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Frightpaw

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*+:。.。 "oooooh!" shiny and pretty, a black shell smooth as a cloudless sky yet darker than the night. It was fun to touch, reaching out a little black-clad paw to bat at the thing. It wiggled and twitched, its legs thinner than blades of grass - it was funny! Sometimes it even cracked apart and exposed the shiniest wings Fry had ever seen! She wanted to touch them. Was it soft? Instead, the bug clipped its shell back into place and ambled off again. "wuh-wait! I wanna play!" Fry would purr, bounding after it, keeping in step. So many legs! Did it have eyes? What was its name? "'m Frightkit! I like my mommy and my siblings, and I like tag and I like feathers and-" she babbles on to her new friend, occasionally cutting off its path before it could escape down a hole or into too thick of a grass patch. At one point she even bats it out of the sky, watching it fumble on it's back and giggling as she babbles about a time she was so sleepy she couldn't get out of bed too!




  • GENERAL:
    Frightkit
    DFAB— She/Her — Unsure
    2 moons — Ages 1 moon every month real-time
    Windclan Kit
    Sister to Deathkit and Witherkit

    COMBAT:
    Physically very easy | mentally very easy
    Attack in bold #1b1e21
    injuries: None
 


Some overarching circumstances prevent Moorblossom from finding the same whimsical joy worn so openly by Frightkit. Conflict, bloodshed, something along those lines. She observes with bated interest nevertheless—and every time the little one denies the insect its freedom, her lips tremble with the promise of a grin.

"Oh, Frightkit!" she calls, and no sooner does the moor runner amble close to the puny jailer. "If you love something, you gotta let it go!" Emerald eyes fall to Frightkit's captive, all while a giggle bubbles out from her parted maw. "That's 'cause if it loves you back, it'll return."

Sage advice she'd once heard, and sage advice that now can be passed to little Frightkit. Maybe it isn't applicable right this second (because it's a bug, y'know), but perhaps it'll help her down the proverbial road?
 
Watching Frightkit chase a beetle gave Sunlitpaw gentle envy. She remembered being intrigued by the insects herself, she recalled even asking Scorchpaw if she could eat one as the two watched it crawl from one of the many tunnels littering the area. Two-toned ears flick back nervously as the kitten bats the little bug from the air, skirting her gaze to Moorblossom who advised letting them go. "Careful to not hurt it," they mumble as they approach. "It won't be able to fly again if you do."
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    sunlitpaw

    they / she, moor-runner apprentice of windclan. mentored by no-one
    a large yet timid chocolate tabby-tortoiseshell with spring green eyes
    sunstride x wolfsong, sibling to rivepaw, bearpaw, singedpaw, & featherpaw
    full length tags
    penned by izanami, contact on discord @nullmoons for plots or threads :)
 


They had really never been much of a bug cat, finding the creatures to always have just a few too many legs, or eyes that just didn't seem right in some way - like the one that had them on stalks. Just the thought of them sent a shiver down Rattleheart's spine as they approached, grateful that Frightkit's enthusiasm was at least being reserved for a fairly innocuous looking little bug. A beetle of some kind, maybe. They weren't really sure, nor did they particularly want to inspect it to find out. "Moorblossom and Sunlitpaw are right. If you don't let that little guy go at some point, it won't be able to go and find food for itself. And batting it around too much like that will have the same effect, if not something worse..." They supposed at least that would be a less horrifying introduction to death than most Windclan kits had gotten as of late. A bug dying was far less traumatizing than a clanmate, and much easier to brush away and distract from if Frightkit took it too hard.
[ PENNED BY EO ]
 


'If were the beetle, I'd rather be dead than listen to this thing talk.' Sootspot moved forward with a smile upon his alabaster muzzle, ears twitching with glee listening to his clanmates plead for the life of an insignificant thing. It had never made sense to him why his clanmates valued the lives of prey over the lives of other cats, had it been a loyalist she was biting the tail of, he'd have doubted they'd have even batted an eye. To him, they'd always been worth the same, one way or another, both were fuel. "Another lesson, Frightkit," he cooed. "Practice makes perfect - hunting this now will only help you catch rabbits later."

