ＴＨＥ ＰＯＩＳＯＮ ＯＦ ＬＯＶＥ [warriors] taking one apprentice

[crowley,]

ＴＨＥ ＰＯＩＳＯＮ ＯＦ ＬＯＶＥ
ＰｕｒｅＣｌａｎ

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It's been four years since the law was established. No love. It's weakness.
Without it, the clan would thrive and reach its ultimate greatness.
"Any cat who succumbs to the disease of love will be punishable by death or exile."
That's what the Warrior Code says.
Ten are dead. The fate of the others are unknown.

[crowley,]

It began with one leader. Eaglestar. An old battle-worn tom. Never once had a mate. Said he never needed one. He was stronger without. It was near the end of his leadership that he established the new rule. No love, or face the penalty of death. Even if it was against StarClan's wishes.

Naturally, he wasn't taken seriously. Couples continued to be together. Even those without mates argued that it wasn't fair. Those who disagreed were exiled. And those who continued to show their affections were sent to their death.

The cats were trained to become empty, obedient shells. They carried out their duties as warriors. No more, no less. Love seemed like an imaginary concept. But one issue had arisen. Without love, there would be no mates. Without mates, there wouldn't be any new apprentices or warriors. What could be done to fix this?

Arranged mates. When a kit received its apprentice name, it will also receive its assigned life partner. Together they will train, hunt and fight side-by-side. But there is to be no sentimental attachment under any circumstance. However, all cats are given the freedom to choose when they mate.

Eaglestar's law was carried out after even his death by his right hand cat and deputy. This cat is now the current leader of PureClan and is all for the idea of arranged mates. But as the younger generations are born, they've come to realise that maybe, just maybe, love isn't as bad as it seems.

[crowley,]

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1. Follow Nick & Tess' rules.
2. This is a semi-lit roleplay. So pretty pretty please write 5 to 7 sentences in your posts.
3. Use brackets for OOC talk.
4. Take all arguments outside of the thread.
5. If you want to be leader, please follow the pre-set description. [Past leader's right hand man/woman, all for the assigned mates]
6. All other characters may choose whether they are for it or against it.
7. You may have up to four characters, but keep the genders balanced. That's sort of necessary for the plot.
8. Mating/kitting must fade to black.
9. Please please please post at least once every two days. Message me if you're going on vacation or something.
10. PM me with any questions or concerns!

I don't have any provided forms [I'm absolutely horrid at making them myself, haha]. If you really want to, quote mine and fix it up to suit your needs. When you submit your form in the thread, make sure it includes the name of your cat, age, gender, personality, a bit of history, a physical description and/or image of your cat. Just try to make it look a little pretty, okay? c: Just before the roleplay starts, I will randomize who the life-mates are for everyone.

[crowley,]

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life-mates;
vinestar & cougartail
frecklefoot--shrewnose
snowheart & tigerfrost
breezepaw & dovepaw
splashpaw & ravenpaw
aspenpaw & petalpaw

crushes & romances;
-> he likes her
<- she likes him
-- they like each other

mentors & apprentices;
cougartail & ravenpaw
shrewnose & breezepaw
frecklefoot & dovepaw
tigerfrost & splashpaw
lionheart & aspenpaw
vinestar & petalpaw

leader;; vinestar | ♀ | 32 moons | Aʟᴀsᴋᴀɴ Esᴋɪᴍᴏs | x
deputy;; cougartail | ♂ | 35 moons | ｃｏｒｇｉ ❤ | x

medicine cat;; brighteyes | ♀ | 21 moons | p i k a. x
med cat app;; flowerpaw | ♀ | 8 moons | Aʟᴀsᴋᴀɴ Esᴋɪᴍᴏs | x

warriors;;
frecklefoot | ♀ | 30 moons | ｃｏｒｇｉ ❤ | x
snowheart | ♀ | 24 moons | Tramp. | x
shrewnose | ♂ | 21 moons | adcatfish | x
tigerfrost | ♂ | 18 moons | tiger xx | x
lionheart | ♂ | 27 moons | wayward sons. | x
reserved | ♀ | age | L0v3 I$ Rar3

apprentices;; *can take one male
aspenpaw | ♂ | 12 moons| spangle. x
breezepaw | ♂ | 10 moons | xpumpkinz | x
splashpaw | ♂ | 7 moons | ｃｏｒｇｉ ❤ | x
ravenpaw | ♀ | 11 moons | tiger xx | x
dovepaw | ♀ | 9 moons | adcatfish | x
petalpaw | ♀ | 8 moons| Taiyo | x

[crowley,]

Ｂ Ｒ Ｅ Ｅ Ｚ Ｅ Ｐ Ａ Ｗ

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name;; breezepaw [song]
gender;; male
age;; ten moons
rank;; apprentice
life-mate;; dovepaw
mentor;; shrewnose

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xxxx Breezepaw is a Turkish Van cat with a fluffy cream pelt. He has bright orange eyes to match his ginger tail. On top of his tail are even darker ginger stripes. As well as this, he has several patches of red fur on his head. He is the average size for an apprentice of his age, and currently has no physical disabilities or markings.

