Username: ☁Lady Raincloud☁
Name: Shadowleap
Gender: tomcat
Age: tbd
Rank: founder
Clan: StreetClan
Prompt:
The queen lay down next to her two sons, exhausted from a night's run only a few hours after the birth of her two kits. Now that Heronwhisker was back, he'd done nothing but cause trouble for her and her mate. Now, as she looked down at her two sons, he eyes shone with a fierce light. Heronwhisker had tried to fight her mate, Fishsong, that day- she's run out to help during the whole argument, and finally there was an awkward truce on both sides.
"But I won't let my new darlings get caught up in this life." Nettleberry said softly to herself.
"What have you named them?" Came a soft voice, and the queen looked up as her mate, looking worn and beaten, entered.
"Oh- Tigerkit is the tabby tom. I haven't named the-"
"Shadowkit." Fishsong mumbled.
"Nettleberry shot him a curious glance before asking. "Any particular reason?"
"... He marks the day a shadow fell over our clan."
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Shadowkit never quite learned his name's origin until he was an apprentice- it has since haunted him, making him distrust his own self- his own shadow, even, if you will! He gave himself the suffix leap long after his life fell apart around him- his father being killed and overthrown by Heronwhisker along with his mother. He gave it for his own skill at leaping- but also, in part, to a sense of fleeing- at jumping at his own shadow, his own legacy, as he tried in vain to escape it