[Canis Root Tea]

Username: Canis Root Tea
Cat Name: Juno
Gender: Female
Rank: Kit
Clan: Renegades
Age: 2 months
Which kit?: #4
Do you want an apprentice ref?: Yes, please.
Prompt 1:

Prompt 2: Juno is considered a strange one to the cats of her clan. She's known to be very spacey and tends to daydream of fantastical things instead of doing her work - which often times gets her in trouble with the other cats of the clan. When asked what it is she is even thinking about, Juno will give some strange reply like, "Do you think fish could fly if they really wanted to? Do you think they're all just in on this secret? Are we prepared if they do suddenly take to the skies? I'm not sure why, but it feels really important to me." She's a mystery to most cats of the clan (and sometimes a concern), but none more so than the menders. Ever since the clan found her as a tiny kitten on the edge of camp, Juno has always suffered from strange dizzy spells. She will be fine one moment, and then suddenly her head will spin so fast that she needs to lie down. These dizzy spells tend to come randomly and are never consistent with how long they last. Although it is uncommon, they sometimes cause her to briefly forget what she was doing before. The menders are stumped and no herbal treatment has been able to stop it. No one understands why it happens, but Juno has come to live with her condition.

[Izutsumi]

Username: Fallendownut
Cat Name: Silverkit > SilverPaw > SilverSquall
Gender: He/him
Rank: Kit > Apprentice > Watcher
Clan: MeteorClan
Age: 0 moons > 13 moons
Which kit?: 4
Do you want an apprentice ref?: Yes please
Prompt 1: I think they would be a Great Grey Shrike
Prompt 2: wip

trying not to try out for all of them and just taking it one at a time lol

[ivyy.]

Username: bunnoblizzard
Cat Name: Eden ---> Hollowkit ---> Hollowpaw ---> Hollowcry
Gender: She-kit
Rank: Kit
Clan: ≋O≋c≋e≋a≋n≋ ≋C≋l≋a≋n
Age: 3 moons
Which kit?: 2
Do you want an apprentice ref?: yes, please!
Prompt 1: pastel purple.

Hollowkit, or, well, better known as Eden, remembers bits and pieces of her life over time and knows one thing. Blue. A lot of blue. Around cats, emotions, the gorgeous gleaming sky, the loud ocean, blue. Her mother's favorite color and the color of a drowning... oh what was it again? Hollowkit has been overworking herself, trying to remember, why blue. She knows something happened, something did happen and she's sure of it. Hollowkit arrived at Ocean Clan just two moons old and has now been there for one moon. No one can describe how she got there, on their doorstep, not even Hollowkit. Goldenleaf has thankfully adopted her as her temporary mother but no matter what she does, Hollowkit stays mute.

They named her Hollowkit to be able to call her something but little did they know, this name was more accurate than not. Pale blue face drifting above the ice-cold water... she remembered something!... but the skies weren't blue. They were red. Mother, mother! It was her, Hollowkit was running beside her, fast. Be quick before they get us. No, too late. Walk across iceberg run for the hills where grass grows bright green, run for the sanctuary of the human kingdom. Run for cats, many cats. Run for your sisters and brothers who won't be able to make it out alive like you, my lucky star. No no, can't be happening, mother... Her face slips into the water and her golden tabby fur flickers one last time.

How can such a mistake, such a war of bloodlust, affect my lovely mother. Another kit, oh now I remember. Swiped me, ear bleeding. Fast breathing, how can she do this? Her eyes stalk the night like the purple sky, oh, now blue and purple... cold snow turns red. She started war. She killed mother. Family is dead because of the pale blue-eyed kitten.

Prompt 2: Hollowkit is her name and story suggestions. Hollow with memories of what happened and gaps in her mind causing her voice to decay into nothing. Thoughts so overwhelming it hurt her sensitive, tiny throat to speak as she had done so long ago. The airy voice of her own mind echoing, echoing, and echoing. Never taking a break.

[I Like Bees]

There are a little over 5 days before this competition closes
If anyone needs an extension, just let me know!

[nindroidzane]

Username: nindroidzane
Cat Name: Waspkit
Gender: Nonbinary (they/them)
Rank: Kit
Clan: FrostClan
Age: 4 moons
Which kit?: 1
Do you want an apprentice ref?: yes please!
Prompt 1:
Anybody would've thought someone had committed murder with the way Horsefly's shriek of fear had echoed around the camp. Heck, it probably travelled farther than that - it was almost a surprise he hadn't been mauled or something.

