Redwoodclan: Main Rp Thread

[∂αмє υмвяα]

🎼 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐩𝐬𝐨 🎼
16 moons ♬ she-cat ♬ kittypet ♬ location; thunderpath ♬ tags; Trix, Swan
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The she-cat, glancing nervously at the two other cats, was still weary. She had no idea who these two came from, but the one said they didn’t interact with the clan cats but annoyed them more than anything. “I..my name is Calypso..” She replied nervously. Still unsure about the two cats in front of her, it was nice to know other cats other than her parents. As well as her dog brother. “My parents have told me stories about cats that live in the forest. But you’ve said you aren’t like them?”


Ravenflight
Last post here x
Waiting for petalpaw

Eclipse
Last post here x

[Ryn11]

Splashpaw
◦ 6 moons ◦ tom ◦ apprentice (m. Goosefeather) ◦
◦ location: the lake ◦ tags: smokestorm, leafpaw ◦
------------------------------------------------------------------

The young apprentice was trying so hard to focus on the tracks he'd found that he was startled when Smokestorm pushed him aside. The warrior's fur was standing on end. Leafpaw also seemed on high alert. Splashpaw had missed something. He took a moment to look around and sniff the air -- Whoa! How did I miss that?? Whatever it was, it was big and gross. Splashpaw was sure he didn't know what it was, but something about it seemed familiar... Dirtplace? Not quite. There was a rottenness to it that -- "Crowfood!" he whispered. "Smokestorm, it smells like when freshkill starts to go rotten. But it doesn't smell like any freshkill I've ever had." Did some huge animal leave their freshkill out in the forest to rot? Maybe no one taught them to bury their freshkill. Or maybe the animal was here now, eating their almost-crowfood! Splashpaw flexed his claws nervously as he crept close to Smokestorm.

[star star.]

▌
▌
▌
▌

------
☆ ─── MOTHSIGHT.

lyrics
redwoodclan med cat ✧ she-cat
mentions/tags; nightpaw, crystalmoon

Mothsight listens to fading pawsteps as Nightpaw leaves the den. The apprentice's offer was a gracious one - she glances down at the depleting moss stock and figures it probably is for the best that they get more. She sighs, ear flicking as she sits and curls her tail around her paws. Mothsight stares at the stocks, in an effort to look busy, and thinks.

The garden she's been tending to may finally be safe to talk about. She hadn't wanted to curse it by speaking about it too early, by potentially bringing up hopes that they could have an extra growth of catmint saved somewhere safe, but she thinks she might finally be able to bring it up to Crystalmoon, and then slowly tell the apprentices about it. But the question is how? Does she just go hey, follow me, I have something to show you!? Well, sure, that's probably something she could do, and would probably be taken at her word for it.

Mothsight squints, glaring down a particular piece of marigold. Maybe she should wait a little longer; see if anyone brings it up to her first.

▌
▌
▌
▌

☆ ─── TRIX.

i know you're feigning for
uncertainty, but i'm not scared
loner ✧ nonbinary
mentions/tags; calypso, swan

It's better to be alert than dead, their mother says, and it takes every single drop of impulse control Trix has gathered over the moons to not mock Swan. And it's not like she's wrong! Yes - it is better to be alert than dead, but Trix has no issue talking themself out of sticky situations! They do it, like, once a moon with those clan cats. They're a professional at it.

Also, no offense to the scaredy-kit in front of them, but that's a kittypet who's probably outside for the first time ever. Why in the forest would Trix be scared of her?

At Swan's pestering questions, Trix rolls her eyes. She opens her mouth, ready to response, but the kittypet cuts in over them. "Calypso?" they ask, head tilted. "I like your name!" Trix sits down, tail lashing the ground it rests on, and their eyes brighten. "Nope! Not like those clan cats at all," they promise, grinning. He tilts his head. "They stick within their borders and act like there's ants in their pelt whenever you cross it." Honestly! They don't own the whole forest. There's too few of them to constantly enforce their silly borders, anyway.

"We," they say, leaning slightly toward their mother at this point, "do our own thing!" They know about kittypets, of course - their father and brother are ones, but at least Jasper seems vaguely interested in being outside. Or, at least, he is whenever Swan is around. Trix's brother, on the other paw, will lay in an open patch of sunshine inside when the door is wide open. Trix will never understand their littermate. Ever. "We sleep outside and hunt our own food, but we don't follow all their silly rules."

