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Whats their hobby? How did they realize they enjoyed this?

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Description: taupe/apricot classic lynx point w/ low white
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Edits: [NR] weight, expression, accessories, missing leg, scars
[C] whiskers, eyelashes, ear placement, min fur
[UC] unnat eye color, round ears, short ears
Owner: Derpy.

[DuckquackQUACK]

Username:Cheesebobcat
Cat Name:GhostHowl
Gender:Girl
Rank:Kittypet
Clan: (Please link)kittypet house thingy (never donr this before sorry)
Age: (1 year or above) 1andm a half
Prompt:cute

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[Derpy.]

Username: Derpy.
Cat Name: Leaptuft, AKA "Bird Who Flies Through Trees"
Gender: Female
Rank: Warrior
Clan:here
Age: 19 moons; 1 year, 7 months
Prompt: Leaptuft grumbled underneath her breath as she eyed the towering trees high above her. "Why do we have to do this? It’s dangerous... and pointless," she muttered, uneasy about the thought of tree-hopping. The senior warrior who sat beside her, watching as the warriors up above practiced, chuckled at her. "Tree-hopping is about more than just getting around, y'know? It's about agility and seeing the forest differently. But- if it's not your thing, that's okay."

Relieved, Leaptuft focused on her real skills, like hunting and fighting, dismissing tree-hopping as nothing more than reckless.

But one evening, she watched th warriors leap smoothly through the branches, their movements almost magical. Something stirred within her -- admiration and curiosity. Maybe tree-hopping wasn't so bad after all-?

It took some courage, but eventually she pushed her hesitation aside and the next day, asked the senior warrior from the day before to teach her about tree-hopping. Slowly, she began to enjoy the thrill of leaping through the air, from branch to branch, the wind rushing through her fur. But one day, her excitement led to a mistake. Despite multiple warnings from the senior warrior about being careful after it had rained, Leaptuft brushed him off. She was sure she would be fine.

After spending some time hopping from tree to tree, she scoffed. "I told him I'd be fine."
She prepared for her next hop, wiggling her hindquarters before launching herself off of the branch. Though, Leaptuft hadn't noticed that the branch she was planning to land on was not yet dry, causing her to slip before realizing. Before she could recover, she fell to the ground, severely injuring her leg.

The injury cost Leaptuft her leg, leaving her devastated. But as she healed, her love for tree-hopping didn't fade not one bit. Determined, she learned to leap on three legs, and soon, the trees became her sanctuary. Every leap filled her with a sense of freedom -- she had found her true passion.

[LittleMaple]

Username: LittleMaple
Cat Name: Fawnsong
Gender: afab she/her
Rank: Seeker who can heal
Clan: Aetherclan
Age: 8 years
Prompt: -written from first person pov of Fawnsong-
It was scary, to say the least, when i lost my leg. I was living with the group of cats that had left the original Aetherclan, before Eveningstar took over. It was... miserable, really. There were barely enough cats to hunt for themselves, let alone for the litter that had just been born. But you don't need to hear about that, hahaha! Let me think... oh yes, my leg. I have blocked out the memory of how I lost it but... I remember the aftermath. I hated feeling like a kit, everyone doting on me. But, I knew they did it because they loved me and... they wanted to see me get better. I still hated it though! But, I got used to it. I think the most annoying part were the shoulder exercises our medicine cat made me do... though, it's been so long, I can't remember her name. Just because my leg was gone didn't mean that my shoulder was, and she insisted that I needed to stretch the muscles in it multiple times a day. Once again, agrivating, but I knew she did it out of love. After a while, it started to feel like I had been born without my leg! I could run and such, even hunt (when our leader wasn't looking, that is). Unfortunately, the fur on my stub never quite grew back correctly... it looked, and felt, very strange and unnatural. And I was tired of looking at it! I had spent enough time in the medicine cat den to see her make herb bundles a few times, and I wondered if I could use the technique to weave something like a covering for my stump. It took a lot of trial and error, but after a few sunrises, I had what resembled a covering! There was a strap attached to it that another cat would have to tie around me, but other than that, I could use it all on my own. Eventually, I decided to branch out a little more with this concept of weaving. I was always a big hit with the injured and elders because I could expertly weave their nests in such a way that it was padded in all the right areas. After the group started to fall apart, a little after Magpiepaw's leaving, I had a vision. My old clanmates came to me, and told me that I had to go back to Aetherclan to help advise and watch over it. They told me that because I had lived through all of it's iterations, Starclan's connection to me was the strongest. This was also when I learned about the fact that some Starclan cats were... fading. I've only been in the new Aetherclan for a few moons, but it's lovely. I'm respected in all of my fields, and I've started working on trying to weave bags to make herb collecting easier for our medicine cats!

[Embergleam]

Username: Embergleam
Cat Name: Fernfrond
Gender: Female
Rank: Campkeeper
Clan: In The Wake Of Giants
Age: 5 years
Prompt:
Fernfrond has two hobbies that walk hand-in-hand. The first is gardening. She and Junebug are jointly responsible for the sprawling gardens that blanket the base of the Startree. The second is insect watching! All those plants draw in a truly staggering array of bees, butterflies, moths, wasps, flies, beetles, and more no matter what season it is. Fernfrond loves nothing more than sitting in her garden and watching all her buggy friends go about their important insect business. There's always some new species to see, some new flower blooming, some new medicinal herb to add to the clan's living library. Together they're a continual reminder that life moves ever onward and you'd best not get left behind.

