Skyflower

### Kits

Cobrakit (son, dead), Lynxkit, Nettlekit, & Dustkit (daughters, dead), Silverclaw, Patchpounce, Flaxpaw, Webpaw, & Pigeonkit (sons), Tawnypaw, Cloudpaw, & Calicokit (daughters) Monarchflame (foster daughter) Thistlespring (adopted daughter)

### Friends

Songstar, Cedarpoppy, Moonmist, Moonface (dead), Brokenslip (kind of formerly?)

Skyflower is a sweet natured cat, known mostly as part of the Holy Mom Trinity. She's the only one of the aforementioned trinity that has a living and active partner. She and Wheatnose currently hold the record for most biological kits despite how many of them have died.

## Appearance & Personality

### Appearance

   Skyflower's fur is silky and soft, white like fresh snow. Her eyes are pale blue and her fur has patches of gray all over it. Most notably, there is a patch resembling a butterfly on her tail. Her ear tip is the same gray, which is also speckled across her face. Speckles of gray show up by most of her patches and her tail tip is also gray. She has several faded scars, mostly healed by now, that are covered by her long fur.

### Personality

Skyflower is a very likable cat. She is even-tempered, calm, and has a lot of good advice. She is sweet and motherly, seeing raising kits as the most fulfilling thing she could do with her life. She is very understanding and tries to look deeper than the surface for most cats - if she had stuck with first impressions, she would've never fallen in love with the cat that means the most to her. She is helpful and reliable.

## Background

### Kithood

Skykit was born in midwinter in FallClan. She had one sister, an adventurous calico named Flowerkit. Skykit and Flowerkit were two peas in a pod from the day they were born, completely inseparable. Their parents died when they were very young, so the sisters were raised by their aunt Puddlebriar and her mate Mossytoe. Skykit was very fond of both of them and, while Puddlebriar did explain that she and Mossytoe were not their actual parents, Skykit still saw them as her moms.

Skykit sought knowledge as soon as she could talk. She spent a good amount of time in the elders den listening to stories. Her favorite was Tigerbee, a recently retired elder who had been born right at the end of the rogue war. She was well versed in the history of the war and was more than happy to share these stories with Skykit and, when she could be persuaded to join her sister, Flowerkit. Tigerbee loved kits but had never had any of her own, so she was happy to spend time with Skykit.

There were also plenty of other kits in the nursery to play with: Ebonykit, Slatekit, and Milkweedkit were a moon older than her, Brokenkit was the same age as her, and Weepingkit was a moon younger. While Flowerkit was a little more solitary, Skykit loved hanging out with the other kits. She thought that Brokenkit was particularly intriguing and thought his father, Stagheart, was really cool.

One thing that Skykit and Flowerkit shared was their thirst for adventure. Skykit loved pestering the warriors and apprentices to take her out of camp. Puddlebriar or Mossytoe occasionally took her, but that wasn't enough to satisfy Skykit.

One day when she was four moons old, one of the apprentices, Fadingpaw, took her out of camp. He tossed her in the water, thinking she could swim. She could not. The apprentice was so scared of getting in trouble for inadvertently trying to drown a kit that he bounced. Skykit managed to not drown only because a warrior named Brookfeather saw her and fished her out. It took Skykit nearly a moon to even look at the water again and she definitely stopped asking to leave camp.

Skykit was five moons old when Wreathwillow's kits became apprentices. Milkweedpaw, the youngest, was the only one who stayed in FallClan. The other two, Ebonypaw and Slatepaw, moved to OrchidClan and OasisClan respectively. So that was neat.

When the kits were almost six moons old, Mossytoe went missing. A few cats were sent out in a search party to look for her, but it was as if she had simply vanished. Puddlebriar was distraught by the loss of her mate and best friend, curling in on herself with grief. She made arrangements for the kits to spend their apprenticeship in OasisClan, which was a safer place for them. After Skykit's mishap with Fadingpaw only about a moon and a half ago, Puddlebriar wasn't willing to let the kits continue living in FallClan without her. And it would be without her, because she wanted to go search for Mossytoe.

### Apprenticeship

Skypaw and Flowerpaw were given their apprentice names shortly before the Gathering so that they could go home with OasisClan. Skypaw didn't really like that - she did like FallClan a lot and wanted to stay. Flowerpaw was willing to go, though, so Skypaw didn't fight it. They said their goodbyes, mostly to the newly-named Brokenpaw and to Weepingkit, who still had a moon before her apprenticeship.

