Patchpounce

Patchpounce is a friendly and eager young warrior of OasisClan. Hailing from a large and closely-knit family, he has a big heart and is easy to get along with. He is very fond of heights and loves to be active. He's always ready with an icebreaker or a pun even if he is a bit socially clueless and forgetful. He's an all around good guy, although he does harbor a strangely strong abhorrence for birds of prey.

## Relationships

### Partner(s)

He's kind of dating Asterveil without realizing it???

### Parents

Skyflower (mother) and Wheatnose (father)

### Siblings

Silverclaw (brother/littermate), Dustkit (sister/littermate, dead), Thistlespring (adoptive older sister), Flaxpaw, Webpaw, and Pigeonkit (younger brothers), Cloudpaw, Tawnypaw, and Calicokit (younger sisters), Lynxkit and Nettlekit (older sisters, dead), Cobrakit (older brother, dead)

### Other Relatives

Flowerpaw & Peonykit (aunts, dead), some dead or otherwise long-gone grandparents

### Friends

Asterveil and Minnowfrost (besties), Monarchflame, Daisyblossom, his whole family pfft

## Appearance & Personality

### Appearance

Patchpounce is a broad and fluffy tom. Although he only stands at a modest height of 9.1 inches, his layers of thick floof make him appear to be slightly larger than he really is. His fur is disheveled and tangled up most of the time, and he has a tendency to get leaves and twigs and similar things caught up in it during his various escapades. For all of his unkempt fuzz and his careless attitude in regards to his appearance, he has an athletic build and he keeps himself in excellent physical shape. He has hard, dark gray paw pads, and there is a small, patchy scar on his right front one from tearing it on rough tree bark during his late apprenticeship. He normally has chipped and rather short claws from frequent climbing as well. He moves at an energetic trot most of the time, his head and tail always cheerfully raised, and his face is always ready to snap into a grin.

He has long, mostly-white fur with a mottled pastel calico pattern of dark gray and pale dusty tan, hence his prefix. The gray spots have a few faint, barely-visible stripes of what might be a tabby pattern inside of them. There are cream-colored speckles splashed across his face, around his patches, and dotting beneath his light-but-bright gray eyes, tinted with blue, which are very earnest and stand out against the white of his face. It is easy to tell when he is uncertain or lying about something, as his expressions always give him away. His short ears are slightly curled backwards and tufted as well, resembling his father’s. His big nose and the insides of his ears are bright pink, although his nose has a few dark gray spots on it. His thick fur looks rough and ruffly, but is actually very soft. It would be very silky and pillow-like, strongly resembling his mother’s, if he ever actually groomed it properly.

### Personality

(+): Friendly, witty, considerate, cheerful

(=): genuine, loyal, sometimes flippant, tries a little too hard

(-): easily distracted, forgetful, insecure, blames himself for anything that goes wrong pfft

## Biography

### Kithood

On an early morning in the middle of leaf-bare, with snow still fresh upon the ground, Patchkit was born to Skyflower and Wheatnose in OasisClan. He was the middle kit in a litter of three, born a few minutes after his sister Dustkit and one minute before his brother Silverkit.

The OasisClan nursery was fairly empty with the exception of Patchkit and his littermates; there was their mother Skyflower, of course, and their father Wheatnose spent each night at their mother’s side. There was another queen named Milkycheek who was two moons pregnant at the time of Patchkit’s birth. But aside from them, there was only one other kit in the den- and that was Thistlekit, a molly two moons Patchkit’s senior whom Skyflower and Wheatnose had adopted only days before the birth of their litter.

The very first moon of Patchkit’s life was relatively uneventful. He was a curious kit and crawled all over Skyflower’s nest and the floor of nursery to get a feel for his own body. His fur puffed out within a couple of days, thick and fuzzy, gray and tan calico on white. His eyes first opened after about a week- several days after Dustkit’s did, but around another week before Silverkit’s. Every day he would clamber across his siblings and his parents and all over the medicine cat, Snakespeckle, whenever she came in to check on them. He was a loud mewler and was very ticklish- he wiggled around and squeaked a lot whenever he was groomed. As the larger two of the litter, he and Dustkit tended to unintentionally push Silverkit around a little bit, especially when it came to nursing. Skyflower and Wheatnose had to keep an eye out for that.

