Post by Riley on May 3, 2024 4:45:52 GMT
TULIPTUFT
BASICS
NAME ► Tuliptuft
AGE ► 25 moons
GENDER ► Female
PRONOUNS ► She/Her
RANK ► Warrior
CLAN ► WindClan
DESCRIPTIONS
PERSONALITY
STRENGTHS ► list 3+ positive traits [optional if you do detailed personality]
WEAKNESS ► list 3+ negative traits [optional if you do detailed personality]
LIKES ► 3+ likes/interests [optional]
DISLIKES ► 3+ dislikes/avoidances [optional]
DETAILED ► Tuliptuft is a bit of a self proclaimed troublemaker. She's the kind of cat to stir up petty arguments if she feels bored enough, the epitome of 'they'll be at each other's throats for a bit. good, it was getting a little chummy in here.'
She's also a fan of 'forgive but never forget'. If you've wronged her in the past, get ready for it to be thrown in your face again in six moons. Especially if you REALLY messed up.
Her siblings, Mapleleaf and Sycamorebark, are her favorite cats. Bar none. Not even her parents. ESPECIALLY not her parents. Sure Tuliptuft loves them and all, Silver and Sweetgum, but they didn't understand her the way her littermates do. If Tuliptuft makes a sassy or sarcastic remark, her siblings will give her as good as she gave. If she did that to her parents, they'd tell her to apologize.
RELATIONSHIPS
FATHER ► Silver
MOTHER ► Sweetgum
SIBLINGS ► Sycamorebark, Mapleleaf
MATE ► Brackenstone
OFFSPRING ► None yet!
MENTOR ► Leopardflight
APPRENTICE(S) ► list here
HISTORY
TRIGGER WARNINGS ► Nope!
► Tuliptuft was born to former kittypets Silver and Sweetgums, alongside her siblings Sycamorebark and Mapleleaf. Her early moons were spent playing with her siblings and getting into trouble.
More trouble than the other two, even! More than once she was confined to the nursery for sneaking into places she shouldn't be. The warriors den, the leader's den, the medicine den. And each time she refused to apologize stating she didn't do anything wrong.
This attitude nearly got her held back from her apprentice ceremony. Luckily it never quite came to that, and Tulipkit was made Tulippaw beside her littermates. She was apprenticed to a warrior named Leopardflight, a spotted tabby tom that ran like the wind.
Running was what WindClan was known for, but Leopardflight had earned his warrior name because he ran so fast it was like his paws barely touched the ground. He did his best to pass this talent on to Tulippaw, but she didn't have the stamina or build for it.
No, her talents were more geared toward battle. Tulippaw wasn't the biggest or the strongest apprentice in her den, but she was feisty and scrappy. She didn't know the meaning of 'stay down'.
Her favorite denmate to spar with though was, surprisingly, NOT her brother or sister. It was an older apprentice named Brackenpaw. He was three moons older than her, and his size and skill showed it. He was patient with her whenever they trained together, giving her tips and advice that she actually followed.
Soon they were spending time outside of training, and soon after THAT she went out of her way to seek Brackenpaw out. He did the same, finding her immediately after patrols and training to eat together and share tongues. To anybody on the outside it was obvious what was happening, but it wasn't so obvious to the two of them.
He earned the name Brackenstone, for his immovable nature. Tulippaw's voice was amongst the loudest in the cheers of his new name, and it was here, gazing at him outlined in silver from the moonlight that was starting to rise, Tulippaw realized: she had a crush on him.
She did her best to not let this effect her relationship with him. She tried not to act any differently than she had before the revelation. But in trying to not act different, she WAS acting different, and soon Brackenstone confronted her about it.
It embarrassed her to no end, but she confessed. He froze and didn't respond for so long she assumed he didn't feel the same way, and Tulippaw started blabbering on about how this didn't have to change anything, she'd get over it, please don't hate her. He'd cut her off by confessing he'd been stupidly in love with her since the first time she kicked his ass in a spar.
They waited to make it official, until she became a warrior alongside Sycamorebark and Mapleleaf. After that they openly courted each other. When Tuliptuft wasn't running wild with her littermates she was with Brackenstone.
Tuliptuft was so distracted by her own little world it caught her by surprise when Sycamorebark was the first one of them to get an apprentice, a little molly aptly named Smallpaw. Tuliptuft was proud of her brother, and happy for him, but it made her realize she hadn't been putting in as much of an effort to support the Clan as she should have been. Maybe if she had Smallpaw would have been given to her, or even Brackenstone.
Luckily Brackenstone agreed. So while they affirmed their love for each other and announced themselves as mates, they also spent more time apart on patrols and such, branching out their social circles individually. It made her realize the old deputy was getting older and slowing down.
She knew she wouldn't have an apprentice in time to replace them. It disappointed her, but more in the way of 'wow wouldn't have that been cool' than any real genuine desire to be in charge. So when Sycamorebark, her BROTHER, was chosen to be deputy instead, Tuliptuft practically tackled him in her congratulations.
