Turtlepaw

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## Skills/Faults

*Skills*

Turtlepaw is very skilled when it comes to climbing trees, sneaking around, and scouting for her clan. Whether it’s looking for rogue tracks or following a troublesome wild animal, she’s the apprentice for the job. She has always wished to go into battle, just for the sake of using her tracker + combat skills to her advantage. While she doesn’t have the best combat defense, she is known to be swift when the time comes, and she often imagines she could leap out of an attacker's grasp with ease. While this may be an overstatement, she could likely runoff, or slip away if in too much danger. Slowly but surely, she’s learning the basics of fighting, and advancing the skill. Her sister, Hollypaw, is aiding greatly in the development of this skill. Using her speed and battle training to her advantage, Turtlepaw could likely be a force to reckoned with. Her small, lithe paws give her true ability to leap and run around fellow animals with relative ease, and high often can make her seem gifted or special. However, when it is brought up, the molly often gives credit it both her sister and her hard work. When it doesn’t get too much, Turtlepaw’s confidence and boldness can be very helpful in times of danger and intimidation. She seems more acquept for situations that call for a brave, skilled individual with the ability to communicate well, as well as stay alive. She volunteers for anything she can, even for something as simple as gathering water for the elders.

*Faults*

While Turtlepaw may be confident and bold now, she will not be for long. The older she gets, the more hesitant and wary she gets. As a result, her previous nature that many seem to befriend her over is lost, along with the friendships made along the way. Her easy-going personality will slowly fade to a more cautious one, giving light to a more conscious and worrisome cat. While this makes her a bit more sympathetic and respectful, it also makes her doubt herself. Additionally, she is, to keep it simple, overly chaotic. In her apprentice years, she will be loud, mischievous, and situating. She will be known as a rule-breaker and too rude for her own good. This gives her an intimidating aura, as not to be talked to by the faintest of hearts. She will snap a sassy remark, poke fun at or tease, maybe even out-right mock. This scares most wanting to befriend her away. However, she somehow finds a way to become friends with some of the weirdest individuals... With some persuasion at least. Physically, when trying to go fast, she can be very clumsy. Tripping over logs when distracted, or stepping on an easily-snapped twig are just a couple examples of how, while worrying about speed more than skill, Turtlepaw can be clumsy. However, when she puts her mind to it, she is stealthy, quick, and swift, the perfect advantages, and traits of a skilled tracker. The only problem is, she’s rarely focused. She’s often in a situation where either her sister is present, or she found an interesting item or plant. Maybe she even started talking to fellow clanmates. This gets her unfocused, immediately bringing out her clumsiness, even in her speech.

## Personality

Turtlepaw is chaotic with an odd liking towards mischief and adventuring. She appeals to anything against the rules and oftentimes can be found messing around with her sister, sneaking out of camp, or crossing into unknown territory. She is known to like being the leader, and as a result, can oftentimes come off as bossy or snotty. However, most of the time, she is just trying to have a fun time, whether or not she has to be the boss. If she is motivated towards anything, almost nothing can stop her. Even with her mischievous side; when she puts her mind to it, she is known to train well and hard. Like her sister, she loves to engage in activities that many others would think of as dangerous, immature, or “mouse-brained”. She skips or cancels out on training often to hang out with her sister, as they have grown to be very close. If forced to train, she often begs to train alongside her sister, though this rarely ever happens, as the two become very loud and destructive when around each other. While she may be mischievous, she is loyal and honest. She appeals to telling the truth, even if it drags her down into more trouble. This can give some people a bad impression of her, as it is rare for her to lie, even for her close friends or family. However, there are very few instances where she has lied for her sister. Underneath her chaotic nature, she is very compassionate, and can easily speak with others about emotions and feelings, if in the right mindset. She is known to speak of her own past experiences, hoping to make her companion feel not alone in their struggles and to seem more approachable and kind. However, there are times where it can be very hard for her to connect to others on an emotional/mental level. Turtlepaw is active and a little jumpy. She loves to go on runs through the territory, and can be seen playing tag with fellow apprentices, and even occasionally playing with kits. She has a hard time sitting still, which can make learning very hard for her. Turtlepaw is very skeptical about her parent’s disappearance and often fantasizes about both of them showing up out of nowhere. She does not understand their relationship, as she was too young to know what was going on. As she grows older, she will become more sweet and kind. Her selflessness will develop, and she will become more loyal to both her clan and clanmates. She will continue to be honest, but the idea of lying will become more interesting to her. She will gain respect for higher rankers in the clan, and learn that she doesn’t always have to be the leader for things to be fun and exciting. She will also retreat slightly on her confidence, and will instead, become less bold. She will start doubting herself and calling herself a fool. She will regret past decisions of her life and may begin to lose her relationship with her clanmates.

