Featherpaw

*I don't want to fight! It won't feed the Clan!*
— Featherpaw about fighting to Runningbreeze in PurpleClan's Prairie RP

**Featherpaw**, also known as **Feather**, is a gentle and passionate apprentice of PurpleClan.

## Physical Description

Featherpaw is a silky-furred, blue-gray she-cat with darker stripes and warm yellow eyes.

## Personality

Featherpaw is kind and passionate, though can fall down the wrong paths here and there, shown when her passion for hunting caused her to hiss at her own mentor, Runningbreeze. She has a particular interest of taking care of kits, and hates fighting.

## History

### Overview

* Featherpaw and Runningbreeze get into an argument over their mock fighting session.
* Featherpaw hunts alone, hides from Runningbreeze, and stalks to the BlueClan border, where she encounters the BlueClan apprentice mediator, Reedpaw.
* Runningbreeze temporarily disowns Featherpaw as his apprentice, although they are still friends.

### PurpleClan's Prairie RP

The first scene starts with Featherpaw, who buries her smooth fur in her nest, without the intention of waking up just then. As Runningbreeze waits impatiently for Featherpaw to wake up for her battle training session, the latter is hiding is hiding in her own fluff, thinking that she didn't want to fight, as it wouldn't help to feed the Clan. Hiding under her nest, Featherpaw is worried that she'll see her mentor, as Runningbreeze enters the den to get her.

As Runningbreeze explains that learning to fight isn't bad, Featherpaw pretends to snore, curling up and silently wishing for him to go away, and thinking that she could do what she wanted. As Runningbreeze tells her to check her attitude, she hisses for him to shut up, calling him a crow-heart and wishing he weren't her mentor.

Although she thinks that she does not truly mean her words, her heart sinks, and she thinks that Runningbreeze started it, that it was his fault, that she didn't want to be a stupid fighting warrior, and that she wanted to raise her own kits and have a family. As Runningbreeze warns her once again to check her attitude, Featherpaw hisses to herself that she didn't want to see his stupid petty face, and wishes that he were to just run into a hole and stay there forever.

Clawing the walls of the den, she curses him repeatedly, murmuring to herself that she wasn't going to show up to his mock fighting session, if that was what he thought. She concludes that she was going to go out to the forest to hunt, and, curling her tail, she opens her jaws to check for the scent of other cats. Declaring the course clear with an inward meow, she rushes into PurpleClan's lush forest, thinking that she would be onto hunting, something useful, unlike fighting. Smelling the scent of voles, Featherpaw drops into the hunter's crouch to find it.

As Runningbreeze accidentally and coincidentally catches the same vole, Featherpaw wrinkles her nose, and stealthily crawls deeper into the forest. As Runningbreeze becomes annoyed at the way she avoids him, she wrinkles her nose again, thinking that she was going to request for a new mentor, and that she was done with him. She wonders if he could not tell her to train if she had kits as an apprentice and became a queen. Featherpaw, who is coincidentally at the BlueClan border, sees a silver tabby floating near the shore, and silently notes that it seemed fun. She sits at the BlueClan border, noticing Reedpaw and calling out his name.

As Reedpaw explains his accident and asks if he could stay in PurpleClan for a few hours, Featherpaw responds positively with a purr, raising her tail and recalling with a mew that she remembered him from the Gathering, before recalling the tabby tom's kindness aloud. Featherpaw then crouches next to Reedpaw, saying that she hated her mentor because he bossed her around. As Reedpaw responds, Featherpaw questions him with a scenario, telling him that, if she was carried away by ocean currents, unsheathed claws couldn’t help her.

As Reedpaw cautiously defends himself, Featherpaw mews that she wanted to have kits, so that she could escape the future, as Runningbreeze would be punished if he trained her while she was expecting kits. Featherpaw unsheathes her claws, which were short, soft, and clean, and thinks that Reedpaw would not listen to her wishes and would tell her to listen to her mentor, as hard as it would have been. She sheathes her claws, which she thinks that Reedpaw might take as a threat, and asks how BlueClan was doing, as she heard that their new medicine cat apprentice, Hollypaw, was promoted, before flicking her sleek tail.

As Reedpaw answers with a simple positive, Featherpaw nods, saying that that was good to hear. After Reedpaw leaves on a friendly note, Featherpaw nods. In her next scene, she arrives at the PurpleClan camp, and pads slowly up to Runningbreeze, murmuring a short greeting. As Runningbreeze asks her if they could have a moment outside of the camp, Featherpaw gulps, thinking that he was giving to give her twenty moons of apprentice duties. She nods quietly and walks outside.

When Runningbreeze asks her why she hated fighting so much, Featherpaw shakes her head, huffing that he didn’t need to know and silently wondering why he was pushing her around. She then sneers at him to stop being a know-it-all, and that she wasn't going to share what she didn't want to share. Flicking her tail, she thinks that she'd rather spend time with Reedpaw than Runningbreeze, whom she calls a flea-bag. As Runningbreeze disowns her as his apprentice until she learns commitment, duty, respect, responsibility, and common sense, Featherpaw's eyes gleam and she raises her tail, thinking that it was a dream and that she was free of his controlling self.

She remarks inwardly that, if she hunts a giant piece of prey, the Clan would honor her. Dropping into the hunter's crouch, she spots a fat, juicy squirrel near the base of a tree that was sniffing curiously at an acorn. Featherpaw bunches up her muscles and springs, and the squirrel writhes under her paws. Finally, she delivers the killing bite, and the squirrel goes limp. She steps off its warm, fresh body and thinks aloud that Runningbreeze would have been so proud, before pausing, and remembering that he wasn't her mentor anymore.

Featherpaw buried the squirrel under some dirt, and wonders if she should learn fighting, and if she made the right choice, before shaking the thoughts away and deciding inwardly that fighting with her claws was immoral. She pounces on a magpie and takes it down with a killing bite, before picking it up and getting the squirrel. Padding back to camp, she attempts to ignore Runningbreeze, thinking that he wasn't her mentor anymore and that she didn't have anything to worry about. As Runningbreeze praises her catch lightly, Featherpaw pauses, murmuring her gratitude and dropping her prey on the fresh-kill pile.

As Runningbreeze suggests a sunset patrol, Featherpaw sighs, muttering in agreement and hanging her head as she pads over to him. She thinks that the chances that they would get into battle are low, and that, if they did get into one, Runningbreeze had the possibility of fatal injury or even death. As Runningbreeze tells her that it was completely her choice and it could be a hunting patrol instead, Featherpaw shakes her head, muttering that it could be a border patrol.

## Trivia

### Mistakes

* After every quote in her perspective, the speaker is capitalized, resulting in misspellings such as “*You don’t need to know.” She huffed* instead of *“You don’t need to know,” she huffed.* During one of these grammatical errors, there is a missing punctuation mark between *duties* and *she*, resulting in the mistake Twenty moons of apprentice duties *She panicked* instead of Twenty moons of apprentice duties, *she panicked.*