Bounce

> "My point is, it's okay to miss those who've left, it's what makes you normal. Embrace the comfort of others, connect with friends, adopt a family maybe..don't let anyone tell you to 'get over it' because they don't know what they're talking about." - Hamlet to Pitchpaw (shortened ver.)
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## Bounce

### Aliases/Past Names

Past Names:Bouncekit

Bouncepaw

Bouncestream

Hamlet

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Current Name:

Bounce

### Immediate Family

Mother: Softbriar (dead)~ ~ ~

Father: Littlestrike (dead)

~ ~ ~

Brothers:

Adderkit (dead)

Echokit (dead)

Crowkit (dead)

Briarpaw (dead)

~ ~ ~

Sister:

Rosekit (dead)

~ ~ ~

Mate(s):

Leopardroar (formerly)

~ ~ ~

Daughter(s):

Rosepaw (missing)

Strikevine (SC)

~ ~ ~

Son(s):

None

~ ~ ~

Adopted Daughter(s):

Birdpaw (gone)

## Physical Description

A battle scarred black-and-white tom with blue eyes, a white "mask" surrounding them, "socks" on his front legs and a flower-shaped patch of white on his back.

Ref Sheet

 Personality

Through moons of living on the farm, Bounce has undergone personality changes. He has a short temper and is known for lashing out on cats when they anger him, this still happens, but not as frequently. Bounce is ambiverted, he enjoys his solitude, but also enjoys crowds. He speaks little about his past and tries to help anyone and everyone. More mature than he was, Bounce acts as the guardian of the area near the barn and even the town nearby, though he will still fight anyone who crosses his path in a rude manner. He neglects Clan borders, as he did when he was younger. His stress levels are higher than normal due to feeling like he has to live up to his past mistakes and somehow redeem himself - even if that means overwhelming himself with work, he isn't doing it for attention, but it is possible that he could be viewed in that light.

He has many regrets in his life, most of those being either mental health related or unpreventable. He is known to be a liar, he dug himself down so far that he stopped trying to uncover himself. He is very religious, his connection to StarClan is stronger than the average warrior due to all the loss he had gone through. Due to all the grief in his life, Bounce is able to mask his feelings for a few hours.

## Skills and Weaknesses

* Hamlet has (semi)mild-PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) due to his many encounters with dogs and the rebellion, making him feel unsafe, even in the most protected environments (i bet y'all can guess what living on the farm with a dog was like for him)
	+ Things like death, dog barks, ect. are triggers for him
* Hamlet also is slightly narcissistic and is trying to cope with that, if he overly gloats//brags or lies about accomplishments, he can't help himself and is trying to work on that
* Due to being trained by Furstar herself, Hamlet is well equipped in combat
	+ Despite his physical disabilities, he is able to adjust his battle strategies
* Hamlet has a soft spot for orphaned cats, especially orphaned cats that are apprentice ages or younger and are visibly struggling with grief, making him protective to those who he connects with in this manner, like Birdpaw and Pitchpaw
* His strongest sense is his sense of smell due to his vision and hearing being impaired, but he hates it due to some smells becoming overwhelming and causing his nose to be messed up for days afterwards

## Life

### Kithood

Bouncekit was born in ShadowClan to Softbriar and Littlestrike. He was named as tribute to Littlestrike's old apprentice, Rabbitbounce. When he opened his eyes, he met Brackenpaw, a young apprentice who wants to get back at ShadowClan based on a lie, the apprentice invites Bouncekit on an "adventure" with him and Cedarkit, not knowing any better, Bouncekit agrees.

Bouncekit and Cedarkit are stowed away in a hollow log as Brackenpaw leaves to lure Furstar over. He tries to say his first words "stay here" but butchers them.

When Furstar and Brackenpaw arrive, Bouncekit is frightened by the leader and backs away, only to be grabbed by Brackenpaw and held by the throat on the ground. Brackenpaw digs his claws into Bouncekit's throat, but before Brackenpaw kills Bouncekit, he has second thoughts, stepping back. Furstar rescues Bouncekit and right then and there, Bouncekit decides he wants to be just like her someday.