Ｈｉｓｔｏｒｙ & Ｐｅｒｓｏｎａｌｉｔｙ
xxxx Breezepaw was born to his mother and father in PureClan under the no love rule. They were pre-chosen life-mates and decided it was time to bear their first litter. But, not wanting anything to do with them, his father took off and abandoned the clan to get a fresh start of his own life. He had one sister whom he loved dearly. They were a tight-knit family, already down a father, and they rarely fought. Breezepaw was lively and loved to play. He wanted nothing more than to become a warrior, and for his mom to see the day that he got his full name so she could tell him how proud she was of him. He got his apprenticeship alongside his sibling.

xxxx The excitement soon came to an end. He was nine moons old when the incident happened. He was with his mother and sister out in the forest, hunting and training, when they were ambushed by a fox. It had unexpectedly struck and killed his sister in the blink of an eye. Their mother was quick to jump to the defence of her other kit, and told him to go back to the clan. That she'd be okay. So he listened. But she was wrong. She never came back.

xxxx Since then, Breezepaw has seemingly been drained of all his energy. He used to be as friendly as any other apprentice, but now keeps to himself, always wearing a stoic expression. He never speaks. While he does go about his every day tasks; training and hunting, he'll only respond to instructions or questions with a nod of his head. The death of his mother and sister took a major toll on his happiness.

xxxx He prefers solitude; never choosing to play with his fellow apprentices any more. If his clan-mates do decide to spend time with him, he won't be rude and try to walk away. He'll listen to them speak, but we won't reply. The only time he ever really seems relatively happy is when he has a meal. At least the incident with his family hadn't taken a toll on his appetite. On the matter of assigned mates, he's indifferent. He never had planned on looking for love.

[crowley,]

Open.

I'll take reservations for leader/deputy/med cat/med app. c:

[grizzly.]

n a м e :: "Cougartail "

a g e :: "35 moons "

g e n d e r :: "Tom "

r a n k :: "Deputy. "

p e r ѕ o n a l ι т y :: "Cougartail is usually more distant towards other cats and seems intimidating and harsh when you first meet him, he isn't quite intimidating after you do meet this tom, but he's usually quite harsh. Cougartail is one of those cats that you'd see being one of the first ready to jump into a fight, no matter what the reason. This tom is very easily set off and he isn't afraid to snap at an apprentice or another warrior, and at times he wouldn't be afraid to butt heads with the leader. Although this tom is stubborn, he is very loyal and when he likes someone he tries to hide it from all the other cats except for that one she-cat he does like."

н ι ѕ т o r y :: "Cougartail was born in the clan and was raised mainly by his father, since his mother had almost didn't care about him and his father, Scarface, was a very harsh and demanding tom, and mainly took over Cougartail (Cougarpaw at the time) while he trained, pushing his original mentor, Softfur, away and had influenced Cougartail to be a very harsh and snappy tom who wasn't so social. And now he easily gets angry and won't be afraid to attack or fight with his own clanmates. "

c r υ ѕ н :: "This so-called love, does not exsist, it is a figmint of our imaginations, therefore, it is not real. This means that I do not have a crush."

м a т e :: "unavaliable right now, I have no idea."

k ι т ѕ :: "None."

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n a м e :: "Frecklefoot. "

a g e :: "30 moons old. "

g e n d e r :: "She-Cat."

r a n k:: "Warrior."

p e r ѕ o n a l ι т y :: " I have been known to have quite the sharp-tongue around cats that seem to get under my skin. I am not shy to new cats I meet, unlike my mother, I am open, and social with every cat that hasn't gotten under my pelt and annoyed me. I will admit, I am quite the flirt, but I will only flirt with older apprentices and warriors. "

