Mosspaw

Mosspaw is currently an apprentice of FallClan. She moved her nest into the medicine den despite everyone telling her not to, and now she refuses to move it back, so everyone's probably a bit unhappy with her.

Name- Mosspaw

Gender- She-cat

Clan- FallClan

Rank- Apprentice

Family- Drizzlesnow (mother), Halfheart (father), Mallowpaw (sister), Rainpaw and Shellpaw (brothers), she has a little crush on Puddlespirit

Friends- Puddlespirit and Cloudpaw

Enemies- no :’<

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Mosspaw is a soft-furred pastel calico tabby. Instead of orange, though, her white fur is mottled with striped patches silver and beige. She has pale green eyes.

#### Personality

She’s generally very sweet, softspoken, and kindhearted, and somewhat reclusive and shy, but she’s very trusting and will open up to anyone relatively quickly if they’re nice to her. She's secretly stubborn, too. If she sets her mind to something that she thinks is right (such as moving into the medicine den, for instance), she won't let anyone dissuade her. She'll be nice about it - but she won't back down. Good girl.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

   Mosskit was born in FallClan to Drizzlesnow and Halfheart, alongside her sister, Mallowkit, and her brothers, Shellkit and Rainkit. She enjoyed spending time with her siblings and parents, even though they were all much more excitable and hyper than she was. She preferred sitting with her mother while her littermates played, asking questions or listening to stories. A fun habit of hers was to make up little songs and sing them to herself or for Drizzlesnow to listen to. She also had a good relationship with her father, but again, she didn't participate as much in his activities as her siblings did. When Halfheart would take her brother and sisters out of camp to have little adventures and play games, it was often her preference to stay behind.

She also got along fairly well with the older kits in the nursery, Turtlekit and Puddlekit. She particularly clicked with Puddlekit and sort of developed a premature crush on him. They were pretty close friends and would chill together when they didn't have anything else to do, because both of them were socially awkward jelly beans and sucked at hanging out with the other kits. She encouraged Puddlekit's interest in herbs despite the fact that there was already a medicine cat apprentice at the time: Seedpaw. She'd occasionally try to play little games with him where she'd take some herbs from the medicine den and make him guess which ones they were. It... didn't ever really amount to any kind of training, though, because Mosskit had no idea which herbs were which and just always told him he was correct, having no clue if he actually was or not. It was still cute, though. She spent a lot of time in the medicine den with him, and she’d let him help her think of silly songs to sing.

She was a little bit bored once Puddlepaw and Turtlepaw moved into the apprentices' den, though. Puddlepaw was disappointed not to have been allowed to train as a medicine cat, and Mosskit tried to cheer him up by pointing out that he could still help out Seedpaw and Crystalrock a lot, since due to the plague's severity they were always in need of extra assistance. Even so, without her older denmates, Mosskit was left with Mallowkit, Shellkit, and Rainkit. She didn't mind her siblings- she loved them, of course- but she just wasn't as playful and active as they were. She instead liked to pester her parents and the elders for stories or calmer activities such as word games when Puddlepaw was busy.

Only about a moon later, though, Crystalrock and Seedpaw were both killed by the plague within a span of only a few days. Puddlepaw got his wish - and in the process was left as FallClan's only medicine cat. Mosskit understood that he was very upset about it, and she felt terrible for him. She once again went back to trying to help out in the medicine den as often as she could, along with Turtlepaw and Puddlepaw's mother, Silkfur. She wasn't much help, as she scarcely knew what she was doing, but she did her best all the same. Even so, two more cats, Auburnpaw and Oceandusk, caught the plague and died under Puddlepaw's care. He was miserable about it, and Mosskit felt awful for her friend, promising him that she’d do as much as she could to help as soon as she turned six moons old as well.

When she was only one moon away from becoming an apprentice, a new kit joined them in the nursery: Hurricanekit. Hurricanekit was the same age as her, but he was a little bit too wily, so she mostly just tried to avoid interacting with him. He spent more time with her siblings than with her anyways. Also, a third queen, Sunstriker, died giving birth to her four kits: Warblerkit, Frecklekit, Downykit, and Seedkit(named after Seedpaw). They were watched over by Silkfur. Puddlepaw was devastated and felt responsible for the loss of their mother, and Mosskit did everything she could to make him feel better - which, granted, wasn't much. She sung a little mini song about it, in fact. It actually just ended up upsetting Puddlepaw more, which had been the opposite of what she was hoping to accomplish. But hey, it's the thought that counts, right?

