Ferndawn

Ferndawn is a permanent nursery queen in Lakeclan. Her parents are Cedartail and Ivystar and her siblings are Patchpine and Poolspots. Her mate is Birchfang and her kits are Nightkit, Sunkit, Badgerkit, and Applekit. She is a soft furred, ginger-and-white she-cat with green eyes. Ferneyes is kind and smart, but overly defensive. Her future kits are Swiftriver, Tallthorn, Branchclaw, Smallkit and Cricketflight.

Life:

Fernkit grew up feeling like an outsider. Her father died when she was a young kit during an outbreak of greencough, which ended up thrusting her mother, Ivystar, into the position of leader. Her siblings, Poolkit and Patchkit, were extremely close, and her mother was rarely in the nursery. Fernkit wasn't very interested in learning how to hunt or fight, and in truth wasn't very good at it either. Even Bluekit, her closest friend, would frequently leave her behind to play-fight and practice hunting. When she became an apprentice, gaining the name Fernpaw, it became clear she wasn't meant to be a warrior. She lagged behind the other apprentices in training, and often came back from patrols empty-pawed. The pressure of living up to her mothers' legacy and the feeling of being inferior to her skilled siblings got to the young she-cat, and she fell into the habit of hiding from her mentor, Goldenstep, to avoid further humiliation. No one noticed, apart from her fellow apprentice Birchpaw. The two would sneak out of the camp so he could train her, and Fernpaw soon fell for the handsome, confident tom. Birchpaw, too, found her gentle yet feisty nature irresistible, and soon enough the moonlight excursions became an excuse to spend time together. Fernpaw also began to spend a lot of time in the nursery, helping out Snowcloud. She fell in love with the life of a nursery queen and began to consider a different path. Birchfang became a warrior, and, for the first time, Fernpaw was determined to finish her training, although it was just so they could be together more. But on the day of her assessment, she couldn't find any prey and was about to fail, until an injured rabbit ran past her. She caught it, and although she knew Patchpaw had sent to towards her, she brought it back to camp as if it was her kill. She was renamed Ferndawn and began seriously considering having kits of her own. Birchfang wanted them almost as much as she did, and a few seasons later Ferndawn moved into the nursery expecting her first litter. Bluefoot was there too, and they rekindled their kithood friendship, to the point that Bluefoot felt more like her sister than Poolspots. Ferndawn loved helping Bluefoot raise Featherkit and Stonekit, and patiently waited for her own kits to come. After a long, miserable labor, she gave birth to Nightkit, Sunkit, Badgerkit, and Applekit. Raising such a large litter would be a difficult task for even the most experienced queen, let alone a first-timer, but she is more than up to the task and has proven herself to be a great mother. Though Ferndawn hasn't brought up the idea to her mother, she wants to stay in the nursery full time and help other queens raise their own kits.

Future: In the future, Ferndawn has two more litters: three toms, Swiftriver, Tallthorn, and Branchclaw, and a tom and a she-cat, Smallkit and Cricketflight. Smallkit was stillborn.

Detailed description: Ferndawn is a soft-furred, sleek she-cat with creamy white fur broken up by ginger tabby patches. Her eyes are a bright, leaf-green and wide-set. She has a broad head and wide ears. Her tail is long and her paws are small. She has a long, slender body.

Trivia:

Ferndawn was the second-born kit.

She has the same eye color as her mother, Ivystar, and her grandfather, Fogclaw

She has a lighter ginger color than her father.

She secretly envies kittypets for the simplicity of their lives, but couldn't bear to leave her clan

Like her mother, she is named after the color of her eyes. Before she opened them, they were going to name her Robinkit.