Ringpaw

[pomegranate]

“I’m swimming in circles, about to drown but my head is still above water. I’m drowning in drama, of all things! The war is absolutely stupid, it’s ridiculous. I didn’t even know it was really happening until someone decided to boot Riverclan over to us.”

“Raccoonpaw, you’re too sweet...”
-Ringpaw talking with Raccoonpaw

Basics
Name:
Ring, Ringkit, Ringpaw, Ringblaze-Ringshine-Ringblossom
Nicknames:
Slinky (A name her brothers used to call her)
Age:
11 Moons
Gender:
Female, she/her
Sexuality:
N/A (Pansexual before)
Clan:
Loner, Skyclan

Likes + Dislikes
Likes:
Cats//Sunshine//Mornings//Squirrel//Pretty leaves//Pretty stones//Rain showers//Flowers //Ferns//Nice Smells//Jokes//Smiling//Moss//Feathers//Ladybugs//Butterflies (The blue ones!)//Purring//Fresh kill (when she gets to eat it!)//Windy Days//Calm Waters//Blue Skies//Citrus//Catmint

Dislikes:
Mud//Heavy Rain//Rotting leaves//Grumpy elders//Frowns//Stale moss//Ticks//Sand in claws//Stormclouds//Monsters and the Thunderpath//Foxes//Mean Cats//Angry People//Loud Noises//Small Places//Being Called Out//Shy Cats

Appearance:
Ref 1:
https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-f...-image35723897
Ref 2:
https://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-f...-image34267559
(Credit to Dreamstime.com and Anna Krivitskaia for both images)
Ref 3:
http://warriorcatsonline.com/forums/...pictureid=5823
(Art drawn by me, Silver Fishie!)
Ringpaw is a very small, healthy young shecat. Her overall build is lithe and muscular on her legs, and her overall health condition is near-perfect. She currently does not suffer any mental health issues but she does suffer from minor hearing problems, causing her to be unable to do battle training well as it’s hard for her to hear directions. Her base coat is a dark, rowan color brown, nearly black. She is a mottled calico/tortoiseshell, with soft fur that is clean and well groomed. On her face, her muzzle is tapered and very kind looking, with a sweet black nose and long, arching white whiskers. Her eyes are a pale mint green color, with hints of mustard yellow and flecks of lime green. Her face is split almost, half sand colored tabby and the other a dark orange and brown colored mess of splotches and speckles. Her ears are large and tufted, with orange tips. Her whole body is mottled with different colors, mainly orange, sand colored tan, and dark black or rich brown. Her back right paw is pure black as coal, and her claws are tiny and white, sharp but not dangerous. Her tail is her main feature, having a very cool effect. Her whole tail’s basecolor is pure black, but she has five rings of tan tabby, for her ‘Ring’ suffix. Her tail is long and flowing, and her fur is also at a longer length than usual, especially on her stomach. Littered along her pelt are small scars, pink and crude from ruthless training sessions with her mentor. Her right ear appears normal, and no one but her and her mentor Snapfire knew what was wrong. She has a small nick in the side of her ear fur, which went deeper than she knew and she is losing her hearing in that side.
Body Type:
Lithe, skinny
Voice:
Rich, very calm and soothing, but has a high and peppy tune
Scent:
She smells of leaves and faint traces of water

Relations
Immediate Family:
Mother(s):
The only real mum, Pebbleflurry, Female, Skyclan, Alive, @Celestial (Hasn’t met, will love)
Branch, Female, formerly Branchheart of Skyclan, now deceased. (Hates her, glad that she’s no longer here)
Stepmother via Rice, Quinoa, Female, Currently living at Hades’ Barn In outskirts, Alive. @Silver Fishie (Hasn’t met)
Father:
Rice, Male, Loner, Deceased (Hasn’t met)
Brother(s):
Mulchpaw, Biological via Branchheart x Rice, Male, Shadowclan, Alive, @Okapi (Hates, doesn’t know he’s in Shadowclan)
Shock, Biological via Branchheart x Rice, Male, Outskirts of Skyclan, Alive, @Mauve (Hates, hasn’t met yet, will learn to adore him)
Open
Sister(s):
Grand Prix, Halfsibling via Quinoa x Rice, Female, 209 West Garden Avenue, Alive. OOC (Hasn’t met)
Amora, Halfsibling via Quinoa x Rice, Female, Somewhere, Alive, @Starfall (Hasn’t met)
Open
Open

Love Interest:
N/A
Past, Honeypaw, Male, Riverclan, Alive, @Silver Fishie (Hates, wants dead, hopes he perishes for abandoning her)