There was a HorizonClan hike when Patchkit and his littermates were about two weeks old. This likely did not affect them much unless both parents chose to go, in which case they and Thistlekit would have been looked after by Milkycheek (assuming that she hadn’t gone as well).

1 moon (February)- patchkit and his littermates are left under the care of Snakespeckle at some point. They cause chaos in the medicine den. They scoot around messing with all of the herbs. patchkit tries to eat a random berry before it is taken away from him. he is sad about this. also, snakespeckle makes the life-changing decision to give them bits of pomegranate. oh god the pomegranate. patch absolutely adores them. he slurps all the juice out of his chunk and then tries to steal dustkit’s. dust does not take kindly to this, so he just snatches silver’s instead. rip silverkit. on a separate occasion, he also discovers that he can climb walls. he likes the sensation of being up high. his eyes change color, too; they never completely lose their blue, but they become much more gray like his father’s. he also learns enough to be able to kind of toddle around and talk by the end of the moon.

2 moons (March)- Murky, Muddy, & Mossy are born. patch thinks that they’re cute. by the start of the moon, patchkit is fully weaned off of milk, too, and is able to start moving on to solid foods. he finds that he really likes wood mice. he leaves the nursery occasionally when his mom or dad are with him, but all the light kind of hurts his eyes. besides, it’s spring now and the snow all melted before patch really had a chance to play in it, and this makes him sad. it makes him feel better to try and scramble up songstar’s stump and the apprentices’ log and all the short trees in the camp. he doesn’t get very far, but it’s the thought that counts. various shenanigans probably ensue. patch most likely formally befriends thistle more at this point. he also discovers that he can explore the maze in the back of the nursery. he thinks that’s fun. he likes to hide in there and jump out at his siblings and parents and milkycheek. he still tries to sneak into snakespeckle’s den for her pomegranates sometimes and he starts asking his parents for some as a treat whenever he’s being good. snakespeckle made things difficult for wheatsky pfft

3 moons (April)- patch starts leaving the nursery a lot more often without his parents. he finds that he really likes the elders, especially bloomheart. she has really fun stories about the great rogue uprising, which patchkit likes to re-enact with his littermates. well, with dustkit, anyways. silverkit is aloof and annoying and gets in the way of their games more than he contributes. patchkit loves his brother, but he likes his sister a lot better. in any case, he also likes to bother the apprentices- namely monarchpaw and breezepaw since honey, hickory, & hope are kind of their own little group (triple H’s <3). he thinks it’s cool that breeze’s mom is the leader and also friends with his mom, and he thinks it’s cool that mona was looked after by skyflower for a moon before becoming an apprentice. he and his siblings challenge themselves to try and get breezepaw to smile. they fail. mona takes him and silver outside of camp. he almost gets himself lost chasing a butterfly and silver sees a grass snake. he also climbs his first tree and immediately falls out of it. mona catches him, but it could’ve hurt a lot. good job patchkit. he also gets freaked out and almost cries when breezepaw and silverkit start discussing how death works. haha foreshadowing. also, skyflower gets pregnant again. and there is an orc daylight gathering. this would not affect patchkit unless someone took him. he probably did beg his parents to bring him and his siblings, actually. so he might have gotten to see it.