Bouncekit and Furstar sat on top of Pine Ledge the next day and just talked about being leader.

One by one, his siblings died.

Moons later, Bouncekit met Badgerpelt and they left camp, resulting in Badgerpelt's adder bite injury.

Nothing else notable happens in his Kithood.

### Apprenticeship

He was apprenticed to Furstar herself, something that Bounceh was very happy about. He spent alot of time training with her and learning battle moves.

He also met Leopardpaw.

One day, when he was 9 moons old, he witnessed the shocking death of Furstar, his mentor andsomeone he concidered a good friend.

After that, he got close to Leopardpaw, even crushing on her in the moon that followed.

He also started getting trained in StarClan.

At the RiverClan border, he met Falconpaw, they had a rivalry that led to Bounceh getting a scar over his eye and taken to RiverClan camp.

### Warrior

Named in honor of Furstar, he was also made a warrior early, not even having a single training session with his new mentor, Spottedbelly. He discovered that Leopardpaw had been training in the Dark Forest and started asking for her to please leave the Dark Forest.

His training//talk sessions with Furstar began to become less frequent.

He continued to spend time with Leopardpaw, making her feel better about having to wait all 13 moons to become a warrior. He nicknamed her Leopardheart to make her happier.

Then there's Acornkit. Bounceh was there at her birth and just a few days later, was told by her that his paws were "furry" so he called her Fluffykit.

Then, Crowbite showed up, Bounceh had always gotten an off feeling about the tom and was later attacked and temporarily blinded by him in an act to frame Littlestrike. It worked. Bounceh began to hate his father, not only for "attacking" him, but also allegedly cheating on Softbriar.

His vision wold never fully recover and now Bounceh can't see anything but a blur on the sides of his view. After a visit from Rosekit in StarClan, Bounceh apologized to Littlestrike and they are good now.

Bouncestream was watching a ceremony, the one where Crowbite was exiled and Lillypaw and Leopardpaw were about to become warriors. Bouncestream quickly ran out of camp before Leopardpaw got her name.

Bouncestream takes note that with Crowbite gone, time seemed to slow down, and that he needed drama in his life, Bounceh you poor, poor fool.

Not long after that though, he was hunting for the "perfect frog" and heard Acornkit's screams, he raced over to see a raccoon getting ready to attack. He interfered and attacked the raccoon until it ran away. Bounceh was happy that Acornkit was okay and she asked for a story about his kithood, so he told her about the Brackenpaw//Wicked incident.

Not long after, Leopardroar and Bouncestream decide to explore No Clan's Land, ending up in a two dog ambush. Thrown into the past, Bounceh is frozen still in fear. Leopardroar takes on a dog, killing it, she's starting to take serious damage. The second dog charges at Bounceh, he reaches into it's mouth and scratches it's tongue, but his paw gets stuck and the dog breaks the bone. Bounceh frees himself as Leopardroar and the dog have a fight, ending up with Leopardroar knocked out and the second dog dead.

Bounceh beings Leopard's body to camp and yells for help until the meddie apprentice, Elmpaw shows up and treats Leopardroar and only Leopardroar. That night, Bounceh has a dream visit from Furstar, she promptly tells him to stop playing hero and get his broken paw fixed up. He goes to Featherskip because he doesn't respect Elmpaw very much.

Frostpaw is exiled for killing Pinekit, at first, Bouncestream is upset that his friend was exiled, but soon enough, by talking to Broken and Leopardroar, he learns that Frostpaw (now Fuyu) is not a good cat.

One day (probably after hanging out with Broken) he follows a scent trail to see a passed out Leopardroar, a mad Lakestar and Fuyu. Bounceh hates Fuyu for attacking his wife. Broken screams which causes Bouncestream to start crying even harder because yells and screams sound like dog barks to him. aNYWAYS! He threatens Fuyu a bit until Lakestar steps in and he backs off to be with his mate.