But no, it had just been Waspkit (again).

Apparently they'd attacked Horsefly's, ah... horsefly, and began gnawing on it with their pointy little teeth right in front of him.

Everybody had kind of had the impression that Horsefly and the horsefly had hated each other - although admittedly, they weren't sure whether he was screaming for the horsefly, or whether he was just terrified that the kit had managed to "murder" it right before his eyes.

A terrifying thought, really. Horseflies could best most any cat - other than Waspkit, apparently. Which was extra funny after they'd bested Horsefly - the cat - as well.

Well, extra funny to everyone but Horsefly. He was just mad they'd killed his horsefly!

Err, he was mad because a kit had managed to defeat a little insect that he himself had stood no match against. And because everyone was making fun of him for it.

And then, in the end, he was mad that Waspkit hadn't actually managed to kill the horsefly - and in hindsight, maybe they'd never intended to. Because the way they released it from their tiny claws, once Horsefly had leaned down to give them a half anxious, half angry scolding, had looked very deliberate.

And few cats missed the tiny smirk on their face as Horsefly ran screaming from the horsefly once again.

Prompt 2:
Nobody believed Horsefly when he ran into camp one day, crying about a kitten attacking him out by the lake. Not that they didn't believe he'd be bested by a tiny kit - they just didn't see how one would've possibly gotten that far on its own without freezing or being spotted on the way.

It took a lot of convincing, and Spiderbite's vague amusement, for anybody to go check it out with him. Which is to say, only Spiderbite went with him. And she was mildly surprised to find out that there really was a kitten standing out by the lake, glaring down into it like it had just swallowed their prey.

And sure enough, they tried to attack Spiderbite when she'd approached - alone, since Horsefly wasn't "taking any chances".

They did put up a bit of a fight... but they were still just a fiesty little thing. The most they'd landed on her were pinprick scratches, and teeth marks so small she could've blamed them on fleas.

Getting them home was a different story. It was a struggle the whole way - especially without a certain somebody's help - and she was practically wrestling them by the time they stumbled into camp.

She was quite happy to leave the furball with the queens - who reportedly found them "weirdly aggressive" and "kind of violent for such a little thing". Which probably explained why Horsefly had volunteered for so many out of camp hunting patrols lately.

Well. She was sure the queens would be able to handle it.

...Along with all the other kits they were already dealing with.

At least someone'd had the sense to hire two of them.

Username: nindroidzane
Cat Name: Cloverkit
Gender: nb (she/they)
Rank: Kit
Clan: FrostClan
Age: 4 moons
Which kit?: 2
Do you want an apprentice ref?: yes please!
Prompt 1:
If Cloverkit could own a car, and hopefully drive it, it would be a blue one! Blue like the sky, when it greeted them each morning - they were very much a morning cat! - and like their favourite flowers. Blue was probably one of their favourite colours - if not their number one favourite colour - and driving under the bright blue sky, which would reflect right off of their bright blue car, even though they were the same colour so it wouldn't really look like it, would be a dream come true! A blue car in general would be a d̶r̸e̶a̸m̵ ̷c̴o̴m̶e̷

Obviously, if Cloverkit could pick their own car colour, it would be a yellow one. No - a golden one would be much cooler. And making the car cooler would be one of their top priorities! What would all the other kits think, if they were driving around in a dull, yellow, uncool car? The rest of them would probably be driving circles around them in their silver, and gold, and black cars, with the windows down, and the roofs down, and their cool music blasti̵̞̅n̴̫̓g̷̞͋ ̴͕̚l̴̟̍o̷̟̊ų̴̑ḑ̴͌ȩ̶͐r̶̩͊ ̶͖͌t̸̀ͅḥ̵̊a̸̙͝n̵͙̿

Cloverkit would probably pick a black car, if they had the choice. It would be pretty simple looking, but still pretty cool - plus, it would perfectly match their fur! Colour coordination was always something Cloverkit had enjoyed, so that would be a big bonus. They always liked to wear flowers, for example, in the perfect complementary shades of blue - oh, maybe a blue car would be nice, to match the flowers! Or maybe a golden car, to match their piercings, or even white to match the rest of̸̭̊͐ ̸̨̫̿h̸͎̙̽ẹ̴̰̏̊r̴̥̾ ̸̧̊f̷̮̣̆̓ū̷͎́r̵̝̆̋,̴̯̳̀́ ̴̜̐ơ̴̡̮̍r̵̦͑̑

Cloverkit isn't sure they'd like a car at all. They're... more of a walker.

