Lichenmist

## Lichenpaw

"Sometimes I don't feel very sure of myself. At all. Like I can't do anything right. Except when I try to make others feel better. Helping others, even if doesn't exactly work, is always good! Right?"

### Aliases/Past Names

🍃 Lichenkit, Nugget(Kittypet), Lichen(Loner) 🍃

### Immediate Family

🍃Mother: Slightshade🍃🍃Father: Archshade🍃 🍃Littermates: Drizzlepaw & Dandelionpaw🍃🍃Other Siblings: N/A 🍃

## Physical Appearance

### Pelt Colour

🍃 Grey main fur with light grey/white markings 🍃

## Birth and Death

### Cause of Death

🍃 N/A 🍃

***This page will no longer be updated, unless I'm thinking about rejoining. Please see the bottom of this page for an explanation.***

**Lichenmist** ❝Nice to meet you!❞

## Personality

Lichenmist's main focus in life is trying to keep other cats happy. Whenever she feels down, she tries to hide it for the sake of those around her. Lichen tries to twist herself to a perfect image to please her family and clanmates. She genuinely cares about her friends and family and will do anything to show that. She's hardworking towards her goals and strives to be the best version of herself every moment. Lichen can get lost in thought and will zone out if she has nothing to do. For Lichen, it's torture to be ignored by someone close to her. It's rare for Lichen to get angry, but when she does, it's about something big. She's generally understanding and will respect others' choices and life decisions. Lichen is very self-righteous and struggles to understand why people may be frustrated with her. She also struggles to apologize correctly, always missing out on some key point. She does mean every word she says in her apologies however, she just can't communicate with others well.

## Appearance

Lichenmist is a rather short, chubby she-cat. She only comes up to about seven inches tall (One cementer taller than her mother. Her fur is medium-short, curled, and thick. Her main fur color is a light grey with white markings on her face, ears, legs, belly, tail, and back. Lichenmist's stomach is littered with scars and accompanied by slash marks over her right eye. All of her scars came from a hawk attack. Two feathers (A hawk feather and a sparrow feather) hang downwards from her right ear.

## History

(Warning: History is missing lots of information due to not being updated frequently enough)

### *Kithood*

Lichenkit was born on June 2nd, 2020. She was born to the Shadowclan warriors Slightshade and Archspeck. Lichen had two siblings, Dandelionkit and Drizzlekit.

At about a week old, Lichenkit met Mousepelt. She stated looking up to the young Warrior after Mousepelt cared and played with her. Mousepelt gave Lichen her favorite moss ball.

Lichen met Squeakpaw, and immediately attached to him. She constantly pestered him and bugged him to play games. Luckily, he didn't seem to mind much.

After a while, she noticed how everyone in her clan was sad. Whenever she asked why no one would give her a straight answer. Eventually, she settled to the decision that it was the war between Thunderclan and Shadowclan causing the sadness.

She met Orion and they instantly bonded. The kit had been brought to camp by Squeakpaw a little beforehand. They became friends almost solely over the fact that Squeakpaw was friends with both of them.

A conversation with Orion made Lichen start to question whether she really knew Mousepelt. According to him, she has attacked Orion unprovoked. She escaped camp with Orion to explore. They got lost, but eventually found deer meadow.

During the Thunderclan raid, Lichenkit was confined to camp. Ivybranch was also in camp defending the prisoners Ravenheart and Beeflight. The secret party of Thunderclan cats snuck in the back to free the prisoners. When Ivybranch went to drive them off, Lichen followed. This resulted in Lichenkit being one of the few witnesses to Ivybranch's death at Rooktalon's claws. This traumatized her, causing her to have nightmares about "The cat with three scars" (aka Rooktalon) killing Ivybranch almost every night. The nightmares stopped after a few moons.

After talking to her sister and Squeakpaw, she realized that she shouldn't be so hung up over it. She barely knew Ivybranch, others were experiencing much more, and they wouldn't want their death to tear others apart. Although she still had nightmares, she tried to be braver for her clan.

Mousepelt gifted Lichenkit another object, this time a sparrow feather. Just like the moss ball, it holds sentimental value to Lichen.

Lichen snuck out of camp with Orion again, and they explored the Burn Scar. Bonding time ensues.

Later, Orion's mentor Redgale dies. Lichen attempts to comfort him. This somewhat works and they bond further.

Lichenkit snuck out of the camp to explore and runs in with a hawk. She gets carried away near twolegplace and manages to getaway. Heavily bleeding, she passed out in front of a twoleg den. She ended up being a kittypet for a bit until she healed from her ordeal. She then started the journey back home.

### *Apprenticeship*

Lichen reunites with her sister before every other cat. Drizzle believes her sister is actually a hallucination at first, before being convinced otherwise.

Lichen returned home to open arms and friendly faces. Relieved that they still remember her, she becomes more relaxed again. However, she is still quite nervous and afraid of coming close to death again.

