Pigeonspirit

## Appearance & Personality

Pigeonspirit is a fluffy light gray tom with darker gray stripes along his body, tail, and legs. The fluff on his belly, tailtip, and the edges of his face is a lighter gray. He has a large dark gray whorl on both sides of his body. His eyes are an amber color and both his nose and the inside of his ears are a dark brown. Most of the time, he is covered in small white flowers.

Pigeon is, pretty simply, dumb. He's excitable and cheery but understands very little about the world he lives in. He doesn't understand the concept of a "bad cat" and will befriend anyone when he sees the opportunity. He's a tad forgetful but can remember to do simple tasks.

## Brief History

Grew up with two dads, made a "bug" friend, apprenticed to Minnowfall then became Spinheart's apprentice, and a medicine cat apprentice of ThunderClan. Spinheart died when he was extremely young, and so he became the full medicine cat without a full name or full training. He received the rest of his training from Sandocean, the RiverClan medicine cat, and took Leafpaw on as his apprentice.

## Detailed History

Pigeonpaw was the only kit of a ThunderClan she-cat, Locustwind, who had disappeared a few days after his birth. He was adopted by a pair of toms, Heatherlight and Kestrelfall. During this time, he made a new friend, Red! He believed it was a type of beetle, when in reality it was just a rock. He took it to show Icestar, who took it as a sign to be resilient during The Median event. Also while this event was going on, he was apprenticed to Minnowfall. A while later, his dads died in a cave-in on WindClan soil, where they were taking residence. Pigeonpaw remained unaware of this, and continues to wait for his parents' return home.

After a moon of training with Minnowfall, he was apprenticed to Spinheart as a medicine cat. During the early times of his apprenticeship, he went out to gather herbs without exactly knowing what they looked like or where to find them. Sometimes he brought back weeds on accident. We don't talk about those times. But! He also hung out with Birchpaw on one of these herb runs, bonding with them over the color pink and how it reminded them of the sky. On another occasion, Vinetwirl and Pigeonpaw talked on the border and since Vine mentioned they were short of tansy, he offered up what he had found as well as took her to get some more deeper into ThunderClan territory. From there, he was fairly sure that if Vinetwirl needed any herbs, he'd offer.

Spinheart eventually died from an unknown illness, roughly halfway through his training. He was devastated, partly because he couldn't finish his training in time, but mostly because he begun to believe deep down that he was the cause. That he didn't make it back in time to read the symptoms and treat her. He went on a walk with Birchpaw a little while after to take his mind off it, and was told he'd have support. During this time, he was approached by Sunnygrove. She asked if he could escort her to Shadowclan so she and Metalstar could talk, which Pigeonpaw was fine with doing, however the second part he was unsure of. She asked for him to snoop around Shadowclan to look for Cardinalkit, Rosestar's lost child. He knew that if he got caught, he'd be in plenty of trouble, and unnecessary trouble at that. To further sway his opinion against taking a peek around, his dad, Kestrelfall, approached him in his dreams to tell him not to do it, and Kestrel became Pigeon's Starclan spirit guide. With this meeting, Pigeonpaw had his mind made up, he'd only bring Sunny there but not look around for this missing kit. Eventually the kit was brought to Rosestar and the situation was resolved.

A bit more confident with his friends and father by his side, he begun to train under Sandocean to make up for the rest of his training. This time was also cut short, as Sandocean had run away without much of a word to Pigeonpaw. Though this further suppressed his former, cheery attitude, he still had to power through it so his clan would have a functioning medicine den. Just after representing Thunderclan at the next gathering, he headed to the Moongarden to receive his name from Oatleap, Pigeonspirit. His attitude was pretty much restored at this point, with everything starting to seem brighter.