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ivystar
jungleclan ∙ leader ∙ female ∙ 44
Appearance
Description sentence:
A large, lanky brown tabby she-cat with white and bright golden eyes.
Appearance:
Large, with long legs and a long tail, Ivytide is lanky. Her confident gait isn't particularly loud in her declarations, but it's pretty obvious that she is extremely comfortable with herself and her abilities. She has medium-length fur, more on the shorter side than longer. It can be a little tufty in spots around her ears, legs, and tail, but it isn't so long that it can get snagged in branches. She has a dark brown coat, with black striping itself across her body. She has a little bite of white above her nose that wraps around to her white throat. The white throat extends down her belly. She has a white tail tip, along with white paws. The white on her throat wraps around her neck to asymmetrical points on either side. Her almond-shaped eyes are a bright golden shade.
Personality
Positive Traits: • logical • loyal • thoughtful | Negative Traits: • pessimistic • blunt • irritated easily |
Personality:
+ Logical -- Ivytide likes to listen to all sides of an argument, and as a warrior she would often list the pros and cons to herself of each choice before coming to her own opinon. She enjoys debating, especially when it comes to nonsensical things. When it comes to the safety of her fellow clanmates and decisions regarding the Clan as a whole, she becomes serious and attempts to be as unbiased as possible. However, if she choses to take a side over another, she is sometimes seen as biased and is uncomfortable when they accuse her of it. Therefore she greatly prefers to come up with a compromise. If there can't be a compromise, she does her best to adapt to the situation.
+ Loyal -- Ivytide is extremely steadfast in her relationships. She is not one to cheat on her mate or be treacherous to the Clan. In fact, the very thought of doing so makes her ill. She likes to think of herself as steady as the ground beneath her feet, unable to be shaken much. She is so loyal, that if it comes to others trying to get information out of her, it'll be like trying to get a whale to listen to them.
+ Thoughtful -- When it comes to her family, Clanmates, and friends, Ivytide is willing to give an ear to listen to them. Whether they want to complain about their loss of prey while hunting or something more serious, she is willing to give advice from her own experience. If she does not understand a situation, she puts herself in their paws and ponders on what she would do before tentatively telling them what she would do in their paws.
- Pessimistic -- For her belief in StarClan and tentative belief in the Gods, Ivytide is surprisingly pessimistic. Even though she thinks through everything for a well-thought out response, she has a tendency to overcomplicate everything and she puts so much into it that she believes the worst will happen. Even in debates this happens, and others may get a little irritated by the way she puts too much stock in that things will go wrong. Her negative view can be somewhat penetrated by someone else's optimism, but she may end up bickering with them in the end.
- Blunt -- Ivytide prefers the truth to lying, but she does so in a way that it can be damaging or gets her into a mess of epic proportions. She isn't quite aware that she's hurting someone, as being lied to is an alien concept. She doesn't understand that some might want to be gentle with her information, as it just confuses her and makes her disconcerted. She can be very forward with her information, not really caring who hears it because it might be pertinent to that cat as well. Ivytide will get frustrated if someone tells her to be careful, she doesn't believe in babying others.
- Temperamental -- Able to be provoked easily, Ivytide can become irritated or frustrated at a mere word or simple situation. She'll take out those frustrations by being short with others until she calms down and apologizes. She always apologizes when she takes it out on others. Just as she's able to be agitated, she can become excited or anxious without effort. When excited she'll bounce around like a kit and crowing eagerly about something. When anxious, she'll fret and pace and constantly ask herself questions before answering them herself.
Skills & Combat
Strengths: • fighting • tactics • tracking • climbing | Weaknesses: • swimming • fishing • stealth • agility |
Combat:
• Defense: (10+4)
• Attack: 1d20+(4)
Character Background
Family:
Elmstream (mother). Reefwhisker (father). Bramblestep (brother), Thistlenose (brother), Thornwhisker (brother). Owlheart (mate). Laurelpaw (daughter), Kitepaw (daughter), Heronpaw (daughter).
History:
kithood
Ivykit and her siblings were born nine moons after the volcano eruption. The only she-cat among three brothers, as a kit she was often told by her brothers that as a girl she wasn't as strong as them. In fact, her mother and father stamped that belief out as quick as possible, by scolding them furiously and putting them in time out. After moons of exhausting themselves and trying to practically beat multiple lessons into all of their heads (Ivykit not excluded, much to her consternation), they managed to make respectful, determined, and helpful kits. Two moons into their lives, they browbeat a healthy respect of she-cats into their boys.
