Foxpounce

Foxpounce is currently a warrior of OrchidClan. He is the brother of Redfire and Appleshine, and the main victim of the initial Myrtlepelt fiasco. I mean, aside from Seagull. He's also probably on the verge of dating Lotusmoon.

Name- Foxpounce

Gender- Tom

Clan- OrchidClan

Rank- Warrior

Family- Appleshine and Redfire (sisters), Scorchstripe (father, deceased), Strawberry (mother), Flamefur (grandfather), Duckfeather (grandmother, deceased)

Friends- Seagull (formerly), Voletuft (sort of), probably Lotusmoon

Enemies- Myrtlepelt

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Foxpounce is a small tom, leaner and less round than his sisters, with short, thick, orange tabby fur. There are darker patches and mottles in his pelt, particularly on his face, front legs, and spine, and his chest is white, as well as his hind paws and the tip of his long, bushy tail. There is a white mark along the bridge of his nose, too. His ears are half-curled, and they are a shade of dark ginger. His eyes are dark green.

#### Personality

Foxpounce is generally a positive and amiable cat, although he prefers to be in smaller groups, disliking crowds. He is not overly social, although he does not particularly make efforts to avoid interaction. He is more easygoing and laidback than his sisters. He's pretty chill, and he’s kind at heart, although he has a tendency to be annoyed by small things.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

He was born to Strawberry at Strawberry’s house. Because Strawberry was a kittypet. Strawberry had a house. Scorchstripe - his father - would visit Strawberry in her yard every so often, and it was soon decided that Strawberry would give the three kits to him so he could bring them back to the Clans. He and his siblings were not named, because Strawberry thought it would be too painful for her to remember her kits by name. When he was two moons old, he and his sisters were given to their father. Scorchstripe left twolegplace to take them back to the Clans with him.

For the next two moons, the newly-named Foxkit travelled with Scorchstripe, Redkit, and Applekit to get back to Clan territory. He thought their new names were cool, although the concept of even having a name was still strange to him. He had a very good relationship with his father and siblings, and enjoyed hearing Scorchstripe's stories about the Clans. He was very determined and obliging, and always helped to encourage his father whenever he was feeling particularly down or missing Strawberry more than usual.

On one occasion, while Scorchstripe was hunting, Foxkit and his siblings were chilling in a patch of grass when a small badger suddenly came poking around. It grabbed Foxkit and started heading back to its den, presumably to kill him. He was pretty terrified, but luckily Scorchstripe came back and was able to chase the badger away, and he ended up being fine. He was still kind of traumatized for a little while, even though the badger hadn't seemed particularly aggressive. He and his sisters speculated a bit about what it had wanted with him, but they soon forgot about it.

Anyways, when Foxkit, Applekit, and Redkit were four moons old, Scorchstripe brought them to OrchidClan, where they were permitted to join by Lavenderstar. Once there, they were looked after by another queen and got to know their new Clanmates. Unfortunately, less than a moon later, Scorchstripe suffered from a sudden heart attack that ended up killing him. Foxkit and his siblings were shocked and devastated. Foxkit became more reserved and withdrawn than usual, missing his father dearly, and he established a closer bond with Redkit in particular - Applekit still seemed weirdly cheerful, and that annoyed Foxkit.

At around that same time, though, a kit named Lotuskit who was the same age as them joined OrchidClan. She was pretty chill. Normally Foxkit would've liked to get to know her, but he was too depressed for that. So instead he just vibed and didn't really interact with anyone, even though the nursery was pretty packed.

#### Apprenticeship

Foxpaw was apprenticed to Suncurrent. He quite liked his mentor, although his training was somewhat bumpy at times due to Suncurrent often spending time comforting Lionspark about the death of his mate, Ravenpool, instead of working with Foxpaw. As a result of this, Foxpaw was never very great at hunting or fighting - mainly hunting - although he did the best he could.

Applepaw soon moved to HorizonClan, partially to the disappointment of Foxpaw and Redpaw, but partially to their relief, as well. She *was* pretty annoying. All the same, they would miss her. What they wouldn't miss, though, were her stupid plans to sneak to twolegplace in order to find Strawberry. Foxpaw always thought these plots were stupid, and would never agree to follow through with them. He had a conversation once with Mistrunner about how annoying Applepaw was.

Foxpaw was made a bit uneasy by the slightly older apprentice, Myrtlepaw, though. She would always flirt with him nonstop, and kept talking about how they had to have kits. It was pretty unnerving. Redpaw would stick up for him, though. Unbeknownst to Foxpaw, Lotuspaw was also kind of crushing on him. He never realized that, though. He never paid much attention to her.

