Springtail

## Appearance

Being a Snowshoe hare, Springtail is brown in Summer and Spring but is white in later months. Her fur is very thick to cope with the climate she would have been born in and needs constantly groomed. She has a long scar parting her shoulders and a bite mark from a cat on her thigh. She has a dark brown stripe running down her back, of which her ear is the same colour. After the Fight with Chaya, Springtail has a lot more scars and is missing an eyeball.

## Personality

Springtail is very hot-headed and violent. She enjoys fighting a lot, and does not think before she acts. She loathes Elderberry, and suggesting by the quotes, hates that his rabbit`s no-fighting peaceful lifestyle.

## History

### Pre-Roleplay: Before the Foxes:

Her mother, Ava was born and raised in a zoo for a breeding program for Snowshoe hares. She heavily disliked the zoo she was at, and especially how most of the time she was never with her mate or kittens. One night, while she was pregnant, she escaped. Ava had her litter of 3 kittens hidden in the grass on a roadside verge. She eventually befriended another mother rabbit called Avens. Avens took care of Ava when she needed help. However, the zoo escapee could not learn or adjust too life in the wild, and drowned in a brook while foraging. Nearly a week later, Avens decides to visit Ava`s den, but instead of finding Ava and her kittens, she only finds her kittens, two of them dead and one of them starving. Springtail, the remaining kitten, was taken in by Ava. She became the most popular out of her foster mother`s litter, and built a very strong friendship with Arrowhead and Valerian. When they became adults, they moved out and found the hide, where they happily lived.

### Pre-Roleplay: The foxes

While living at the hide, life was good. Valerian worked like a doctor, using herbs as medicine. Arrowhead was in charge of growing plants and putting bits of metal and bramble out to protect the hide, while Springtail, being the strongest and most fierce, worked as a guard and a scout. She rarely left her territory, but sometimes would talk to rabbits from Chief Elderberry`s warren. However, one fateful day Valerian was caught by the Foxes. They assumed he was dead, and this had an horrible effect on their lives. Arrowhead became very sorrowful, and rarely left what was the bedroom in the hide, while Springtail became extremely aggressive, and would vent her anger and sadness on random animals, and even killed a baby fox cub once. Arrowhead and Springtail slowly began to talk less, and this was made worse by the fact that they could hear noises from the fox den.

### Roleplay- Chapter two: The strangers

While Arrowhead was sleeping, as usual, Springtail decided to go to Elderberry`s warren to ask about the foxes, but while asking swirl about the den, Chaya, Chica and Rabbitfoot attacked. Unlike the rabbits of Elderberry`s warren, she fiercely bit and clawed and kicked at the foxes, and was mean to the rabbits being attacked. She cut Chaya`s throat with some thorns and got pinned to the ground by Springtial but escaped and attacked Chaya instead , which ended up in a violent fight, almost to the death. They both eventually backed off, Springtail missing an Eye and Chaya missing an Ear. Soon after, the foxes left the warren, wounded from the hare`s violent struggles and left her for dead.

## Family

Mother: Ava (wont appear in roleplay)

Adoptive mother: Avens (wont appear in roleplay)

Foster brothers: Arrowhead and Valerian

## Quotes

> **GET HERE AND FIGHT YOU PETAL-BRAINS**!- to the rabbits of Elderberry`s warren
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> **You idiots! THIS IS NOT THE WAY OF NATURE! THEY ARE SMALLER THAN US! WHY ARE YOU NOT TRYING TO AVENGE YOUR FALLEN?! THERE IS MORE THAN ONE WAY TO CLIMB A HILL, AND MORE THAN ONE WAY TO USE OUR LEGS**! - To the rabbits of Elderberry`s warren
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> **I WILL KILL YOU! I WILL KILL YOU ALL! AND I WILL DINE APON YOUR FLESH AND WEAR YOUR FUR AS A TROPHY**! - To the foxes
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> **You! Go fight! Use the thorns**! - to the rabbits of Elderberry`s warren
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## Trivia

* Being a Snowshoe hare, she sometimes scavenges in carrion.
* To cope with being a Snowshoe hare in a Temperate climate, she pulls out small clumps of her thick fur, bathes in ponds and puddles, and lies in the shade quite frequently.
* If Springtail had a gun, the Roleplay would be very short.
* Unlike her brothers, she refers to the rooms in the hide as "caves"
* She enjoys swimming.