At the Gathering, Skypaw met an OrchidClan tom named Wheatpaw. He wasn't too friendly at first, but he had been born in OasisClan and Skypaw found him interesting. He had a bobtail, which Skypaw had never seen before, and despite his initial unfriendliness, she found that he ended up getting along well with her and Flowerpaw.

Later that night, she and Flowerpaw went to their new home in OasisClan. They said goodbye to Puddlebriar at the Gathering, which turned out to be the last time they would ever see their aunt. Rough. Skypaw's mentor was named Spiderlace, a reserved yet opinionated molly who had trained one apprentice before Skypaw. Flowerpaw's mentor was a tom named Almondshard. They didn't train together very often, which Skypaw was disappointed about, but training went well overall.

Skypaw found that she enjoyed spending time in the nursery. A cat named Littlebird had two young kits when Skypaw moved into OasisClan, Peachkit and Tulipkit and adopted a third, Mistkit, shortly after Skypaw's arrival. Skypaw helped out whenever she could, finding the kits quite cute.

When Skypaw was nine moons old, a cat named Sweetwillow moved to OasisClan with her three young kits, Puffkit, Moonkit, and Songkit. The family seemed a little shaken, and for good reason - Sweetwillow's mate, Mottlespirit, had been killed. Skypaw wasn't told that much, though. She just liked helping with the kits. For what it's worth, the kits seemed to like her too. Then their mom died. That was rough. Puffkit also died. That was rough too.

They aren't important right now.

While hunting together when they were eleven moons old, Flowerpaw and Skypaw were attacked by a fox. The sisters fought valiantly, but ultimately the canid was just more vicious than they could manage. Heavily wounded, the sisters staggered back to camp. Skypaw managed to pull through, but even with devoted medical care, Flowerpaw was just too far gone to save.

Skypaw wasn't aware of her sister's death for a few days, having fallen unconscious due to blood loss and only coming to a few days after the fact. She was offered her warrior ceremony, which she accepted. For both her and Flowerpaw. Unlike Songstar later would, Stemstar didn't believe in giving dead cats their full names. Instead, he gave Skypaw her sister's name. She became Skyflower, honored for her bravery and devotion.

### Adult Life

The newly named Skyflower was able to go to the Gathering that moon and showed off her new name to Wheatpaw. They shared a moment of "dang Flowerpaw's really dead that really sucks" after she told him her name, but overall he thought it was really cool. They promised to do their best to make it to the next Gathering to hang out some more and for Wheatpaw to show off his new name.

Except he didn't get a new name. Whoops. Wheatpaw failed his warrior assessment the first time.

* 13 moons - starts hanging out with Songpaw & Moonpaw
* 17 moons - Wheatnose proposes; Skyflower suggests they get wedding orchids.
* 26 moons - introduced irp
* 28 moons - WheatSky v.1 is born (Cobra, Nettle, & Lynx)
* 36 moons - WheatSky v.2 is born (Dust, Patch, Silver); c h i l d r e n
* 37 moons - Wheatnose finally moves to OasisClan
* 40 moons - Dustkit killed by an owl after sneaking out of camp, Wheatnose brings home its feathers
* 41 moons - Sunk into depression, Wheatnose reminding her to eat bc she forgets to in her grief; tells Silver + Patch about v.1
* 42 moons - WheatSky v.3 born; Silverpaw accuses her of trying to replace his older siblings and Dustkit with him and v.3 respectively

## Other

### Trivia

* I completely forgot about Mosspaw and Puddlepaw while writing this. Guess Moss/Puddle has been a FallClan thing for a while lol
* Dustkit was her favorite kit in v.2; she didn't show a ton of favoritism toward her, but Skyflower thought she was very pretty and had a fun personality
* If Flowerpaw had lived, Skyflower's name would have been Skyfern
* Skyflower learned a ton of stories from her aunt Mossytoe and tells them to her kits (or anyone who wants to hear, but mostly her kits). Her favorite is a darker number called The Lovers, which is basically Romeo and Juliet: Warrior cats edition

### Playlist

* Helpless | Phillipa Soo | *look into your eyes and the sky's the limit* | I had this written down as a WheatSky song in 2020. I was deep in a Hamilton phase at the time but it still fits.
* I Hope You Dance | Lee Ann Womack | *never settle for the path of least resistance* | I feel like this is her talking to her kits. Idk, it's a cute song for her.

### Quotes

**New RP**