Aromantic
OrangeAxolotl
Ja'ams got the applesauce that you crave!
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Post by OrangeAxolotl on Mar 20, 2018 20:42:29 GMT -5
What Will you remember?
When your eyes open for what feels like the first time, all you see is a shifting mass of dots. Light, dark, smooth, sharp, grainy, they swim in front of your eyes. Staring around at them for a moment, a thought arises in your head. You realize those aren’t the right words for what you see. Colors, they’re called. Blue, green, purple, teal, indigo. These colors seem connected to cold… and there were others. Red, orange, gold, yellow. Warm. Like a Greenleaf hunt, with a breeze on your muzzle and a mouse under your claws, and hunting with you…. Hunting with you…
Try though you might to remember who was with you, all you can see in your mind’s eye is a shifting form. After a few moments of frustration, you give up, and any thought of the companion leaves your mind.
You walk through this warm, dry haze, void of emotion. Your mind feels empty, like a den whose owner wandered out one day and never came back. Little thoughts drift through it without making any sense and are soon forgotten. It’s impossible to tell how long you’ve been padding slowly through the haze. You’ve become fully aware of your body, a tail, four paws, and the color of your fur. These things you can remember because you see and feel them constantly, but whenever a memory of something specific, like a hunt or meeting someone for the first time, it seems to slip away in the span of a few breaths. After a while of this, you hear a voice calling.
“You there!” Your ears turn, and you turn to see who was calling for you. You don’t see anything, and after a few moments your mind gets fuzzy again and you continue walking.
“Hey! Hey you! Are you mouse-brained or something?” You turn to the voice, one you’re sure you’ve never heard before, even though it’s the same voice as before. Quickly, before the voice drifts from your mind, it speaks again. “Hold your breath, unless you want to be a Wanderer forever.” You quickly stop breathing and stand stock still.
“There you go. Now quickly, follow my voice. You haven’t got much time!”
Hesitantly at first, but growing with urgency, you begin to trot towards the voice. Soon you’re running, and your head is dizzy from lack of air, but up ahead you can see colors that seem to go together.
“You’re almost there. Come on! A few more steps!”
So suddenly that it shocks you, the veil of haze that has been covering your eyes for as long as you can remember disappears. Near you, a russet tabby tom sits on a tall gray rock. “Thank Starclan!” he gasps as you approach him, his voice exasperated. “That took forever! I can’t believe it took twenty tries to get you out of there! But, I suppose it’s a miracle I got you out at all, what with you forgetting I was calling you just as soon as you listened.”
You suppose that your confusion must be obvious, as he pauses and tilts his head. “Huh. I guess they aren’t kidding when they say that Haze messes with a cat’s mind. Guess I’m super lucky to have been born in Hazeclan! Ain’t got to go around forgetting everything all the time.” The young tom’s plumed, shimmering tail flicks with pride.
The things he says most certainly don’t help your confusion, but he ignores this fact and hops lightly off the boulder. “All right. I don’t really know how to deal with Hazers,” he tilts his head, “But you can follow me to camp if you want. I mean unless you want to go stumbling through the Haze again like a hollow-head.” You don’t reply, stone silent as your mind shakes the Haze off and starts to work again. “What, forgot how to speak, have ya?”
You bristle. “No, I haven’t.”
The tom flicks an ear. “Well. If you remember how to talk and walk, we ought to be off.” He begins to trot away, glancing back once. “Come on.”
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Aromantic
OrangeAxolotl
Ja'ams got the applesauce that you crave!
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Post by OrangeAxolotl on Mar 20, 2018 20:43:35 GMT -5
Rules
No powerplaying, god-modding, or perfect characters. Powerplaying is roleplaying someone else's character without permission. God-modding is having overly powerful characters without reason(there may be some powers in a future plot, but at the moment with the current plot). Perfect characters are loved by everyone and have the universe bend to their whims, nothing ever goes wrong for them.
No bad-spirited RPing. Bad-spirited RPing is roleplaying with the intent to diminish someone else's enjoyment of the game. This includes things like making your characters overly hostile against characters that belong to someone you don't like, disregarding someone's wishes for their character, force shipping, having characters be pointlessly destructive without good in-character reason, rendering someone else's characters unable to participate in the RP, or ganging up to exclude someone.
