[Grey_Hoodie]

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genetics (possible suggestions, really)
- solid black cat with vitiligo (which is less likely due to his age)
- (sterile) tortoiseshell where red does not have pigmentation

[Galipaygo]

→Name;; Hickorystar
→Gender;; Male
→Rank;; Leader
→Interesting facts;;

•Hickorystar is very small for his age and looks like an apprentice, often acting as such too... He is a very devoted leader, however, and shows every clan and cat that it isn’t the size of the lion that determines the roar.
•Most rogues he comes across decide to nickname him Leopard or Lion instead of Hickory/Hickorystar because of how he looks and acts.

→Personality;;

Hickorystar is very laid back in most things he does, not caring much for he danger he can be put in so much as the journey he can be lead on and the bonds he can make. He is ambitious and sometimes overbearing, though he only means well to those that don’t know him. He is caring and compassionate, valuing family bonds and friendships highly. He belives all rules are just guidelines for making a life too easy. He is a chatterbox and will yap an atter dead if he could, and can be naïve.

→History;;

Hickorystar was born to two rogues that actually ran away from kittypet lives. It was during the wintertime, and his mother was very weak after kitting him and his sister. They named them Hickory and Ball, since Ball was so white and fluffy while Hickory actually looked more brown than black at the time. It was hard to get through that winter since the pair didn’t know how to hunt, since they came from kittypets themselves, and often went most days starving and depressed. Though they didn’t lose hope, and made it through winter. Or at least Hickory’s father did. His mother ended up catching greencough and dying before the first signs of new-leaf, and his sister Ball got whitecough shortly after. Desperate, their father dragged them all over the forest trying to find some cats to help them or something to fix his poor daughter. Though, since they were rogues, most camps turned them down and Ball fell to rest as her mother did. Heartbroken, Hickory’s father gave up efforts to survive and left Hickory to fend for himself. Scared of ending up as his mother and sister, Hickory taught himself how to hunt and fish, though it took a long time. He got stuck under trees and washed down rivers most days until he grew a little more. Eventually Leaf-bare came to bite down on the world once more and Hickory’s father went out due to starvation and dehydration, since Hickory couldn’t find a way to hunt enough for them both and carry anything water-like back. Destroyed at his loss, Hickory ran to find some cat to take him in and show him there was somewhere his family went, that they didn’t fade into history only he knew. That’s when he ran into a medicine cat of another clan, Fadedclan. He was a gentle and kind medicine cat, called himself Growingweed. He kept Hickory a secret from his clan since they hated rogues and would have killed the young cat at the first sight of him. Growingweed taught Hickory of clan history and Starclan, taught him battle moves and about herbs, and eventually named him himself in their own “naming ceremony”. Hickoryclaw. He liked the name, and was happy to have been Growingweed’s apprentice. Though the time cane that the clan finally caught scent of the young cat and drove him out of their territory. Hickoryclaw could only pray that Growingweed stayed safe and alive after that. Soon, Hickoryclaw got visited by the Starclan he was taught about in his dreams. It was a white cat that visited him, with one black sock and a grey patch around one eye. The spirit cat told him, “As leaf falls to snow, a clan will rise under dusk.” Confused, Hickoryclaw tried asking what the cat meant by this prophecy. But to no avail, and the mystery cat faded away to leave Hickoryclaw with those words echoing around him. Soon, though, the cat was visited again as he began making a home for himself- a camp and territory. This time there were nine different cats, one of which the white one from his last dream. “Leaf-bare comes, and with that you have began your clan. It needs a leader, and you are the one Starclan has chosed” a calico she-cat told the young tom, paddig up to him. “Do you accept, Hickoryclaw?” With a smile of pure excitment, Hickoryclaw nodded what felt like a million times before the calico cat touched noses with him and gave him a life. Seven others proceeded to do the same, then the white cat stepped forward, “Starclan has chosen Hickoryclaw to now be named Hickorystar of Duskclan, may your ancestors watch over you and guide you on your journey.” he thundered, then the dream ended. Duskclan... Now a leader, Hickorystar swore to do as all other clans he encountered refused; to take in any cat that needed home and treat them as if they were born there.

→Family/kin;;

Mother: Snowbell
Father: Tom
Sister: Ball
Adopted Father: Growingweed

→Mate;; None (yet)
→Kits;; None (yet)
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