Fireflyleap

Fireflyleap is currently a warrior of FallClan.

Name- Fireflyleap

Gender- Tom

Clan- HorizonClan (formerly), FallClan

Rank- Warrior

Family- Graingrowl (father, deceased), Mapleflick (mother), Weedsing (brother), Knikflower (foster mother), Archshade (foster father), Redsplash and Gorseblaze (foster brothers), Sunstriker (foster sister), Warblerkit, Seedkit, Frecklekit, and Downykit (adoptive kits kind of sort of maybe)

Friends- Pencil, Gorseblaze, and (sorta) Littlepaw

Enemies-

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Fireflyleap is a short, lean tom with cream-colored fur. His back, ears, muzzle, legs, and tail are ginger. He has a few darker spots, but they arebarely visible, and his eyes are a shade of deep amber.

#### Personality

He was described as being sensible and respectable, but also understanding and empathetic.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Fireflyleap, born Fireflykit, was born to a MarshClan tom named Graingrowl and a HorizonClan she-cat named Mapleflick. He had only one littermate - Weedkit. Graingrowl left MarshClan to be with Mapleflick, Fireflykit, and Weedkit. However, Graingrowl and Mapleflick's relationship started to ebb away over time, and they decided to seperate. Graingrowl left to go back to MarshClan.

A few weeks after Graingrowl left, Mapleflick started to act different, and eventually dumped Fireflykit and Weedkit outside of MarshClan’s camp. A MarshClan patrol found the kits and returned them to HorizonClan where Mapleflick was waiting for them. Fireflykit and Weedkit weren't old enough to really speak yet, though, so the truth was kept hidden for the time being.

But Mapleflick got worse, and even went to MarshClan, asking for Graingrowl. Turns out, Graingrowl had died in a badger attack, and this made Mapleflick go somewhat insane. A MarshClan warrior who had seen Mapleflick dump her kits outside of MarshClan’s camp had reported the incident to HorizonClan's leader, and Mapleflick was punished. Fireflykit and Weedkit were taken instead to FallClan so that they could be a safe distance away from their insane mother. Being only a moon old at the time, though, the kits weren't aware of anything.

They were adopted by a FallClan queen named Knikflower who was nursing three other kits: Sunkit, Gorsekit, and Redkit, who happened to be only a day older then Weedkit and Fireflykit. Knikflower's mate, Archshade, was also quite fond of the two new kits. He and Knikflower became like second parents to them.

As the moons passed, Weedkit formed a great bond with Redkit and Sunkit while Fireflykit and Gorsekit got along better. They were two peas in a pod, and even planned their whole life together as best friends.

Soon enough, the time came for them to become apprentices.

#### Apprenticeship

Fireflypaw was apprenticed to a FallClan warrior named Marigoldchew. Fireflypaw highly disliked her because she talked too much. Still, he had his family, so he was able to train with them when Marigoldchew was being too annoying for him. Yay!

One day, though, Gorsepaw suddenly revealed to Fireflypaw that he was going to move to OasisClan. That was *very* alarming and upsetting for Fireflypaw. He was hurt and rather angry, and after making it clear that Gorsepaw understood that, he decided to move back to HorizonClan to get to know the cats he had left behind as a kit - and to pretend that Gorsepaw, Sunpaw, Redpaw, Knikflower, and Archshade had had nothing to do with his life.

So then he got up and left. Just like Gorsepaw.

When he arrived back at his birth Clan, however, he found out that Mapleflick had died only a few days after he and Weedpaw had been moved to FallClan - she'd starved herself and had been found on the HorizonClan border. Fireflypaw was stunned and somewhat mortified, as he'd been hoping to help his mother after hearing so many stories about her - but he was already beginning to regret leaving FallClan.

All the same, he completed his training in HorizonClan, not yet willing to reconnect with Weedpaw or his adoptive family after the way they'd left off.