4 moons (May)- another one bites the dust, so to speak. sorry. ahem. anyway. dustkit dies. she gets tired of listening to Bloomheart repeating the same old tales one morning and leaves the den and sneaks out of camp. as luck would have it, an owl had been pushing it past sunrise, not quite through with its hunt- and it spots her. when wheatnose enters the camp with a mouthful of feathers, patchkit just assumes that they’re toys. he starts pouncing on them, playing with them, batting and chasing them around. it isn’t until his parents explain it that he realizes what they mean. only about a week later, hopepaw dies, too. her patrol comes back with her body one afternoon; they were ambushed by a fox, and hopepaw paid the price. oh, and roughly a week after *that,* the plague starts. snakespeckle and breezepaw are two of the first to die. and thistlepaw becomes an appie and leaves the nursery. this is a terrible moon for patchkit. he remembers it very well. on the bright side though, mona becomes a warrior! the milkyleech kits are also old enough to Do Things now. patch is too sad to do things with them though. rip.

5 moons (June)- i have no idea when minnowkit showed up, but she’s probably here by now. hi, minnowkit. patchkit doesnt do much this moon. he’s just sad. he does become friends with minnow, though, and that helps a bit. he’s stopped bothering the apprentices now except for thistlepaw and he tries to avoid the elders’ den. he and silver were in there when dustkit snuck off and he feels bad about it. he and silver also learn from their parents that they and dustkit are actually their second litter- there was one before them in which the kits had all died. it’s an ever so slightly traumatic revelation, but patch handles it better than silver and promises to grow into a big, strong warrior for the sake of his siblings. you go, patchkit. also, it’s summertime now and very nice and warm out.

### Apprenticeship

6 moons (July)- patch becomes an appie alongside silver and minnow. it isnt the same as having dust with them, but at least he and his brother arent alone. his mentor is the new deputy. epic. she’s busy tho so he goes out with silver & sagestep for his first training session and immediately wanders off. he climbs a pine tree near the HC border and accidentally meets asterpaw. then the branch he’s sitting on breaks and gives him a fantastic introduction. luckily he’s fine. they wander around a bit and talk about their moms and poke fun at the rules they’ve been given. they become friends through this and agree to meet up again to play around some since the borders are all shut down and it’s annoying. so that’s fun. then he finds silver and sage again and carries on with his day. as the two of them are building their nests that night, silver yells at him and patch realizes he still has the owl feathers from when dustkit died and they get into a weird little fight that they proceed to pretend never happened (feather incident #1). in other news, patch starts seeing the elders again and is happy to be back in a den with thistlepaw and discovers how fun it is to chase butterflies around with minnowpaw. also, his little siblings are born! patch is v excited to get to know them and is as wonderful as he can be. he shares the news with asterpaw when he next sees her.

7 moons (August)- fun times. patch keeps on meeting asterpaw at the border and having fun with her, climbing up the tallest trees he can and coming up with goofy puns and trading stories about their families. before long they realize that they can just meet at silver falls instead, which is much less risky and would actually be quite cool since they havent gotten to go to a gathering yet. so they do that. patch challenges aster to a race up the ledges and is amazed to discover that rock climbing is very different from tree climbing and that horizonclan cats are in fact better at it than oasisclan cats. he is determined to be able to beat her at some point. they mess about though and pretend to be leaders while sitting on the perch and go to war for fun and at one point while they’re playing around, they accidentally wind up passing through the waterfall and discovering the cave behind it. epic. patch tries to start a splash fight but finds out that aster isn’t the biggest fan of water. oops. in any case, they meet regularly at silver falls from that point on- only once a moon so that they’re less likely to get caught and get into trouble. also, patch is racing up trees with minnow during a hunting competition one time and they come across a hollow full of baby raccoons. patch thinks they’re adorable but he also knows it’s probably a bad idea to stick around, and sure enough they wind up getting chased away by the mom. welp. they laugh it off, but patch makes sure to tell the warriors about it so they can send a patrol to chase them off. he doesn’t want any raccoons to eat his baby siblings.

