Lapwingfeather

Lapwingpaw is a salty young cat. She feels unfulfilled in her role as a warrior apprentice and desperately wishes she could have been a medic. She resents Barrenpaw for getting the role she wanted so badly.

## Appearance & Personality

### Appearance

Lapwingpaw is about average height, with long fur and a longer tail than average. She has soft gray eyes, a trait shared with most of her family. She inherited Firestorm's ginger tabby pelt, with thick, bold stripes down her back and tail. She has tall white socks, a white chest and belly, and a white muzzle. Her tail tip is also white and goes toward her body until it tapers off halfway up her tail. Her ear tips are a slightly darker ginger, the same color as her stripes.

### Personality

Lapwingpaw is quite salty. Even as a kit, she was a little more withdrawn and a little more aggressive than her siblings were. She is a little bit surly and tends to keep to herself. She has a passion for plants and healing that is left unfulfilled and her frustration about that has colored every part of her life since Whitebird's rejection. Despite her general bad attitude, aggression, and resentment, Lapwingpaw does have a sincere desire to help other cats.

## Background

### Kithood

Lapwingkit was born in MarshClan, thirdborn in a litter of four kits. Her mother was Minkstar, leader of MarshClan, and her father was Firestorm, an OrchidClan tom who was hiding in MarshClan to avoid the rebellion/Lavenderstar mess. Things went wrong right from the start, as Minkstar lost several lives while kitting due to already being weak from the plague that was going around.

Due to Minkstar's untimely death, Lapwingpaw and her siblings were named by Firestorm. Hollykit, Warrenkit, Lapwingkit, and Chaffinchkit were taken in to be raised by MarshClan's stationary queen Cedarpoppy. Firestorm remained quite active in his kits' lives, telling them all sorts of stories about Minkstar and his home in OrchidClan. He suffered from claustrophobia, so Lapwingkit actually spent a fair amount of time outside camp with her father and siblings.

Right from the start, there was a bit of a divide between Lapwingkit and her siblings. She was a little more aggressive, a little less friendly. While her siblings got along and played together, Lapwingkit was a biter and got removed from many games because of it. She didn't understand why - wasn't she just play-fighting like the rest of them? She grew bitter because she just couldn't understand why she was being punished for what it seemed like all her siblings were doing.

She did discover a love of herbs while sulking one time and, despite the dangers of the plague, she asked Whitebird if she could be the medic apprentice when she was old enough. Whitebird said no. Lapwingkit didn't like that. She decided to ask again when she was closer to six moons old. The Clan needed a medic for when she was gone, right? Well, Lapwingkit was willing and if Whitebird couldn't see what was in front of her, she'd figure out a way to make the older molly come around.

### Apprenticeship

Much to her dismay, Lapwingpaw was apprenticed to the warrior Rillwing when she turned six moons old. Her brother Warrenpaw was given to Rillwing's best friend, Bluecloud, which did not make Lapwingpaw feel any better. Because despite her numerous appeals, Lapwingpaw was not the medic apprentice. Instead, the only kit in the nursery who wasn't related to her, Barrenpaw, was apprenticed to Whitebird. Lapwingpaw was furious about this. Barrenpaw didn't even want to do it! They were only MCA because they were related to one of the founders or something dumb like that. Lapwingpaw didn't really know. However, she thought the whole thing was dumb and she didn't think the tortoiseshell should get to hold the position she wanted so badly.

It was pretty early in her apprenticeship that Rillwing got in a fight with Cardinalflight, causing Cardinalflight to leave MarshClan. Rillwing done goofed. Lapwingpaw had no idea what happened, just that she disappeared for like a moon along with Cardinalflight's sister Firsong. Lapwingpaw was kind of excited about that - she was not very fond of Rillwing as previously noted.

During the next moon, Lapwingpaw was trained by Rillwing's rival, Chivethistle. Lapwingpaw liked this arrangement a lot better, since Chivethistle never made her do actual warrior stuff. Instead, Chivethistle taught her about plants. That was what Lapwingpaw wanted to know about, so they got along pretty well. In fact, since her relationships with her family were still pretty strained, Chivethistle quickly became Lapwingpaw's favorite cat.

Her familial situation didn't get any better with Firestorm's death. She was just eight moons old when he succumbed to plague. Thanks to the cure given to them by the Travelers, he was the last MarshClan cat to die to the disease, but that didn't change the fact that he did die. Other cats were saved but it was too late for him. Lapwingpaw, resentful as always, blamed Whitebird and Barrenpaw. She believed that *she* could have saved Firestorm, but because Whitebird hadn't given her a chance, he was dead.

At the full moon, the first Gathering since the plague was held. It was the first one in Lapwingpaw's lifetime and, with Rillwing (tragically) back from her trip, she got to go. Lapwingpaw was unimpressed by the other Clans' apprentices, but did end up talking to a few of them - Epiphanypaw of HorizonClan, who was the same age as her; Ravenpaw and Flypaw from OrchidClan, who were a little older but had apparently heard about her dad from their dad Lionspark; and Murkypaw, an energetic OasisClan apprentice who wouldn't stop talking about mushrooms.

The annual HorizonClan hike was announced at the Gathering and Lapwingpaw decided not to go. Warrenpaw eventually talked her into it, though. She went in a group with her siblings and they were chaperoned by none other than the OrchidClan deputy, Palestep. Lapwingpaw was less than impressed with him, but he had known Firestorm before he moved to MarshClan. Apparently Palestep had looked up to him as a kit and apprentice and had been friends with him as a warrior. He offered to introduce the siblings to his and Firestorm's other friend, Wheatnose. Lapwingpaw didn't want to, but she held her tongue. A group of HorizonClan warriors won the hike, but she didn't really care. She spent most of the sleepover at the top ignoring cats her age and trying to talk to Thundersight, the HorizonClan medic.

Another moon, another Gathering. Lapwingpaw didn't want to go, so she didn't. That turned out to be a mistake, because this Gathering had huge implications for the future that she had to learn secondhand. The FallClan deputy announced a warning he had received from a loner about a cat called Ruby. Ruby was apparently planning to destroy the Clans with an army and was on her way from twolegplace. Wild.

Despite that dire warning, Lapwingpaw's apprenticeship continued pretty normally. She trained, she hunted, she sulked, she occasionally went out with Chivethistle to look at and learn about plants. Now that the borders were open, they could explore a lot more plants. Lapwingpaw always enjoyed those little outings.

## Other

### Trivia

* In the original, Lapwingpaw had problems with Whitebird's apprentice Featherpaw just like she does Barrenpaw in this version.
* Her voice claim is MJ/Zendaya from the MCU Spiderman movies
* Lapwingpaw has some lapwing feathers in her nest that were a gift from her sister Hollypaw. She doesn't wear them and outwardly she's a little grumpy and ungrateful about them, but she does like them and keeps them close when she sleeps.

### Quotes

*"Oh, and foxes look* exactly *like mice."*

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