Mountaindew

## Appearance

Light gray short-haired tom cat with a white chest, paws, and chin. He is smaller than average, appearing more like a full-grown apprentice. He has striking yellow eyes, which typically reflect his emotions.

## Personality

Mountaindew is a very modest and humble tom cat. He thinks before speaking, usually keeping his communication limited and straight to the point. He is easily teachable, and normally keeps at peace with those around him. He tends to shy away from his duties, enjoying more to hide in crevices and avoid others. He gets easily frustrated and normally downplays his skills; however, doesn’t let others know about this. For the limited number of people whom he favors, they will get to see a more emotional side of Mountaindew. He is eager to listen to the ones he cares for, even if he doesn’t say much back. He enjoys being outside of camp and loves nothing more than to be in silence sitting on the low hanging branches overlooking Thunderclan.

## Kit-Hood

Mountainkit was first roleplayed on November 7th, 2019. It can be assumed he was born around October 20th. He was born second out of a two kit litter. His kin, Flashclaw, has always been larger than him.

As kits, Flashclaw and Mountaindew enjoyed to be out of the nursery at all costs. They stood atop a stump and praised Starclan to forgive them for the beginning of leaf-bare. They both believed they caused snow to start falling since they were very mischievous kits.

Aspenflame saved the two kits from their misery and explained seasons to them. This experience left a motherly bond between Aspenflame, Mountainkit, and Flashclaw that will last forever. They see her as their adopted mother.

Mountainkit became friends with Flutterkit and Cloudkit. Mountainkit didn't realize Flutterkit was blind and accidentally insulted her. Cloudkit became very mad with Mountainkit, leading him to realize there were people he didn't like. This was the first instance of his true personality showing. He became very quiet and apologetic, something that is similarly shown in his warrior life.

## Apprenticeship

Mountainpaw was apprenticed on December 03, 2019. He was excited to leave the nursery and join the ranks of apprentices. He celebrated with his kin, Flashclaw, before getting to his mentor. Flashclaw recieved Palestar as her mentor, something Mountainpaw was extremely jealous of in the beginning.

Darkfur was named Mountainpaws apprentice. Having dealt and learned about being blind from Flutterkit, Mountainpaw seen it as a sign from Starclan that Darkfur was assigned as his mentor. This strengthened his beliefs in Starclan significantly. Mountainpaw was very excited to train with Darkfur and looked forward to seeing him each sun-rise.

On his first training excursion, a tree-branch full of snow cracked and landed onto Mountainpaw. He fell unconscious and Creamfall treated him the medicine den. He blamed it on him being too excited to explore the territory. He keeps his emotions more calm since then, as Starclan may hear and attack him with tree-limbs once more.

Cloudpaw, whom Mountainpaw still wasn't a fan of since kit-hood, showed off to Mountainpaw a lot. Cloudpaw got promoted early for winning a fight in a border scuffle. Mountainpaw was not happy and seeked to avoid Cloudfrost at all costs.

Mountainpaw didn't speak to many other apprentices during this time, neither did Flashpaw. They bonded deeply with each other and were quite inseparable. They kept their nests together and shared prey whenever they both were in camp together. He was quite often saddened by the fact that Flashpaw recieved the leader as her mentor and was usually busy out of camp. This was a factor in his quiet personality.

## Warrior-ship

Mountainpaw was promoted to Mountaindew on January 24, 2020. He was given the prefix -dew for his pale gray pelt. Just as apprentices, he congratulated Flashpaw, now Flashclaw, immediately. She received an apprentice the same time she was promoted to warrior. Mountaindew was quite jealous. He moved their nests into the warriors den by himself as she trained her apprentice.

The warrior kept close with Flashclaw, Aspenflame, Milkbelly and not many others. To his surprise, he was given an apprentice Ravenpaw. Ravenpaw hated being in Thunderclan and Mountaindew spent many moons trying to aide her into becoming a warrior. Eventually he gave up and told Icicilestar she wasn't meant to be a warrior. She was exiled from Thunderclan soon after. This caused Mountaindew extreme sadness and a light depression period.

Mountaindew and Milkbelly bonded over Ravenpaw. They would often go out in search of gifts to give to his former apprentice. He promised to attend the patrol that was taking Ravenpaw out of the borders.

Flashclaw, his kin, became the deputy of Thunderclan. Mountaindew was extremely happy and constantly boasts about his kin. She developed into a strong leader while he is her strongest supporter.

(last updated 5/2/2020)