Chivethistle

Chivethistle is currently a warrior of MarshClan.

Name- Chivethistle

Gender- She-cat

Clan- MarshClan

Rank- Warrior

Family- Jess (mother), Rat (father), Echo (sister), Drip and River (half-sisters), Rippledusk and Shadow (half-brothers), Joel (uncle), Turtleheart and Puddlespirit (cousins)

Friends- Viceroytuft (sort of, formerly), and kiiiiind of Bubo (also formerly)... all of her friends are dead.

Enemies- Bluecloud, kind of, I guess. Also Laurel, formerly. And soooorta Echo, too. And most likely Rillwing. Oof.

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Chivethistle has mottled reddish-brown fur with darker spots and flecks, a few paler markings, and bright chive-green eyes. Her pelt is thick and tufty and likes to stand up in random tangles. It's short, but it's dEnSe. She doesn't really bother trying to fix it, because grooming herself never amounts to anything. It'll just knot up again within the next hour.

#### Personality

Snarky. Dramatic. Annoying. Very sarcastic and easily upset. Kind of terrible, but we love her anyways.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Chive and Echo were born to Jess, their kittypet mother. She'd had a one-night stand with a rogue named Rat, and *whoops,* they were the result. As it turned out, though, Jess's owners sucked, so they kicked her out because they didn't want a pregnant cat and they didn’t want to deal with kittens. Jess took her kits and went to live out in the wilderness, ending up somewhere near Clan territory. Jess was very overprotective of her two kits, and barely let them do anything at all, ever. She would threaten them and stuff whenever they tried to do anything, and it sucked. Jess wasn’t exactly the most sane mom, and while she loved her kits, she didn’t exactly care about how they felt. She was basically just really possessive and a super bad mother.

On one occasion, at four moons old, Echo tried to sneak away overnight. She’d realized what was up and wanted out. She woke up Chive and tried to persuade her to come with her, but Chive didn’t buy it — Chive genuinely believed that Jess wanted what was best for them. So she tattled on Echo. And as punishment , or “a warning” as Jess phrased it, Echo had a notch of her ear torn out. Thus began the tension between the two sisters.

This went on for two more moons — and it soon became evident to Chive that not all was right. Echo hated her, and she was beginning to feel like her mother did, too. Ever since the incident when they were four moons old, Echo had never tried to leave again. But Chive was starting to understand why she’d wanted to in the first place. She would never admit that her sister was right about anything, though. She wouldn’t be able to bear it. She was angry with both Jess and Echo, and when she was six moons old, she crept away one day while she was meant to be hunting with Echo.

The two of them had gotten into an argument and split paths midway through. Since Jess wasn’t there to catch her and she doubted Echo would start searching for quite a while, Chive decided to take the opportunity. She fled across the moor to live by herself in freedom. She was able to avoid being tracked down, and pretty much just lived on the outskirts of Clan territory for the next moon, catching her own food and all that.

One day, a couple of weeks into her seventh moon, she spotted Bluepaw hunting on the stretch of land she’d had her eye on and attacked her, not realizing that she was the one trespassing on a border. Bluepaw explained to Chive that she was from MarshClan and that Chive shouldn't be there. Chive decided to join MarshClan, because heck it, why not? She wasn’t used to living without company anyways, and while she would’ve hated to confess it even to herself, she was struggling to provide for herself and would likely end up starving if she didn't join.

#### Apprenticeship

Chivepaw was apprenticed to Falconleap. She sucked at training, but she tried. She never got along with Bluepaw, finding the younger apprentice’s timid personality to be irritating, and liked to pick on her a lot. She also tried unsuccessfully to flirt with Viceroypaw all the time, too. To be fair, Viceroypaw was also rather shy - but in a less annoying way than Bluepaw. In Chivepaw’s eyes, at least. And she got into a ton of fights with Rillpaw, because Rillpaw was friends with Bluepaw and was also very scrappy. Like Chivepaw. So the two of them were constantly butting heads over just about everything.

Oh, and there was this one time when Chivepaw and Viceroypaw ran into Laurel - Viceroy’s mom - at the FallClan border, and Chivepaw accidentally taunted her into attacking and nearly killing Crowfang. Jaggedwatcher and Minkstar ended up getting involved. She had to run off with Viceroypaw to get the medicine cats, Whitebird and Motheye. It was pretty spectacular. But on the bright side, she *did* apologize to Crowfang for indirectly almost killing him, which was... nice of her. Then she tried to yeet the loner Bubo off of her territory before deciding to take him to Minkstar who in turn decided to let him stay on their territory. Chivepaw was a fickle gal. She accidentally got Falconleap attacked by a hawk once while trying to hunt, too. Then she made Stormstalker take her hunting instead. And she *still* did a pretty bad job of it. Dang, Chivepaw.

