Pencil

Pencil is a loner living somewhere near HorizonClan’s outer border.

Name- Pencil

Gender- Tom

Clan- None

Rank- Loner

Family- Raccoon (adopted son), Flower, Taki, and Humble (adopted kits), Hallie (mother), Swoop (father), Milla (deceased, sister), Swoop II (deceased, brother)

Friends- Fireflyleap

Enemies- Hallie

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Pencil is a mostly golden-furred tom, but his pelt is jet black from the neck up. His ears are tipped with gold, and there is a pointy tuft of fur on the top of his head that sticks up like the tip of a pencil. He is very fluffy, and his thick fur makes him look large and rather plump, although beneath his pelt he is very slim and agile. His eyes are a shade of deep sea-green.

#### Personality

He is described as being very easygoing and relaxed. He is also relatively friendly and kindhearted, but he has a bad side, and if anyone threatened those he cared about, he defends them fiercely. He dosen't hesitate before acting, and thinks nothing of risks. He acts without a moment of thought.

## Backstory

#### Kithood / Early Life

Pencil, born Tuftile, was born in a small twoleg nest near Clan territory. He was born to a kittypet she-cat named Hallie. Hallie had fallen in love with a rogue who had lived nearby the twoleg nest named Swoop. Swoop and Hallie had met besides a small brook that flowed nearby the den. Swoop had fallen for Hallie almost exactly when he laid eyes on her. It took a little while, but Hallie fell for him too.

But Swoop met another beautiful she-cat named Jocilin. It was unknown to him that Hallie was expecting his kits. Swoop ran off with Jocilin and didn't return to the twoleg den. Hallie left her home, dangerously close to the birth of her kits, to find Swoop, but failed and never saw him again. She safely returned home and gave birth to three kits, who she named Milla, Swoop (after her former mate), and Tuftile (Pencil).

Once her kits were old enough to walk, Hallie left the twoleg den, taking her kits with her, to go reside in the mountains by HorizonClan territory. During the journey, Millia strayed off to play with a few sprouting weeds, and Hallie was unaware of it. A hawk was nearby, and Milla was swooped away. Hallie couldn't bear the pain, so she abandoned her kits in a small cave. Swoop and Tuftile were untrained in defense and hunting, so they had very high chances of dying. Swoop did die of starvation and Tuftile became malnourished and collasped in the mountains.

Tuftile woke, half-dead a few hours later. He tried to find his way out of the mountains but was unable to. A HorizonClan patrol found and rescued him, and he was treated of his malnourishment. He started, slowly, to regain his former strength. but failed, and only gained a small bit of it back. He was trained to hunt and basic defense moves, but failed to gain average knowledge. Finally, he was informed that there was nothing that HorizonClan could do for him. Miserable and feeling useless, Tuftile left and made a makeshift home on the outskirts of the territory.

Tuftile spent hours each day trying to regain his full strength and get back on his feet, but failed. He gave up on himself and decided to just let himself rot away. However, he spotted a scrawny mouse nibbling seeds near his den, and managed to catch it. He ate his first meal in a few days and felt, well, better. He practiced his hunting skills and used the tips and tricks the Clan cats gave him. He became a fair hunter and then started to spy on combat-training sessions that HorizonClan cats were doing. He used this to help improve his defensive skills and grew to become a skilled fighter.

He decided to "start" a new life and to forgot his past life. He changed his name from Tuftile to Pencil and left his current nest to make a much neater one.

#### Adult Life

Pencil became loner, and started living somewhere behind HorizonClan’s mountains - in a different area than Silt. He started to take in any stray or abandoned kits he came across. Over the moons, he raised three kits by the names of Flower, Taki, and Humble. They left him once they were old enough to live on their own.

Pencil took in another kit named Raccoon at some point. They ran into another young loner - Spruce - once as he was hunting. He also met a HorizonClan warrior named Fireflyleap. He may have recognized him from his time in HorizonClan, although we’ll probably never know for certain. They started meeting up and became close friends, and they eventually started kind of gaying. It's cute.

He is currently mourning the death of Raccoon, who recently died of wounds.

## Other

#### Trivia

- Funnily enough, the only gay pairings in the roleplay so far have been loners and HorizonClan cats. There’s FirePen and then there’s SiltMidge - Silt and Midgefur, HorizonClan’s mediator.

- Pencil’s creator has stated that his theme song was Go Crazy by Leslie Odom Jr.

#### Quotes

"Y-you k-killed him-m."

Fireflyleap: "Pencil?"

Pencil: "That's me-good ol' Pencil!"