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Cricketpaw
NightClan Apprentice

General Information

Name » Cricketpaw
   - Nickname: Cricket, Little Bug
   - Previous Names: Cricketkit
   - Future Names: Cricketchirp
Gender Identity » She-Cat
   - Pronouns: She/her
Sexuality » Hetero
Age » 15 moons.
Clan » Nightclan
Rank » Apprentice
- Previous Rank(s): Kit

Appearance

Over the moons that Cricketpaw has grown, it has become apparent that while she was very much a runt at birth and throughout her first 7 or so moons, she has grown into an average, if not below average, sized feline. With a relatively small body, tiny paws, and thin legs to make her appear taller, though to no avail in comparison to many of the giants of her clan, it is very clear that Cricket has never been very big.

Assisting her in merging with the shadows, as a Nightclan cat does, this petite she-cat is covered in relatively silky coal black fur which can glow a faint silver in the moonlight. In contrast to her natural shadowy pelt is few white markings, particularly a triangle-like shape around her neck that ends just beneath her lower jaw and on the toes of all four paws. There is only a singular paw in which the whole paw is white rather than just the toes.

The final touches of her appearance are her long white whiskers that stick out from her face and her mostly round light brown eyes.

Summary » A small, mostly black she-cat with a few white markings and light brown eyes.

Eye colour » Pale brown
Pelt colour » Black and white
Pelt markings » 1 white sock, 3 white paw-toes, white triangle around throat
Build » Small and petite with tiny paws and an over-sized tail
Scars » None
Disabilities » None

Personality

A very shy and scaredy little Apprentice, Cricketpaw is known for her very introverted and jumpy personality. Having gotten doted on by her mother, this she-cat is easy to scare and doesn’t like meeting new cats, especially if someone she is close to doesn’t know them as well. When she does get startled, she lets out a high-pitched chirp, which is where her name came from. She gets embarrassed quickly by compliments and sometimes can’t even tell when someone is saying something just to be nice. She can almost always be found walking alongside someone she is close to, such as one of her brothers, or just hiding behind them.

This shyness can be seen as quite cute to many cats, which also leads to her being seen as sweet. She is soft-spoken with a higher-pitched voice and is constantly thinking about the well-being of others, even if she doesn’t outwardly act this way. She does worry about the health of her clanmates, no matter who they are, so she tries to watch what she says and sometimes attempts to comfort others. But if she finds that her attempts don’t work, she will cower away to hide again out of fear that they may be upset with her for trying to help them. She is constantly scared of her friends and family being disappointed or angry with her, so she tries to do good things whenever she can, and gets sad and jumpy when she thinks someone disapproves.

In truth, there are two “bad” sides to Cricketpaw that are complete opposites of each other. The first is that she is quite clingy, constantly wanting to be with someone at all times and usually picking the same few cats to take that spot. She will follow whichever cat happens to be the chosen one and will keep doing so until told to stop, though sometimes she still does it anyway. The other side is that she is very...unpredictable. One minute you will see her shying away from others with her face buried in her mother’s side. The next you will see her attempting to shimmy up a tree by herself. You can typically guess that she will be with one of her parents or one of her siblings, but occasionally she will just be seen in the most random spot by herself.

Positive traits » Sweet, considerate
Neutral traits » Shy, jumpy
Negative traits » Clingy, unpredictable

Family

Family tree » Not made yet

Father » Lionfang
Mother » Ravenflight
Brothers » Badgerpaw, Spiderpaw, Blackstag(Bio), Buckfur(Bio)

Relationships

Mentor » ??
Mate » None.
Romantic partner » None.
Crush » None.

History

Cricketkit was born to Lionfang and Ravenflight with her brothers Badgerkit and Spiderkit in Nightclan. When she was born she was unusually small and was very quiet at first, not even mewing for the longest time. Ravenflight was worried that the runt of her litter and only daughter wouldn’t survive and lived with that spark of fear in her chest for the first moon that the kits were alive. Luckily, the little black and white she-kit managed to survive and was named Cricketkit due to her small size and the chirps that she let out once she did start making noise. This name also came from the fact that from a very young age every time that something would startle her, she would let out a chirp rather than a cry.

As Cricket and her brothers grew, she didn’t often get to play with them because of their size. Badger and Spider would easily crush her if they made a wrong move, so Cricket was constantly babied by Ravenflight. The large black she-cat had a deep love for her tiny cricket and was always showing her affection, whether it be nuzzling or grooming or making sure she didn’t wander too far or get too close to her brothers’ play fights. Cricket very quickly became a momma’s girl and was almost always by her mother’s side, even when they became old enough to leave the Nursery. She did have a connection to her father, Lionfang, but she was scared of him at first too. Eventually she grew out of this, knowing he was her father, but she never followed him around like she did to Ravenflight.

Once they did leave the Nursery more often, the three siblings learned about the two older brothers that they didn’t know they had until then. Blackstag and Buckfur were their two large Warrior brothers who had come from another mother. Badgerkit and Spiderkit looked up to them as strong Warriors and powerful cats, but Cricketpaw saw them as scary at first. She would hide behind Ravenflight when they came around for the longest time and would only peek. But there was one day where Ravenflight had the three kits outside and the two big toms happened to be in camp. Cricketkit randomly padded away from her mother’s side and appeared next to Buckfur, hiding amongst his long fur from the cats he was talking to. Not too long after this, she did the same thing to Blackstag, though she was always slightly more afraid of Blackstag than his brother. Despite that, the two of them became her go-to choices to stay by when her mother was busy or her father was out on patrol.

Now, she just recently became an Apprentice and gets to face the challenge of having to bond with a cat who possibly is not her parents or her brothers.

Bonus Funny Picture

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