a longhaired chocolate and blue tabby tom with deep blue eyes In the appearance of his coat, Bravepaw takes on the resemblance near-identical to his mother. Smooth, long fur acts like a cloak over his figure, its texture soft and dense. The fur around Bravepaw's cheeks fluff out to curls that wrap around frame his face, growing out into a mighty mane that rests on his neck and shoulders. His tail may be the worst of it, long strands thick as wool weigh it down and often mat seemingly minutes after a thorough groom.
Painted on his pelt are round, dewdrop spots of rosettes that resemble his mothers. They align each side of his spine beside a dark stripe that extends from between his ears, all the way down to the tip of his tail. Warmer-toned fur hugs his sides and around his shoulders, then merges to a paler shade. The lightest of his fur wraps around his muzzle before reaching down his throat and stretches around his legs, before opening up around his belly.
His face is where he takes on a closer resemblance to his father, along with the frame hidden beneath mountains of fur. His muzzle is round and will eventually fatten with the presence of tom cheeks. Eyes wide with child-like awe open to deep hues of blue. Lighter shades round the edges of his iris before diving into murky tones closer to his pupils. They appear to hold a glow of mischief whenever his parents aren't around. His ears remain tall with thick feathery tufts reaching for the clouds. Bravepaw will be towering as he reaches his fathers height, only appearing bigger with an eminent coat that will easily become a birds favorite source of nesting.
*NOTE: Bravepaw will begin to develop signs of vitiligo after roughly 12 moons old. White flecks will begin on his tail and gradually cover it near entirely, along with most of his back legs and stop once its covered about half of his left foreleg.
⤷ LH chocolate tabby/blue tabby chimera with low white.
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assiduous / courageous / righteous / forgiving / headstrong. As his namesake, Bravepaw does well to live valiantly in the face of struggle. Giving up is
over-rated and not quite his style, so much so that he tends to put all of his effort and time into any roadblock he meets until it is conquered. Because he is so adamantly independent, Bravepaw struggles to ask for, or accept, any help in either his childhood antics and his struggles during apprenticeship. He has a habit of holding himself to a higher standard where he is strong to compensate in other skills he is weak in. When he does not meet this standard, he tends to self isolate from his own insecurity.
Bravepaw has a strong sense of duty to his family, as well as ThunderClan. In his youth, the majority of his first moons of life have been centered around his family first. He is very defensive of his littermates and takes on a more heroic approach both in the face of bullying as well as play. He abides by the self fulfilling prophecy of acting fearless even when he would rather hide behind his mothers legs and beg for her to protect him. However, placing himself at the head of these situations constantly will make him appear much more confrontational than he intends, and may even label him a problematic tom when he can't discern pretend from reality.
Given the harsh reality of Clan life that inevitably greets him once he starts exploring outside the nursery, Bravepaw quickly attaches himself to those he finds safety in. At first this has been his mother, father and littermates, but as he makes further connections to his Clanmates he's begun to gravitate towards them the moment he sees them. Depending how this may go, his clinginess may turn into abandonment issues or struggles with boundaries for both himself and others.
Despite whatever conflicts he may come across as he learns about his Clans culture and surviving alongside them, Bravepaw is not one to hold grudges. A very simple 'sorry' is enough to have him crumbling and thanking the stars that he doesn't have to pretend to be mad anymore. Truthfully, anger is a difficult emotion for Bravepaw to experience at all especially directed towards his Clanmates. With this in mind, should Bravepaw ever express his anger it may tend to be explosive, or potentially uncontrollable due to his lack of experience with it.
