border Heart’s devotion || Re-intro

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*✿❀○❀✿* For a long time, her dreams were the only place she could picture herself reunited with her clan. The desire to climb the trees kept her awake at night and lingered in her thoughts throughout the day. Was there a trouble back at camp? Were her clammates safe? Could she really call them that anymore?

It had been four moons since her two-leg elder had died, and the elder's kit had taken over the den. All she could do was cry at the loss of her companion and freedom. The two-leg kit kept the den closed at all times, and they no longer refer to her as Peach but as Bella. They were more strict, less fun, but they also cried. And through tears, they learned to trust one another.

The kit even started allowing her out again; it took Bella longer than she wanted to admit to get past her fence. Bella's paws led her down a familiar path of cold stone and grass until she arrived at her clan's border. She used to be confident enough to walk into the thick pine forest without fear or hesitation. She took some time to simply stand on the outskirts, listening and searching for anyone to come by. Tail swaying anxiously. Bella takes a hesitant step forward and then another as her patience wanes.

Bella was grateful for all of her training as she tracked down the trail of a border patrol and rushed to follow up, her collar bouncing around her neck. It felt so strange to be running among pine leaves once more. With Skyclan's scent long ago gone from her pelt, hopefully she'd run into someone she knew. "Hey, wait up!" Bella yells out to the cats ahead of her.

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    Bella bell — She/Her ・ 10 moons ・ Thunderclan apprentice・ PENNED BY @Ghostunes!
    ☀︎Used to be known as Peachpaw, a rambunctious apprentice. Now she goes by Bella, who seems like the complete opposite of Peach…
    ☀︎ Tags
 
Copia doesn't like being near border that they share with the twolegplace. If it were up to him, he would not be trekking along with the border patrol. Like a good amount of SkyClanners, the black smoke hails from the twolegplace. He wasn't a kittypet— there was no way he would allow a twoleg to pamper him— he lived out in the streets, as a rogue. He didn't live alone; he had his family, and other rogues who looked up to his mother for guidance. He thought he had been doing everything right— keeping the group fed, gathering recruits, pleasing his mother. But he couldn't have been more wrong from the truth. I'm way too close to the border, The black smoke thinks back to that fateful day, he knows his mother must've been displeased to hear he survived, unlike his older brother. It's unlikely they're lurking nearby, Copia tries to tell himself as the patrol pads along, Stop worrying.

"Hey, wait up!'

The black smoke's fur nearly bristles in alarm at the sudden voice, but the tom contains himself for the most part. His mismatched eyes quickly look over in the direction of the stranger, his gaze falling upon an unfamiliar tortoiseshell. "Er, hello." The former rogue speaks cautiously, and his mismatched eyes trail over to the collar she wears around her neck. Oh. It's just a kittypet. Copia thinks for a moment, and his nose wrinkles at the strong scent that clings to her fur. She smells nothing like the rogues he used to call family, but he still felt on edge. They wouldn't recruit a kittypet, would they? "Can we, eh, help you with something?"


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  • Copia
    warrior
    33 moons
    awkward
    clumsy
    experience: shadowing
    backstory: [HYPERLINK]
    biography: [HYPERLINK]
    pixel by nopeita <3
    cisgender male [he / him]
    eyes: green & white
    pelt: black smoke with low white
    fur length: long
    parents: sorella and nihil (rogue npcs)


 
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-`♡´- GOD, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? YOU'RE A PINK PONY GIRL AND YOU DANCE AT THE CLUB -`♡´-
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-`♡´- — Blazingheart walks along with the rest of the patrol only to bristle at the sudden voice calling out to them as her pupils narrow into slits as her gaze locks onto the sight of a kittypet with an odd collar though the red tabbied molly straightens out her posture. With both of her ears angled forward in the direction of the mismatched molly that stands before them and Copia already asks the necessary question so Blazingheart bites down on her tongue instead to remain silent. The kittypet that stands before them is pretty or in her eyes anyways though she doesn't voice her thoughts instead dealing with the burning tips of her ears and face.

It dies away quickly and she nearly turns to glance over her shoulder for her father but she remembers that she isn't an apprentice anymore shadowed by her father, a frown tugs at the sides of her jaws but keeps quiet and brushes her body against one of the pine trees as she quietly marks the border to occupy herself even for just a mere heartbeat.

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  • WARRIOR SKILLS;
    ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✧✧✧ HUNTING
    ✦✦✦✦✦✦✧✧✧✧ TRACKING
    ✦✦✦✦✦✦✧✧✧✧ COMBAT
    ✦✦✦✦✧✧✧✧✧✧ STEALTH
    ✦✦✦✦✧✧✧✧✧✧ STRATEGY
    ✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧✧ SWIMMING
    ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✧✧✧ CLIMBING
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    a large, longhaired red tabby feline with green eyes
    blazingheart's a sharp tongued warrior that can oftentimes come off as insensitive or uncaring even if it isn't necessarily his intent upon first meeting. she's rather prickly due to several events in her life and seen tense for the most part but she's trying to improve, all of her opinions are IC only.
    13 moons old; ages the 28th every month
    asexual biromantic; currently interested in no one
    child of coyotecrest and howlfire
    sibling to wolfpaw and hawkspine
    currently being mentored by coyotecrest
    easy to befriend ; oftentimes quick to anger
    "speech", thoughts, attacking
    peaceful powerplay allowed
 
*✿❀○❀✿* The patrol comes to an abrupt halt, and Bella maintains a firm grasp on her soft smile and unassuming attitude despite her desire to kick and shout that these were not the cats she was looking for. The black and white tom's gaze lingers on her collar; he undoubtedly believed she was a bubble-faced kittypet whose curiosity had led them far from home. She shifts her body away as if she could hide her collar. Green eyes examine the others, perplexed. Who are these cats?

