty much given up on the Clan and stopped performing ceremonies. Moonmist knew that wasn't okay, and she agreed that Leafshine had every right to take charge, but the idea of rebellion still made her uneasy.
Once Sageblossom became a warrior, Moonmist was such a proud mom that she cried. She was extremely proud of her daughter and happier than anything to see how far her sickly little kit had come. Unfortunately for her, the following morning, Sageblossom came to her saying that she was considering leaving the Clans for a bit in search of Slash. Moonmist was somewhat horrified by this prospect, and tried very hard to dissuade her from doing so, but Sageblossom was intent. Moonmist knew she couldn't change her daughter's mind, and although it frightened and sickened her, she only wished her luck and told her to let everyone know before she did leave. Sageblossom assured her that she didn't plan on doing so for quite some time, though - likely not until the plague had lightened up. So that was relieving.
Petalpaw became an apprentice before too long, and Moonmist was ready to return to warrior duties... but wait!! A young kit named Lilackit was being juggled around since all of his relatives had died. Moonmist took pity on him. She decided to be his mom. Of course she did. So Lilackit settled into OrchidClan and Moonmist watched over him. She officially got her first son.
Then another kit showed up. Lilykit. Lilykit was blind, and her family had decided she was weak and dumped her on the border. Moonmist felt really bad for her and decided to be her new mom, too. She did her best to be supportive of Lilykit’s blindness, but Lilykit was still pretty miserable about it. She couldn’t become the medicine cat’s apprentice, either, because there already was one at the time. So Lilykit was convinced that she'd have to grow up to be a worthless warrior, and while Moonmist tried to make her feel better, it didn't really help.
She vibed for a while. Lilacpaw and Lilypaw became apprentices before too long. Flyspark and Ravenflower became warriors, named after Lionspark and Cornflower respectively. Oh, Piperskip and Pigeondash also became warriors. And Piperskip joined the rebellion. Moonmist was happy and proud of them all, even if she was a tad bit concerned for Piperskip's safety with the rebels. 
Then, once again, before she could move out of the nursery, yet another random kit appeared: Talonkit. Talonkit had been found on the edge of the territory with one of his legs injured from a hawk attack. He got fixed up, but then no one could find his parents anywhere, so, to no one's surprise, Moonmist took it upon herself to be his new mom. 
That wasn't all, either. A second kit popped into existence: Dashkit! Dashkit, like all of the other spontaneously appearing kits, needed parents. So Moonmist became his mom, too. You go, girl. 
Then, only about a moon later, aNoThEr kit - yeah, the third one, I'm serious - named Redkit - was orphaned after his father was exiled for murder and his mother was killed by a snake. He'd been through some trauma and was a pretty rough little dude to handle, but Moonmist still felt awful for him and decided to do her best to help. So he ended up in her care, too.
And... and then... more kits happened!! More! Kits!! Wow!! One night, a mysterious loner - Petalpaw's father, actually, though no one knew it - snuck a pair of newborn kits (from a different mother) into the nursery overnight. In the morning, Moonmist, Talonkit, Dashkit, and Redkit were all like "what the heck is up with this", and found the kits' mother, Quill, attempting to take them back. Once Moonmist made it clear to Quill that the kits were in no danger, though, Quill sort of just... gave them up. She was weak from the plague anyways, so she just left her kits with Moonmist after telling her their names: Badger and Mink. They were renamed Badgerkit and Minkkit and were also taken in by Moonmist. So she was their mom, then, too. By that point, she pretty much gave up on ever becoming a warrior again and was resigned to her fate of being everyone's mom. She didn't mind that, though. She quite liked being a mom. She liked all of the kids she was getting, feeling as though it was sort of making up for the fact that she’d lost Palekit and Mistykit. Nothing could ever replace them, of course - nothing could ever come close - but Moonmist was glad that the holes they’d left in her heart were slowly but surely being filled.
Talonpaw became an apprentice after that, moving into the den with Petalpaw, Lilypaw, and Lilacpaw. Moonmist was relieved that Lilypaw seemed to be finding a place for herself in spite of her blindness. She was also delighted that Leafshine chose to make Sageblossom Talonpaw's mentor. She was still on pretty great terms with Flyspark, Ravenflower, Piperskip, and Pigeondash, too. She was getting as much help in the nursery as she needed - and she needed a lot, being the only queen there - and everything seemed pretty much fine. She was happy. As the kits aged, she encouraged them to spend time in the elders' den with Fallowfleck in particular and to look up to Leafshine. She continued doing everything she could for all of her "children". She knew that she was beginning to get older as well, but as long as there was still milk in her, she promised to herself that she would continue caring for kits. She enjoyed it far more than typical warrior duties, and she didn't see why that had to change.
