Moon

### Siblings

Abyss (brother, dead), Emberglow (sister), Broken & Sorrow (half-sisters), Shatter (half-brother, dead)

### Other Relatives

Whitebird & Sootsnow (paternal aunts); Dodger (father figure, dead)

### Enemies

ummmmm extensive list including but not limited to the Crows

Moon has had a different life from most anyone else in her family. From leaving twolegplace to the present day, she has made her own choices and stood firm in them, even when maybe that was a bad idea. She has traveled further afield than most cats, but something always draws her back to the mountains near her childhood home.

{Content warning: child abuse, probably some violence. It's Moon you know what you're getting into}

## Appearance & Personality

### Appearance

   Standing at 8.7 inches tall, Moon is the closest to average in her litter. Definitely the tallest, with an athletic build and short but soft fur. Her eyes are blue and seemingly permanently narrowed in a glare. Her fur is primarily dark gray with lighter patches and an elegant tabby pattern atop the tortoiseshell. Her paws, chin, and a bit of her chest are white and her body is littered with scars. Specifically her ears are badly torn and her leg has the remains of a burn on it.

### Personality

Moon is a solitary cat by nature, keeping to herself because that’s where she feels safest. She values her independence and hates having to rely on anyone or anything. She is full of bitterness and resentment and anger, trickled down and passed on from her mother. Though she is trying to be better, Moon still lacks a lot of tact and is quick to become hostile. She has a very dry sense of humor and, deep down, she has a soft spot for kits. Moon is also scared a lot of the time, scared of her mother and scared of most forms of intimacy. She doesn't like getting close to anyone for fear that they'll hurt her. Moon hides her fear behind a snarky, solitary persona and seems generally unfriendly to anyone she doesn't know. She is very experienced at hiding her true feelings and is very hard to read.

## Background

### Kithood

Moon was born in late autumn, the firstborn in a litter of three. Her siblings were named Abyss and Night. The three of them and their mother, Hazel, lived in a heather patch outside MarshClan territory.

Moon was a very active kit as soon as she could walk. She was the first in the litter to learn how to as well as the first to open her eyes. There was a sort of impatience to Moon. She wanted to get out and do things but was unfortunately a literal baby, so she didn't get to.

When Moon was only a moon old, Hazel started training her kits. First it was how to hunt and then, a little later, how to fight. Moon liked fighting. She liked playing with her siblings, really, since that's what she thought she was doing. Yeah, her mom was telling her what to do sometimes and sometimes she did something wrong and Hazel got mad about it, but really baby Moon didn't know what she was doing.

Moon was good at everything Hazel asked her to do. She worked hard and didn't really understand why Night was so weird about the whole affair. No one was getting hurt, right? Until Night kept refusing to play with Moon and Abyss. Hazel cut her across the face, right in front of Moon and Abyss. Moon was a little horrified by that, but was too scared to challenge her. Abyss wasn't though, and his defense of Night earned him a nicked ear. Moon learned that day that maybe Night had reason to fear their mother. Moon certainly did now.

One winter day when Moon was two moons old, when Hazel sent the kits out to hunt. Moon caught only a small mouse, practically a baby, but it was enough for Hazel. What was not good enough for Hazel, however, was the fish that Night brought back. Moon thought it was pretty cool, but Hazel was absolutely furious. She cut Night's paw and Abyss's as well when he tried to claim the kill as his own. She then stalked off furiously.

Moon helped her siblings patch up their paws, fetching some cobwebs for them and some of the dry herbs Hazel still had stored. She was maybe 45% sure she'd seen Hazel use them before, but that was good enough for Moon. They shared their catches and went to sleep before Hazel returned from who knows where.

Moon's life got completely uprooted when, a moon later, Hazel decided it was time to leave. She woke Moon in the middle of the night and told her that they were leaving. When Night started to wake up due to Moon's protests, Hazel cut her across the face. That scared Moon enough to stop complaining.

The next two moons were a trek across increasingly hostile land. Moon did not like it whatsoever, but she held her tongue. Hazel continued to teach her how to hunt and fight. At one point she even taught Moon how to swim. Moon was not a fan. She didn't like the feeling of wet fur, but thankfully there was only one river to cross.

At long last, they arrived in twolegplace. Moon was thoroughly unimpressed. *This* was the place that Hazel had wanted to go so badly? No way. Moon kept her complaints to herself though, the image of Night's bleeding face on their final night in the heather patch still fresh in her mind. Moon was a coward, but she wasn't stupid.

