Firefly

"You know what? You might not scare me to death but your humor might."

Firefly art ^^

Bluebell (Brother)

Furze (Brother)

Petalpaw (Adopted Sister)

Ladybug (Adopted Sister)

 Physical Description

Firefly has the same exact build as his brother, Bluebell. He takes after two of his former family members, Mintbee and Mintflame. He has their markings, white stomach and snout. He has yellow eyes like his father and orange socks on his white legs. He also has white and orange ears. He has a light pink nose, paw pads and inside of ears. He has an extremely large and fluffy tail, that's about his size and weight. He also has tufted ears and ankles.

## Personality

Firefly is a skittish cat, nearly everything frightens him. He feels safe only around those he trusts, and doesn't open up to or even speak with anyone he doesn't know, but if a cat he doesn't know tries to initiate a conversation with him, he freezes up and kinda just-- stays like that until the cat in question leaves. But if he trusts the cat hes talking to, he's quite the talkative cat! When it comes to his clan he is loyal to it, but when it comes to Starclan he doesn't believe in it, this doesn't come out of malice but because simply he finds the idea of dead cats telling him what to do in life and how to go about it stupid. If he were to encounter a StC cat he would just chalk it up to it being a weird hallucination. When it comes to fighting he prefers to stay out of it, often just hiding in a shadowy corner to avoid it, the thought of bloodshed gives him nightmares. And as for hunting, he doesn't like to go solo, despite the fact he doesn't like being with others, being all alone in a massive forest that is filled with many dangers scares him more than the occasional small talk.

## Skills and Weaknesses

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* Has good memory
* Amazing cold resistance

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* Has an average sense of smell / hearing
* Doesn't trust easily

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* Short attention span
* Very frightful
* Cant hunt
* Cant fight
* Not very stealthy
* Doesn't do well in hot/humid climates
* Has Aquaphobia

## Life

### Kithood

Firefly was born to Brokenrose and Azrael of Shadowclan. He was born first near the adder river in leafbare (Winter). After being nudged a lot, his brother, Furze, was born second. They had a brief interaction, but then Bluebell was born. After faceplanting into the snow his mother decided it would be best to get them to camp.

His mother carried him into camp, along with Mousepelt (Who was carrying Furze), and Shatteredbreeze (Who was carrying Bluebell). After being carried into camp, he dangled in her jaws for a while until she set him down onto the snow. A few cats in this time awed at the kits, but Firefly didn't notice any of them, as both his ears and eyes were shut. After a bit his adopted sister, Ladybug, started lapping at his ears. Startled, he started to cry out. Ladybug, trying to show him that she wasn't a threat, started to lick him. That only made it worse, as now he was getting cold. His mother then decided to bring them to the nursery, and picked him up. He stopped crying at once, but could tell something was off. He was then handed off to Swiftgaze, and she brought him to the nursery. He curled up in his mothers warmth and started suckling, and after a bit he fell asleep.

The next day, while suckling in the nursery, he decides to go to sleep. However, his plans for rest are disrupted when his brother, Furzekit keeps on squirming and moving. After batting him on the head, he stopped for a moment, but then went at it again. Just when Firefly had thought all hope for a good nights rest was gone, Furzekit stopped again, and for good this time. Then Firefly could finally fall asleep.

While in the nursery, his eyes and ears still closed, his sister, Ladybug decided to try and interact with him. After she awed at him for a bit, he notices her scent and recognizes it from the day his mother brought him to camp. He backs up a bit and Ladyug huffs, wondering why he always runs away from her. After a bit, thinking she was gone, he started to crawl forwards, unaware that she was still infront of him. Ladybug then bumps his nose with hers, and Firefly, now scared out of his mind backed right on up again, hiding in his mothers fluff.

One cold leafbare morning, curled up next to his mother, Firefly opens his eyes for the first time. Brokenrose notices this, and comments on how his eyes are just like his fathers.

While unsuccessfully attempting to walk, he decides to go sit near the nurseries entrance, and watch some snowflakes fall. Azrael walks by and notices the kit, his kit. He decides to strike up a conversation with the moon old kit. Firefly, not recognizing him puffs out his fur in an attempt to scare him off. But after a bit of warming up to him, Firefly calms down and begins to trust him. Fireflies attention is then taken by a snowflake that lands on his nose. Firefly awes at it happily, but then sadly as it had melted. His father tries to cheer him up by showing him that there are many more in the sky. This, of course works and the over joyed kit has fun chasing snowflakes. But eventually he gets lost in the snow, which was as big as him. Even Azrael looses him for a moment. But after Firefly lets out a cry for help, Azrael finds him, and calms down the spooked kit. He then brings him to the nursery so he can play with his siblings, which Firefly goes and does.

