Robinpelt || Medicine Cat

[james]

Name: Robinpelt
Short Description: brown tabby tom with a lighter tail
Age: 36 Moons
Gender: Tom
Family: Mother: Firefoot (deceased) | Father: Mudfur | Brother: Sootkit (deceased)
Clan: Riverclan
Rank: Medicine Cat

Personality: Robinpelt is a lot more patient than his old mentor. He especially has a soft spot for kits, though hes never had interest in having some of his own, regardless of the fact hes not allowed to. To his clanmates and fellow medicine cats, he's very warm and friendly. To the other clans, however, he's distant at best, rude at worst. Despite this, he doesn't like to see any cat hurt, no matter their clan. Though he doesn't like the fighting between the clans, he's not naive enough to think the clans can exist peacefully. Regardless of his personal feelings about battles, he will still advise his leader on taking Riverclan into battle with no bias.

History: Robinpelt was born to the she-cat Firefoot and the tom Mudfur in leaf-bare. They were older cats, so his brother, Sootkit was born too weak to make it through the week after his birth. His parents were heartbroken and while Robinkit didn't understand well what had happened right away he knew he wanted to do whatever he could to make his parents happy again. When another kit in the nursery fell sick, Robinkit met the medicine cat for the first time. He saw how she treated the kit and how he got better, instead of leaving like his brother had. He knew then what he could do to help his parents and his clan-he was going to ask the medicine cat, Deerstep, to be her apprentice.
Deerstep had no apprentice at the time, but was hesitant to take one on. She had denied Robinkit the first time he asked, but once he was allowed out of the nursery he began to hang around the medicine cats den and watch her work. She tried to shoo him out at first, but he was quiet and stayed out of her way so she allowed him to hang around. Finally, once he reached his sixth moon, Deerstep gave in and accepted him as her apprentice.
Robinpaw's medicine cat apprenticeship was fairly average. He worked hard to remember the herbs and their uses but struggled with remembering some of them. Deerstep was tolerant at first, which was surprising considering her disposition, but began to get frustrated with him. But the apprentice had a strong will and eventually got better at learning what he needed to know. He was very thankful for that once, only after a week of knowing most of the basic herbs he would need, Riverclan went into battle with Shadowclan over a border dispute. He had never seen any sort of real fighting up close, so when he and Deerstep arrived at the border Robinpaw instantly froze up and was barely able to help her treat cats. He could tell how frustrated she was once again with him and the next day asked to begin basic battle training with her so he would feel better prepared.
The training helped him immensely and he finally was able to adjust to the loud distracting noises of cats fighting while he helped his clanmates. The rest of his apprenticeship passed fairly normally. His father moved into the elders den four moons after Robinpaw began his training. Firefoot, however was unwilling to go with him yet, as she believed she could still give several moons more of service to her clan. This, however, weakened her a lot and that leaf-bare she fell ill with greencough. Robinpaw and Deerstep tried to help her but the frost had killed most of the catnip and what was left wasn't enough to heal her in her already weakened state and she passed away. Robinpaw was devastated and blamed himself for several moons. Mudfur was of course even more upset by the passing of his mate but he never let Robinpaw think he blamed him. Deerstep was sympathetic to the young cat for awhile, but after she realized that he was not going to get over the death of his mother anytime soon, she sat him down and chewed him out for his disinterest in serving the clan. This, unlike his fathers kinder words, motivated him to move on and finish his training.
Finally, Robinpaw earned his full medicine cat name of Robinpelt. He could feel that even Deerstep, who was beginning to get on in age, was truly proud of him and he basked in the strict cats approval. She and Robinpelt continued to work together for six more moons until finally the aging medicine cat finally gave in to her former apprentices wishes and retired into the elders den as well. Robinpelt then took on the full responsibilities of caring for the clan, though Deerstep still occasionally tries to help him when she comes to visit.

OOC name: James
Other Characters: N/A