Prompt 2:
Moon swore she'd seen this kit at least a dozen times before she'd managed to bring them home. She even swore she'd caught them at least once or twice, but they'd just... vanished, right before her eyes. There one moment, gone the next. As though she'd blinked them right out of existence. Once, they'd even blipped right out of her jaws, mouth agape where an icy scruff had once been.

And so surely anybody could see why she was so suspicious of them.

Well, apparently not, since nobody seemed to take it seriously. Everyone seemed quite used to orphaned kittens showing up to the middle of the tundra, out of the blue - which was suspicious in and of itself, but nobody ever listened to her.

But this one was different, somehow. And it wasn't just that strange vanishing trick they'd pulled when they'd first showed up - no, they'd been doing more and more weird things since she'd successfully smuggled them into the nursery. It started with the... teleporting, if that was something that was even possible. They'd "teleported" all around camp - which was to say, they'd gotten places any of the other kits could have gotten to, reasonably. But always a little too fast... and Moon already knew they could do something like that, from whatever had been going on out in the empty snow.

It only got worse. They would "flicker" randomly, barely visibly. Moon almost could have been convinced it was just a trick of the light, if it weren't for everything else. A tiny paw would shift oddly, maybe disappear for half a second... she was sure nobody else had noticed. Nobody else watched this closely.

There was one thing everybody had noticed, though - fortunately for her sanity. It was the odd way the kit would speak sometimes, almost as though they had forgotten they'd just answered your question, or they were replying to a completely different conversation altogether... whether that be a past one or a future one. Moon had run a few tests - she was practically glued to this kits side at this point - making sure to remember any conversations they'd had, and to meticulously plan out conversations they'd have later. The results had been eerily conclusive. Not that anybody actually believed that part of it - they thought the poor thing just had amnesia or something - but Moon knew the tests were conclusive, and at this point, it was about all she had going for her. So... it counted as somewhat of a win.

Now she just had to get the little scrap to quit calling her "mother" and maybe she'd get somewhere with this.

Username: nindroidzane
Cat Name: Otterkit
Gender: Male
Rank: Kit
Clan: FrostClan
Age: 4 moons
Which kit?: 3
Do you want an apprentice ref?: yes please!
Prompt 1:
From the outside, it could be hard to tell if Otterkit was feeling down, or if he was just being... well, just being Otterkit. One of his favourite pastimes was, after all, staring off thoughtfully into space, contemplating who-knows-what most days and nights.

But there are a few signs to look out for, once you know him well.

The glazed over look in his eyes - there's a subtle difference in what lays behind it. When he's feeling himself, you can almost see the thoughts sparkling and dancing just beyond the surface, his weird imagination obviously at work.

On the bad days, it almost looked empty within his eyes. The stony silence in his gaze was all that he left behind, wherever his mind might be travelling to. His posture was always nearly identical, no matter how he felt. You had to look for the slouch, the tugging little smile on his muzzle, his tail tucked just a bit too tight, the merry twitch of an ear now and then, if you ever wanted an idea of what he was feeling.

That is, unless he began to speak. His words, his tone of voice - that usually was a dead giveaway all on its own.

The voice almost wasn't his own, as if he didn't hold any of the feelings the words he spoke carried. His tone was always low and dull, and his face matched with the blankest expression any of the Clan had ever seen on a kit.

They try to help him out of it each time, of course - tell him that he doesn't have to shut down, that he can open up to them. And sometimes he does. But no matter how he feels about it afterwards, he always defaults back the next time something goes awry. Back to a blank face, blank voice, blank eyes. As if he blinks out of existence, just for a short time - and then, never too long after, he's back to his quietly bubbly self. Almost like he's forgotten he'd ever been upset in the first place.

Prompt 2:
When Littlefog found a stoic, seemingly aimless kit wandering the edges of the dead wood, she hadn't been too surprised. It hadn't been the first time, after all - she'd been meeting ghosts on the fringes of the trees since she'd been a little kitten herself. At least one of those ghosts had been a kitten - she wouldn't have been at all surprised to discover more of them.

And so it came as a bigger surprise when she found out the kit actually wasn't a ghost. Just a lone kit, wandering the barren fields of snow, right near about the worst place a kit all on their own could find themselves on their territory. (Ignoring that she'd been there plenty times herself at that age.)