 
HE COULD NOT BREAK SURFACE TENSION
HE LOOKED IN THE WRONG PLACE FOR REDEMPTION

periwinklebreeze 18 moons demi-boy he/they windclan moor runner

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" Th-thats a beetle - sometimes they're very sh-shiny and s-sometimes they smell bad, " or sometimes, they're the pretty red ones - ladybugs. those ones are lucky, he thinks. He doesn't see the harm in letting frightkit play with it - unlike the others, he doesn't try to get her not to hurt it, or to let it go. He still remembers being a kit - batting the centipedes he'd find beneath rocks around the camp. Those things had far too many legs - ick.

actions & " speech, " & 'thoughts/quotes'

D O N ' T L O O K A T M E W I T H T H O S E E Y E S

 
Downypaw draws near the scene, poking their head in between Sootspot and Sunlitpaw. Marina blues flick between Frightkit and the beetle, unsure if it was the kitten's learning or the beetle's life everyone was more concerned for. Only her mentor suggests harming it. "Maybe you could show it to your littermates," they suggest, blinking towards the nursery. It was only a beetle. Downypaw didn't personally care for it, but her clanmates seemed averse to introducing death to someone whose sister was named Deathkit. She faintly recalls chasing butterflies with her own sisters too, back when snow was just a thing of story amid all the Greenleaf pleasures. It's hard to remember if they been so compassionate to it, for all their curiosity.​
 
*+:。.。 Frightkit's little ears flutter at the sound of her name being called seemingly from nowhere. In the moments it takes Moorblossom to approach, Fry has already looked around - not realizing the approaching ebony molly was coming towards her - and looks down at the beetle struggling to roll onto it's belly. "You can talk?" she breathes wonderously. But before she can poke it for more words, paws step into her line of sight and she glances up.
Moorblossom is a molly she doesn't know well. She doesn't visit the nursery as often as Nightinggalecall, so she's not mommy, and though she's dyed black like the night sky she's definitely not pappa. So that means...new friend! "Hi!" she trills excitedly, but doesn't have the chance to babble out her introductions when the woman speaks. If you love something - oh boy yeah, Fry loves her new bug friend! - you have to let it go - hm?. Frightkit blinks round, snake-like eyes, before glancing down at her buddy. The bug has managed to roll right-side-up and seems to be working use back into it's legs as it wiggles them clumsily forth, not quite ready to bolt but not quite eager to stay. Let it go...?

"That's silly!" Frightkit would laugh, immediately slapping the bug back onto its back so it wouldn't escape during her distracting conversation, "I love it so it hasta stay with me! It knows my name! We're best buddies now!"

The next to approach was another large feline, but this one had the softer face structure of a younger cat. Sunlitpaw, with very pretty brown and cream spots that reminded Fry of the sun peaking through the clouds on a patch of wet mud. "You're pretty!" she tells the stranger, excited to share the fact, "and I'm Frightkit!" To Moorblossom, whom she recalls now she hadn't introduced herself to, she giggles, "and you look like my pappa! I'm Frightkit!" She liked telling people things! She'll add that to the list of things she likes that she needs to tell her bug pal later.

Finally focusing back on the conversation, Fry tilts her head to the side once more, gazing at Sunlitpaw with glittering icy hues, " It won't fly away, we're playing!" Looking back down at her friend, she pokes its belly thoughtfully.

More and more cats began to appear, each one with an interesting fact to share with Fry. In turn, she'd pipe right back. To Rattleheart she says, "You're messy! Mommy can give you a bath if you want!" then to Sootspot, "You have eyes like my pappa!", Periwinklebreeze would earn, "Peri! Peri! Peri! Peri!" not so much a fact as a series of excited chirps, and finally Downypaw would get, "oooooh," as she gazed in awe at the older feline's soft, cotton-like coat. She wants to hug this stranger so bad...

But, in the meantime, she refocuses on what everyone is saying. Too much at once, in Fry's opinion. "Ill give it some of my food," she dismisses Rattleheart, pawing at the beetle, "and I'm not hunting, silly, I'm playing!" it tries to get up again, but she lightly squishes it back down, laughing when it's little legs wriggle frantically at it's sides, "buggy doesn't smell bad, buggy's mom probably groomed it! Huh, buggy?"

Downypaw's suggestion was the best one so far, so Frightkit lets out a squeal, "Yeah! And then we'll all play tag!"




  • GENERAL:
    Frightkit
    DFAB— She/Her — Unsure
    2 moons — Ages 1 moon every month real-time
    Windclan Kit
    Sister to Deathkit, Witherkit, Grasskit, Whitekit and Midnightkit

    COMBAT:
    Physically very easy | mentally very easy
    Attack in bold #1b1e21
    injuries: None