Fawnflower

Fawnflower is currently a HorizonClan warrior.

Name- Fawnflower

Gender- She-cat

Clan- MarshClan (formerly), HorizonClan

Rank- Warrior

Family- Owlcrash (mate), Twistwhisker (father), Petalleaf (mother, deceased), Duckfeather, Fernfrost, and Ivybranch (aunts, deceased), Scorchstripe (cousin, deceased), Stormclaw, Whitebird, and Sootsnow (cousins), Wren (grandmother, deceased)

Friends- also Sootsnow... maybe Ambershine?

Enemies- also Scorchstripe, kind of (formerly)

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Fawnflower is generally perceived as being very pretty. She is a small, neat, slender she-cat with short, soft, pale brown tabby fur. Her stripes are a much darker shade of brown, as are her ear-tips. Her paws, tail-tip, and chest are white, and there are white speckles scattered across her face and down her spine. Her eyes are a bright yellow, although they appear greenish from certain angles and in some lighting.

#### Personality

Fawnflower is very straight-laced upon first glance. She seems very prim and proper, always speaking in a polite and dignified manner, and she doesn't seem to appreciate jokes or any sort of mischief. She acts very mature and formal toward most of her Clanmates. With cats she is comfortable with, however, she seems to take on an entirely different personality, revealing that she is actually surprisingly funny and daring, with a fondness for bending rules.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Fawnkit was born in MarshClan to Petalleaf and Twistwhisker. Her kithood was relatively chill and normal. She was a calm and sweet kit, albeit kind of a goody-goody. She got along very well with both of her parents and played with her cousin Sootpaw whenever she had the chance. Sootpaw was fun. Sootpaw taught Fawnkit how to do flips. She was really aggravated by Scorchpaw, though. Scorchpaw was also her cousin, but on her dad’s side. He hung out with Sootpaw a lot and Fawnkit didn’t like that. She thought he was annoying.

Once, when she was three moons old, Sootpaw decided to take her out of camp just to look around. Scorchpaw tagged along, because of course he did. Fawnkit wandered off, though, and ended up getting lost. She just cruised around cluelessly for a while and slowly panicked until she ran into Sootpaw’s sister, Whitepaw, who’d been coming back from gathering herbs in OrchidClan territory. Whitepaw yelled at her about obedience and took her back to camp, leaving Sootpaw and Scorchpaw to continue freaking out elsewhere. It was fun. Petalleaf and Twistwhisker were not happy with her.

The rest of her kithood was fairly uneventful. I mean, she was poking around in the medicine den one day while Whitepaw and Cherrycloud were away, and she got curious and ate a bunch of random berries because they smelled good. Turned out they didn’t taste good and she threw them up. She felt guilty about that and never told anyone. She didn’t want to get in trouble for it. Anyways, Fawnkit pretty much just vibed until she was six moons old, though.

#### Apprenticeship

Fawnpaw became an apprentice and did nothing for a while. We will never know who her mentor was. She stayed tight with her parents and Sootsnow, and was sort of sad when her aunt Duckfeather died. She hadn’t exactly been close with Duckfeather, but she’d always been nice to her. She was also a little bit surprised when Scorchstripe left the Clans... emphasis on *a little bit.* She didn’t really care that much.

Anyways, she was only eight moons old when Petalleaf was killed during an unexpected bout of greencough. Fawnpaw was devastated at the loss of her mother, and she started distancing herself from everyone, becoming reclusive and a bit snappish. She started shutting out her friends and family, concerning Twistwhisker and Sootsnow in particular.

Fawnpaw soon realized that she was just becoming fed up with MarshClan and everyone in it, so she moved to HorizonClan one moon later, preferring the mountainous edges and pine-filled forests. She pretty much just chilled once she was there, training alongside Owlpaw and probably some other cats that I’m too lazy to do the math to figure out. Whatever the case, she was happier in HorizonClan, and she stopped being a depresso girl. She completed her training and all was well.

#### Warrior Life

Fawnflower became a warrior once she was old enough, passing her assessment on her first try. She basically just vibed and did nothing for an extremely long time. She remained friends with Owlcrash, and stayed in touch with Sootsnow and Twistwhisker with help from Mistrunner. Scorchstripe came back to the Clans just to join OrchidClan, drop off Applekit, Foxkit, and Redkit, and then die. Applepaw joined HorizonClan later, though, and Fawnflower was glad that she was nothing like her father.

After an absurdly long time, Fawnflower finally became a mentor to Amberpaw, so that was something. Cool, I guess. They got along fairly well. Fawnflower took special care to teach her apprentice how to hunt and do flips. She still thought it was neat that Sootsnow had shown her how to flip, and she wanted to pass on that knowledge. She also tried to reassure Amberpaw at one point that her mother - Nettlewhisper - did indeed love her, and lectured her for insulting OrchidClan’s leader, Lavenderstar. But overall, they had a fun time, and Fawnflower was thrilled to be a mentor at last.

Before long, though, Fawnflower found herself crushing extremely hard on her buddy Owlcrash. She was pretty flustered and unsure how exactly to handle it. She tried going hunting with him once, and attempted to impress him by catching a bird on a thin tree branch, but instead nearly fell off of it and died. He caught her, though, which was quite nice of him, although it didn’t help at all with her crush. They also came across a funky-smelling squirrel in the territory near OrchidClan’s border, which happened to be one of the earliest warning signs of the plague. They reported it to Aspenstar and then proceeded to make fun of him, as everyone should.

