Hawkcatcher
Basic information
Name: Hawkcatcher
Past names: Swiftkit, Swiftpaw, Swiftrunner
Future names:
Nicknames:
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Age: exact age TBD but between 45-60 moons
Rank: Thunderclan warrior
Physical Traits
Fur Color(s): Dark brown
Fur Texture: A bit ragged but mostly think and smooth when she remembers to clean it
Fur Length: Long
Markings: Is a Maine Coon- Bengal mix and has some Bengal markings on her back, they mostly transtion into stripes on her legs, tail, and face though
Eye Color: Dark amber
Body Type/Structure: Bigboned
Height: Tall
Weight: Above average
Voice: Pretty stern and business-like
Gait: Slow, measured (she occasionally has a slightly uneven gait after an old injury in her leg, but it has almost fully healed)
Scent: Oak and
Scars / Deformities: Many smaller markings, mainly from many battles, but most notable and old injury in her hindleg (almost fully healed though), two clawmarks running over the right side of her muzzle, and two deeper marks over her shoulders
Diseases / Conditions: N/A
Coordination: Good
Reflexes: Excellent despite her age
Strength: Very strong
Personality
Sociability: Not too great. Hawkcatcher is rather straightforward and stern cat, and having low expectations for just about everything expect herself mixed with a generally pessimistic outlook doesn't mix too well with making friends. She will keep her loved ones very close however
Outlook: Pessimistic
Responsibility: Excellent, she takes her duty very seriously
Cleanliness: She tries to remember to clean up every evening before going to bed, but mainly just does so before gathers when she has to put on a good image for her clan
Generosity: She will always choose to hunt herself to death and not to eat over letting her clanmates go hungry, but rarely offers the same selflessness towards cats who are not her clanmates
Manners: Very good. She holds herself to very high standards, but can also seem very stiff and occasionally snaps at ruder cats
Bravery: Brave, but prefers to act within reason
More Logical or More Emotional?: Logical. Always.
Interpersonal Connections
Father(s):
Mother (s):
Sibling(s):
Offspring: N/A
Best Friend(s):
Friend(s):
Neutral:
Acquaintance(s):
Enemies:
Crush: N/A
Significant Other: N/A
RPs, history, and growth
Swiftkit was born to two Thunderclan parents, though one of them was a former outsider, along with a few siblings and her upbringing wasn't really anything out of the usual, even if she from an early age preferred her own company or her siblings over her other clanmates' and was never the social kind. At the age of 6 she was apprenticed alongside her littermates, but even though Swiftpaw had been looking forward to starting her training for a while now, her mentor turned out to be a disappointment. Aloof and lazy, the warrior never paid her much attention, and Swiftpaw quickly learned to seek out training on her own instead of relying on her mentor to train her. It bothered her deeply since behind her shell of pessimism, a part of her had still hoped to be able to form some sort of bond with her mentor. Now that turned out to be impossible.
Eventually, her mentor disappeared or left the clan, to this day she is not sure which, but Swiftpaw was reassigned to another cat, and then another, and so on running through a handful of different teachers, each of them as unremarkable and distant when it came to her training as the last, and gradually Swiftpaw grew to blame herself for her mentors' absence and shortcomings, and it only solidified her belief that she had to rely on only herself.
At the age 15, when she finally managed to complete her training, she was given her full name, Swiftrunner, after her tendency to hunt alone and often chase down her prey when her large situate scared it away.
But that name only stuck for about a year. One day Swiftrunner was out on a hunting patrol with a young apprentice and their mentor (Nighthawk, also a younger warrior) and had just chased a squirrel up a tree when something swished past her. A hawk had taken a dive towards the apprentice and their mentor managed to get between their trainee and the bird of prey, but suffered pretty bad injuries and would die soon after the encounter. Swiftrunner, knowing she would not be able to climb down quickly enough to save both of them, took a leap down from the lower branches och the tree and dropped onto the hawk's back, and with her help it was killed. She had hurt her leg badly in the fall but she and the apprentice rushed the mentor back to camp but weren't able to save them. Both Swiftrunner and the apprentice had to spend a long time in the medicine den after that, but Swiftrunner's leg took longer to heal than expected, and the medicine cat warned her that it might never properly heal. Having heard the news, Swiftrunner went to the leader to ask for a new name since her current one now felt like more of an insult and bitter reminder of her injury than something to be proud of, and after some thought the leader agreed to give her a new name the following meeting, but asked for time to think until then. At the next meeting, Swiftrunner was called forward and, and in praise of her boldness and in memory of her clanmate, renamed to Hawkcatcher and assigned to become the apprentice's mentor.
It was neither the first nor last apprentice Swiftrunner would guide to warriorhood, and she was very often assigned apprentices who themselves had been deserted by a mentor. But because of her fast-paced training schedule and the fact that the apprentices already had had some training before getting her a mentor, they were never her apprentices for all that long, and though she had vowed not to be as distant of a mentor as her own teachers and been, she never really formed any strong bonds with her apprentices during their training period.
Despite her pessimistic and generally somewhat cold demeanor, she has mentored many cats, been on more patrols than one can count, and lived in the clan all her life, so many cats still know her, even if it generally is just as an acquaintance or former mentor and not a close friend.
Hawkcatcher
