Peonycrown

Peonycrown is a lot of things, but "notable" is likely the best descriptor. Most cats who know her would swear that she's never even heard the word subtlety, but rest assured, she has. She simply doesn't care that much. She is a perfectionist and an optimist, always looking on the bright side and putting her faith in StarClan that everything will work out how it's meant to.

## Appearance & Personality

### Appearance

   Peonycrown is a fluffy she-cat with beautiful, silky cream fur. Her ears are folded and rounded at the tips. The right one is a pale pink with a dark rosy tip. Her other ear is a solid color, a midtone between the colors of her other ear. Her soft eyes are a light spring green and she has a smudge of pink on her nose. Her back and tail are dappled with soft pink and her toes are all the darkest color. Her front right paw has a sock. She always has a few flowers by her ear, usually peonies but not always. There is a thin scar across her throat, just below her chin.

### Personality

   Peonycrown is an optimistic cat. She loves to see the bright side of things. She is extremely fussy, needing everything to be in its proper place at all times. She hates having messy fur and tries to be very clean. She is very much a perfectionist who cannot leave anything unfinished. Ever. She tends to be very passive, letting things happen without much action on her part. She hates getting involved in arguments, but if she does, she has to win them.

## Background

### Kithood

Peonykit was born in OrchidClan, her parents' only kit. Her parents were the stern, dignified Regalmask and his mate, a gentle molly named Doveleaf. Regalmask was an only kit himself and, growing up, his parents had been rather uninvolved, but he made an effort to be better for his daughter than his parents had been. He was very awkward and after a while, he tended to avoid her and the nursery. He did attempt to let Peonykit know he cared, though, in his own way.

Doveleaf more than made up for this, smothering her daughter with affection every chance she got and giving her mate the same treatment whenever he'd let her. She was a friendly cat, a former loner and an expert storyteller. Peonykit could listen to her for hours, spellbound as Doveleaf told her grand tales of her past, of heroes and villains, of Clan history she'd picked up since joining. Not all of it was true, of course, but Peonykit was entertained.

She was not the only kit in the nursery - there was a pair of kits named Pansykit and Daisykit, sisters who were four moons older than her. Peonykit didn't play with them much due to the age difference. Daisykit was also a little aggressive and Doveleaf was very careful to keep her daughter away from anything that could get her hurt.

* 2 moons - Whimsybliss is born

### Apprenticeship

Peonypaw was apprenticed to Palestep, a younger tom who was extremely prickly. Peonypaw didn't like him very much. She wished that she could've been apprenticed to his brother, Houndblossom. Houndblossom seemed more chill. But no, she was stuck with Palestep. Cheers kiddo.

There were a few other apprentices in the den, including Pansypaw and Daisypaw again and a former loner named Myrtlepaw, who was being trained by Palestep's buddy Wheatnose. Peonypaw was a little nervous about training with Myrtlepaw, given the other molly's harsher demeanor and general bad attitude, but she stuck it out. It was training, after all, and Peonypaw wanted to become a good warrior.

Training with Myrtlepaw stopped about a moon later during some battle training, where Myrtlepaw (probably) accidentally nicked her across the throat. Myrtlepaw got chewed out by Palestep and Wheatnose and Peonypaw had to stay in the medicine den for a couple days. It was luckily a relatively shallow cut, and the scar was soon hidden by Peonypaw's thick fur, but it was still absolutely terrifying and Peonypaw refused to even sleep on the same side of the den as Myrtlepaw. Needless to say, they didn't train together after that. That was the only good outcome of the whole affair in Peonypaw's opinion.

Peonypaw absolutely hated Myrtlepaw after that and she wasn't alone. No one else seemed particularly fond of her either.

* 10 moons - Foxpaw & co become apprentices
* 11 moons - RussetGold kits move to OrC. Peony doesn't care too much.

### Warrior Life

* 13 moons - Lotuspaw moves to OrchidClan
* 14 moons - bonds with Lotuspaw over Myrtlepaw/pelt being the actual worst
* 19 moons - mentor to Flypaw
* 20 moons - rip Regalmask
* 23 moons - plague time ends
* 25 moons - Flyspark earns her warrior name

## Other

### Trivia

* A lot of cats hate Myrtlepelt, but Peonycrown takes it to another level.
* Peonies were Regalmask's favorite flower. It was intended to just be a flowername, but Regalmask wanted to give her something with meaning and he decided (with his wife's advice) that her name should remain Peonykit.