No graphic descriptions. Don't make anyone else uncomfortable. That includes fighting, mating, and kitting. Fighting without graphic descriptions is okay. Mating and kitting are hard nos for any sort of description. I know that kitting is described in the books, but it personally makes me incredibly uncomfy, and rarely adds anything important to the plot, so let's just stay away from it in general.
Roleplay with a purpose. This is in place of your usual literacy rule. Basically, try your best to keep the RP going and give your partner an opening to respond to. You can choose to do that with five paragraphs or one line, it doesn't matter.
Be inclusive. HazeClan fully supports any and all people and characters that want to join our ranks. All LGBT+ orientations are allowed, as are things like mental illnesses, as long as they are portrayed knowledgeably and respectfully. Do your research before making a character like that. I will be doing my own research as well. Making a purposely homophobic/transphobic/discriminatory comment will result in either a stern warning or an immediate removal from HazeClan, depending on severity. Don't worry, I'll do my best to be understanding of accidents.
Be kind. Out of character. I don't mind if your character is a jerk, but so help me, I will come after you if I notice you being mean to anyone in or out of HazeClan. If you have an issue with someone, either solve it between yourselves or PM me so I can act as a neutral party and work alongside you to solve your problem. I'm more than willing to help out.
Minimal advertising, no spamming. You may share links and stories and art and the like, because I know folks love to show their friends the cool stuff they've made, and I'd love to see it! But there is a difference between "hey, check this out!" and sharing the same link 15 times a day.
Listen to me. I, or any mods I might appoint later, will have the final say on what constitutes a rule violation. Don't worry, I have no plans to become corrupt as of now. That might change in the future though, whoops.
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OrangeAxolotl
Ja'ams got the applesauce that you crave!
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Post by OrangeAxolotl on Mar 20, 2018 20:45:10 GMT -5
The Haze
Hazeclan is a collection of lost wanderers and clan-born cats. Surrounding the wide-ranging territory of these cats there is a strange fog they call The Haze that causes animals to lose their memory. This fog traps the Hazeclan cats in their territory, unable to escape. Even though they are trapped, it doesn't feel like it. Many of the cats were born and raised in Hazeclan, though newcomers stumble into the clan quite often. Even though Hazeclan is a great place to live, Hazers, or cats who come from the fog, will often spend much of their time trying to remember where they came from. The fog itself has different effects on each cat, ranging from none - besides amnesia - to the extreme. For some, it causes personality swings. For an unlucky few, it causes permanent memory damage, making them unable to even remember what they ate last. This often kicks in during old age. A few lucky cats have strange effects, like powers or a change in their pelts, but this is not very common and has only been known to effect Clan-born cats. A few have been known to die after breathing it in for too long.
For several generations, Hazeclan cats have been at a quiet peace with the Haze. But elders swear that when they were kittens the territory was larger, and as they've grown older, the sphere of land Hazeclan can occupy has shrunk and that it's happening faster and faster with each passing moon. If they're right, that means that soon Hazeclan territory will be too small to support the number of cats in Hazeclan. But those are just stories the elders make up to scare the kits! Right?
Beyond the Haze, Hazeclan is much like a normal clan. You can roleplay and headcanon, cats can meet and become friends or enemies, mentors can teach apprentices and elders can tell stories. There will be smaller plots, naturally, with inter-clan drama and new animals coming through the Haze, but the main overarching goal is to solve the many mysteries the Haze holds, and maybe even eventually learn how to escape it. The mysteries are listed below. The questions will be updated regularly with answers and additional questions as your characters puzzle them out and decide which questions to pursue.Mysteries
-What is the Haze made of? (Unsolved) -Why is it here? (Unsolved) -Why does it affect cats like it does? (Unsolved) -How does it affect cats like it does? (Unsolved) -Are there any additional effects that we don't know about? (Unsolved) -Is the Haze closing in? How quickly? (Unsolved) -What is beyond the Haze? (Unsolved) -More to be added as questions are asked and answered.