Olwcrash soon received an apprentice of his own, Starlingpaw. Since Starlingpaw was friends with Amberpaw, Fawnflower used that as an excuse to set up a ton of joint training sessions. *Totally* not just because she thought Owlcrash was hot. Definitely not, no. But they trained their apprentices together a lot, and it was cute. Once the plague actually became a real problem and cats started dying, Fawnflower felt kind of guilty, and mentioned to Owlcrash that they might’ve been able to prevent it if they’d just killed the squirrel. He assured her that they’d done the safest thing they could’ve done at the time, though. She appreciated that. She also structured a game once with Starlingpaw and her brother Magpiepaw in which they were competing to catch a bunch of squirrels. It was fun.

Ambershine became a warrior after passing her assessment, and Fawnflower was very happy for her, although she privately thought that she would miss training her with Owlcrash. Not long after that, she was trying to have a nice hunting trip with him when they were found by Appleshine and Strikeskip and asked a ton of weird questions about "giant invisible murderfrogs". It was weird. Fawnflower had just wanted to go on a nice little date. She had not asked for any of that. Appleshine also called them out and asked them if they had crushes on each other. That was embarrassing for Fawnflower. But then she started wondering “hey, what if he likes me back???” so it wasn’t a complete waste.

Anyways, several moons later, she and Owlcrash were chilling again. They shared some prey and she accidentally almost choked on it like the smooth lass she is. She didn’t, though. Then they went for a stroll just to enjoy the territory and do some more flirting. They told some stories about their youth and visited OrchidClan’s border to look at the flowers. Fawnflower decided to drop a few hints and talk about how much she liked marigolds. Owlcrash couldn’t find any marigolds, but he gave her a dandelion, and she thought that was adorable and close enough. On the way back to camp, he suddenly asked her to be his mate. She was thrilled and said yes right away. It was really cute.

After that, she and her new husband went to go visit the nursery and get to know Fringekit and Tabbykit better, hoping to ask Aspenstar if they can mentor them together — they’d had lots of fun with Ambershine and Starlingtuft, after all. She was fifty-three moons old by now - approaching the high end of middle-aged - and she was just very happy to be going somewhere with her life.

Currently, she just kind of vibes. She’s very happy, though. We’ll see what happens from here.

## Other

#### Trivia

* She was named "fawn" because of her brown fur combined with the white spots on her back. Fawny.
* She is a good girl. Good girl is a good girl.
* She would absolutely be that one old teacher everyone has who can speak 86 different languages, but they’re all useless.
* Unfortunately, she’s also the type to enjoy watching Riverdale. On a similar note, she would not hesitate to binge-watch Stranger Things for seventy-two hours straight without sleeping. ~~Like me.~~
* She really loves the scent of OrchidClan’s flowers. Like, a lot. Her favorite flowers are pansies and marigolds, just because she likes the colors.
* She really wants to have kits one day before she gets too old. Also, OwlFawn is adorable.

#### Quotes

*"Behold your home. The same trees you'll be spending the next sixty or so moons of your life in."* (to Amberpaw)

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*"(OasisClan’s) territory is a lot like ours. Lots of trees. But most of them aren’t pines. They lose their leaves during leaf-fall. I suppose that’s why it’s called that, isn’t it? We never really get to see that here. But it was sort of noticeable back when I lived in MarshClan.”*

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**Fawnflower:** *"You'll get better. By the time you're a warrior, not a single butterfly will be able to escape from you."*

**Amberpaw:** *"Really?"*

**Fawnflower:** *"You’ll be the most fearsome butterfly hunter in all of HorizonClan. They’ll tremble in terror upon hearing your very name.”*

**Amberpaw:** *"They'll be sooooo scared of me, I'm sure."*

**Fawnflower:** *"Very much so."*

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**Fawnflower:** *"Do you have any questions?"*

**Amberpaw:** *"Nope."*

**Fawnflower:** *"Good."*

**Amberpaw:** *"Where next?"*

**Fawnflower:** *"I thought you said no questions."*

**Amberpaw:** *"Oops. Sorry!"*

**Fawnflower:** *"I'm kidding. You're fine. We're going to the OrchidClan border, like you asked."*

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*“(Nettlewhisper) chose to join. She did it because she thought it would be better for you. She put your best interest above her own. I think the most thanks you can give her is to respect that decision.”*

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*“The way to anticipate an enemy’s attack is by noticing their body language. How tense they are, the angle of their paws, where their eyes are looking... it’s all important, especially if you want to strike back at them instead of just getting out of the way.”*

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**Fawnflower:** *“It would be terrible to lose kits. I don’t have kits, but I still feel awful just thinking about it.”*

**Owlcrash:** *“It's okay, Fawnflower. HorizonClan is one of the safer Clans. We're safe, protected. There's not a drowning hazard, our leader is mentally stable, our caves rarely if ever cave-in. I'm sure your kits would be safe here. Er, if you had any, that is.”*

**Fawnflower:** *“You’re right. Thank you.”*

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**Owlcrash:** *“I, um, I'd better go get my catches. See you later, Fawnflower."*

**Fawnflower:** *“Oh. Um, okay. Yeah. You too. I mean, see you too. Later. See you later, too.”*