FRECKLEFLAME

WARRIOR

a white she-cat with flame points and blue eyes

character stature: freckleflame is a medium sized cat with a lithe and streamlined build, toned for speed and nimbleness over raw power. her limbs are proportionally very long compared to her narrow body, and her tail alone almost more than doubles her overall measurement from front to back in length.

character pelt: freckleflame's short fur is incredibly soft and plush to the touch, on account of her genetics. the base pelt color is a very pale creamy sand color, nearly unblemished outside of the points where the fur darkens into a bright fiery tone, and subtle stripes hint at the tabby patterning beneath the semi-albinism. a few very faint stripes can be seen on her lower limbs, and her tail stripes form rings which become more distinct towards the tip as the base coloration beneath fades out in stark contrast. the deepest orange markings can be found in the center of her face and the backs of her ears.

character face: freckleflame boasts very large ears dominating the shape of her small broad head, and her small muzzle and rounded chin give her face a delicate, youthful appearance. her large eyes often appear curious or even bewildered at times, but when she is confident in what she's doing, she wears a very serious expression. the siamese blue hue of her eyes is desaturated to a very soft, grayish tone. from her battles up to now, she carries a few small scars in the form of a small notch in her right ear, and a noticable scar running from her upper left lip across her mouth to the bottom of her chin.

[+] patient - freckleflame keeps to herself most of the time, and rarely holds a short fuse with other clan members. she will take all the time needed to wait and see the whole picture in an incident before passing judgement or reacting one way or another. this ends up being her method of handling most conflicts, to wait and hope that all will soon be revealed and all sides involved had good intentions. it doesn't always work, but it has served her well for the most part of avoiding petty fights. still for her, it takes on a selfless nature because she will give others the benefit of the doubt even if it inconveniences her or is an offense to her.

[+] empathetic - freckleflame tries her best to understand others from their perspective and justify their feelings whenever she can. she frequently lends an ear to other cats' troubles, ever willing to listen and give support to her allies.

[-] paranoid - freckleflame is a timid and quiet cat who speaks little and avoids conflict whenever she can. she can be hinted at not really trusting those around her despite her best efforts to make them trust her. she's generally a friendly and giving cat, but she doesn't often make friends as she holds others at a distance even after going out of her way to try and make them like her, reluctant to reciprocate the amount of faith in others that she expects of them in herself.

[-] low confidence - plagued by social anxiety and averse to trusting others, this quiet cat has very little confidence in herself just as much. she doesn't believe in her ability to achieve great things, so she rarely tries to make a difference, instead putting effort only into fitting in, getting along, and going with the flow. she easily gives up when she attempts something new and may give in easily against adversity to her ideas or beliefs.

kithood: when frecklekit was born, she was immediately loved by her family members and enjoyed a warm kithood, raised communally by her parents and older brother, patchstrike. they gave her and her sibling dapplekit plenty of attention, so she was never wanting of care. her parents and older brother were great warriors, and there was always someone around and willing to entertain the kits when one or both of her parents were away on warrior duties. she can barely remember being baptised at the age of 3 moons old, not understanding why at the time. it was also during frecklekit's kithood at 3 moons of age that her father eveningroot was gravely injured in a battle against redwoodclan and forced to retire as a warrior and join the elders, and her family was devastated by this tragedy. frecklekit recalls the way her father's warrior spirit was broken, the sheer level of sadness in his eyes and tone, and that heartwrenching feeling was the first instance of her feeling empathy for something she's never experienced yet for herself.

adolescence: not long after frecklepaw and her sister dapplepaw were apprenticed, her mother specklesong moved into the elders den to reunite with her mate in old age. but joy was on the way for her family once more as it prepared to welcome her older brother patchstrike's new kits, and frecklepaw was enthusiastically invited to celebrate the occasion. she becomes aware of the political turmoil looming over the clan, but blissfully allows herself to be propagated to the side of absolute loyalty to starclan and lichenclan's teachings that the rival clans are sinners and she must do everything she can to remain in lichenclan's and starclan's good faith, so out of fear, she obliges as best as she can, never missing a beat when affirming to her mentor that she would stay true to starclan's will always. she finds herself becoming more distanced from her brother, and is met with varied amounts of adversity when she talks about the lichenclan beliefs she is learning about to her family, but it is out of fear for the reprehensions of less than absolute piety that she continues to claim a devout loyalty to lichenclan beliefs. she tells herself with fabricated faith, those who do not believe are not worthy of salvation. if only they submitted to starclan fully, life would be easier for them. the more she tells herself these things, the more her family seems to disagree with her, and yet this face that she shows to her clan is what she requires to survive in the clan environment, so she listens to her family's political beliefs, and remains unsure. the idea of rebelling against her clan is a terrifying thought.

adulthood: her warrior ceremony, as was tradition, was full of rituals, and freckleflame endured the aches of her frozen cold body to follow through the motions as she was taught. she confesses to her sins of not always having put her all into keeping her faith pure of doubt, but swears to stay on the right path from now on. as luck, or starclan rather, would have it, she pulled through without catching a cold, and was from then on a full fledged warrior of lichenclan.

yet like a screen has been unveiled from her eyes, she is immediately faced with adversity to her faith, and her religious beliefs are shaken once more. her relatives scold her for being a coward, and she knows they're right. she's terrified of what lichenclan has become, yet she doesn't know what she can do to stop appeasing it. so she avoids her kin, afraid of what they will say and how they will disapprove of her, as much as she is afraid of what minnowstar and lichenclan loyalists would do to her if they knew she doubted them deep down.

as a warrior, freckleflame works hard to earn the leader and deputy's good faith, happy to comment her loyalty to minnowstar whenever prompted. perhaps at times, she seemed to her clanmates like she was sucking up to the leader. she valiantly joins the war against redwoodclan and parrots the sayings that redwoodclan are heathens who need to be taught a lesson in the name of starclan, and she earns a reputation for being a timid, but fiercely loyal lichenclan warrior.

the war between lichenclan and redwoodclan then spans longer than she's been alive, and as long as she's been a warrior, and freckleflame fights, and bleeds, for the divine superiority of lichenclan more reluctantly than ever. she begins to wonder what's at the end of all this fighting, and what is the endgame of "starclan's will" as lichenclan believes it to be.