Post by VALACIE on Jan 2, 2012 16:01:31 GMT -5
rapidfire
I WAKE UP EVERY EVENING
WITH A BIG SMILE ON MY FACE
I WAKE UP EVERY EVENING
WITH A BIG SMILE ON MY FACE
name...rapidkit||rapidpaw|| rapidfire ||
age...23 moons
gender...male
clan...cheetahclan
position...warrior
species...cheetah
apperance...It is not a difficult task to spot what sets rapidfire apart from his clanmates. Suffering from heterocromia his eyes are his most startling feature. With one the color of the sky and the other a shade of orange reminiscent of fire he can simultaneously cool and ignite in a glance as his mother liked to say. Unfortunately this feature also makes his face seem unbalanced, with one eye expressing all and the other keeping it deeply hidden he can be confusing at first glance. With other cats claiming that it's like his face hasn't quite decided what emotion to go with. Aside from his eyes he is of average height for a cheetah, with the slender long legged build that makes them so easy to identify. His pelt is smooth and heavily spotted with the spots growing in size as the go down his legs. His coat is a little thicker then average, making it uncomfortable on hot days but comfortable during colder ones.
personality...loyal. If nothing else he is a loyal clan cat. He'll do anything for the clan that needs doing, going on extra patrols or doing errands no one else wants to attend to. It may be his personalities one defining feature.
Proud. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who thinks more highly of himself then Rapidfire. He's narcissistic to an extreme that leaves him sidetracked at the mere site of his reflection. And he thinks he deserves everyone's good opinion and respect. Despite not giving it in return. Despite being loyal to the clan as a whole he can look down on individuals as being inferior to himself. Whether it's because he doesn't consider their appearance equal to his, or because he feels they don't contribute quite as much as he does can very.
Flirty. Despite finding few that equal his own beauty he is not beyond flirting with anything that he can speak too. He considers flirting an icebreaker of sorts and feels that whoever he flirts with should feel glad that he's showing them such attentions. Which means he is more confused then offended if anyone completely rejects his flirting or doesn't play along.
Vindictive. Poor poor little Rapidfire is a grudge holder. Stole his favorite toy when you were three moons old? Yeah, he probably still hates you for it. And not, dislike. Pure hatred. Like make your life miserable in a thousand different little ways just cause he can hatred. Needless to say this doesn't make him very popular amongst his peers.
history...Very little worth mentioning happened in his kithood. He was was a cub of riverpelt and twilightclaw with two brothers eaglefoot and noonfang. Unless you ask rapidfire himself at which point he'll regale you about the unfairness of a life where you had one blue eye and one gold...and how everyone constantly picked on him out of their jealousy. Which as others will tell it was not exactly true. Rapidfire will take any opportunity to embellish his life to the extreme adding enough flowery details to make a savanna into a jungle and paint himself as the poor mistreated hero.
Onto his apprenticeship. Here you'll find a little more consistency then his life as a kit. Everyone is in agreement that this time truly was hard for the young Rapidfire. Just s few moons after gaining a mentor he lost him. Speckleeyes was killed during one of the lessons with his young apprentice when they were set on by three rogues. Rapidpaw who had as of that moment had no fight skill to speak of was told to run (a trait he did well) and not stop until he'd reached camp. At which point he was to alert the others of the rogues and hopefully bring help in time to save his mentor. Help did not arrive in time. Though he reached the camp quickly and his clanmates had little trouble believing the terror on his face, They were hard pressed to find enough warriors that weren't on patrol to face what rapidfire described as three very large male lions.
When the rescue party was finally formed and set out rapidpaw was asked to stay in camp with the other apprentices. He didn't. Following at a distance he reached the site of the carnage a few moments after the rest of the warriors. What awaited them was a mutilated body and blood stained grass. The rogues, apparently tiring of their toy having ditched the dead cheetah's thin carcass for other pursuits. Rapidpaw was horrified at the site of his dead mentor that he had to be dragged back to camp because he refused to move.
Soon after a new mentor was found for him Dawntail, a softhearted and gentle she-warrior with kind eyes. She trained Rapidpaw well but seemed unable to cure his various personality problems, problems she blamed on the death of speckleeyes. Though some of it had already been present in kithood it had grown worse after that even and she figured he used it as some sort of defense mechanism.
In the period of his second mentor he lost yet another family member though this one was not quite as devastating. His father succumbed to greencough, but as rapidfire had little contact with the rom he wasn't readily effected. It was the clan that decided the death had impacted him in some way or another.
After that no more tragedies befell the young Cheetah other then those he spins himself and launches in tales far out of proportion. He grew to become a warrior and the pride of his mentor though his personality still suffered from many nasty flaws that she'd tried rather hard to fix. He went from rapidpaw to rapidfire in honor of the fire that burns inside of him. A fire that if someone looks deep into his eyes is equal parts cool and hot. Dawntail still holds out hope that he'll change, that something or someone will form him into the Cheetah she can be proud of. Rapidfire of course doesn't consider anything about his personality is wrong, and doesn't think he needs 'fixing'.
