Rillwing

Rillwing is currently a warrior of MarshClan.

Name- Rillwing

Gender- She-cat

Clan- MarshClan

Rank- Warrior

Family- Coffee (mother), George (father), Linn (sister), Silver, Scree, and Bole (brothers)

Friends- Bluecloud, possibly more

Enemies- Chivethistle, sort of Cardinalflutter, probably Clearnight

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Rillwing was described as having thick silver-brown and white tabby fur. She has heterochromia - one blue eye and one golden eye, and there is a small scar on her nose. Currently, she also most likely has some scars on her forelegs that were given to her by Cardinalflutter.

#### Personality

Her personality is really well thought out and believable. I’m too lazy to put effort into describing it right now, though. Just so you know how to have your characters behave in rp with her though, she's kind of rude. And angry. And she will fight you. But she's cool.

Ack, I was going to add more, but that basically sums it up lol

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Rill was born alongside her sister, Linn, and her brothers, Silver, Scree, and Bole. She lived as a feral in twolegplace for the first several moons of her life. Her dad, George, had been a kittypet, but something happened between him and her mother, Coffee, and they split up. Apparently that made Coffee bitter and angry at her kits, and she would make them viciously fight a lot, and was pretty much just very rude to them. Coffee favored Linn and Scree over her other kits. She didn't have much of a problem with Bole - not after scarring the parts of him that looked the most like George, at least - but she despised Silver for being unwilling to hurt his littermates, and hated Rill for defending him. Tensions pretty much kept rising and everything was a mess. This is extremely reminiscent of Emberglow's backstory, what with the salty single mom making her children beat each other up. HmMmM.

At one point, Coffee was about to hurt Silver and Rill got fed up with it. She yelled at Coffee. Coffee didn't like that. She kicked out Rill and Silver, and they were sort of on the run together. They travelled for a bit, but it wasn't long before they were jumped by a trio of stray toms while investigating an alleyway. They targeted Silver and pinned him down, and Rill panicked and fled. She never saw her brother after that and still feels extremely guilty about it since he most likely died. Whatever the case, she kept running until she ran into a tree and cut her nose open, which is what left the scar.

She was found by a kittypet named Panda Bear, and he invited her to live with him and his housefolk. She did that for a bit, and his owners fixed her nose up, but they named her Silver. That wasn't very cool. Rill wasn't happy about that. So when she was outside one day and her collar tore off on a fence, she interpreted it as a sign that she should leave. So she did that. She ran off again without consulting Panda, and again felt pretty bad about it.

She cruised around for a bit and almost got hit by a car. A cat named Wide Eyed Moon (or just Moon for short. Not to be confused with Emberglow’s sister) saved her, though. It was then learned that Moon was a ghost and was looking for a way to the Huntworld, which I'm assuming is like her colony's version of StarClan. Anyways, they vibed for a while, but then Rill scuttled away once more and was pretty much just spazzing around until she reached the moor.

#### Apprenticeship

She fell into one of MarshClan’s rabbit burrows and decided to join after being found. Minkstar accepted her into the Clan, and she was apprenticed to Mintfang. The newly-named Rillpaw just existed for a while.

    On one occasion, she and Bluepaw tried to go on a lil hunting trip together, and Rillpaw had the brilliant idea of venturing into a rabbit burrow again to see if they could get to some of the rabbit kits. As it turns out, a badger had gotten to the rabbits first. Then the burrow collapsed on top of them. Way to go, Rillpaw. She and Bluepaw were able to dig their way out, and they sort of became friends after that, because it’s difficult not to befriend someone you’ve nearly died with.

She and Bluepaw hung out from then on. She agreed to help Bluepaw out with her battle moves, since Bluepaw’s weak foreleg hindered her in training. Soon after, though, Mintfang fell ill with the plague and died. Rillpaw’s training was somewhat taken over by Seedslip and Sparrowbreeze from then on. She became a sad girl.