Fernfrond's love of plants and their insectoid pollinators stems from what she terms 'her misspent youth'. Originally she planned to become a warrior, the long paw of the clan's law. That plan was rather rudely interrupted by a training accident that shattered her front right leg. Infection set in despite the medicine cats' best efforts. In the end they were forced to amputate her leg in order to spare her life.

Recovery was almost as much an ordeal as the illness itself was. Fernfrond didn't just have to regain the muscle mass she'd lost during her forced nest-rest, she had to relearn how to walk using only three paws! The prospect of facing the clan- of their disgust or, worse yet, their pity- made her want to wither away on the spot. So she turned her attention to the little meadow the clan's medicine cats tended to. There was plenty of space to work through the exercises the medicine cats had assigned her, and enough grass to cushion her landings when she inevitably fell.

Best of all, there was no one out there to fuss over her- no one save for the bees and butterflies that fluttered over to investigate the new arrival in their home.

Fernfrond spent nearly a full summer healing from her brush with death. In that time the entire trajectory of her life changed. Any cat could become a warrior. How many could cultivate rare medicinal herbs, or walk through swarms of bees without getting stung? She could be that cat, if she worked hard enough, and experience had taught her not to fear hard work.

[Aizaka]

Username: Aizaka
Cat Name: Flick
Gender: Male
Rank: Gatherer
Clan: Galaxy Stables
Age: 5 years
Prompt: Flick found the love of painting when he was near the house one day and tipped over a can of paint. He stumbled through the color, making a bit of a mess. But he paused a moment and flexed his sticky paws, looking at the bright color. Wiping along the ground, he made a mark and another and another. Soon he had made a simple picture. He found he was proud of this messy colorful picture. When the humans found him, they didn't get mad but rather laughed. And after cleaning him up, they later brought some safe and colorful paints for him to try. He loved it! He now makes pictures that are hung throughout the house and occasionally given as gifts to others.

[LOSTINUNKNOWN]

Username: LOSTINUNKNOWN.
Cat Name: Soar Of A Dove.
Gender: Female.
Rank: Voítheia.
Clan: Astron.
Age: Seventy-five moons.
Prompt: TEMPORARY WIP
I do not believe my power will stop being buggy before the cease of this competition.

[SushiFoxx]

Username: SushiFoxx
Cat Name: Merletta
Gender: Female
Rank: Herbalist
Clan: Fallen Rose Kingdom
Age: 4 years
Prompt: 552 words

Merletta's hobby? Growing plants to use as a Herbalist. Quite a large amount of herbs the herbalists use are actually sourced from her personal garden she grows in her free time. It sounded more like work than a hobby to many other cats, but Merletta loved her plants dearly.

Few cats know about the fact that Merletta used to be a sentry for the Kingdom. In a battle against some cats from outside the walls, one had slammed her against a tree. The tree had been loose and in her attempt to flee her leg was crushed under the tree. When the herbalists began to heal her, she noticed how important some of the plants were. Although, many of the important plants and herbs were hard to come by and in scarce supply.

When recovering from losing her leg, Merletta decided to try to tend to a plant while she recovered. Little did she know the green paw she had for plants. Originally she had planned to go back to being a sentry until she realized the importance of the plants she could grow so well. After all, she had spent so long with the herbalists she practically already knew how to treat most illnesses or injuries.

Throughout everything she has been through, Merletta never once stopped tending to her plants. She could remember the day her cry had echoed off the Kingdom walls and the darkness had soon consumed her fully. Her head had been swimming with pain when she finally awoke two days after the accident. Merletta had awoken to the scent of fresh flowers as the herbalists tended to her, assuming she was still unconscious. It had been a miracle she hadn't woken up flailing and screaming.

The scent of roses brought her a sense of peace she hadn't felt in awhile. Every time she smells one of them now the memories flood back to her. It was a mixture of contentedness and pain that came with the scent. Even the memories hurt to think of. Despite how much she loved the roses, she still can't get over the memories that follow them. Due to this her favorite flower is lilys, the flower she associated with innocence.

This was the first plant she grew when attempting to learn how to tend to plants. With help from the herbalists that continued to fuss over her even in her own home, she managed to grow the small flower, tending to it with care. It may have been a small victory for any other cat, but for her this meant she could still have something to herself, that not everything was stolen from her in the accident. Something this small had given her the light she needed to continue learning how to walk missing a leg.

Now, Merletta helps Nyla occasionally with walking. In her spare time she'll be found just outside her cabin tending to the overgrown plants that covered the outside walls. Vines, flowers, herbs, all types of plants covered the outside of her cabin. Merletta insisted it helped cats find which cabin was hers, but in all honestly she adored the overgrown look her cabin had from all of the others. When a herb is fully grown she'll pick it and bring it to the herbalist cabin for use.

[canadianhowl]

Username: Derpy.
Cat Name: Leaptuft, AKA "Bird Who Flies Through Trees"
Gender: Female
Rank: Warrior
Clan:here
Age: 19 moons; 1 year, 7 months
Prompt: -snip-

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