Their first stop was a twoleg den, home to a kittypet named Aurora. Moon thought Aurora was kind of annoying and didn't like her very much, but she and Hazel spent a very long time talking. Moon got bored very quickly and decided to stalk bugs in Aurora's garden until Hazel said it was time to go. To Moon, that took forever, but she did successfully catch and kill a ladybug. Good job Moon.

The next cat they met was Hazel's mother, Swan. Swan's cold elegance intimidated Moon, who decided that she hated her grandma. Which, since this is one of Hazel's parents, is valid. Swan was surprised to see Hazel alive and even more surprised to see that Hazel had a kit. When she commented on that, Moon interrupted to mention her siblings. That didn't go over well and left Hazel scrambling to justify the absence of her other kits.

All in all, Moon got restless quickly. The activity and energy that she'd had as a young kit was still evident, now aided by a deep-rooted desire to be nowhere near Hazel. It was clear that Hazel wasn't going to accept responsibility for what she did to Moon's siblings and, while she hadn't particularly liked Night or Abyss, Moon didn't want to deal with her mother's volatile nature forever. She didn't want to be the next one left to die.

She was nine moons old before she got the courage to leave. Their days consisted mostly of visiting Aurora or Swan, both of whom Moon wasn't particularly fond of. So she left. Moon left in the middle of the night, slinking away like the coward she thought herself to be, and disappearing under the light of her namesake.

Moon got lost very easily. She knew enough about hunting to stay alive and had enough common sense to not pick a fight. However, she figured that as long as she didn't recognize where she was, Hazel wouldn't find her. Solid plan, Moon.

It wasn't long before she met an older tom named Dodger. Dodger was a happy-go-lucky street cat who had genuinely nothing better to do than mess with a child. He spoke in riddles and Moon found him even more confusing. He refused to go away though, and Moon eventually learned to deal with him. She didn't like him, but she tolerated him.

Dodger helped her navigate out of twolegplace once he knew that was what she wanted. He didn't know why she was leaving and Moon didn't bother telling him, but they set off back to the mountains. Moon figured he'd leave her once they got out of TLP, but he didn't. Part of her wished he had, but a smaller part was glad for the company. Not that she would ever tell him that.

They made it back to the heather patch when Moon was around 11 moons old. Moon was less than thrilled to be back, but it was shelter and it was good enough for now. The moor had plenty of rabbits that she could hunt and the heather and lavender helped disguise her and Dodger from any potential threats.

### Adulthood

* 12 moons - Fire + injury
* 12 moons - Move near HorizonClan's territory w/ Dodger
* 13 moons - Run into Owlcrash while hunting; leave the area
* 21 moons - Move to the TLP beyond HorizonClan w/ Dodger
* 27 moons - Dodger dies rip. Also Em and Ash find her. Moon is freaked out by this, because she thought Em was dead.

## Other

### Trivia

* Moon doesn't want to have kits, not because she fears being a bad mom but because she fears being abandoned and raising them alone like Hazel.
* Moon has a fear of bees. She got stung pretty bad as a kit after meddling with a beehive. It didn't end well
* Moon is the tallest only because Abyss died. He would've grown to be about nine inches tall, he was just a small kit
* Moon believes that Abyss was the best cat she's ever known
* Moon believed that her siblings were dead (until Emberglow found her, at least) and hopes that her mother is
* Moon hates the scent of heather due to its association with Hazel and her early life
* Were she to join a Clan, her name would be Moonshatter. She'd probably join HorizonClan or MarshClan due to her comfort in mountains and her experience with open moors, though she wouldn't join FallClan. She has a lot of discomfort with water and feels too much guilt about her cowardice as a kit to be around Emberglow
* Moon would never admit that she sees Dodger as a father figure due to her resentment of her own father
* Her voice claim is Cassandra (Tangled the Series)

### Playlist

* Family Line | Conan Gray | *i'm so good at telling lies, that came from my mother's side* | It's not perfect but it does fit pretty well
* I'll Be Good | Jaymes Young | *i'll be good, i'll be good, for all of the times i never could* | I think it's angsty enough for her. Probably after Dodger's death
* You're Gonna Go Far, Kid | The Outcast | *show me how to lie, you're getting better all the time* | Swear warning in the chorus, but it's such a Moon song. It's very aggressive and high energy and I think it fits her well.

### Quotes

**New RP**

* *"This is it, then. Why'd you have to do this to me, old man?"* - to herself/Dodger, Woods and Moors and Mountains (9/10/23)
* *"We have no father."* - to Emberglow, Woods and Moors and Mountains (9/10/23)
* *"Avoid the city if you can. It's no place for kindness."* - to Emberglow & Ashface, Woods and Moors and Mountains (12/3/23)