Her white ears flatten; at least the cat speaking seems polite. "Hello darlings, is your patrol heading back to the camp? I would just go by myself, but let's just say it's been a while." This reminds Bella of her first contact with clan cats, which is funny, at least this time she knew what she was talking about.

The vibrant reddish shecat beside him appears faintly familiar but not at the same time, and she chooses to keep her thoughts to herself. If she has any negative thoughts about her Bella wished she would just say. She winces as doubt crawls into her mind. "What happened to my manners? My name is Pea— Bella Bell, and I wish to rejoin Skyclan as a daytime apprentice."


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    Bella bell — She/Her ・ 10 moons ・ Thunderclan apprentice・ PENNED BY @Ghostunes!
    ☀︎Used to be known as Peachpaw, a rambunctious apprentice. Now she goes by Bella, who seems like the complete opposite of Peach…
    ☀︎ Tags
 

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Figfeather's head swerves to face the source of the call. Her facial features twist as she feels recognition for the collar-wearing cat before her. As Copia greets her memories fall back into place with a satisfying click.

No one had known where Peachpaw had gone, one day she was here, another day she wasn't. Many of their daylight warriors came and then departed for the last time like that, but never did the feeling of betrayal fail to creep up on Figfeather. After all they had shared and done together, why would anyone leave SkyClan?

She looks offended when Peachpaw informs the patrol of her new name, likely under the impression that Bella had abandoned it too when she deserted SkyClan. Figfeather's nose wrinkles as if to hold back a snarl, "Good thing you didn't make it to camp. You wouldn't have gotten the warm welcome you seem to be expecting." Peachpaw- Bella, certainly was in for a rude awakening if she thought she'd be allowed back so easily.

"SkyClan hasn't had it easy these past several moons. We could've used all the paws we could get but you weren't here. Why?" She demands.
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𓆝 . ° ✦Cloudypaw had been plodding along with the patrol, pointedly averting his gaze from the den he'd once lived in. No longer did he have to feel the hunger of neglect, emotional or physical, and he wasn't ever planning on going back. Suddenly, a pretty she-cat caught their attention with a chipper call. He smiled brightly at her, a bit doe-eyed, and mewed a shy "Hi," before clamping his jaw shut. His ears burned, considering Figfeather's cold approach. Yikes
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  • ooc: mentor tag @DOEBLAZE
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    MICA — HE/THEY ・ 7 MOONS ・ APPRENTICE ・ PENNED BY TWITCHTAIL
    lanky and tall light brown tabby with high white and green eyes. Big ol' himbo.
 
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*✿❀○❀✿* She was greeted by another unfamiliar light brown cat, immediately she returned their kindness with an equally cheery smile of her own. Perhaps things are going well after all.

An eerily familiar cream-and-white face rips through the tense polite atmosphere demanding to know where she’s been. Bella white fur around her neck bristles and she took a deep breath. "Figfeather... It wasn't my fault or anyone else's," she begins, feeling frustrated but Bella wouldn't cry over a simple question.

Bella remembers when her two-leg elder's gentle, kind face being the first thing she saw when she opened her eyes everyday. The mismatch colored cat deflates, white ears pin back. "I lost a close friend, my two leg, she passed. I believe it would have been like if Orangestar had passed, with our entire den in a mess. Afterwards her daughter took over but they weren't a big fan of for me outside or doing anything really". She had been furious with that bossy crybaby kit for such a long time. She wished they wasn't her best friend's daughter, perhaps then she could have taken this chance to leave and never returned. She might be a foolish twoleg, but she's not cruel enough to make that kit grieve twice.

"This was my first opportunity in moons to come see everyone again. I just… I at least want to make sure everyone is okay here. I would have come back sooner if I could."

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    Bella bell — She/Her ・ 10 moons ・ Thunderclan apprentice・ PENNED BY @Ghostunes!
    ☀︎Used to be known as Peachpaw, a rambunctious apprentice. Now she goes by Bella, who seems like the complete opposite of Peach…
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Though Figfeather's challenge is sharp, it is warranted. It's been a long time since Orangestar had seen Peachpaw - reintroduced as someone else this time, but she had missed the new moniker - and it made sense to assume the calico's abandonment of her Clan had been deliberate. Brown eyes narrow at the defence she gives, that assumption met with explanation, and the leader makes a low noise of thought. She sits down atop the branch she and Springpaw occupy, tail hanging as a counterweight, ready to hold court.

"Will your new twoleg allow you to visit every day?" Orangestar's voice is the next to drift over the congregation, drawing attention into the trees. Her ears angle forward to catch the collared cat's reply. "You have missed moons of training, and need to catch up."

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  • ORANGESTAR ✧ she/her, leader of skyclan | seven lives

    — "a scarred white-and-ginger she-cat with brown eyes."
    — (undisclosed) mate to slate ; mentoring ashpaw
    — speech is in #D2977D
    tags | penned by mercibun, contact on discord for plots.


 
*✿❀○❀✿* Bella looks up through the branches and leaves at the sound of Orangestar's voice. The question was a good one, and to be expected, she's four whole moons behind on her training, and it wasn't like she took it seriously when she was training before. But Bella's determined glint in her eyes didn't waver; this time was different; there was a longing that fueled the fire in her already making up her mind that she'd balance both worlds.

"I will make sure that I come every day." Bella declared. Her heart was pounding in her chest, she'd hate to disappoint everyone again. Hopefully she'd be let back inside at night, but if need be, she could just sleep in the apprentice den. "I know and I'm sorry, but I'll work twice as hard to catch up with everyone."