One day, while Firefly was exploring the nursery, a bored Swiftgaze gets the bright idea to play with kits. She runs into Firefly and recognizes him from the day he was born, Firefly also recognizes her scent, and thus she is a trusted cat. She tries to talk with him for a while, but it is in vain as Firefly has no idea what she is saying. Firefly instead starts to repeat what she is saying. Swiftgaze then decides to try and teach him how to say both his and her name. He manages to say his name 'Firefly' after a few attempts, but only manages to say 'Swivt' when trying to say her name.

While watching snowflakes fall, his brother, Bluebell, rushes past him and then falls face flat into the snow. Firely, concerned for his brother goes to see if he's alright. They have a small exchange, in which Firefly calls him 'Lueblell'.

Then his mother teaches them about some life lessons and stuff, but it gets cut off when she realizes they barely know their father. But Firefly really just starts crying about the fact that his mother did bad things.

While chasing some snowflakes around, his brother Furzekit scares the crap out of him. He runs off and after a bit of Furzekit calming him down, he convinces Firefly to explore camp with him. They first go to the elders den, and after Furzekit makes one too many bad jokes he chucks a snowball at his head. They then go and search for the apprentices den, chatting about becoming apprentices, who's your friend ect ect

After accidently toppling Ivykit over, the young tom hisses at Firefly. This scares him, and sets them off to a bad start. But after he finds out that this is Ivykit, he decides that this is a trusted cat, considering his brother is his friend, and if Furzekit can trust him, so could he! So they start talking and eventually Firefly asks if he wants to go and play in the snow with him, unaware that Ivykit is scared of it.

After having sad thoughts about becoming an apprentice, Sproutkit comes into the nursery and decides to speak with him. He freezes up and after a bunch of unsuccessful attempts to try and speak with him, Firefly manages to convince the kit to go outside. He tries to hide in the nursery, but when Sproutkit returns he spots Firefly immediately. After some more pestering Firefly gives in and decides to speak with him. They get to know eachother a bit.

Then his father runs off, abandoning his family and the clan. Firefly does not know that his father wont be returning. He still thinks that he's just on a hunting trip.

### Apprenticeship

At 6 moons Fireflykit becomes Fireflypaw under the mentorship of Wrensplash. It is now newleaf.

After his apprentice ceremony, Firefly knew that he would now have to move to the apprentice den. So, he physched himself up to go in. Just as he was about to step inside, Cherrydust, decides to speak with him. Incase you didnt know, Firefly doesnt like it when strange cats speak to him. So he freezes up, and like every other cat hes done this with, asks if they should get help. He nods, and has to choose between Brokenrose and Squeakdawn. Since he only knew who Brokenrose was, he picks his mother. As Cherrydust leaves to go get her, he runs off and hides somewhere in camp.

The clan is starving, and so is Firefly. So he's sitting by the freshkill pile, trying to eat some food. He continues to always get close to eating it, but always ends up thinking about how they must have had a family, children waiting for them to get home, and then slowly starving, wondering where their parents were. Luckily Brokenrose, his mother, disrupts his thoughts and they start talking. Eventually they get to the subject of flowers, and since he'd never seen one, he asks for a description of how one looks like. Brokenrose is able to give one so instead she suggests that they go to the medicine den to look at one. Plus, they could also visit Ladybugpaw, who is now a medicine cat apprentice.

They go there and greet Ladybugpaw. Broken asks her to show Firefly a flower, since he was asking how one looked like. So she shows him some dried marigold. Firefly is in awe at how pretty flowers look. He asks if she has anymore, because since the first was so beautiful, the others must be too!

One day he finds his brother, Furzepaw sitting alone, minding his business. But Firefly is not for that and strikes up a conversation with him. They chat for a bit, but after Firefly playfully tackles him, calling him a badger they start to playfully chase eachother, calling one another a smelly ol' badger, while boasting about being a quick sneaky fox. Eventually Firefly trips and they start name calling while not running.

Eventually he and Sproutkit meet again. They start chatting about the following: How theyre doing, different cats that Sprout knows, twolegs, kittypet life, gatherings, apprenticeships, mentors, Brokenfrog (Brokenrose), mentors again and then birds. They also plan to go to the next gathering together.

While sunbathing, his mentor walks up to him and tells him to get up because they're going training. Firefly is a bit stunned by this but he gets up and follows his mentor to territory. It was his first time out, so while admiring the massive trees, he asks what they're going to do. Wrensplash tells him that they're going to be doing battle training. Firefly on the outside is all like 'cool cool' but on the inside, anxiety was building. They arrive at the training hollow and Wrensplash leads him to a tree stump. He tells Firefly that they will practice the moves on the tree stump.

