Mud

## Appearance & Personality

Mud is a long-legged she-cat with two different types of fur. Her base coat is short, cream-colored fur, while she has deep blue points on her tail, legs and muzzle, all of which have long, feathery fur. She has deep blue eyes, and a muzzle so dark it looks like it was dunked in mud. She wears a thick purple collar with sparkly threads.

Mud is very fake. She will manipulate other cats to get what she wants, but it's near impossible to call her out, for when she isn't being rude she is incredibly sweet. Mud is incredibly intelligent. She is afraid of water.

## Brief History

Mud was born to Mellowbug and Bluefeather shortly after her mother arrived in SkyClan. Her sister Lilykit was stillborn, her brother Fin abandoned her Clan, both of her parents were slaughtered, as were her mentors. Mud is a troubled she-cat who covers up her problems by acting fake. She left SkyClan for BloodClan.

## Detailed History

Mudkit, Finkit and Lilykit were all born to Mellowbug, who had them out on a walk with Darkstar. Lilykit was born dead, but both Finkit and Mudkit were perfectly strong. Darkstar told Mellowbug that she wanted to someday mentor Mudkit, a promise that she kept. Despite being lonely in the nursery, as her mother was working as a medicine cat, Mudkit and Finkit remained happy and kept one another company in their mother's absence.

However, the two still got into plenty of trouble. Finkit slowly stopped playing with Mudkit as much, choosing to go learn from the elders of the Clan about what life was like as a rogue. Mudkit thought that was stupid - why would you learn about rogues when you were going to grow up as a Clan cat? Out of spite, she left the camp, determined to adventure on her own, unfortunately wandering right down to the geysers. A tom named Copperpaw saved her from being killed by the water, and when he brought her back to camp, he earned his warrior name. Darkstar and Mellowbug both scolded Mudkit, but she hardly payed that any attention, still shaking from the close call. She developed an intense terror of water.

Mudpaw became Darkstar's apprentice and trained with her for a handful of moons, up until the third gathering of The Median. Neither Darkstar or Mellowbug returned home, and when Widowstar's position was announced, Mudpaw was suddenly her apprentice. She knew that Darkstar had been killed by Widowstar, but was too petrified to challenge this new mentor, knowing that she had also killed her mother. Fin abandoned the Clan shortly afterwards. The new leader's reign was short-lived, as was Widowstar, who deserted the Clan at the final gathering of The Median. Mudpaw felt very alone despite befriending Fanglily and Wishstream, and even after receiving her warrior name of Mudsun, still felt as though she had no place in this Clan.

Of course, due to her personality, she had to keep up her tough, confident appearance. She projected this onto Willowpaw, her new apprentice, in an attempt to make herself feel as though she belonged in the Clan. However, the longer she remained in the Clan, the harder it became to keep a level head around the rest. After a huge fight with Ashdust, Mudsun left camp, never to return again.

She found a den just outside SkyClan territory and made it hers, alone at last. She lived alone for some moons, without speaking to cats other than rogues. She was totally friendless, and whenever she did speak to a cat, she was aggressive. Fanglily was no exception to this. She bumped into her only friend one day, after scouting out BloodClan territory - she'd heard of the new Clan, and was interested in joining - and Fanglily was very on edge. She explained that BloodClan had attacked SkyClan, and it was there that Mudsun decided she would leave to join the Clan. She was cold towards Fanglily, as much as she wanted to have her friend be kind to her. She couldn't bring herself to act buddy-buddy with her before she joined BloodClan. Mudsun said farewell, brought what little prey she had, and abandoned her den in search of BloodClan. Joining SkyClan's enemy would be the perfect revenge for how she was treated there.

Mudsun happened to show up just as the first pit fight was beginning. She slipped on the clay, and all eyes turned to her. Shadow questioned the she-cat, and once Mudsun explained who she was and why she wanted to join, Shadow challenged her to a pit fight. If she fought until she could not fight more, Mudsun would become a warrior of BloodClan. And that is what happened. Mudsun lost by a landslide, but Shadow was thoroughly impressed with her attempt, and brought Mudsun to the medbay, where some warriors worked on healing her. Afterwards, Shadow woke Mudsun up to prompt her for her new name. Mudsun took the name Mud before falling unconscious again, but happy this time - she was a BloodClan warrior now. Later that day, she traveled with Katrina to receive her collar.