Also, she probably fought a lot with Chivepaw. Because Chivepaw was rude and angry. She also bullied Bluepaw, which Rillpaw probably didn't like. So it's safe to assume that happened, although it probably chilled a bit once the plague became a problem and everyone got depression.

#### Warrior Life

Rillwing received her warrior name soon after Mintfang’s death. A ton of other MarshClan cats were killed by the plague, though, including Minkstar and Bluepaw’s mentor, Jaggedwatcher. So they were probably able to bond over that, too.

Bluecloud became a warrior eventually and joined Rillwing in the warriors’ den. The borders were all closed off at Aspenstar’s suggestion to protect everyone from the plague, so that was probably annoying. But they all just vibed for a while.

Then, for some reason, she decided to try going hunting with Cardinalflutter at one point. Predictably, it went horribly. Cardinalflutter accidentally messed up the hunt, and Rillwing got pretty furious. By which I mean she yelled at her a lot and then started attacking her. It was fun. Until they actually started getting serious and hurting each other. Rillwing pinned her down and got her legs all scratched up, then pretty much just told Cardinalflutter to leave the Clans so they wouldn’t have to waste prey on her. Cardinal was basically just like “oKaY” and actually left. So, uh... way to go, Rillwing.

She was actually pretty upset about it, though, and screamed at StarClan for several minutes in true edgecat fashion. She vowed to stop running away from everything and to wear the scars on her legs as a symbol of her promise. After returning to MarshClan's camp, she talked to Bluecloud about it and told her all about her fancy backstory. Bluecloud promised to stay friends with her and try to be helpful, and it was kind of sweet.

After about a moon, Rillwing received her first apprentice- Lapwingpaw. A blazing fireball of rage with serious emotional issues. So... yeah, they got along terribly. But on the bright side, Bluecloud got Lapwingpaw's brother, Warrenpaw. So they were able to train them together. Yay.

She went on a hunting trip with Pepperpaw on one occasion. She also yelled at Chaffinchpaw once for mistaking her for Lapwingpaw.

Then, a moon or two later, she was confronted by Cardinalflutter's sister, Firsong. The two of them had a discussion and finally agreed to go looking for Cardinalflutter together. Bluecloud agreed to take over Lapwingpaw's training until Rillwing returned. She and Firsong said their farewells to everyone, then set off.

On the outer border, they encountered an old loner named Hazel and her daughter, Broken. Broken wanted to attack them, but Hazel told her to wait. She talked a bit to Rillwing and Firsong and told them to send a message to the FallClan deputy, Stormclaw, to meet her at the border as soon as possible. They were a bit confused, but they agreed to do so and continued on their way.

She and Firsong traveled for several days, and they even bonded a bit during that time, joking around and challenging each other to races and such. They eventually came to a meadow off the course of HorizonClan territory where the travelers were staying. There, they found Cardinalflutter. Rillwing apologized for her actions, and although there was still tension between the two of them, Cardinalflutter agreed to come back to MarshClan with them after being told that her mother, Cedarpoppy, was expecting a second litter of kits.

Currently, Rillwing, Cardinalflutter, and Firsong are still making their way back to MarshClan.

## Other

#### Trivia

* She was the first known cat in the roleplay to have heterochromia. The four newer characters are Bramblestem (only partial), Blossomburr, Pricklepaw, and Briarkit. I mean, Oasis technically had it first, but since she's a founder I'm not counting her. Get rekt.
* I think she’s the last cat Minkstar made into a warrior before dying. Oof.
* Oh, speaking of Oasis - Oasis is said to be the guardian of warriors with oddities - such as odd eyes. Like, she'd watch over Rillwing. It's pretty cool. Also she guards cats who fight a lot. Also Rillwing. So Rill is basically Oasis reborn. (not really, obviously, but still.)
* Rillqing

#### Quotes

She‘s had quite a few good ones. But here are a few (aka a l o t -)

*"I need another apprentice with me to go outside camp - for safety, apparently. Totally not like I've survived in the wild myself for my whole kithood."*

"Our dens are inside tunnels; it's the same thing, only a little smaller. Rabbits wouldn't live here if it weren't safe. Plus, a mother rabbit was killed around here, and this might be where she was keeping her kits!"