It's not like Trix had never not been a kittypet - they were almost raised as one, before they decided they didn't want the same life as their brother and father. They preferred being able to run around and do their own thing, including constantly messing with the clan cats.

▌
▌
▌
▌

------
☆ ─── FISHSTRIKE.

lyrics
redwoodclan warrior ✧ tom
mentions/tags; moonstream,
camp/variouis redwoodclan members

Fishstrike shakes his pelt out, stretching low and deep in his nest. He had not meant to sleep this long - he usually never does, but he does suppose he had difficulty falling asleep the night before. He peers outside the warriors' den and notes the dissipating fog and minimal freshkill pile. He wonders, briefly, if someone's made sure the medicine cats have gotten something: he notes that he can see Owlpaw and Riverpaw chatting near it, but can't see his sister or Crystalmoon anywhere. He shakes his head and brushes it off.

Fully outside the warriors' den now, Fishstrike peers around for Milkbird or Claystar, wondering if patrols have already been sent out. It's probable, considering how late he slept, which he finds himself frustrated with. It's fine. He can just go out hunting on his own and bring back prey. Mind made up, Fishstrike begins heading toward the entrance. He almost breaks through it before coming to a startled halt, hurriedly moving out of the way.

"Moonstream!" he says, sounding vaguely surprised. He hesitates, noting how hurried she looks and her catch of a single thrush. "Is everything okay?" Fishstrike asks, once he's sure he's out of the she-cat's way in case she hurries off again.

[•Crow•]

Moonstream

• Shecat • 14 Moons • warrior • Tags: Fishstrike •

Moonstream came to a halt at the sound of fishstrike’s voice. She bent her head down and placed down her thrush before returning her focus to the warrior in front of her. "Hello Fishstrike, and everything's alright i think… but i swear i felt something watching me.. i-it could be nothing though. I only had just recently woken up anyway" She explained with a narrow gaze. She looked at her single catch and her shoulders drooped. i wanted to bring back more… but i figured being out by myself wasnt safe for the time being Moonstream admitted nervously.

[OKULTRA]

xxxxx𝓞𝒘𝒍𝒑𝒂𝒘
⟢ med cat app ✧ he/they ✧ 9 moons ✧ med cat den ✧ tagged mothsight

· · ─────────────────────────·⸙͎· ───────────────────────── · ·

Owlpaw stands in front of the medicine den, squinting into the darkness. He's never appreciated how dim the den usually is. He waits for the sound of silence before ducking his head in. "Mothsight?" Once his eyes adjust to show him the outline of his mentor, he hastily crawls into the den and gently shakes his fur off. As soon as he's fully into the den, his posture hunches and his tail curls uneasily around his legs. He looks upset to have to have come to her for this. "Are-- you busy..? I... need to talk to you. I'm--" He clamps his muzzle shut. He can't admit to being scared. Apprentices his age shouldn't be scared anymore... much less medicine cat apprentices. "I'm.. worried about something."

xxxxx𝐏𝒐𝒏𝒚𝒃𝒐𝒚 𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔
⟢ kittypet ✧ he/him ✧ 27 moons ✧ north of redwoodclan territory ✧ tagged flood

· · ─────────────────────────·⸙͎· ───────────────────────── · ·

His ear twitches in the molly's direction as he listens to her talk about the storm coming. "Preparing all of the barn critters must be some serious stuff." Ponyboy murmurs. He wonders what the clan cats do in such an event, though he holds his tongue to refrain from giving his friend any self-sacrificial adventurous ideas on the matter. "For days... really? I can't be inside for days." He sighs, imagining the rainy day scenarios in his head as the pair trot through the forest land. "Though... I don't imagine Jett will mind."
As much as he loves his kit sibling and staying well fed and taken care of at home, being cooped up inside that twoleg nest makes him claustrophobic and anxious to move again. The life of the outside world is so hectic, every night he sleeps at home, he's never certain he'll see everyone again. Some cats he's more afraid to lose than others. That's why he sleeps close to Jett, and why he makes sure he visits Flood often enough.
After a few moments of silence, Ponyboy quietly meows, "I'd like you to meet Jett sometime. He's always wantin' to hear what I've been doing outside. It'd be nice if you got to tell him someday."

