Bluecloud

### Friends

Rillwing (bff), Graydusk, Firsong, Skylarkspring, kind of sort of Chivethistle sometimes, and she’s v chill with Warrenfire. She's also probably still friendly with Sparrowbreeze and Seedslip. She considered Jaggedwatcher a friend before he died, and to a certain extent, Viceroytuft as well.

### Enemies

Kind of sort of also Chivethistle sometimes. And Lapwingfeather probably also hates her, but Bluecloud doesn’t mind that.

Bluecloud is currently the young mediator of MarshClan. Hailing from the distant twolegplace with a crippled front paw, she doesn't seem like much- jumpy and timid and quick to shut down. But beneath her quiet nature and all of her insecurities, she has a big heart and a surprising amount of sass that she only shows to the cats that she's closest with. She is slowly but surely coming out of her shell and gaining confidence as a capable warrior and mediator.

## Appearance & Personality

### Appearance

Bluecloud is a small and soft she-cat with round, bright amber eyes- in sharp contrast with her pelt, which comes in more diluted shades of blue-gray. There is a darker stripe down her spine and the back of her tail, as well as darker marks over her face, ears, and forming socks down each leg. There are paler markings on her tail-tip, underbelly, cheeks, paws, and on the bridge of her pink nose. The fluffy "mane" around her neck is of the same lighter color. Her mane and her tail are long-haired and somewhat wavy, but the rest of her body is fairly slim with a thin coat. Her fur is still silky, though, and her build, while light, is still plushy. She would make an excellent pillow and can be quite cuddly when she is in the mood.

Bluecloud is about average height, maybe ever so slightly below, at exactly 9 inches (remind me to fix this on her ref later). She usually has neat and tense posture with her tail low, reflecting her anxious demeanor, although she loosens up considerably around the cats she knows well. With those she isn’t familiar with, she struggles to maintain eye contact for extended periods, but with practice she is beginning to improve at it. There is a pair of small notches taken out of the top of her right ear from an instance where she and her brother were attacked by rats as a kit. Her left front paw also suffered a bad break at close to the same age, and with lack of proper care it never healed right. There is no visible physical indication of its injury, but she still cannot put weight on it, flex its toes, or unsheathe its claws, and she likely never will. She therefore walks and runs with an awkward three-legged gait, usually keeping the paw tucked up close against her fluffy chest, but she has gotten very used to it by now and can keep up with any of her Clanmates just fine. She does tend to walk with her toes spread out for extra balance, though, and throws extra force onto her hips when she moves to push her weight forward, making her look vaguely like a rabbit when she’s trying to be quick— something that Chivethistle would point out frequently during their apprenticeship. Bluecloud isn’t necessarily proud of it, but she isn’t ashamed anymore, either. It’s just the way it is now.

### Personality

Outwardly, Bluecloud is a polite and deferential cat. She is more on the quiet side and doesn't go out of her way to interact with others, mostly either keeping to herself or sticking to Rillwing's side. Ever since becoming MarshClan's mediator, however, she has shown considerably more independence and will occasionally initiate conversation or inquire things of her Clanmates without being prompted first. She comes across as shy and imaginative, with a tendency to overthink anything she can and to blow situations way up out of proportion in her head. She is also a sweet and sympathetic cat, an excellent listener with a knack for empathy, but that does not extend to making her especially sensitive or even particularly selfless. She doesn't take a lot of things to heart, be it compliments *or* insults, and isn’t bothered much by being snubbed or demeaned; nothing anybody else thinks of her can be worse than what her own head says, anyways.

She doubts herself constantly, and while she's starting to improve, she's still got a long way to go. And while she is always thinking of and worrying about others, she rarely takes according action and she still has a tendency to be unintentionally blunt and miss blatant points because she's too concerned with looking for a deeper meaning. An urgent sense of self-preservation was instilled in her during her early moons, and as much as she hates it, she will instinctually put her own safety before anyone else’s- even if she cares more about them than about herself. She's also pretty clingy and tends to get jealous easily out of insecurity. That all being said, she's still a fun cat with an adventurous, playful streak buried beneath layers of anxiety and caution, and she gets surprisingly sarcastic and witty with the few cats she trusts.

## Biography

(I'll rewrite this in detail later I promise)

#### Kithood

0 moons- she n her brother are born in midsummer to Luna, who's just some housecat. Her dad is some other random neighborhood cat who doesn’t even know he has kids. the daughter of her mom’s owners knows her parents won't let them keep kittens, so she takes care of them in secret. they are separated from their mom and hidden outside and they don’t get names.

