spiderkit

lichenclan

small, longhaired black smoke tom with blindness

Spiderkit adorns a small, slender stature. It's easy to see where he gets his name from. His fur is thick and fluffy. It will easily grow out just as long and thick as his mother's. As he grows, his build will remain relatively the same. He'll be shorter than Shadowface, though not by much, and take after her elegant yet sturdy figure. His face will be wide, with a big muzzle and broad ears. His whiskers and ears will always seem to be at attention, for they are his eyes. Meanwhile, his actual eyes are pale blue, blind from birth, rather than the dark green they should've been. His pupils are paled and barely visible.

Spiderkit would've been independent regardless of his blindness or desire to prove his worth. After all, a disability or illness does not shape who someone is at their core. However, being blind and determined pushes that independence even further - to an unrelenting degree. He's pretty much non-dependent as often as he can be and, even when he should be, he'd rather mess himself up than lean on someone else! If he has to, it's very begrudging. He doesn't like to turn to others with his problems or ask them for help, preferring to sort things out himself.

His memory is sharpened because of how he 'sees' his surroundings, how he learns from others, how he interprets something he cannot see. He has to remember precisely, because it could mean the difference between bumping into that same bush a hundred times - or smartly walking around it without having to stop and smell or feel for it. He's able to tell which Clan-mate is which by their scent better than others. After all, he can't see them. He has only their voices, scents, and touch to know them by. Spiderkit is also able to recall things that others have said in the past with great accuracy, which can be both a blessing and a curse. He doesn't easily forget the things he pays attention to.

Spiderkit's mood can quickly shift to one of irritation. He doesn't have a lot of patience for himself, growing more and more irritated the more mistakes he makes and the more of a hindrance his blindness becomes. He doesn't have much patience for others, either; if another cat is being annoying or bothersome, he doesn't hesitate to practically bite their head off. Especially if they don't stop after he 'asks nicely' - which is him being not as hostile as he could be.

That said, Spiderkit is confrontational and aggressive. He is always ready for a fight should someone have a problem with him, his family, or his Clan. Some might say he is 'always looking for a fight' instead - though that just fires him up even more, considering he can't look for anything. He'll grow to harbor this approach to problems, advocating for aggression and war. This stems from his desire to prove himself as a valid warrior of LichenClan, always looking for an opportunity to show that he can fight - not thinking about if he should fight.

Spiderkit and his brothers, Cresskit and Heatherkit, were conceived accidentally - and almost entirely to prove a point - by the LichenClan warrior Shadowface and the ThistleClan warrior Yewthorn. Beneath the light of the moon the two willful warriors came together, their paths crossing for only a moment in time. That was long enough to create three more lives. Though Heatherkit was stillborn, and Spiderkit only vaguely remembers the strange feeling of their colder litter-mate being taken away. No matter how much the newly-birthed Cresskit and Spiderkit tried to keep Heatherkit warm and stimulated, he never moved. He'd been too weak to make it in this life.

The purpose of it all was lost on Spiderkit, who will grow up being told that his father is actually the LichenClan warrior Quickstrike. Being told that he is a normal LichenClan cat, well, aside from his blindness. He will be born blind, never knowing any other way of life. Never knowing what things or cats or animals look like, only 'seeing' them through touch, smell, and sight. Though, his other senses will grow sharper for it and he'll also wield a sharp tongue to make up for the loss of his eyesight. He will stubbornly insist on the path of a warrior to any who question his potential, dead-set on proving himself.