Post by Bast on May 11, 2011 21:30:23 GMT -5
willowleaf
THE WORLD IS BLACK, THE WORLD IS WHITE
IT TURNS BY DAY AND THEN BY NIGHT
THE WORLD IS BLACK, THE WORLD IS WHITE
IT TURNS BY DAY AND THEN BY NIGHT
NAME...Willowkit||Willowpaw||Willowleaf||Willowstar
AGE... 34 moons
GENDER... Female
CLAN... LionClan
POSITION... If they are part of a clan
SPECIES... Species of large cat
APPEARANCE...The average lioness would be sleek, muscular and a rich tawny gold. Not Willowleaf. Since birth, her pelt has been a perpetually pale, pale blonde, so light that it appears white in the sun. Only darkness brings out the subtle hints of blonde in her pelt, even then however, she seems white as snow. This unusual coloration has left her an outcast a majority of her life, at least, until others got to know her. She's not the best huntress, save for the colder months, but she is a fantastic scout. Why? Because Willowleaf is used to having to cover he tracks and sneak around in order to surprise her enemies, since her unusual coloration give her away. So, her sense of smell, hearing and vision are all a touch above the rest. Her eyes, like the rest of her coloration, are the product of recessive genes passed down through generations and brought out in her purely by accident. Instead of the rich honey gold, mossy green, warm brown or haunting pale yellow most cats have for an eye color, Willowleaf has pale blue eyes that border on grey in the right lighting.
PERSONALITY...Willowleaf is a she-cat everyone in the clan knows, whether they know her by name or not. She's a helping hand, a smile on a bad day and a kind word when you're feeling sad. Willowleaf hates seeing others unhappy, especially younger apprentices. Often she befriends the younger kits in the clan because she herself is young at heart and the novelty of her pale coat and eyes draws them to her. She doesn't mind it, in fact, she loves the awe in their eyes and the questions she gets. Willowleaf is firm when she needs to be but overall isn't a pushy or aggressive soul. She prefers to teach by example and positive reinforcement rather than punishments. Apprentices and even some warriors like to think she's a pushover and sometimes, she will be the first to admit, she can be. The thing is though, she's still a LionClan warrior. That doesn't change just because someone bats their eyes or compliments her. Willowleaf is loyal to the bone and if she has to be, will be the bad guy in the eyes of an apprentice if that's what it takes to teach them. She'll stand up for herself, even against her clanmates, though she hates starting trouble.
HISTORY...Born in the second litter of Sunstreak and the first litter fathered by Falconeye, it was a shock to all when all four kits were born white, not a blonde hair on them. Three of the kits were girls, Willowkit, Leapkit, Flykit and Brookkit with the addition of one male, Clawkit. Sunstreak's first litter, a pair of male kits by now named Hawktalon and Treetail, were normal with deep brown fur, thick amber manes and honey colored eyes due to the fact that their father did not possess the recessive traits that Sunstreak and Falconeye discovered when they bred. The white kits were gossiped about from the moment they were born. Some saw them as a sign of luck and good fortune while others thought them an omen of bad times. Still others thought everyone was silly, believing them to simply be kits like any other, so what if they were white? Thankfully, Sunstreak sympathized with this last group. Mothers advised her to abandon the kits for the good of the clan and elders shook their heads in despair but she refused to leave them.
Willowkit grew up with whispers all around her but thought nothing of it because she knew nothing else. She kept to her siblings and older siblings, thinking the gossip was just something she'd have to live with. To spare them further pains, Sunstreak had mercifully given them neutral names so that no one would hear their name and instantly guess its origin, such as naming one Whitekit and the others Cloudkit, Mistkit or some other obvious name. So, when she entered apprenticeship with Brokenclaw and went to her first Gathering, she was amazed at the reaction others had to her and her siblings. Some laughed at them, never having seen white lions before. Others snickered and suggested Sunstreak had found a white tiger to her liking, despite the lack of stripes on any of the kits. Since then, Whitepaw never went to a Gathering, even now as an adult. She knows now that her coloration sets her apart and makes her different, from her pale, pale coat to her stormy eyes. She feels isolated sometimes, like no one else is like her, especially since her siblings passed away. Clawpaw and Flywing died during a raging flood and Leappaw died during a border scuffle. The last of her sisters, Brookstream, died trying to birth a litter of kits that also died. Since their passing, Willowleaf has felt alone and isolated, always hungry for a face like her own, to see someone that's like her, alone and different.