8 moons (September)- murky, mossy, & muddy become apprentices. patch feels bad for not really playing with them much when they were kits, so he’s probably much friendlier now and gets along with them fairly well. he also sprains his paw while climbing one time and then aggravates it by coming to silver falls anyways the next night. good job patchpaw. but on an unrelated note, it’s officially autumn and now pomegranates are back in season!! patch finds this out while investigating some new trees and it is the greatest discovery of his entire life! he brings a ton of them back to camp to share with his little siblings and his denmates and pretty much anyone else who wants some. he also brings some to asterpaw the when he comes to see her that moon. she isn’t the biggest fan, but she brings some back for her siblings, which patch is happy about. they agree to bring their friends and siblings to silver falls the following moon so that they can all meet each other, too. he also learns that her favorite prey is rabbit and he decides that’ll he’ll bring a couple of rabbits next time to greet her and her siblings with. otherwise they just continue roleplaying their little war game and patch continues losing sksndb. in other news, his little siblings are old enough to be active now and their personalities begin to really shine through. patch loves taking them around the camp and bringing them little toys and presents. he thinks they’re awesome. patch also loves seeing all the trees changing colors and he starts collecting all the pretty red and orange and yellow leaves he can find. all the unique looking ones, anyway. he tries to keep some in his fur, but they keep falling out so he gives up. also, he starts growing a lot of floof and he gets quite a bit taller. he goes from having short fur and being the same height as silver to being very fluffy and noticeably bigger. good for him. oh, and he also notices that silver acts weird around their little siblings and it frustrates him. silver won’t tell him why. rip.

9 moons (October)- honey & hickory become warriors! not much else is going on. patch & aster have their meetup. aster brings her brother magpiepaw and sister starlingpaw and patch brings silver and minnow (he probably wouldve brought thistle too in hindsight pfft) and it… doesn’t really go as planned. first off, patch forgot to bring the rabbits because he wasn’t thinking. this would have been fine, bc it wasn’t like he said he would out loud or anything, but it unfortunately did cost him a chance at redeeming his first impression— because this is when patch learns that magpiepaw is apparently allergic to pomegranate and had almost died upon eating what asterpaw brought back. patch is kind of horrified by this. he is very apologetic. it’s kind of an awkward meeting. silver is not at all pleased to be there, patch is all shocked and guilty about almost getting magpie murked with a fruit, starling doesnt seem to like him much (justifiably), and minnow seems weirdly tense around aster for some reason. they try their best to have fun with everybody but it doesnt end up going too great. it’s just weird and awkward. A for effort though. also, webkit & flaxkit accidentally crush tawnykit’s butterfly one time and feel bad abt it, so patchpaw takes them outside to catch her a new one. they get away from him tho and he panics and flounders around everywhere looking for them until he finds them just watching a frog near the fc border. he proceeds to bring them back to camp and make it Very clear why they should not do that lmbo. he did get them their butterfly tho, under the condition that they do Not tell their parents abt him taking them outside and losing track of them pdjdnt. he also catches a canary at one point and discovers that it tastes even better than wood mouse. good for him.

10 moons (November)- thistle becomes a warrior! patch is happy for her. not too much happens this moon, really. patch chases a squirrel up a tree one time while hunting with minnowpaw and it jumps off of his head, which they think is pretty funny. he also tries to climb a tree with bark that’s a little looser than he anticipated and it crumbles off beneath him, leaving him on the ground with sore legs and a big scrape in one paw. it leaves a scar, which he thinks is cool. he jokingly calls it a battle scar with asterpaw. in a separate instance, he also gets the biggest splinter ever stuck in his other paw and is actually quite proud of it. he shows it to asterpaw when he sees her, too. she’s probably just like “???ok??” oh, and he did in fact remember to bring her a rabbit this time. good for him. he manages to actually beat her during their play fighting this time using a new tactic shadowatep taught him and he is very proud of himself. the only other event worth noting is actually as he’s coming back from the meeting with aster, though- it’s the middle of the night still, crickets and moonlight, and he comes across none other than shadowstep just cruising around the territory. he’s all worried that she’ll want to know what he was doing, so he starts scrambling for excuses, but he’s surprised when she doesn’t even ask. so he asks her what she’s doing instead, and she tells him that she likes to go out at night and get fresh air and look at the stars and see what nature she can hear and observe. patch is a little confused by this since she’s never really talked abt herself before, but he listens. she seems like there’s something in particular she wants to tell him, and she struggles with it for a moment, but then just drops it and tells him to go back to camp bc they have early training the next day. huh. weird. but okay, shadowstep.

