[CertainNorth]

I'm a bit late, so this will close for judging tonight! (in 12 hours or so)

This is now closed for judging!

[CertainNorth]

click the gif for my extra, a playlist!

username: areater
name: stoatpaw
age: seven moons
gender: tom
rank: apprentice
clan thread: blitheclan
prompt:
"needlesky, i know one of my mother's kits was a tom, but...what's so wrong about a tom? are you sure there's no place for him in the clan?" needlesky's dark ears flattened against her skull as she turned a snarl on tawnyfall. "you're a traitor to your clan if you truly think a tom has any place among she-cats. leave him at the border." tawnyfall protested, but needlesky batted her across the cheek with unsheathed claws and tawnyfall scurried out of the leader's den and picked up the newborn tom in her jaws. fighting the tightness in her chest, she brought him to the border to be left. "please, earthpelt, let someone take him," she prayed as she left him. but as she moved away, he cried out blindly for her, and her heart shattered. she looked back to camp and thought of all the friends and family she'd be leaving behind. but she couldn't live like this anymore. "come on, stoatkit," she murmured, the newly given name curious on her tongue as she picked him up and crossed the border into uncharted territory.

because he was born into a clan where only she-cats were accepted, stoatkit was supposed to be abandoned at the border by his older half-sister, but she decided to flee her clan instead. stoatpaw never knew his father, and tawnyearth scarcely talks about their mother, since she still misses her. tawnyearth raised him even as she went through her own challenges leaving her birth clan and creating her own clan, so while she sometimes seems distant because of her duties, he is forever grateful to her and trusts her a great deal. he may be self-conscious, but he feels like he can honestly be himself around her; she's the closest thing to a parent he has.
[ three hundred // three hundred ]

Congrats! Nice playlist and loved the clan origin story you have here! Enjoy your kitten! Also, I want to give an HM to SongoftheStars. Dude, your stories get me every time. This one was super close I felt bad having to decide XD

Thanks for the forms all! And the lovely art too! <3

[TheSongOfTheStars]

Congrats Areater! (I'm super curious about this unnamed clan that rejects males. Like how do they still exsist?)

Thanks for the Hm Tendency! As someone who considers them first and foremostly a write, your words are extremely gratifying.

[Areater]

ahh thank you, i’m so thrilled, thank you so much!!
@thesongofthestars trueclan asserts that toms are only useful for breeding and are chased off once they’ve served that purpose!

[Areater]

can you remove the clanless symbol for me please? thank you!

[Areater]

could i request stoatpaw to be grown please? i'll keep him as an apprentice a little while longer (just a few moons older) but i'd love for him to be on the adult lines!