Post by mystic on Sept 10, 2010 21:55:05 GMT -5
[/url]Splecklestorm
Because I said so!
[url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Stray_cali
co_cat_near_Sagami_River-01.jpg]Here she is
Name: Specklestorm
Gender: She-cat
Age: 41 Moons
Clan: RiverClan
Rank: Queen
Apprentice: None
Love Interest: Stormheart(Mate, NPC)
Kin:
Blazetail - Mother (NPC)
Patchwhisker- Father (NPC) (WindClan)
Siblings
Patchtail (brother)
Sons
Clamfang (NPC)
Splashkit (Leafy)
Puddlekit (UFA)
Daughters
Minnowstream (NPC)
Sumdgewhisker (NPC)
Rainkit (Ambie)
Other
Fireblaze (Uncle)
Ruggedheart (Cousin)
Bigstep (Cousin)
Description:
White and calico, and tabby. Those are the colours that dominate this pretty she-cat's coat. Her hair is short and thick giving it a very plush like feel. Her chest and neck are white, as is most of her lower face, aside from a small splotch of pale ginger by her pink nose. She has dark grey splotches, intermixed with pale red splotches. Wherever the dark grey is, she has intense tabby markings.
Her head is well proportioned. Most of it is dark grey, including her ears. However along the line where her markings meet the white on her body the dark grey some red intermingles with the grey. She has sea green eyes that are surrounded by thick eyeliner markings making them pop out even more. Her ears are long and have thick fur inside.
Her body is powerful and she has long legs, a reminder of her ginger WindClan father. She also has the bulk of a RiverClan cat. Like any Riverclan cat her fur is thick and luxurious from swimming. She has gained a bit of weight from spending most of her time in the nursery, however she hasn't totally let herself go. She still trains to make sure that she can take down any invaders to the clan.
Her tail is banded grey and red and long. She always holds it up high like a banner. Her chest and neck are white, as are her front legs and thighs. She has a white patch on her back. Her whiskers are long and quite sensitive.
Personality:
Specklestorm is a she-cat in charge. She is the sort who takes care of her family's needs, however in return she demands nothing short of total respect. She has no role she needs outside being the mother of her kits, and a loyal and loving mate. However this does not make her weak. She is extremely strong, highly resourceful and thick skinned. She's not the sort of cat who takes being scored, insulted or cast off lightly. She expects her mate to be faithful, and if his heart ever strayed she would not sit by idly.
Strong and committed, Specklestorm is a faithful and loving partner to Stormheart. She never leaves her family, clan or friends behind, no matter what the cost to her. She is a loving and supportive mother, and expects love and support in return. She is only pleased to hand out advice. However she tends to get very cranky when that advice is not taken. In her mind, her advice is more than just advice, it is law.
The day she and Stormheart became mates is the most important day to her. It is forever burned in her memory. They became a single unit. She is a perfect mother and mate, however not for the benefit of her mate. She does it for hr own happiness.
In the Nursery she is the top queen, and is always there to help the other queens. She can be a bit pushy and bossy, however she is a great help and is quite good at mothering.
Specklestorm is very loving, however it doesn't manifest always in doting on her offspring. She is a very strong advocate of "tough love" and will give her kits a good smack upside the head if they need it, no matter how old they are.
History:
Like many cats today, Specklestorm is half Clan. A fact born of lax ideals and general flaunting of the code by most cats. Cross clan relationships were, and in some ways still are to some cats, commonplace. Sure it was good for genetics, but bad for the clans. It led to fights and jealousy. It was these fights that led Specklestorm to swear never to mate outside her clan, a promise she has kept to this day.
Her mother was a young ginger Riverclan queen called Blazetail. At a gathering Blazetail met and had a fling with a tall dashing tuxedo WindClan tom called Patchwhisker. It was only a one night stand, but the results of it would last for much longer than that one wild night the two young hormone riddled cats had spent together. It started with Blazetail feeling a little funny, then getting a little fat. Soon she figured out that she was pregnant, with half clan kits. Not that it was a big deal, plenty of cats were half clan. Including her niece and nephew, who lived in ThunderClan.
Two moons later, a litter of kittens was born. There were four little bundles of fur who were named Prettykit, Lionkit and Patchkit. The final kit born was a calico kitten. She was given the name Specklekit. She grew up like any other river clan kit, and at a young age started bossing the her siblings around. When they were about four moons old Lionkit tried to sneak out of the nursery. Specklekit told him not to and he called her a bossy furball and told her no one liked bossy furballs. During his little misadventure out of camp he was killed and eaten by a fox. Specklekit was devastated and swore never to listen to anyone who told her not to tell them what to do. After all, it was for their own good. If she had persisted and told on her brother instead of going off and crying she felt that he would still be alive.
When she was about five moons she became sick with whitecough and was stuck in the medicine cat den for a whole moon, coughing and sneezing up a storm. While her brother and sister approached their ceremonies, she was confined to the Medicine cat den counting the shells that hung from the ceiling. Then, like a blessing from Starclan, she got better just a few days shy of her sixth moon. However the leader decreed that she should spend an extra moon regaining her strength due to her sickness. So while her brother and sister trained she was stuck with noisy kits in the nursery den.
