Frondmist

Frondmist is the tallest cat currently alive, was one of the few supporters of Lavendersight during the rebellion, and has been recorded watching her son from the bushes.

## Relationships

### Kits

Sprucestripe (son), Cypress and Lodgepole (daughters, deceased)

### Friends

Sorrel (formerly), Suncurrent (acquaintance)

### Enemies

She's not fond of Leafstar, but she has no real enemies.

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Frondmist is a huge, stocky cat with a muscular build. Her fur is long, hanging down at her belly and fluffing into a mane around her neck. She has a mouse-brown pelt with streaks and speckles of dark brown and pale taupe. Her eyes are a light sea-green color, and she has a narrow, stoic face. At 12.4 inches tall, she is the largest cat in the roleplay.

### Personality

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+ brave, determined, compassionate

= stubborn, introverted, pessimistic

- reckless, dogmatic, unforgiving

## Story

### Early Life

Somewhere outside the Clans, in the mountainous region soft of behind and between OasisClan and FallClan, a group of cats lived in a little patch of forested mountains they called Stonewood. Under verdant spruce needles and a burning midsummer sky, the king's mate gave birth to a litter of one, a fluffy kit who was actually comparatively small in her region; she was named Frond, and her parents doted on her. King Pinecone was especially thrilled with a new potential heir. Fern was thrilled to be raising another kit. Frond was not particularly thrilled about anything, as she was a newborn who had no thoughts in her baby brain.

The older heirs, Mist and Hollow, thought that Frond was pretty cute and would often take her out on walks. Pinecone was very strict and did not like it when cats left the main forest without permission, so Mist and Hollow took it upon themselves to train baby Frond to do just that. Frond enjoyed it, too, because her siblings were pretty cool, and often let her hunt leaves out by the deciduous trees nearer to OasisClan. The whole family was basically just hanging out for the first few moons of Frond's life.

One day on a sneaky expedition outside her family camp, a three-moon-old Frond ran into a fellow kitten named Sorrel, who was out collecting flowers for her nest. The two hit it off and spent the day scrambling around in the roots of old trees and trying to find the most flowers. The two were in the middle of collecting pretty azalea petals under a bush when Pinecone and his entourage found them. Pinecone picked up his daughter and dragged her home, where she got scolded for leaving without permission. Frond pointedly ignored this warning, as well as every warning after that, and became more stealthy when she went out to meet Sorrel.

Eventually at age seven Frond was allowed to go outside camp so long as she didn't leave the forest too often. Frond had already been going in and out of camp because she was a sneaky lil bugger, but now she didn't have to worry about being sneaky. She continued collecting flowers with Sorrel, who became her best friend, and she met some other cats around Stonewood whom she became acquainted with. Her childhood was pretty tame; nothing too eventful happened.

### Adulthood

By age thirteen Frond was very bored of hanging around the woods. Her father didn't want her leaving the forest because she was supposed to stay home and learn how to do Heir Things even though she wasn't first in line anyway. Frond was having none of this and once again made a point to scuttle away as much as possible just for the sake of rebellion. She had an otherwise good relationship with her father, but Frondmist has never liked being told what to do and so her small disobediences made her feel like she had some freedom to do what she wanted.

When she was nineteen, Frond ran into a tom called Fireball. He was an escaped kittypet with a similarly rebellious nature, and Frond was thrilled at the prospect of once again having a secret acquaintance she wasn't supposed to be interacting with. So she would sneak out of the woods to meet Fireball and listen to him talk about his misadventures. She was happy to tell Sorrel about this, the latter of whom found the whole ordeal hilarious and served as a fantastic cover for Frond whenever she went scuttling out into the wilderness. Frond also learned that she lived in a forest of absolutely giant cats and that Fireball, who was barely over half her height, was only a couple inches shorter than the average cat.