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OrangeAxolotl
Ja'ams got the applesauce that you crave!
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Post by OrangeAxolotl on Mar 20, 2018 22:13:32 GMT -5
Territory Bluff Stones A cliff in the Northern part of the territory rising steeply into the sky. Daring apprentices and showy warriors will try their paw at navigating to its top, but with limited footholds this treacherous cliff is a disaster waiting to happen. Even if one were to reach the top, there is only a small amount of land before the Haze creeps in.
Stone Tumble Near the base of the Bluff Stones lies a large pile of boulders. These rocks have many crevices and crannies, and after sitting here for as long as any cat can remember it's probably safe to enter...
Great Lion Fields In the East and the West, the Great Lion Fields hug the edge of the Haze and spread a good distance into HazeClan territory. The Fields, as most call it, is named for its appearance in Greenleaf. When the sun shines brightly upon Hazeclan territory, hundreds of bright yellow flowers pop up across these grassy fields. These flowers are called Great Lions here in Hazeclan, from a story that elders brought about huge maned cats.
Tall Tree Forest Down in the South, oak, pine, and maple trees extend high into the sky. On the ground, brambles and bushes flourish. Here and there is a strange clearing, and looking up you'll be able to just make out a patch of Haze, high in the sky. Even if you were to climb trees or even fly, you couldn't get out. Reassuring, no? Whether this depresses you or makes you happy, it isn't going to change. The forest can be found a few rabbit hops from the Dirt entrance of camp.
Rocky River The River lies mainly in the Western part of the territory, running through the Fields and then past camp, to the North of it. It stops right before exiting the territory to the East and gathers in a pond. The River is rather slow-moving and no danger to a grown cat except in its deepest parts. In many parts, the River is extremely shallow and can even be walked across by an apprentice, if they can balance on slippery rocks. In some areas, the river leaks off into what are basically large puddles. These puddles have soft, sandy bottoms and range from the size of an actual puddle to the size of a small pond.
Star Pool This is the pool where medicine cats and leaders go to commune with Starclan. The pool is located at the far East of the territory, very near to the Haze border. Its depths are filled with swirling colors and its surface is constantly rippling from the incoming water. To dream, a medicine cat will drink the water until they fall into a deep sleep, where they dream of riddles and starry cats. The belief of Starclan was brought by the very first cats through the Haze and passed down through the generations.The CampIn general The camp is found in a slight dip in the territory. To the South lies the forest, to the East and West the fields and to the North the river and the bluffs. The camp walls are made of trees and rocks to the South and brambles to the North. There are two exits, the front exit through a well hidden hole in the brambles and the back entrance, a climb over some of the safer rocks.
Nursery and Elders dens These two dens are side by side. Each is a carefully construed den, made of brambles and mud. The bottom of each den is coated with the mud, and leaves and moss are pressed into it while it's still drying. This creates a sturdy, safe den that is completely safe for kits and elders. The entrance to each den is blocked with ferns.
Medicine Cat den The Medicine Cat lives in and near a great broken tree stump at the edge of the camp that had been struck by lightning long ago. The Medicine Cat stores their herbs in hollows eaten out by termites or in other nooks and crannies around the tree.
Apprentice den The Apprentice den is a collection of bushes located near the Elders den. Apprentices sleep inside on moss and whatever else they can find that's soft.
Warrior den The Warriors den is also a collection of bushes, but much larger. Surrounding the den are many beautiful but surprisingly painful wild roses. They range from red to yellow, and bloom in Newleaf. It is situated between the Apprentice and Leader dens.
Leader den The leader's den is located next to the Warrior den. It is up a sudden and unexplained slope, on top of which lies a large boulder and a mess of bushes and ferns. It is easy to defend, seeing as there is no way to get to it without climbing the short slope, and any cat on the slope is visible from the den and to the whole clan.
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OrangeAxolotl
Ja'ams got the applesauce that you crave!
