Plumsong

Plumsong is a third generation ThunderClan tom with purple eyes and lilac grey fur. He has large ears and a fluffy tail, and is incapable of speaking.
== History ==
Plumkit was born to Thornmist, a WindClan queen and Cloudstar's sister, and Harespring, a senior WindClan warrior. Upon discovering he was born mute, Harespring set upon creating and teaching different symbols and movements as a sort of sign language for Plumkit to use. He quickly adapted to this form of communication, though to this day he still gets frustrated at points when other cats can't understand him.
After Thornmist was killed in a raid, Harespring grew much closer to his son, but passed away from greencough two moons before his apprenticeship. Due to the loss of his parents, he became to consider Cloudstar as a sort of father figure, and Stoatpaw, a brother. He was apprenticed by a variety of cats, as a sort of special case, due to the WindClan cats' understanding of his sign language affecting his communication skills.
When he couldn't find Stoatpaw one afternoon, he followed his scent trail, concerned that his cousin was causing trouble. He ended up at the RiverClan border and spoke to an apprentice named Whiskerpaw, bonding in a way of sorts over the way his cousin could be so haughty. During his time at the RiverClan border, he couldn't help but notice the leaves in the trees.
After that encounter, he found some of his fellow apprentices had been attacked viciously at the border by a ThunderClan cat named Tigerpaw. Deciding to take action, Plumpaw delved into the forest territory, and stumbled upon the leader of ThunderClan, Rosestar. He found telling her about the situation was much easier in the thick forest, with so many things he could use to create symbols and signs, while on the moors, even telling someone his name was difficult.
He enjoyed the thick ThunderClan forest more so than the still-plentiful but much more sparse RiverClan birch trees, so he took patrols on that border willingly, and much more often. One specific day, he met a ThunderClan warrior named Maplewish while on a walk by himself at the border. He had a friendly conversation with her, but upon returning to WindClan, he discovered that Stoatpaw had been exiled by his own father. Feeling betrayed by Cloudstar and afraid of his own fate, for whatever reasons that might have been running through his head, Plumpaw fled over the ThunderClan border, running into Rosestar yet again and begging to join the clan. Rosestar accepted, and brought him to camp, where he received mixed reactions.
Plumsong soon gained his warrior name, given to him for singing true to his heart, and became quick friends with Ferretpaw, the clan's medicine cat, and one of the only cats who was kind to him when he first joined ThunderClan. This soon blossomed into a crush, and he'll often pick flowers for the medicine cat as gifts.
Maplewish had given birth to three kits, though only one survived, and Plumsong was given Sappaw to mentor, giving him joy in knowing he was truly a respected part of the clan now.
At his first Gathering after he joined ThunderClan, he went to almost paranoia-like efforts to disguise himself from any WindClan cat that might look at him, rolling in mud prior to the event and rubbing on every tree to get a strong ThunderClan smell. During Cloudstar's report at the announcement, he mentioned that an apprentice named Plumpaw had gone missing from WindClan, and that any cat who had information on his whereabouts should let him know. This terrified Plumsong, but most cats were caught up in the chaos of the dark cats appearing during Rosestar's report to notice anything around them. As the clearing broke into chaos after the ominous cats disappeared, Plumsong and Cloudstar locked eyes before Plumsong fled.
Not long after Ferretstride had gotten his medicine cat name, Plumsong was caught in the WindClan tunnels by Cloudstar, who was shocked to see his nephew was alive. He initially thought that since Plumsong smelled like ThunderClan, he had been kidnapped, but upon learning he wasn't, he asked why he left. Plumsong explained that he was afraid of Cloudstar when he exiled Stoatpaw, and that he lived in ThunderClan now. Upon learning that Plumsong was no longer an apprentice, Cloudstar remarked that he wished Plumsong could have finished his warrior training in WindClan, before telling his nephew to leave, as their clans were at war. Plumsong obliged, walking back into ThunderClan territory, where, despite the grief of having to see his uncle so disappointed in him, he felt like he truly belonged.
== Trivia ==
* Plumsong is a trans man.
* His warrior name was chosen before the idea of him being mute was input, making it cruelly ironic.
* Part of the reason he left WindClan was because he didn't feel as if he fit in with the other apprentices.
* He mainly steers clear of eating rabbits, because he's gotten tired of the taste while living in WindClan.
* Sometimes he trespasses into the WindClan tunnels, because as a former tunneler, he misses them a lot, as much as he won't admit it.
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