[Hawky<3]

Welcome to Rise!
Rise is an adoptable based on Warrior Cats and focused around world building and character development.
Please make sure that you read the main thread so that you understand limits and levels!

to enter this competition, you must own a founder and at least be at level 1!
this apprentice is bored. is it their apprentice duties, or something else? explain in 500 words maximum! you can also have 1 art extra, no comics/gifs. this prompt is up to your interpretation

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[b]Username:[/b]
[b]Cat Name:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Clan:[/b]
[b]Why are they bored?:[/b] (max 500 words)
[b]Extra:[/b] (1 art piece)

end date: may 15th

Username: ~glaceon~
Cat Name: russetpaw
Clan: frondclan
Rank: apprentice

Gender: female
Age:
Description: a long-furred cinnamon mackerel tabby with small white markings and hazel eyes.

Other Features: none
Siblings: none living

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[dimi.]

dimi. | acornpaw | female | silentclan

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That's just the problem.
Acornpaw is an apprentice, and the concept of that, to her at least, is just boring! What's the point of being an apprentice
if all you get to do is train with a warrior and hunt, yet have to stay behind in battle? The concept frustrates Acornpaw. No matter what she is doing, the suffix "paw" of her name just ruins all the fun for her. You don't hear of very many apprentices being graced for their good doings, but as soon as it's a warrior involved? Others will flock to their paws, kiss the very ground they walk on, just because they followed their duties! Yet she would be just standing there, perhaps get a good job from her mentor, and be on her way. Because of this, she hopes that training is over soon, and she can just become a warrior and be more appreciated. [151 words].

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[kittykore]

Username: Jack Cat Name: Spicekit Gender: Female Clan: Sootclan
Why are they bored?:
Spicekit's bored because she is the only kit in the nursery, the apprentices promised to sneak her out of camp and hunt with them but they ended up getting caught and so they were running a lap around the territory. She wasn't caught and now is just bored and waiting for a time when they can sneak her out. She has two more months and then she can become an apprentice, but it's so long from now.
Extra: (1 art piece)

[ajax.]

Username: Ajax.
Cat Name: HazelPaw (HazilDust)
Gender: she-cat
Clan: ThistleClan
Why are they bored?:
What in StarClan's name?? The small tabby grumbled softly as that and more complaining drifted through her mind. Gosh she was annoying herself with her own thoughts! HazalPaw batted a small pebble around with her paws as she sat boredly at the entrance to the trainees' den. Her fluffy tail lashed back and forth. LittleSpark and forbade her from leaving at night without him. She was going to be a day ranger of course but that didn't matter! they still needed her for the moonhigh patrol in the mountains! and she could always just sleep in a little bit! No, that might not be a good idea, LittleSpark liked getting up at the crack of dawn for the sunup patrol. She flattened her ears, flopping down on the dusty earth that cover the camp floor. AdderStar had already left with SmokePaw to do some water training so it wasn't like she could spar or anything! She rolled over onto her back, maybe she could sneak out? no she was a ranger she wasn't quiet, she wasn't even meant for night--or trained for it! But that shouldn't stop her. She sat up, waiting for the last night warrior away--ShadowWalker--to head out, though he usually stayed out for a bit before going out hunting. Grr--this was going to take awhile. [218 words]
Extra: (1 art piece)

[stormzien]

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[Wileyfangs]

Username: Wileyfangs
Cat Name: Wasppaw
Gender: She-cat
Clan: Swampclan
Why are they bored?:

Wasppaw is bored because of how little there is to do in camp. Having just only turned into an apprentice and not shown to the territory yet, all she knows is the camp. She longs to swim across to the shore but fears the water itself, not used to swimming alone just yet. Her mentor, Mottledfeather has promised her in due time she'd get there. For now, however, it was time to get to know her clanmates better.

And that's the boring part. Between listening to Tornsight's rambling, watching Weaselface sneakily gobble down extra fresh-kill, and watching Mongoosepaw fight nearly anything that breathes the wrong way, Wasppaw can say with certainty that she's definitely bored. Maybe if her best friend hadn't deserted them she'd feel better about these things but Rosepaw was gone and Wasppaw was still hurt and angry and nobody cared. They acted like she hadn't been there for most of Wasppaw's life, teaching her how to speak in 'Cat' and not 'Fox'. How they played when things got too frustrating or how Deersky groomed them after a day to playing in the water. It was lonely. Even with her found fox family that had raised her for moons, Wasppaw had never felt like this before.

Rosepaw was her closest friend and discovering that she had up and simply left, no word to her or the others, hurt Wasppaw something fierce. It hurt to think Rosepaw had just left without so much as a goodbye. Wasppaw became distant after that, struggled not to run back, to hunt down her fox family and never come back to the clans again. But whether it was because she was genuinely hurt or just bored, in general, it was hard to tell. She missed those days when she was a fox and not a cat. When things like friendships didn't matter and no one tried to disappear.

Compared to that, Apprentice life feels dull and it hurts that they've given up on Rosepaw. And she was starting to do it too...


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[cujo.]

Username: cujo.
Cat Name: stoatpaw
Gender: non-binary, can sire kits
Clan: minkclan
Why are they bored?: w/i/p [/500]
Extra: (1 art piece)

super cute kit but my laptop is outta commission and i can't really write comfortably on my phone.

good luck all and congratulations to the winner!!

[cloudy days]

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.
(384 words)
Extra: (1 art piece)

[halflower]

Username: MistyWavez
Cat Name: Applepaw
Gender: She-cat
Clan: Sandclan
Why are they bored?: The day was hot and sunny, and the waves could be heard crashing against the shore. Applepaw sighed, looking at the sand as she walked along the beach. All she had been doing since she joined this 'clan' was helping Marigoldstar repair the camp, and she barely even got to do anything but watch her. She just kept being ordered to wait behind as her mentor did everything. All she wanted to do was jump into the waves at her side, and catch a fish to prove she could do whatever she wanted. However, Applepaw knew that if she did Marigoldstar would punish her, and she'd probably end up staying in camp for the rest of the day. Applepaw let out another huff, before bumping into Marigoldstar as she stopped suddenly.

"Are you going to keep huffing like a kit, or are you going to come and help me?" Marigoldstar said sharply, giving a glance back at Applepaw. Applepaw's fur bristled as she snapped back, "I would stop huffing if you'd let me do something!" Marigoldstar turned her head away from Applepaw, and slowly began to walk forward once again.

Applepaw stood where she was, her fur still bristling as she let a hiss go out under her breath. 'Doesn't she know I can take care of myself?' Was the only thing she could think as she began to turn away from her mentor, walking back the way she came. Maybe she could find something else to do on her own. She suddenly yelped as she bumped into a tiny creature with pinchers, a crab. Before she could do something, a paw had quickly batted away the tiny creature, as well as shoving Applepaw out of the way.

Applepaw huffed as she hit the sandy floor, looking up at Marigoldstar standing beside her. "You have yet to know the dangers of this island Applepaw, once you learn them you may help me." Marigoldstar said calmly, glancing down at Applepaw as she watched her get up. Applepaw nodded silently, looking at her paws as she walked behind Marigoldstar. That was the most exciting thing she had done since she got here, and yet her mentor still did everything for her. Yet another day of watching and doing nothing, how boring this all was. (Word Count: 382)
Extra: (1 art piece)

[alokesti]

username: alokesti | name: pikepaw | gender: tom [male] | clan:

prompt: this tom is bored because he is the only apprentice in his clan at the moment & the kits are too young to play yet

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