11 moons (December)- it’s winter again! patch actually think the cold feels pretty nice. he likes it better than the heat. his thick fur and hardened pads make him very insulated. he’s sad to see all the trees go bare, though, and he is no longer able to pluck pomegranates off the trees since they’re all, y’know, dead. Oh well. Finally, during like the last week of the moon, it snows. Patch gets to experience his first snowfall that he’s old enough to remember. He absolutely loves it. He goes frolicking everywhere and he takes silver and minnow out into the territory with him and starts a game where they knock into trees to shake lumps of snow off the branches onto each other. the next time he’s out with shadowstep, he gets excited by the fc border and tries to run across the ice. it breaks and he falls in the water. shadowstep has to go in and pull him out despite her own distaste for swimming. good job patchpaw. it was really cold water and it gets him kind of sick, so he has to stay in camp for a day or two, and that really disappoints him. so to pass the time on one of these days, he starts a great big massive snow fight in the middle of the camp with his little siblings, silver, and minnow where they’re all just flinging snow at each other and rolling around in it. he probably ropes the milkyleech kits into it too, and if he can, then silkkit, thistle, mona, honey, and hickory. anyone else who might want to join is welcome. it’s all great fun until some older warriors intervene and break it up. it doesn’t really help with his cold, either. he gets worse and cats are probably slightly concerned that he might actually be contacting the plague. luckily this is not the case. he gets better. good for him. also, the plague has kind of ended now. some cats called the travelers showed up with funky herbs and the herbs seem to be fixing everything. so that’s good? oh yeah, and asterveil becomes a warrior. patchpaw is super excited by this and thinks her name is pretty and perfect for her. he is still a wee bit ill, though, so instead of romping around this time, they probably just sit up on the leaders’ ledge and admire the stars and chat for a while before parting ways. they have a feeling it’ll be the last time they’ll get to meet at silver falls with the magic of having never seen a gathering there before, so they make the most of it while they can. patch likely would’ve talked abt how he’s becoming a warrior v soon and the topic of dustkit and his parents’ previous litter would have come up. patch is still bad at talking abt them- he tries not to think abt them too much- but it felt good to get it out there. so yay for asterpatch.

### Warrior Life

12 moons (January)- he passes his assessment and becomes a warrior with silverclaw and minnowfrost. it’s snowing as they all sit vigil together and patch keeps trying to catch the flakes on his tongue. when he gets bored he flicks snow at minnow and silver and tbh he and minnow are probably just goofing off the whole time and making silver really annoyed lol. but as for more good news, their ceremony takes place immediately before cloudkit, flaxkit, webkit, and tawnykit (and silkkit) become apprentices! patch is incredibly happy for them. he notices silver not cheering their names at first so he elbows him really hard until he does pfft. also, there have been no new plague cases in the past moon, so the borders tentatively open back up again and the first gathering in 8 moons is held! patch is elated to get to go. he finds it funny to really see silver falls in action and he immediately finds and sits by asterveil to tell her all about his new name and how his assessment went and how exciting all of this is. he definitely introduces her to his younger siblings and probably his parents and if they ask how he’s friends with an oac cat when he’s not supposed to have had contact with other clans until now, he’ll just be like “😀 ..anyways!!!” so everyone kind of just sits in awkward sullen silence as the leaders list off the names of everybody who had died of plague, but patch gets his turn to glow with pride when his name is announced as one of oac’s new warriors. he’s also delighted when aspenstar announces that the annual hc hike will take place in a few days, as it’s the first clanwide event he can remember happening since the daylight gathering when he was three moons old. he arrives a day early and gets to see hc territory for the first time. he goes hunting with asterveil and has fun before the hike starts the following morning. his group consists of asterveil, silverclaw, minnowfrost, and webpaw since he had really wanted to come. they have a good time, even if silver’s lack of enthusiasm and minnow’s unusual quietness served to dampen the mood a little bit. it’s fun. patch probably goes back and visits her in hc several times afterwards and she probably comes and visits him in oac a few times. patch is glad that he’s on cool terms with magpie but feels bad that starling still doesn’t like him, and he’s glad that silver doesn’t mind aster anymore but minnow is still weird around her. he has no idea what’s going on, really. also, webpaw accidentally eats a poisonous mushroom and almost dies once, so that’s fun. not. patch panics, as does the rest of the family. he is very briefly mad at murkypaw about it, but he stops after seeing how upset they are, too and tries to be consoling instead lol. webpaw ends up being fine, he’s just an idiot 💀 oh, and near the end of the moon is probably when bloomheart died (assuming she still existed in this continuity). patch would have been very sad about this.

