Tarantuladusk

This introduction used to just say the words "himbo energy," which feels fitting for Tarantuladusk. He's the biggest of his siblings, tall and strong and bold, but he's also kind of stupid. He drinks his respect women juice, which we appreciate, but in truth he is a background character to his sisters' drama.

## Appearance & Personality

### Appearance

   At 9.2 inches tall, Tarantuladusk is the tallest in his litter by a wide margin. He’s also the biggest, with a naturally muscular build and very long, thick fur. He is the only kit to get Rosemite’s soft blue-green eyes and folded ears. His bushy fur is black with darker patches swooping across his back, tail, and face. His ears are completely the darker color, as well as is a ring around his neck. His chin is white, as is a thin stripe from the bottom of his chest and across his belly. On each leg, he has a patch of gingery red tabby. His ears are rounded at the tips like Widowflame’s. His back right leg is weaker than the other three due to being crushed in a den collapse when he was an apprentice and not healing exactly right. It isn't super noticeable but he does start to limp after long patrols or busy days when he's been walking a lot. He wears a yellow fawn lily at the base of his tail, a gift from Skylarkspring.

### Personality

Tarantuladusk doesn’t have the razor-sharp intellect of his sisters. He isn’t dumb, but he’s nothing special in that department. He’s a very friendly, genuine cat who gets along well with others. He’s always had a playful streak to him, part of what endeared him so much to his mother. He genuinely doesn’t understand why his sisters have so much tension between them. He’s very quick to forgive and forget in most cases.

## Background

### Kithood

Tarantulakit was born the last and weakest of his litter in the MarshClan nursery. He had two older sisters, Reclusekit and Widowkit, and his parents were named Spidersqueak and Rosemite. They were a picture-perfect family, Reclusekit closely resembling their father and Widowkit almost identical to their mother and Tarantulakit... well, he wasn't a very strong mix, but he did get his mother's dark pelt and his father's whitespotting, so that's something.

Everything could've been perfect had Tarantulakit not gotten sick. The kits were born in early autumn, so it wasn't like there was any real sickness going around at the moment - Tarantulakit was just particularly unlucky. The first two moons of his life were spent mostly in the medicine den under Whitebird's watchful eye.

Rosemite was in the medicine den every spare moment she had, fretting over her son's health. Tarantulakit very nearly died when he was about a moon old when his illness took a turn for the worse. It was a very stressful time for his parents, and even his sisters were dimly aware of what was going on. He did manage to pull through, though he continued to fluctuate throughout the next moon.

Tarantulakit was allowed to return to the nursery full time when he was about two and a half moons old, where he got to properly get to know his sisters. He got along a bit better with Reclusekit than he did Widowkit, but he rather liked them both. He also quite liked the other kit that shared the nursery with them, a molly born the same moon as them named Skylarkkit. She was a shy little calico, but something just seemed to click for them. They became close friends very quickly.

Tarantulakit's kithood passed quietly for the most part. Reclusekit and Widowkit were both fairly reclusive and, except for his mother's overbearing protectiveness, it was like he had never been sick. Tarantulakit and Skylarkkit tried exploring some of the old tunnels once, but were spotted by Skylarkkit's older sister Dovepaw and taken back to the nursery before they could get hurt or lost. Tarantulakit grumbled about this to Rosemite, who scolded him for even thinking about running off into the tunnels. Tarantulakit realized in that moment that maybe it was best if he didn't talk to his mother about *everything.*

Tarantulakit tried convincing his dad a few days later to take him and Skylarkkit into the tunnels, but Spidersqueak told him no. Tarantulakit was upset by that but didn't make a big fuss about it.

### Apprenticeship

* 9 moons - plague starts and everything sucks

### Warrior Life

* 17 moons - only one of his siblings to not attend that particular Gathering

## Other

### Trivia

* His voice claim is Blue from OSP
* Tarantuladusk's favorite color is green. He doesn't have a particular reason to like it, he just thinks it's neat. If pressed, he'll probably say it's because it reminds him of his mom's eyes, which were blue-green just like his.
* The ooc reason for green being his favorite is I think he'd like Minecraft, which is green to me for some reason.