Petalfrost

Petalfrost is a being of grace and elegance. Her pride gets the better of her often, but she cares deeply for her mate and at least a little bit for her Clan. She was a kit/apprentice during the OrchidClan rebellion, but would have sided with Leafstar had she been aware what was going on.

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Petalfrost's fur is long and soft, always pristine and well-groomed. The base color is white, with gray markings covering most of her head and back. Darker gray runs in a line from her nose to her tail and also covers her ears. There are three spots of the darker gray under each of her eyes, which are green.

### Personality

Petalfrost is instantly recognizable for her pride and vanity. She is fiercely independent and has almost as much ego as she does fur. She definitely does have a softer side - with her mate, Petalfrost is very affectionate. She's a rock for Sprucestripe and the few other cats she loves, an anchor that is always steady despite how dynamic of a cat she is. She is ambitious and always looking to hit new heights.

## Background

### Kithood

Petal was born outside the Clans to a cat named Tina. Her father's name was Shard and she had one littermate, a white and gray tabby named Thistle.

Shard was a paranoid cat, delusional from moons upon moons of convincing himself that he had a grand destiny. One of his 'visions' indicated that he needed to find a gray tabby to be his mate, hence Tina and the kits. Petal was unaware of this. Petal was having the time of her life hanging out with her sister and generally having a good time.

Unfortunately, Shard didn't stop being crazy. Turns out, small kits are kind of annoying and, with Tina's death when they were only a moon or so old, it was really hard to take care of them. His visions soon told him to get rid of them. "There are groups of cats down there," the voices whispered. "They'll take care of the kits." So Shard did exactly that and abandoned his children with the Clans.

Petal was left in OrchidClan in the dead of night when she was two moons old. She was the first one dropped off, so she had no idea where Thistle was. She was also asleep at the time and waking up in an unfamiliar place with no one you know is pretty scary. She was found in the morning by Moonmist.

She was renamed Petalkit. Well, they tried to give her a flowername until they knew her a bit better, but she insisted that her name was Petal. Lavenderstar finally just tacked -kit on the end and she was known as Petalkit. Good enough. Petalkit was not the only kit being raised by Moonmist - she perpetually has half a dozen children under her care. The one kit she could not get along with was Lilykit. She was a newborn when Petalkit joined the Clan, but Petalkit found her beneath herself as Lilykit got a bit older. Petalkit was, as they say, incredibly arrogant. She got a bit better over time, less prideful but a little more vain.

### Apprenticeship

Petalpaw was apprenticed to Saffronsplash at the usual age of 6 moons by the deputy Leafshine rather than Lavenderstar. That was weird, but Petalpaw didn't question it. Saffronsplash hadn't had an apprentice before, but she had been close to her brother's kits when they were young, so she at least knew how to teach some basic stuff. Petalpaw learned hunting from her fairly well, but her fighting skills could use work. A lot of work, actually.

She met another apprentice, Sprucepaw, shortly after becoming an apprentice and, lacking anything better to do, they went hunting together. Petalpaw found that, try as she might to find his clumsiness and infectious humor annoying, it was rather endearing. She didn't quite develop a crush on the tom yet, but the seeds were planted.

Things continued somewhat normally for the next several moons - as normal as they could be, considering Lavenderstar was still being a poor leader and the rising tensions within the Clan.

* 10 moons - got bullied by Redkit (he threw a rock at her); the infamous Petalpaw-Lilypaw rivalry begins; fights a fox with Sprucestripe and Frondmist; insists that Sprucestripe wasn’t her boyfriend

### Warrior Life

* 12 moons - got engaged kind of to Sprucestripe, made him a daisy flower crown and got a lilac one from him, Pansymoon made her and Sprucestripe watch the kits for a bit
* 13 moons - goes hunting with Sprucestripe & Lilypaw
* 14 moons - becomes mates with Sprucestripe; goes flower collecting with Sprucestripe, they gather snowdrops for the nursery; HC hike with Sprucestripe and someone else?? (I think it was Daisyblossom but I don't remember)
* 15 moons - did not attend the Gathering

## Other

### Trivia

* Petalfrost doesn't have a very good reputation within OrchidClan
* Petalfrost is a philokalist (lover of beauty/beautiful things). She does everything for The Aesthetic
* Petalfrost is terrified of snakes. She thinks they're very creepy.
* Petalfrost knows that she has a sister but doesn't remember her name.
* An attempt was made when she first joined the Clan to give her a flowername (Snowdropkit) but she refused and insisted that she be called Petal.
* Petalfrost still has the lilac flower crown that Sprucestripe made for her.