Finally, when she was seven moons old, she was called before the clan and given her apprentice name and a mentor. It was such a proud day for her. Now she would catch up with her siblings. She just knew she would, however luck wasn't on her side since she got the worst possible mentor in the whole clan, an old cranky tom called Cootfang, who really should have been an elder but refused to retire. He was never pleased with his young apprentice and would often go off on tangents about how things were in "his day" and how the clan had become soft. He also often mocked her for being half clan and told her that she would never amount to a true RiverClan cat. Specklepaw did her best to sit through these lectures and bore the insults. She hoped to glean some gems of knowledge from the dung that was coming from the old tom's mouth. However as he aged he only became senile and rambled more and more. She soon came to hate him.
Due to being lectured more than being trained Specklepaw's training took quite a while. When she was 11 moons old her aging mentor suffered a heart attack and died. Specklepaw was not unhappy at the turn of events, since the tom was a crabby old sod who only belittled her. Specklepaw was handed off to the much younger Turtleflower who did her best to whip the youngster into shape. Specklepaw got along brilliantly with the pretty tortie she-cat. They spent hours training and making up for lost time.
When Specklepaw was 12 moons old Prettypaw was killed in a border skirmish.
She trained hard with Turtleflower and when she was 16 moons old she was made a warrior along with her brother. She was given the name Specklestorm, in recognition of her proud and fierce nature. Not to mention her general bossiness. She and Patch-heart stood guard that night, watching the pale crescent moon. As the light from the Silverpelt shone down on them she knew that both her baby brother and her dear sweet sister were watching over them with pride. She sat up a little taller at the thought and kept her eyes forward, watching for any movement. That night passed without any problems whatsoever.
Becoming a warrior changed few things for Specklestorm. She still did most of her patrols with Turtleflower, with whom she had become fast friends over the moons they trained together. However another cat started joining them on these patrols, a handsome young tom called Stormheart. At first Specklestorm was resentful of him, she didn't like him butting in on her time with her former mentor. However slowly she began to accept him, then slowly became his friend.
She found that she and Stormheart had quite a good bond, he seemed to understand her and never judged her for being half-clan. She loved this aspect of him and started spending more and more time around him. At first she had trouble figuring out what was happening and went to talk to her old Mentor. Turtleflower explained that it was love.
Specklestorm took a few weeks to finally admit to Stormheart that she loved him. But the moment she did, it was amazing. They rubbed against one another, purring loudly. That night he asked her to be his mate. She agreed, however she wished to hold off the mating part until she has finished training her first apprentice. But they were mates in every other sense.
Specklestorm was given a young tabby tom called Stripepaw, and Stormheart was given the kit's sister, a brash little she-cat called Whitepaw. The four of them would often go on patrol together, or work on training moves together. Those six moons were quite fun and flew by. The day finally came when Stripepaw and Whitepaw became Stripetail and Whitefire.
It was also the day that consumated their union. Stormheart swore, upon all of StarClan, that he would never take another and that Speckleheart was the only she-cat for him. It was truly an amazing night and one that Specklestorm would remember for the rest of her life. It was, in her mind, one of the greatest days of her life.
Then, about 14 moons ago Specklestorm announced she was pregnant. Not that her growing belly stopped her form her duty. She spent the time, until only a two days before the birth, as an active warrior and refused to give up. However, once she became a mother, she truly felt home.
Her first litter consisted of four kits, two grey tabbies who looked like bore as much resemblance to their father as they did to one another. She named the two little scamps Clamkit and Minnowkit. Then there was a sweet little calico who looked like her mother, she was given the name Smudgekit. Finally there was a tom, as ginger as could be. She proudly bestowed him with the name Finchkit. The four kits had an uneventful kithood, aside from Specklestorm being driven to distraction by Clamkit's moodiness and Finchkit's non-stop questions. However they were finally made apprentices. However by this time Specklestorm had just become pregnant again. This time she chose to stay in the nursery and help the other she-cats.
Two moons later her second litter was born during a massive rainstorm. This litter had five kits, however one was a stillborn and the other died only a few moments after death. Both kits remained un-named.
The other three kits were Splashkit, Puddlekit and Rainkit. Puddlekit was the first born, and nearly didn't make it. However he managed to survive, unfortunately for his little brother. The second born was Rainkit, the only surviving she-kit of the litter. The last born of the living kits, born only seconds after his stillborn sister, was Splashkit. He had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. The medicine cat managed to chew though it before the kit suffocated. However being starved for oxygen at birth had a profound effect on Splashkit, making him mentally slow.
That stormy night was four moons ago, and her litter is growing well. She is worried by Rainkit's attitude, and Splashkit's slowness. However what worries her most is the cold, emotionless and cruel Puddlekit. There is something seriously wrong about that kit and Specklestorm doesn't like it in the least.
Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more
Songs
My Mother
You're Gonna be
Baby Mine (From Dumbo)
Find Your Wings
The mom Song
(Thought I needed a funny one in here)