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Post by OrangeAxolotl on Mar 21, 2018 20:33:18 GMT -5
Timeline
2/14/13 - Hazeclan first appears on the original WCF under the leadership of **Ivysong**8/30/13 - After six months of roleplaying, Hazeclan is put to rest7/17/16 - Hazeclan is remade on WCRP under the leadership of Sherk 7/24/16 - Due to lack of interest, Hazeclan never gets off the ground and is abandoned by Sherk 3/20/18 - OrangeAxolotl decides to try again with full permission from Sherk because surprise he's been Sherk this entire time he just forgot the password to his old accountMembers OrangeAxolotl - Any nickname - Admin - Quickstar, Batsong, Leafy
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Aromantic
OrangeAxolotl
Ja'ams got the applesauce that you crave!
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Post by OrangeAxolotl on Mar 24, 2018 13:36:20 GMT -5
Allegiances
Leader
✘ Quickstar - Male - A skinny dark grey tomcat with a white neck. He is 47 moons old. He has long limbs and green eyes. - Quickstar makes it his duty to know everyone in the clan. He's calm and has a sort of fatherly attitude. He's more concerned with keeping his clan going day-to-day basis than escaping the Haze. He'll do anything to make sure his clan feels safe. - Quickstar wandered into the Haze when he was 8 moons old. He doesn't remember his life before at all, but afterwards he became an apprentice and worked hard to prove himself. He became a warrior and gained the name Quickflight after he chased away a fox that had wandered through the Haze. - OrangeAxolotl
Deputy
✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
Medicine Cat
✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
Medicine Cat Apprentice
✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
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OrangeAxolotl
Ja'ams got the applesauce that you crave!
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Post by OrangeAxolotl on Mar 29, 2018 19:24:57 GMT -5
Allegiances Cont.
Warriors & Adult cats affiliated with hazeclan
✘ Batsong - Male - Batsong is a small black tomcat with unnaturally large ears and a bobtail. His eyes are cloudy and grey and his limbs are short. He's about 22 moons old. - Batsong is a meek little kitty, and doesn't speak too often and doesn't like sharing his feelings, because whenever he does it's super duper awkward. He's always screaming inside though. - Batsong was born in HazeClan, and the Haze heightened his hearing. His mother died of an illness when he was a kitten, and he became reclusive afterward. - OrangeAxolotl
✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
Apprentices
✘ Leafy - Female - A small she-cat with muddy brown fur and yellow eyes. She has tabby stripes on her legs and tail, but they stop at her torso. She's about 8 moons old. - Leafy tries to not let anything get her down and always keeps a smile on her face. She has a tendency to shoulder responsibility for everything and make sure that everyone(besides herself) is happy. - Leafy wandered into HazeClan just last moon, and is having trouble adjusting. She opted not to change her name, as she's not gonna be here very long. She's always wandering around near the Haze, wondering if she could get back through it. - OrangeAxolotl
✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
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✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
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OrangeAxolotl
Ja'ams got the applesauce that you crave!
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Post by OrangeAxolotl on Mar 29, 2018 19:25:58 GMT -5
Allegiances Cont.
Queens
✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
Kits
✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
Elders
✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
✘ Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
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OrangeAxolotl
Ja'ams got the applesauce that you crave!
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Post by OrangeAxolotl on Mar 29, 2018 19:26:41 GMT -5
Relationships
Strike means deceased Underline means they live outside the Haze ~Squiggly means crush +Plus means mates =Equals means children /Slash means siblings |Line means enemies/rivals >Arrow means mentor>apprentice ?Question means unknown/undecided
Quickstar+ FerndappleQuickstar=Everyone he's everyone's dad ? > Leafy
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Aromantic
OrangeAxolotl
Ja'ams got the applesauce that you crave!
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Post by OrangeAxolotl on Mar 29, 2018 19:27:21 GMT -5
Character Creation / Joining
Member form - Fill this out ONCE when you first join.
@ tag - Preferred nicknames - Member - Names of characters
Character form - Fill this out for EVERY character you make.