She finds out, much to her dismay, that Orion left to rejoin his housefolk.

Lichen explores Deer Meadow with the older apprentice Hopepaw.

She gets her apprentice name, Lichenpaw, at nine moons old. Her mentor is Brokenrose.

Lichenpaw went hunting near twoleg place and was captured by twolegs again. She remained there for four moons until she was able to escape again.

Drizzlepaw is angry at Lichenpaw for getting lost while their mother and she was injured and stops talking to her.

Lichenpaw finds out that her sister's mentor, Heatbranch, blinded her mother. She is enraged.

Her training is extended six more moons, much to her dismay.

### *Warrior*

Because it's been a bit, here's a basic rundown:

Slightshade becomes sick and is dying, while Lichemist becomes mates with Hopestream(Brokenrose's niece). Drizzlefeather becomes angry that Lichen seems to already be moving on with her life. When Lichen comes to see Slight Drizzle and her get into a huge fight. Lichen is obviously in the wrong here. After the fight She goes to Mousepelt and vents, accidental causing rumors to spread and everyone to hate her. She almost falls off a cliff as a very angry Heatbranch yells at her(Although Heat hated her, and Lichen was mad at him for blinding Slight, Lichen considered him a father figure. Which is kinda sad when you think about it). Drizzle runs away from all the chaos leading Lichen to think she died. Lichen doubts her self and neglects her relationship with Hope out of worry for her sister. Slight gets hit by a monster, Lichen and Drizzle both show up. Drizzle yells at Lichen about how everything is her fault(Although I think Lichen isn't THAT bad, it is partly her fault). Drizzle runs off again. Lichen then runs after her to apologize and try to make things right, getting caught up in a blizzard. Unable to find her way back to camp she freezes to death.

## *Afterlife*

I imagine Lichen went to Starclan, ashamed of herself and her decisions, and wants nothing more than to apologize. Out of shame she avoids her family and prefers to isolate herself. She also misses her mate and sister. When she feels sad(Which is always) she'll visit the living world to watch Hopestream and Drizzle. She feels absolutely terrible for what she put both of them through. (I've been stalking the rp ever since I left, so this is how I know what's been happening) She feels happy for her sister and is overjoyed for her and Jet. Even though they don't know they like each other yet, Lichen's a romantic and ships them. I imagine Lichen likes to stay in the living world, and although she doesn't have any effect on the goings on, wants to be there for her loved ones.

Because I'm sad she's dead here are some solo afterlife rps:

Lichenmist padded alongside her sister, feeling shame and sadness weigh her weightless pelt down. That look in her eyes- She had never seen her sister this way. Even after all the terrible things Lichenmist had done her sister always held on to some of herself. She would always keep moving forward, being the bigger and better person between the two of them. She was the the of daughter Lichen should have been. But as the snow passed through her and directly plastered itself to Drizzlefeathers fur she could feel any shred of happiness leaving her. She had hurt her sister. She had tried to catch up to her, oh how she tried, but she was too late. She had frozen just a dozen fox lengths from here. Too late, too late. She watched her sister helplessly as she collapsed in the snow a few moments later. "Drizzle...?" She whimpered, knowing full and well she couldn't see or hear her. "Please, please. You can't. You can't. Shadowclan needs you." She pressed her muzzle against her sister's forehead. As her nose connected she felt more alone than ever, not feeling the cold snow or Drizzlefeathers fur. "I shouldn't have said anything. You were right. I hurt you- I hurt you so much- I should have realized that." She lifted her head, tears streaming. "I-I won't leave you again. Never. I can't." She then laid down, curling her tail around her sister. Even though she couldn't feel her didn't mean she couldn't try and be there for her. "You can hate me. Just let me be here." She then closed her eyes, stiffing panic as she remained still. If something did happen she would be here. Even if Drizzle yelled it would be better than not seeing her again.

After a painfully long time, she heard paws wading through the snow. She stood up as quick as she could to peer through the blizzard. A silhouette against the onslaught of snow brought on a wave of relief. They would help her. Drizzle would be fine! She stood beside the mound of snow that was her sister, tears of relief running down her face. She padded alongside the new cat as she clamped her jaws around Drizzle's scruff and started dragging her away. She definitely had a kind face. Then, when the strange cat jumped and almost sent Drizzle rolling down a hill, she nearly jumped back into Starclan. Relief flooded her once more as she realized Drizzle had woken up. Drizzlefeather wouldn't be joining her anytime soon. As the two of them talked and walked off to this new cats camp, she felt a tingle of hope grow inside her. Maybe Drizzle would be happy again after all.

Lichen trailed behind Drizzle and the cat she had learned was called Jet. This wasn't her story, not anymore, but she still wanted to stay with Drizzle. She watched as they sniffed around before heading back. The night before, she had watched as Drizzle grew tense at the mention of siblings. That was Lichen's fault. If Dande was still alive, would he be angry at her too? He probably was. Up in Starclan, which she hadn't visited yet. Lichen would never forgive herself for the damage she'd done. But, hopefully, Jet could help Drizzle in ways that Lichen never could or did.

