Leafshade

## Appearance & Personality

Leafshade is a small, scrawny ivory white she-cat. Her pelt is short and curly, with patches of striped ginger fur on her right front paw, her rump and both of her ears. She has pale green eyes and a tail ringed with ginger and ivory. A single scar runs along her left flank, long, deep and ugly.

Leafshade is quiet and aloof. She trusts no cat and is always scheming and calculating, to the point of paranoia. Her reserved nature may make her seem shy at times, but she has no problem expressing herself or her beliefs. Leafshade simply chooses to keep her mostly bitter, sarcastic thoughts to herself, and firmly believes that's what every cat should do in order to be efficient. Because of this, she remains formal and respectful in every interaction, despite the brewing anger inside of her.

## Brief History

Leafshade lived in the Farlands as a medicine cat, where she became a dictator and was chased away. She joined WindClan in the Valley and died from a tunnel collapse. After going to the dark forest, she joined the Aspguard.

## Detailed History

Leafkit and her littermates, Gingerkit, Mossykit and Hazykit, were born to WindClan warrior Flashstorm and an unknown, absent father. Their mother died from a disease that'd been plaguing the Clans shortly after giving birth, orphaning the four siblings. With no parental figures to keep them in line, Hazykit would often bully other kits and fight with Mossykit, causing Leafkit to gradually stray away from the two. The only cat she'd really talk to was her other brother Gingerkit, who was also rather scared and antisocial. By the time she reached the age of an apprentice, Leafkit was completely isolated.

The illness took both Gingerpaw and Hazypaw's lives not long after the litter was apprenticed, which devastated young Leafpaw. She went into her apprenticeship afraid and unmotivated. Despite being a moor runner, and a swift one at that, Leafpaw had no grace or ambition. No matter how hard she tried, she could never get fighting moves down properly. It didn't take long for her to start doubting her ability to become a warrior. She began to worry about disappointing her mentor, Slushstone, and blamed herself when the warrior left WindClan to become a rogue. Leafpaw felt as if she'd be better off as an outsider, as well. One night she confided these feelings in Mossypaw, who wasted no time in agreeing to leave with her. Before she could explain that it was only one of many options, her sister was gone. Leafpaw came back to camp defeated and alone, feeling more hopeless than ever. Stonefang approached her a few days later though, giving her the chance to train as a medicine cat, and Leafpaw had finally found something she excelled at.

Though she was considerably happier, Leafpaw's overall attitude didn't change much during her medicine cat training. She did find one friend in a tom named Lightningpaw, and met with ShadowClan's medicine cat apprentice a few times, but she couldn't bring herself to see the cat as anything more than someone she had to work with. This is how she treated every cat, including her Clanmates, and soon they'd only come to her if they required healing. Leafpaw's training was ended abruptly however, when Stonefang joined Lightningtail's brother, Steppestep, on a trip in the tunnels that collapsed and crippled him. What made Leafpaw infuriated was that Steppestep had come out of it unscathed. In her eyes he'd done this on purpose, left her mentor to die in order to save himself. She wouldn't accept his apology, even after he took on the name Steppefall out of shame, and began to grow cold. Clearly no cat cared respected her, or any medicine cat for that matter.

With Stonefang in the elders' den, she'd received the full medicine cat status alone. The newly named Leafshade was much more bitter. She no longer bothered to act pleasant for her patients, and simply worked in silence for the sole purpose of keeping WindClan strong.

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