This is Amberclaw from my Nine Lives series! In this picture, she's outside of Thunderclan camp at night going to meet Rapidfur, and reflecting on her life and how a lot of cats dislike her, because she was a bully. I'll do some writing for this too, cuz why not. If you want to know a summary of her backstory, look in Notes and Credits. ☆ Amberclaw slipped out of camp silently in the night, looking around to make sure nobody had seen her. When she saw no cat awake, she smiled a bit and started padding toward the border. The grass rustled beneath her paws, and she stayed alert. Her injured leg no longer slowed her down. Then, she started thinking. Every cat in the clan disliked her, just because of how she had treated Splashpool, Bubbletail, and Smokepelt. Anger flashed through her as she thought back to all the fights she'd had with her brother, but the anger quickly melted into sadness. Why had she been such a jerk? Even after she had rescued Honeykit, some cats still hated her, like Splashpool. None of them understood her, or cared about her. She sighed, looking at the ground. "No" she murmured. "I don't care about them. They can think whatever they want of me. I have Rapidfur, and that's enough for me" Amberclaw looked up, toward the Riverclan border, and continued limping along. "I am brave. I am strong" she whispered. "I'm Amberclaw. The cat who needs only one other" She broke into a run, her injured leg hovering above the ground. She smiled as the wind flew through her fur, and when she reached the Riverclan border, she leaped across the stepping stones. Rapidfur was on the other side, and he beamed at her as she arrived. *This is me*
Amberclaw was born to Misty, a kittypet, and Sparrowstar, the leader of Shadowclan. When Sparrowstar was taking her back to her clan, he was attacked by Thunderclan cats and accidentally dropped Amberclaw, so Thunderclan took her in. She never knew she was a kittypet, and as an apprentice she often bullied Splashpaw, an apprentice that wasn't clanborn. Cats started to hate her for her bullying, and one day Misty and her other siblings, Bubbles and Smokey, joined the clan. She bullied Bubblepaw (Bubbles) and Smokepaw (Smokey), too, but one day she discovered that they were her littermates. She got very upset. Later, Smokepaw and Bubblepaw became warriors, Smokepelt and Bubbletail, but Amberpaw didn't because of her bullying. Smokepelt became mates with the leader and had a kit, Honeykit. One day, a fire struck the forest, and the Clans were running to Riverclan territory. They accidentally went toward the gorge, where Smokepelt tripped and dropped Honeykit down the gorge. Luckily Honeykit landed on a ledge with a dead tree on it, but it started to crack. Amberpaw decided that she needed to prove that she'd changed, so she leaped down onto the ledge and climbed up the tree. Just as she tossed Honeykit onto the top of the gorge, the tree snapped at the base and she fell into the gorge. While falling, she hit her leg on a ledge and broke it. Luckily, a Riverclan cat named Rapidfur rescued her, and they fell in love and started visiting each other in secret. Amberpaw also became a warrior, Amberclaw. However, cats still hated her for how she'd acted.