1 moon- nothing interesting. just existing. once they’re weaned, the kid hides them somewhere else so their mom can’t find them anymore.

2 moons- their mom finds them anyways! she tries to bring them in the house. they almost get caught until the kid hides them in a new place for the second time. F for their mom.

3 moons- the kid's parents find out about them and they get yeeted. out of a moving car. slay. there goes the unnamed bluecloud’s paw.

4 moons- rat incident. some random rogue finds them and names them Blue and Gray and helps them Not Die. then they leave because blue is traumatized and doesn’t trust this random stranger.

5 moons- travel montage pog. they encounter a badger one time, but they’re able to run away from it. gray kind of manages to figure out how hunting works. they eventually find the edge of fallclan territory and decide to follow the water towards the moors. Adderbark finds them trying to shelter in a rabbit burrow and brings them back to minkstar. Blue does not want to join the Clans. Gray convinces her to.

### Apprenticeship

6 moons- apprenticed to Jaggedwatcher. Whitebird tries to help with her paw and it doesn't work. Graypaw leaves and suddenly she has horrible anxiety. She has no idea how to function without him. Training is hard and she is scared of her denmates even though she thinks viceroy & fir in particular seem nice. graypaw still visits daily but it sucks anyways. There’s some kind of hike thing in horizonclan that bluepaw is way too nervous to have any interest in. Then the rabbit incident with Rillpaw happens.

7 moons- yay, friendship! rill helps her train and seedslip becomes a warrior. she also tries to befriend viceroypaw. then chivepaw shows up. bluepaw does Not befriend viceroypaw. bluepaw gets bullied instead. skylarkpaw, widowpaw, reclusepaw, and tarantulapaw also get apprenticed. bluepaw is chill with them but she’s too scared to try and make more friends bc of chivepaw. great. chivepaw is a problem. on one occasion she starts acting contrite and offers bluepaw a rabbit. bluepaw gets excited about this and accepts the peace offering. it turns out to have been rotted on the inside and chive was just messing with her. so she’s in the medicine den for a day or two. oops. graypaw keeps visiting and jaggedwatcher keeps teaching her things. she also sees eggpaw at a gathering and thinks he's kinda cute. she does nothing about this, though, and freaks out when graypaw offers to pass him a message for her.

8 moons- existing. fun times. a few not fun times. rill and chive fight a lot and it's awkward. there is also some drama between chive n widow that blue feels bad about, but does not engage in. blue is improving in training, though. then an odd illness starts spreading through the Clan. bluepaw is sad because rillpaw is sad because it killed mintfang.

9 moons- rillwing is a warrior! so are cardinalflight & firsong. bluepaw is stuck with chive, viceroy, and the 4 younger appies. then minkstar dies and her deputy gets murdered and clearnight ends up in charge. plus jaggedwatcher starts getting sick. blue's training is also taken over by seed & sparrow, because they're just feeling nice like that. this is a stressful moon for bluepaw. she still hangs out with rillwing when she can.

10 moons- the sickness, now temporarily dubbed the plague, spreads past marshclan. the borders close and she's worried about graypaw. oh, and jaggedwatcher dies. not fun. she is officially reassigned to sparrowbreeze. she just kinda vibes and is also sad to hear that eggfur died. then viceroytuft becomes a warrior and also immediately dies. so do the parents of 3 of the younger apprentices. the plague is suddenly very real to her and it's upsetting! everyone is dying! she also tries to be extra nice to widowpaw since she doesn’t have any other friends their age. it doesn’t really work, but she does try. also, she suddenly hits a great big growth spurt and starts getting very fluffy. it’s funny.

11 moons- chivethistle becomes a warrior. bluepaw is now stuck in the appies' den with the 3 sad appies and skylarkpaw. fantastic. except not, because she's actually kinda lonely. she misses rill and chive had been a little nicer in the last moon anyway. emphasis on a little. she keeps training with sparrow, seed, n probably rill. she fidgets around at the FC border at least once a day in hopes of seeing graypaw. she sees torrentpaw instead one time. she finds out that milkweedstar died. that sucks. she brings that news back to marshclan. they probably arent very grateful for it.

### Warrior/Mediator Life

12 moons- full name, yay! she finds out what graydusk's is and they meet up at the border to celebrate despite not being supposed to. fun times. also, two new apprentices named dovepaw & poisonpaw move in right as she moves out.