Rank - Name - Gender - Short physical description(~2-4 sentences) - Short personality description(~2-4 sentences) - Short backstory(~2-4 sentences, include whether they were born in Hazeclanclan or wandered in) - @ tag
Keep in mind - Though the character sheets are short, that doesn't mean you oughta be lazy in your character creation. You can still put some thought into your characters beyond what you put in the app! You could just slap some stuff together, of course, I'd never know, and I've done that myself when making characters. But personally, I love making super detailed characters with layers of motivations and history and personality beyond what people first see and know. You don't see too much of that in-depth character creation on this site, and I'd sorta like to try and change that. Of course, I'm not gonna make you write paragraphs of backstory about your character. I'm not even gonna require that you develop beyond what you write in the app, and I won't judge you for wanting to develop your character as you RP instead of putting so much time and thought into them right from the get-go. I just heavily encourage it, as it's deceptively fun and makes for interesting characters.
Good and fun resources - Name generator, Mary Sue Test(long!), Big List of Character Creation Guides, Big List of Characterization Guides, I will take recommendations for other links if you wanna give me some, I'm just addicted to Springhole.
Posting - When you're done, post your joining forms on this thread and @ orangeaxolotl so he won't accidentally miss your apps. Liking his posts does not work because he has like notifications turned off.
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OrangeAxolotl
Ja'ams got the applesauce that you crave!
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Post by OrangeAxolotl on Mar 29, 2018 19:29:22 GMT -5
Alrighty! This oughta be good to go! I'm doing some work but I'll be popping on and off to check this out.
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Aromantic
OrangeAxolotl
Ja'ams got the applesauce that you crave!
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Post by OrangeAxolotl on Mar 31, 2018 19:08:11 GMT -5
Dabs
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Post by ✨ ʙʟᴜᴇ ᴡɪsʜᴇs ✨ on Mar 31, 2018 19:24:46 GMT -5
Would it be all right if I made a few characters? Or is there a limit to the number of character you can have?
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OrangeAxolotl
Ja'ams got the applesauce that you crave!
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Post by OrangeAxolotl on Mar 31, 2018 19:42:08 GMT -5
OOC: No limit! Just as many as you think you can handle!
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Post by ✨ ʙʟᴜᴇ ᴡɪsʜᴇs ✨ on Mar 31, 2018 20:20:53 GMT -5
Medicine Cat - Aspenfall - Male - A small pale gray tabby tom with amber eyes. He has darker gray on his ears, tail tip, and paws. He has white around his eyelids and muzzle. His fur is short but tufts at his tail tip and ears. - Aspenfall is a rather timid cat who enjoys helping as much as he possibly can. He is very kind to everyone and wants the best for all. He is not very talkative, but when he does make friends, he keeps them for as long as he can, and trusts them with his life. - Aspenfall was born in Hazeclan to Rosebloom and Rainwhisker. He has two siblings, Larkfrost and Flamepaw, but Flamepaw wandered into the Haze one day and never returned. He was mentored by Thorntail for moons before becoming a full on Medicine Cat. - ✨ ʙʟᴜᴇ ᴡɪsʜᴇs ✨ Warrior - Larkfrost - Female - A brown and gray she-cat with long fur and crystal blue eyes. She has a stump of a tail from a falling tree. She has white around her torso, face and legs. Larkfrost has a black strip down her back. - Larkfrost is a hardworking cat who loves to get things done. She find relationships to be pointless, but she does enjoy a good talk every once in a while. - She was born alongside Aspenfall and Flamepaw. She has always been very attentive, although it did worry her parents, who wanted her to be more friendly, but eventually came around to accept the way she was. She became a Warrior many moons before Aspenfall. - ✨ ʙʟᴜᴇ ᴡɪsʜᴇs ✨ Kit - Pinekit - Female - A tan colored kit with pale yellow eyes and short fur. She has pale ticked tabby markings. Her eyes have darker tan under them. - Pinekit is a very bubbly kit, seemingly always happy, despite not having any sibling or parents. She want to be everyone's friend and make them happy. - A moon ago, she was found wandering through the Haze, alone aside from a few insects stuck to her fur. She was taken in and, although she couldn't remember anything, she quickly became part of the clan. - ✨ ʙʟᴜᴇ ᴡɪsʜᴇs ✨ OrangeAxolotl✨ ʙʟᴜᴇ ᴡɪsʜᴇs ✨ - Blue - Member - Aspenfall, Larkfrost, Pinekit
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