Chivepaw

> "Even my best wasn't enough..." - Chivepaw to Lionstorm
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## Physical Description

Chivepaw is a short, skinny brown tom with leaf-green eyes. Unlike the light brown of the rest of his pelt, his ears and tail are a dark brown color and his front left paw is cream-colored. He has short fur, a long, skinny tail, and a small build.

## Personality

Unlike his best friend Feathergorse, Chivepaw is shy and quiet, tending not to talk to anyone he doesn't know. He is often caught off-guard when other cats talk to him, believing that he is too uninteresting for anyone to want to pay attention to him unless they are sick and need medical attention. Despite this, Chivepaw is empathetic, honest, and strictly loyal to WindClan, although he is unwilling to voice his opinion on topics not related to medicine.

## Skills and Weaknesses

Under Daisybreeze's mentoring, Chivepaw spent a great deal of time in the medicine den and knows which herbs to use for nearly every occasion. When someone is injured, he becomes much more assertive. He is also very fast despite his relatively short legs and a fast learner.

Chivepaw's main weakness is his social anxiety and self-doubt. He faults himself whenever he is incapable of helping a Clanmate or needs to ask for help from another medicine cat. He also struggles at stating his own opinions, often simply listening to conversations from a distance rather than joining them, and hates to give advice in the fear that he'll sound pretentious.

## Life

### Kithood

While he was born in WindClan, Chivepaw's parents are unknown. His kithood was relatively uneventful, as he had no friends and showed no interest in making any, instead preferring to go to the medicine cat den and learn the names and uses of the different herbs. His parents presumably died sometime early on in his kithood, although this did not seem to impact him significantly, being too young at the time to understand the concept of death.

### Apprenticeship

In his apprentice ceremony, Chivepaw was made the medicine cat apprentice of WindClan and began his formal training under Daisybreeze, the medicine cat. A few moons into his apprenticeship, Chivepaw befriended Featherpaw, the son of Sedgeflower. Featherpaw had a crush on Chivepaw, but Chivepaw, being asexual, didn't realize and was just glad to have finally made a friend. He hardly understood the concept of romance. A moon after they became friends, Featherpaw came down with greencough, and Chivepaw restricted him to the medicine den for his own health and the health of his Clanmates. Despite all of Chivepaw's attempts at keeping Featherpaw healthy and giving him herbs to treat his cough, Featherpaw passed away during his own warrior ceremony minutes after being given his warrior name, Feathergorse. After this, Chivepaw was crushed and felt that he had failed his friend. Spending so much time with Feathergorse when he was still alive had caused Chivepaw to contract greencough as well, although he tried to hide it as he treated the same disease in many of his fellow Clanmates. He had no other friends and became lonely and depressed, too shy to go up and talk to other cats. While he lasted longer than many cats who don't survive greencough, Chivepaw died from his chest infection at 17 moons old and was greeted by Feathergorse in StarClan.

## Friends and Family

Feathergorse - StarClan, tom, warrior, friend

Sedgeflower - WindClan, she-cat, warrior, friend

Nutmegseed - WindClan, she-cat, warrior, friend

## Notable Quotes

"Even my best wasn't enough..." - Chivepaw to Lionstorm, after the death of Feathergorse