[MeltiTheDragon]

Cat Name: Russetpaw
Gender: She-cat
Clan: Cascadeclan
Why are they bored?:


"I said I'm FINE, FATHER!"

A hacking cough sounds from the medicine cat's den. The young tabby laid on her side, wheezing as she tried to catch her breath. Her doting adoptive dad was too doting for her liking. All she wanted was a night to herself. Without anyone hovering over her the whole time.

The deputy wasn't having it. "Do you want anything to eat Russet?" Owletfur asked.

Russetpaw sighed, her ears pinned back. Her dad's a warrior cat, but she thought he was more of a worrier cat. This was the fifth time he's asked that tonight. He thought she was just going to ignore him, or maybe give him a peaceful answer.

"FOR THE LAST TIME NO!"

The yowl was almost louder than what followed after it. As she lapsed into another fit of coughing, Owletfur slunk out of the den to hunt. Once the pain-in-the-tail left her sight, she slumped back down into her nest. Boy did she hate being sick. No one's let her do anything in half a moon. At this point she's already tired of being coddled by the rest of the clan. Bored out of her mind, she grabbed a stalk of anise and absentmindedly swatted at the seeds.

"Russet, don't touch that. You need to-"

"Take them for my cough. I know Campionstar," Russetpaw finished. Another cat had come to hover over her. This time it was the leader. The white she-cat grabbed the stalks and placed them in one of the holes near the roof of the den. If she weren't feeling so weak, she would've clawed Campionstar's little tufted ears off. The leader then proceeded to attempt sharing tongues with the sick apprentice. Russet snarled and hissed back, "I'm pretty sure I can groom myself. Not as if I can do anything else right now."

Campionstar sat down. The large feline sighed, "Easy Russet. What kind of bug crawled into your pelt?"

"At this rate, I'll die of boredom. I'm FINE. It's just a little cough!" Russetpaw replied, her tail lashing. Another couple coughs cut her off from finishing.

"A little cough? Russet, are you sure about that?"

The sick apprentice was absolutely fuming. "I'm very sure. I only cough when I'm yowling like this. I'm perfectly good to hunt. Would you please let me out to hunt already? This den is freezing!" she ranted.

Campionstar purred. It was the middle of the hottest green-leaf ever, and Russetpaw felt like it was leaf-bare. She pressed her paw to the apprentice's damp forehead. "Perfectly good? Honey, you have a high fever. No patrols for you," she replied.

"But this will delay my warrior ceremony for moons!" Russetpaw sniffled.

"Becoming a warrior a moon or two late is better than dying a 9 moon old of greencough."

She hated to admit it, but her leader was right. Well, guess she'll have to make the best of a very boring moon or two in the medicine cat's den.

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[librarycat]

Username: Librarycat
Cat Name: Larkpaw
Gender: She-cat
Clan:mountainclan
Why are they bored?: "... still too deep to take Larkpaw out ..."
Larkpaw's ears swivelled round at the mention of her name and tried to figure out if the conversation was worth eavesdropping on properly.
"... won't let up for another week at least ..."
Oh. It was just about the snow. Larkpaw was so sick of the snow. Two days she had been confined to camp due to the snow being "too deep" and she was so bored she could scream. There were only so many times she could groom the elders or clean the dens, especially since she wasnt even allowed to collect the moss herself.
"... too small .... catch a chill ...safer to keep her here..."
Larkpaw sighed and flopped onto her side, watching the snowflakes fall through the camp entrance and zoned the adults out. She stayed like that for a while just feeling her mind drift. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad being stuck here if there were other apprentices, or even kits for her to play with, but there had been that late bout of summer sickness that had ravaged the nursery and the snows last year had been worse. Larkpaw didn't remember it very well, but she knew she had lost a sister to the cold.
"... need to find something for her to do ..."
A snowflake drifted further into camp, and landed on Larkpaw's nose. She twitched it, and sighed. Could she take another day of this? Another week?
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[peachycupcake525]

Username: Peachycupcake525
Cat Name: Applepaw
Gender: Female
Clan: Coniumclan
Why are they bored?: It was not long after Applepaw joined the mysterious Coniumclan that Applepaw realized it was not all that she was hoping for. For starters, she and Barkstar were the only members. For another thing, Barkstar was spiritless, at least from an apprentice's perspective. The leader hardly ever spoke. That was alright for a while, but even Applepaw got tired of expatiating eventually. Although training to become a warrior was exciting and new, especially compared to her life before she joined, even that got dull without any companions. Every day she saw Barkstar and no one else. Even the birds must be happier than me, thought Applepaw on one miserable, dreary, rainy day, for they can fly and sing. Although her time in Coniumclan was not off to the best start, Applepaw refused to leave. She had no life outside of it, and her ceaseless optimism kept her looking on the bright side and to the future. However, it did not keep her from experiencing hopeless boredom, and she willed the time to pass by more quickly each day.
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[Hawky<3]

