Magpiepaw

***Spoiler warning:** Plot and/or ending details follow.**"Magpiepaw understood her concern, she really did, but she couldn't help it. Could she? It was a question she constantly asked, weighing heavy on her mind.* Could she change her habits? Could she be more focused? Could she be less fidgety?*"*

## Historical Information

### Date Introduced:

5/21/23

**Magpiepaw** is a fluffy dark snowshoe molly with soft blue eyes.
**Magpiepaw** was born to Jessy and an unnamed molly alongside her sister, Wisteriapaw. Her older littermate, Lavendersnow, discovered the pair being neglected by their family outside the clan, so she decided to take them in and raise them as her own. She has served under Valleystar's and Dawnstar's reigns.

## Relations

Crush: N/A

Friendships: Petalpaw, Wisteriapaw, Lavendersnow, Dawnstar

Enemies:

Mentor: Lavendersnow

Pet: Poppy the Magpie

## Interests

*Likes*

Magpiepaw enjoys calming activities such as collecting herbs (as long as it’s not in a haste), organizing herbs, and sharing tongues. It’s small, simple tasks like these that bring her the most joy. She enjoys taking naps when she’s not busy, or just falling asleep in the evenings and waking up at dawn to greet the new day. Magpiepaw loves to swim in the stream in the Wildflower Thicket, or occasionally joining the trackers on border patrols. She also finds joy in helping cats decorate dens.

*Dislikes*

Magpiepaw dislikes most tasks or activities that require diligence or persistence. Some of these tasks/activities she will outright avoid. She finds it frustrating when told to explain her thinking, mostly because she doesn’t know how to explain it. It’s not that a thought process isn’t occurring, it’s just that she comes to those solutions in ways she can’t find the words to properly describe.

## Skills/Faults

*Skills*

Magpiepaw’s strengths mostly lie in how she’s able to improvise, coming up with quick, and (occasionally) simple solutions quickly. She’s able to suggest alternatives to complicated instructions and is able to follow through with complicated tasks as long as she’s not forced to follow by specific instructions. She’s quite desensitized, in the way that most wounds don’t phase her, more likely to get an expression of disgust, confusion, or concern out of her.

*Faults*

Magpiepaw is often not believed to be competent due to her odd habits and behavior. Such behavior including needing to be told instructions over and over until she’s memorized it. That she’s unable to stay still of long periods of time, often having to do something to keep her simulated or occupied. She often misplaces all manner of items, herbs, decor, etc. Her forgetfulness coupled with that makes it difficult for her to remember where she’s left said item. Plus, her inability to follow detailed instructions is frustrating to most.

## Personality

Easily distracted yet persistent, Magpiepaw is a bit of a handful for some cats who aren’t used to being around her. Magpiepaw often has multiple thoughts in mind, and often can’t focus on a single one of long period of time, yet occasionally heading into a state of hyper focus or fixation that, unless forcefully ended, can last from sunrise or sundown, perhaps longer. Magpiepaw is also forgetful, often not able to recall things that happen that same morning, and they are aware of this, but aren’t sure how to handle it, besides having other cats remind her. This, along with her tendency to misplace herbs or more personal items, often lead her to be unreliable with possessions. Though, this doesn’t become an issue in spaces she’s familiar with, such as the medicine den. Magpiepaw lacks of detail often leads to careless mistakes. She also has trouble following instructions. Why? She doesn’t even know. It’s an issue that is most well presented under pressure, though it applies to many things. This mostly manifests in not being able to complete tasks in a specific fashion, often leading the she-cat to place her on spin on certain tasks, doing them in her own way. A way that she may not be able to explain the logic behind, but often leads to the desired result in the end. She has the most difficulty in managing her time or organizing tasks. This often leads her to improvise, as planning is where she lacks. This often leads her to stress over simple things and having occasional mood swings. This later leads in fits of anger, if not resolved. Magpiepaw is reluctant to preform tasks or activities that require any form of long-term focus or significant concentration. Overall she is a very calm, laidback cat who’s pretty opinionated, often wanting to be included in conversations she most likely shouldn’t be apart of to begin with.

## Detailed History

*Dawnstar's Reign*

**Moon 2**

Magpiepaw's debut is shared with Wisteriapaw during a patrol gathering herbs alongside their older sister, Lavendersnow. The family is hinted at being closely knit and well-adjusted to one another, with Lavendersnow taking the role of a parental guardian and mentor over her two sisters. Magpiepaw seems to struggle with keeping up with the pair, since she keeps happening to get distracted by happenings around her in the forest.

