private EVENING STEPS シ STORMKIT

[TIGERKIT]

Tigerkit likes her littermates, she's pretty sure... Even though there were kind of a lot of them, and they were all kind of loud... She's their sister, so she's meant to like them and stuff obviously. And it was better to be friends with lots of cats than to be enemies with lots of cats, obviously... Stormkit was probably, um... the most frustrating, though. He gets to have a bunch of things that aren't fair. Like... he doesn't have any brothers or sisters that look like him. And he can't see. Which is sad or whatever, but that means he can bump into her as much as he wants and she can't even get mad! And he's super loud and stuff... even louder than Bayingkit, maybe. Who let him have all of this stuff?

She usually wants to be nice... but Stormkit gets to shove cats, so Tigerkit thinks she should get to shove him a bit back. Within the nursery, a white-mitted paw is held threateningly in the air... a strike she's meticulously planning, before it connects to Stormkit with a light bap! " Stormkit, " she mews. Plus, if she didn't thwap him, maybe he wouldn't even, know she's there! " Stormkit, I wanna talk to you, " her voice is hesitent, and she's kind of waiting for Stormkit to tell her no. She doesn't think she'l ever be louder than him, and it's so not fair.

" Do you ever, um... " her tail gives an anxious swish. " Do you ever get worried that- that cats aren't gonna like you? Cause you're so, um... loud and stuff? " Tigerkit didn't yell, but she wasn't sure if cats liked her either... even if Stormkit gets more frowns than smiles, she thinks, they still look at him and stuff...

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[STORMKIT]

Tigerkit hit him, a light rap, and he whirled around and gave her a small shove back, a playful, quick strike. "What?" he asked, tone a bit abrupt, but there wasn't any twist of anger in his voice. it wasn't often Tigerkit said she wanted to speak to him. Even though she did end up speaking to him a lot, being around each-other and actually wanting to talk were two totally different things.

Her question was weird, though. Weird and it took her a while to geet there... Stormkit's ear twitched to the noise, and his head lolled to one side, face scrunching up a bit. "Not really," he shrugged. What was the point worrying, really? Stuff usually ended up going wrong anyways. To waste your own time worrying sounded exhausting ... he'd rather be kicking a mossball somewhere or other, to be honest. Or eating. or practising his hunting crouch...

"Aren't cats supposed to like you for who you are or whatever?" That's what a load of queens said. Like, just be yourself, or something. "So if they don't like that I'm loud, why should I even want them to like me? They'll probably be boring anyway." A wiry tail gave a bit of a lash. "Besides, I'm not even that loud. I just know what I'm talking about." There was a reason he was the best at games, after all. How could he not know a bunch when he was related to ThunderClan's leader! Or, uh- former leader, he guessed... ​

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[TIGERKIT]

She shoulda seen it coming, probably, the exchange of the shove. Despite this, it still kind of annoys her... Next time she shoved him, she'd move out of the way real quick so that he can't get her back. Stormkit's answer is so simple and easy... Not really. Tigerkit guesses she shoulda seen that coming to, because if he did, he probably wouldn't act the way he did all the time... It's kinda annoying that he just gets to not care. He doesn't gotta care cause he's already special.

" Cats say that, but, um... " Well, if it was true, Raccoonstripe would talk to her more, and she would have a hundred friends. " But cats say things that aren't true sometimes, I think... " Her ears move atop her head, flattening and then perking up again... If other cats did it so often, it was okay if she did it, right? So did Stormkit think... any cat that wouldn't like him is bad? And not doing what they're 'sposed to do? And boring? Well, Tigerkit's not sure if she likes him or not... She knows she's supposed to, but that's because they're littermates. She didn't think it was cause she's got to like everyone for who they are...

Conflict brews in a pinched tabby gaze. " You're really loud, " Tigerkit tells him. He needed to know this. It seemed to work for him, though, weirdly... Even if cats didn't smile like they liked him, they talked to him lots and offered him lots of things. He doesn't even gotta think about being loud, cause he just is. Why would Stormkit know any more than Tigerkit does? In fact, he probably knows less. He doesn't even know what nothing looks like. But it doesn't even matter, cause he's real loud...

" What if I didn't like you? " She proposes this question... a completely hypothetical one... " Would you think I'm boring? "​