Petrelpaw

Petrelpaw is currently an apprentice of OrchidClan. A resentful and prickly young tom with a dark past, he has quite a bit of trouble when it comes to making friends. He has a multitude of reasons to be paranoid and only feels comfortable when his siblings are within his line of sight. Feel free to talk to him if you're in the mood to be insulted, though. He's pretty good at that.

## Relationships

### Parents

Lunis (mother, dead) & Snatch (father, irrelevant), Myrtlepelt (adoptive mom technically?)

### Siblings

Ternpaw (brother), Aloepaw (adoptive sister), Auk (bio sister, dead)

### Enemies

He hates or at least mildly dislikes everyone who isn't his siblings. But he specifically hates Myrtlepelt. And he's probably managed to tick off Mallowpaw at a gathering already lol

## Appearance & Personality

### Personality

(+): Strong-willed, resilient, loyal, courageous

(=): Very stubborn, pessimistic, defiant, introverted

(-): Paranoid, aggressive, defensive, distrustful

## Biography

### Kithood

Petrel was born in mid-May to a pair of loners named Lunis and Snatch, the firstborn in a litter of three. His younger brother was named Tern and his younger sister was named Auk, following a seabird theme at their mother Lunis’s suggestion.

2 moons: Auk & Lunis get sick. Auk dies. Lunis blames Snatch for bringing back rotten prey. Snatch ditches the family and runs off. Great.

3 moons: Lunis is pretty sure she's gonna die and worries she's gonna get Petrel & Tern sick and doesn't know what to do. Then she runs into Myrtlepelt and Myrtlepelt agrees to take care of her kids. Great, right? So Lunis says her goodbyes and the boys get a new mom. Except the new mom sucks. So a few days later they manage to sneak their way back to their old den only to find Lunis dead. Excellent. Not. They go back to Myrtlepelt because they are 3 and don't know how to exist on their own. Myrtlepelt sucks.

4 moons: They try to leave after learning the very basics of hunting and fighting, but they come across Aloe. Petrel wants to keep going, but Tern convinces him to bring her back instead. Cool. Myrtlepelt still sucks.

5-7 moons: insanity. Petrel gets a bunch of lovely-looking scars (not).

8 moons: Myrtlepelt tries to make Petrel & Tern kill each other. They're not keen on this. They (and Aloe) attack her. Aloe's eye gets nae-nae'd and Tern gets some new scars on his side. Then they run for the hills and find OrchidClan.

### Apprenticeship

Petrel, renamed Petrelpaw, was apprenticed to a young warrior named Foxpounce. He immediately hated him.

8 moons (cont)- mentor drama, tern starts befriending sleepy, petrel glares suspiciously at him a lot, HC hike (petrel & tern do not go)

9 moons- things get slightly tense between petrel n tern on occasion, gathering war announcement, petrel & tern don’t go

10 moons- aloe gets apprenticed, petrel glares suspiciously at swallow a lot

## Other

### Trivia

- In the original ABW, Petrelpaw’s name was Parsley, not Petrel. I don’t know why I did that. I changed it for this one. I like Petrel a lot better. His design has always been based off of cape petrels, which are a subspecies of storm petrel. They’re cool-looking birds.

- Petrelpaw’s favorite color is yellow. Like the sun. He likes the sun. It annoys him that not enough things are yellow.

- His favorite food is bird eggs- the same as Aloepaw.

- His favorite flowers are daffodils. There were a few that grew around his old home with his mom and he still vaguely remembers them. He secretly does really like flowers. He would sooner drown himself than admit it to anyone, though.

- Petrelpaw’s love language is acts of service.

- His vision actually kind of sucks. He’s somewhat near-sighted. He squints at things a lot, which makes him look angry even on the few occasions he isn’t. Rip

- He’s not great at climbing trees. He can do it, but clumsily. He is also unable to swim, although he can dog paddle somewhat poorly if need be.

### Quotes

*"No, no. The kit's newborn. We can't do anything with it. We gotta go, Tern, we have to take care of ourselves."*

*"We... we're so close to getting away from Myrtlepelt, Tern. Do you really want to go back to her?"*

**Tern:** *"She needs a name."*

**Petrel:** *"We're not naming her. Are you—“*

**Tern:** *"How about Tiny? She's tiny. Or Softie, 'cause she's soft? Or—“*

**Petrel:** *"No, no, no. You are not allowed to name this cat."*

**Petrel:** *"Why d—“*

**Tern:** *"Shush, she's sleeping!"*

**Petrel:** *"You aren't her mother. We just* saw *her mother, and you're certainly not her."*

*"As soon as Aloe can handle solid prey, we're getting out of here."*

*"Myrtlepelt was out hunting, wasn’t she? She didn’t bring anything back for us, though. She might just starve us until we try hunting on our own or something.”*