Adderfrost

Adderfrost is currently a warrior of MarshClan.

Name- Adderfrost

Gender- Tom

Clan- OasisClan (formerly), MarshClan

Rank- Warrior

Family- Ferretmask and Mousetail (brothers), Daisy (mother), Viper (father)

Friends- Fennelfoot

Enemies- mnmn

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Adder and his brothers were born as loners to Daisy and Viper. They pretty much chilled and did nothing interesting for two moons. They lived outside of OasisClan's outer border. When they were two moons old, their parents decided to take them to join a Clan since it would be safer for them. So Adder, Ferret, Mouse, Daisy, and Viper joined OasisClan.

The renamed Adderkit spent the rest of his kithood there, just spazzing around with his siblings. He caused a ton of trouble for everybody. I mean, mostly for himself. But my point is that he was a sneaky lil snake. He also liked to tease his brothers about the fact that adders sometimes ate mice and ferrets. It made them both somewhat uncomfortable.

On one occasion, when he was four moons old, he dragged Ferretkit and Mousekit out of camp with him just to see the territory. They found a rabbit burrow, and Adderkit thought that was awesome since there weren't a lot of rabbits in OasisClan territory. He had the great idea of crawling into the burrow. His brothers followed him in, because they were all kits and they were all dumb. They got lost and trapped in there, and pretty much panicked and cried for help for, like, the whole day. Yeah, they were stuck in the stupid rabbit burrow for several hours. But a patrol eventually heard them and got them out. After that, Adderkit was a lot less keen on running around and doing things.

#### Apprenticeship

Adderpaw became an apprentice. Yay, Adderpaw. Who was his mentor? We'll never know. He didn't really do anything for the first moon or so, except he got into a physical fight with Brightpaw once by accident. Brightpaw won, because he was, like, a moon away from becoming a warrior, and Adderpaw was a brand new apprentice. Adderpaw was also an idiot. But- moving on from that!

Adderpaw and his siblings had only been apprentices for two days when Viper and Daisy decided that they were going to leave the Clans. They just didn't fit in with OasisClan, and they preferred their old loner lifestyle. So they bid Adderpaw, Mousepaw, and Ferretpaw farewell, then just hecking left. Adderpaw was more than a little bit bummed about that. He wasn't really happy in OasisClan, either. His parents were gone and one of his denmates hated him. He felt bad leaving his brothers, but he also decided to change Clans in favor of MarshClan's moors.

He moved to MarshClan. He was apprenticed to someone new. Who? Good question. He became good friends with Fennelpaw, a slightly older apprentice, and they were able to connect over their familial losses. Fennelpaw had also moved from OasisClan, although he'd left right when Adderpaw had first been apprenticed, so they didn't know each other all that well yet. Even so, Adderpaw thought it was nice to have someone else who knew his old home.

He also developed a slight crush on Brightpaw - a *DIFFERENT* Brightpaw, mind you. A female MarshClan Brightpaw. *Not* the same Brightpaw he'd got beaten up by. He still didn't get along with that Brightpaw. Or rather, Brightnight, who had become one of OasisClan's messengers. This was a *different* Brightpaw.

The remainder of his training was pretty much uneventful, except for that one time when he got into another fight, this time with a random angry loner. He was off hunting with Fennelpaw at the time, though, and while Adderpaw was given the scar on his hip and the notch in his ear, Fennelpaw was able to talk the loner into leaving them alone.

Nothing else really happened for the next several moons. Things were chill. Adderpaw felt kind of awkward asking Brightnight to run messages back to his brothers, but he did anyways, and they eventually got over their old bitterness.

#### Warrior Life

He passed his assessment and was named Adderfrost. He was chill. He didn't do much for a very long time. Except for the fact that he continued to awkwardly fail at flirting with Brightstripes. Unfortunately for him, Fennelfoot *also* had a crush on Brightstripes. That sort of put a strain on their relationship as they were competing to see who would win her over. They didn't really bother to ask for her opinion, though, because they were stupid. Oh well.

At one point, he came across two nameless young loners trying to climb into a rabbit burrow. He pointed out that they were being dumb, remembering his own experience with crawling into rabbit burrows, and brought them back to camp with him, where they were named Bluepaw and Graypaw. Bluepaw stayed and was apprenticed to Jaggedwatcher, but Graypaw left to join FallClan. That was fine by Adderfrost. He felt pretty good about himself for having brought two new members into the Clans, and hoped Brightstripes would give him attention for it. She didn't, though, which was somewhat disappointing for him.

Then the plague happened and Canyonstar became leader, appointing Fennelfoot as his deputy. Adderfrost knew he should've felt happy for his friend, but instead he was sort of upset, because now it seemed like Fennelfoot would have a better chance with Brightstripes. He just sort of sulked around for a while, and his friendship with Fennelfoot was nearly severed altogether. Ferretmask fell ill too, though - as he was informed by Brightnight - and Adderfrost was somewhat concerned about that, although he got better eventually.

But then the second wave of the plague struck. Adderfrost and Brightstripes both caught it and were confined to the medicine den. He tried to speak a bit with Brightstripes while they were there, only to learn that she didn't care for him *or* for Fennelfoot. Way to go, Adderfrost. Unfortunately, Brightstripes died of her ailment. Adderfrost was able to recover with the help of Whitebird and Hazewish, but he was pretty devastated to have lost Brightstripes, especially after knowing how badly he'd misinterpreted her feelings. Fennelfoot was mourning for her as well, and Adderfrost guiltily reconciled with him, and they became friends again, deciding to put the stupid competition for Brightstripes's heart behind them. Her heart had been *hers;* not either of theirs. It was a shame that it had taken her death for them to realize that, but they were glad that they could once more be close with each other.

Soon after his recovery, Adderfrost was given Gingerpaw as his apprentice. He trained Gingerpaw fairly well. Gingerpaw's brother, Spiderpaw, had been apprenticed to Fennelfoot, so they were able to hold double training sessions fairly often together, which both of them enjoyed. Spiderpaw got sick with the plague before too long, though, so they had to stop doing that. Then he died. That was unfortunate. But then Fennelfoot got another apprentice, Hollypaw. Yay! He held training sessions with Gingerpaw and Hollypaw fairly often.

Gingernight became a warrior eventually and Adderfrost was happy for her. He was proud of himself for having efficiently mentored a cat. Yay, Adderfrost. Good for him. I guess. But, uh... then he received word from the messengers that Mousetail had gotten the plague and died. That was less good. Adderfrost was sad about that.

Currently, he just vibes. He's usually found chilling with Fennelfoot or being edgy in a dark corner somewhere. I want to do something cool with him - but what? A new gf, perhaps? He deserves that much, doesn’t he?

## Other

#### Trivia

* I really should be doing homework.
* He was named Adder because his stripes look addery. Also, his dad really liked snake names and wanted at least one of his kids to have a snake name.
* The incident where he got stuck in the rabbit burrow is sort of similar to the dumb things that happened to Cedarpoppy and Stormclaw as kits.
* I was originally going to have his name be Adderbark. But then I changed it to Adderfrost at the last second. I don't know why. I actually like the name Adderbark. ("Bark" as in tree bark. Not, like, a dog bark.)