Once the full moon arrives, he and Sproutpaw head to the gathering place. At first they just take in the sights, commenting on how many cats there are. Then he asks what the cats they are looking for look like. Then they kinda just sit around not knowing what to do. Sproutpaw asks Firefly what cats usually do at gatherings, Firefly just shrugs and says that they usually talk to one another, and adds how this is his worst nightmare, but that he is happy to do it for him. Then, Heatherpaw, an apprentice from another clan waves at them. Sproutpaw decides to go and talk to her, Firefly following. The two apprentices talk to eachother while Firefly is just sitting there, minding his own business.

Junebugkit, while playing around with bugs, noticed the tom minding his own business (Who was thinking about why he was just so darn large) and decided to interact with him. The kit squeaked at him a few times to get his attention, and it did, for like.. A second, because then he went right back to his very important thoughts. So then she 'slapped' a cricket and gave it him, sticking her tongue out in a blep. He immediately freaked out at the fact that she killed it. He picked it up, and went to a secluded part of camp to bury it. He did so. After paying respect to the dead cricket, he stood up to return to his previous location. However, he did not notice that the kit was following him. He stepped on her.

While resting in the apprentice den, Sproutpaw walked in all gloomily. Firefly took notice and found out that this was because he saw a dead frog and found out cats ate frogs. From then on Firefly was determined to cheer up his friend. So he offered to take him to the frog marsh. Only problem in his plan.. Neither of them knew where it was.

So they set off into the great beyond, picking a direction at random and going in it. After a lot of walking and talking they arrived at deer meadow. They were sad about this, and thought that they went in the wrong direction. But Firefly, intent on cheering up Sproutpaw said that, 'hey, this is still an adventure, lets go' and so they went. But the tall grass was very much so in their way. While trying to clear it out, a grass hopper landed on Fireflies nose and he freaked out. At last, he spotted some trees and so they went in that direction. But as it turned out, those trees, were actually a herd of deer. Sproutpaw loved the deer, Firefly on the other hand, was terrified of it, convinced that it would kill them.

## Friends and Family

### Family

Brokenrose - Shadowclan - She-cat - Warrior - Trusted cat / Mother

Azrael - Tom - Loner - Trusted cat / Father

Bluebellpaw - Shadowclan - Tom - Apprentice - Trusted cat / Brother

Furzepaw - Shadowclan - Tom - Apprentice - Trusted cat / Brother

Ladybugpaw - Shadowclan - She-cat - Medicine cat apprentice - Trusted cat / Adopted Sister

Petaldust - Shadowclan - She-cat - Queen - Adopted Sister

Wishflame - Shadowclan - She-cat - Warrior - Aunt **(Deceased)**

Forgotten - ShadowClan - Tom - Apprentice - Uncle

Tempest- Starclan - She-cat - Kit - Aunt **(Deceased)**

Dapple - Place of No Stars - She-cat - Rogue - Grandmother **(Deceased)**

Bluepaw - Starclan - Tom - Rouge - Grandfather **(Deceased)**

Furstar - StarClan - She-cat - Leader - Adoptive grandmother **(Deceased)**

Mintbee - Starclan - She-cat - Warrior - Grand-aunt **(Deceased)**

Stormriddle - ShadowClan - She-cat - Warrior - Grand-aunt **(Deceased)**

Silvermoon - Starclan - She-cat - Warrior - Adoptive great-grandmother **(Deceased)**

Pouncepaw - StarClan - Tom - Apprentice - Cousin **(Deceased)**

Jet - She-cat - Loner - Cousin

Fawn - She-cat - Loner - First Cousin Once Removed

Vixen - Tom - Loner - First Cousin Once Removed

Torrentpaw - StarClan - She-cat - Apprentice - Cousin **(Deceased)**

Hopestream - ShadowClan - She-cat - Warrior - Cousin

Lightfeather - ShadowClan - She-cat - Warrior - Cousin

Dapplespring - ShadowClan - She-cat - Warrior - Cousin

### Trusted cats and or friends

Swiftgaze - Shadowclan - She-cat - Warrior - Trusted cat

Ivypaw - Shadowclan - Tom - Apprentice - Trusted cat

Sproutpaw - Shadowclan - Tom - Apprentice - Trusted cat / Friend

Wrensplash - Shadowclan - Tom - Warrior - Trusted cat / mentor

## Notable Quotes

"You know what? You might not scare me to death but your humor might." -Fireflykit to Furzekit

"Sure i did! But atleast now i have the combined intellect of the smartest cats in the forest. Meanwhile you're just standing there not understanding basic english." -Fireflypaw to Furzepaw

"O-okay.. But.. But what if they eat us!? Or- or if they kidnap us and turn us into weird tree creatures??" -Fireflypaw to Sproutpaw