Aspenpelt

***Spoiler warning:** Plot and/or ending details follow.**"So, it was the early morning and cats were just starting to wake up. My parents had already grabbed their fresh-kill and had walked away from it like fools. So I approached it with mouse bile and hid it in the parts that had already been eaten. I was a young warrior at this point and I was tired of my parents. Their reactions were priceless. They looked so angry and they looked at me with so much hatred. I didn't care i just enjoyed their reactions. They should have been grateful i made them fun. I gave them an adventure. It was even better because they couldn't do anything about it. I got away with feeding my parents mouse bile,"*

## Historical Information

### Date Introduced:

6/2/23

**Aspenpelt** is a thick black tom (FTM) with yellow eyes. One of his claws is permanently broken.
**Aspenpelt** was born to Mistypelt and Hickorysmoke. He has served under Valleystar's and Dawnstar's reigns.

## Relations

Crush: TBD

Friendships: Cloverpool

Enemies: Dawnstar, Carrionsaunter

Mentors: Unknown

## Interests

*Likes*

Causing trouble, hare, watching kits play

*Dislikes*

Being bored, cats that are overly serious

## Skills/Faults

*Skills*

A fierce loyalty to his Clan, incredibly adaptable, surprisingly quick for his age, despite being goofy, he will still listen when needed, Understands that every cat has good in them and cats will act out, is incredibly sympathetic

*Faults*

Not willing to change for the better, thinks he's perfect the way he is, makes jokes of serious situations, Acts like an apprentice, will bite you, thinks rules are stupid, hates parents in general, despises seriousness, will interrupt a Clan meeting with an irrelevant fact

## Personality

A very fiercely loyal tom. He is incredibly overconfident and that showed a lot when he was a tunnler. As he's grown up, he's realized his faults, but that doesn't mean he's willing to fix them. He refuses to be the vision of the elder cats tend to think of. He is proud of the fact that he offers terrible advice and will often cause trouble for fun. While he has calmed down somewhat, he still tends to act like a kit and will often prank other cats. He doesn't care what other cats think and enjoys driving other cats crazy with his antics. Kits are his favorite cats to hang out with and he finds Dawnstar to be boring despite being loyal to her.

## Detailed History

*Dawnstar's Reign*

**Moon 2**

Aspenpelt debuts in a scene with Cloverpool, where the latter brings the elder prey from the pile. The two begin chatting, and they form a tight bond almost instantly. The pair chat about Aspenpelt's parents, and decide to take inspiration from a prank he'd pulled on them, planting mouse-bile in Carrionsaunter's meal as a result of his horrid attitude.

## Detailed Appearance

A muscular tom with black fur. He has green eyes and short fur, with a long tail. He has long claws, with one broken from a tunnling accident.

## Kin

Mother: Mistypelt

Father: Hickorysmoke

## Backstory

Aspenkit's parents had a desire for him to be perfect. They would constantly berate him for the simplest mistakes. This led him to be very reckless as an apprentice, often going against not only his parents wishes, but his mentors. One day, when he wanted to prove that he was perfect and worthy of his parents love, the young apprentice dove into a tunnel. All seemed well at first until he found himself trapped. In a panic, he tried to dig his way out, only leading to him breaking his claw. When he left the medicine den, his parents didn't offer their sympathy, they only further berated him and told him they didn't want to see him until he got his act together. Heartbroken, the tom ran away from his parents. He was found a day later sleeping near a rabbit burrow. Some cats believe it was a TW suicide attempt while others believe he was trying to get away from his parents. Aspen paw didn't know where they got the idea from that he wanted to die, not when he thought himself to be one of the funnest cats in the Clan. It was around this time that he was figuring out his gender identity too. When he figured it out, he kept it a secret, only telling his parents when he had his warrior ceremony and became Aspenpelt. His parents refused to accept him and he never spoke to them again. A few moons after his warrior ceremony, his parents died in an accident, Aspenpelt didn't know how to feel. Despite his parents deaths, he refused to accept their ways and only further spiraled into a kit like state. As he got older, he noticed he became a lot more like a kit than a warrior, not that he cared, it was the first time he could act like a kit without being berated.

## Trivia

* Despite pretending not to be affected by his parents, he is still affected by them.

## Quotes

*"So, it was the early morning and cats were just starting to wake up. My parents had already grabbed their fresh-kill and had walked away from it like fools. So I approached it with mouse bile and hid it in the parts that had already been eaten. I was a young warrior at this point and I was tired of my parents. Their reactions were priceless. They looked so angry and they looked at me with so much hatred. I didn't care i just enjoyed their reactions. They should have been grateful i made them fun. I gave them an adventure. It was even better because they couldn't do anything about it. I got away with feeding my parents mouse bile,"*

-Aspenpelt's story to Cloverpool about the time he slipped mouse-bile into his parent's fresh-kill.

## Links

Theme Song/Voice Claim

* Theme Song: Price of Perfection*End of spoiler warning*