Canopypaw

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"Kits are adorable. There are a whole lot in the nursery right now, too. They're so... innocent. Adorable little guys."

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## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Canopypaw is a large but thin tom with wide shoulders and long legs. He has mostly short fur that lengthens around his belly and tail, and large ears that curl forward at the tips. His fur is dark brown, mottled with lightish brown and also white speckles. He has some darker markings around his face and tail, and off-white patches on his legs and tail-tip. His eyes are blue-green.

### Personality

Canopypaw is extremely introverted. He prefers to be by himself, and just enjoys pondering the world's phenomenons. He's firm but flexible in his opinions, and tends to be kind to those who need it. He's sort of the peacemaker between his siblings, Woolpaw and Peregrinepaw, who argue a lot, and is generally just a really easy cat to talk to. However he's also anxious and somewhat noncommittal, never really interacting with cats unless approached. Canopypaw is a poetic and vague cat who sometimes is hard for others to understand. He's somehow both apathetic and naive - desensitized to the prospect of death after watching nature so long, but he's definitely a hopeless romantic who will prooobably fall head over heels for anyone his age who's nice to him for an extended period of time. Canopypaw gets very stressed when cats argue and is extremely nonconfrontational, resulting in him being submissive and backing down when a cat starts to get stubborn in an argument.

## Backstory/Life

### Kithood

Canopykit was born to Hawkwave and Elkstriker in HillClan, along with his 'sisters', Peregrinekit and Woolkit. His kithood was pretty chill; Canopykit's big sister Somberscar often showed up to help with raising the kits, and his parents were cool enough. Canopykit's favorite pastimes included chasing bugs, chasing his tail, and sleeping. In his opinion, that was basically all there was to a good life.

When Canopykit was two, a new queen moved into the nursery. She was a former loner now named Prairietrance, who'd showed up to the Clans expecting kits and had asked for shelter. She had two kits, Tidalkit and Pouringkit, whom Canopykit didn't pay a ton of attention to.

By the time he was five, Canopykit was on good terms with Woolkit and Tidalkit. Pouringkit was his best friend, too. He and Peregrinekit weren't on the best of terms, but whatever.

### Apprenticeship

Canopypaw got a mentor. Don't ask me who, that hasn't been decided yet. Anyway, he sort of just hung out with his siblings and friends for a while, so that was cool.

Woolpaw came out as trans when they were nine, and Canopypaw was perfectly fine with that - now he had a brother and two sisters! - and nothing really changed between them.

Speaking of change, Canopypaw and Pouringpaw started growing apart. Canopypaw wasn't very happy about that - he misses his friend but can never seem to keep a conversation going with her nowadays.

Fading friendships aside, though, one day Canopypaw was assigned on patrol with Woolpaw and Satsumapaw, who was his age but whom he'd never really interacted with before. They warned Quietstar of a traveling pack of wolves, and Woolpaw disappeared off to his den. So Satsumapaw and Canopypaw decided to set up a scavenger hunt for the Clan's kits. They collected edelweiss and feathers from the mountains (with minimal incident), and got rocks from camp. After hiding everything, well, they're still trying to get those kits to listen to them.

## Other

### Trivia

* As a kit, Canopypaw had a stutter. It's faded by now, but you can still hear it a bit when he gets really upset.