xxxxx𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞
⟢ kittypet ✧ he/him ✧ 27 moons ✧ camp clearing ✧ tagged nightpaw

· · ─────────────────────────·⸙͎· ───────────────────────── · ·

Emerging from the warrior's den after finishing cleaning her nest, Swiftface noticed a small black blob perched at the freshkill pile. Her ears perk forward as she carefully bounds across the way, recognizing her kit in an instant and making haste for this opportunity to speak to him. Her positioning of approach from behind provided the perfect chance for her to sneak up on them, and from a fox-length away, in her stern motherly tone, Swiftface meows; "Nightpaw." They'd have no time to react as, right then, Swiftface takes her seat behind the apprentice and begins to groom the back of their head. Her tone immediately softens -- she only picked up that tone to playfully scare him; "What have you been doing? I've been looking for you."

[star star.]

▌
▌
▌
▌

------
☆ ─── MOTHSIGHT.

lyrics
redwoodclan med cat ✧ she-cat
mentions/tags; owlpaw

It is only because she recognizes Owlpaw's voice that Mothsight doesn't snap around and demand that they see Crystalmoon. She hears her apprentice crawl into the den and turns to face him. She opens her mouth, about to greet her apprentice in her typical dull tone, when she notes how upset he looks. Something's wrong, she thinks, just as Owlpaw continues. He looks uncomfortable, and would probably be shifting around if he were the type of cat to do that when uncomfortable. She withholds any external expression, face carefully flat, but internally winces at his words. Something's wrong, she confirms.

"What's wrong?" she asks, standing to her paws. She moves a single pawstep closer to Owlpaw and stops. Her first immediate thought is that Owlpaw is having nightmares again, but shakes her head of the thought. She admits she's been busy recently, but she's pretty sure he hasn't brought up anything like that recently. Mothsight tilts her head, eyes narrowing slightly as she thinks, wracking her brain for reasons why her apprentice might be worried about something.

▌
▌
▌
▌

------
☆ ─── FISHSTRIKE.

lyrics
redwoodclan warrior ✧ tom
mentions/tags; moonstream

Fishstrike relaxes slightly when Moonstream says she thinks that everything's alright, but feels his expression pinching together at her next sentence. She felt someone watching her?

"Perhaps that's all it was," he says, dipping his head. "Being tired can do that to you." He glances down at the thrush on the forest floor and then back at Moonstream. "I was about to head out myself," Fishstrike tells her, relaxed enough now to sit down in front of the younger warrior. "Would you like to join me? I'll be near the fishpond. There may be some other prey near the training grounds." He would be nearby in case anything happened, which he thinks but doesn't verbally add.

▌
▌
▌
▌

☆ ─── TRIX.

i know you're feigning for
uncertainty, but i'm not scared
loner ✧ nonbinary
mentions/tags; calypso, swan

last post here

[daybreak.]

═══════════════
𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒇𝒑𝒂𝒘 🍃
.apprentice (7 ☾)- 🍂 -molly
.⌖ near the fishpond
.tags; Firecry, Smokestorm,
———Splashpaw
═══════════════

.
Leafpaw crouched behind Smokestorm, her puffed-up tail curled beside her body, tucked away from the ground and anything that might produce a sound.

"stay behind me you two. and if i tell you to run, you run back to camp immediately and do not look back. understand me?"

Leafpaw wanted to push back, tell her mentor that she would fight by his side, but a seed of doubt sprouted in her heart: if Smokestorm told her to run, did she really have the courage to stand her ground? Leafpaw hurried to bury the thought, focusing on her senses—the soft ground beneath her paws, softly yielding under her weight; the overwhelming scent of...

"Crowfood! Smokestorm, it smells like when freshkill starts to go rotten. But it doesn't smell like any freshkill I've ever had."

Splashpaw whispered next to her. Leafpaw shot him a sharp, furious look, be quiet!, she meant it to chide. He wasn't wrong, but there was still some underlying strangeness to the scent that had screeched danger when it touched her nose.

They inched forward, moving away from the pond and toward the source of the scent, which seemed to be coming from beyond a cluster of bushes gathered around a large boulder.