He was also kind of buddies with a *different* older apprentice, Volepaw. This lasted until one occasion where... long story sort... Foxpaw accidentally caused him to lose his tail. I'll leave it at that. Predictably, they sort of stopped hanging out after that, and Foxpaw felt pretty bad about it. He got yelled at by two of Volepaw's siblings, Kalepaw and Vulturepaw. They sort of stopped hanging out afterwards for their own safety. Voletuft ended up moving to OasisClan not long after becoming a warrior anyways.

One day, when Foxpaw was trying to hunt, he stumbled across a young loner named Seagull. She teased him at first, much to his annoyance, but they soon introduced themselves and started getting along. Foxpaw developed a slight crush on her, although he knew she didn't feel the same way. They would meet up occasionally. This stopped when Lavenderstar closed OrchidClan's borders a couple of moons before Foxpaw became a warrior.

He passed his warrior assessment on his first try, much to his relief. He'd been hoping he would improve at hunting in time, and apparently he had.

#### Warrior Life

Foxpaw received the name of Foxpounce. He and Redfire were dismayed that the borders were still closed, and thus they couldn't celebrate their new ranks with Appleshine, but they supposed that it might have been for the best.

Foxpounce was patrolling the outer border one day when he suddenly came across Seagull again. She insisted that she didn't care about his leader's dumb rules, and she wanted to keep meeting with him. He was reluctant to do this, but she managed to persuade him, and they started meeting at the outer border at Sunhigh each day. Unfortunately, on one occasion, Foxpounce was followed by Myrtlepelt. Myrtlepelt attacked and killed Seagull right in front of him, much to his horror. He ran back to camp to tell everyone what she'd done. Leafshine and Redfire convinced Lavenderstar to exile Myrtlepelt, and she was banished from OrchidClan right then and there. (There’s more information on why Myrtlepelt killed Seagull on Myrtlepelt’s page.)

For a while after that, Foxpounce was just kind of depressed and shellshocked from the whole ordeal. He needed a hug. He also needed a new girlfriend, and Redfire knew it. Redfire *also* knew that Lotusmoon was still crushing on him. So she took it upon herself to set them up. She pressured Lotusmoon into asking him out hunting one time, so she did. And they did. They had a swell time. He actually managed to catch something, and that was neat. Lotusmoon told him a little bit about her family, and he encouraged her to speak her mind more often. Then they got back to camp and joked around about fish. He shared the story of how he'd almost been abducted by a badger as a kit, and they chilled. They were getting somewhere, at least. Right? ...Right?

Oh, and also, Redfire asked him to join the rebellion against Lavenderstar. He said no. He didn't like what Lavenderstar was doing, but he didn't want to get involved in the whole mess, either. Then Redfire yelled at him. A lot. He gave in and said he'd join. Then he proceeded to not show up to any of the meetings or participate in any of the planning. But if anyone asked, he was totally a part of the rebellion.

And speaking of that, the rebellion succeeded when he was twenty-six moons old. Leafshine took charge, stripped Lavendersight of her leadership, and made her an elder. Foxpounce wasn't nearly as excited about it as most of his Clanmates - really, he didn't understand what was so terrible about what Lavendersight had been doing - but what he *did* know is that he didn't like still having her around. And he *really* didn't like the sour looks he and his sister in particular kept getting from her supporters - cats like Oatfoot, Pansymoon, Thrushthorn, and Frondmist.

Currently, Foxpounce is just vibing and is somewhat anxious over the whole Lavendersight/Leafshine situation. He somehow has no clue what Redfire and Lotusmoon are doing, either. Help him.

## Other

#### Trivia

* Strawberry was a Scottish fold. He doesn’t remember Strawberry, and he’ll never meet her. But anyways, that’s why he has cute lil half-folded ears.
* He *really* sucked at hunting as an apprentice. He still kind of sucks at hunting. But he tries.
* He never returned Myrtlepelt's... well, I won't even call them feelings. But he wasn't interested in her, I'll put it that way.
* He'll probably end up becoming mates with Lotusmoon. LotusFox is good.
* His ears are cool- as once stated by Flyspark- and I love them. They’re amazing. If he has kits, at least one of them has to inherit his ears. Please.
* Speaking of that!! The future LotusFox babies will be gorgeous. Between Lotusmoon's fabulous design and Foxpounce's fabulous ears, their offspring will be nothing short of legendary.