Alderbark

Art by Todd

### Relatives

Magpiestar [adoptive mother], Snailswirl [Adoptive father], Newttail [Adoptive brother], Flashfire [Father], Softstream [Mother]

## Appearances

### Appears in

Skyclan Clearing, Skyclan Territory, and Skyclan Dens

## Physical Description:

Alderbark is a reddish-brown tom with lighter speckles and green eyes. He has some striped markings along his back and a scratch shaped like an x above his nose. He also has a scratch on his chest and a nick in his left ear. He has one tufted ear the other tuft has been ripped off. His ears are thin like the rest of him and he has lanky legs that slightly resemble twigs. His fur is long and spiky but mostly sleek on his legs. His tail is slim and his eyes are bigger than most.

## History/Affiliations:

SkyClan [Current]

After the death of his mother when he was young, he was adopted by Magpiestar [Then Magpieskitter]. As a warrior, he had an accident after falling from a tree in SkyClan territory and fractured his hind leg for a bit.

When his mom became mates with Snailswirl despite him not really wanting him to be his dad. Until things took a turn for the worst and Snailswirl ended up attacking him. He soon came to love Snailswirl, even though he kept abusing him. In this time he became friends with Beetlefoot and Ivycurl, and him and Ivycurl grew closer and soon became mates. But problems arose when Ivycurl wanted to hurt Snailswirl and Alderbark didn't want that. Now he has to convince her to believe the "ThunderClan attacked him" story and this time, he was told to take aggression into account.

In current time, he has made up with Newttail and they became friends, until he learned that Magpiestar adopted him as well which made him slowly drift away from both them.

## Personality:

Alderbark is skittish, envious, anxious, modest, quiet, shy, and tired all in one bundle of fluff. He has a lot of care for cats close to him but not as much for cats hes' never interacted with as he doesn't focus much on those aspects but focuses more on overthinking and how he's a disappointment. He has a child like tendency but gets very embarrassed about it and feels he's wrong for being himself.

## Relationships:

**Magpiestar**

Alderbark loves his adoptive mom dearly and sees her a his only true friend. Until Snailswirl manipulated him into drifting away from her, and until he learned that Newttail was also her new son, and his new brother. He has grown less fond of the she cat and feels she's replaced him and been ignoring him, and he's starting to side with snailswirl's accusations about the leader.

**Newttail**

Alderbark is jealous of his relationship with that newttail has with Magpiestar and and though they made up and became friends, he is still very upset by the whole ordeal. He feels better about newttail but feels he can never be magpiestars son again as he was now replaced by a better and stronger young cat.

**Snailswirl**

Alderbark is VERY awkward around him; or used to be until the attacks made him fearful and submissive to him. Through all of this though he still loves him as a father, somehow he had grown attached to the brown cat and his rare show of 'affection' he doesnt want to listen to anyone else about him yet doesnt wnat him to hurt the other cats he cares about.

**Beetlefoot**

Beetlefoot is his friend and sort of father figure[though Alderbark doesn't see it yet]. He has grown much closer to the older tom, and has discovered they are actually quite similar. This is comforting to the red cat, and uses him as comfort and to hang out with on many accasions.

**Ivycurl**

Alderbark loves his mate very much and wants to protect her, but doesn't know how and is very upset that she hates his father and is trying to fix her view on such. But most of the time he's to tired and overwhelmed to do much and snuggles with her for her love and warmth.

**Nectardrizzle**

Alderbark is afraid and skittish around the sketchy tom, who also helped hurt him.

**Mousefoot**

Alderbark considers her a friend and is happy to have someone to relate to and hang out with bugs with, but is very guilty about seeing her and uncomfortable on the topic of his father.

## Trivia:

* Alderbark loves bugs
* He has mild anxiety
* He has a sleeping disorder
* He calls his parents, mother and father.
* His real parents where killed in front of him as a young kit by enemy warriors

## Quotes:

“He-he was going to leave me.. if I was alone with him I would be dead!” Alderbark about Newtpaw

## Artwork:

Alderbark sketch by ToddAlderbark and Snailswirl by ToddAlderbark by ToddBeatybark(Alderbark's Pokemon version) by Dew