Featherkit

**Featherkit** is a blue tabby & cream tortoiseshell she-kit with white markings and sightless warm blue eyes.

## Description

### Appearance

Featherkit is long-legged and strong, albeit in a slender frame. Her pelt, dense and still kitten-soft, is blue tabby dappled with cream patches and marked with white - delicate, short white mittens, a narrow mantle of white around her neck and chest, a round spot underneath her belly and a white tip to her tail. Her chin and nose are emblazoned with a near-symmetrical white stripe running down from between her eyes and widening just below her soft pink nose. Her right ear is tipped with cream, as is the last third of her tail.
Yet despite her prettily-marked tortoiseshell coat and white mittens, Featherkit's most immediately striking feature will always be her wide eyes, warm summer-sky blue and sightless - much to her chagrin. Featherkit is already beginning to shed her kithood softness of body, and under the milkweed-soft coat her muscles are turning wiry and her reflexes sharp.
Featherkit's stance is steady and quiet - she is easily-enough overlooked, though nothing in her body betrays any lack of confidence - in fact on the contrary, the young she-kit places each paw with measured certainty and is confident in her familiar territory. On unfamiliar ground her movement changes - almost-brash certitude slows to caution, and though her movement is slower she shows no fear or anxiety, only calm care.
### Character

Featherkit is a vivacious, confident kit. She has no time for her Clanmates' pandering to their idea of her disability, instead choosing to move about in her own time, gradually exploring further and further from the camp until every step, every direction of wind and knot of undergrowth is familiar to her.
The young tortoiseshell's vivacity gives way to anger at times, especially when patronised or denied any sort of autonomy. She is determined to be a warrior, and shows the spirit and dedication to be as good as any other; eyes or no - no, she doesn't behave as a sighted warrior does. She can feel an opponent's paw-swipe in the wind it disturbs, identify friend from foe far quicker than anyone who ignores scent to concentrate on the colours of pelts, and track her prey between her nose and ears. Mice particularly are her favourite challenge - their sharp hearing matches her own, and she has used their sense of the vibrations in earth and undergrowth to refine her own sense of the world around her.
To any onlooker, Featherkit could simply be mistaken for an angry blind kitten. Too many mistake her youth for naivety and her stubborn determination for denial. Yet neither is true - Featherkit has as strong a connection with StarClan as in her previous life, and though she has no memory of when she first walked the forest she is lent a certain quiet experience by it. Her dreams are filled with star-furred cats and their lessons, and even they have reassured her - her path is not meant for the medicine den. Not this time.
This life is meant to be her chance at warriorhood, and she is determined that it will not be withheld from her.
### Abilities

As already discussed, Featherkit is blind, without light-perception as some others have. She is intelligent and perceptive, and uses her senses of smell, touch and hearing with far more efficiency than either a sighted cat or one who went blind later in life ever could.
Featherkit's disability is most a worry in battle - to others, at least. To Featherkit, it is merely something to be aware of. She is fast, agile and wiry; and can hold her own capably in play-fights and mock training, though does best near the edge of a skirmish so as not to be overwhelmed. There is always the risk of surprise attacks, though Featherkit is far quicker than most at picking up on those and her Clanmates do not often succeed in getting the drop on her!
While in fighting Featherkit is comfortably competent, hunting is where she truly excels. GladeClan's forested home is best suited to stealth, care and strategy, making hunting there something she is well suited to. Her long whiskers warn her of undergrowth, and her naturally careful tread ensures she does not alert her prey. Even mice make sound, and between her ears and nose it is rare Featherkit misses a catch.
Featherkit's greatest weakness is likely situations where she needs to flee. In familiar terrain she is safer, in unfamiliar spaces she must rely on the patrol around her as well as her own senses to stay steady; she is at risk of a fall or crash if she needs to flee at speed. In GladeClan territory she is safer than elsewhere, however, as her light weight and wiry strength make her a capable climber - it is far safer for her to climb out of reach and wait than to flee into uncertain footing and potential danger.

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