Leafcloud

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NAME:Leafcloud
GENDER:Female
AGE:32 moons
CLAN:Riverclan
POSITION:Medicine cat


APPEARANCE:

PELT COLOR:Brown, black, cream and white. Tabby.
PELT LENGTH:Short
MARKINGS:Tabby stripes with white tail tip
EYE COLOR:Light, faded green
BUILD:Thin and small. She's very skinny, with tiny, dainty paws.
OTHER:Her tail is longer than usual, helping her balance in tree's.

STRENGTHS:

Leafclouds tiny size, long tail and sharp eyes make her a terrific hunter. She loves to climb tree's and her pelt is very good at camoflauging her pelt in the tree's branches and leaves, as well as the grounds undergrowth. She has very sharp eyes, which can take in every detail of the world around her, helping her to notice small details in the world around her. She has longer than usual claws in her front paws, making climbing and fishing alot easier to hook bark or scale.

WEAKNESSES:

Unlike other Riverclan cats, Leafcloud is not a born swimmer. Her weak hindlegs and small paws do not help her to propel fowards through water and her long tail often slows her down. She also isn't much of a runner although she isn't slow. She's a little below average in running and leaping. She also lacks strength and when fighting will often dodge rather than attack.

PERSONALITY:

POSITIVES:

• Gentle and kind
  
• Compasionate, caring
  
• Hates fighting and will always try to find a peaceful solution
  
• Quick thinker, logical
  
• Honest and trustworthy
  
• Patient
  
• Witty and funny. She's always in a cheerful mood
  
• Loyal
  

NEGATIVES:

• Dreamy, easily distracted
  
• Shy
  
• Quiet
  
• Random. She can get a bit annoying with the things she says sometimes. She lacks concentration
  
• Very forgetful
  
  

LIKES:

• Climbing and sitting in trees
  
• Fishing
  
• Helping others and cheering them up
  
• Daydreaming
  
• Finding new herbs
  
• Explaining things
  
• Rain
  

DISLIKES:

• Fighting and any kind of conflict
  
• Arguing
  
• Swimming.(Yeah i know. Amazing, a Riverclan cat that hates swimming)
  
• Failing to help someone
  
• Being yowled at. Its one of the few situaions where she will get very angry.
  
• Small enclosures
  

Fears:

Leafcloud is Claustrophobic. She hates being in a small space and will avoid it as much as she possibly can. When she is forced into a enclosed area, her ears will flatten and she finds breathing difficult. She likes to keep her dens entrance wide open and will spend most of her time outside of it.
The tabby medicine cat also has a secret quiet fear. Swimming. She doesn't hate water, far from it. She loves water and rain as much as any Riverclan cat. However, her physical lack of talent at swimming makes her cringe away from entering a rushing river. She will swim only when completely nesscary.

Habits:

Leafcloud has a terrible habbit of daydreaming. When urgency arrives and the tabby she-cat is needed she will be there and ready but whenever she is taking a break or simply not doing something worthwhile, her mind just slips away and starts to think by itself. This makes her a bad listniner and often her friends will have to repeat something several times to get it into her head.

A harmless habit that the shy she-cat has is collecting feathers. Spending too much time in tree's, Leafcloud finds alot of intresting feathers of all colours and sizes and has become determined to collect every type of feather in the forest. She keeps them in the back of her den, making sure she has only one of each and that they are kept clean. This habit is actually quite useful. Though the feathers themselves don't do anything, the fact that Leafcloud concentrates when searching and looking after these feathers keeps her alert and out of her dreamy, drifting ways.

Goals:

Dreamy, quiet Leafcloud doesn;t have any real major goal in her life. She lives each day to the fullest and strives to help other cats in their strife and pain. She has a small, personal goal of collecting feathers, which entertains her and keeps her concentrating on the world around her.

Secrets:

Leafcloud is a very open and honest cat and prefers to not keep secrets. She feels as if secrets are a weight on her and they are a great discomfort to keep. She only keeps two secrets to herself.
The first is that, well, she doesn't like swimming. Its just something that never worked for her. She never tells anyone and pretends to enjoy splashing about in frothing rivers when really she is struggling to keep her head above the surface. She fears that if she anyone knew she would be a disgrace to the name of Riverclan and so chooses to keep that bit of information to herself.
The second is a little bigger than a swimming problem. When Leafcloud was Leafpaw, a young medicine cat in training, her sister Frostpaw left to live with twolegs. Leafcloud was the only one who ever knew the reason of Frostpaws disapearence and allowed everyone to believe that she had been kidnapped when she had, in fact, gone willingly.

