Satsumapaw

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Satsumapaw is a medium-sized, thin she-cat with thin, soft fur. She stands out from most of the desaturated moorland and mountains, with her bright flame colored fur. Satsumapaw also has darker tabby patches around her back, legs, tail, and face, and there's usually some lighter orange around those patches somewhere. She also has accents of white on those light orange patches and her eyes are a bright, friendly emerald green. Two satsuma mandarin tree leaves reside behind her ear.

### Personality

Satsumapaw is the definition of a child prodigy. She's clever, intelligent, quick-witted and diligent with her work and often busies herself with tasks around camp. She's mostly extroverted and friendly and almost always is open to making new friends, especially getting to know people and their beliefs and opinions, because she finds them to be very interesting and likes discussing them. She's a simple cat, she values friendship the most and it takes a lot for her to get upset. She's very tolerant and tries her very best not to get frustrated, but sometimes she can't really help but getting a bit irritated once in a while. She's pretty naive and impulsive, which can sometimes lead to her doing things spontaneously or on the fly, but her heart's in the right place.

## Backstory/Life

### Kithood

Satsumakit was born alongside her siblings Yulokit and Auburnkit to her mother Maplemeadow and her father Cedarhill. Satsumakit was always the friendly type, to make up for her brother Yulokit's fiesty and rowdy personality and her sister Auburnkit's shy demeanor. She made friends quite easily and grew up around two kits named Woolkit and Canopykit, but she didn't talk to them much until her apprenticeship.

### Apprenticeship

Satsumapaw was apprenticed alongside her siblings Yulopaw and Auburnpaw and her mentor hasn't been specified yet because there's only one warrior in HillClan. Wonderful.

When she was about seven moons old, her mother showed her a patch of edelweiss flowers outside of camp, near the mountains. Satsumapaw thought they were wonderful and her mother told her she'd visit the patch of flowers all the time as an apprentice.

But Satsumapaw was and is a wonderful apprentice, and she was diligent with her work. Paired with that and being a quick learner, she was actually deemed one of the best trackers in the Clan.

Because of that, at ten moons old, she was told to go do a small border check near the mountains for wolf scent, since a pack had been scented and heard howling at night. Canopypaw and Woolpaw were told to go with her, and they did. They ended up finding the wolf scent, which was a bit stale, but they heard the wolves howling nearby and decided to head back to camp to tell Quietstar what they had heard.

They returned, and shared a hare. After Satsumapaw was done with her piece, she spotted a butterfly, and to Canopypaw and Woolpaw's confusion, she leapt and killed it, tearing one of its wings off. She gave it to the kits in the nursery and they seemed to understand then; at the topic of collecting, the idea popped up for a scavenger hunt for the kits. Woolpaw thought it was stupid, but Satsumapaw loved the idea, and when Woolpaw went to go rest, they started actually going through with the scavenger hunt and started to plan.

Satsumapaw told Canopypaw that she couldn't really find any more butterflies, so they decided to get flowers, feathers, and pretty pebbles. Satsumapaw got excited, because rewinding back to when she was seven moons old, her mother showed her the patch of edelweiss flowers and she was eager to show Canopypaw it as well. Canopypaw told her about an abandoned hawk nest, where some good hawk feathers would be. So, they asked Thrushbrook for permission, and she said yes, and then they set out on their adventure.

They decided to go for the flowers first, and then the feathers, because the flowers were near the mountains whilst the nest was farther up the mountains. They picked a few edelweiss flowers, went back to the outskirts of camp and tucked them away, and then went for the feathers. Oh, keep in mind, Satsumapaw is afraid of heights.

They then went farther up the mountain territory that bordered the edge of HillClan territory and Canopypaw led her to a cave-tunnel thing that led up to the series of ledges you had to hop down to get to the nest. Satsumapaw was fine at first, but seeing how far down the drop was from the ledge she began to get pretty scared. She tried going with Canopypaw, because she didn't want to leave him on the high ledges, but ended up drawing back and letting Canopypaw get the hawk feathers from the nest himself. He hopped down from the ledges onto the ground and Satsumapaw went back through the tunnel.

Then, they went to get all their materials. Satsumapaw started hiding the flowers and feathers while Canopypaw picked out some pretty pebbles, and then they hid the pebbles together. They then rounded up the kits and Satsumapaw had to tell them what to do before they ran off to find the trinkets.

It ended up successful! All the kits had new, pretty trinkets that they enjoyed having and seemed pretty tired. The apprentices were tired too, so they led the kits back to the nursery and rested in camp. They talked, and Satsumapaw ended up getting too drowsy and dozing off on Canopypaw's shoulder. She soon awoke again after twitching a bit in her sleep from a nightmare. She decided to go to the apprentices' den to try and sleep again, and shockingly, she *timidly* -- yes, the ever so confident and friendly apprentice *timidly* asked him to join her. Quite strange but alrighty.

Satsumapaw went to her nest, and patted the spot next to her, and after some confusion they ended up falling asleep together. It was so cute.

## Other

### Trivia

* Satsumapaw dreams of having a large family and wants her own mate and kits someday.

### Quotes

*"We should probably get back and tell Quietstar about the wolves. They're closer than the howls we heard last night, so they must be traveling in the way of the prey. In other words, us."*

### Gallery

* Satsumapaw's template image.
* Satsumapaw's reference sheet.
* A cute drawing of Satsumapaw and Canopypaw by Dragon!
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