At approximately three moons old, Ivykit was wrestling with her brothers and chasing them around camp as they teased her playfully. Sometimes they got in trouble with the warriors and apprentices, but what kits didn't get in trouble? As a kit, Ivykit was confident and prideful. That lasted until she became an apprentice. At five moons, she met Owlpaw, an older apprentice that she disliked on sight. The moon before her apprentice ceremony, whenever they came face to face they would bicker and almost come to blows over debates.
apprenticehood
The very first day of being an apprentice, Ivypaw's mentor Lilynose practically beat the first lesson of being a JungleClan cat into her. She learned very early on to drop her pride and get over it. She's still quite temperamental, but she manages it well by forcing herself to count to 10 and ask herself if she wants to really make a big deal out of things. The one thing she got from her mentor was her pessimism and blunt way of doing things. Lilynose would tell her straight up if she was terrible at something, and give her an alternate way of doing things. Ivypaw's parents also told her the truth about a lot of things, though they usually hemmed and hawed about it.
Ivypaw's and Owlpaw's debates and bickering grew to an all-time high. Though this time now that she was an apprentice, she sparred with him and went hunting with him often. Lilynose and his own mentor forced them to interact to get along more, but it seemed to only get worse over time. Every time they sparred, Ivypaw learned something new about the other and he learned more about her. About four months after being an apprentice, Owlpaw became Owlheart and Ivypaw was soon left with a gap in her life. It was this separation that made her think about their relationship and over this, she wondered when their bickering had turned to teasing and fun times rather than be rivals.
Even though she was close with her parents and siblings, she was entirely too aware of the space that Owlheart left behind. For a few days she floundered in training, but she got back to her paws and threw herself into training. Lilynose worked hard on shaping Ivypaw to be a great she-cat and warrior, dragging her out in the middle of the night to do some midnight hunting or sparring. Over the course of her apprenticeship, Ivypaw got used to sleeping sleeping lightly and jumping to her paws at a moment's notice. It's not to say that she barely got any sleep (at first she did) but her internal clock adjusted and she can sleep fully for only a couple of hours before getting on her feet and working for the next sixteen hours before sleeping for another few hours again.
Near the end of her apprenticeship, Lilynose gave Ivypaw the terms of her assessment. She would spend a week in Toucan Jungle, circling around the territory in a clockwise direction to Silverthread Falls, making her way to the Cove and finally Blacksand Beech, where she would meet up with her mentor. Suffice to say, she did well.
warriorhood
At sixteen moons, Ivytide's name comes from her temperament and her steadfast loyalty to the Clan. A few moons into her routine, Owlheart took her out by the Silverthread Falls and asked her to be his mate. She was a little hesitant at first, as she wanted to get settled as a warrior first. She told him she was willing to wait a few more moons, but she wanted to get settled first. If he asked her in about six moons, she wouldn't say no if he would wait.
Though obviously disappointed, he agreed. The next six months, Ivytide settled smoothly into the life of a warrior. She grew closer to Owlheart, drawing in a few other cats to their debates and giving the she-cat more to think about. She thoroughly enjoyed interacting with her clanmates. About two months into their agreement, it seemed as if Owlheart had gotten impatient with their pact. He started flirting with another she-cat, one of his other close friends.
Ivytide seethed in jealousy for a good moon, slowly becoming short with Owlheart until they were all but yelling at each other again. She was frustrated that he was seemingly breaking their promise to each other, that he was so impatient to find another she-cat to start a family. She was staggered when she confronted him after a moon of his flirting, as it turned out that he wanted to make her jealous so that they could become mates faster.
That made her absolutely infuriated, and she ended up sparring with the two several times and figuratively beating them into the dust until they got her point. If he had been so impatient, why didn't he tell her? He didn't need to go to such lengths to get her attention. Regardless, she agreed to be his mate. Ivytide was twenty-six moons at the end of this debacle. Nothing much happened between the two over the next ten moons, though she had told Owlheart she didn't want kits quite yet. She was young and she wanted to enjoy being a warrior before having kits. Ivytide was not opposed to starting a family, but he would have to wait as a consequence of the stunt he pulled with his other friend.
The she-cat was thirty-three moons old when she found she was pregnant. While she moped and groaned goodnaturedly with Owlheart, she didn't mind. Being that both of them were fairly large cats, though Owlheart was muscular instead of being lanky, the birth of her three daughters went smoothly. Laurelkit was the eldest, named for the tradition in her mother's family for naming their eldest after plants. Kitekit and Heronkit were named by Owlheart, his own family having a strict bird-only naming tradition. She raised them how her parents raised her: strict, but loving and firm in her loyalty.
Upon their apprenticehood and her 43rd moon, Ivytide became mentor to her eldest daughter, Laurelpaw.
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