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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 claim you must be at least level 1 or not have a founder in progress or a founder at all. Please be sure you have room in your clan before applying for this cat.

This cat may not be traded until: August
There is a 2 month cooldown after each ownership change.
For a transfer to be official, both parties must post on this cat's page. The original owner must post in the archive.

♫What is love? baby don't hurt me.don't hurt me. no more♫
What is love to this cat? 500 words max

End Date: Friday June 7th @ 11:59 PM EST

Username: hawkfire102
Cat Name: Birchheart
Clan: Sycamoreclan
Rank: deputy

Gender: tom
Age: 37 moons
Description: taupe ticked tabby

Other Features: None
Siblings: None Living

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[Mythz]

Username;; Mythz
Cat Name;; Scatteredcloud
Gender;; Molly
Age;; 16 Moons
Clan;; Wishclan
Rank;; Trapper

Prompt;;
Scatteredcloud glanced over her shoulder, her eyes resting on the thin, dark-coloured tom. Every time she looked at him, her heart skipped a beat. But, she couldn’t tell him how she really felt.
Not now, not ever.
Why?
Because she’s afraid.
Not afraid of Duckchaser – of course it wasn’t him.
It was herself.
Scatterdcloud was afraid of love.
It wasn’t her fault – not really. It began when two young cats fell in love and had a litter of 3 kits. After a few weeks, the two cat’s couldn’t be bothered to care for a litter of kits and so, they abandoned them. Scatterdcloud – named Cloud at the time – had two brothers, Midget and Storm. They struggled to survive and a few days after being abandoned, Midget died.
Luckily, Storm and Cloud were rescued right before they too, would have died.
After being with Wishclan for several moons, Storm left because he didn’t like the responsibilities of clan life.
And so, there was just her.
Abandoned twice and never truly knowing what love was.
She wants to love him – she does love him, more than anyone could possibly understand. But she doesn’t want to love the wrong way and end up hurting him like her family had done to her.
So Scatteredcloud stays quite.
Hoping, one day, she’ll have the courage to love someone.

[huskypawz]

Username;; Thunder.Collects
Cat Name;; Littledoe
Gender;; Female
Age;; 42 Moons
Clan;; CreekClan
Rank;; Warrior

Prompt;;
"Love is for the weak." Littledoe snarled, tail lashing as she glared at the male in front of her. So far this moon five different males had asked her to be his mate and it bothered Littledoe. She didn't want a mate, she didn't need a mate. She was fully capable of taking care of herself and didn't need a mate to help her. She had friends, she had family, she had herself. That was all she needed. "I've been asked too many times this moon, men don't take hints. I don't want a mate, end of the story." Littledoe then turned away, stalking out of camp with her fur bristling.

[Saltkinq]

Username;; Saltkinq
Cat Name;; Dunerunner
Gender;; Female
Age;; 27 moons
Clan;; Clan of the Palms
Rank;;Warrior

Prompt;; Love to Dunerunner is just the act of getting to know another cat personally. She just loves the bond of having someone she has known for so long, no matter if she feels positively or negatively towards the cat. It all feels so personal to her and she's very pleased to know about their personality, fears, likes and dislikes, and flaws. The love she feels isn't platonic or romantic, it's just a deep connection placed in her heart.

[chlorophyll]

Username;; Leafy.
Cat Name;; Sunflare
Gender;; Female
Age;; 34 Moons
Clan;; Oakclan
Rank;; Warrior

Prompt;; love doesn't have to be something intimate for sunflare. it doesn't even have to be something felt both ways. just having someone else there for comfort, to help you through hard times, to care for you, qualifies in her eyes. maybe her clanmates think otherwise, but she truly does love all of her other clanmates there for her. some maybe more than others. maybe.

[SunnyStreets]

Username;; Ravenwhisper's wish
Cat Name;; Sunnysnow
Gender;; nonbinary ( afab )
Age;; 27 moons
Clan;; WaveClan
Rank;; Warrior / possible future medicine cat

Prompt;;
the tabby crouched on the cliff; eyes glazed and blank. they didn't turn back, despite the venomous cries of battle echoing around them. the sun glinted terribly across the blood tainted snow below the crag. their eyes glowed with anxiety, silently praying for good news. behind sunnypaw, the caterwauls died and the battlefield grew silent. sunnypaw turned to look at the bodies strewn over the wet grass. they were horribly aware of the stench of death, and realised that the clan was gone. no flanks moved, no breaths were taken. but the love was still there. that was what love has always meant for sunnysnow. that vicious, never failing emotion which helped you live through even the worst of situations.