RELATIONSHIPS:

MOTHER:Skygaze --Deceased--White with light ginger stripes and bright green eyes. Kind and fun.
FATHER:Scalefur--Deceased-- Tabby with pale blue eyes. Serious and compasionate.
SIBLINGS:Frostpaw --Dissapered-- White cat with tabby patches and bright blue eyes. Stubborn and fierce.
MENTOR:Gingerstripe --Deceased--Pale Orange tabby with amber eyes. Wise and gentle.
CRUSH/MATE: None
OTHER:

HISTORY:

It was New-leaf when i was born...Or at least it should have been. Leaf-bare was too long that moon they say. It was still cold when the buds started to come out onto the tree's, and they would freeze and die. Everyone was hungry and cold.
Me, Frostpaw and my sister Hopekit were born on a cold morning. Hopekit was barely breathing when she was born and my mother was warned that she was likely to die. My mother, devastated, was determined to not give up and treated her just like me and my other sister. I think she named her Hopekit because she was hoping that she would live. She didn't though. She died before the next sunrise.
Me and Frostkit were strong though. My mother named me for the leaves that were emerging on the tree's and my sister for the ice that covered them. My father was long dead at this time. He died in early Leaf-bare, falling into the icy river and getting tangled in reeds. It was tragic, they said, for a Riverclan cat to die drowning. I wish i knew my father.

New-leaf finnaly showed itself and me and Frostkit were old enough to start annoying cats. I was the first to leave the nursery. I remember it quite clearly. My mother was asleep and me and Frostkit were just hanging around, having recently learned to walk. On wobbly paws, i approached the entrance of the nursery for the first time. The air that came in was so clear and...open! Suddenly everything around me seemed tighter, closer. Feeling uncomfortable, i just wanted to get away from the walls around me. The other cats were surprised to see me out of the nursery. I was far too young. I think it was then that i realised my claustrophobia. I didnt feel happy indoors after that and i spent all my time in the nursery as close to the entrance as possible.

I can't remember much after that. It's a bit of a blur but from what other cats have told me, i was a bit...well, out of it. While the other kits were playing around and fighting, I would be sitting in a patch of sunshine, gazing at everything around me in an amazed way, my eyes zoned out. Cats had to yowl before i would turn my head to listen. I didn't splash around and try swimming in the river and I never liked fighting with my sister and friends. I used to complain whenever they jumped on me. They stopped trying to play with me after a while, i was too easy to beat.
Feeling lonely and gazing at the sky one day, Gingerstripe approached me. He asked if i was busy and, after telling him i wasn't, he asked me to come and help him sort out some herbs. I coudn't believe my eyes! There were so many herbs! So many different smells and sights! By the end of that day, i had asked Gingerstripe for the name of every herb in his den and was keenly listning to remedies and cures. It didnt occur to me then that that could be my life.

I knew that you had to be born a medicine cat and i always thought i would take the path of a warrior, like everyone else. I probably would have, even, if i didnt have my 'vision'. Thats what Gingerstripe called it. I didn't even realise it. In fact, i don't remember that day, although Gingerstripe has told me about it so many times, i know what happned. I was daydreaming as usual, in a corner of the camp, gazing into the water. No cat bothered with me, used to my staring and dreaminess. Then when my mother told me to come to teh nursery to sleep i told her i couldn't because the starry cats said that i had something to do. When she asked me what starry cats, i replied "The cats of mist that were talking about destinies and futures and stuff! They were all shiny and they walked so quickly i thought they were floating!" My mother told Gingerstripe later that day of my 'vision'. The next day he asked if i felt that being a medicine cat was a nice thing to do. I told him i wish i could be a medicine cat. He told me i could be. It was the happiest day of my life.

Soon i was Leafpaw, medicine cat apprentice of Riverclan. Frostpaw was angry, she said that she wouldn;t be able to go hunting and fighting with me now. Gingerpelt explained that i would have to learn how to hunt and fight a little anyway, and that cheered her up a bit. There are only two things i can remember from my time as an apprentice.
The first was my mothers death. It was a border patrol, a simple, silly argument about a line somewhere in the forest that seperated us from Windclan. I've hated fighting and war ever since.
The second was Frostpaw leaving. Its the biggest secret i've ever had to keep. One day, Frostpaw said she needed to speak to me and told me to follow her. She took me past the Riverclan and Thunderclan border, all the way to the Twolegplace. I was nervous the whole time, i kept hissing at her that she was crazy. But she kept going. Finnaly, she turned around and told me that she had found something better than clan life. She said that she had been secretly letting two-legs feed her and going with them in their gardens. She said it was a life of luxury, of peace and royalty. She told me she was leaving. I was shocked. I told she was insane, that this was madness. I pleaded and begged her to stay, to rethink and give warrior life a second chance. But Frostpaws mind was made up. She was leaving. Just when she turned to go, she stopped and looked back at me.
"Come with me" She whispered, "Come on Leafpaw, you've always wanted peace and quiet, this is it!"I think that shocked me more than anything else. I took a step back wildly shaking my head. Words failed me at this point. They still do. Frostpaws eyes narrowed and her final goodbyes to me were snarled as she turned and left. I was devasted.
When I got back i told everyone that Frostpaw had been taken. I coudn't admit, even to myself, what my sister had done. I felt so alone.

Moons passed and I was finnaly a proper medicine cat. My new name was given to me and i started to fullfill my duties. Me and Gingerstripe took care of the clan together for a whole season before he died. He was an old cat and it was a natural death. He died in his sleep. It was sort of a happy death, if you know what i mean. He was at peace. I see him with my other warrior ancestors now and i know he's fine. I didn't feel alone with this loss but even more strengthened. I have a job to do, i am the medicine cat of Riverclan.

OTHER:

Hi. Dis iz my first character. ;D

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