Wisteriapaw

***Spoiler warning:** Plot and/or ending details follow.**"She scanned her expression briefly before she'd gone into the question, immediately pleased by Wisteriapaw's quick attention to detail and her eagerness to shine through. It burst light into what was otherwise a dark, dim and hollow chest cavity that had been empty far too long, and she felt genuine joy just to know that what she was doing, for her sisters and their future, was at least having somewhat of an impact. Wisteriapaw was like a prodigy, much as Lavendersnow herself had been- they were so alike in fact that Lavendersnow simply saw Wisteriapaw as an equal, the pair were seeds fallen from the same apple, two twin bunnies in a burrow. The only thing that set them apart aside from looks was, well, Wisteriapaw's temperament. She never had understood why Valleystar was so unashamedly embarrassed about having the pair of them there. Wisteriapaw felt so many emotions each day, and she was always positive and happy to be working. As well as naturally being gifted with herbs, she was funny too, and Lavendersnow was often impressed by her memory, even after faint practice of some training had been all she had to go off of. It meant everything to her to see Wisteriapaw shine so, each time she did, Lavendersnow felt her own sense of glee and pride. She often wanted to yowl out of the medicine den, she wanted to describe just how perfect her kin really was, and she wasn't afraid to make sure she knew how she felt."*

## Historical Information

### Date Introduced:

5/21/23

**Wisteriapaw** is a dilute snowshoe molly with pretty, pale blue eyes.
**Wisteriapaw** was born to Jessy and an unknown molly alongside her sister, Magpiepaw. Her older sister, Lavendersnow, discovered the pair being neglected by their kin, so she took them in under her wing and raised the pair as her own. She has served under Valleystar's and Dawnstar's reigns.

## Relations

Crush: Tansypaw

Friendships: Dawnstar, Lavendersnow, Magpiepaw

Enemies:

Mentor: Lavendersnow

### Lavendersnow

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Wisteriapaw looks up to Lavendersnow greatly, and idolizes the molly, She takes note of each of her movements and copies her whenever possible, and will jump leaps and bounds to impress her, to show off her skill and gain praise and attention for it. Lavendersnow feels similarly about her younger sister, feeling as though she is her world and believing her to be a prodigy of medicine, she often praises, and is hinted at often spoiling Wisteriapaw as well as her sister. The pair are incredibly close, and by Lavendersnow's own account, she thinks of them as almost twins, because of how alike she feels to Wisteriapaw.

## Interests

*Likes*

Wisteria loves anything to do with floriculture. She’ll go wild over a gift of flowers, or when she has the chance to follow mental medicine cats out into the Variegated Lagoon. Though usually, she stays in the medicine den. She also loves Lavendersnow to absolute death! Constantly following her around, trying to copy her manners, always looking up to her. Wisteria also loves to take pretty long naps, they aren’t often, but she thinks they’re important. Mental health is always first before a long day of herb work!

*Dislikes*

Absolutely cannot STAND the smell of crowfood. Anything that’s decaying, or dead, she freaks out over. It also means she doesn’t like places like the swamps in the nearby moors, the mud there stenches with all the frog and fish droplets and it freaks her out. She’s not a giant neat freak but loves to have her pelt nice and clear for everyone to see her in her most natural beauty. To feel clean is a curse, and sadly one that the outside terrain loves to ruin. There’s also something about ‘howling’ that makes Wisteria’s tail go between her legs and makes her want to cower.

## Skills/Faults

*Skills*

She is very very knowledgeable in herbs, constantly knowing exactly which one does what, and what the special places where they rest are. Wisteria also tends to be really good with tracking pain, or knowing what specific injuries likely occurred. Being overly clever, it gives her a definite confidence boost. Being able to treat any cat that enters with a sniff, a question, and a dash toward the herb storage. She’s also built pretty darn large, so her size may be really intimidating, or useful in combat.

*Faults*

Her claws are really really dull, like they have not much of an edge to them. She wouldn’t be useful in a fight to even save her life. The only thing she has going for her is the strength in her paws, and how quickly she can scatter. But even that is awful. It’s why she’s stuck in the medicine den, she’s pathetic in anything other than herbs. Though she constantly tries to combat that and say she’s good at anything, if another clanmate challenged her to a training session, she would fold instantly. Wisteria also has HUGE attention-seeking issues. She constantly wants to be validated by everyone else, acting like their opinions of her were more true than what she thought of herself. She thinks that everyone loves her, that it totally isn’t possible anyone couldn’t. If anyone did, she’d pester them for moons. Constantly wondering, ‘Did I do something wrong?’ ‘Is it my fault?’ She’d tirelessly try to fix whatever she did, even if it wasn’t her fault. She wants to feel loved by all, and when it isn’t given, it stops her in her tracks. It makes Wisteria think… and think…. And think. She obsesses over it. Never being able to let it go. She can’t love herself unless others love her.

