[Pending] Blackspeck

[BlowingBubbles]

As you approach, you are unnerved by their smoldering gazes.

You know you're being judged for all your worth, but you're determined to make your case. It's not every day cats try to reincarnate, and you're tired of being trapped here. Perhaps your first life didn't go as planned.. but the next one is going to be better.

All you have to do is answer them.

"What makes you stand out from the rest of the cats who want another chance?"

Blackspeck| Former WindClan Warrior| Dark Forest cat|
Silver tongue- Active!
"I am the thing that others fear.”

Blackspeck narrowed his eyes. Come on! You know I don't deserve to be hear! I hadn't done anything terribly wrong. Blackspeck gazed at then with eyes so innocent, he believed that they would see him for the cat he was so good at pretending to be. I just want another chance! The Dark Forest is such a hard place, and besides, I never had much family in my first life. I want another chance. I want a life that's not so... so... lonely! To be honest, the mere thought of being this kind of sentimental, soft-hearted kit-like creature, sickened him. But how else would he get back. Crowtooth didn't deserve to be deputy! WindClan needed better leadership! But of course, Blackspeck didn't let these cats know that! Sure, he'd killed a few rouges and loners, and a few other cats in battle, but did that make him a criminal? He was so good at masking his true self, that know one really knew the horrible cat that was inside. So, with that in his mind, he gave his most innocent and hopefully look the the cats, and waited.

[Minku]

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Dustpoppy
DF Resident. She/Her. X moons

[ @BlowingBubbles @Dolomedes @Rowan ]
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Why are these pleading kits in the Dark Forest trying to get themselves back in the living world now? This is already..what? The second time the warden has seen such things? At least the last time tried to be convincing. This one just sounds outright stupid. "For what? Why should we? What worth would someone like you bring to your next life?" the she-cat didn't exactly hold back; cause why should they waste time on cats that didn't even bother give them actual reasons to bring them back to life? "You're lonely and family-less, but do you think that makes you special? How many cats do you think lived and died lonely?" Dustpoppy was considering not arriving to this one, but her she was. If having been lonely was the cat's only reason to come back, then you don't even jugdement, just boot them back to where they came from. But she’ll let him go on

[BlowingBubbles]

Blackspeck| Former WindClan Warrior| Dark Forest cat|
Silver tongue- Active!
"I am the thing that others fear.”

Blackspeck controlled himself long enough not to growl with anger. Instead, he continued with his goody-goody act. I didn't say that anything made me special. Not yet. Not in that life. He mewed. But that doesn't mean I shouldn't get the chance to do something special. I'm not even going for being special. I just want to serve my clan to the best of my abilities. Blackspeck took a breath, and continued his passionate and loyal, but oh-so-polite speech. If I may ask you a question, how do you suppose I could do really much of anything for my clan, when I died from greencough at 14 moons? He gazed at the cat with eyes that seemed so genuine, so honest. You asked what worth I would bring in my next life. He continued. I say, why don't you give me a chance to live, and serve my clan? Why don't you give me a chance to make the clan better? To gain knowledge, and share my wisdom with other cats to improve their skills? To make sure that nothing ever happens to my beloved clan? That, even though it may not seem like much, is all I ask.

@Minku
@Dolomedes
@Rowan

[Dolomedes]

Snowleopard
@BlowingBubbles | @Minkuu | @Rowan

The dark forest feline was planning on making her fashionably late arrival, where in the midst of her squabbling colleagues and the dead wishing to live, she would step in and have all eyes- if only for a moment, as she delivered her first thoughts on whatever feline has made their way to the council. Her feathery tail swooshed gracefully behind her as she stepped from mist hiding her form. Too long as she waited for another warden, and she wasn't trying to be late.

"Sorry for my lateness." Snowleopard greeted, her eyes moving from Dustpoppy to Blackspeck. Her eyes narrowed, as she took a step towards the tom pleading the same whines and cries she's heard a million times. "I'm very sorry, you sound positively miserable- but surely, you must understand, that this little council isn't just for show? If we brought back every cat- why what would death matter and why should we listen to the stars-" Well not much listening has been happening in the clans regardless, waning belief and communication collapse.

"You could be happy here," Snowleopard gave a gentle smile, "You can find family and solace within the stars that bound your soul now. Find cats lonely like you." Though his crying about death to illness at 14 moons was very tone deaf, even by most cats standards, "I would say that, in this world, 14 moons is more than most. The number of kits and apprentices we see day after day is uncountable." Oh, now she was starting to sound like Dewkit.

[dino.]

“How touching.” Lichenflood's voice dripped with venomous sarcasm as he emerged from the shadows, shimmering with a hazy glow. "If you are miserable here, it is because you deserve to be. You lived as nothing and you died as nothing. I may be more inclined to be sympathetic to the cause if not for your whining and your simpering." Honestly! It was quite grating on the ears. He wasn't sure how the others were stomaching it.

Lichenflood curled his lip as the tom prattled on. "Everyone wants a family," he spat with a flash of his claws. "Far fewer are willing to put in the effort to maintain one and I imagine you are among that group. You have done nothing of consequence. You are nothing special. You would find yourself hard-pressed to do the work required to keep a family, never mind start one."

Usually, Lichenflood might decide on the spot. Something compelled him to keep listening this time, even if his mind was already half-way made up. “Explain to me what it is you are looking for, and why, and what you are willing to do to keep it alive. As it stands now, you are doing a horrific job of convincing me you are deserving of any sort of life - the one you have already lived was worthless and yet you have somehow found a way to make yourself worth less in your time here.”

[ @BlowingBubbles @Minku @Dolomedes - tagging in for rowan since they're on hiatus ]