Cardinalflight

### Siblings

Firsong (sister), Warrenfire (foster brother), Lapwingfeather, Chaffichflight, & Hollyflower (foster sisters)

### Other Relatives

Brightflower & Starktunnel (grandparents), Applepaw & Doemizzle (aunts), Bounceglaze (uncle)

### Enemies

Rillwing (but it's complicated)

Cardinalflight is an energetic warrior of MarshClan. She's more than a bit fluffbrained at times, but she doesn't really care what others think of her. She has her mom and her sister and for her, that's enough.

## Appearance & Personality

### Appearance

   Cardinalflight has longer fur, relatively thin most of the time but long and soft. Her ears are tall and straight with small tufts of fur on the tips. Her fur is a rich cinnamon red. There is white on her chin, chest, and toes. There's also a stripe of white on her poofy tail. The tips of her ears are darker red, as is her tail tip. She has three stripes of darker red down her back and tail as well as a wing-like mask of darker fur on her face. Her eyes are blue and there are speckles of white on her nose and by her eyes. She wears a few cardinal feathers on her right shoulder.

### Personality

Cardinalflight is an energetic and sincere cat. Incapable of anything less than wearing her heart on her sleeve, so to speak, Cardinalflight is sometimes a little too blunt in her choice of words. She doesn't care too much for social niceties - sweet, empty words aren't worth the time or breath. She doesn't have a lot of bad opinions, though, so she doesn't run into much trouble. She gets bored easily and is always looking for the next great adventure. Cardinalflight is very chatty and willing to talk the ear off anyone willing to listen.

## Background

### Kithood

Cardinalkit and her sister, Firkit, were born in MarshClan to a cat named Cedarpoppy. Though Cardinalkit was never told as much, Cedarpoppy had been missing from the Clan for several moons, disappearing when she was seven moons old and reappearing pregnant with Cardinalkit and Firkit. Her absence was a subject of much gossip and discussion, as was the kits' father. Cardinalkit didn't really notice. She couldn't be bothered with other cats, spending most of her time as a young kit either asleep or bugging Firkit.

They were accompanied in the nursery by several other kits, though Cardinalkit never became close with any of them. The oldest was Sparrowkit, who was five moons older than Cardinalkit and thus was an apprentice before she could really do anything. Another five were the first litter of a pair of warriors named Frigidbristle and Mistralflutter. They were three moons older than Cardinalkit and Firkit and mostly played among themselves. The two mollies were named Dovekit and Chirpkit and the three toms were Hemlockkit, Leafykit, and Scarabkit. There was one other kit in the nursery, a molly named Lotuskit who was only a few days younger than Cardinalkit and Firkit.

Cardinalkit took a liking to Sootsnow when she was about a moon old, when the messenger was asked to watch her and Firkit for a little while. Sootsnow introduced them to the quiet game and Cardinalkit, ever competitive, decided it was a lot easier to make Firkit lose than to actually restrain herself from talking. She pounced on Firkit's tail a few times, eventually getting Firkit to protest and lose the game. Firkit sulked about that and insisted that Cardinalkit had cheated, but Sootsnow said it counted so Cardinalkit won. Good job kiddo.

The latter half of Cardinalkit's childhood was quiet. She and Firkit were suspended in an odd in-between period of litters, where the first FrigidMistral litter was three moons older than them and their second litter and the SpiderRose litter were five moons younger, so they really only had each other. And Lotuskit, I guess, but she was fairly reclusive and Cardinalkit never really befriended her.

Speaking of those other two litters though, they were both born when Cardinalkit was five moons old, as previously mentioned. Frigidbristle and Mistralflutter had a single kit, a daughter they named Skylarkkit, who was quiet and boring. Spidersqueak and Rosemite, on the other paw, had three kits: Reclusekit, Widowkit, and their only son Tarantulakit. Tarantulakit got very sick early on and his parents - well, his mother mostly - were worried that he wasn't going to live. Cardinalkit didn't care very much, mostly because she was almost an apprentice and was way too excited about that to be paying attention to the other kits.

### Apprenticeship

* 7 moons - Met Viceroy, who was considering joining MarshClan
* 8 moons - Applepaw/shine is in MarshClan for a moon, they are Chaotic Besties immediately; crush on Leafypaw/hawk
* 9 moons - Chatted with Sootsnow, considered becoming a messenger
* 11 moons - over Leafyhawk, now crushing on his brother Hemlockwhisper

### Warrior Life

Cardinalflight earned her warrior name alongside Firsong at the age of twelve moons old. The excitement was dampened a bit by the recent losses in the Clan, but Cedarpoppy took her kits out to her favorite spot in the territory to share a rabbit and celebrate.

* 19 moons - Went hunting with Rillwing, accidentally hurt her and ruined a hunt, left MarshClan because Rill told her to
* 20 moons - brought back by Rill + Fir, over Hemlockwhisper even though he kinda started showing interest in her
* 21 moons - HC hike with Chivethistle, Honeyswirl, and Dovefrost. Chaos ensues

## Other

### Trivia

* She had a habit of pouncing on tails as a kit. If you were in MarshClan when she was a small kit I'm sorry. She got you at least once. Except Whitebird, Cardinalflight has always been a little scared of Whitebird.
* Her voice claim is Red from OSP <3 they're both red see how funny I am

### Quotes

**Sootsnow:** *"Hello there. I'm just here to make sure you two don't misbehave or do anything fur-brained while your mother is taking a walk.* **Cardinalkit:** *"You and every other cat we've ever met."* | *"What, that you don't know what's going on or that you have spare time?"*

**New RP**