13 moons (February)- not too much happens this moon. patch and aster probably continue visiting each other regularly and patch gets back into the habit of bringing her rabbits when he goes to see her. he thinks of new puns to share with her each time they meet and they have fun times. he still spends time with minnow, but not as much as he used to. poor minnow. he does invite her along sometimes when he and aster are out doing something, but it never goes over well and patch doesn’t understand what the problem is. he wishes he could help. in other news, he’s woken up by screeching one morning and pokes his head out to find silverclaw and cloudpaw rolling across the clearing fighting each other (feather incident #2). what. the heck. so he jumps up and is one of the cats who separates them. he yells at silver and finds out what the fight was over, and then he still feels angry, just kind of guilty and uncomfortable at the same time. he still does his best to mediate between his siblings, though, and when silverclaw starts throwing out the gifts that tawnypaw leaves in his nest, patchpounce pulls him aside and points out what they are. silver’s like “oh” and that successfully solved that problem lmbo. things went downhill again, however, at that moon’s gathering. patch found aster again and sat by her, but this time there was another important announcement. two medicine cats had received omens and the fc deputy had encountered a loner, all with the same warning: a rogue army was coming from twolegplace, and a second war was on the horizon. so that’s just great. patch is actually pretty mortified to hear it. poor lad has only gotten to be a warrior and go to a gathering like a normal cat for two moons, and now everything is going to the dark forest again. fantastic. a rushed new training system is slapped into place in oasisclan and border patrols are tripled and suddenly everything is super tense and stressful. patch mostly focuses on making sure his younger siblings and silkpaw and the milkyleech trio are prepared. he’s worried about them.

14 moons (March)- the snow all melts away and it’s starting to get less cold now. murkysprout, muddyspark, and mossybriar become warriors. patchpounce thinks this is cool. he thinks it’s less cool when cloudpaw flounces into camp one afternoon with news that she had just almost been scooped up by a hawk. patch is very upset about this, in fact. he presses her for details and along with the rest of the family, he finds out that she’d come across a hawk eating a squirrel and was only able to scare it off with silkpaw’s help. patch is very relieved that she’s okay and his hatred for birds of prey is also reignited. he also comes to the conclusion that silkpaw is cool. he’s glad that webpaw and murkysprout are friends with him and decides that he approves of his attempts to flirt with his sister. he probably drops some hints by telling him that cloudpaw likes fancy flowers and songbirds as prey and such. so that worked out for him. you go, silkpaw. patch is probably still trying to spend time with aster whenever he can, but things are busy pfft. Oh, and that’s not all. he got to have a little adventure with silverclaw and shadowstep. yup. I’ll flesh it out in more detail later, but basically shadowstep pulled him aside one morning and was like “hey so uh i may have possibly fed some baby owls for a few moons a while back and one of them might have possibly killed ur sister???? sorry abt that?? i thought i should tell u in case one of us dies in the war” and patch is. uh. well. he is Not Exactly Pleased. but he Does have an idea. he asks if shadowstep remembers what kind of owl it was, n she’s like “yeah, they were spotted owls”, to which patch proceeds to approach silverclaw n be like “hey. you know those feathers. so they might actually come in handy”. unfortunately none of them can tell if the feathers belong to a spotted owl, but that’s alright bc patch remembers aster telling him abt a bird nerd in hc named conchsong. so the three of them take a trip over there with the feathers and probably say hi to aster & her siblings and then find conch and show him the feathers and ask “hey are these from a spotted owl” and he’s like “no lol those are from a barred owl” and so they’re all like “oh. okay” and now patch and shadow can both rest easy with the knowledge that she did not get his sister killed lmbo. good for them. and patch hates barred owls now.