## Detailed Appearance

Magpiepaw has a beauty that pales in comparison to her kin, with large, yet nimble paws and a slender, boxy frame. Magpiepaw has a dense, medium length coat. Their tail is long and plumy, seeming to narrow down at the tip. Her pelt is a pale cream, with a soft brown on her head, base of her tail, and just below the shoulders. This lighter brown fades directly into a deep chestnut color at her points. Their chin is white in color, that color wrapping around the left side of her muzzle and traveling up the right side of her muzzle, on the right side of her nose bridge up to her forehead. Her paws are white, contrasting with the dark chestnut browns of their points along with a white chest and belly. Their paws pads are a soft pink, her inner ears a dark, dull pink. Her nose is a black, al blending into the dark color of their face. Her eyes are a gleaming, soft blue.

## Kin

Mother: Unknown molly

Father: Jessy

Sisters: Lavendersnow and Wisteriapaw

## Backstory

According to Magpiepaw's earliest memories, she wasn't born in Sunlit Pairies. Magpiepaw doesn't remember much at all from her time outside of the clan, due to nature of how young she was at the time. Magpiepaw, at the time simply named Mgapie, was born to Jessy and his mate. Magpie had a littermate, Wisteria. Some of her earliest memories consist of visits from her older kin, Lavenderpaw, until one day they somehow ended up in a den that she now knows as the nursery. In Sunlit Prairies, her name changed to Magpiekit. Magpiekit spent most of her time in the nursery with Wisteriakit  or around Lavenderpaw. It was easy to tell from a young age that she imprinted on Lavenderpaw, though this admiration didn’t last long as the kit started to realize how different she was to her kin, and by extension the kits in her new home. Magpiekit was upset by it at first, how cats didn’t think like her, how she stood out amongst her clan mates as different. Magpiekit never minded her new home or how busy Lavenderpaw was. Eventually Magpiekit simply accepted it as how it was, and how it would always be. Magpiekit never enjoyed the more active roles of sentinel, tunneler or moor-runner, though the role of tracker intrigued her. She always thought exploring would suit her, though after learning about the dangers, she digressed on the idea. She turned toward the medicine den for potential paths to follow. She spent many days pondering with role to choose before Wisteriakit, now Wisteriapaw, told her she was taking on the mantle of Nurse’s apprentice. The decision was easy from there. Why be a mental medicine cat, a role that requires you to talk to the cats who dislike and hate you? As a physical medicine cat, she would only be expected to treat wounds, not treat a cat’s mental state. The decision was final, and she began her training alongside and under her own kin. Training, more or less, alongside Wisteriapaw caused her to notice many things.

Many things she later noticed in her older kin, Lavendersnow. How manipulative they were, whether it was on purpose or not. How entitled Wisteriapaw was. She also began to notice how pitted she was by both. It annoyed her to a reasonable degree. How they seemed to think of her as incompetent to a degree. Magpiepaw slowly began to emotionally distance herself from both. She still loved them dearly, but she wouldn’t let their habits become her own. Ever. It wasn’t long before she noticed Wisteriapaw began to latch on, trying to hold Magpiepaw close still, likely to appease Lavendersnow, of whom she wasn’t sure was aware. Magpiepaw was tried of trying to appease cats, and she hopes Wisteriapaw will understand, but until then, she will keep her distance from both.

## Quotes

"*They were the sweetest things growing up, she was surprised any cat shown any malice towards them- what was there to dislike? Magpiepaw and Wisteriapaw had always been perfect- she might be biased, but she knew she was right."*

"*For whatever reason, Magpiepaw couldn't keep her attention on anything longer than Lavendersnow could speak on any given topic. Magpiepaw was quick to glance off, gaze flying around the room as though looking for some kind of escape. It irritated her at first, but she'd never let it show.* It's not her fault, and she's still so young....*Upon this realization, she'd tried to work a lot harder with Magpiepaw specifically, coming up with different training methods, but as of now, none had really stuck.... Lavendersnow was beginning to feel concerned that eventually she might leave her behind and not even notice, she'd already nearly done it upwards to a mouse nest full of times at this point. She didn't want to be upset with her, but sometimes it was difficult when she put so much effort into trying to teach her something...Magpiepaw might not have a great attention span, but that didn't warrant any negative consequence, at least not intended."*

- Lavendersnow's assessment on Magpiepaw.

*"Magpiepaw understood her concern, she really did, but she couldn't help it. Could she? It was a question she constantly asked, weighing heavy on her mind.* Could she change her habits? Could she be more focused? Could she be less fidgety?*"*

- Magpiepaw's thoughts about her own habits upon addressing Lavendersnow's concern towards her.

## Links

Theme Song/Voice Claim

* Playlist: Youtube
* Voice Claim: Claudia, Dragon Prince

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