To escape all the drama he has going on in his life, he decides to cake himself in mud with Acornkit, because that's totally a normal thing to do.

He got into a verbal fight with Honeysong and she said AND I QUOTE "She rolled her eyes. “You don’t realize that the only reason your still in the clan is the fact that your seen as ‘speacil’ by Lakestar.” She snarled" ((this was copy/pasted)) and it hurt Bouncestream because he knows he isn't seen as special or favored by Lakestar at all. This was confirmed true, Lakestar doesn't pick favorites or think anyone is more special than anyone else, she also told Bounceh that she doesn't feel safe, wHaT cOuLd ThAt PoSsIbLy mEaN?!

Bouncestream was jumped by Cedarsoul and lost six moons of memory. Everyone was mad, Leopardroar was very very very sad.

He started working on building relationships again, and a moon later he died, but don't worry though, that was a nightmare sent presumably by his little sister Rosekit.

Bouncestream's mental health started getting worse and worse, then Crowbite's rebellion (Kris struggles to remember stuff) and then he fakes his death with the help of Brokenpaw, he flees the Clans, taking on the new name of "Hamlet" and becoming a barn cat.

### Loner Life

Bouncestream, now Hamlet, lived in a barn with his friends Missy, Butch, and their two kits, but, to kick off his return, the barn was engulfed in flames one night, leaving Hamlet all alone once more, as Misty and Butch fled with their kits to the city.

Exploring the Clans, he reunited with old friends like Messenger, Spottedbelly and Stormstep, as well as meeting new faces like Starlingpaw and Peachpaw. Hamlet also built a makeshift den that can support 2-3 cats, excluding himself, but isn't very stable right now.

He remained sheltered, his thoughts as his only friends for many moons until he decided that he was too lonely and got up, hoping to meet some new cats while still being cautious of seeing Clan cats. He sees Brokenrose, the one cat he wished he never did. He is in utter shock and claims he's Crowkit, the deceased brother of Hamlet, in an attempt to cover up his identity. Hamlet is almost triggered due to the mentions of Crowbite from Brokenrose, who was trying to get him to cave. She told him to stop the lying, so he continued lying. Then he starts to breakdown, telling her exactly why he shouldn't forgive her and then continues to try to walk away.

Hamlet, fed up, saw Ravenflame and immediately connected the dots that she was related to the tyrant.

Sneaking onto ShadowClan's land, Hamlet met Acornspirit, (unfinished)

Heading into RiverClan's territory, he met Pitchpaw, the two had a conversation about loss and beliefs. Hamlet sympathized with Pitchpaw and is jokingly called "Uncle Letty" after Hamlet says that he's fine with any name, he is now Uncle Letty.

Then Hamlet met Cloudpaw. A fight broke out, Hamlet won and brought Cloudpaw back to RiverClan's camp, even though he has been known for his anger, he's not going to just let a cat lie there. Night meets him in the camp and Hamlet explains briefly that Cloudpaw needs help after getting beaten in a fight.

He stayed in RiverClan for about a moon, becoming friends with Night and Sparksong. He thought that he'd become a RiverClan cat, hoping that it would fill the void inside of him, but after speaking to Badgerstar and Beechstorm, he decided that it wasn't worth it.

Leaving RiverClan, Hamlet became Bounce, wanting that to be the name he holds at death. He sees Sparksong in No Clan's Land and helps her numerous times, one involving her grief over her lover's death. Her, Bounce and Brokenrose find Silver's dead body and four kits, the kits end up going to Sparksong and Bounce gives up his den to provide shelter for the kits and their newly adopted mother. Bounce also learns Ivybranch is dead.

Bounce sees Leopardroar again and cuts the conversation short by getting jealous.

