DOVEFLIGHT
AGE 12 moons
GENDER Bigender (Okay with any and all pronouns, internally uses they)
CLAN Riverclan
RANK Elder
SHORT DESCRIPTION A tall, skinny white cat with stunning blue eyes.
APPEARANCE There is no denying that for all their flaws, both physical and mental, Doveflight is a stunning cat. There is a certain grace to their long legs - though some of the slender nature of the feline is lost to the long fur covering their frame. A frail chest tapers into a narrow waist and a lengthy, fluffy tail. Their head is narrow and sharp, tufted with long fur. Their features are delicate and their shockingly blue eyes are large. They are normally well groomed and look more at place within the home of a twoleg than running a muck with a band of feral cats.
Doveflight tends to hold themself in a bizarre manner. While moving, they move low to the ground with careful, calculated movements. Their belly tends to be only a few centimeters from brushing the ground and their tail tends to be held low as well. They generally move slower than most cats because of their caution. Unfortunately, they are unaware of social niceties such as warning one before approaching them - as such, Doveflight has a bad habit of approaching cats from behind without warning them. They also have a bad habit of staring.
PERSONALITY Doveflight greets life with a serene sort of happiness - a maddening glee that might drive another cat to question how someone seemingly dealt all the wrong cards in life can be so infuriatingly
smug. It seems as though Doveflight is delighted by every little thing around them, from the smell of the flowers in the morning to a fight breaking out along the borders. Everything receives a smile and a twitch of the whiskers from this cat - fury? As amusing as a bit of slapstick humor enacted out by a friend for their benefit. Perhaps more so - no one can deny that Doveflight was poorly named, for it's mayhem rather than peace that this feline seeks. There's nothing that delights them more than seeing the world around them descend into chaos, particularly once everyone discovers the devil behind it all.
They
love getting in trouble. Negative attention, after all, is still attention. Sometimes, one must indulge in a little mischief to remind their clanmates of their value.
That is not to say that Doveflight seeks the downfall of the clan that they call home or anything silly like that. The cat is perhaps worrying in their fanatical loyalty and were they capable of speech they would no doubt give long speeches on the virtues of riverclan, on how glorious the mother clan is. Perhaps the other clans should worry, though - Doveflight has little in the way of
morality when it comes to hated rivals. They see nothing wrong with leaving out spoiled prey for enemy warriors to find, so long as it benefits the mother clan in the end. Send an enemy home with a bellyache and then he won't be able to slit the throat of an ally during a battle - Doveflight sees nothing wrong with such trickery.
There's no denying that Doveflight is a
clever cat - frustration over under stimulation from being left in the elders den often drives the pale feline to plotting. Were they capable of becoming a warrior, their peers would perhaps be disgusted by their preferred method of battle - Doveflight despises out and out combat and prefers the realm of secrecy and traps instead. They can swim, their enemies can not. Lure them to the water and drown them. Feed them poisoned flesh. As they cannot act out their violent thoughts on other clans, they often channel them into aforementioned mischief.
Doveflight adores secrets. As such, they have a love of knowing exactly what their clanmates are up to. While they usually keep what they've learned to themselves, they may share little tidbits with especially adored clanmembers - mates and siblings in particular. They enjoy watching them try to puzzle out what clues they've given them, however, and thus rarely offer up more than the occasional clue unless the other cat has 'given up' and declared Doveflight to be the winner of their little game.
Doveflight is extremely protective of what they consider to be theirs. Their siblings are guarded like precious treasures, and they can be more than a little possessive of romantic interests - no one is good enough for them, and they need to be protected and fussed over. They are quite affectionate, happily flopping onto fluff piles and grooming ears. They enjoy being around those that they care for and can be more than a little clingy in this behavior.
Pride characterizes this feline. Pride in themself, pride in their clan, pride in their family - if there's something to be proud about, Doveflight will find it. They spend little time bemoaning their lot in life and instead are insufferably arrogant, grooming themself just right and spending time admiring their reflecting in water like the narcissistic creature they are. But pride in the self doesn't characterize Doveflight alone - Storkpaw is another creature they find great pride in, though one might go as far as to say that Doveflight regards their brother as an extension of themself. Nonetheless, they take great delight in all the triumphs of those they love and can often be found celebrating right alongside them.
HISTORY Swallowfrost had no real interest in being a mother. Her dalliance with Heronstrike was quite understandable - the tom was loyal to his clan, charming and quite handsome. When her pregnancy became obvious she was more irritated than anything, moving into the nursery with a thorn in her backside and being quite poor company for the other queens. Heronstrike was a dutiful father, bringing her prey and doting upon her - quite the awkward situation for Swallowfrost, who had no desire to be his mate or have anything to do with him at all after the birth of the litter.
When her kits came - Dovekit and Stork-kit - she was quick to foist them off on the other queens as often as possible. It came as no surprise that Heronstrike was the one to notice that Dovekit wasn't reacting properly to loud noises. When Heronstrike asked her if she had noticed the same, the she-cat reacted... poorly. She hadn't wanted the kits in the first place, and now Heronstrike had foisted some broken kit on her that would never properly serve their clan? She furiously told him that she wanted nothing to do with the kit and stalked out of the nursery, returning to the warriors den.
No amount of pleading from Heronstrike, the riverclan leader nor the medicine cat would convince her to return and mother her kits.
Instead, Stork-kit and Dovekit were shared between the other queens. Heronstrike raised them between his patrols, teaching both kits to swim and encouraging them to practice hunting on pieces of fresh kill. He was occasionally discouraged from his actions by other clanmembers, told he was getting Dovekit's hopes up when the kit could never be a warrior. Still, he did his best to instill loyalty in both kits - even though he often found it difficult to communicate with the silent Dovekit.
As Dovekit grew, Heronstrike was given more and more duties and gradually spent less time with his kits. Dovekit found himself frustrated by this and acted out to get more attention - they found themself delighting in mischief, whether hiding pieces of old kill in the nests of the queens or nipping sleeping elders they became a menace. As their brother prepared for apprenticehood, Dovekit was left without a purpose.
Soon came Stork-kit's apprentice ceremony. Stork-kit became Storkpaw - and Dovekit was pushed in front of the crowd. They were too old to remain in the nursery, but they would never be a warrior. So they were given their full name and one of the apprentices showed them to the elder den - to where they would sleep. As they grew older, they began to settle into their own duties. Helping the elders around the camp, keeping them well groomed, bringing them fresh kill. Little things.
Oh, and keeping the rest of the clan on their toes.
OTHER Doveflight is completely deaf and as such joined the elder den upon leaving the nursery.
Their purr sounds like a rusty motor.
