Mistrunner

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Mistrunner is a somewhat disheveled she-cat, with short but thick dark gray fur and lighter gray classic tabby swirls. Her eyes are a stormy blue-gray. She is on the short end of average height, but lean and limber from moons of running.

### Personality

Mistrunner is tired. She needs a break. Misty is a fairly quiet she-cat who just wants to be left alone. It’s not that she doesn’t like being a messenger- far from it. No, Misty is just overworked and really wants to sleep. She is serious, non-judgemental, and very quick. She is witty and intelligent and she knows how to stay out of trouble.

## Backstory

### Kithood

Misty was born on the edge of HorizonClan territory. When she was a young kit, her mother died. It sucked. But a messenger happened to find her and took her to OasisClan. That sucked less.

What did suck was that her adopted dad, Addercreek, wasn't great with children. In fact, he hated them. His mate, Littlebird, had only become mates with him in hopes of getting him to chill. It hadn't worked.

Addercreek straight up left the Clans when Mistkit was about three moons old. Littlebird then took her to HorizonClan. Mistkit didn't hate it, per say, but she *did* openly dislike it. The smell of pine made her sneeze and she didn't know anyone other than Littlebird.

### Apprenticeship

Mistpaw was apprenticed to Windypad, one of Junglestar's kits. Mistpaw wasn't impressed.

Shortly into her apprenticeship, Mistpaw befriended a young cat around her age named Irispaw. This was good because without Irispaw, I think she would have just left the Clans.

Surprise, surprise, Irispaw died. It was kind of Mistpaw's fault. See, Irispaw came up with the idea of racing up a tree. She won, but at a cost as a hawk swooped up and carried her away. Without Irispaw, Mistpaw was totally depressed again.

Near the end of her apprenticeship, the old messenger died and Mistpaw stepped up to be the new messenger. Why? I dunno. Maybe she was trying to run away from her grief or maybe she just liked going fast. Whatever the reason, Mistpaw was the hot new form of communication. And she enjoyed it.

She pretty much stopped her warrior training entirely by the time she was ten moons old.

### Messenger Life

When she was twelve moons old, Mistpaw was gifted the name Mistrunner.

She just flung herself into her duties. Running was fun and Mistrunner was very quick. She had a good memory and loved bringing good news to people. But being a messenger was tiring. She was constantly tired and Littlebird was very concerned about her daughter. Mistrunner took as much time as she could to just crash in her den, but it's not like she had a ton of free time.

Mistrunner learned all the best secrets. Her job was to sit around waiting for someone to need her and that meant she had plenty of time to listen to gossip in camp, especially in the evenings when no messages needed to be run. She was like an Alexa, waiting for you to need something but always listening.

That got dark. Um... Yeah. That's pretty much everything Mistrunner does. She's great.

One day when she was thirty-one, a fight broke out between her Clanmate Fernsway and a visiting OasisClan cat, Thistlespring. She tackled Fernsway and yelled at her for attacking a visitor. How rude, amirite?

## Other

### Other Info

* Mistrunner was inspired by the character Vin from the series Mistborn