Waterfern

"Why not keep going? Why should I just let it hold me back? You don't grow if all you ever do is let outside forces control you. I'm not going to just sit back and let this take control over me. I want to do something, and by Starclan I'm going to do it."

## Description

medium-furred orange tabby she-cat with pale blue eyes. small in stature

## Personality

water is a fluid and adaptable feline. she is rather outgoing and makes friends easily with others. she is a flexible ambivert and rather understanding of others troubles. she knows how to make do with what she has and does her best to prove herself without seeming overbearing. she is slightly hot-headed and can be super stubborn when she sets her mind to something. overall, she is a sensitive character with a caring soul.

## History

born to phoenix and ferret-tail along with her two brothers, white-eye and cloudtail, near the outskirts of riverclan's territory. her mother died during the birthing process, leaving her father to take all three kittens back to riverclan on his own. he gave them off to a nursing queen and vowed to visit them often, however, that never ended up happening. water and her siblings had been meant to live as loners but those plans had been thwarted when her mother died. ferret-tail eventually followed their mother in death when the sickness passed through riverclan. water has very little memory of either of her parents, and considers white and cloud to be more like her dads than her brothers, as they are rather overprotective of her.

she learned rather early on that her immune system was weaker than her littermates. the first case was when she landed herself in a puddle and immediately got sick, being rushed to the medicine den by her brothers. it was then on wards that she often was visited by the medicine cat who promptly told her to be careful in the future. despite the warnings, water still managed to get sick frequently. it was mainly during leaf-fall and leafbare that she had to be most careful.

she became apprenticed to ebonyflower at first, a rather interesting she-cat who was often too busy. water barely got trained by this cat and eventually was switched to lazuliflare instead. it was with this new mentor that water learned how to fully grasp her skills while battling her weak immune system. she is forever grateful to lazuli, who taught her well. she is also grateful for the kind wisdom that this cat bestowed upon her during her training. she met milksplash and gentlepaw around the age of nine moons, and they both posed as interesting cats with their own equally interesting viewpoints. water wouldn't necessarily consider them 'friends' but they would be more like close acquaintances, if that were an available term. she met reedpaw at her first gathering and immediately took a liking to them. she was quite saddened when the medicine cat apprentice died.

she became a warrior on janurary 29th, 2020. she has recently met with smokefoot, who she doesn't have a clear opinion of yet, but he has some interesting ideals that she's curious to learn more about.

## Relationships

((just relations that have been rped; excluding family))

### 🌻 family

* phoenix [mother] : n/a
* ferret-tail [father] : neutral
* white-eye [brother] : close
* cloudtail [brother] : close

### 💐 friends

* reedpaw : likes
* owlpaw : likes
* smokefoot : neutral; slightly likes

### 💮 acquaintances

* milksplash : neutral; slightly dislikes
* gentlepaw : confused
* mistress of evil : slight dislike
* brindleshade : neutral
* nettlesnow : neutral; slightly likes
* lazuliflare [mentor] : likes
* tanglebriar : confused

## Facts

* she loves swimming
* she has a weak immune system

## Other

persona ➝ isfp-a

likes ➝ feathers; water

dislikes ➝ being bored

fears ➝ drowning

strengths ➝ adaptable

## Quotes

"I like living in the present because I have no idea what Starclan has in store for me the next day. So why worry over something that I have no control over? But that's just me. I know everyone's different."

​"You *do*realize that their names have nothing more to do with nature than the fact that they're named *after*them? You're named Gentlepaw because your mother thought you were gentle when you were a kitten. My father named me Waterpaw because I loved to splash in puddles when I was a kitten. Our names are only in existence because of our likeness to things or in honor of something, not because they will become a disadvantage to us in the future."

"I wouldn't call them [skyclan] cowards per say. Would *you*just randomly insert yourself into a large group of cats that you don't know, expecting them to treat you well?"