Saffronstar- Squallclan

[✯ Saffronstar ✯]

Name: Saffronstar [Saffronclaw]
Clan: Squallclan
Position: Leader
Age: 35 moons
Gender: Tom

Picture:

Apprentice:

Long furred ginger tabby with bright pelt. His eyes are grpass green with a twinkle of trouble in their hues. Very dark orange stripes on his forehead and darker orange ears. He's got a muscular built with a large jaw and impressive size. He's not a cat easily reckoned with. He's got long white whiskers and a crooked smile. His tail is rather sleek with longer fur. His nose is bright pink. Not a thick cat, he's more lean muscle then anything. He carries himself proud with his head held high and an air of authority about him. He seems to always be calculating his next move. He has very large white claws which he uses to hunt in trees, which is his favorite place to hunt.

Personality:

On a good day: He's very comppassionate, ambitious and clever. He looks out for his clan-mates in everything he does. He's charismatic and good with words. He's utterly fearless and will charge right into things. He would die to protect those he cares about.

When Angered: He's a storm you don't want to engage. he turns into an uncontrollable monster who doesn't know how to back down or when to quit. TO say he has a bit of a temper when angry is a huge understatement.

His flaws: He's ambitious and greedy. He is out solely for the survival of his own clan and has no problem stepping on the paws of the other clans cats to help his clan get stronger. He's terribly ambitious and slightly corrupt. He's experienced a few hardships in his life that changed him from a caring and accepting little warrior into a hard and sometimes cold blooded killer. He has no patience for weakness and has high expectations for himself as well as others.

With love: Saffronstar's patience with kits only goes so far, not to say he wouldn't be better if the kits were his own, but he sees kits as young apprentices and really would just like them to age faster so they can become warriors and make his clan stronger. He doesn't love easily, or show affection beyond normal clan member interaction. He even hides his emotions and feelings from his sister, Brushmask whom he gets along with rather well. He would be a hard one for any shecat to convince to love her because he thinks love makes cats weak, and he doesn't want to have any weakness.

History:

Origin: His parents were Windfeather and Blackcloud both of Squallclan. His father had been the deputy when he was born. His mother was a spirited young cat who turned his fathers life upside down with her trouble and mischief setting.

Kit: Saffronkit was an only kit. His father was not a prominent figure in his life, apart from being deputy, his father wasn't particularly into kits. He would visit from time to time, but really never bonded with his son when he was a kit. Saffronkit had his mothers bright personality and knack for finding trouble in the most unlikely places. While Windfeather found it amusing when she herself did it, she did not have any patience for such behavior in her son. So naturally Saffronkit was always in trouble for something or another.

Apprentice: Saffronpaw became an apprentice on a clpassic windy night for Squallclan. His mentor's name has been Darkshadow. An encouraging yet unusual cat to be selected as his mentor. Darkshadow was his father's half-brother whom hated Blackcloud. Naturally that went over quite interestingly. He was a clever apprentice, if he stayed focused long enough. He was a natural born tree climber and instantly took to hunting up in the dense canapes for his clan. His mentor encouraged his enthusiasm and his spirit. He trained him in advanced fighting moves and sly tricks to outsmart your opponents. So when it came time to spar with the other apprentices he was undefeated, even though his tactics were tricky and often unfair. Toward the end of his apprenticeship his mother moved back into the nursery to have another littler of kits.

Warrior: Saffronpaw became Saffronclaw after his huge white claws and his ability to climb and fight impressively. His father barely congratulated him,however Darkshadow praised him and made sure to make him feel special. he had always felt darkshadow to be more a father to him then Blackcloud. His mother gave birth to another litter, only one of the kits survived. A little shekit his mother named Brushkit. For some reason his father took more interest in his second litter, and Saffronclaw was always a bit jealous that his sister got to know his father more than he did. Saffronclaw became a huge passet to his clan in battle and survival. He seemed to have a keen instinct for when storms were coming and what the best way would be to protect the camp when they hit. He finally earned his fathers respect one moon when he saved his mother and little sister from a branch which fell on the nursery. He became a hero. Darkshadow drifted out of his life as his father drifted in and became resentful of Saffronclaw. The two quarreled a bit toward the end of his former mentor's life. Darkshadow was crushed during a terrible storm one leaf fall. Despite the recent conflicts between them, Saffronclaw still felt like he'd lost his father.

Deputy: One night Blackcloud lead a raid of warriors to attack Typhoonclan whom had been stealing prey from the edge of their territory. The battle was going well until the deputy began fighting one of Typhoonclan's larger warriors. He lost his footing on one of the cliffs and the loose stones carried both of them over the edge to land broken bodied and dead on the rocks below. The tension between Typhoonclan and Squallclan was high for quite some time after that. Saffronclaw lead the war party back home to camp. He comforted his mother and sister and stood before the clan to report what had happened. The leader, Jaystar, surprised him and named him deputy. Realizing he needed an apprentice to make this official, he took Brushkit a week early from the nursery to be his first apprentice. When Saffronclaw touched noses with Brushpaw he knew he'd teach her everything she needed to know to become a warrior.

Leader: His mother died just after his sister was given her warrior name, Brushmask. Saffronclaw couldn't be more proud of how his first apprentice turned out. The two were fairly close afterwords. Two moons later the leader lost a life during a fox attack. He confessed to Saffronclaw that he wasn't as young as he had been letting on, and that this life was his final one. He served for several more moons before coming down with a terrible case of green-cough. He died several days later, leaving Saffronclaw to become Saffronstar!

RP Example:

Saffronstar hugged his long legs around the trunk of the tree and dug his claws into the thick bark. He scaled effortlessly up the side of the tree and perched on the lowest branch from the forest floor. His Green eyes peered through the trees for something to sink his teeth into. He was a natural born climber, it seemed his claws and body were perfectly designed to scale the sides of trees to reach the birds and squirrels hiding above.

Come out come out wherever you are He thought menacingly to himself. He carefully lept from tree to tree, his jaws slightly agape to pick up the scent of prey. He smelled the Squirrel before he saw it. The plump gray creature was sitting on its hind legs, obliviously working its teeth into a large nut. Saffronstar stalked forward along the branches without a sound. His huge paws spreading out to even out his weight along the branches.

Stopping within leaping distance, he crouched down bunching his muscles beneath his orange pelt. shaking his tail a bit he lunged toward the gray rodent. His claws sunk into its back before it got the chance to cry out in shock. Saffronstar scooped it up in his jaws as the nut it was carrying bounced down from tree limb to tree limb toward the forest floor.

Satisfied with his catch, he moved off, jaws full. He could see the entrance to camp not far off. One of the advantages of living in the center of such a dense forest was the close proximity of the prey to camp. He had only needed to venture about ten fox lengths away from the edge of the hollow to find the squirrel. He carefully made his way down the tree and disappeared into the entrance to camp....

Kin:

Mother- Windfeather- Dead
father- Blackcloud- Dead
Brushmask- Younger sister
Darkshadow- Uncle and former mentor. dead

Other: Nothing to say at the moment!

[✯ Saffronstar ✯]

Accepted!