"We're too far in. We can't turn around. If we try to back out, the tunnel might collapse. There has to be another exit. That's rule number one of tunneling: Make extra exits. "

*(Internally: Do rabbits make extra exits?)*

*"We have to keep going. The tunnel is this deep for a reason; I don't think even the most flea-brained of rabbits would keep their kits right next to the exit."*

"There aren't - there aren't any ... badgers ... around here, uh - right?"

"There's another tunnel up this way. It's a bit bigger than the one we just went through... So we have two options. Climb up this one and investigate, or squeeze back through the old one and.. tell someone, I guess."

"Something definitely took these kits. And it certainly wasn't a cat."

“We’re fine. We’ll be fine.”

Bluepaw*: "Since you say you've done this before, has... \*that\* ever happened?"*

Rillpaw*: “Once, but I was already out of the tunnel. This was new for both of us."*

"How- how about we go find a stream to wash off in, and maybe there'll be some prey nearby we can bring back? Nobody really needs to know what happened; just that we smelled badger down a rabbit hole before it collapsed. I, for one, don't really want to be punished for something that I couldn't have possibly seen coming."

"It's not too cold out. If we do some hunting, we'll probably dry off, and then we'll have some food for the Clan. Plus, the water will probably hide our scent from prey, which will make hunting easier- and we can use that as an excuse to be damp."

Bluepaw*: “Um— If it’s nothing too bad— how did you get that scar on your nose?”*

Rillpaw*:  "Oh - same way I got my food as a kit. Fighting alley cats. My first time fighting them, I was about three - no, four moons old. I stumbled, and the cat I was fighting whacked my nose against the ground. I'm lucky I don't have any other scars from that particular battle. I never lost my footing in battle again."*

"You see, I was abandoned as a kit, so I had to get food somehow.. though that may not have been the smartest of ways. He didn't really hurt me, but I certainly thought twice before attacking anyone after that. Not that I stopped doing it, of course."

"Now come on, let's catch some \*real\* rabbits."

"Okay. I want you to attack me, just to show me what you do know."

"I don't know if your mentor taught you this - they probably did - but the first thing you should learn about battle is defense. Even if you don't know any offensive moves, you can at least keep yourself from getting killed."

"Keep your weight on your back legs, and be ready to spring away at any moment. You're a MarshClan cat; not everyone is used to fighting like us. You can easily confuse another cat just by running. And bonus; that frees up your forepaws to swipe. Rearing up on your hind legs is very useful in a fight, as long as you protect your belly and make sure not to get knocked over. And bonus; that frees up your forepaws to swipe. Rearing up on your hind legs is very useful in a fight, as long as you protect your belly and make sure not to get knocked over. Let's try that one more time. An enemy won't warn you when they're going to attack, so I'm going to surprise you. Always be ready."

"It was... hard. But- I made it. And it's shaped who I am today. I don't know if that's good or bad, but it's definitely true."

(About living as a feral)

/I’m really pathetic, aren’t I?/

“Not, it’s not. But the thing is, my mother and littermates never - they never liked me anyway, so it didn't... it didn't \*hurt\* when they left. Not like this."

/Deep breaths. That's gone now. He's gone. Focus on the present. You're not a scared little kit anymore, Rillpaw. Stop. Thinking about him!/

“Seriously? Are you TRYING to catch the sickness?”

"Don't be mad?! There are cats who are dying of sickness, medicine cats working their tails off every day to find a way to help them, cats who can't hunt for themselves. The cats who are fit to hunt have to catch all the prey; that should be a given. And yet there are cats like you, who never leave camp! And when they do, they've been so unfathomably lazy that all they do is ruin catches!"

"There is no 'calm' or 'safe', and any cat who believes that has the brains of a rabbit!"

"Get away from me. I don't want to talk to you. I couldn't even care less if you left the Clan. It would be one less useless mouth to feed anyway."

