Swiftrain

> ❝And if it rhymes it’s true, but I hate poetry.❞
>
> ~ Swiftrain

**Swiftrain** is a long-legged she-cat with pale blue eyes and speckled gray fur, long elegant fluffy tail and round tall ears.

## Personality

Swift’Rain is a very cold, almost emotionless, cat who has lost all connection to her own morality . She is also incredibly intelligent to an almost frightening degree as this comes with a great ability to manipulate and fool the cats around her. To everyone else, she is a sweet kind cheerful cat who can do no wrong, but is a bit clumsy sometimes! All of the actions that you could see as malicious are presented as mistakes because she knows how to make people believe that she’s this person. She’s not clumsy, she’s never tripped unintentionally once in her life and she could catch the prey she chases if she so desired, but letting it run and giving the clan one less bite to eat brings her an odd thrill. She becomes more and more comfortable doing cruel actions under her mask of the peppy ditzy cat, but it brings her less and less joy each time. She’s always chasing the thrill and excitement as it’s the last thing she truly feels, until even something like causing a serious injury isn’t enough to feed her empty heart, She needs more. And she will get it.

## Backstory

Swift’Kit was born to her mother Sage’Crystal and her father Honey’Pebble in Sycamore’Clan. She was a lonely kitten who got a lot of pressure put on her by her parents. They had lost their first kit Trout’Kit to a terrible illness. They wanted their daughter to become a medicine cat so that she could communicate with Star’Clan and give them closure. This, Unfortunately was the only reason she existed. Dealing with the stress of her parents she put on a happy face to make sure that the other cats did not become upset with her. She quickly bonded with the current medicine cat apprentice, Stone’Tumble. Despite being an apprentice by a technicality he was more like a second medicine cat and was around 20 moons old when Swift’Kit was only two. He took an uncomfortably close liking to the kit and promised he’d put in a good word for her when she got older, She would be a medicine cat just like her parents dreamed for her.

Her parents taught her that becoming a medicine cat was the only thing she should ever care about, her feelings did not matter. She was only a vessel for them to speak to the deceased Trout’Kit. When she was finally named an apprentice she excitedly asked Stone’Tumble if he was ready to put in the word for her, Stone’Tumble told her he couldn’t do that. The current medicine cat would surely find out about the two’s relationship if that were to happen, and of course the clan would disapprove! He wanted to remain her “”mate”” no matter what, and that would be too obvious. Swift’Paw was furious. Becoming a medicine cat was all she cared about, and all he cared about was maintaining his image.

She couldn’t believe he couldn’t see how important this was, so she ran to her parents. She confessed to them that she could not become the medicine cat, Stone’Tumble was her mate and would not allow it. Her parents, instead of being alarmed by the fact that Stone’Tumble was with their quite young daughter, Were instead furious that she would try to ruin a perfectly nice young tom’s reputation by making him break the warrior code to be with her. They scolded her and she was told if she did not apologize to him and find a way into the role of medicine cat then she was NOT their daughter. Distressed and heartbroken Swift’Paw divised a plan ; If she couldn’t be his mate and his apprentice, then she’d just have to take his spot instead. Bringing the medicine cat ‘apprentice’ a rabbit full of Death Berries to eat as a lunch. To everyone else, He came down deathly ill out of nowhere! And sweet little Swift’Paw was only taking care of him of course.. Little did they all know she was making sure he would not get out of that incident alive. And he didn’t. But it still wasn’t enough. Her father suspected she had done something, And the fact she had still not earned the role of medicine cat apprentice infuriated him. Taking her out to the nearby stream he intended , in a fit of grief, agony and rage to drown his daughter. It was raining and the rocks were slippery. He slipped and she was able to wriggle out of her grasp. She could have ran away, She could have ran far far away from the terrible people in that clan who had wronged her. But suddenly without even thinking about it she grabbed a rock in her jaws and bashed it against her fathers head as hard as she possibly could. Looking down at his body as the blood trickled into the stream she felt nothing, no sympathy and no regret. All she could do was pretend to scream as cats came running to see what the commotion was about;

“My father and i- w-we were just on a midnight hunt! We wanted to bring back some fish from the stream but-but- he slipped!! he hit his head and he’s not moving!! it’s all my fault!!” . . . The cats suspected nothing. And it was in that moment she realized they were all idiots, suddenly after years of neglect she was being coddled and comforted and shown attention.. It was that simple to lie and have everyone’s eyes on her. It was thrilling, It was incredible. She had this clan in the palm of her paw and they didn’t even realize it.. and suddenly she felt much more sure of her place in the world.