Tumblepaw’s Character Den

Age: kit

Gender: female (she/her)

Orientation: undecided

Appearance: small lynx point with blue eyes and white paws

Personality: quiet, introverted, caring, approachable, unassuming, can be playful at times, bit of an echoist

Family: Oakdapple (mother, owned by Slightdapple); rest undecided

Clan: AegirineClan

Backstory: Born the runt of her litter, Tinykit is a small she-cat who hopes she’ll catch up in size to everyone else. She notices something is wrong in her clan but no one seems willing to explain what’s wrong. She has a fairly normal, unremarkable background.

Song lyrics:
Oh, Lord, I’m still not sure what I stand for, oh
(Oh-ooh, oh, oh) What do I stand for?
(Oh-ooh, oh, oh) What do I stand for?
Most nights, I don’t know…
— Some Nights, Fun

I have no idea what her warrior name will be.


Update: Since her original rp is no longer active, I made an alternate version of her for a new one. I’ll update info from that one later.

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Name: Tinykit

Age: 2 to 3 moons old (closer to 3)

Rank: kit

Gender: female (she/her)

Appearance: very small, short-haired lynx point with white paws and blue eyes

Personality: Tinykit is a quiet, subdued, almost apathetic kit who is always watching and observing what’s going on around her. The seasonal meeting has given her plenty of cats to watch, and she’s become very curious of them. She tries to be agreeable in an attempt for others to like her and to get along with everyone, but her efforts make her more of an echoist than anything else. Tinykit rarely has opinions of her own and merely echos back others’ and agrees with what they want to do. This frustrates other kits, and some have taken to picking on her… only for her to agree when they say she’s weird. She simply does not want to rock the boat. Easily influenced, it doesn’t take much for her to be convinced to do something even if she knows it’s wrong or could cause trouble.

Backstory: Tinykit was born the runt of her litter. Her birth mother was not the nicest cat around, and she was later adopted by Raptorstar and Sparrowchirp. She loves her new dads very much but doesn’t understand why they are trying to encourage her to speak up for herself or why they seem to get frustrated by her being so agreeable. Surely being agreeable is a good thing, right?

Family: Raptorstar and Sparrowchirp (dads), ?? (bio mom), Fossilseeker (older brother via adoption), Batrubble (older brother via adoption), other littermates and older siblings (both bio and adoptive) open

Her backstory is subject to change and will be updated as needed. I think we’re going with her adoptive fathers adopting her from a bad home, with her birth mother being a narcissist who was mentally and emotionally abusive to explain why Tinykit is an echoist. Basically the opposite of her original birth mother!

Gender: female

Appearance: pale taupe classic tabby with white paws and turquoise eyes; crippled/weakened back leg that she was born with (fawn coloration?)

Personality: very self-assured, confident, good sense of humor, positive, stubborn, chatty, naive

Backstory:
Cricketchirp was born with a bad leg but never let that get her down. Even as a kit, she was telling the other kits off if they tried to pity her or make fun of her for her hoping gait. She isn’t above making fun of her bad leg herself though. She just doesn’t see it as a big deal. While her disability does limit what she can do as a warrior during hunts, she often tagteams with someone and usually ambushes prey that is flushed to her. She is slower with other warrior duties but gets the job done. Cricketchirp has a brother who is a bit protective of her, much to her annoyance half the time.

Background Info:
She has two versions: one as a background kit in a friend’s comic and another as an intended rp character that didn’t come to pass. That’s why her story isn’t the most complete.

Update: A version of her has been approved for one of the rps here. The brother I made for her won’t appear in the rp though, but maybe someone else’s character will fill in for him. If not, her littermate either died shortly after becoming an apprentice or was captured by twolegs.

Model Cat (more or less):


She’s a little paler but this is the general idea.

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Effervescentclan Version (so far):

Cricketpaw is currently an apprentice dealing with the reality that her limitations do matter after spending most of her childhood not really caring about them.  She only half passed her clan’s rite of passage to apprenticeship as she was unable to bring back any freshkill when she returned from her trial.  She’s still the same character otherwise.  