13-14 moons- uhhh just vibing I’m pretty sure. nothing funky here. at 13 moons, the 4 younger appies become warriors. blue is just chilling with rill for the most part.

15 moons- she and rillwing suddenly get two of minkstar’s kits as apprentices! they train them together! bluecloud likes warrenpaw, but lapwingpaw kind of freaks her out! they do their best, though!

16- rillwing and cardinalflight beat each other up. and blue and rill have a Moment. then rillwing leaves with firsong to go bring cardinal back. excellent? except blue is sad and scared and lonely. chive starts being slightly less awful though and takes over for lapwing and helps her train warren. cool? also, conifercob dies. bluecloud is eyeing the mediator position. cheers. also, warren & lap’s dad dies. less cheers.

17- rillwing comes back with the other two! bluecloud is happy about this. she’s also sort of friends with firsong now, which bluecloud thinks is pretty awesome. she probably vibes with firsong after this. there is more awkward apprentice training (more awkward since lap actually liked chive better and now there’s a whole custody battle going on). also, the plague ends. bluecloud is thrilled. chivethistle goes back to (somewhat) bullying her, though, which she's slightly less happy about. but she talks to rillwing and decides to become mediator. so she brings that up and gets the role! it’s decided that she’ll officially be more active in it once warrenpaw is a warrior. good on her!

18- more training! also, the borders open up and she gets to see graydusk again! she is delighted about that! she gets to go to her first gathering in a good long while and it’s kinda sad when all of the names of all the dead ppl are announced, but it’s great to hear all the new names as well and also a HC hike is announced! It’s Blue’s first one and she goes with Rillwing & Graydusk! It’s probably fun.

19- more training! She is currently trying to make everyone in her generation be nice to each other! this includes rillwing & chivethistle, rillwing & cardinalflight, chivethistle &… everyone, and widow & her siblings. she wants to get friendlier with widow first too tho. good luck girlie! oh, and at the gathering there’s an announcement abt an upcoming war. that sucks. blue’s pretty scared about that, but whitebird backed the claim up and blue trusts her judgement, so she’ll believe it. she is frightened :(

## Other

### Trivia

* Her headcanon voice is Meena from the movie Sing. Not necessarily the singing voice, though. Just her normal speaking voice.
* While living in twolegplace, Bluecloud and Graydusk both acquired the habit of eating their food very quickly to avoid it being taken. While Graydusk has since lost the habit, Bluecloud hasn't. She still does it, even though she knows it isn't polite or natural.
* She's been scared of the dark ever since the rat incident, and she doesn't like mice, living or dead, for that same reason.
* Her favorite prey is plover and her favorite color is actually *not* blue. It's a tie between light allium-purple and pale spring-green, changing depending on the day. And her favorite flower is bog rosemary.
* She would love to keep some kind of leaves or flowers in her fur to look nice, but it isn't something she would think of on her own. If anybody suggested it to her or gave her some, though, she'd be over the moon.
* She had a pretty serious dependency problem when she was younger. Mostly with Graydusk because he pretty much did everything for her during their kithood because of her paw, and then a little bit with Rillwing since she was her first friend. The plague cutting her off from Graydusk and Rillwing leaving for a bit in search of Cardinalflight actually helped her realize she can be more independent, though. So yay for her!
* She's still got anxiety and a fear of abandonment, though. The latter was actually *not* helped by that which is above (but more specifically by Graydusk moving to FallClan). Logically, though, she knows it's silly and so she's trying to ignore it.
* She is also deathly afraid of badgers ever since seeing one with Gray and narrowly avoiding one with Rillpaw. She sincerely hopes she’ll never have to face one.
* In other news, she’s, like… the *opposite* of claustrophobic. She loves small, tight spaces. She thinks they’re comfy.
* Her love language is physical touch. She doesn't usually initiate it, but she loves little things like tail touches and pelt brushes and finds them very reassuring. She enjoys hugs, too, as long as she's not overstimulated.
* Her performance in the annual MarshClan races is remarkably average, maybe somewhat below. She's a little better at long distance than short distance, though.
* She truly does want to have kits someday. She’d feel a little silly admitting it, though, because she doesn’t really see herself as mother material.
* There was no real “oh” moment where she realized she was bi. She’s just always thought both toms & she-cats are cute n pretty and when she mentioned it to graydusk one time he was like “oh you’re gay” and she was like “oh i am?? okay 👍”

### Playlist

* The duet of "All I Know So Far" between Pink and Kelly Clarkson gives me big Bluecloud & Rillwing vibes for some reason. I want to make an animatic of that for them. It would be very cute. I probably would if I had any sense of time management. It’ll go on the to-do list.