[kamelgirl]

username;; kamelgirl
cat name;; ambersky
gender;; she-cat
age;; 32 moons
clan;; rimeclan
rank;; warrior

prompt;; love is something for other cats.

amber knows this, as she knows things like where to catch prey even in the harshest of leafbares or how to find shelter in the midst of a blizzard. she watches other cats interact with a smile on her face and a hollowness in her chest - this kind of relationship, this love and unconditional support, is not something for her.

she remembers this: a kit no older than a few moons old, watching her parents fight. a little older, watching them split with hissed words and spat curses. six moons old, begging her mother not to leave as the she-cat left her behind for the last time.

this is no world for the broken. the mountains have no mercy for the weak. amber learned to keep her feelings close to her chest, to present a strong front unaffected by emotions. she would no longer be the child who cowered as her parents fought, who watched loving families with hungry eyes, who yearned for something she could not name.

then she met eveningstar. eveningstar, with bright eyes and a bold plan to revive a dead clan, who offered amber a place at her side and somewhere to belong. amber had turned her down without a second thought.

without missing a beat, eveningstar had offered again. amber, struck with the realization that she was actually wanted, hesitated. when she accepted, eveningstar smiled like she'd known she would all along.

amber - now ambersky - still regards love as something of a foreign concept. but now - accompanying eveningstar's boundless energy on her mission to restore the lost rimeclan - she thinks that someday, she could learn.

[ienrir]

Username;; ienrir
Cat Name;; hayslip
Gender;; tom
Age;; 82 moons
Clan;; cryptclan
Rank;; keeper

Prompt;;
To slip love is foolish folly, something that alludes his understanding; nestled firmly in the realms of social cues he fails to follow. He turns up his nose to the sight as swiftly as one would turn away from a gruesome scene. For love is a dangerous force, stronger than any river's torrent. Those who fall to its embrace will sooner find themselves tossed against its rocky bay, or tumbled in its rapids. Some forces are best left alone, the stars will it so. Only the foolhardy dive into the same deep river twice and expect not to drown. Of course, some may swim... for a while... but as merciless as the currents, love was not made to treat it's people gently. Love is gateway to pain greater than any cat should ever have to know.

[Ladyskittels]

Username;; Ladyskittels
Cat Name;; Poppypaw
Gender;; Pangender (dfab)
Age;; 6 moons
Clan;; Glacial Blizzard Clan
Rank;; apprentice

Prompt;;
Love is patience for Poppypaw. Love is trying to understand the other's point of view, and to see the situation from the other cat's perspective. It means always coming back to the one you love even if you're mad at them and don't want to see them. Love is both romantic and platonic to this apprentice; it is the root of all things in their mind.

Love isn't just the feeling that bonds together a pair of mates, but it is also what bonds together a mother cat and her baby, a couple of friends, and in some ways even enemies. Love is such a powerful feeling- more like a forceful magnet - that it bonds all sorts of beings together.

Love is the most important connection as far as Poppypaw can tell. Granted, she hasn't been around for long, but she can already tell that there is more than one way to love someone- as a child, a parent, a friend or even the lightest form of it in her mind; respect of an enemy. In her mind, it is what keeps us together and without it, life as we know it would fall apart.

[Yellow.]

Username;; Yellow.
Cat Name;; Dustfur
Gender;; female
Age;; 17 moons
Clan;; Ridgeclan
Rank;; warrior

Prompt;;
Fear.

If one were to ask Dustfur what her option on love was that would be her one and the only word to give them, even as young as she is it’s her final answer in the matter. Of course, there is a reason behind this, there’s a reason behind everything isn’t there? Just because one tends to not give a reason doesn’t mean there isn’t one.

Her mother taught it to her first, to fear love, from another and to another.

“Momma, why don’t you love me?” Dustfur asked, just a kit then and confused as to her mother's ways when they went against everything everyone else had ever taught her.

“Because it is dangerous to love little one, I hold you dear to me but love you I can not. For love is just an illusion, it’s just a trick out mind plays on us to get us to believe and see others the way we want to see them.” Dustfur didn’t understand her mother’s words, but she accepted them as face, she was her mother after all.

This, of course, didn’t make her fear love, it just made her ignore it, pretend it wasn’t a thing. No, what her father did to her mother was what in the end added the fear factor.

“What are you doing!” Dustfur yelled and apprentice now when she caught her mother and a father she’d never met fighting on the border.

“So this is our daughter,” The tom purred. “I loved you Clovernettle I still love you!” He turned back his attention on her mother.

“You never loved me. Leave her out of this!” She hissed back.

A fight broke out and Dustfur stood frozen, watching as her mother lost a battle that she didn’t understand. All she knew, in the end, was love had killed her and in his grief, her father left before the patrol found her still frozen in place.

Love was what got her mother killed, just like her mother had said it clouded one's mind and hide the truth about a cat. Just like her mother had warned her, loved was a dangerous thing, a fearful thing in her mind. It was unpredictable and a rushed roulette gamble at best. It was something she planned to avoid at all cost.

“I won’t fall in love momma, I won’t make the same mistake you did.”