## Detailed Appearance

She is a moggy, tortoiseshell molly with sleek, short fur and a long, fluffy tail. She keeps her fur messy, though it’s often brushed through and not staticky. She doesn’t bother with cleaning out sticks, mud, or leaves, and instead keeps them in her fur, arguing it’s a fashion choice, and that also the cool apprentices do it. She only keeps a spiky, dark blue flower in front of her left ear, another argument of a fashion choice. Her face is split into almost “quadrants” of color, the two colors being a ginger-orange color, and the other the classic, tortoiseshell black. The left side of her face from the top of her muzzle to her ear is black. The part from the top of her muzzle to her chin is ginger. The right side of her face is the opposite; the top section of her face is ginger, and her chin from her muzzle is black. Her left eye is a ghostly white, while her right eye is yellow. She has large, sensitive ears that allow her to scout and listen to cats speaking around her with ease. She has short, ginger tufts of inner-ear fur. Her nose is two different colors, split the same way the colors on her face are. The left side of her nose is black, the right side is a pink that blends in well with the ginger fur on her face. Her build is rather tall and slim, with sleek, shiny fur that seems to sparkle in the bright sunlight. Her tail is abnormally long, and fluffy. She has small, quick paws with short fur tufting out from underneath. This extra fur-padding lets her walk and run around with an extra, given level of silence. They also help her sneak up on enemies or prey relatively easily, even if her speed and swiftness could just chase them instead. She has well-built muscles that she has gained slowly, but surely, through the many (but almost always interrupted), hard trainings she’s had with fellow apprentices, trackers, or other roles from the clan. The rest of her fur is the classic tortoiseshell markings, with more black then ginger. However, her underbelly and individual paws are a creamy white color, that stands out against the dark colors of the rest of her fur. She’s been described as a mix between flaming suns, stars, and the beautiful night sky. Her long, white whiskers come from around her muzzle and above her eyes, almost near her ears.

## Backstory

One of Turtlepaw’s fathers, Dandelion, was a kittypet. The other, Spider; a lonesome loner. The two met under the most unexpected circumstances but fell in love at first sight. The two were very close, and they often would meet outside Dandelion’s twoleg place. They often talked about life, and how much they wanted to run away together. After moons of meeting together, Spider found a place that he believed they could call home. However, Dandelion hesitated, insisting that they should stay in their current situation for now. After a long argument, the two decided they would stay where they were, and keep an eye on the place. Soon after moving onto the territory, Dandelion suggested kits. He was eager about the idea, and despite being somewhat shocked at the proposal at first, Spider was excited to begin this new chapter of his life, and he welcomed the idea with open paws. The two ended up meeting a young pregnant kittypet named Jellybean, a bright and eager tortoiseshell who was fearful for her future. She wasn't willing to raise the kits and was afraid her two legs would take them from her anyway if she gave birth to them, so after she met Spider through a connection with Dandelion an idea hatched in his head. They'd adopt her kits once they were born, and raise them as their own. She would nurse them in their home, with Dandelion and Spider taking care of them. She accepted and gave birth to two kittens, who they named Turtle and Holly respectively. Once weaned, Jellybean chose to leave the territory and return to her housefolk, never to be seen or heard of again. When the kits were about a moon old, Spider was able to convince Dandelion to move the family to the Clan of Hanging Canopies, which was the place he had found long ago. With Dandelion’s hesitant agreement, the family moved there. Soon, they were accepted into the clan, and they raised the kits for a couple of moons. Soon before the kit’s apprentice ceremony, Dandelion became uncomfortable in their situation and tried to convince Spider to take the kit’s to his twolegs. He said they were kind and would take care of all four of them, but Spider refused. This argument continued on and off for a little while before Dandelion abruptly left the family with no trace. Spider soon became depressed, and one night, disappeared. Many believed him to have gone after his love, trying to bring him back home. Unbeknownst to Turtlepaw and her sister, Dandelion was put down due to an injury by his twolegs. However, it is unknown what happened to Spider. Many believe he got lost in unknown territory and was eaten by a predator.

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