Redstartthroat - BWTCRP

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Redstartthroat { Redstart: an American warbler, the male of which is black with either a red belly or orange markings. { Throat: In reference to his neck. Redstartthroat is 36 moons old. See Project For Appearance. Redstart’s primary motivation is control. He has been raised in an environment where he has always had power by simple virtue of his position, and he would not know how to deal with losing that power. He is an ambitious, manipulative man who plans his actions well in advance. He follows a deontological value system, with a strong sense of justice. While he is willing to manipulate, control, and even allow others to die for him, he refuses to lie, steal, cheat, or kill by his own paw. He is well aware of the power he holds, and is careful to keep it that way. He is secretive and highly intelligent, being a very clever tom who always seems to plan twenty steps ahead. He is calm and rational, but somewhat abrasive, only really being “nice” to kits, pregnant queens, and apprentices. Despite this, he can be quite charming, and is actually incredibly charismatic when he puts in the effort to be so. It is very difficult to become close to him, but those who are will know that he is fiercely loyal to them, and protective of them, using his power in the clan to make sure they will be kept safe. Redstartthroat is Demiromatic and Asexual. // Redstartkit was born to Spidercatcher and (Language detector? idk why) in the middle of a barren leafbare, one in which many warriors had died either by disease or simply starvation. He was born alongside two littermates, a tom named Webkit and a she-cat named Tulipkit. He was the only one to survive the night. He was put under careful observation by the medicine cat of the time, as Falconwillow, the medicine cat, had asked Starclan for some sort of recompense for the harsh leafbare shortly before the tom’s birth. In fact, Eaglecrest had come into the medicine den the same day, suspecting that she was expecting kits. This was exacerbated by the fact that Redstartkit is a chimera, and so his coloration was notably odd. Redstartkit was not the only kit in the nursery. There were two older litters, meaning quite a few kits, but the two important kits were Cloudkit and Hailkit, each from different litters. They were his friends growing up, and his only reprieve from the expectations (and grief) of his parents. Cloudkit was his best friend, the two were simply close in a way that would be nearly incomprehensible to the other cats of the clan. The two toms were joined at the hip for most of their kithood, and even some of their apprenticeship, though it wouldn’t last forever. Falconwillow taken a special interest in Redstartkit since his birth, and the tom often visited the kit throughout his kithood to both just talk and to bring him to medicine den. Falconwillow began teaching him about medicine quite early, and Redstartkit thrived. He didn’t know why he got special attention, but he was good with herbs, and it gave the youngest kit in the nursery something to brag about. When his apprenticeship was allocated to Falconwillow, just about everyone expected it but him. Despite his skill in medicine, he had still wanted to be a warrior with Cloudpaw, but it wasn’t meant to be. He was still taught to fight by Falconwillow, who attempted to use fighting practice as a punishment. Redstartpaw was careful to hide the fact that he actually /enjoyed/ fighting practice, except for the fact that he had to treat his own injuries afterwards. He was given his name at twelve moons, two moons too early, because Falconwillow had become gravely ill. His mentor passed within three nights, and the newly named Redstartthroat was the sole medicine cat of Tempestclan. He watched proudly as Hailspark and Cloudwatcher got their names, and laughed along when they became mates just a few moons later. He kept laughing when they jokingly declared that he would be in charge of their kits if anything ever happened to them. He laughed out of joy when, almost twenty moons after they had begun trying to have kits, his friends were finally going to have their first litter. When Cloudwatcher was killed by a fox on a patrol, a moon before the kits were due, and Hailspark died giving birth to the three kits, two of which were stillborn; Redstartthroat wasn’t laughing anymore. He was actually in a queerplatonic relationship with Cloudwatcher, though the only ones who were privy to that information were Hailspark, Cloudwatcher, and Redstartthroat himself.