He hadn't looked too weathered, either. They did have a couple kittens stumble their ways up here every once in a while - but it wasn't usually this far, and they always looked much worse for wear.

This kit just looked... delighted to see her. And not a "thank you for rescuing me, kind stranger!" type of delight, either. Almost the kind of face her mother would make when she came across an old friend.

It freaked her out a bit, to be honest. But she wasn't about to leave some orphan out in the snow on their own, so she'd taken him straight home to warm up.

Maybe it was a mistake?

This kit knew a lot. A strange amount for his age. And some of her Clanmates would probably find it pretty rich that she, of all cats, thought somebody else was strange, but he was just... on a different level.

When she'd showed up with him, he'd known practically every cat in the Clan's name already. By the next morning, when cats came to greet him in the nursery, he hadn't known a single one.

One night, he'd described his parents to her - what luck! Perhaps they could reunite him with his family. But the moon couldn't have moved more than a whisker through the sky before he'd forgotten, just when she'd gone to fetch her mother. He didn't even seem to remember having parents.

He'd known more about Minkpaw's past than she had - but it was gone before she could ask more than a couple questions. Once, for an entire day, he'd somehow known how to hunt better than even their best hunters. His skill was gone by nightfall.

Littlefog found him very odd. He looked like any other kit - maybe a tad sweeter, with his goofy little smile and his endless questions to the queens.

Often, they were questions nobody knew the answer to.

Frighteningly often, they were questions he'd once answered for Littlefog himself.

Username: nindroidzane
Cat Name: Snowkit
Gender: Female
Rank: Kit
Clan: FrostClan
Age: 4 moons
Which kit?: 4
Do you want an apprentice ref?: it'd be funny if I said no on the last one but yes please
Prompt 1:
Snowkit, in everyone's opinion, would probably be a hummingbird. She's just a sweet little thing, skipping from flower to flower and gently touching her nose to each one. It's actually a bit surprising how many flowers she manages to find, given that most don't last long in the snow. And while they do stick out like a sore paw in the relatively bleak landscape, it's not as though she can see that.

But perhaps that's just the hummingbird instinct in her heart - the fluttering, skittering energy drawing her to each little flower, wilting or otherwise, so she may gently bap her nose against its frail petals. She'd even been found adorned in the lovely little plants. If she were a hummingbird... well, it would probably make little difference to who she was now. Other than the whole being a bird part, anyway.

Prompt 2:
At first, Bandit had thought the little grey kit he'd found wandering the ice and snow was blind. She'd certainly seemed that way, from how she bumped into every pine and stumbled over each lump of snow. His heart ached for the poor thing - and he couldn't help but picture his own two little bundles of fur in her position. Needless to say, he'd scooped her up right then and there and taken her back to the camp.

It hadn't taken very long for her to worm her way into his heart. It was hardly a few sunrises before he felt that he had three children - and he loved them all the same. And to make his heart even warmer, Lily had told him she felt the same way - and just like that, it was as if Snowkit was their very own, brand new daughter.

But after a few more sunrises, he'd noticed something a little odd about the kitten. She couldn't see him right in front of her - that much was pretty clear. She tended to stumble over her new siblings when they played, and walk straight into Lily when she was called.

It was just that something was slightly off about it. Bandit had seen plenty of blind cats in his day - mostly in his more recent days, with the leader and whatnot. And Snowkit... well, she didn't have quite the same look in her eyes. It was almost as if she was looking at something, clear as day. It just... wasn't what was right in front of her.

And he'd come to find out, more or less, that she sort of was looking at something.

Now, he wasn't quite sure exactly what she was seeing. Or if it was even consistent. From what she described to him, day by day, it sounded about as consistent as the winds in a snowstorm. Which is to say... they didn't sound very consistent at all.

One day she saw cities, the next day a beach - of course, he had to interpret all of that. The little kit didn't know what cities and beaches were, after all.

But, whatever it was, it wasn't here. It wasn't snow, or glass-clear sky, or... well, sometimes it was cats, but he was fairly sure it wasn't these cats.

Bandit wasn't sure what to make of it. He still loved her with all of his heart, of course - along with the rest of his little family - but he just wasn't sure... what was up with her. She seemed happy, and mostly involved with what was happening directly around her. She sought out flowers, and played with her siblings, and to someone just meeting her, nothing would seem wrong.

But occasionally, she would just stare at nothing. It was a peculiar thing. He'd snuck into a "theater" once, back in the city (the snack haul had been fantastic), and her face almost seemed akin to the faces of the Twolegs, watching the events playing out on their large, strange screen. She wasn't there, wasn't gone - she was just... watching something else for a while. Invested in events she was far removed from.

