Cloudpaw

Cloudpaw is currently an apprentice of OasisClan.

Name- Cloudpaw

Gender- She-cat

Clan- OasisClan

Rank- Apprentice

Family- Skyflower (mother), Wheatnose (father), Flaxpaw, Webpaw, Silverclaw, Patchpounce, and Cobrakit (brothers), Tawnypaw, Dustkit, Nettlekit, and Lynxkit (sisters), Thistlespring (foster sister), Flowerpaw and Peonykit (aunts, technically), Jackalbark and Cloversky (paternal grandparents)

Friends- Mosspaw, sort of Silkpaw, probably also Thistlespring

Enemies- no

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Cloudpaw resembles her mother in most aspects of her appearance. She's a fluffy white cat with blue eyes, soft fur, and spots of gray. There are tabby stripes in her spots, however, and there is a spattering of silver-beige flecks across her face and around her eyes like freckles. There are small tufts on the tips of both of her ears, too.

#### Personality

Cloudpaw is generally pretty kindhearted and friendly, and a little bit more on the quiet side, but she’s cheerful and a sweet little floof. She’ll try her best to be helpful, but she’s bad at it... at least, when she’s with close friends or family.

Outwardly, she’s actually pretty blunt and irritable. She’s subtle about it, though. She’s easily shaken and somewhat sensitive. She’s reserved and not the best at knowing what to say or when. She tries, though.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Cloudkit was born to Skyflower and Wheatnose in OasisClan alongside her littermates, Tawnykit, Webkit, and Flaxkit. She didn't do much for a while. She just vibed. She got along the best with Tawnykit, and was somewhat irked by Webkit on occasion, but she got along with all of her littermates just fine. She was also fond of her older brothers, Patchpaw and Silverpaw, although she was curious about how Silverpaw seemed somewhat distant and aggravated whenever he was around them. It didn't bother her too much, though, so she never asked.

She and her littermates were actually her parents’ third litter. When they were still fairly young, they were told what had happened to some of their siblings — the first litter, Lynxkit, Nettlekit, and Cobrakit, had gone missing at four moons old after sneaking out of camp one day. Dustkit, the littermate of Patchpaw and Silverpaw, had been carried off by an owl at close to the same age. Cloudkit acknowledged the losses as warnings, and along with Tawnykit she’d always do her best to keep a close eye on her brothers and make sure they didn’t do anything too foolish.

Skyflower was also fostering a slightly older kit named Thistlekit. Cloudkit probably liked her and got along with her just fine, but she became an apprentice before they really had a chance to interact that much.

On one occasion, Webkit and Flaxkit accidentally killed a butterfly Tawnykit was admiring. Cloudkit managed to sort of mediate the situation, kind of. She was cool in the face of the drama. Also, once Patchpounce and Silverclaw became warriors, she was happy for them. Silverclaw had kind of chilled by then and was more relaxed around Cloudkit and her littermates.

For the next few moons, Cloudkit vibed.

#### Apprenticeship

Cloudpaw became an apprentice alongside her littermates. Yay. She might have gotten a specific mentor, but I'm too lazy to check. So tHeRe.

She trained and things were chill for a while. Thistlespring became a warrior and Cloudpaw was happy for her. Then Tawnypaw got smacked with a tree branch and broke her back legs. *That* was sort of awful. Cloudpaw tried to hang out with her in the medicine den and be consoling or whatever. She brought her some gifts like prey and flowers and things to cheer her up whenever she could. She felt bad that Tawnypaw would have to miss a lot of training. Patchpounce apparently felt bad, too, because he started forcing Cloudpaw (as well as Flaxpaw and Webpaw) to practice climbing trees to prevent something like that from happening again. Cloudpaw didn’t enjoy it. She was bad at it. She didn’t enjoy being bad at things.

While she was practicing on her own one morning, she got sort of bored. She was joined by a slightly older apprentice named Silkpaw. She wasn’t particularly impressed by Silkpaw, though, so she just strolled off and started trying to hunt instead. She followed the scent of a squirrel to the FallClan border, but then it abruptly stopped, which she thought was weird... until she noticed some blood and feathers. Sure enough, looking up, she saw a hawk sitting right above her in a tree, digging into the squirrel. She was pretty terrified, considering what she knew of Dustkit’s demise, but luckily for her, Silkpaw had followed her. The two of them were enough to scare the hawk away without anyone getting hurt. She was pretty shaken by the experience, but she also actually noticed for... pretty much the first time that Silkpaw existed. He *had* potentially saved her life, so she felt like she owed him something, at least. Unfortunately, though, Cloudpaw was very bad at handling social things, so she went about the awkwardness by straight-up ignoring him. Whoops.

A few days later, she was feeling somewhat brave and decided to go back to the FallClan border, near where she’d seen the hawk, just to investigate and make sure there wasn’t a nest or anything to be wary of. So she did that. She didn’t see anything to take note of, but before she could leave, a FallClan apprentice who looked around her age popped up onto one of the nearby islets. She introduced herself as Mosspaw, and while neither of them were particularly adept at conversation, they ended up clicking relatively well and were able to get talking. Mosspaw mentioned that she was terrible at battle practice, and Cloudpaw could relate to that. She demonstrated a few of the moves she’d learned, and Mosspaw did the same. They struck up a friendship and decided to try and keep in touch to help each other train and such until they became warriors, or at least until gatherings opened back up again (they’d been closed before Cloudpaw was born due to the plague).

That continued for a bit. Cloudpaw continued to chill, spending time with her siblings and Thistlespring, making awkward half-conversations with Silkpaw, whom she was beginning to feel rather embarrassed around, and meeting up with Mosspaw every couple of weeks. Mosspaw showed her how to swim and Cloudpaw in turn taught Mosspaw how to climb trees. They exchanged news on how their Clans were faring with the plague. Mosspaw mentioned her crush on her friend Puddlespirit, and Cloudpaw shyly brought up how she was suspecting that she might be starting to crush on Silkpaw, telling Mosspaw about the hawk incident. To her shock, Mosspaw was like “oh yeah, he definitely likes you”. Cloudpaw didn’t believe her. Because Cloudpaw was Cloudpaw. But it definitely got the gears in her brain turning. *Did* he like her? Did she *like* that he liked her? Did she even like him? She was starting to get herself all confused, and the fact that Silkpaw had befriended Webpaw and therefore was around her even more often did not help.

That’s about all she’s done so far.

## Other

#### Trivia

* I (Starling) was originally going to give the name Cloudkit to one of Silkfur (not to be confused with Silkpaw)’s kits. That ended up not happening, though, thus securing this gal’s existence.
* I kind of want her full name to be Cloudtuft. Why? Because it’s adorable. Be quiet.
* I plan on having Cloudygal here become a mediator at some point. Assuming something happens to one of the other mediators, idk.
* She doesn’t return Silkpaw’s feelings atm, but maybe she will later on? 👀👀