Skyflower

### Family

Wheatnose (mate), an unnamed litter of kits (children, deceased), Flaxkit and Webkit (sons), Cloudkit and Tawnykit (daughters)

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Skyflower has beautiful, long white fur. She has pretty blue eyes and gray patches all over her, most notably on her right eye.

### Personality

Skyflower is quiet and peaceful. She mostly plays a background role, raising her kits and generally being in love with Wheatnose (incredible, I know.) She can be fierce when needed, but she's mostly just happy to sit in the background, taking care of her kits. She is reliable and rather likable.

## Backstory

### Kithood

Skykit and Flowerkit were born in FallClan. They learned to swim at a young age and grew up eating fish and playing on islands. Wow. So special.

The two of them spent many moons together and were practically inseparable. Their parents had died when they were really little, so they were raised by their mother's sister, Puddlebriar, and her close friend Mossytoe. Mossytoe had an extra toe on each of her paws, which is where her name came from. She and Puddlebriar cared for Skykit and Flowerkit for their entire kithood. Skykit was very fond of her guardians, especially Mossytoe.

Skykit was also really good friends with Tigerbee, one of the younger elders who had never been able to have kits of her own. As such, she was very friendly and often told Skykit stories about her youth. She had been born right as the rogue war was ending and had plenty of stories to share about it.

When she wasn't hanging out with the elders, Skykit was pestering apprentices and warriors to take her out of camp. Usually, only Pubblebriar or Mossytoe was willing to take her, but one time an apprentice took her out and tried to drown her. That was fun. Not really though. It took a moon to convince her to even look at water again.

Finally, as the kits approached six moons old, Mossytoe went missing. Search parties were sent out, but no one could find her. Thoroughly upset, Puddlebriar began making preparations for Skykit and Flowerkit to go live in OasisClan.

### Apprenticeship

Skypaw was made an apprentice in FallClan, but wasn't given a mentor because of Puddlebriar's plans to move her and Flowerpaw. She did get to go to the Gathering though, where she met Wheatpaw. Skypaw really liked Wheatpaw and thought it was really cool to have someone to hang out with. Flowerpaw also liked hanging out with Wheatpaw and the three of them became a nifty little friend group.

After the Gathering, Puddlebriar finally moved Skypaw and Flowerpaw to OasisClan. She then left the Clans, determined to find Mossytoe.

Skypaw and Flowerpaw received OasisClan mentors. Skypaw's mentor was Wrenhill. Skypaw didn't care too much. She had just lost all of the parental figures she'd ever known and she was very wary of Wrenhill, certain that if she started caring about her mentor, she too would disappear. She remained close with her sister and kept hanging out with Wheatpaw during Gatherings.

One day when she was eleven moons old, Skypaw and her sister were out hunting when a fox attacked. With no time to call for backup, the two apprentices had to fight the fox off by themselves. It ended up killing Flowerpaw, despite Skypaw's best efforts. She took her sister's body back to camp, feeling more horribly alone than ever.

### Warrior/Queen Life

Skypaw was named Skyflower for her bravery. She carried her sister's name like a weight, a constant reminder of how she hadn't been enough. The only time she felt like herself was when she was with Wheatpaw, who she had to tell about her sister's death. She felt awful the whole time. She remined close friends with Wheatpaw though.

Not too long after, though, Wheatpaw earned his warrior name and became Wheatnose. Obviously, this name is dumb and Skyflower did tease him about it, but she did learn to love it.

When she was seventeen, Wheatnose asked her to stay behind at a Gathering. She agreed and he explained that he really really liked her. Skyflower was actually shocked by this. All this time, she had thought he was in love with Flowerpaw! He asked her to be his mate and she of course said yes. She asked him to move to OasisClan to be with her, but he said no. She was rather upset about that, but he promised to visit as often as he could.

He visited many times during the next half moon, but his visits became less and less frequent. After his last visit, Skyflower had found out she was expecting kits and she was very excited to tell him the news, so she waited for his next visit. She waited and waited and waited. She had to move into the nursery and still kept waiting. She had started to fear he had forgotten all about her.

Then the kits were born. It was an extremely hard labor. The kits were premature and weak. Two of them, both she-cats, were born dead, and the third she-cat was very weak and didn't seem like she would make it through the night. She sent a messenger to go get Wheatnose and he arrived just after dusk. Skyflower was just relieved to have her mate back. She wasn't even mad after learning that his mother had died. She had forgiven him for the lack of visits and him missing the birth of their kits. All that mattered to her was that they were together again.

Their poor little daughter barely made it to dawn and two of the three toms died that day. Skyflower was heartbroken, but at Wheatnose's suggestion, they named their last son Bravekit. Skyflower was hopeful that he would live, but he died on his second day of life. To make matters worse, a messenger came with the news that Wheatnose's father, Jackalbark, had died. It was a rough couple of days for the WheatSky family.

Finally, Skyflower convinced her mate to go back to OrchidClan and get some closure. He was back in about two weeks, at which point they discovered Skyflower was pregnant again. Skyflower was definitely scared- after losing her whole litter like that, why wouldn't she be? However, she let Wheatnose fuss over her as much as he liked and stayed quietly in her nest in the nursery. Nothing was going to happen to her kits, not again.

When she was twenty-two, Skyflower had her second litter of kits. The kits were born on time and perfectly healthy. Skyflower named the toms Flaxkit and Webkit, two names she liked a lot, while Wheatnose named the she-cat, Cloudkit and Tawnykit. Skyflower spent a lot of time early on trying to detach Wheatnose from the nursery, but he still pretty much lives there and Skyflower can't really complain.