Aloepaw

## Relationships

### Parents

Moonmist (foster/adoptive mom), Laurel (bio mom, dead), Myrtlepelt (adoptive mom? abuser?)

### Siblings

Monarchflame (sister) Agave (sister, dead), Morpho, Viceroytuft, Admiral, & Acacia (brothers, dead), Petrelpaw & Ternpaw (it's complicated but basically brothers)

### Other Relatives

Swallowfrost (mentor but kind of mom), Badgerkit (foster brother), Minkkit (foster sister), Stickstripe, Fallowfleck, & Beachblossom (she sees them as grandparents)

### Enemies

Myrtlepelt

Aloepaw is a sweetheart, damaged but still standing. Adopted by Myrtlepelt after the death of her mother, Aloepaw has faced horrors beyond what any kit should, but in her new home in OrchidClan, she is starting to heal.

## Appearance & Personality

### Appearance

Aloepaw is a small cat. Even as an adult, she'll only stand at around 7.3 inches tall. She is the direct opposite of her sister Monarchflame in terms of fur, with a short, spiky-looking pelt. In color, it is a soft, warm ginger with tabby stripes from head to tail. She has patches of black all over her fur, most notably covering the left side of her face as well as her left ear. This only draws more attention to the three scars over her missing left eye. Her right eye is a lovely emerald green. There is white on her toes, chest, and belly.

### Personality

Aloepaw is generally a sweet cat. She doesn't try to attract attention, being fairly humble and quiet. She is a quick learner who has taken to her medic role like a fish to water. She is fiercely loyal to those she cares about and she sticks to them when she can. She has a bit of a defiant streak in her, the part of her that helped rebel against Myrtlepelt, but she rarely does anything malicious. As she grows up, she will gain a bit of a mischievous nature and become a little prankster. We love her for that.

## Background

### Kithood

Things went wrong for Aloe the moment she was born. She was born to a cat named Laurel. Laurel was a terrible cat, but lucky for Aloe, she died shortly after Aloe and her siblings were born. Rip. Aloe had two stillborn siblings, a sister who would've been named Agave and a brother who would've been Acacia.

Luckily, she didn't die. She was found by Petrel and Tern, a pair of brothers trying to escape the oppressive claw of their adoptive mother, Myrtlepelt. They were only four moons old, so in order to save Aloe's life, they reluctantly took her back to Myrtlepelt and the crumbling rabbit burrow they called home. Myrtlepelt didn't want to take in a newborn, but Petrel and Tern were adamant. She reluctantly agreed to keep Aloe.

Things did not get much better, unfortunately. Almost dying next to her mother and siblings would in fact be the best thing to happen to Aloe for the next three moons. There were a few good bits - Aloe learned how to roll over pretty well and took great delight in just rolling around. She also picked up crawling pretty well. Standing took her nearly two moons, unfortunately, since Tern and Petrel discouraged her from developing too much out of fear that Myrtlepelt would force her to join their morning "practice fights", mini battles where the kits were encouraged to draw blood.

When she was two moons old, Aloe started learning how to talk. Her first word was "no", which probably shouldn't be too much of a surprise. Aloe didn't like Myrtlepelt too much and in every moon of her life with her, Aloe defied her however she could. Biting as a kit, saying "no" repeatedly as a slightly older kit, and fighting her as a slightly older kit (we'll get there). Anyway, with the news that Aloe could talk and getting increasingly frustrated with her, Myrtlepelt announced that as of the next day, Aloe would join her brothers in their practice fights.

Aloe didn't like this development and both Tern and Petrel tried to avoid hurting her, as she was a *baby, Myrtlepelt,* and she didn't really get what was going on.

When she was about three moons old, Petrel unfortunately got a pretty nasty infection from some weasel scratches. Aloe was as helpful as she could be for her brother, but she was still too little to be doing much of anything. Caring for and feeding both her and Petrel now fell on Tern's shoulders. He eventually figured out a combination of herbs that helped Petrel start to recover.

When Aloe was four moons old, Petrel decided to do something fairly stupid. Over the last few moons, he had dug a tunnel and tried to lure Myrtlepelt into it in order to bring the tunnel down on both of them in an attempt to kill her. It didn't work, but Aloe and Tern's pleading convinced Myrtlepelt not to kill Petrel for what he did. She stalked off and Aloe and Tern both realized that, if Petrel's plan had worked, he wouldn't have survived.