Best Friend(s):
Flickerpaw, Male, Skyclan, Alive, @RedHead
Raccoonpaw, Female, Skyclan, Alive, @Lonestar23 (Loves as a friend, adores, is unaware of her feelings for Ringpaw)
Past, Snowbranch, Female, Skyclan, Alive @Silver Fishie (Adores)
Friend(s):
Amberfire, Female, Skyclan, Alive, @Silver Fishie (Acquaintance)
Ashpaw, Female, Skyclan, Alive, @Dream (Acquaintance)
Feathersong, Female, Skyclan, Alive, @Doodle (Acquaintance)
Batpaw, Male, Riverclan, Alive, @ConfusedCas (Friend, enjoys time with)
Enemies:
Honeypaw, Male, Riverclan, Alive
Unnamed Loner, Male, Location unknown, Alive, @Orderly mage (Hasn’t met yet)
Mentor(s):
Shinefang, Male, Skyclan, Alive, @Charmer (Loves, adores, never wants him to die. probably her best friend as of now)
Past mentor, Snapbranch, Male, Skyclan, Unfortunately Alive OOC
Apprentice(s):
N/A

Personality
Overview:
Ringpaw is a sweetie.
Her whole life has been about helping others, and trying to prove that she can do anything clanborn cats can. While confident and determined, she really just wants love. She will walk up to anyone just to chat, her happy personality and enthusiasm making a dull conversation into a joyful and memorable talk.
She has a very positive outlook on something, ignoring what could happen, and focusing on what’s happening right now in front of her eyes. Her idealistic approach to life shows that anyone can be happy, if they just focus on the positives.
While her intentions are good, she can be a bit too talkative. She gets on some cats nerves, often wanting to chat when the latter obviously does not. This causes a bit of wariness around her, as other apprentices don’t want to bother with the happy-go-lucky kit turned Apprentice. When most ignore her, she idly enjoys herself by playing games meant for kits, or hunting solitarily in the woods alone.
She prides herself on her aptitude for hunting, but in reality has a lot of room for improvements.
She is a bit sleepy, often drifting off into the day with her sweet dreams rocking her a small lullaby, and she also pays attention to anything but her current task. This happens occasionally, which is extremely frustrating for her mentors.
Among all of this, she is a lot smarter than most would think. She can think her way out of a pickle in two seconds. She prefers to keep that to herself, as some cat don’t like smart-alecs. She learned quickly from her family just what it meant to not show off.
Everyone around her is eccentric, with friends and family to keep things going crazy instead of straight forward on the railroad track, but she is just trying to fit in. She wants friends, and she normally is just sweet and helpful. If an elder is thirsty or has a tick or their nest is stale, she will gladly lend a paw to help out. She likes seeing gratitude in other’s faces, it shows that she did something right.
She is also fairly good at remembering things, such as how she saw a beetle this morning. She is a bit impatient, and perhaps get a bit frustrated with how difficult sorting and memorizing herbs is.
She is also a big goof. She constantly goes where she shouldn’t, but horses around enough that the laughter her little ‘accidents’ bring is worth the punishment of checking somebody for ticks or whatever. She likes seeing others smile.
One thing that Ringpaw likes is cats who are straightforward. She already knows she isn’t perfect, no one is, and she hates it when others act like they’re perfect or sugarcoat the truth. Just tell her what’s what, it won’t hurt her.
One thing she dislikes? Mainly really everything. If she wanted too, she could find
Diseases/Mental Conditions:
She is losing hearing in one ear, not serious
Mental Age:
4 Moons
Mental Health:
Sane

Backstory
Ring was born as a kit of four to a former Skyclanner, Branchheart. (Now known as Branch, and she died by a badger attack.) Branch was extremely mean, and Ring’s mother did not care for Ring. She was often a neglectful mother, not caring if Ring wanted a feeding or not. Branch, as Ring was the runt of the litter, often acted mean and rude around her. Ring’s siblings, Mulch, Shock and ___ often left her outside on cold nights if she stole their attention. The other kittens liked to bully Ring, as she rarely objected. Ring was later dumped off on Skyclan territory, as she was deemed useless, but Branch never found a patrol to tell them who the kit really was. Branch had intended to inform the clan, so that they would at least know who the mother was, but Branch had grown tired of getting soaked in cold rain so she left. Ring’s mother scampered off, leaving the kitten alone overnight. Ringkit does not remember her mother, nor care for the fact that her mother did not want her. (Because she remembers very little, this is why she does not know her exact age.)

