This is my entry for @Fernwing67's Warrior Cat DTA! I'm entering for Rowanpaw! :D Here's the short description! Name: Rowanpaw Age: 7 moons Rank: Medicine cat apprentice Gender: Tom Clan: Thunderclan Disabilities: Missing tail and only one eye Personality: Deliberate, kind, thoughtful, cautious, mellow, forgiving, compassionate, mature And here's the short backstory! As an adventurous, cocky kit, Rowanpaw loved following around his older brother and his friends, but since they were apprentices when he was little, they didn't pay much attention to him. That's why Rowanpaw was so excited when the cool older cats came to talk with him the night he became a Warrior apprentice. They told him about a secret initiation or rite of passage they had all gone through as new apprentices. The new apprentice would have to sneak into the Twolegplace, steal a piece of Twoleg rubbish, and bring it back, all without disturbing the dogs that lurked there. Rowanpaw laughed and promised he would ace the challenge better than any other cat could; Even though he was pretty scared. He was too proud to realize how dangerous it would be. That night, little Rowanpaw crept into the Twolegplace, and before he had barely set a paw inside, he knocked over a small metal piece of Twoleg garbage- Alerting the monstrous dogs. Rowanpaw was too afraid to flee as the bloodthirsty creatures raced toward him. That night, the horrible dogs tortured Rowanpaw, all the while the other apprentices standing by, watching the helpless young cat be shredded apart by the sharp cruel fangs of the dogs until eventually, the Thunderclan Warriors were alerted by the screams of agony, and raced to Rowanpaw's rescue- But it was too late. By the time they arrived, the dogs had already dispersed, leaving Rowanpaw laying in a pool of his own bl00d, his little body mangled and heavily injured. Two weeks later, Rowanpaw woke up in the Medicine Cat den, with a torn off tail, and one gouged out eye. As Rowanpaw panicked from his discovered of his mutated body, the older apprentices visited the den and admitted that there had never been a rite of passage; they had told him to go into the Twolegplace as a joke, hoping the dogs would only scare a little respect into him. Rowanpaw felt distraught and betrayed. Over the next moon, Rowanpaw stayed in the Medicine Cat den recovering, and over that time he discovered his true passion healing, by helping out the old Medicine Cat, Beeflight. He also had a lot of time for reflection. Rowanpaw decided that the kind of cat HE wanted to be was one that would forgive wrongdoers and face the world with compassion toward all cats. When he finally got better, Rowanpaw announced his decision to become a Medicine Cat, and was made the apprentice of Beeflight. He also forgave his older brother and his friends and swore to himself that he would always show empathy and forgiveness to everyone he met, no matter how many bad choices they had made in the past.
Art and writing by me, obviously. Character concepts are by @Fernwing67!