okay i think that’s where we’re at help

## Other

### Trivia

-His voiceclaim is adult Simba from The Lion King (1994).

- Patchpounce’s eyes were blue in the original ABW and Silverclaw’s were gray. I swapped them here.

- He has always had fun with words. As a kit, he’d use the wrong words all the time- for instance, he mixed up “awesome” and “awful” once and accidentally insulted Songstar. Even as he got older, he liked to play around with his vocabulary and that’s why he’s so fond of making puns.

- Patchpounce’s siblings generally just refer to him with the nickname “Patch”. He calls Silverclaw “Silvy” in return just because it ticks him off lol

- I’ll add this to his personality section later, but one of his biggest problems is that he’s a bit of a chameleon. He shapes his personality based on the cats around him and what he thinks will serve them best. When he was little, he based his demeanor off of Dustkit because he looked up to her- he was loud and rambunctious and daring, and his parents and other clanmates seemed to like that. When she died, he became much more thoughtful and optimistic, because he felt like it’s what his parents and silverkit needed. when wheatsky die, he’ll undergo another big shift and get very doting and mother hennish because it’s what he feels would help Pidge and Cal the most. He kind of just needs to find what he really wants and stick with it.

- Patchpounce’s favorite color is yellow. He thinks it’s a happy color. The sun is yellow. Dandelions are yellow. Canaries are yellow. Good things are yellow. He knows it wouldn’t make sense, but he wishes he had some yellow in his fur.

- On that note, his favorite flowers are dandelions. According to him, at least. Don’t tell him that they’re weeds. His favorite trees are maples just because they get to be extremely tall and their bark is much easier to get a grip on. Also, their leaves are cool-looking and turn really neat colors in autumn.

- Patchpounce’s favorite prey is wild canary. He liked wood mouse when he was younger, but canaries are where it’s at now. Aside from them, he also still loves pomegranates.

- His love language is quality time.

- If Patchpounce was a human I feel like his name would be Jack. I have no idea why. I cannot explain myself. I just think it would be. He’s a Jack type of guy.

- He’s a pretty skilled fighter thanks to his training from Shadowstep, but only an average hunter; he has trouble staying still for too long and he tends to space out a lot when he’s supposed to be stalking his prey. He’s great at climbing trees, though, and is surprisingly agile for how broad and fluffy he is. He runs at a fairly normal speed and unfortunately he cannot swim.

- Patchpounce has ADHD. Not even remotely close to the extent that Webpaw has it, but there’s definitely a little bit of something going on there. It skipped a generation on Wheatnose’s side.

- He was the middle kit of a second litter. He was never meant to be the oldest. But as they say, for whom the bell tolls…

### Playlist

- “Always Gold” by Radical Face. Him when the wh… when his siblings… when he wh… wahhhh

- “Taste” by Sleeping at Last. Definitely not yet, but a while after WheatSky die, once he’s able to start coming to terms with the loss and actually recovering. It’s just one of my favorite SaL songs in general <333

### Quotes

*“I think eating is best. And sleeping. I like that. And having fun!”*

*“Y’hear that?* Fun! *Your least favorite thing, Silverkit!”*

*“Oh, golly me. You know I struggle to count past five!”*

*“Web, stay close to me. Where are your sisters?”*