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[clouds-move-on]

Username: ☁Lady Raincloud☁
Cat Name: Cinderpaw
Gender: Tomcat
Clan: NocturneClan
Why are they bored?:
Cinderpaw watched his clan. Everyday he did this- it was one thing he enjoyed doing. Just watching to see how everyone was, how they acted, how talented and interesting each cat was, with their varied history and ideas were. He loved to hear his friends talk. Each had stories to tell, each was so... different. Edgewalker and his kin had come from far away, and knew of things he'd never heard of. Crimsonsparrow could name ever herb in his stash by heart, and every plant he found in the forest. Ashclover had such a way with words, weaving them like some spider building it's web of language around it. Snowberry would talk of music, and of the knowledge humans possessed cats couldn't fully grasp. There was even Emberpaw and Luckykit- both young, younger than he, but Emberpaw was already rapidly improving at hunting and fighting, while Luckykit had a mysterious past, and such interest in all she saw.

Cinderpaw wished he was like them, or even his uncle, Firefern. At least Firefern had interesting dreams. Cinderpaw felt he had nothing. He was subpar, beyond regular. He never had anything interesting to say, and few things really inspired him to do anything, except monotonously help in camp, or hunt, or obey orders from his mentor all day. Perhaps he had an attention to detail no one had- but he didn't recognize this as anything special. He was so bored by himself and the way he was. The way he always felt sour, the way he wanted to snap if anyone so much as looked at him. The bitterness he felt. It was tiring him out. Everything was so futile... so many words for that feeling he carried with him all day, be it emptiness, boredom, dreariness or whatever else. He wanted to feel things and know things and see things like they did. He just didn't know how.
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[Hawky<3]

Username: ~Glaceon~
Cat Name: Russetpaw
Gender: Female
Clan: FrondClan
Why are they bored?: Russetpaw opened her mouth in a silent sigh, and her whiskers drooped. "Bla bla... city is danger to you, why did you go... Bla bla." Raccoonstar droned on, anger in her eyes and her mouth wide like she was going to take a bite out of her apprentice. "I've been to the city many times before, Shadow Traveller, and I don't need rescuing!" Russetpaw snapped, her red pelt spiking up in anger and her tail lashing. "Why go to the city when we have all the fresh prey we need here?" The ginger she-cat sighed at the older tabby as soon as she spoke.
"City's better then some tree and 'nice' fresh air. Smoke is an amazing scent-" Raccoonstar huffed at that. "-and fighting for prey doesn't happen out here! It's so quiet, and boooring!" Raccoonstar felt hurt, Russetpaw could see it in her dropping shoulders and scowl, but the fact that she had been brought here and was the target of annoyance just because she had stood on a twig or two while Raccoonstar hunted squirrels hurt her as well.

As soon as Raccoonstar had found her, quietly minding her own business, she had asked if she wanted to join a thing called FrondClan that was close to the city where the small red cat was currently living. By "close to" it seemed that nice-sounding FrondClan had allies in the great twoleg dwelling, so Scarlet joined and received the name Russetpaw. She was constantly out of camp with her mentor, because "If you have lived in the city the trees are amazing compared to twoleg rubbish and everything is green!"

She was bored of seeing the great leafy pillars and the marbled waters, being told what the best fish were, and staring into bushes to find mice or stray squirrels. It seemed that she and Raccoonstar were the only cats (no wonder, judging by Raccoonstar's attitude) in the clan, and no one to play with made her very, very bored indeed. She did see cats come and go, but most of them were frightened of FrondClan's fish stink as it seemed - she certainly was. It wasn't until they occasionally travelled to the city that Russetpaw relished with the smoke in her fur and the twoleg rubbish all around her that boredom ebbed away.
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winner, congrats!

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Congrats! c:
If you want to use my art please ask first, I want to reuse the character but the art is a bit non-specific, I'd just like to know if you want it or not.

[MeltiTheDragon]

Congrats Glaceon! :3 You can keep my art.

[cloudy days]

Thank you so much! I'm so surprised I've won a competition for the first time. Russetpaw will be 7 moons old. Thank you for the art Diamonshine!

[Mythz]

~Glaceon~ is selling this fella to me! They should be posting later! Proof
Her name will be Cypresspaw, she's 9 Moons old and a Trapper Trainee of Wishclan