### Quotes

[Original RP]

*"Um - Rillpaw? Maybe we should go back..."*

*"Have... have you done this before?"*

*"I don't think investigating would be the, um... wisest course of action. We... we should probably let some of the warriors know."*

*"We should go, then. It’s... not cowardly to turn around and get out of here. It's smart. It would just be... kind of stupid to keep going, I think. It wouldn’t prove anything, really. Getting ourselves killed wouldn’t prove anything.”*

*"Th-that was... new. Not like any other hunting trip I've been on before."* - (after almost dying twice on the same hunt)

*""That's... sad. I'm sorry. It's... it isn't a good feeling to be abandoned."*

*"Um... maybe no more venturing into rabbit holes, if that's good with you."*

**Rillpaw:** *"What are you doing?"*

**Bluepaw:** (Internally) *My best and a poor job.*

*"That was fun. Um, the training, I mean. Not that the eating wasn’t fun, but— um— you know what I mean.”*

*Why can't I just talk?*

*"Um... would... going hunting or something make you feel better? Like, maybe it’ll take your mind off of things... if you want that, I mean...”*

*"It'll eventually be okay."*

**Bluepaw:** *"Are we... going to be doing something?”*

**Sparrowbreeze:** *"Right now? Probably not, but later today I have a couple things planned."*

**Bluepaw:** *"Ah, okay. Um, sorry. With Jag— I — I used to start early, but this is okay. I mean, it’s fine. I’ll probably like it more. I’ll get to, um — to, um... like, sleep more. S-sorry."*

**Bluepaw:** *"Um, wait. Aren't you... Milkweedstar's son?"*

**Torrentpaw:** *"Yes... yes I am."*

**Bluepaw:** *"Um. Sorry, that’s probably embarrassing, isn’t it? I mean, I-I’d be embarrassed to only be recognized for who my parents are. Um... sorry. But - but isn’t it cool to have a leader and a deputy as your parents?”*

**Torrentpaw:** *"Two leaders, actually. M-my... Milkweedstar is dead. Weepingstar's leader now."*

**Bluepaw:** *"...I... I thought he still had all nine lives..."*

**Torrentpaw:** *"Look, Graypaw's okay. Go back home. It's a plague, a disease. Don't come here. We've lost so... so many cats..."*

**Bluepaw:** *"So've we. It's... we... Minkstar... we lost Minkstar."*

*"I'm - sorry for still... for not... stopping - talking. I don't mean to - to be, um - I'm not... sorry. I mean - I mean - I* am *sorry. I'm really sorry. I'm—“*

*"Um... if you wouldn’t mind, could you maybe tell Graypaw I said hello? And, um, good luck? Uh - no, that sounds too ominous, um... um - well, you know what I mean. Maybe. Sorry.”*

*I'm so stupid. I'm stupid. I'm stupid. Holy StarClan, am I stupid.*

*"What - what happened to your legs?"*

**Rillwing:** *"I never said goodbye to Panda... I just left. I ran away again."*

**Bluecloud:** *"I'm... I'm sure it was for the best if it was what you wanted. If... you weren't happy there..."*

*"You're brave. You’ve been through more than anyone should have to endure. I respect that. And you’re still trying. Maybe... maybe not your best, until now - but I believe you can make it alright again. It’s your problem to fix, but I... I’m going to do what I can to be helpful. You’ve been the best friend you could to me over the past moons. I want to repay that.”* - (to Rillwing)

[Renaissance RP]

**Bluecloud:** *"There you are. Why were you out so early?"*

**Rillwing:** *"Sunrise patrol, though I almost missed it because you were asleep on my tail."*

**Bluecloud:** *"Maybe that just means it's soft. Think of it as a compliment."*

*"I wish we hibernated. Then we wouldn't have to freeze our paws off looking for prey in the snow. Did you hear the story Twistwhisker was telling to Icefall's kits yesterday? He said that when he was an apprentice, there was a winter so bad that all the FallClan cats had to move over here in order to catch any prey! Can you imagine that?"*

*"It would be terrible to be a fish. All you'd ever get to do is swim and be eaten."*

*"Oh, the tragedy. Oh, the woe! Why have the stars forsaken us? Why have they condemned their loyal warriors to the fate of being slain by fish?"*

*“Please,* please *be careful, Graydusk. I’ll see you soon.”*