Post by Sun on Jul 1, 2012 17:42:57 GMT -5
arrowmoon // arrowstar
she-cat | riverclan | 33 moons | warrior//deputy//leader
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Appearance
Many consider Arrow to be a beautiful cat, although she does not see the beauty that others perceive. In fact, she is quite insecure about her appearance, wondering if she ever comes off as too feminine to be a leader.
Her fur is a creamy tabby with three white paws, and emerald eyes to match. If you were to see her underneath the moonlight, her fur would appear as though it were silver, giving her a ghost-like appearance at night. Said fur is short and thin, allowing her to glide through the water with ease and little noise. Her muscles are strong from swimming all her life, enabling her great strength and speed, but a little lacking on the flexibility. She has trouble maneuvering around smaller cats, but is able to down her opponents so quickly that it usually does not matter.
Because of Arrowstar's beauty, she tends to sometimes attract males when she doesn't mean to. In fact, it can become quite a problem, resulting her decision to never have a mate. She thinks toms are ridiculous, and usually doesn't get along with them. However, younger toms, like apprentices and kits, she's fine with.
Personality
As stated above, Arrowstar is a bit insecure with how herself. It's not just her looks, but everything about her: if she's fit to be leader, if she's making the right decisions, if the other cats like her or not. It's an ongoing struggle everyday for her deputy to convince the she-cat that she is doing a fine job. However, she always thinks there is something she can do better, resulting in her strive for perfection.
She has a bit of a tendency to ignore toms. Because of her stereotype towards toms, she refused to ever have a mate (although she may not be able to keep this up her whole life). However, she doesn't let her bias thoughts interfere with her job as leader, and continues to act normally towards toms. However, she will occasionally snap with a tom questions an order or such.
Arrowstar has no sense of humor, and usually finds jokes insulting. However, she is known to laugh, even when she doesn't get the joke at all, in order to keep the jokester from feeling bad. You will almost never find her telling a joke, and she will usually speak in a matter-of-fact tone. She prefers to get the job done as opposed to enjoying the time you spend getting the job done. In a sense, she is more about the destination as opposed to the journey. Hardly ever does she complain, and will usually tough out anything, unless it's a personal and private issue.
History
Contrary to popular belief, Arrow was not born in the Clans. No, this was just a ruse in order to fake her Clan heritage, so that no one would question the leader's choice in making an outsider the clan deputy. The only cats who knew about her true heritage were the leader, her adoptive mother and siblings, and the medicine cat. In fact, she was born far from Clan territory, in the Tribe, as Arrow that Flies Through Wind.
Arrow grew up in a family environment, with an over caring dad, two brothers, and a growing Tribe. It was destined for her to become a Cave Guard when she was older, for she was already showing the marks of a great warrior; the constant play-fights she had with her brothers usually ended up with her victory and their defeat. Her potential was obvious to anyone. Except her mother. Named Wind that Brushes Trees, she was a stickler for tradition; that her daughter could never become a fighter and would be forced to be a Nurse, as they called she-cats born to birth kits. Wind herself was a Nurse, and wanted the same thing for her daughter. However, Arrow disliked the idea of becoming a Nurse, and grew up despising her mother.
When she turned eight moons old, the designated day of their future, her mother convinced their leader to turn her into a nurse. She was to birth her first litter of kits with a tom named Brook that Fish Swim, and Arrow wanted nothing to do with him or her life. She ran away from the Tribes that same night, looking for a new life for her out in the wilderness.
She roamed the area near RiverClan territory for almost a moon, starving to death slowly and eating insect husks found on the river's shore. Arrow had tried before to catch the fish, but they were much too fast for a weak and unstable young she-cat like her. It wasn't long before she collapsed beside the river in exhaustion. But when she woke up, she was no longer by the river's side. In fact, she was taken to the middle of RiverClan, where she was adopted by a she-cat and taken into RiverClan like one of their own. No one really asked where she came from, and eventually, sometime after her warrior ceremony, they just forgot where she came from. Most just said she was born inside RiverClan, and the rumor started.
She was named Arrowmoon, after her father, Moon that Shines on Darkest Nights. Arrow wanted to remember him as best she could, so that she never forgot where she came from. While it wasn't the greatest home ever, she was born there, and learned to respect that.
