Hickorypad

Hickorypad is currently a warrior of OasisClan.

Name- Hickorypad

Gender- Tom

Clan- OasisClan

Rank- Warrior

Family- none rip

Friends- Honeyswirl and Patchpounce

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Hickorypad is a long-limbed tom with short white fur. He has spots and flecks of brown, both dark and light, all over his body, but particularly along his spine. His ears are somewhat shredded, and he has amber eyes. He's sort of tall and gangly.

#### Personality

He's sort of awkward and uncomfortable most of the time. He's sort of a dweeb. I dunno. He's sweet, though, and around cats he's actually chill with, he has a sense of humor. He's more on the quiet side and is outwardly shy, although he's actually very inquisitive and a deep thinker.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

He was born as a kittypet under the name of - wait for it - *Steve.* Yes, he was Steve. He didn't want to be Steve, though. And as it turns out, his owners didn't want Steve, either. Steve's mom had, like, eight kits, and Steve was the runt. So everyone just decided to yeet Steve. He was thrown out onto the streets and sort of lived as a stray for a while. I mean, to be fair, he didn't actually *know* his name was Steve; but all the same, he was Steve. Oh, yeah, and he was only chucked out onto the streets once he was two moons old, so he could already move around and eat solid food and talk a little bit. So that was cool.

Anyways, Steve crawled around and suffered for another moon. He got beaten up by another stray for trying to steal some food once, and that's why his ears are so messed up. Eventually, though, Steve met Honey. Honey was also a stray, and she lived in a lil abandoned alley with her mother, Peach, and her siblings, Brindle and Tiger. Steve befriended Honey straight away, and she gave him the name Hickory, because she thought it was cute. So Steve was now Hickory.

Honey knew that Peach wouldn't want another mouth to feed, so she would instead sneak over to visit Hickory and bring him some of the prey that she was able to catch. They pretty much hung out and chilled for a while, and it was cool. But one day, Peach got hit by a car. Honey and her siblings were on their own then. Honey went right to Hickory, and the two of them took off.

They found their way out of twolegplace eventually. They were five moons old by this time, and they travelled for another moon and a half before finding themselves in Clan territory. Specifically FallClan territory. They didn't like FallClan, though, so they moved, and they both joined OasisClan at six and a half moons. Why? Because they wanted to. Hush.

#### Apprenticeship

Hickorypaw was apprenticed to Elmleap. He didn't really do much for a very long time. He was scared of his mentor. He also tried to hide his quickly-growing crush on Honeypaw, and did a terrible job of it. Everyone could tell. Except for Honeypaw, apparently.

Monarchpaw became a warrior and Breezepaw died of the plague only a few moons after he and Honeypaw had joined the Clan. Suddenly, they were the only apprentices in the den for, like, several moons. That was pretty hard on Hickorypaw, because he had a crush on this gal, and they were pretty much stuck sharing a den by themselves for an extremely long time. It didn't help when her mentor Ferretmask got sick, either, and he had to train alongside her with Elmleap for, like, a moon. He was kind of losing his mind, and he was very relieved once Patchpaw, Silverpaw, and Minnowpaw joined them and Ferretmask recovered.

He pretty much just chilled. He was hunting with Honeypaw once and he stepped on a giant thorn, but awkwardly managed to hide it for the whole rest of the trip because he didn't want to embarrass himself in front of her. He pulled it out himself once they got back. It got infected later because he'd done it wrong. It was a pretty grand fiasco.

He kind of became friends with Patchpaw over the last few moons of his apprenticeship. They weren't really close, but they were chill. They'd hang out if they had no one else to hang out with, y'know? Yeah, y'know.

For a while, Hickorypaw was just vibing.

#### Warrior Life

Hickorypaw was panicking all throughout his assessment. He messed up spectacularly when it came to fighting, but when it was time for his hunting skills to be assessed, he was given an extra burst of motivation due to the fact that Honeypaw had encouraged him. He did a pretty good job, and managed to pass his assessment anyways. He earned the name of Hickorypad alongside Honeyswirl.

During their vigil, Hickorypad was slowly going crazy. He had to sit right next to the girl he liked in complete silence and almost total darkness for the whole night. He was super nervous and uncomfortable, and he finally decided that he had to confront his fear. He awkwardly admitted to her that he had a crush on her, and asked if she was willing to take their relationship up a notch or two. However, he was somewhat mortified to hear that she didn't return the feelings and never had. It was a very awkward exchange. She only saw him as a friend, though, and Hickorypad decided he would do his best to respect that, no matter how hard it was to shake off his crush. He tried to play off his confession as having been a joke, but he couldn't help but feel somewhat injured on the inside.

For a while, he just chilled. He'd sort of made his relationship with Honeyswirl awkward, though, and while they were still close, they didn't hang out as much. Hickorypad was afraid to really approach her for fear of her interpreting it as further flirting. Once Patchpounce became a warrior, Hickorypad spent more time with him, not wanting to be alone.

Currently, he's just vibing. Help him.

## Other

#### Trivia

* He might end up with Scorchface. Maybe. He needs a gf. He's a good boi and deserves to be happy.
* I named him Steve just because I've been playing too much Minecraft lately. Help. Quarantine is really doing a number on me.