Leafpaw's ears swiveled suddenly as a noise broke through the natural cadence of wind, birdsong, and the occasional frog. She stood still, her muscles coiled like springs, before visibly relaxing as she processed the sound: Firecry!

[WetPaint23]

Littlerain
• She-Cat • 39 Moons • Warrior • Tags: Apricotnose
————————————————————————

"I'd love to! Thank you." Littlerain crouched down next to the fish before taking a small, tentative bite from near the spine. "It's actually pretty good!" She purred, sitting back up at she chewed. "I've never had fish before. I expected it to be a bit more muddy tasting than this." Littlerain glanced back down at the fish, her whiskers twitching. "I'll leave the rest to you, though. You did catch it, after all!"

Milkbird
• Tom • 42 Moons • Deputy • Tags: Wolfblood
————————————————————————

Milkbird lifted his muzzle into the air, scenting the area. "The weasel scent is much more concentrated here. It seems like it." He tilted his head to the side, listening intently. An odd scrabbling noise was coming from inside the den, not unlike claws on stone. "I think it's inside. It sounds pretty big and there may be more than one. Probably more than just the two of us can safely take on. We should head back to camp, tell Claystar what we found, and let him decide if we form a patrol to chase it out or not. I don't want any unnecessary injuries from acting too impulsively."

Nightpaw
• Nonbinary • 11 Moons • Apprentice • Tags: Swiftface
————————————————————————
Nightpaw just about leapt out of their fur before settling back down next to Swiftface. "Oh! You scared me." They relaxed quickly, resting their head against Swiftface's foreleg as she groomed him. Nightpaw may have been almost a full year old, but they still found comfort being near their mother. "I went to see Mothsight. I had water trapped in my ears again. She helped me get it out." They purred softly, calming down quickly from the previous scare. "I told her I would go collect some moss for her, but I need to take a warrior to go with me. Will you go with me?" Next to Skypaw and Mothsight, Swiftface was by far one of Nightpaw's favorite cats, and they never had any trouble talking to her. "It's just down by the river, right outside of camp."

Cloudpaw
• Tom • 8 Moons • Apprentice • Tags: Doesong, Greyheart, Stormpaw
————————————————————————
Cloudpaw felt a purr rumble in his throat as he heard Doesong's approval. He let his vision drift upwards from his paws over towards Basilpaw and Stormpaw, both focused on their surroundings. He felt a bit sorry for them, being stuck doing a boring task. Greyheart always seemed so grouchy towards Stormpaw, and he didn't know much about Basilpaw's mentor. Maybe when they made it to their destination he could engage the other apprentices in a game. They weren't kits anymore, but they weren't warriors either, so a quick game of chase or a wrestling match might be a good way to blow off some steam. Cloudpaw purred again at the idea, bouncing along besides Doesong.

[Queen of flames]

POPPYSEED
Queen - female - apprentice: n/a - crush: open
tags: open

She is open in the nursery...I don't know what to post for her...

STORMCALL
Warrior - female - apprentice: Basilpaw - crush: Greyheart, open
tags: Greyheart, Brackenfang, Basilpaw, Stormpaw, Doesong, Cloudpaw

She followed after the other patrol staying near her own apprentice so they could pair together as they hunted. Basilpaw was too young to be left alone in the woods "Focus? We hunt what we can find, and focusing on only one kind of prey is kind of a waste of time and energy...so just use your senses, smell, hear, see, and find what this forest can bring you and hunt it down..." she responded to the younger feline.

FIRECRY
Warrior - male - apprentice: Nightpaw - crush: Crystalmoon
tags: Goosefeather

He followed the other warriors back to the dead place of the badger "Yeah I found this weird too and liked to see how this badger got killed, but I can't get any scent of bigger carnivores or anything... another thing could be that this badger either died for illness or maybe it was drowned and the water took it to here somehow, he large lake is not far actually...there were few dead fished there too, which were not leftovers..." he meowed to him rather confused. He looked at the rock next to the badger, it was the way he got there before he saw the badger "There may even be the most obvious reason, maybe there was a fight with badgers and this one just had very bad luck and died by rolling down that rock?" he kept meowing before looked at him "What do you think Goosefeather?" he asked him.

