Firecloud

You all know what time it is - you know him, you love him, it's Firecloud time baby. Possibly the least traumatized character I've ever had.

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Firecloud is a short, stout tom with a stocky build. He is only slightly chubby, but his excess of fur makes him look a lot rounder than he actually is. However, he does have round features along with small paws and a large, fluffy tail. He has a long, unkempt orange pelt he inherited from his father and has darker orange markings from his nose to tail-tip, as well as around his legs. He has several slightly paler markings, mostly around his neck and face, and has heterochromatic green-and-blue eyes.

### Personality

Happy-go-lucky and carefree, Firecloud is a chaotic whirlwind of a cat that can get along with just about everyone. He's got a charming funniness to him and is quite the daring cat, but can get way in over his head about some things as he's also very stubborn, impulsive and basically has no regard for his personal safety. Despite enjoying thrilling activities like races and hunting, he can be a little bit lazy at times and likes to sleep. He's quite the interesting personality.

Despite being regarded as "too much" at times, he is very sweet and friendly. He's a very understanding cat and likes to make friends, to get to know people and make peace. He doesn't really like fighting but would totally get himself caught up in one, whether it be sticking up for a kit the apprentices were making fun of or passionately defending his opinion on his favorite prey. Though he looks like a cute fluffball he can come up with insults faster than he can remember what he had for breakfast the other day. He's a bit of a loud one and very high-energy at times but is overall very loving and kind.

## Background

### Kithood

Firekit and his brothers Smallkit and Smokykit were born to Mosseye of Orchidclan, sired by the late Flamenose who Firekit was named after. Due to some unfortunate health complications, Mosseye died shortly after her sons' births and the trio of brothers were given to a queen called Moonmist to nurse, though Firekit's remaining family -- his aunt Saffronsplash, mostly, -- was never too far away. Along the line, an ex-loner kit who'd recently joined Orchidclan called Petalkit started being raised alongside them.

Firekit adored his aunt Saffronsplash. Since she was the one who visited and cared for them most often, he loved his aunt Saff with all his heart and spent most of his younger days with her or play-fighting with his brothers and Petalkit.

When the kits were a little older, their uncle Adderchaser moved to Oasisclan and took Firekit, Smallkit, and Smokykit with him. Oasisclan had more queens and a mostly safer camp, so Adderchaser felt the need to take them with him. Firekit didn't want to leave his aunt Saff (and definitely made that clear in a fit of tears) but had to go anyway. When he and his brothers got to Oasisclan, they were taken care of by another random queen and eventually settled there.

Eventually though as the kits grew up they became restless and wanted a change. So, the kits brainstormed for a bit -- and on a whim, decided that they wanted to take an apprenticeship in a different Clan. Settling on Horizonclan, they informed their uncle Adderchaser of their decision and took no time to move there once they were of age. Slow your roll, Fire-boy. (I'm sorry, I had to include that line from the old wiki page, it's priceless)

### Apprenticeship

Firepaw was made an apprentice in Horizonclan alongside his brothers, receiving a she-cat named Mistyfrost as his mentor. Being an apprentice was *very* fun for Firepaw, as he and Smokypaw enjoyed exploring out in secret and pulling harmless pranks on the warriors while Smallpaw, the one with actual sense in the group, tried to get them to stop. Firepaw was known as a mischief-maker amongst his peers, but wasn't really regarded with any actual irritation or anger, just mild amusement.

Because Firepaw is Firepaw, being the extrovert he is he runs into a lot of people. So one day, just that happened -- in the apprentices' den one day, he ran into a gray tabby tom a few moons older than him all alone in the den. He was confused on why the tom looked so sad and regarded him with only a nervous look or a small sigh in response to his quips. But soon Firepaw realized something. He hadn't seen this apprentice in particular around much, and seeing him alone in here enlightened him to the fact that the tom may just be lonely. Needed a friend of sorts. The dull, hollow look of grief in his eyes helped Firepaw make his decision - he was going to be a friend for the lonely tom, even if only temporarily.

The other tom seemed to appreciate this. Firepaw managed to cheer him up enough for the tom to tell him that his name was Runningpaw, but still seemed very reclusive. Firepaw ended up running into Runningpaw a lot more after that instance and eventually started spending more and more time with Runningpaw. Firepaw made it his goal to be a good friend to Runningpaw, to never see that look of loneliness in his eyes again.

Eventually, time passed. Runningpaw and Firepaw became better friends, Firepaw and his brothers spent more time together, and I imagine Firepaw did learn about why his friend had been so sad so long ago. Runningpaw became a warrior by the name of Runningriver. And eventually, Firepaw passed his own training as well. He barely squeezed through his hunting assessment, but made up for it with his excellent sparring skills and passed his assessment on the first go.

### Warrior Life

Firecloud earned his warrior name alongside his brothers Smokystep and Smallmoss. He was pretty stoked about that, looking forward to a carefree and chill life with his new best friend Runningriver and his brothers. And now that he was a warrior, he was able to freely visit his family back in Oasisclan and Orchidclan whenever he wanted -- he was excited to see his uncle Adderchaser and aunt Saffronsplash again.

Silly extroverted Firecloud did what he does best one day and bumped into a new warrior of Horizonclan - a she-cat a little older than him that had come from Fallclan and migrated to his Clan recently. He learned her name was Fernsway and she was incredibly aloof and intimidating but Firecloud was oblivious to that because he's Firecloud and introduced himself to her. She seemed to take only a little interest in him at the most and kind of just made herself scarce around, but since Firecloud likes getting to know people and also is stubborn as a mule he kind of just followed her around for a bit until she began getting comfortable and familiar with his presence and loosening up a little. He eventually introduced her to Runningriver and they became a trio of sorts.

Now Firecloud is eighteen moons old I think and he's just vibing. I need to make him visit his aunt Saffronsplash as one of his first RPs.

## Other

### Trivia

* His voice claim is Filbo Fiddlepie from *Bugsnax*. No, I don't make the rules.
* Firecloud probably asks Sootsnow to send messages to his uncle and aunt like, five times a day.
* Formerly, Firecloud had just green eyes but I kind of wanted blue to adhere to his -cloud prefix, but I'm very indecisive so I just went "screw it" and now he has heterochromia.
* Has a huge appetite (will probably eat anything you give him)
* Afraid of the dark and also has terrible navigation skills. Maybe that's why he keeps putting off seeing Adderchaser and Saffronsplash.

### Quotes

* *"Like that one time I put ants in Smokystep's nest when we were apprentices and he freaked out so much when he saw them, he got moss everywhere. Mistyfrost made me clean all of it up and Smokystep was picking ants from his fur for days. Can't say it wasn't worth it, though."* - to Saffronsplash (1/30/23)
* *"We ended up finding our way home after that somehow because there was no way we were going to become living forest monsters trying to get any more. Smokystep's special to us but not* that *special." -* telling a story to Saffronsplash, Runningriver, and Fernsway (2/3/23)