camp They're cute like me! || Worm

[Rabbitnose]

Rabbitnose's mood had been improving ever since the kits were born and Sunfreckle had recovered, finally giving his warmth to the little bundles of joy. He was relieved, everything felt lighter on his heart.

A light rain had passed, dampening the earth and drawing out creatures who thrived on its moisture.

Like worms.

A particularly big one had writhed from the ground and Rabbitnose had to admire it's size. This wasn't one of the little ones he often sees. No, this one was AT LEAST three normal worms wide!!

Was it just well fed, or was it an older worm....

Regardless, he picks the writhing creature up and goes right over to the nursery! He's GOTTA show the kits.

"Kits! Come here, I have something to show you!" He called to them.

He's not sure if they've seen a worm yet. "It's a big worm!"

They were going to see one today.

@RAINBOWKIT @EMBERKIT. @sunshinekit . @Sunfreckle​

 

[EMBERFACE.]

☼—— the golden kitten pops up when he hears rabbitnose's voice, running on clumsy little legs towards the lanky blue shape of his father. he loves it so much when rabbitnose visits them! it's his favorite thing in the world, even more than when mousepaw (mouthpaw?) visits, even more than when he finds a cool new rock. "dad! dad!" emberkit yells as he hurtles toward his father, somehow not tripping over his kitten paws, coming to a stop in front of his white-spotted dad with blue eyes sparkling in interest.

"a woooorm? what's a w-worm?" emberkit mewls excitedly, poking at the wriggly thing his father is holding. is that a worm? it's slimy when he touches it and very cool! emberkit isn't bored at all anymore as he pokes it again, then sniffs it. the wiggly pinkish thing smells like dirt and mud and rain—it had rained, a light summer one, earlier. sunfreckle had kept them inside, obviously, so they wouldn't catch a cold, but it had been cool to look at anyways. he does a little happy hop, big eyes moving between his dad and the worm. emberkit mews loudly to his family, "guys! papa! come see the worm rabbitnose br-brought!"

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• ☼ emberkit — for his bright pelt & in honor of emberstar he/him ; amab, will come out as genderfluid ICly — thunderclan — kit — 1 ☾s —— emberkit is a young kit with a radiant white-splashed cream pelt and soft blue eyes. the adopted son of thunderclan's lead warrior sunfreckle and his mate rabbitnose, he is sweet, honest, and as bright as his namesake, if somewhat lacking in an attention span. —— smells like winter air & sweet smoke ; sounds like young bran stark ; speech in #A7CAEB, thoughts in #e98b27 —— peaceful / healing powerplay permitted ; attacks/contact in underline ; won’t start fights ; will flee ; will show mercy ; won't kill or maim (kitten) —— too young for romance ; open to friendships, casual interactions, plotting ; not open to romance, battles penned by dejavu— desklamp9 on discord for plots

• shhh don't look here (battle info will go here at some point)

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[& RAINBOWPAW]

Rainbowkit loves when Rabbitnose visits. Because Rabbitnose is very funny, and Rainbowkit would like to be funny just like him. Sometimes he comes with food for Sunfreckle, but this wasn't food... At least, Rainbowkit doesn't think so. It's pink kind of like food but it's small and wiggly. Prey isn't meant to be wiggly! Or maybe it was? But... Not right now! Kits didn't get wiggly prey! Rainbowkit makes a chewing motion with his mouth, imagining what it would be like to eat the wormy squirmy thing. Not good, they decide.

Rainbowkit is toddling over when Emberkit calls him, squeaking and greeting and tail sticking up in the air. What? What? " Worm. Worm! Rainbowkit wonders what an ok worm looks like if this was a big one, because it was still very small! Smaller than Rainbowkit at least, and Rainbowkit knows that they are very small. It smells like a rainy day that Sunfreckle would hide from with them all. Rainbowkit looks at the worm very seriously, because it was important to know things before you played with them.

This is not prey, Rainbowkit concludes. But they like the way it wiggles and worms and they feel very in tune to this wormy, wiggly thing. " I'm a worm! " they suddenly say, and flop on the floor. They love naps and wiggling as much as the worm did.

