Mistrunner

Ah, Mistrunner, Misty, my beloved <3 <3 Overworked, underpaid, and just barely learning how to advocate for and take care of herself. Mistrunner deserves the world, but since she can't have that, she'll accept a nice nap or a good conversation with Sootsnow.

## Appearance & Personality

### Appearance

   Mistrunner is a sleek cat, her fur very short and smooth. Her eyes are a dark blueish gray. Her gray pelt is marked with lighter tabby swirls, her namesake, and her ears and tail are a darker gray.

### Personality

Mistrunner's reputation proceeds her within the Clans - there's no one that hasn't at least heard of her.

*Mistrunner is a chill cat, not trying to bother anyone most of the time. She is serious and quick and, despite the workload, she's very fond of being a messenger. She is witty and intelligent, very good at taking calculated risks. She's quiet and a little judgmental, but never to anyone's face. Nighttime is calming to her and, when she can, Mistrunner likes to watch the stars.*

## Background

### Kithood

Born nameless outside Clan borders, just between OasisClan and HorizonClan, Mistrunner had a bit of a challenging start to life. Her mother was attacked by rogues while out hunting when she was very young and died of the wounds, leaving the yet unnamed Misty alone.

She was found before too long by Sootsnow, who had overheard the commotion. Finding Misty on her own and looking very similar to her dead mother, Sootsnow put two and two together and figured that this child was now an orphan. Yay. Sootsnow took her to OasisClan, where a young queen named Littlebird was willing to take her in.

Littlebird was sweet and patient, caring for the kit like she was her own. She named her Mistkit after the mists that descended on most of the Clan's territories at night during the spring and summer. Mistkit was treated well and, for most of her life, she never bothered to question why she looked nothing like Littlebird. Littlebird was her mother and that was all that mattered. Littlebird's kits were a few moons older than Mistkit. Peachkit and Tulipkit were almost three moons old when Mistkit joined OasisClan. They thought she was pretty neat.

Littlebird's mate, if he could even be called that, was named Tigerthorn. He was her kits' father, at the very least, though he was never involved in their lives and if Littlebird tried to talk to him, he ignored or avoided her. They had been just a fling to him and he was not happy that she had kits. He definitely wasn't happy that she'd adopted another one. He was awful and we don't like him.

Luckily, we don't have to deal with him for long. He and Littlebird got in a major argument when Mistkit was three moons old, which resulted in Tigerthorn leaving the Clans. Way to go smart guy. Maybe don't be a jerk if you want to stay in the story next time. Anyway, Littlebird wanted a fresh start, so she decided to move to HorizonClan. She had a few friends there and it wasn't tainted with memories of her trashy ex-boyfriend.

Peachkit and Tulipkit, who were very close to becoming apprentices, stayed in OasisClan. They had friends they didn't leave behind and they were eager to start training. Mistkit on the other hand moved with Littlebird. She hated it. All her friends were in OasisClan, everyone she cared about, and most importantly Peachkit and Tulipkit. Her brother and sister meant the world to her and leaving them behind was like leaving a part of her heart behind.

HorizonClan was awful. Mistkit missed her siblings every day. She and Littlebird did visit for Peachpaw and Tulippaw's apprentice ceremonies, but most of her days were spent in isolation in the HorizonClan nursery. She had denmates of course - there was another queen named Hyacinthflutter in the nursery with her two kits, Sunkit and Sootkit. Mistkit hated them too, especially when Sunkit learned to talk and started pestering her.

The rest of Mistkit's kithood passed agonizingly slowly for Mistkit. Her attitude toward HorizonClan didn't get much better.

### Apprenticeship

Mistpaw was apprenticed to Claycloud. He was a good-natured tom, family oriented and understanding. Mistpaw tried really hard to hate him, but he was just impossible to hate. His one flaw was that he was Sunkit's father. Mistpaw still thought that Sunkit was obnoxious.

Anyway, Mistpaw's misery was ended by the introduction of a young molly named Irispaw into her life. Irispaw was a fun young cat, competitive and excitable. The two became best friends very quickly. They were very close and told each other everything. Mistpaw liked to tease Irispaw for her crush on Midgepaw, who was gay though they didn't know that at the time. Rip Irispaw I guess.

Anyway speaking of RIP Irispaw, both Mistpaw and Irispaw were very competitive. They did tons of little races and stuff together. One such race when they were eight moons old was climbing up a tree. Irispaw beat Mistpaw by a pretty wide margin and while enjoying her win, she was scooped up by an owl. That sucked. Mistpaw retreated into her grief and had a very hard time moving on from her best friend's death.

When she was nine moons old, she got to visit OasisClan for her siblings' warrior ceremony. Mistpaw was very proud of them and thought their new names, Peachthroat and Tulipcharm, were pretty great,

Mistpaw continued training for a while and deliberately avoiding Aspenstar, Irispaw's former mentor. She began to look into the messenger role, as HorizonClan's messenger at the time, Sleetsight, was getting a little old. She did continue training with Claycloud, but it was around this time that she got in contact with Sootsnow, the messenger over in MarshClan. She didn't know that Sootsnow had brought her to the Clans as a kit, just that she was a lot nicer than the old messenger in HorizonClan.

Unfortunately, when she was ten moons old, her mentor Claycloud died. That was not fun for Mistpaw. That was also the first and only time she felt bad for Sunpaw. Rip Claycloud you were neat. Anyway, she had already decided she wanted to be a messenger so, while she was assigned a new mentor, Mistpaw didn't spend much time training after that.

### Warrior Life

Mistpaw earned the name Mistrunner as a tribute to her work assisting the then-current messenger. She did messenger duties with Sleetsight for a couple moons until he retired when she was 17 moons old. This didn't bother Mistrunner; on the contrary, Mistrunner was quite glad that she didn't have to deal with him anymore except for when he had a message. She did get sick shortly after he retired, as it was winter, but she recovered after a few days of rest and the other Clans' messengers were able to cover for her enough that Sleetsight didn't have to unretire.

Mistrunner was good at her job, very quick and reliable. On slow days, she would occasionally help medics with herb gathering or do other small tasks to help out after delivering a message. On one such occasion when she was 19 moons old, Mistrunner accidentally knocked a warrior named Oatfoot into a stream in OrchidClan while fetching herbs for Whitebird. Lavenderstar accused her of trying to drown her brother, but Mistrunner protested that it was an accident. She eventually got out of the situation thanks to Oatfoot, who showed up dripping wet halfway through his sister's rant and politely asked her to please calm down a little bit.

* 31 moons - Applepaw moves to HorizonClan and becomes a plague on Misty’s life. Between Appleshine and Firecloud Misty cannot catch a break; Applepaw asked Mistrunner to ask Foxpaw and Redpaw about how “the Thing” was going, the Thing being the siblings’ plan to go to twolegplace and look for their mother; Applepaw said that her mentor (Mudflame) liked Mistrunner
* 43 moons - attends the Gathering

## Other

### Trivia

* Mistrunner was initially inspired by the character Vin from the Mistborn series
* She was trained as a messenger by Sootsnow
* She still keeps the iris that Irispaw used to wear in her nest
* Her favorite flowers are iris and tulips, for obvious reasons

### Quotes

*"I'm fine with confusing cats. It keeps them on their toes."* | *"It'll be okay. I don't think anyone actually wanted me to be a messenger, but look at me now! I'm one of the most popular forms of communication."* | *"I think I'd rather die."* | *"She's still got that brother I 'drowned' one time."*

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