anemonetail

lichenclan

a lanky calico she-cat with amber eyes

In appearance, Anemonepaw heavily takes after her father. She matches him in color, a tortoiseshell she-cat of red and black. The majority of her is dark in color with flecks of muted ginger, only bright along her shoulders, forelegs, tail, and face. Her belly is pale, snowy white, as are her paws when she bothers to keep them clean. She has a lean, tall build, a youthful lankiness that she never quite grew out of.

Anemonepaw's face is striking, with two stripes of ginger marking the right side of her face and the left above her eye. She has tall, sharply triangular ears and a wedge-shaped appearance to her muzzle. Her nose is split down the middle, half salmon pink and half black. Her chin adds to her tricolor appearance, being a startling white. She has sharp yellow eyes, shaped like peach pits in the recesses of her face.

Of all of the things Anemonetail has come to disregard about her mother, sincerity had never been one. She prides herself on her honesty, though sometimes harsh, and if she was asked to determine her best trait, her integrity is what she would choose. She believes herself to be a moral feline who is reliable in her ideals. When she makes promises, she keeps them, no matter what circumstances change. Because she holds these traits so highly within her own mind, blows to them tend to hurt her more than normal name-calling. To be dishonest is to go against everything she knows to be true, and if she cannot complete something she said she could do, she is very hard on herself for her ineptitude.


Anemonetail is a curious she-cat, always eager to try new things and explore. She does not seek out danger recklessly but does not hide from it either, always interested in exciting new things. When she is told to restrain herself in any way, she is easily frustrated. Because of this, she can be very rebellious, more than willing to sneak away to romp around in the mud when she is supposed to be sleeping like a lady. Her enjoyment of the physical pursuits of life lends her to be a very active cat, and she rebels openly against the systems within LichenClan that strive to stifle her spark. Her desire to rebel against her mother leads her to have a complicated relationship with StarClan. She openly speaks as though she doesn’t care what they think, but secretly desires their acknowledgment of her successes and absolution for her failures.


Like any other cat, Anemonetail has plenty of happy days. However, her natural disposition lends her to a more moody personality, easily bringing her to become grumpy and argumentative. She is especially bad-tempered in the face of authority, never quite being comfortable taking orders. Seemingly innocent remarks can drive her frustration. Her urge to prove herself conflicts with the need to be independent. She would flagrantly avoid a task she was told to perform simply because she was told to do it, even if she may have done it herself without prompting only moments before.


Anemonetail tends to assume the worst of others, considering herself above everyone else, and treats them as lesser. While her actions are driven by a desire to create a more equal, stable world, she is also propelled by a sense that she is smarter, more virtuous, and more incorruptible than any other. Her strong sense of justice leads her in the direction of a fair world, despite her mixed motivations. She aims to prove to everyone just how worthy she is of their appreciation, despite her foul attitude.

Mother: Perchwhisker (@ egotistic)
Father: Monarchmask (@ soot)
Siblings: Wisteriapaw (@ raven) & Valeriankit (@ stormdancer)

Mentor: Lavendermist (@ admin)


Anemonekit was born to Monarchmask and Perchwhisker with a brother and a sister, Valeriankit and Wisteriakit. The youngest of a large family, Anemonekit will have many relatives to keep her company. Little does anyone know, her blood holds not that of Cricketcall and her extensive collection of relatives, but a connection to the presumed destroyed heron line.

As a kit, Anemonekit and Perchwhisker often butted heads. Anemonekit was rowdy and was unable to hold her tongue whenever anything felt unfair or she was unhappy, a frequent occurrence as her mother attempted to push lady-like behaviors onto her. She rebelled fiercely, taking after her father when he occasionally visited, and found a wedge between herself and her better-behaved siblings.

When she was five moons old, her mother informed her of an arrangement that had been made promising her to one of Caveflower's great grandsons, Vervainkit. Anemonekit raged against the decision, unable to change her mother's mind and therefore taking out her frustrations on her now-to-be-spouse. Also in her fifth moon, her brother vanished from the nursery, only to be found drowned after falling in the lake. Anemonekit watched the horrors her family faced that day, her father's bitterness, her mother's fragile wailing, and knew the power of death in a way that left her terrified of the water.

On her sixth moon, Anemonepaw was assigned to Lavendermist as her mentor. Eager to have a mentor far removed from the traditionalists and the invisible hierarchy her mother clung to, Anemonepaw was eager to prove herself as her father's daughter rather than the lady her mother wanted her to be.


Under Lavendermist's tutalage, Anemonepaw began unravelling the complex social structure of LichenClan and the even more complicated state of it following the ed of the heron line. She grew to feel guilty in her parent's support in Minnowstar, trying to seperate themselves from her by spending more time around those once deemed of "lower blood." Her fascination with history grew as she worked to make herself an expert in the past of LichenClan and all that led to Minnowstar's rise to power, learning bits and pieces from each of her clanmates and the elders that she tended to as a part of her apprentice duties.

During her apprenticeship, she avoided her betrothed, Vervainpaw, and her sister, Wisteriapaw, as much as possible and instead spent a lot of time with her cousins, Dacepaw and Darterpaw. The three apprentices became good friends, though Anemonepaw's cantankerous personality did not waver even for them. She distanced herself from her family as much as possible, avoiding any opportunity that might put her near her mother.

Anemonepaw was named a warrior with her cousins, awarded the new title Anemonetail for her speed and balance. She wore the name proudly and performed her vigil, glad that she was not sent to the moon pool to perform religious rituals like those who graduated moons before her.