Frond found herself crushing on Fireball, and by age twenty-three she was sneaking out to spend whole days and nights with him. Her siblings caught on, and much to Frond's dismay Mist tried to talk her out of her antics, pointing out that Pinecone would be Very Not Happy if he found out one of his heirs had a mate from outside the forest whom he did not approve of. Frond assured Mist that this was exactly the point. She did actually have a crush on Fireball, but most of the thrill she got was from breaking her father's rules. Of course all this would prove to be very ironic when it came to Frond's own children, but she didn't know this yet.

Anyway, Fern caught Frond talking to Fireball one day (wow, look at that alliteration) and decided to tell Pinecone, despite Frond's protests. Pinecone loved his daughter, but he was just a *tad* more invested in his reputation as king, and ended up formally banishing Frond for her repeated infractions. Frond was livid that he would do such a thing, but honestly not that averse to the idea of moving out; really, she was just furious that her own father would kick her out of the forest. Fern tried to protest this, as did Hollow and Mist, but Pinecone was firm in his statement. Frond took off. Sorrel decided to accompany her, though, so Frond was pretty happy about that. She figured she could just travel the world with her best friend and her boyfriend and everything would be okay.

Everything was not okay, though, because the aforementioned boyfriend up and vanished. Frond and Sorrel spent days looking around for him, but his nest was abandoned. They tracked his scent to a river before giving up. Knowing Fireball, Frond pretty much accepted that he had been too much of a coward to actually break up with her and had fled the scene. She was right, and she knew that, and she spent the next few days seething about it. At least Sorrel was there, though, which helped a lot.

But unfortunately Frond's life would apparently never again be as chill as it was in her childhood, because one day she and Sorrel were attacked by an angry weasel. Which might not seem too threatening, as the Stonewood cats are just absolutely gigantic, but it bit Sorrel pretty hard and the wound ended up infected. Sorrel hung on for a few days, but neither she nor Frond had any medicinal experience and she perished less than two days later, leaving Frond alone and devastated. Oh, and also pregnant, which she realized in the process of burying her friend.

Frond found herself a resting place under a boulder, a fallen tree resting over it to create a mostly sheltered spot. She went out hunting then, knowing that as she got closer to her kitting she wouldn't be able to gather food; she would have to store prey for later. In the wake of Frond's exile, craven-breakup, best friend's demise, and pregnancy revelation, the course of action Frond took was driven by logic. She could sort out her emotions over being a new mother later. Right now, Frond was set on embodying the *Current Objective: Survive* meme until she was in a safe enough space to proceed.

At age twenty-six, Frond gave birth to a litter of three, whom she named after the evergreen trees of her old home: two daughters named Lodgepole and Cypress, and a son, Spruce. With enough stored prey to last her a while, Frond could busy herself with watching the leaves shift to gold and adoring her litter with every fiber of her absolutely gigantic being. Frond hunted close to her home for the first four moons of her kits' lives, never letting them out of her sight. She spent most of her time curled around the litter and teaching them about all the different types of flower she'd learned of during her kithood adventures with Sorrel. And for the first time in a very long time, Frond felt like she was going to be okay. Which of course meant everything was about to go wrong.

Moon 30 - coyote attack; Cypress and Lodgepole die, Frond and Spruce leave den

Moon 32 - let into OasisClan by Lavenderstar

### Warrior Life

Moon 33 - settling in, spying on Sprucepaw

Moon 34 - Sprucepaw gets a mentor

Moon 37 - disliking Petalpaw

Moon 38 - fox fight

Moon 40 - Spretal engagement

Moon 41 - Frondmist talks with her son

Moon 42 - Spretal become mates

Moon 43 - awkward interaction with Suncurrent

## Other

### Trivia

* Sprucestripe was originally going to die for her character development. He did not.
* Frondmist was one of the only cats to support Lavenderstar during the rebellion; she still thinks things ended unfairly.
* Fromst

### Quotes

*“My father was king when I left, but I imagine one of my siblings has taken the throne by now. I doubt they’ve heard of the Clans, either. Most cats never leave that forest.”*

*"I can't say I'd expect any cat who was not sympathetic to kits to become leader; what kind of ruler would turn away a young cat in need?"*

*"In any case, at least the Clans have a standard for leadership. My provenance was not so evenhanded."*