RIVERPAW
Medicine cat apprentice - male - mentor: Crystalmoon - crush: Cloudpaw
tags: Owlpaw, Skypaw, Crystalmoon

He listened to the other medicine cat apprentice as he spoke, not being able to say much of anything to respond as he was already left to speak with Mothsight. He shook his head a bit looking at Skypaw as the other male apprentice walked past them, or him for now. He looked around wondering what to do now, maybe he just could ask if Crystalmoon had anything for him to do. He was pretty sure the white medicine cat was still at the camp as he had not seen her leaving the camp yet either. He half ran to the medicine den to look for his mentor, spotting her there not far "Morning boss lady...Is there anything for me to do today?" he asked her.

SWAN
loner - female - apprentice: n/a - crush/mate: Jasper
tags: Trix, Calypso

She listened to them as she flicked her tail and twisted her ears "We're not clan cats, those clan cats don't usually come this close to the human's territories anyway" she said with a soft meow "We're loners, pretty much do whatever and go whenever we feel like..." she meowed simply. She looked at her kit for a moment as they spoke to the kittypet 'Silly rules huh, they're maybe silly, but they do have reasons in them too' she thought to herself not saying anything in loud thought.

[OKULTRA]

xxxxx𝐏𝒐𝒏𝒚𝒃𝒐𝒚 𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔
⟢ kittypet ✧ he/him ✧ 27 moons ✧ north of redwoodclan territory ✧ tagged flood

· · ─────────────────────────·⸙͎· ───────────────────────── · ·

His ear twitches in the molly's direction as he listens to her talk about the storm coming. "Preparing all of the barn critters must be some serious stuff." Ponyboy murmurs. He wonders what the clan cats do in such an event, though he holds his tongue to refrain from giving his friend any self-sacrificial adventurous ideas on the matter. "For days... really? I can't be inside for days." He sighs, imagining the rainy day scenarios in his head as the pair trot through the forest land. "Though... I don't imagine Jett will mind."
As much as he loves his kit sibling and staying well fed and taken care of at home, being cooped up inside that twoleg nest makes him claustrophobic and anxious to move again. The life of the outside world is so hectic, every night he sleeps at home, he's never certain he'll see everyone again. Some cats he's more afraid to lose than others. That's why he sleeps close to Jett, and why he makes sure he visits Flood often enough.
After a few moments of silence, Ponyboy quietly meows, "I'd like you to meet Jett sometime. He's always wantin' to hear what I've been doing outside. It'd be nice if you got to tell him someday."

xxxxx𝓞𝒘𝒍𝒑𝒂𝒘
⟢ med cat app ✧ he/they ✧ 9 moons ✧ med cat den ✧ tagged mothsight

· · ─────────────────────────·⸙͎· ───────────────────────── · ·

As Mothsight takes a pawstep closer, instinctively, Owlpaw ducks his head and crouches into his usual cower at the center of the den, in order to ground himself to fess up. Owlpaw isn't usually the barer of bad news for a reason, and he especially hates bringing his bad news to Mothsight... but if no one else can help him, Mothsight will. "I can't sleep anymore," Owlpaw whispers, trying to start himself off lightly. "E-- even during the day, I just can't focus. My dreams are all... even when I'm awake, the same visions..."
His tail hits the ground rhythmically, impatiently. "I'm trying to do my work regardless and, and ignore them, and reason with them, but they don't... change. They... they stay the same. Every night. Every day."
He swallows hard, then looks up at his mentor, his eyes shifting about anxiously. "I don't want to be the prophet of something bad," meows Owlpaw earnestly.

xxxxx𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞
⟢ warrior ✧ she/her ✧ 43 moons ✧ camp clearing ✧ tagged nightpaw

· · ─────────────────────────·⸙͎· ───────────────────────── · ·

Swiftface purrs gently as her kit relaxes against her, continuing to attempt to smooth out their forever-kitten-fur with patient swipes of her tongue. Nightpaw may get older and perhaps one day grow into their age, or they might never; regardless, they and their brother will forever be her kits. "What were you doing with water in your ears again? I need you not to get any infections. Of course I'll go with you." She leans in to use her teeth to nip some dirt from behind their ear before deciding she'll resume her cleaning job later. "I'm glad you asked me... you know how I worry," she confesses, as she stands and curls a tail around Nightpaw's back to suggest getting a move on.