『 OOC 🌈 07.20.2023 』

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• rainbowkit & [ raine ] [ bow ] : sunfreckle xx rabbitnose 2nd litter. littermate to sunshinekit & emberkit. younger brother to mousepaw, sparkpaw & frecklepaw.
  —— amab. they / he ; fine with gendered terms ( tom / boy / brother / etc . . . )
  —— currently 7 weeks old.
  
  a typical size for their age. warm - faced and bright - eyed, rainbowkit sports boyish features and an easygoing smile. early signs of a thick ruff to come can be seen in plush cheeks and a thickening tail. sports long curling whickers and a dip of sun - red down the length of their neck.

• this is for cute purposes begone.

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[DUSKBIRD]

It is so strange– Duskpaw is not certain when he had first seen a worm. Had he paid any attention to them as a child? Had they mattered to him at all? He remembers playing patrol, and roping his mother into games. Rocks, and mossball, and badger rides. But worms? Duskpaw finds all at once that he would rather not look at such things even now– but of course, he has no option. The apprentice had been delivering prey to the nursery, complaining gently of the weather and his training as he set about shifting around the moss as well. They didn't really need him, but sometimes it was comforting to be back here. Like pretending he was a kitten again, even if he didn't want to be. He wanted to be as strong as Howlingstar, and as brave as Raccoonstripe, and as wise as Berryheart. He wanted to care as much as his mother and make ThunderClan proud the way his siblings did. He didn't want to be a kit. But he did want comfort.

This worm is very easily ruining that, even if Duskpaw didn't truly mind all that much. Sunfreckle's litter darts past him and he instinctively lifts his front paws out of the way — one after another, left-right like he's doing some slow dance — and cannot stifle a little half-laugh as they leave. "It'd be nice if we were always as happy as kittens," he says, and doesn't realize how old he sounds until he feels it in his chest. They would join him in the apprentice den so soon. Maybe they too would see Howlingstar die, or one of their clanmates. But for now, they were happy about a worm, and he could be happy for them. Abandoning his chores for just a moment (surely Nightbird will forgive him for that....right?) he peeks out and down at the worm itself. His dark eyes crinkle with childish disgust. "Why's it so huge?"

˗ˏˋ〚  OOC NOTES 05.20.2023 〛´ˎ˗

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• ──── duskpaw. apprentice of thunderclan. he / they.
  ──── blazestar x little wolf, older littermate of skykit.
  ──── does not know of his father / skyclan heritage.
  
  ──── an undefined kitten with long, dark brown fur that fades just slightly near the chest, throat, and ears, while the tip of their tail burns with the bright orange tabby flame. eyes are a deep, rich amber-brown, seeming red.
• "speech"

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[Sunfreckle]

"Rabbitnose-!" No! No! Why was he bringing that horrible wriggling thing here near him! Sunfreckle could not stop the anguished and almost childish squeak of displeasure that escaped him as his mate plopped down a squirming and rather rotund worm right at the nursery entrance for the kits to see. The red tabby had always hated insects, bugs creeped him out in a way he couldn't entirely explain and he could only off the brief excuse that having far too many legs was unsettling to look at but worms were quite different in that. It was their lack of legs that made his fur prickle in unease and it was also the way they were so pink and smooth like a hairless cat tail; there was just something unerving about it. Why didn't they have eyes? Why didn't they have a mouth? How did it exist just wiggling around like that and burrowing in the dirt? What even did a worm eat? So many questions and not an answer could be told which made it all the more unappealing a subject.
Sunfreckle can only look on in horror as Rainbowkit and Emberkit wobble their way forward to examine it, his bicolor child declaring unity with the awful creature and flailing about alongside it and Emberkit eagerly poking his nose downward far too close to get a better look.
He was going to chew Rabbitnose's far too long ears off for this.
His ears flatten as Little Wolf's young son approaches, comments on the joy of kits and he fears he can not agree this one time. This was a joy he wished he had the nerve to crush under his paw and be rid of. Worms were so gross...
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