Poplarpaw | male | Cloverclan | apprentice

"I think I want to change. I want to become better then my dad... then I use to be. I want to become something new."

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|| GENERAL INFORMATION ||



:: Name: Poplarpaw
:: Past Names: Poplar, Poplarkit
:: Clan: Cloverclan
:: Rank: Apprentice
:: Gender: Male

:: Reason for name ::
.....: Prefix: named "Poplar"kit for his green eyes and slim sapling like limbs
.....: Suffix: normal apprentice suffix


:: Starting age: 6 moons (months)
:: Current age: 12 moons (months)
:: Breed: Cornish Rex, Abyssinian, American shorthair, Mutt blend

:: Past Mentor:
Windfoot | male | warrior | dead
Greyfrost | male | warrior | dead

:: Current Mentor:
Hawkmask | male | warrior | alive

:: Past Apprentices:
--
:: Current Apprentices:
--


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|| PHYSICAL INFORMATION ||



:: Appearance ::


:: Written Appearance ::
A tall lanky orange based tomcat with splashes of lighter and darker orange decorating his body. His legs are slim and delicate looking with a slim fluffy tail and a long muzzle with bat like ears.

:: Body Structure ::
This cat is very lanky, leggy, thin, and tall in build. His frame is agile looking and lithe, allowing him to appear younger and smaller in weight and size.

:: Size and Height ::
He is a tall tom and although not very big or intimidating looking his long legs do give him height.

:: Fur Length ::
He has extremely short fur lining his body with the exception of the normal length of his tail which looks long compared to the rest of him.

:: Fur Texture ::
Surprisingly soft to the touch, nicely water resistant which comes in handy being in cloverclan, after wet it becomes almost curly.

:: Noticeable Features ::
His most noticeable features consist of his scruff on his chin which will only get longer and scruffier as he gets older, and his large curved bat like ears which are excellent when hunting.

:: Breed Features ::
His long thin legs come from many of his oriental or taller breeds, which is where his fragile limbs also come from. He has a lithe body shape which looks longer then the average cat.

:: Scars ::
none

:: Scent ::
Wet tree bark after summer rain

:: Eye Color ::
A dull leafy green color

:: Nose and Pad Color ::
a  pale gray pink color on his nose. The same color with a small mix of blackish patches on his paws.




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|| PERSONAL INFORMATION ||


:: Personality ::
[ Careful, Weary ] [ Easily Startled ] [ In the Zone ] [ Best Intentions ]

|| Careful and Weary ||
"I'm not sure who you are... I shouldn't be here talking with you..."

This tom is always trying to be as careful with his choices as he can. Under his mostly exterior he is constantly worrying that the clan will judge him because of who his father was. And of what his father did while still in the clan. He doesn't want to make bad decisions and dissapoint his fallen mentors or the clan he now calls home and because of this fear to fail he wants to think over his choices carefully before deciding something. And as much as he trusts his clanmates he is still weary of their intentions and is afraid that they'll try and stab him in the back in the long run. The subject of himself makes him almost as nervous as the subject of his father. Becuase he doesn't want the other clan cats to judge him the minute he becomes the focus of a conversation he changes the subject immediately.


|| Easily Startled When Consentrating ||
"Ack! I d-didn't see you.... You shouldn't sneak up on a cat like that!"

This sometimes seems like a bad thing to this tom but when he is really concentrating on something- be it hunting or running he can easily become startled. He finds it incredibly embarassing when he jumps because another cat tries to give him hunting tips or tries to get his attention when he's running. He gets easily frustrated when he startles out of his consentration zone and can snap at the offending cat without really meaning to hurt them, just to try and cover his embaressment at the situation.


|| In the Zone ||
"I can keep on going, let me try again. I know I can."

Going from the laughing, teasing, highly amused tom he normally is into a highly alert consentrative mode is easy for him. He really gets into the zone and it's then that he can become easily startled. This zones are a frequent occurance and these zones help him block out everything and focus solely on the task at hand- be that a battle, a patrol, or just while hunting or running through the territory.


|| Best Intentions ||
"I want to help you, you're doing it wrong."