There were problems, though. Problems being Redkit. Redkit was a problem. He was angry and a bit of a brat, and he was always doing everything he could to antagonize the cats around him. On one occasion, he kicked several rocks at Petalpaw, completely unprovoked. Moonmist intervened and tried to have a talk with him about his behavior, but it didn't really work out very well. He hit her with several more rocks and screamed at her. But, I mean, hey, at least she tried.
Redpaw became an apprentice in the following moon anyways. Then he was Pansymoon's problem and not Moonmist's. She felt sort of bad, but there wasn't much she could do to help. Oh well. Not long after that, Petalfrost became a warrior and Dashpaw became an apprentice. So then Moonmist was left with Badgerkit and Minkkit, and was finally able to have some peace and quiet in the nursery. She was sort of glad for the brief break and the chance to look after very small kits for a little bit. While she definitely enjoyed being half of the Clan's mom, it was pretty draining.
Word soon came that Conifercob had been killed by the plague. Moonmist was saddened to hear of it since the two of them had trained together, and she knew Conifercob had been good friends with Thornstep. Heck, he was Leafshine's brother, too. Moonmist had been a little bit worried about Leafshine anyways since the rebellion was beginning to get more serious, and the night after they'd received the news, she pulled her friend aside at the edge of the camp. She tried to make it clear to Leafshine that she didn't have to be strong in front of everyone, and that she was allowed to grieve, but Leafshine insisted that a good leader kept up a brave front at all times, and she couldn't afford to look weak; not then, at least. Moonmist understood, but made her promise to talk to her whenever she needed it. Leafshine reluctantly agreed to do so, and Moonmist returned to the nursery, trusting that the deputy - or leader, rather, depending on how she looked at it - would keep her word and come to her for help if she had to.
For the next few moons, Moonmist honestly just vibed. She was very fond of Badgerkit and Minkkit, as it was her first time since Sageblossom bringing up any kits since infancy - and she hadn't had experience with more than one before. On the rare occasion that she needed a break from them, she would often try to ask the cats who openly opposed the rebellion - such as Frondmist or Pansymoon - to watch them for a bit, mostly in a frail effort at making peace with them. She didn't want to be enemies with any of her Clanmates. Not even Lavenderstar, despite her failing leadership. She felt rather guilty that Pansymoon was stuck with mentoring Redpaw, particularly since she knew it had been a political move on Leafshine's part, so she did her best to maintain good relations with the other she-cat. Frondmist as well; after all, Frondmist's son Sprucestripe was in love with Petalfrost, and Moonmist just wanted to make sure that everything was going alright with all of her kits.
When Moonmist was forty-four moons old, Lavenderstar surrendered. She stepped down from her position, and Leafshine officially became OrchidClan's leader. Lavenderstar was renamed Lavendersight and made into an elder. Moonmist was delighted for Leafshine and made sure her friend knew it by leaving several bunches of leaves and flowers around the leaders' den and the Flowerstone in celebration afterwards. She was also just very relieved that the cats in the rebellion, including Piperskip, wouldn't be subjected to any more danger. At least, she hoped they wouldn't be. As for Lavendersight, though... Moonmist actually felt rather terrible for her, and did her best to be sympathetic towards her whenever she went to visit Fallowfleck in the elders' den. She's trying to stay friendly with Frondmist and Pansymoon, too, although it's getting harder.
Currently, Moonmist is still just chilling with her massive, heaving pile of adopted children while simultaneously trying to provide emotional support for Leafshine and keep up with all of the Lavendersight drama without getting too aggressive. Kudos.
== Other ==
==== Trivia ====
* Not to be confused with Moon, Wide Eyed Moon, or Moonface.
*Together, she and Cedarpoppy of MarshClan are both everyone's mom. Although Cedarpoppy is more mom. She's Moonmist's mom, too. But Moonmist is everyone's secondary mom. Oh, and don't forget Skyflower of OasisClan - she's also a big mom. Together, they are the holy trinity of moms.
*She was never very dedicated to the rebellion. She actually felt really bad for Lavenderstar all along. She only joined because Leafshine wanted her to and disagreeing with Leafshine never resulted in anything good. I mean, she supported the cause, but she wasn't overly passionate.
*She is going to be Aloe's mom in the very near future. Aloe will be her sixteenth kid. And no, I did not stutter.
*Is she Cedarpoppy's mom, or is Cedarpoppy her mom? Or both? Or is Skyflower both of their moms, or are they both Skyflower's mom? We will never know. These are the top three questions that science still can't answer.
==== Quotes ====
she deserves some quotes here, but joke’s on you, i’m too lazy to add any.