Lionspring

Lionspring is a lean shorthaired cat, mostly white with black patches. He was born into Marshclan in a litter of three or four, but lost his siblings and parents in the Great Freeze, and later events.

## RP Details

### Portrayed by

Shadow of the Raven's Wing

Lionspring created the "Great Freeze, Gathering" friend group, consisting of almost all the survivors around his own age once tensions between the clans settled post-Great Freeze. Even as they all grow apart, Lionspring clings to those friendships and mourns their losses deeply.

## Personality

   As an apprentice, Lionpaw was very outgoing and larger-than-life, always looking for trouble to cause and friendships to make. "Dramatic" was a word used to describe him on his character creation page.

As an adult, Lionspring is fairly optimistic and wants to see the best in everyone he respects or cares about. He is bright and outspoken, often saying his major thoughts or concerns before his mind catches up to him, even if he's better about keeping the "less important" thoughts to himself.

Lionspring's most prominent character trait shows itself in the love he holds for his friends, and how hard he clings to nostalgia, working effortlessly to be the peacekeeper between his friends, even when it drains his own energy or they are in a clan that Marshclan is at odds with. Lionspring will plan and fight along Marshclan against the other, but will still put in the effort to try to keep things peaceful afterwards with his rival friends.

He grieves lost friendships deeply, and will likely never stop trying to reconnect, even if those attempts are just sneaking glances across a gathering and hoping not to receive a glare in return (or, alternatively, keeping his head down to *avoid* a glare, in case the other cat might approach on their own one day).

## History

Lionkit was born a fever kitten, the black patches of his pattern tipped halfway with white. He may have been sickly or weak, or his parents may have given the entire litter powerful names for good luck.

Lionkit always lead his siblings and denmates with him on grand adventures, roping them into whatever trouble he could find. The elder Robinfeather (possibly their aunt) would often supervise, offering new ideas and interrupting when they started to go too far.

Lionkit/paw lived through the Great Freeze that killed many of the clan's warriors and even more of their elders. He lost both of his parents in the freeze and two of his siblings. Whether it was the Freeze or just maturity, Lionpaw mellowed out quite a bit with the theatrics. He is afraid of losing those he loves, especially without a proper goodbye, so he clings to the relationships he has and does all he can to hold close and cherish them.

After the Great Freeze, when Lionpaw was around 7 or 8 moons old, he went to his first peaceful gathering. It was springtime, food was more abundant, and everyone was tired of fighting. Tense as things still were, there was no fear of letting the apprentices interact.

That first gathering, Lionpaw, Pouncepaw, and Leafpaw of Marshclan met and befriended Bumblepaw and Whitepaw of Caveclan, and Bluepaw of Fieldclan. Later, the group would add Silverpaw and Sparkpaw (MC), Softpaw (FC), Myrtlepaw and Dovepaw (CC), and possibly even Shrillpaw of Treeclan. Breezepaw of Treeclan likely met them, but she often stayed closer to cats she was more familiar with; Swirlpaw of Fieldclan wasn't the type to befriend outsiders; Firepaw of Caveclan may have been part of the group a time or two, but mostly stayed with the medicine cats (unless it is said otherwise); and Jackalpaw of Caveclan would have tagged along a time or two but was disliked by everyone.

Lionpaw looked forward to meeting them every time, but the group began to drift over time. The Marshclan cats were as tight as ever, but everyone else had their own lives away from each other. Bumblepaw and Bluepaw became closer to each other than to the rest of the group outside of their respective clans. Dovewhisper died. Bumbleheart began isolating himself just a little more at gatherings, still seeing the friend group but much more closed off, often with Jackalfoot at his side. Whiteheart followed Bumbleheart's lead, and Bluefeather drifted as well, until some started missing gatherings entirely.

The group as a whole began to fall apart, with Lionspring leaping in to keep the peace, actively seeking out his friends and trying to act like nothing was different, looking for their faces in the crowd just to know they were alive, wondering in many cases if he did something wrong.

He grieves them, like he would any friends from his own clan. He grieves the friendship they all once shared, but still makes it a point to go to every gathering he can to pick up the pieces.

## Trivia

* Lionspring is played by Shadow of the Raven's Wing
* He may have originally been based somewhat off of Shadow's first (and at the time, only) Marshclan cat, Robinfeather. It is possible that Robinfeather's brother, Storm[suffix] was the father of Lionspring's litter, and possibly some older litters.
* He was 10m at time of creation