Post by jasperlizard on Mar 28, 2015 22:45:07 GMT
Name: Lizardstep
Age: 16 moons
Gender: She-cat
Family: n/a
Clan: ThunderClan
Rank: Medicine Cat
Personality:Lizardstep is skittish and easily frightened, which is why she was named -step; she skitters to shelter when startled, like a lizard. As that would imply, she has an anxious nature, but aside from some shyness around cats she doesn't know well, she's usually friendly (and quite talkative around cats she likes). She likes to help other cats, and is good at listening, although often not as good at giving advice. She has a tendency to overthink things, making herself sick with worry about all the little ways something could go wrong, but in an actual crisis is able to pull herself together and deal with it.
Though she takes her duties as a medicine cat very seriously and loves being a medicine cat with all her heart, she occasionally feels jealous of warriors and their more free life. In particular, she often wishes she could go on long journeys far away, but knows and accepts that she is tied to her clan. Despite this, when she is not busy with her duties she often finds herself daydreaming. She feels guilty about this, and it feeds in to her worry that she's not a good medicine cat. Having only recently taken on the role of sole medicine cat, she is fearful she's not up to the task, although she would never tell anyone this.
One of her biggest interests is in legends and stories about the clans' ancestors. She loves to both hear and tell stories about ancient cats, whether they're true or not. Kits who are bored while recovering in the medicine den can count on her to tell them a story.
History: Lizardstep was born in an unusually small litter of just one. Her father died before she was born, and she was never very close to her mother, who died during her apprenticeship. Her early kithood was lonely, but eventually she started visiting the elders den to hear their stories of days gone by, which interested her greatly. She never seemed interesting in play-fighting with the other kittens, and her interest in the elders stories led the current medicine cat to talk to her one day. She showed an interest in herbs and a good memory, and was happy to be made an apprentice at 6 moons.
Her training as a medicine cat was fairly normal. She was skilled, but not unusually so. Her biggest obstacle was getting over seeing other cats injuries. When she was 13 moons old, she was given her full medicine cat name. Soon after, her mentor, who had already been old when he took Lizardstep as an apprentice, took ill and died. Lizardstep was greatly saddened, and greatly worried about taking on her role as medicine cat while still being so young. She has been the sole medicine cat for about a moon, and is still getting used to it.
OOC name: JasperLizard
Other Characters: none currently