[_peaches_]

Username: _peaches_
Cat Name: floodkit
Gender: demigirl (she/they)
Rank: currently a little buddy, future cleric
Clan: MarshClan
Age: 3 moons
Which kit?: 4
Do you want an apprentice ref?: yes please, thank you!
Prompt 1: If she was a bird, Floodkit would most likely be a catbird. theyre beautiful birds and then they just kinda MAAAAA at you
Prompt 2: bullet story bc why not
-shes found near the river, almost falling in
-shes brought back to camp to get checked out by the cleric
-shes diagnosed with like dehydration so thats why she almost fell in
-shes taken care of, one of the right-hands going out every day to see if her mother or if she has any siblings that pop up
-no one pops up and as she gets older she gets like more mouthy and rude
-but she clearly means well, taking an interest to plants and flowers
-the cleric decides to choose them as their trainee, them becoming the snottiest, kindest, most fun cleric eventually in like the future yk
~these events are happening with assumed like alot more cats since i have none so far~

[I Like Bees]

Extended by request to December 1st, 11:59 PM CST

[feather ']

Username: feather '
Cat Name: leaf
Gender: female
Rank: warrior
Clan: the still waters
Age: 7 moons
Which kit?: kit 3
Do you want an apprentice ref?: yes
Prompt 1: How do they handle negative emotions, like sadness, grief, and disappointment?
She hides in her cave, forcing herself to smile, forcing herself to laugh, even when there is no reason to. She tries to push the times of her failure and disappointment down, to try to forget about it, but it always comes back, even harder than it was before. Even the smallest words can make the harshest memories flood back in, ones that she forces down constantly.
But more often than it was before, she hides in her cave, and almost no one knows she exists. But one day she hopes that someone will see her, someone will see that she is not bravest, the most fearless, they will see that everything they thought about her was
wrong.

Prompt 2
During the moons in her cave, she hears the constant shuffling of paws, she hears it, but she has been fooled so many times. It just hurts her even more to find out that it isn’t her parents, or the others that she has been with. She looks for them, but she already knows something, it’s not them. And she knows they will never find her, and she will never find them.

[I Like Bees]

Username: Chanceuxcat
Cat Name: Ink -> Inkkit -> Inkpaw -> Inkrip
Gender: female (she/her)
Rank: Bridge
Clan: ScorchClan
Age: 3 moons
Which kit?: 1
Do you want an apprentice ref?: no, but would it be possible to get a headshot of the apprentice ref? So I could see how the eyes look? If not, that's fine, just wanted to see if that would be a possibility :3
Prompt 1:
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Prompt 2:
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Congrats! I love the emotions in prompt 1, and the interesting take of Inkkit
thinking she was the cause of the anger when she wasn't quite. Poor Inkkit :(
A headshot is Effort but I can offer a screenshot of the warrior eyes!

Username: Griff
Cat Name: Tuxedopaw > Tuxedotail
Gender: Male
Rank: Apprentice
Clan: https://toyhou.se/griffhighwind/charact ... er:2507939
Age: 4 Moons > 11 Moons
Which kit?: 2
Do you want an apprentice ref?: Not needed but thanks!
Prompt 1:
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Prompt 2:
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Congrats! I love the reasoning behind the color choice, and shapeshifting 👀
I'm excited to see what drama that causes!

Username: coffee.berry
Cat Name: Fallowkit > Fallowpaw > Fallowfern
Gender: Female
Rank: Kit > Apprentice > Fighter
Clan: (Please link)
Age: 5 moons > 13 moons > 25 moons
Which kit?: 3
Do you want an apprentice ref?: Of course!
Prompt 1: [208 words]
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Prompt 2: [107 words]
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Congrats! I love Fallowkit's way of handling anger, and the concept of talking to a ghost cat is really cool!

Username: nindroidzane
Cat Name: Snowkit
Gender: Female
Rank: Kit
Clan: FrostClan
Age: 4 moons
Which kit?: 4
Do you want an apprentice ref?: it'd be funny if I said no on the last one but yes please
Prompt 1:
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Prompt 2:
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Congrats! The hummingbird concept is really cute and I love the idea of how Snowkit's sight works 👀

[Griff]

Thank you so much! I am curious to see what color his eyes will be and yes if his clan ever finds out there would be a lot of drama XD