н ι ѕ т o r y :: "I was born an only kit to Blacknose and Spottedback, it was lonely growing up as an only kit, but I managed. At 5 moons old my grandmother, Fernfallow, had died of an illness the medicine cat could not cure. I do not blame the medicine cat for losing my grandmother, but I do miss her stories. Just before Fernfallow had died, she was beginning to tell me about Toadkit, and Petalkit, my uncle and aunt, my mother's siblings, but died before telling me much more than they were taken into the twoleg den. I have always wondered why Blacknose refuses to talk about her siblings, surely they didn't want to be in the twoleg den as kittypets...right? When I was apprenticed at 6 moons I had been given Hollowflight as my mentor, she was a snappy cat, I'm glad she's not my mentor anymore. When I was an apprentice, I was never given the chance to actually prove myself to be worthy of becoming a warrior until I was 12 moons, so I was unable to follow in my mother and my grandfather, Jayspirit's pawsteps in becoming a warrior sooner than usual. When PureClan had been raided Hollowflight made me stay back and not participate, so I watched my father get mauled down by a group of cats. That was the worst day of my life. After Spottedback's death my mother didn't seem hurt or phased by her mate's death, when in reality it killed her inside, each night she would go out to the lake and stare up at the stars, talking to the stars, as if she was talking to Spottedback. I only know this because I followed my mother one evening, at first believeing she was seeing a cat that was not apart of our clan, but I was wrong. My mother was hurt the most by Spottedback's death, and missed him more than any other cat in the clan. When I became a warrior, not long after Jayspirit died, it was a hard time for my mother, her father dying so soon after her mate, and Blacknose and her father were quite close. I wish my father was still alive, and I'll claw any cat's ears off who speaks of his name in vain. "

c r υ ѕ н :: "Although I am against the madness known as a rule, for arranged mates, I have no crush."

м a т e :: "not abaliable at this time."

k ι т ѕ :: "none."

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n a м e :: "Splashpaw "

a g e :: "7 moons."

g e n d e r :: "tom "

r a n k :: "apprentice. "

p e r ѕ o n a l ι т y :: "Splashpaw is a very hyper cat, he loves to just mess around or have fun, but this little feline doesn't like taking orders from other cats. Splashpaw is very independant and he always has been this way. This little apprentice has an extrodinary sense of smell, to where cats have began to just think he was making up what he was saying he was smelling. Only two moons away from becoming an apprentice his paws itch to go out and explore the forest. He has always been sort of scared to wander out of camp, against the warrior code as well as all the strange things he can smell out there "

н ι ѕ т o r y :: "Splashpaw is fairly young, he was born and raised to the odd rules of arranged mates in the clan. He often finds himself thinking about it, wondering if other cats have to go by the same rule, or never finding what love really is, and if it's really a bad thing. What if things were different? And they were allowed to choose their own mate and be happy. These thoughts often make this young apprentice's blood boil and want to demand answers, but the tom always finds himself biting his tongue and not speaking. Although it's all he's ever known, he wonders if there isn't a better way to go about mating. "

c r υ ѕ н :: "That's forbiden."

м a т e :: "I have been assinged to Mistypaw."

k ι т ѕ :: "none"

[crowley,]

[ Accepted ]

[Nialler.]

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• N a m e : Snowheart.
• G e n d e r : She-cat.
• A g e : 24 moons.
• R a n k : Warrior.
• D e s i r e d R a n k : Deputy.

P ｅｒｓｏｎａｌ

• A p p e a r a n c e : Snowheart's fur is long and soft, giving her the elegance figure. Her eyes are a bright green, eyes any cat can spot.She holds her tail high in the air with dignity, showing off her beautiful fur. Snowheart is generally a very beautiful she-cat.
• P e r s o n a l i t y : Snowheart has a shy and personal personality. She isn't one to stand up for herself and take charge, but prefers to follow orders and do what's told. When you get to know Snowheart she can be a very cheerful and funny she-cat, making you smile without even trying. Snowheart has a soft heart, and one day hopes to bare kits.
• H i s t o r y : As a kit, Snowheart was a loner. Her parents were rogues who were chased out of their clan due to murder. Snowheart was brought up to believe that Starclan was only there to punish them and that the clans were terrible, murderous creations. Snowheart's parents Reedfur and Lillypelt were killed when Snowheart and her brother, Stormfur, were 6 moons old. One day, when Snowheart had to hunt furhter into clan territory because of less prey, she encountered a clan patrol. They asked her she was, so when she said she was the parents of Reedur and Lillypelt they instantly posed to attack. But luckily the clan leader was a nice, generous cat and welcomed her to see what clan lifw was like. Snowheart realised that what she was taught was wrong, and she accepted the leaders offer to join their clan. Snowheart's name of Snow was taken away and replaced by her, at the time, apprentice name, Snowpaw. She later on finished her training and was given the powerful warrior name of Snowheart.

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• F a t h e r : Reedfur.
• M o t h e r : Lillypelt.
• S i b l i n g s : Stormclaw {brother}.
• S e c r e t C r u s h : No one.
• C r u s h : No one.
• M a t e : No mate.
• O f f s p r i n g : No kits..

[crowley,]

[ Accepted ]