Cricketpaw is the result of a fling between one of the clan flirts Quickcreek (owned by bleu) and her mother (unnamed at the moment) when they were younger.  Her father ignores her, and she was raised by her mother without him.  Cricketpaw doesn’t really care about this right now.  Her biggest concern is becoming a warrior despite her bad leg.  She has one of the smartest cats in the clan as her mentor, Goldenshade (owned by busybee), who can also relate to her since they were also looked down on a bit as an apprentice for failing the same rite of passage she did.

While she struggles with many things, she does have some talent and skill.  Hopefully her mentor can bring that out!

Age: 6 to 6.5 moons

Family: Quickcreek (father, owned by bleu); mother (open); brother (uncertain what to do with him)

Mentor: Goldenshade (owned by busybee)

Friends: will probably see who she gets along with best and plays well off of in the rp first

Crushes: none at the moment; will see who works best when she’s much older

Clan: Sawgrassclan

Appearance: golden ginger-brown with brown tabby spots and white chest and underbelly (like a leopard gecko); has very vibrant yellow-green eyes; very slim build

Gender: male

Age: 5 to 5.5 moons

Family: Panthergrowl (father, owned by Lea); Moonflight (mother, owned by aquatail); Snakekit (sister, owned by hibiscuspuddle); Crocodilekit (brother, owned by busybee)

Backstory:
Just a basic clanborn kit. His father is Panthergrowl, but I don’t know if Panthergrowl was a present father or not. Geckokit looks up to him a bit and tries to play with him sometimes.  He tries to be a good brother to his sister and look out for her, but her more calm and sometimes anxious personality also gets on his nerves. His relationship with his mom is good as she’s very kind and nurturing. I don’t know what his relationship is like with his brother, but I imagine Crocodilekit is often trying to convince him not to get in dangerous situations.

As a younger kit, Geckokit made his first catch on live prey. It was a lizard, but like many inexperienced hunters, he only ended up with the tail as the lizard dropped it to get away. This is where his warrior name comes from, a nod to his first “successful” hunt.

Positive Traits:
Easy and quick learner
Helpful and kind (tries to be)
Ambitious
Loyal
Smart
Sometimes can’t sit still
Fast

Negative Traits:
Gets bored very easily
Inpatient when bored
Sometimes moody
Sometimes socially awkward
Sometimes easily distracted

Quote: “Let’s go!!!  We’re burning daylight here!!”

Background Info:
Warrior name is based off the fact that geckos lose their tails when grabbed by them. He won’t lose his, but I thought it was a cute call-back to it.

Gender: female

Appearance: mostly white calico with golden ginger and darker patches and blue eyes 

Personality: playful, shy, quiet, very creative, has an overactive imagination, daydreamer

Family: Florastorm (mother, owned by busybee); Rowanfire (father, owned by ladylantsov); Croakkit, Marshkit, and Fogkit (littermates)

Backstory:
Sunkit is a born day dreamer with an active imagination.  She is always thinking up stories or new games, often getting lost in her thoughts in the process.  It makes up for her shyness around other cats.  As a kitten she has an imaginary friend, but as she gets older and makes real friends, she no longer needs her imaginary one.

Quote: “Just ‘cause I made her up doesn’t mean she’s not real. She is real… for me.” (in reference to her imaginary friend)

Background Info:
She is roughly based off a headcanon I came up for one of the canon background characters, based off a combo of the parents’ personality traits.  I added in the imaginary friend angle because I thought it would be interesting (and cute!) if a kit had one that wasn’t Starclan or Dark Forest related.  It works surprisingly well with the other personality traits.

Her imaginary friend is named Quietkit.  Because no one else can hear her.  According to Sunkit, she’s very talkative to her though.  XD

Quietkit is said to have one blue eye and one amber eye.  Fur color changes constantly, including colors that would never be found on a cat (green, bright purple, etc).

She is named in part after her paternal grandmother, Sunnybriar.

Gender: female

Age: elder

Appearance: pale, off white cat with faint taupe or cream markings dusting her fur; green eyes

Family: a mate and at least two litter of kits; possible grandchildren as well (all open)

Personality: sweet, kind, nurturing, very confused

Backstory: 
Frostdust is a very nurturing cat and loves kits. She had at least two litters of her own, with some of her kits being warriors now. Her mind started to go moons after her youngest earned their warrior names and she retired around that time. Yet she retained her hunting abilities— practically her skill for hunting rabbits— and puts them to use to find rabbits and adopt them, mistaking them for her kits. Her clanmates humor her in this. The rabbits usually get away a few days after she adopts them though. Other than that she spends her time either sleeping or around her children. She adores it when kits visit and often offers to watch them.

