Acornspark

*"GreenClan cats have always been stinkers in the shadows. C'mon, or do you want elder duties?"*
— Acornspark to Reedpaw in BlueClan's Bearings Roleplay

## Appearances

### Living

BlueClan's Bearings RP

**Acornspark** is a clumsy and independent mediator of BlueClan. She is roleplayed by RuffledRabbi.

## Physical Description

Acornspark is a light cream she-cat with calico patches that are ginger and brown. She has one hazelnut-brown eye and one frosty-blue eye.

## Personality

Acornspark is free-spirited, independent, ecstatic, and brisk-tongued, although she is very hardworking and proves to be an efficient and responsible mediator. She often chooses not to participate in Clan life, resulting in poor hunting techniques, although she is an experienced mediator and is very heavily honored for her advice and service.

Despite her mediator role, she carries a sharp tongue, and often snaps without thinking when impatient or irritated. After doing something harsh, she becomes a more tame, thoughtful cat, and often apologizes. However, even despite these situations, she generally carries an unusual amount of mercy, making her an ideal mediator, and she is shown to take duty and respect very seriously.

## History

### Overview

* Acornspark and Reedpaw hunt for minnows.
* Acornspark leads Reedpaw to the GreenClan border, and the two argue.
* Acornspark apologizes for her brash actions, and the two reconcile.
* Acornspark and Reedpaw have a friendly encounter with Hashwing.
* Acornspark greets her deputy, Seastorm, in the next morning.

### BlueClan's Bearings RP

The first scene begins as Acornspark wakes up in her small, shafty den, located up in a tall palm tree, and stretches out her back, ready for a quiet, peaceful day. She leaps out of her den, landing cushioned by soft moss, and pads over to the fresh-kill pile. She purrs her joy about the salmon, before picking up one of the small, juicy fish off the pile. She meows her surprise at the bird on the fresh-kill pile, before tripping over a rock and landing on her face, though she stands back up and shakes the sand out of her fur.

As Reedpaw requests a hunting session, Acornspark nods her head, and purrs a positive response, although she states that they should only hunt for a little bit, as they were mediators, not warriors. She gives her apprentice a friendly nick on the ear, and asks him to show her where the minnows were. As Reedpaw leads his mentor towards the area, a large stream, and asks if they should hunt them, Acornspark gives him a positive response, crouching down and directing Reedpaw to do the same.

Padding as quietly as a mouse, Acornspark watches the water without casting a shadow, and is determined to try and catch the minnows alongside her apprentice, before questioning herself, thinking that she sucks at hunting. As Reedpaw attempts to catch a minnow and fails, later requesting to leave it to the warriors to hunt them, Acornspark shoots him a disapproving look, meowing that she wouldn't let the two give up just because his catch was slightly dirty.

Acornspark explains that, although they may be mediators, in their hearts, they still had a small piece of warrior in them. She tells him to imagine a scorching-dry greenleaf where the prey are dying of exhaustion and nobody was picking fights because they all needed food, and explains that they, even as mediators, shouldn't stand there uselessly and watch their Clanmates drop down like flies, one by one. Horrified at the thought, she mews that she bets it was just an unlucky catch, and encourages Reedpaw to try again, before fixing her head onto the water once again.

As Reedpaw exclaims his satisfaction at his large catch, Acornspark ignores him, ready to pounce on the remaining fish. Lashing her tail, she hooks her small paws onto the water, killing the minnows, but falling in and getting herself drenched. She curses her mistake, before grunting, and heaving herself out of the water. She mews that hunting was over for that day, and that they would mediate the GreenClan border. When Reedpaw disagrees, Acornspark mews that GreenClan cats had always been stinkers in the shadows, and that they could never tell their last move. Barely a sound coming out of her, she encourages Reedpaw to hurry, unless he wanted elder duties.

Reedpaw eventually agrees, and Acornspark purrs with satisfaction, following the trail made up of dirt and pine cones, and lined with palm trees. She makes it to the stepping stones towards GreenClan territory, and tells Reedpaw to not get left behind. As Reedpaw reports that a patrol had just passed, Acornspark snorts that it was better than quarreling with their mouse-brained warriors, and that they should sit there and wait. She adds that, if a patrol challenged them, they should just ignore them.

Her apprentice points out that that would simply create problems, and Acornspark mews that they weren't creating them, and questions Reedpaw where he was getting the information she believes is false. Getting annoyed at Reedpaw, Acornspark orders him to go back to camp, get some mouse bile from the medicine cat, and take care of the elders. Reedpaw argues back, and Acornspark flicks her tail in annoyance, raising her voice and hissing for Reedpaw to do the elder duties, and that he was just an apprentice, so he could not take authorities that he didn't have. She orders him to listen to the elders' wisdom while he cleans their ticks, and that she could watch the border on her own.

Angered yet terrified, Reedpaw dashes back to the BlueClan camp, and Acornspark watches him run away, instant guilt flooding her mind. She thinks that she shouldn't have done what she did, that he was too young to know, that she should've taught him better, and that it was her fault. Ashamed of her actions, Acornspark sits down and watches the border sorrowfully, wishing she had done better. She recalls how she was a mediator, and was mouse-brained, as she yelled.

When Reedpaw finishes and returns, asking if he could help, Acornspark responds positively, explaining for them to sit there and watch for GreenClan patrols, and that, if they saw one, to be polite, perhaps chat, and if they challenged the two of them, to decline them each time and remember to be kind. Later, Hashwing, the GreenClan medicine cat, appears, questioning the mediators, and Acornspark dips her head, explaining that they were only watching the border for mischief, and that they came in peace. She asks how Hashwing was, and as Hashwing responds positively and questions BlueClan's inner health, Acornspark becomes vague, only responding with a simple positive.

In the next scene, as her deputy, Seastorm, quietly watches over the BlueClan camp, Acornspark yawns as she leaps out of her mid-hanging den, without the intention of doing anything that day. In mid-yawn, she greets Seastorm with a meow. In her next scene, as Hollywing notes that Reedpaw should be with his mentor, Acornspark jumps, her tail bristling before she calms down. She greets Reedpaw, mewing that she was going to watch the PurpleClan border, before asking if he would like to come.

## Trivia

### Mistakes

* Acornspark has been mistakenly referred to as Hashwing.