Tangle

Tangle is currently a loner living on MarshClan's outer border.

Name- Tangle

Gender- Tom

Clan- None

Rank- Loner

Family- Angel (mother), Cecil (brother), Icefall (mate), Rookkit (daughter), Snakekit and Antkit (sons)

Friends- Paint and Smoky (formerly)

Enemies- uh

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Tangle is a tall, scruffy light brown tabby with darker mottles and speckles. His eyes are bright amber, he has nicked ears, and long limbs and fur.

#### Personality

He's kind of like Suncurrent. He's laid back and has a very on-point sense of humor. He's a bit more on edge and distrustful, though. He's streetsmart and thinks quickly. He's somewhat accusatory and quick to point fingers (cats don't have fingers, but ? u kno ??). He's great, though, and we should all love him anyways. He's a clever dude, even if he's an idiot sometimes. And he's funny. And uuuusually chill. And awesome.

## Backstory

#### Kithood / Early Life

Tangle and his brother Tick were born on the streets to an ex-kittypet, Angel. Her mate, Tangle and Tick's father, had been snatched up by animal control and thus was taken away and never seen again. Oh noooo, how teeeerribly tragic. Actually, it was. Angel had no idea how to be a stray cat. She missed being fed by her twolegs. She sucked at hunting and everything. So... she pretty much used up all of her energy weaning Tick and Tangle. She gave all of the few bits of prey she caught to them once they were old enough. She starved to death when they were five moons old. Epic. So they were on their own from then on.

They bounced around from place to place and finally found an alleyway that was occupied by a pair of chill families who were willing to take in two orphaned young dudes. There were two other cats their age there- Smoky and Paint. Tick didn't like them very much, but Tangle thought they were great. The three of them became fast friends. So... that happened for a while.

When Tangle was ten moons old, though, he was hunting with Tick once when some people saw them and were like "hey,, whatre those nasty cats doing" and called animal control again. Oops. They nabbed Tick. Tangle got away, but felt extremely guilty about it. Paint and Smoky tried to make him feel better by being like "aw its ok, he was a jerk anyways!!" Surprisingly, this was effective.

#### Adulthood

The old cats in the alleyway soon all moved away or died, and then it was only Tangle, Smoky, and Paint. That was perfectly fine with Tangle. He got to explore a lot... and one day he found his brother again!! He'd been adopted by some people and was a kittypet named Cecil. He was fat and lazy and all that because they'd taken him to, uh- \*cough\*- the "cutter", as the books like to call it. Tangle thought that was lame. Cecil's owners thought he was cute and gave him a collar and named him Charlie. Tangle managed to get his collar off and refused to be called Charlie. He left and went back to the alley. Bye, I guess.

Anyways, when Tangle was, like,, thirteen moons old, *he* got yeeted by animal control - but on purpose, because this mad lad wanted to know what it was like. He got yeeted into the cat pound, and since he was a crusty lil feral, he was scheduled to be euthanized almost right away since they were running out of space. BuT. Tangle did not want to be euthanized. Neither did the other two cats who were scheduled to go that day, an old man cat and a young she-cat named Stacy.

So Tangle formulated a plan so they could escape. Yaay! It worked. Mostly. Tangle and Stacy got out. Old Man Cat was seized by the underpaid staff member who was supposed to be taking them out of their cages. F. But stonks for Tangle and Stacy? Oh, right. Stacy. Once they were safe and away from the evil humans, Tangle talked to her. He advised her to change her name since twoleg names were dumb and he'd refused to be called Charlie. She didn't know what to do, though, so Tangle just named her Ice. Ice thought that was a neat name. Tangle did, too. Good for them.

Anyways, Ice had been in the shelter for her whole life and thus had no idea how to hunt or fight, so Tangle decided to take her under his wing. He brought her back to his alleyway and introduced her to Paint and Smoky. They all vibed for several moons and Tangle taught Ice how to, like... exist. It was chill. Everything was chill. Ice became accustomed to their way of life fairly quickly, and she clicked right away with Smoky and Paint, too. She was a fast learner and Tangle was good at showing her different battle and hunting techniques. They all vibed for several months and things were looking great.

Until oNe dAy, when Smoky got hit by a car in the road. Paint panicked and ran over to him, but then the car stopped and the people in it nabbed both cats and drove off, presumably to the vet or something. But Tangle and Ice, who were also present, did not know that. They freaked out and sort of tried to follow the car around, but they lost track of it pretty quickly and instead ended up leaving twolegplace. Good job, guys.

Tangle was kind of panicking because he'd just lost two of his friends and he had no idea where he was, but Ice was like "yAy FrEeDoM!!" and convinced him to explore the outside world with her. They travelled together for a while. And ~bonded.~ And, uh... then Ice got pregnant, much to both of their alarm. They had *not* actually been anticipating anything like that to happen. Since they were apparently starting a family, they sort of awkwardly decided to become mates. So they did. And they cruised around until they found themselves in MarshClan territory.

Ice, taking the name Icefall, decided to join MarshClan. Tangle did not want to join a Clan. He hadn't even wanted to leave twolegplace. He valued his freedom far too much. He eventually worked things out with her so that he could come and visit her in the nursery every so often and she could come and see him on the outer border. He wanted to be around for her and for their kits, but he couldn't bring himself to get fully immersed in Clan life.

For a while, he just chilled. He made himself a makeshift den out of an abandoned badger set close to the border. He still didn't like the Clan cats and wasn't exactly comfortable in their camp, so whenever possible, he tried to arrange for Icefall to visit him at the border. She got fed up with that after a while, though, so for about the last moon or so, he had to come and see her in the MarshClan nursery. He was always uncomfortable during these visits and wanted to leave as soon as possible. He felt guilty, as he knew he was offending Icefall, but he couldn't help it. He just wasn't at ease.

One day, he was fetched by one of MarshClan's messengers, Sootsnow, because Icefall had just given birth. He was shocked and excited at first, and he followed Sootsnow back to the camp. Once he reached it, though, he started getting nervous. He and Icefall had kits now. What did that mean? He couldn't just stay distant from them forever. Was he tied down now? Would they have to stay in the Clans? He was preoccupied by those thoughts, and while he was thrilled to meet his new kits, he was still sort of distracted. Icefall noticed, and she didn't like it. Tangle named Snakekit while Icefall named Rookkit and Antkit. Tangle loved his kits, of course, but... he couldn't help but feel like they hadn't really been meant to happen. He'd never exactly wanted to have kits - at least, not yet. He hadn't been ready to settle down. He wasn't sure how he was supposed to deal with his new family. So after all of the important things - such as names - had been checked off the list, he pulled Icefall aside and sat down with her outside of MarshClan's camp. He asked her when she planned to leave and what they ought to do next. To his dismay, she had grown comfortable in MarshClan and wasn't planning on going anytime soon. They got into a rather heated argument, but Tangle eventually dropped it, not wanting to damage their relationship now that they had kits to think about. He reluctantly agreed to wait until the kits were six moons old to decide on their next course of action.

Currently, Tangle still lives in his little dinky den by the border. He visits MarshClan's camp to see Icefall and his kits sometimes, but he still isn't very comfortable there. He knows that Icefall is still angry with him, too. He doesn't know what to do. Help this dude.