She followed Drizzle back to camp, who was currently holding three mice clamped in her jaws. She was an amazing hunter. As they padded into the den where Jet was fixing their nests Lichen sat down off to the side. As they talked Lichen noticed... Something between them. Be it the friendship forming or that Lichen was hopeless, she saw a sort of connection between them. Something about the kind way Jet looked at Drizzle or the way Drizzle looked at her. Nothing yet- just the seeds of something. Lichenmist quickly shook it off however. She was probably just hopeless.

Lichen sat next to her sister in the high reaches of a tree. Even though they weren't always on the best of terms, she liked to think she knew her sister better than anyone. Her heavily mixed expression gave her mind plenty of material to work with. Lichen felt shame weigh her down. Her sister was suffering because of her. All her fault, all her fault. Jet's voice called form below, and Drizzle hopped down to a lower branch. Lichen didn't follow. She felt too terrible, too wretched. She had broken her sister. For a moment she heard Heatbranchs words bounce around in her skull. *This is all your fault!* He screamed, *All your fault!*. Which it was. She looked down for a moment at Drizzle and Jet, a small smile edging onto her face. Maybe she wasn't hopeless after all.

Lichen had decided that she should give Drizzle some space. Just because she didn't know she was there didn't mean Lichen wasn't pushing boundaries. A lot had changed in Shadowclan. So much she hardly recognized it. Heatbranch was now Sootriddle AND deputy, Mousepelt had some more adorable kits, and Hopestream was nowhere to be found. It seemed like Brokenrose had already moved on. Did she miss her at all? Her best friend was now a grandmother. Time flies. But what hurt most of all was not seeing her mate. She din;t think she was dead. But it just hit home how much she hurt those around her. The worst thing out of all of it was Squeakdawns death. This was her fault. If she hadn't run off he would still be here. She sat on the edge of the nursery, watching Mousepelt sleep with her new kits. An ember of warmth appeared in her chest. Her best friend was happy. She deserved to be happy.

It would be an understatement to say Lichen was surprised when Jet and Drizzlefeather appeared in camp. A good surprise, until she saw her sister was injured. That night she laid by her sister to make sure she'd stay. She'd come too far to die now. She didn't die in the blizzard, she shouldn't go now. Squeezing her eyes shut she forced herself to sleep even though she didn't need to. This was all her fault.

Lichen watched with great joy that she had been right about her sister's new relationship. Sure, they didn't know it yet, but it was obvious there was chemistry. She followed them around everywhere, trying to pick up hints at what they'd been up to. Drizzle was finally happy and home safe. Lichen laid down and watched the two of them fall asleep again. The starry, invisible cat smiled warmly. She was happy.

## Gallery

Lichenpaw ref (Original)Lichenkit and DrizzlekitLichenpaw ref (Official)Family Photo!
## Relationships

Slightshade - Mother(Dead)

Archspeck - Father(Missing)

Dandelionpaw - Brother (Deleted)

Drizzle - Sister

Mousepelt - Basically Lichen's role model/Best Friend

Sootriddle/Heatbranch - Estranged father-figure

Swiftgaze - Friend

Squeakdawn - Close Friend(Dead)

Brokenrose - Mentor

Ivybranch - Acquaintance, Role model (Dead)

Orion - Close Friend(Missing)

Hopestream - Mate

Hey there! In case you didn't know, this is Pip's wiki account. I just wanted to say that I'm beyond sorry for leaving again when I promised I wouldn't. I just wanted to let everyone know why before I hopefully leave Scratch behind for the last time. This year has been very chaotic for me, with school, drama, therapy, general anxiety, and Scratch on top of it all. For you to fully understand /why/ I left so many times you also need to understand why I'm going to therapy. (I'll just cover the basic elements) When I was younger, my parents got a divorce because of some messed up things my mom did. Later she invited a friend of hers to live with her. During many of the visitations, he would do... not so good things to me. This year I finally told my dad and step-mom what he did to me. They put me into therapy, and I'm now remembering so many traumas I had forgotten about. I mainly used Scratch to get away from everything and all of the bad feelings and reminders. But, as I realized the first time I left, Scratch wasn't a healthy coping mechanism. So I tried to leave. The first time I let everyone know before I left because I wanted them to know I was okay. Then I came back. Some time passed, and I reluctantly tried to leave again. This time I left without saying anything so that I might be turned away next time I tried to join. Theeeeen I came back. And they let me rejoin anyways. Then more time passed and brings us to my latest disappearance. I'm trying /really/ hard to stay away. I just wanted to let all of you know this time. I hope you understand, and I'm sorry for causing so much chaos with my indecisiveness. I'm really trying to stay away and heal. Hopefully this works, because I'm really struggling with staying away.