Warrior Life

Fireflypaw earned the name Fireflyleap at the age of 13 moons. He grew to become a loyal HorizonClan warrior, and had even managed to totally shut away his days in FallClan. He sometimes spoke to his brother - named Weedsing - at gatherings, but he usually tried to avoid interacting with his old FallClan friends and relatives. Moons passed, and StarClan eventually claimed both Weedsing and Redsplash, as Fireflyleap heard at gatherings. It was saddening - but he'd distanced himself from them, and he wasn't going to change that.

As he aged, Fireflyleap developed a passion for kits. He realized that he wanted to become a father one day, so tried to flirt with several she-cats in HorizonClan, though it never really felt right to him. Finally, Fireflyleap fnoticed his feelings: he was gay. Oops. He liked toms, not she-cats. And *that* was why he had wanted Gorsepaw to stay with him so much - because he'd liked him.

Fireflyleap kept those feelings hidden. He still greatly enjoyed spending time with kits, though. One kit in the nursery - Littlekit - was often lonely due to his father's death and his mother's depression, and Fireflyleap would occasionally help Littlekit catch butterflies or find flowers to give as gifts to his mother, Morningcloud. Littlekit thought Fireflyleap was awesome and followed him around a lot. Fireflyleap ended up growing rather fond of the young tom. When Morningcloud died, Littlekit looked up to Fireflyleap for adult guidance, having pretty much no one else to rely on for it.

Then, when he was around the age of forty moons, he encountered a loner named Pencil. Pencil was, at the time, raising an orphaned kit named Raccoon, and he had been bringing up different kits for several moon prior. Fireflyleap was intrigued by that lifestyle, and he ended up meeting with Pencil from time to time. They kept getting closer until it became clear to Fireflyleap that Pencil seemed to have the same strange feelings that he did. So they started gaying together. Yay!

One day, though, Pencil abruptly stopped meeting with Fireflyleap. Concerned, Fireflyleap sought him out and learned that Raccoon had been murdered by another loner. Pencil was devastated by the loss. Fireflyleap did his best to comfort his sort-of boyfriend, but the news jarred him. He came to the decision that he was going to confront his past and make amends with Gorseblaze, Sunstriker, and his adoptive parents - he'd been avoiding it for long enough.

Fireflyleap finally spoke to Gorseblaze, who had become one of OasisClan's messengers. They mended their friendship, and Fireflyleap was glad he'd had the courage to try. He convinced Gorseblaze to come with him and talk to Pencil, and together they were able to help him get over Raccoon's death. Before too long, though, Gorseblaze came to HorizonClan with the news that Sunstriker had died giving birth to her kits in FallClan, leaving them orphaned. Fireflyleap saw this as a chance to help Pencil as well as to pay respects to his fallen friend.

He decided he would move back to FallClan - the place where he'd originally felt the most at home - to take care of Sunstriker's kits. He told Pencil about them, proposing that Pencil accompanied him, and much to his delight, Pencil agreed. Fireflyleap didn't want to make a big deal about his leaving, though - so instead of telling Aspenstar, he only told Littlepaw, who had recently become an apprentice. He asked if Littlepaw wanted to come as well, but Littlepaw reluctantly admitted that he belonged in HorizonClan. Fireflyleap accepted that and moved to FallClan on his own.

Currently, he's just vibing there, helping Silkfur foster Warblerkit, Frecklekit, Downykit, and Seedkit.

## Other

#### Trivia

* He is one of the first cat in the roleplay to have a compound word as a prefix... unless Milkweedstar, Lapwingpaw, and Butterflyspring count. Do they? Are those compound words?? I have no idea. He might've been the second or the third or the fourth or something if so. But whatever the case, he was an early man.
* He's the second Clan cat who's been confirmed to be gay, the first being Midgefur. Ironically, they're both from HorizonClan and ended up falling for loners.
* In his youth, he had a crush on Gorseblaze, but Gorseblaze never reciprocated.
* He was his father's favorite kit and was named because of how his ginger fur stood out, like the light on a firefly.

#### Quotes

*"I know you didn't. You don't smell like OrchidClan. [But] some other cat might think you stole it."* -Fireflyleap to Conchsong about a rabbit Conchsong caught because Conch was being sketchy