When she was brought to camp, she became a kit, resident of Skyclan. She knew her name, Ring, so she was renamed Ringkit because of when she kept on telling others her name was Ring. She didn’t have family or friends, and since she had been already weaned off milk she didn’t need a foster mother. She played solitary games like attack the elders and such. This lonely little kit had a few friends, but they later drifted away as no one really knew wether Ringkit was a loner, rouge, or even a Starclan forbid Kittypet!
Later on, a shecat named Snowbranch decided to take the tiny kit under her wing. Snowbranch saw how Ringkit was shunned for being an outsider, and Ringkit hung close to Snowbranch nearly everyday. After awhile, the two became good friends. They often dozed in Sunshine or played mossball when Snowbranch wasn’t on warrior duties. But Snowbranch knew that Ringkit needed real friends, ones she could count on. Although she didn’t want to, Snowbranch started nudging Ringkit away, and then Snowbranch ended their relationship, not even giving a clue why. Ringkit never grew close to many again, as she was so hurt by the fact that even Snowbranch, her supposed friend, hated her.
When she became an apprentice, Ringpaw quickly learned to dislike her mentor. Snapfire was very rude, yelling for her to go this way and that when hunting. this resulted in ignorance of duties as she looked less and less forward to hunting and battle training. She became less of her usual self and a more “I’m fine!” Sort of cat. She turned kind after an especially brutal training session with Snapfire. He had trained too hard, and she had accidentally tripped, and his claws snagged the inside of her ear. Snapfire knew she was hurt, but since Ringpaw hadn't noticed he decided not to point it out. This act of foolishness started to ruin her hearing in her right ear, as she never went to get it checked out by Shinefang, and slowly is destroying her hearing. When she found out why she was hearing things softer, she decided to pretend like her life was just okay, plastering on a joyful mask until it really was part of her. She couldn’t seem to shake her new self, becoming welcoming to any cat who wanted to be her friend. She was never lonely, but she needed someone. She continued on, refusing to give up, as her determination would not allow it.
She soon began to meet with another clancat, Honeypaw of Riverclan. He was sweet and aloof, always making her forget about the mean cats in Skyclan, and they first met at a gathering. After that, they often snuck out to meet at the Seastones, playing carelessly in the foamy waves and looking for cool shells and rocks. After awhile, he had seemed to be calling her cute and always seemed to be complimenting her. She thought that he loved her, and was one night prepared to tell him she didn’t feel the same, but on that same night he never showed. He apparently had forgotten his ‘best friend’ for another cat.
Heartbroken and crushed, as she secretly wanted him to beg her to stay with him as she was only going to dismiss him in hopes that he would steal her heart, she trotted home with a sad sullen face. Basically, she was going to play hard-to-get, making her fuzzy image of romance perfect. No one noticed her broken heart, and even at later gatherings she never ever talked to Honeypaw ever again.
She soon found solstice in adventure. Fighting butterflies and the sort were her kinds of fun, especially venturing where she wasn’t supposed to go. Warriors den, nursery, but her favorite place was the medicine stores. She made sure to avoid Shinefang, as if he caught her ‘exploring’, it wouldn’t be pretty.
One day, whilst exploring, she caught wind of a new patch of forest she hadn’t yet seen, near the old border. This territory was new to her, and she pranced along, happy that no one was around.
Meanwhile, just nearby, a Loner without a name was chasing a rabbit, when the prey veered off into a tunnel. He crawled in after it, wanting to catch and kill the piece of prey, but the tunnel collapsed on his back portion of his body. Calling for help, he saw Ringpaw running through the woods.
Ringpaw never actually heard his plea for help, but he had seen her apparently ‘ignoring’ his distress calls. Therefore, that day she had made an enemy of the Loner, who was now angry about her ignorance and her foolishness.
Soon, Shinefang caught wind of her curiousity in the medicine den, and decided that the little annoying kit belongs in the medicine den, and Ringpaw gladly accepted the position.
A little while after being accepted as medicine cat apprentice, Ringpaw met up with her old friend Raccoonpaw, and the two laughed a bit and caught up, unbeknownst to Ringpaw that Raccoonpaw had a crush on her.

Stats:
Strength: 3/10
Speed: 6/10
Agility: 4/10
Smarts: 7/10
Bravery: 8/10
Herbs: 2/10
Humor: 7/10
Logic: 5/10
Shy or Bold?: Bold
Calm or Eccentric?: Eccentric
More Logical or Emotional?: On the fence

Themesong:
(Both are by one of my favorite artists: )
Good People (Where All The Good People Are), by Jack Johnson
Never Know, by Jack Johnson

Herbs Known:
•Comfrey - Soothes burns and helps aching joints
•Willow Bark - Good for aching joints and bad hip pain. She uses it a lot for Shinefang
•Alder Bark - Best for toothaches, otherwise useless. Found in marshy areas, especially where Dusk Syndicate used to be.
•Catmint - Precious herb, the only cure for Greencough. It can be used for Whitecough, but is rarely used as that.

Quirks:
Talkative
She has a nack to be places she’s not supposed to
Her whiskers will twitch when she’s displeased, and her tail will twitch when she’s happy
She has a strange ‘addiction’ with pulling out thorns. She loves watching one get pulled out.