(To Cardinalflutter)

Bluecloud*: “What - what happened to your legs?”*

Rillwing*:  "Oh - um... failed hunting mission... I got attacked by a rabbit."*

“So - have you, uh, seen Cardinalflutter around?"

"I um, yelled at her a bit on our hunting trip. Then I just ran back to camp, and, I, uh... haven't seen her since..."

"I'm going to tell you the truth. The whole truth. Because someone deserves to know.”

(to Bluecloud)

"I'm starting from the beginning. My beginning. You're my friend -" (Internally: whether or not that's true after this conversation…) you deserve more than any other cat I've met to know what I'm really like; I don't want to ever lie to you. So I'm starting from when I was a kit."

(to Bluecloud)

"At first, everything was fine. I mean, our mother was pretty harsh, but she was just trying to train us how to keep ourselves safe. I never knew my father; but something happened between him and Mother, and she - changed. I had four siblings. Linn and Scree were her favorites; they always did everything right. She liked Bole too; he was friendlier, but he was bigger and stronger than any of the rest of us.

*"Then there was Silver. He was small and would never hurt a fly. But Mother - she wanted us to become complete battle zombies; she hated that Silver was kind, and she hated that I stood up for him. I caught food for both of us, because Mother only allowed us to eat the things we caught for ourselves. Didn't stop Scree from stealing my food, though. Anyway, she always made us fight each other. Linn almost tore Scree's eye out once; Mother didn't stop her, though.*

*"So one day, she was hurting Silver, and I yelled at her... and she just up and kicked us out. So we lived on the streets for a while. Oh, and before that, there was this cat who would come by and try to say hi to us - Mother always chased him off, though. We just called him the Roamer; he didn't object.”*

*"Remember the story I told you about fighting the alley cat? Well, that... that wasn't me." Me and Silver decided to go looking in one of the alleys [for food], which just so happened to be guarded by a trio of tomcats... who jumped on us. Silver was the one who actually fought, but he didn't get up in time, and the cat pinned him down... and then.. I just ran away! I saw the other two watching and just... ran. Ran until I had no idea where I was anymore.*

*"I ran until I ran right into a tree. I cut my nose open, couldn't really do anything but sit there.*

*"This kittypet came up to me. He told me to follow him, so I did, and he took me to his housefolk. They did something to my nose that fixed it, I guess, sort of like a medicine cat? Anyway, he told me his name was Panda Bear, and that his housefolk would probably take me in. I stayed, and it was good to be safe and fed... but the name they gave me… They called me Silver.*

*"So I lived with Panda and his family for a while. The only other cats I saw were a mother cat who lived a couple doors down, and her kittens. Then one day I was outside and my collar - it got caught on a fence and came off. I took that as a sign from the Spirits that I was meant to be wild- and I ran away before the housefolk could put a new collar on me. I never said goodbye to Panda... I just left. I ran away again.*

*"But I was happy there! I mean, I'm happy now, mostly, but… Anyway...for some reason it seems I decided to completely forget any safety measures for crossing a Thunderpath, and I almost got hit. But I was saved by another cat who threw herself into me and pushed us both across. Her name was Wide Eyed Moon.*

*"I lived with her for a while... she told me about the Colony she used to live in, about the four Afterworlds that she should've gone to when she died, but.. Oh, wait, forgot to menetion that she's, uh, a ghost. Ghost-cat. She says she doesn't know why she didn't go to the Huntworld, where other Threenames from Colony go. Then I left again, just to keep traveling.*

*"Then I wound up in the MarshClan tunnels... well, you know what happened after that."*

"Me and Cardinalflutter went hunting yesterday, and she accidentally bit me, and the rabbit escaped, and... well… I guess I was so fed up with this plague stuff, and after Mintfang died, I felt like I needed to do absolutely everything to help the Clan. So when the rabbit escaped..."

"I told her I couldn't care less if she left the Clan. I didn't think - I didn't think she actually would."

"No - no, stop. I do. I absolutely do want that. I'm not running away anymore, Bluecloud. Never again. So if you still want to- to stay with me, then I'll stay by you till the day I die. You are the cat I still have."