Although he has the best intentions of wanting to help others, but even though his intentions are good he tends to be very brash and tactless about his approach to that. He tells it as it is and can seem like he's being mean because he doesn't know how to say it. But he really does want to help others and tries to help the younger apprentices. He hates bullies and wants all the apprentices to be accepted and never picked on or seen as strange or unusual because he knows how that feels and hates that feeling. That others are looking down on him or see him as stupid or different hurts and he wants to make sure the other apprentices don't have to feel the same as that.




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|| STATISTICAL INFORMATION ||



:: Poplarpaw's Levels ::
..................... :.: Belief in Starclan - meduim
..................... :.: Belief that Truth will Prevail - meduim
..................... :.: Belief in True Love - low

:: Strongest skill ::
Speed - From this tom's form and body build its obvious that running is his greatest skill. He can run easily and is good at weaving through the trees of the territory, his thin legs helping him be so quick on his paws.

:: Strengths ::
Light footed - His quick speed is also contributed by his light frame and thin light boned legs. This only helps him run faster although it means that his legs are fragile and are easier to injure.

Endurance - Because of his ability to run, slowly, he has been conditioning himself to be able to run further for longer. He has been training himself on his own, when he isn't training with others or with his mentor to be able to just keep going.

Up to Speed Quickly - Not only can this tom run, but he can go from standing still to running in just a couple of minutes. He can get up to his fastest speed very quickly and keep himself at that speed easily.

:: Weakest skil ::
Stopping - Poplarpaw doesn't really know how to stop or when to stop. This isn't just when he is running, though that is the best example. He doesn't really get that sometimes you have to rest, he just keeps going. He will push his body to exhaustion that way too often.

:: Weaknesses ::
Light Frame - Being so small and light weight he can be pushed over or out of the way easily. His frame may be good for running, because it doesn't weigh him down, but during a fight it wouldn't help keep him grounded at all.

Fragile Bones - Because of his thin limbs and fragile looking bones if he gets into a fight he can become injured rather easily. And when he does get injured he tends to stay injured or reinjures himself more often.

Not a Fighter - Poplarpaw doesn't like fighting. He hates feeling blood against his fur and in his paws. The sight of a battle scares him and even during training he never wants to fight as hard as he could because he doesn't want to hurt anyone.


:: Fears ::
To kill an innocent cat
To become like his father and uncle who almost killed the leader
To be kicked out of his clan
Being too late to save a friend



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|| HISTORIC INFORMATION ||




:: History:


.: Birth season: Leaf Bare (winter)


[ Pre-Birth ]

Lionrush was a proud cloverclan cat who, along with his brother- Firepelt, wanted to see the clan be in purebred cloverclan paws. So when Iceshimmer became Icestar, who was once a rogue from Mountainclan, the two brothers didn't want their precious clan to go down the drain. Together they plotted how to get rid of the shecat. They eventually started a fire in an area of the camp and led her into an ambush there, but her pesky apprentice- Spikepaw interviened and although she lost a life she didn't loose all of them as they had planned. Spikepaw helped Icestar out of the fire and got seriously burnt earning him the name Singeface. Firepelt got exiled from the clan and Lionrush followed him, vowing revenge.

Firepelt decided that he would breed and train his own army of cats to extract his vengence on the leader. Lionrush wanted to help but started to see the cat he looked up to for all these years start to break under all the stress. Firepelt started going insane. And so Lionrush left him and found Sinn, a wicked shecat with harsh words and cruel humor. He fell in love and when she told him she was pregnant with his kits he wanted to train them in the way of the warrior. Sinn allowed his condition and agreed to name the kits, when they were born, warrior like names.


[ Kit-hood ]

Sinn gave birth to three kits; two females named Cypress and Willow and one male named Poplar. Lionrush lived in the woods but came to visit his kits and mate everyday. He dubbed them Cypresskit, Willowkit, and Poplarkit because he claimed they would become true warriors.

Poplar was never very close with his mother. She was distant to the kits but tended to dote on the girls a bit. When she left the kits at the age of 3 moons, just old enough to be left on their own, Poplar didn't really miss her. She had died and so Lionrush took the kits into his home in the woods and slowly started to train them. Teaching them about the clans and the warrior code and all the old legends of the clans. Poplar and all his siblings were renamed using their clan kit names once his mother died. He had to get use to be being called Poplarkit and calling his sisters -kit as well.