Petrel and Tern both decided that enough was enough when Myrtlepelt tried to make them fight to the death the next day. They confronted Myrtlepelt and all three kits ended up fighting her. Or trying to, at least. Myrtlepelt clawed Aloe's eye, leaving her blinded on one side. She told the kits to leave and never come back. Good enough for them.

They were found on the OrchidClan, injured and bloody, by Lionspark and Suncurrent, who took them home to OrchidClan. Aloe was passed off to Swallowfrost, the grouchy but competent medic, while the boys were taken to Leafstar and Moonmist. Aloe was a little scared of Swallowfrost, but she did her best to clean up the eye and the rest of Aloe's injuries, so she was better than Myrtlepelt, at least. Swallowfrost declared that Aloe was mostly fine, but she was blinded in her injured eye and would just have to deal with that. Ouch. But Aloe and her brothers were safe in OrchidClan, so it's all okay.

It was shortly after their arrival in OrchidClan that Tern and Petrel told Aloe about her mother and siblings. Not themselves and Myrtlepelt, but her birth family. This was a bit of a shock to Aloe, but she was glad to know for sure that she wasn't Myrtlepelt's actual kit. With Moonmist's help, Aloe came up with the names for her dead littermates, Acacia and Agave.

The last moon of her kithood was quiet. It was a nice change of pace. Petrel and Tern were renamed Petrelpaw and Ternpaw and were apprenticed, whatever that meant, to a pair of warriors named Foxpounce and Lotusmoon respectively. They both had experience with Myrtlepelt, but Aloe didn't really know that. She was technically named Aloekit at this point, but she never used the name. She never really used her brothers' new names either. They were still Petrel and Tern to her.

### Apprenticeship

At the age of 6 moons old, Aloepaw became the medic apprentice of OrchidClan. She hadn't particularly wanted to, but Swallowfrost had insisted and Aloepaw didn't really want to fight or hurt cats anyway. She did stay in the apprentice den, however, because she got quite anxious without her brothers. Swallowfrost allowed this.

Aloepaw sometimes overheard warriors whispering about her, questioning Swallowfrost's choice to take her as an apprentice. This was a little upsetting to her, as she thought they meant that she couldn't do it because she was Myrtlepelt's kit or maybe because she was a former loner. When she asked Swallowfrost, however, the older molly explained that it really wasn't Aloepaw's fault. It was was her own. She told Aloepaw about Yellowpaw and Pricklepaw, apprentices Swallowfrost had had and lost before Aloepaw was even born. The Clan was criticizing her, not Aloepaw, and she admittedly probably deserved it. Aloepaw didn't worry too much about the whispers after that.

Aloepaw also got put in charge of the elders' den fairly early in her apprenticeship. Swallowfrost decided it would be good for her to have something consistent to get practice with, so elders. Aloepaw got along rather well with OrchidClan's resident old folks, Beachblossom, Stickstripe, and Fallowfleck. The three of them became sort of like grandparents to Aloepaw and she took good care of them.

## Other

### Trivia

* Aloepaw has some unintentional parallels to Emberglow, including kin the Clans, an abusive mom, and three scars on the left side of her face. Neat.
* Russian murderkit <3 She has a Russian accent that won't go away no matter how long she lives in the Clans that's not how accents work but shhh Russian murderkits
* She likes having someone to cuddle with at night. It helps her sleep better. Because of this, she often sleeps in the apprentice den with her brothers.
* Aloepaw likes rolling. She rolled around a lot when she was a tiny kit, before she could really walk, but even now that she's older she still enjoys rolling around.
* Aloepaw is very good at finding alternative food. It's a murderkit thing. She has probably tried to eat a rock. On that note, though, eggs are her favorite prey.
* She also collects eggshell fragments
* Her first word was no
* Aloepaw flinches away any time someone else gets injured. Petrelpaw frequently got hurt in her and Ternpaw's stead while they were living with Myrtlepelt, but Aloepaw always tensed up in fear of getting hurt herself. This continues to this day.

### Quotes

**Myrtlepelt***: “You three are lucky I found you — you’d all be dead without me!”* **Aloe***: "Better dead than living like this."* | **Aloe***: "I like it too. But not you."* **Swallowfrost***: "I'm used to that."*

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