Goldthicket

### Family

Russetwisp (ex-mate), Poppy and Burrpaw (daughters), Swirlpaw and Weedpaw (sons)

### Enemies

Like, everyone. But Russetwisp in particular, and formerly Whirlwing. Oh, and also Sproutsong.

## Appearance

Goldthicket is a tall, slim cat with golden tabby fur, mottled with brown and gray. His eyes are orange, and he has a long, thin tail. He stands about 9.5 inches tall.

## Personality

Goldthicket is... kind of a sociopath. He doesn't have any depressing backstory or any other excuse to blame for his behavior. He's just sort of sadistic and extremely reckless, not thinking at all before taking extremely drastic action. He's vicious but keeps a smooth, calm demeanor to scare cats. He lives by the FallClan border, where he's been known to try and pick off apprentices who wander toward No Clan's Land.

## Story

#### Kithood

Goldkit was born an only child to Riversky of FallClan and Bightsand, a MarshClan warrior who didn't move to FallClan, but who visited often and loved his son. There was one other queen in the nursery, Jaywillow, who was actually Riversky's sister. She had two kits, Phloxkit and Jasminekit, who were three moons older than Goldkit. Jaywillow's mate was dead, so Riversky and Bightsand helped her a lot with raising the kits and they were basically one big family.

When Goldkit was three, Jasminepaw and Ploxpaw became apprentices. He was a little sad, but a new queen named Shatterswirl moved in, with her mate Rowanfrost never far away. A moon later, she had her kits, Russetkit and Whirlkit. Goldkit thought they were super cute.

What worried his parents, though, were Goldkit's weird habits like resorting quickly to violence when he got angry, or killing bugs. Now, pretty much all kits kill a bug or two, but this kiddo was actively seeking them out to hunt them. Bightsand was worried, but Riversky assured him that their son was probably just practicing his hunting. The violent outbursts did concern them, though.

#### Apprenticeship

Goldpaw was apprenticed to Honeydown, who was a sweet and gentle cat. The leader had assigned him to her in hopes that her quiet nature would calm him. All it did, however, was frustrate him. She wasn't strict enough, and he got into a lot of trouble. He and another apprentice, Lagoonpaw, snuck out of the territory once to try and explore the Moon Falls, of all places. They were caught, though, and Lagoonpaw's mentor Duckpelt punished them harshly.

When Goldpaw was ten, Russetpaw and Whirlpaw became apprentices. He was close with Russetpaw, but he formed a fierce rivalry with her sister. Their fighting went too far once and their mentors had to intercept it. Goldpaw clawed Honeydown across the face. The next day, she was gone, and he learned that the stress of trying to train him had driven her to actually leave the Clans altogether. So.

He got a new mentor, Pigeongust, a lazy young warrior whom Goldpaw absolutely despised. Pigeongust had only become a warrior four moons prior, and he still basically acted like an apprentice. Goldpaw could not fathom why he was chosen to mentor him. So he took matters into his own paws. In a bout of frustration, he quite literally tried to drown his mentor, and was subsequently forced to care for the elders for three days straight.

Russetpaw tried to convince him to be better in general, but that didn't work. What worked was Whirlpaw constantly teasing him for being the worst apprentice in FallClan history. So he actually started to let Pigeongust train him.

And then Jasminetuft and Phloxdew became warriors. And then Whirlpaw moved to HorizonClan. So.

Russetpaw and Goldpaw became rather close during this time.

#### Warrior Life

Goldthicket became a warrior. Cool.

Four moons later, so did Russetwisp. Also cool.

Six moons after that, they became mates. (So at this point Gold is 22 and Russet is 18.)

Anyway, then Riversky died of greencough. And then Bightsand left the Clans out of sadness. Phloxdew moved to HorizonClan to become mates with Whirlwing, Jaywillow died of greencough as well, Shatterswirl was killed by a dog, aaaand Rowanfrost fell off a waterfall and drowned. So. Goldthicket honestly didn't care all that much, because by this point, he'd found out that Russetwisp was expecting kits.

When Goldthicket was twenty-eight, Burrkit, Poppykit, Swirlkit, and Weedkit were born. Yay!

Also, Phloxdew and Whirlwing had their own kits a moon later: Willowkit, Brindlekit, and Smogkit. Goldthicket had no idea what Phloxdew saw in Whirlwing, but whatever.

When his kits turned two moons old, Goldthicket started battle training them. Russetwisp was worried, but Goldthicket reassured her, and she let it happen.

Who wasn't going to let it happen? Whirlwing, who'd come by for a visit. She was horrified that he was battle-training his kits and yelled at him in the middle of camp. Well, Goldthicket didn't like that. So he up and attacked her. And, uh, killed her.

He was exiled, of course, and on the way out Russetwisp swore she would kill him one day. So.

#### Rogue life

Out in the wilderness he came across a nice den near FallClan territory. It was occupied by a loner family: Lotus, her mate Silent, their kits Spring and Wander, Lotus's brother Drizzle, and Silent's father Croak. Goldthicket asked if he could rest with them for a while, making up a story that didn't involve murder. They let him in, and he stayed for two moons to earn their trust. And then in the middle of the night he killed Lotus, Silent, Spring, and Drizzle and chased Croak and Wander away. So now he had a den all to himself. Because he's horrible like that.

Anyway, Goldthicket kinda just existed for a while. He enjoys scaring FallClan apprentices because he's the worst.

Then one day Sproutsong came wandering by, so Goldthicket chased him around for a while. Then Sproutsong insulted him, and Goldthicket attacked him in a blind rage. He managed to beat Sproutsong up pretty good, but the guy tore out Goldthicket's left eye. Goldthicket was *not* happy about that.

Currently, he's probably just sulking somewhere by the FallClan border.

## Other

#### Trivia

* I did not add Russetwisp and Goldthicket to the ships page because it was always a horrible relationship. This guy is the worst, man.

#### Quotes

*"Aw, really, you shouldn't be \*that\* happy to see me." -* to Sproutsong

*"You* wish *you had half a brain." -* to Sproutsong

*"I was just warming up, you pathetic lump of mold. You remind me of someone I used to know. Just as aggravating and cocky as you. Her name was Whirlwind; does that ring a bell?"* - to Sproutsong, obviously