#### Apprenticeship

Mosspaw became an apprentice alongside Hurricanepaw and her littermates at six moons old, and was given Graydusk as her mentor. Now, Graydusk was a rather lax and carefree young warrior, and he wasn't exactly the most... responsible. She had trouble learning from him, and she spent more time waiting around for him in camp and listening to him yammering nonsense than she did actually training. She preferred hitching onto training sessions with Mallowpaw and *her* mentor, Tidewave. Tidewave was far more experienced and glad to take both apprentices under his wing, as well as Graydusk.

She also tried to spend a lot of time with Puddlepaw. She knew he felt terrible about his overall performance as a medicine cat, so she did whatever she could to be helpful. She knew that he was alone in the medicine den at night, and despite not really being allowed to, she moved her nest into the medicine den to keep him company. Puddlepaw had actually tried to convince her not do it, but she ignored that. She was going to help him whether he liked it or not. He was worried that she would catch the plague and felt guilty for making her feel obligated to help, and sort of broke down at her. She knew it was a good thing he was getting it out, though, so she just cat-hugged him and made unfunny herb puns until the crying evolved into laughing. It was sweet.

So... yeah. She spent most of her time with Graydusk, Tidewave, and Mallowpaw, and all of her *free* time helping out Puddlepaw. At one point, Rainpaw convinced her to chill for a bit and go fishing with him. So they did that. Except the vision in one of Rainpaw's eyes was failing, and he missed while trying to swipe a fish and accidentally dislocated his paw against a rock. Whoops. They went over to Puddlepaw to see what he could do about it. Puddlepaw fixed the paw, but couldn't figure out what exactly was wrong with Rainpaw's eye - the vision in it had seemed to be getting progressively worse for a few moons already, and nothing seemed to help. That wasn’t even the only thing; Shellpaw had difficulties when it came to exerting himself, and it seemed like some kind of lung issue that Puddlepaw’s herbs couldn’t fix. It was unfortunate, but Mosspaw understood and made sure he knew that he was doing everything in his power and he had no reason to feel bad about it.

He earned his full name, Puddlespirit, after several moons, and Mosspaw was very happy for him. She started getting more requests to move back into the apprentices’ den after that, but she ignored them all. She was staying with Puddlespirit whether her Clanmates liked it or not. On the bright side, though, since Puddlespirit had gotten more confident in his abilities and no longer needed company all the time, Mosspaw had a lot more free time to sort of just... hang around and do whatever she felt like doing.

On one of these occasions, she chose to go for a swim near the OasisClan border... and she encountered an OasisClan apprentice named Cloudpaw. Now, Mosspaw had never been one for conversation, but she saw her opportunity and chose to take it. She called out to Cloudpaw and introduced herself. They hit it off pretty well and ended up getting along, much to Mosspaw’s surprise and pleasure. They talked about training, and Mosspaw mentioned that she struggled with battle practice. Cloudpaw related, and so they demonstrated some of the moves they’d learned to one another, then agreed to meet up every so often to help each other with training and to catch up. They parted ways, and Mosspaw felt pretty good about having made another friend — especially one in another Clan, since gatherings had been shut down due to the plague since before she’d been born.

That carried on for a few moons. Mosspaw continued to vibe with her family and with Puddlespirit. Graydusk got to be more of a responsible mentor, too. Rainpaw’s vision steadily worsened, but there was nothing Mosspaw or Puddlespirit could do about it. During one of her meetings with Cloudpaw (which took place every other week), she confessed her feelings for Puddlespirit, and Cloudpaw in turn told her about one of her own Clanmates, Silkpaw. Mosspaw expressed that she was fairly certain Silkpaw had a crush on Cloudpaw, much to her friend’s astonishment. Mosspaw became a massive CloudSilk shipper from that moment forward.

Not much else has happened to her yet.

## Other

#### Trivia

* Not to be confused with Moss, a loner, or a different Mosspaw, one of Pineclaw's siblings.
* She's definitely gonna end up with Puddlespirit when she's older.