## Relations

#### **FAMILY:**

Softbriar, StarClan, she-cat, warrior, mother **(deceased)**

Littlestrike, StarClan, tom, warrior, father **(deceased)**

Rosekit, StarClan, she-cat, kit, sister **(deceased)**

Adderkit, StarClan, tom, kit, brother **(deceased)**

Echokit, StarClan, tom, kit, brother **(deceased)**

Crowkit, StarClan, tom, kit, brother **(deceased)**

Briarpaw, StarClan, tom, apprentice, brother **(deceased)**

Rosewing, ShadowClan, she-cat, warrior, daughter

Strikevine, ShadowClan, she-cat, warrior, daughter

Birdpaw, StarClan, she-cat, apprentice, adopted daughter **(gone)**

#### **OTHER:**

Leopardroar, ShadowClan, she-cat, warrior, ex-mate **(deceased)**

Frecklefur, StarClan, she-cat, warrior, friend **(deceased)**

Honeysong, StarClan, she-cat, warrior, friend **(deceased)**

Acornspirit, ShadowClan, she-cat, warrior, ex-friend(?)

Buzzardstorm, ShadowClan, tom, warrior, friend

Fuyu, StarClan, she-cat, rogue, enemy//ex-friend **(deceased)**

Brokenrose, ShadowClan, she-cat, warrior, ex-friend

Bumbleclaw, StarClan, tom, warrior, friend **(deceased)**

Butch, N/A, tom, loner, friend **(missing)**

Missy, N/A, she-cat, loner, friend **(missing)**

Stormstep, ShadowClan, tom, warrior, friend

Thrushstep, StarClan, tom, warrior, friend**(deceased)**

Sparksong, N/A, she-cat, loner, friend

Night, N/A, she-cat, loner, friend(?)

#### **MENTOR(s):**

Furstar, StarClan, she-cat, former leader, mentor **(deceased)**

Spottedbelly, ShadowClan, tom, warrior, mentor **(deceased)**

## Notable Quotes

"Will we be brothers forever?" - Bouncekit to Adderkit

"Someday, I'll be Bouncekit, leader of ShadowClan! And you, and mommy and daddy, and Adderkit will all be really proud, wight?" - Bouncekit talking to Furstar

"So what if a cat is paralyzed, depressed, trans, a leader, whatever! Every cat is just as important as the one standing next to them!" - Bounceh to Heatherpaw

"I do not know a Bouncestream." - Hamlet to Brokenrose

"Do I look like the damned fool?" - Hamlet to Brokenrose in an attempt to mask his identity

"When he first lost his memories, you bit his ear, ripping half of it off, when he was in a coma, you gave me the neck scar, whenever I swore, or was /myself/ I was hit by you! When I showed up when Rosepaw and Strikepaw were new apprentices, you and Leopardroar almost /killed/ me!" Hamlet was crying as he shouted at the larger she-cat, then softened his voice and continued. "You never listened to me, was I really ever your friend?" - Hamlet to Brokenrose

"I gave you your second chance already when I returned to visit and you treated me worse than dirt. I want nothing to do with you, get out of my pelt, get out of my /life./" - Hamlet to Brokenrose

"I have faced worse threats than you!" - Hamlet to Cloudpaw

"Yes, I do know, I lost my three littermates at a young age, before I was even apprenticed in fact, then I lost my mentor, then my father during a rebellion, then my mother, then I lost my Clan, leading to me loosing my adopted daughter, my final brother, my mate, my kits and all my friends. The pain hurts every day, especially when I remember the abuse I endured, and how that pulls me down, but it also pushes me onward. I turned towards StarClan because, even though they aren't exactly smart, they have everyone I truly loved, they have my mother, father, siblings, /Furstar..,/ Honeysong, Birdpaw maybe, and any others I may have lost during this time. My point is, it's okay to miss those who've left, it's what makes you normal. Embrace the comfort of others, connect with friends, adopt a family maybe..don't let anyone tell you to 'get over it' because they don't know what they're talking about." - Hamlet to Pitchpaw

"I fought her and now she needs help." - Hamlet to Night

"Remember that there's always cats nearby to listen to you, you're never alone.." - Hamlet to Pitchpaw