Viceroytuft died near the end of her apprenticeship, succumbing to the same plague that killed many of Chivepaw's Clanmates, including but not limited to Minkstar, Crowfang, and Jaggedwatcher. She also found Bubo's body on MarshClan's territory a few days later, and she felt bad and buried him. She mellowed out after that, becoming much more reserved and obedient. She didn't tease Bluepaw or Rillpaw nearly as much after the death of Viceroytuft in particular. In fact, they almost started to get along. She and Bluepaw, at least. Crazy, right?

Oh, yeah, and in her last moon of being an apprentice, she tormented Falconleap about telling her why she's so obsessed with killing birds. She didn’t get it out of her, but she was stubborn enough to keep trying until Falconleap pretty much screamed at her. Chivepaw was rude like that.

#### Warrior Life

Chivepaw passed her assessment and earned the full name Chivethistle. She was still a lot less obnoxious than she’d used to be, because she’d pretty much learned her lesson. She knew that Viceroytuft hadn’t exactly liked her, and she’d sort of been forcing their friendship just because she had a crush on him, and he’d actually found her kind of intimidating. She felt bad about that.

She also actually talked a bit to Bluepaw about it, because Bluepaw had been considering befriending Viceroytuft when he was an apprentice. Chivethistle and Bluepaw sort of stopped despising each other. Kind of. I mean, Chivethistle sort of stopped going out of her way to antagonize her, although the occasional taunt was still irresistible, particularly once Bluecloud became a warrior. They were on better terms, though. That was good. That meant Chivethistle wouldn’t have to be beaten up by Rillwing anytime soon.

Oh, and Falconleap developed the plague, too. So did Stormstalker, but this isn’t about him. Chivethistle was sort of concerned about her former mentor, and preferred that she didn’t die since they weren’t exactly on the best terms. Luckily for her, Falconleap survived. Yay. I mean, Stormstalker didn’t, but no one really cared about Stormstalker. Sorry, dude.

Also, Rillwing temporarily left the Clans for a bit on one occasion for reasons that I'm too lazy to specify here. Anyways, Bluecloud was trying to train Rillwing's apprentice, Lapwingpaw, as well as her own, Warrenpaw. She was kind of struggling with it. Chivethistle felt bad and decided to help. So she kind of temporarily took over Lapwingpaw's training to help Bluecloud a little. She made it clear that as soon as Rillwing came back, though, she'd return to being annoying. So, uh... cool? Lapwingfeather and Warrenfire became warriors before too long anyways.

And then Rillwing came back. And Chivethistle didn't like that. And Bluecloud became MarshClan's mediator. Chivethistle was fine with that - until Bluecloud started trying to talk to her about mediator things. She thought that was annoying. But in any case, Bluecloud caught her by herself one night and started asking her things like "wHy ArE yOu OnLy MeAn tO mE sOmE oF tHe TiMe? wHaT's YoUr DeAl?" and Chivethistle found it rather upsetting, because *she* didn't know what her deal was, either. She blurted out the most believable thing she could think of- that it was out of insecurity and jealousy. Bluecloud seemed to accept that answer, and Chivethistle was relieved to be left alone- but then she got to thinking, "wait. is that actually true tho???? sHoOt" and is sort of having a crisis over it.

I mean, anyways... she really hasn't done much of anything else yet, but hopefully she can get over Viceroytuft and find a good husband who’s actually willing to put up with all of her crap. Or better yet, help her get all of her crap under control.

## Other

#### Trivia

* She absolutely, 100% has a Southern accent. Southern United States, I mean. Like,, those people that stretch out their A's and say "y'all" and stuff. No offense intended, I'm just really bad at describing accents. Anyways, Chivethistle has one. I believe that she and her Clanmate Seedslip are the only cats known to have an accent. Suncurrent would probably be excited.
* Should I invent some loner and make him date her? I want to. I want to do that. I'm gonna do that. Not now, but soon. *Soon.*
* Her headcanon voice is Jessie from Toy Story. Fight me.
* Ooh, guess what? Jessie from Toy Story is also Kalefur's headcanon voice! Now I'm just imagining that they're trying to talk to each other but they have the same voice and oh no this is cursed help
* She used to call Viceroytuft "Vicey". He didn't like it. She didn't care that he didn't like it. *She* liked it, so she called him that.
* She has no idea that she's related to Rippledusk... *yet.*

#### Quotes

*"Oh. That sucks."* (a casual response to Viceroypaw talking about his horrible childhood)

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*“I smell idiocy in the air.”*