## Personality

Wisteria is a very kind soul with a heart of gold. Almost literally, while she feels rather spoiled, she does try her best to be the best self she can be. It gets tricky at times, though. While Wisteria tries, she can be oblivious. Believing things like: ‘money grows on trees’ or ‘the world is perfect’. She’ll think that everything comes easy, that: blood, sweat, and tears are simply myths. Wisteria doesn’t actively neglect them but doesn’t think they affect her. Like she’s on a pedestal like she’s perfect in every way. The molly believes that her paws are blessed by Starclan themselves. She’s definitely full of herself, in a sort of broad and selfish way. When she helps cats in the medicine den, she thinks she’s doing them an amazing favor, as they owe her back. It’s not entirely her fault, with how she’s been treated by cats she’s close to, she thinks she’s everyone’s world and more. Wisteria feels tons and tons of kindness, always doing good deeds. Usually, she thinks it’s because she’ll be praised, or because her big sister will be proud, but also there’s a part of her that truly gives care to what she’s doing. She’s delicate and careful with every moment. There are parts of compassion, joy, lust, love, and outright genuineness in her. It’s just hard to see when everything else about her is so.. Spoiled. You can’t hate a cat who’s nice to you, right?

## Detailed History

*Dawnstar's Reign*

**Moon 2**

Wisteriapaw's debut is shared with Magpiepaw, the pair are lead by Lavendersnow from camp and tasked to gather herbs in preperation for the coming leaf-bare. Wisteriapaw is shown idolizing Lavendersnow and imprinting on the molly immediately, and unabashedly she interrupts Magpiepaw when prompted a question about herbs by Lavendersnow, getting each detail correct. Lavendersnow praises her for this.

## Detailed Appearance

Wisteriapaw is a stalky-built molly, with a rather round-oriented physique. She’s quite larger than the average apprentice, mostly thanks to the genes in her family. She’s got a very pretty broken-up diluted brownish-gray mask. Her cream-like-white pelt is sparkled with the diluted color of brown. Stretching all down her spine and down near her hind quarters. Wisteria’s front paws have a point-directed marking that’s the same as her mask in color and has pure white little toes in the front. Regarding the back paws, they’re lightly speckled with browns, and a few of the toes are fully coved by the grayish diluted brown. Across her pelt lay no scars, at least for the moment. Laying atop her rather short furred head in between her two darker browned ears, a weaved flower crown with her favorites that Lavendersnow helped teach her to weave. As well as that accessory, she bares a small flowered crystal anklet on her front right ankle that she also had help with making.

## Kin

Mother: Unknown molly

Father: Jessy

Sisters: Lavendersnow, Magpiepaw

## Backstory

Wisteria had always been a bubbly-type kit from the moment she was born, constantly nagging and wanting her parent’s attention, but it was very quickly pushed off. When Lavender was captured by the clan, and they were suddenly taken there as well, she and Magpie went along with it. They didn’t know any other home other then the one Lavender had provided. They were in the clan now, but it never felt like home. Being sort of shunned by Valleystar had made Wisteria upset, it was unfair to her. It was more unfair that Lavendersnow had been put in the position of a medicine cat. It had always been strange how the cats treated her big sister, herself, and Magpie. It was like they were outsiders or thieves. It always rubbed her the wrong way. After the coyote attack happened, it scared Wisteria half to death. Really opening her eyes to just how deadly their new home was. It was that, and just how much her admiration for Lavendersnow had grown. It was from there that she wanted to model herself after the other snowshoe, doing whatever she could to please her sister. When Lavendersnow was put as placement for Nurse at Twilight’s demise, it made her excited. Finally, they were all getting the attention they deserved rather than being shunned aside like prisoners. Wisteria despised how she was questioned more than Magpie regarding the incident with Twilight. It wasn’t right how they treated her so poorly, even with the high(ish) rankings. Not much had happened after that, other than readjusting more to the clan, Wisteria had developed a sense of appreciation for it, and is quite fond of the leading roles in the clan. Especially Dawnstar and Lavendersnow. She’s iffy with her relationship with Magpiepaw, but she’s trying to keep it together for the sake of Lavender’s sanity.

## Quotes

*"She scanned her expression briefly before she'd gone into the question, immediately pleased by Wisteriapaw's quick attention to detail and her eagerness to shine through. It burst light into what was otherwise a dark, dim and hollow chest cavity that had been empty far too long, and she felt genuine joy just to know that what she was doing, for her sisters and their future, was at least having somewhat of an impact. Wisteriapaw was like a prodigy, much as Lavendersnow herself had been- they were so alike in fact that Lavendersnow simply saw Wisteriapaw as an equal, the pair were seeds fallen from the same apple, two twin bunnies in a burrow. The only thing that set them apart aside from looks was, well, Wisteriapaw's temperament. She never had understood why Valleystar was so unashamedly embarrassed about having the pair of them there. Wisteriapaw felt so many emotions each day, and she was always positive and happy to be working. As well as naturally being gifted with herbs, she was funny too, and Lavendersnow was often impressed by her memory, even after faint practice of some training had been all she had to go off of. It meant everything to her to see Wisteriapaw shine so, each time she did, Lavendersnow felt her own sense of glee and pride. She often wanted to yowl out of the medicine den, she wanted to describe just how perfect her kin really was, and she wasn't afraid to make sure she knew how she felt."*

-Lavendersnow's thoughts about Wisteriapaw.

## Links

Theme Song/Voice Claim

* Theme Song: Everything I Wanted - Billie Eilish
* Voice Claim: Connie Maheswaran - Steven Universe

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