Background Info:
She is based on mother cats adopting other species of animals when they’re hormonal and on elderly dementia patients who sometimes think a baby doll is their baby.

Originally considered for Coniferclan here but that has been scraped for the time being because the owner feels 3 or 4 elders in the clan is too many. I will probably clean this entry up later.

Possible Reference Images:
www.pinterest.es/pin/339599628123869668/
stock.adobe.com/images/burmilla-cat-portrait/415537819



(Original photo I used when I first created her is lost; she is not a pedigree cat— just inspired by some)

Gender: female

Clan: Coniferclan

Age: 27 to 28 moons old

Appearance: mostly white cat with calico patches on head and tail; green eyes

Family: Fogpaw (son, owned by Tealraven); Pheasantpaw (daughter, owned by Aquatail); ex-mate (open)

Personality: opinionated, impulsive, naive, emotional, everything else still being decided

Theme Song: Never Had a Dream Come True— S Club 7

Backstory: 
Cloverpatch was the only kit in her litter, though she has a few older siblings. Her birth was unusually prolonged to the point the medicine cat feared no resulting kits would even survive, the effect her clan’s curse had on her mom. Her kithood was unremarkable but fairly happy and to a degree so was her apprenticeship. The only thing worth noting was that she started seeing another apprentice and both were promoted early within a moon or so of each other. Cloverpatch was eager to start a family as soon as possible since she no longer had one by this point in time. She and her boyfriend quickly became mates and the talk of kits came up shortly after. Despite the older cats saying they were way too young, Cloverpatch was pregnant by the time she was nearly 13 moons old. At her own insistence as she wanted a family again. The young couple didn’t stay together long afterwards. Her mate realized that he wasn’t ready to be a father and in her anger she dumped him and said she would raise their kits herself. Later the two made up to a degree, and Cloverpatch agreed to not reveal his identity to their upcoming kits since he still didn’t want to be involved.

She started having doubts herself towards the end of the pregnancy, and this continued after her kits, Fogkit and Pheasantkit, were born. As with most queens in her clan, the birth was complicated with Cloverpatch nearly bleeding out and the kits being weak and slightly premature. Despite her attempts at being a good mom, she kept messing up and never settled into motherhood. Cloverpatch also realized she was starting to resent her own kits, something she didn’t want to do at all. She missed running free and being with her friends. By the time they were weaned, she realized that the best option for everyone was to give them up. Her decision proved that despite everything she had the right mindset all along and did the one thing all good parents do: put what’s best for their children first. She never stopped caring about them despite all her fears of being the worst mother in existence.

For a time Cloverpatch visited her kits every so often to play with them. The kits mistook her for an older half-sister, and she went along with that for a while. But then they started asking about their parents. Unable to answer them, she stopped visiting completely. She made do with watching them from a distance and talking to the queens who were raising them jointly in her absence. Seeing her kits happy and being with her friends put her at peace with her decision.

It wasn’t until her kits were a few moons into their apprenticeship that Cloverpatch started to realize she had no relationship with them at all. While she never regretted putting them up for adoption, she did regret her decision in making it a closed one. Her kits do not know that she is their mother. Now she longs to have some sort of connection with them. She is making small efforts each day to get closer to her kits.

Story mostly in development but the gist is that Cloverpatch had her kits too young and wasn’t ready to be a mom. She leaves the nursery early as a result—basically putting her young kits up for adoption— and now has problems connecting to her children. While part of her motivation was to be free, the other was because she realized she kept messing up as a mom and that her children deserved better. She never stopped caring about them.

Background Info:
She is basically the equivalent of a teen mom who later put her kids up for adoption. It’s to explain why Fogpaw doesn’t feel close to his mom.

She is still in development, but I got most of her story done. Still open to change as needed.

She was given the prefix Clover out of story after the first mama cat I ever fostered and because she’s lucky things didn’t turn out worse for her! XD

Most cats in her clan know what happened but have agreed to keep quiet about it as a favor to her.  Cats 20 moons and younger don’t know as they were too young to understand everything that was happening back then.

I keep forgetting to add to this!! Hopefully I’ll be able to soon. Still have a lot of characters to type up.

Update to Tinykit’s profile