Voletuft

Voletuft is currently a warrior of OasisClan.

Name- Voletuft

Gender- Tom

Clan- OrchidClan (formerly), OasisClan

Rank- Warrior

Family- Poppystem (mother), Lichenbolt (father), Kalefur (sister), Vulturescorch and Thrushthorn (brothers), Goldthicket and Oaktail (grandfathers), Lake and Russetwisp (grandmothers), Weedpaw, Swirlstripe, and Frostwhisker (uncles), Burrtuft (aunt), and a massive crush on Squirrelgaze

Friends- Foxpounce (sort of, formerly)

Enemies- probably none

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Voletuft is a small tom with soft, thick fur and rather rounded features. His pelt is mottled ginger, and his underbelly, chest, muzzle, and tail-tip are a light shade of creamy-white... at least, his tail-tip *used* to be. He has pale green eyes and his tail has been torn to a smol tufty stump.

#### Personality

He is generally very easygoing, soft-spoken, and calm. He's a bit on the quiet side, and always thinks things through thoroughly before acting. This is sometimes a fault, though. He tends to overthink a lot and is very indecisive when it comes down to it. However, he's brave and loyal to the core, and if he feels like anything or anyone he cares about is being threatened, he can get very defensive and snappish.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Volekit was born to Poppystem in OrchidClan alongside his littermates, Kalekit, Vulturekit, and Thrushkit. Their dad, Lichenbolt, was probably cool with them. They probably all just vibed. Idk. They seem like a vibey family. When he was two days old, his uncle Frostwhisker died, which probably made Lichenbolt sad. So... all of his relatives on his dad's side were gone by then.

I mean, Volekit was probably kind of traumatized by his family’s history of killing each other - on Poppystem’s side, that is - and probably made a promise to himself to stay on good terms with his siblings and to never... y’know... kill any of them for any reason. Good boy, Volekit. He was pretty terrified of his grandfather, Goldthicket, after hearing about how he’d been exiled for killing a cat. He was sort of wary of Burrtuft, too, because even though his aunt had never done anything shifty (and was in a different Clan), his mom’s *other* siblings had ended up killing each other, kind of. And, uh, So... Volekit was sort of stressed out about that legacy. But, hey, he wasn’t in his mother’s birth Clan, so no one really knew about the legacy. Kind of. I can’t type. Yes. Words.

Whatever the case, Volekit chilled. He loved playing around with the other kits in the nursery, particularly with Vulturekit and Kalekit. Thrushkit was always sort of distant and somewhat mean to Volekit and his other siblings, though. Volekit was sad about that, but he didn’t do anything about it.

He existed in peace for six moons.

#### Apprenticeship

Volepaw became an apprentice. Yay! Who was his mentor? No one knows, shush. Whatever the case, he was sort of bored. He found himself looking across the OasisClan border quite often. He thought moving Clans sounded cool. But he felt bad abandoning his parents and siblings, so he didn't. Smooth, buddy. Well. To be fair, he was afraid they’d get mad and more murder would somehow spawn from that. Volepaw was a worrier.

He also couldn't help but notice an OasisClan she-cat, Squirrelpaw (assuming she was an apprentice in the Clans) at gatherings. He thought she was really pretty. He got a crush on her. Yikes, it was pretty big crush, too. He was too shy to ever actually talk to her, though. So he never did. He just kind of awkwardly tried to avoid ever interacting with her... because that's helpful. Yeah. Smart Volepaw.

On one occasion, when he was, like, ten moons old, he and a slightly younger apprentice, Foxpaw (who was also a friend of his- not really close, but.. y'know.. they vibed), were messing around at the HorizonClan border and Foxpaw was like "I bEt YoU cAn'T cLiMb A pInE tReE!" and Volepaw was like "I bEt I cAn!" So he tried. And, spoiler alert, he couldn't. One of the really thick and heavy branches broke beneath him and fell on top of his tail. He and Foxpaw thought it was funny for about twelve seconds. Then they realized Volepaw was stuck.

He ended up having to chew his tail off to get free. That was really awkward to explain to the medicine cats, Riverhawk and Swallowfrost. Volepaw was also kind of mad at Foxpaw and they hung out less after that. Y'know, for their own safety. Volepaw was feeling pretty bad about his tail, but Lichenbolt was a good dad and tried to be helpful. So did Kalepaw and Vulturepaw. Thrushpaw didn’t, though. He didn’t really seem to care. Have I mentioned yet that Thrushpaw was sort of a jerk?

Poppystem also temporarily moved to FallClan to hang out with Burrtuft and to just visit for a bit. Volepaw didn't mind that. He was still chill with the rest of his family.

#### Warrior Life

Voletuft became a warrior. Yay! Vulturescorch, Kalefur, and Thrushthorn also became warriors. Woohoo. Lichenbolt was probably happy to celebrate with them. Unfortunately, this was right as the plague came and started killing everyone. OrchidClan's leader, Lavenderstar, was trying to force her Clan into complete lockdown, and warned everyone who didn't want to be pretty much stuck in camp to leave. This spooked Voletuft, and after giving his reflection in a pond a very motivational speech one night, he decided to move to OasisClan. Why? Because Squirrelgaze was still hot. That's a valid reason, right?

So Voletuft moved to OasisClan. Yeehaw. Oh, and then Poppystem got mauled by a badger, was horribly crippled, trapped in FallClan, and confined to the elders’ den. Burrtuft died, too. And the bodies of Goldthicket and Russetwisp - Voletuft’s grandmother - were found on one of the outer borders, apparently having fought each other to death. Voletuft probably felt pretty bad about that and visited Poppystem in FallClan a few times. He was also worried about the rest of his family since he was pretty much just cut off from them entirely. OH, and then ALL of the borders closed once the plague reached, like, wave two. So... then he couldn't even see his mom anymore. F.

But on the *bright* side... he has more time to fail at flirting with Squirrelgaze now! So maybe that'll go somewhere. Oh, and he was probably asked by Kalefur and Vulturescorch to join the OrchidClan rebellion. He probably said no. He wasn't gonna get involved in that wackiness, and he definitely wasn’t gonna get himself any further on Thrushthorn’s bad side. He was relieved when Lavenderstar was finally overthrown, hoping that would mean that the drama would be over.

Currently, he's just chilling.

## Other

#### Trivia

* I'm dumb and I keep accidentally calling him "Volefur" for some reason.
* I was originally gonna have him crush on Poppyshade. But then I realized that would be awkward since his mom's name is Poppystem. Also, Poppyshade is dead. So, uh... that wouldn't have worked out very well, huh?
* I mean, well, hey, at least he's still got eyes for a smol Hazel relative!
* He’s one of the six cats in the roleplay who have short/bobbed tails, the other five being Wheatnose, Juniperfin, Cherrydust, Bloomheart, and - after the badger incident - Poppystem.