[ Apprenticeship ]

His sisters both caught a disease simmilar to whitecough and they died, Poplar missed them but he really wasn't very close to anyone in his family and he really did prefer to be by himself, apart from his family. So when his father caught the disease Poplar'paw' was sad but in all reality he figured he would soon be alone. So his father told him about the clans, and where to find his old clan- Cloverclan. After his father finally passed away Poplar left him and saught out the clans.

He searched and, when he was about to give up, a small dog chased him and while he was running he ran straight into a patrol from Cloverclan. They ran with him and once the dog gave up and left Poplarpaw explained that his father was once a clan cat and had been teaching him about the clans. The leader at the time- Burntstar allowed him into the clan and he was given a mentor- Windfoot. But there was an elder named Singeface would always ask him who his parents were and when Poplarpaw finally told him the elder was apalled and told him about the evils his father and uncle commited.

Poplarpaw felt lost, like the ground had been swept out from under him. He had always looked up to his father and believed him to be a noble male. But he doesn't want to view his father as a mean cat no matter what he did in his past. So instead of focusing on his past he focused on learning and his training. Windfoot was a good mentor and Poplarpaw looked up to him as a father figure and learned quickly, taking strides in his apprenticeship until his mentor died during a bought of sickness that swept through the valley.

He was assigned another mentor- Grayfrost who took up his training and after he got over his mourning he tried to focus on his training again but Grayfrost always seemed to be busy, always flirting with females and Poplarpaw felt like he needed to grab his mentors attention instead of being helped he felt he couldn't learn anything from the tom. But when he died, Poplarpaw was still sad, he had liked his mentor well enough and was upset another mentor was gone.

He was recently given a new mentor- Hawkmask and he was trying to branch out and make new friends in the clan as well as working more towards trying to be happier and not feel so much like an outsider in the clan.





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|| OTHER INFORMATION ||



::: Misc:


.: Theme Song(s):
Skyway Avenue - We the Kings

.: Hobby:
= Running
= Helping others
= Swimming

.: Likes:
+ The wind
+ Having a home like the clans
+ Rainstorms
+ The smell of wet leaves

.: Dislikes:
x Watching others close to him die
x Loosing a friend
x Flooding water
x Mud or Muddy water

.: Favorites :.
> Flower: Water Lily
> Prey: Water Vole
> Patrol: Fishing
> Season: Spring

.: Vocal Information :.
- Has an edge of a british english accent to his voice
- Brisk and quick when he speaks
- Sounds like a know it all sometimes

.: Trivia Facts :.
* Hates it when others look at him like he's a nonclan cat
* He is afraid of one day being kicked from the clan
* Is still nervous around large groups of cats.


.: Preferred Warrior Names:
Poplardash, Poplarstrike, Poplarflash, Poplarspark



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|| FAMILIAL INFORMATION ||



.: Grandparents:
.......... -Father's Side: Poplarcrush (male-dead) x Goldenmane (female-dead)
.......... -Mother's Side: Ran (male-dead) x Cylestia (female-dead)
.: Parents:
.......... -Father: Lionrush (dead)
.......... -Mother: Sinn (dead)
.: Aunts/Uncles:
.......... -Aunts: Marshpelt (dead)
.......... -Uncles: Firepelt (dead)
.: Siblings:
.......... -Brothers: none
.......... -Sisters: Cypress"paw" (dead), Willow"paw" (dead)
.......... -Littermates: Cypress, Willow, and Poplar
.: Cousins:
.......... -Female: none
.......... -Male: none
.: Crush: unknown (check relationship chart)
.: Past Mates: none
.: Mate: none
.: Mated With: none  
.: Kits:
.......... -Sons: none
.......... -Daughters: none
.......... -Adopted: none




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|| RELATIONSHIP INFORMATION ||



:: Relationships ::

relationship chart (WIP)


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:: Rped by: TheClansOf-TheValley (aka shinjuTHEpearl )

:: Best Way to Rp:
Notes -- the best way, I won't say no to one of these
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