backwritten GOING ANTIFRAGILE ⊹₊° dandelionwish

[LUPINESONG]

❀‿ Lupinepaw sighed in frustration, trying not to come off as frazzled as she felt as they went through another round of practice-battling.

As much as she was aware that warriorhood entailed the obligation to hone her body as a weapon dedicated to protecting her clan, the actual practice of battering her paws into fur and acting like she wanted to kill someone left her unsettled, to say the least. It was only dumb luck that kept her from being forced to seriously raise her claws in a battle for life-or-death, and perhaps Dandelionwish had caught on to her near-pathological degree of avoidance being responsible for the now likely obvious skill gap between her and her peers. Of course, there was also the matter of wanting to graduate on time which had them out in the Sandy Hollow nearly every morning this moon.

"I don't... think I did that right. Should I run through it again?"

CHANGE, LIKE THE SKY, ⊹₊°❀‿ LIKE THE LEAVES, LIKE A BUTTERFLY.

• OOC: @Dandelionwish
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  — lupinekit . lupinepaw
  — trans she/her. 11mo apprentice of skyclan. mentored by dandelionwish, padding after falconpaw
  — bobbie x duke. littermate to crowpaw & drowsypaw. older half-sister of hollykit, lionkit, and candorkit
  — a tall, pretty, long-haired black smoke with low white and green eyes
  — smells like sweet lupine flowers and young pine needles
  — "speech", thoughts, attack
  — fullbody by pikaihao and funnyguy by pin
  — penned by eezy

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[Dandelionwish]

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"Well, ye got the enthusiasm fer it at least. But gumption only gets ya so far, Loopy." The tom gave a thoughtful grimace as he considered how best to approach this. He didn't expect perfection, but he needed her to be able to defend herself without faltering because when it came to life and death she had to have the tenacity to keep her life even if it meant harming another. He'd been similar, pacifistic to a point and unwilling to change but in WindClan's wretched environment under Sootstar's rule he had to adapt and overcome it. Being a healer wasn't enough, he needed his claws too. He remembers pushing Coldsnap to help train him, guide him forward to have enough skill to prevent himself being another body strewn across the ground and it had only been honed from there - SkyClan had added to his abilities, allowed him to improve and learn without the fear of his medicine cat duties any long nor the stress of WindClan's harshness pushing down upon his back. It was hard to instill that survival instinct into a cat without pushing them into a situation where it was plausible. He supposed his worst fear is Lupinepaw finding herself in that situation and freezing up.
"Wouldn't hurt to try 'gain. Back in yer spot, let's go."

————— ⚘ hold the line —————— ⚘ this is how we'll be defined (stand your ground)

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  Dandelionwish
  —⊰⋅ Warrior of SkyClan
  —⊰⋅ He/Him
  "SPEECH", 'THOUGHTS', ATTACK
  —⊰⋅ Cream/Chocolate Chimera w/mismatched green and orange eyes.
  

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