Milkymist

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Milkymist is a short, stocky and stable-framed light cream she-cat with thick, fluffy fur that's quite water-resistant. It shines in the misty fog that usually blankets SwampClan at night and there is faint spotted tabby markings on it. Her eyes are a misty blue-gray and quite blank, which is prone to scaring some cats.

### Personality

Milkymist just is honestly so done with the HillClan cats. She thinks that they're awfully stupid for believing in an omen that has virtually no proof, and she's never been the heavily religious type either. She knows they exist, but prefers logic and facts over the usual 'Oh, it's a miracle from StarClan'. She's usually stoic, apathetic, clear-headed and blunt and usually prefers being right over any other cats' feelings, which results in her having little to no friends. Milkymist's heart is in the right place, though.

## Backstory/Life

### Kithood

Milk was born in The Intercessors' mothers' den alongside her sister Dusk to her mother Drift Of Morning Clouds and her father Roar Of Mountain Lion. Drift and Roar were very heavily invested in the religion that The Intercessors worshipped, and the parents made sure that their youngsters did as well. Dusk followed, but since the religion told that young she-cats should be proper and elegant, Milk didn't like it. She wanted to be a tomboy freely and play fight with the tom-kits, but her parents didn't allow it.

So, Milk basically hated the place she lived in and the religion she followed, because there was no evidence that the Starspeaker was right or that Shiningstars really existed. But her sister Dusk made her feel better, and they got to play occasionally. Really, Dusk was the only cat she liked.

### Trainee Time

Milk and her sister recieved their trainee names, Milky Dawn and Cloudy Dusk. She and her sister would often learn together, but Milky Dawn was always refusing to believe in Shiningstars, which made her parents and teacher upset. Cloudy Dusk hated seeing her sister punished every day, but The Intercessors would not be dealing with Milky Dawn's unfaithfulness.

Milky Dawn finally decided it was time to leave. She was being unfairly punished for not wanting to believe in Shiningstars, all because she didn't think they were real. She didn't have any real friends there anyways, and she hated her parents, so it wasn't hard for her to leave.

Except for Cloudy Dusk, who caught her sneaking out to go live on her own in the middle of the night. She told Cloudy Dusk that she could come with her and they could escape the torture that was following The Intercessors, but Cloudy Dusk told her sister she wanted to stay with her friends and parents. Betrayed, Milky Dawn lashed out and said that she didn't really need her sister anyways, and set out off on her own.

### Loner Life

Milky Dawn, wanting to shed her trainee name, renamed herself Milky and lived on her own for a while. Except it wasn't that good, because Milky hadn't learned to hunt all that well and she found herself very hungry one day. She collapsed on HillClan territory, where a patrol found her and took her in.

Milky found that the HillClan cats weren't as strict with their religion, but still believed in StarClan, which Milky thought was also questionable. Milky eventually left HillClan instead of joining because she didn't want to sign up for another religion.

After that little encounter, Milky eventually traveled once more, finding herself on the marshy SwampClan territory. They seemed to be low on warriors and they asked her if they wanted to join. She first said no, saying that she didn't want to join a strict religious group, but SwampClan told her that they were actually against the religion. Milky finally gave in and joined SwampClan at the age of eight moons old.

### Apprenticeship

Milky was renamted Milkypaw and given to a tom named Asterpiercer for her mentor, whom she *despised*. Very strongly. He was lively, excitable, and friendly, a polar opposite to the quiet, stoic and clear-headed Milkypaw. Still, she wanted to prove she would be a good warrior for her Clan, so she attempted to get along with him while she learned, which backfired horribly.

Milkypaw was put in a joint training session one day at ten moons old, with her mentor's friend Sootrunner and his apprentice Diasciapaw. Diasciapaw was very overly feminine, boastful, and just downright annoying. But somehow she managed to make friends with the she-cat and they became warriors together.

### Warrior Life

Milkypaw was given the name Milkymist, and Diasciapaw got Diasciafur. They didn't do much after that, she usually just hung out with Diasciafur and talked to Asterpiercer from time to time.

One day when she was twenty-one moons old, while sleeping, she was sort of kidnapped and pulled out of her nest in the middle of the night, outside of camp. Milkymist was about to fight her attacker, but she saw it was Cloudy Dusk and asked her what she was doing in SwampClan territory.

Cloudy Dusk, now Dark Clouds At Dusk, was having a terrible time in The Intercessors' group. Her parents had been slaughtered by a mountain lion, as well as many others, and she and her new mate Soft Grass On Ground were looking for a new home to settle down and have their kits in, because Dusk was pregnant.

Milkymist eventually came to the conclusion that she should join SwampClan, so in the morning she asked the leader and she was relieved to have them say yes. Dark Clouds At Dusk was renamed to Duskfall and Soft Grass On Ground was renamed to Grassfrond.

About two moons later, when she was twenty-three, Duskfall died while giving birth to her kits. Grassfrond couldn't handle her death, so he gave his kits to a random queen and left SwampClan to go back to The Intercessors because where else did he have to go? Milkymist was shocked and saddened at her sister's death and didn't even visit her two kits even once. Even when they became apprentices when she was twenty-nine moons old.

Now she's thirty-four moons old and she occasionally watches her niece Deltapaw and her nephew Duskpaw, who was named after Duskfall. She never talks to them though, and when they attempt to talk with her she just walks away because she doesn't want any painful memories of her sister to come back.

## Other

### Trivia

* Originally, Milkymist was just a kit found outside SwampClan territory, but I wanted to include more of The Intercessors into character pages so there we go.
* She was also originally a demi-girl but after realizing I referred to her as solely she/her, I gave up on that and just made her a cis-female.

### Gallery

* Milkymist's reference sheet.
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