Minkflower -Riverclan <3

minkflower ✻ riverclan

name

mink-kit ; minkpaw ; minkflower

 

reasoning

The prefix mink- was given to her by her father instead of her mother. He decided to name her that way because her solid chocolate coat reminded him of a mink's lush coat. She then grew up to be a trouble-making, playful kit that made the name stick perfectly.

The suffix -flower was later awarded to her because of her head-turning beauty and elegance. 

age

23 moons

gender

She-cat

alliance

Riverclanner since birth

rank

Warrior

physique

short description

A solid brown she-cat with long hair that drapes her body with elegance, and sparkling green eyes.

physical description

If seen from a distance, Minkflower might look like a larger than usual she-cat. But this is due to her lush chocolate coat that flows from her body like silk. This makes her body seem larger than it actually is, especially around her neckline where, the lenght of it seems to shorten.  Still she has a beautifully muscled and elegant silhouette.
As it's been stated before, it was her coat that gave Minkflower, her name. It is of a rich chocolate color that shines with what seems an oily layer of dew drops. Sometimes if the lighting is right her coat can even seem to beam with a reddish glow similar to the hue the sky is tinted with on a clear sunset. It is thin but serves as excellent protection from the harsh winds of leaf-bare; yet it's also silky and breezy to keep her cool and comfortable during the hottest seasons. The only disadvantage is it takes reallly long to dry off, which can be annoting considering she's a riverclanner.

Moving onto her face, which is a lovely rounded shape, we find her eyes, her oval shaped eyes; a bright lime green with golden flecks along the pupil; pop out in contrast to her brown coating. Her ears a perfect triangular shape, not to big or small, with pink inside and a little tuft of fur at the top.

Her paws long and powerful, are covered with flowing furr sleeves and her paws rounded but rather small.
Her tail, which it's thicker at the base is long in proportion to the body, this helps her maintain her balance and agility. It is covered with lushious locks of brown, and just like Minkflower it's full of personality -she uses it often to make a gesture or prove her point during a conversation.

personality

positives

• Happy - go - lucky ; she enjoys the simple pleasures of life and takes great pleasure in serving others and most importantly her clan. She takes her daily duties seriously trying her best to hunt as much as she can for her clan.
  

• Determined ; she uses her high energy to please her clan by trying her hardest and pushing herself past her limit if needed. She will not give in easily, and it takes more than a fall to take her down. If she falls seven times, she'll get up eight.

• Softhearted, loving; Minkflower grew up in a loving and healthy enviroment, unlike many of her clanmates. Because of that she has grown to be a very loving she-cat who likes to be there for others and cuddle her friends. She gets along well with almost everyone, especially younger members of the clan.

• Outgoing; she is friendly to every cat alike, clan born or not. Even if it often causes misunderstandings she is too relaxed and personal with her clanmates, since she considers all of them as friends if not family. 

• Bold and high self steem; Minkflower might be pegged as a sweet she-cat who would be easy to take advantage of. wrong. Even though this cat is sociable and playful she knows were she stands and won't let anyone step over her. She is dry and direct when showing she's upset.

negatives

•  over optimistic; For her ife is the greatest miracle that could ever happen. Everything no matter how bad, happens for a reason and with a purpose. She often likes to fantasize and exaggerates when describing a situation. This can be entreataining if the cat she's talking to likes to hear stories, but if dealing with a serious cat, this can be rather annoying.

• Sudden mood swings; Minkflower is better known for her bright and shiny personality, always up and about enjoying the rain or sunlight. But some days when she wakes up with the wrong paw, she acts like a totally different person. She's been often told it is a side effect to her over excited personality, she gets drained out until she has no energy nor happiness left. When she has such days she'll mop around all day sighing.

• Stubborn; sometimes her  unfaltering determination can turn into stubborness. As stated before she won't give up easily. She will try again, and harder until she's either dragged away by her leader, or suceeds.

• Childish and innocent; Her soft spot for youngsters gives her an innocence that sometimes drives her to act a bit childish, This means she can throw tantrums and pout. <3

• Impulsive and mischiveous: Adding her stubborness and childsish manners, she can often act out of impulses. She often likes to take a chance before sitting down and analyzing the whole thin; after all for her nothing can go so wrong!

the past

the history

meep will continue  <3

BEFORE BIRTH

"I want to make things right...Let me be your mate" -  Fallowstride to Acorntail

    The first day Fallowstride met Acorntail, the thought of becoming her mate flooded his mind, he felt as if it was the only thing he was destined to, it was his misson to conquer her heart and make her his forever. Both of them were merely 8 or 9 moons. They hadn't met before because sadly for Fallowstrike  -known as Fallowpaw at the time- had not always had the pleasure of being part of Riverclan. 
He had been taken in a few moons before after he was found wondering helplessly along the brdge. The small undernourished tom had been invited to stay by Flintstar himself, since he saw potential for the little tom. His non-clan name was Blake, but the prefix -fallow was given to him because of his brown dappled pelt.

He recovered quickly and spent the rest of his days working ardiously to repay the care he had been given when he was brought in. He worked with repect and gratitude until he eventually became a great warrior. Even better that some of the clan-born cats..

Acorntail on the other hand, had had a whole different beggining. She had been born a blessed kit right from the start. She was the only kit, so she was always pampered by her loving parents.She had the luxury of having their undivided attention to herself, being praised and spoiled right from her earliest days. Unlike Fallowstrike she never had to work for what she wanted,it was all given to her without hesitation. Many times she was excused from the boring apprentice's cleaning tasks just because she would bat her eyelashes and look cute. 

When Acorntail met Fallowstride, she didn't think much of him, just another tom in the crowd. Nothing special. That's why she often overlooked him and without really inteding to, rejected his romantic proposals. Still he didn't give up, and set his whole shedchule to revolve around her. She was his princess and he was her loyal servant. 

It was just a matter of time before Acorntail found another tom waiting to swoon her off her feet. He was an egocentric cat, who later turned out to escape into the rogue's life after the clan went through a time of difficulty. Acorntail as any young girl felt devastated. It was then when Fallostride the knight in shiny armor rose up to her rescue.

He revealed -once again- his feelings towards her, he asked her to be his mate, with the promise to love her and cherish her for as long as they both lived.

She accepted, thinking it might've been for the best. She longed for stabiity which he promised to give her. But she never felt really 'in love' with him.

A few moons later Acorntail started to feel..strange. She walked into the medicine cat's den,    - Frozenshard at the time- and after a quick check up, her greatest fear was confirmed, she was carrying Fallowstrike's kits. 

It was not that she didn't want kits, she had fantasized about them as a young apprentice. But she already felt tired having to pretend to be happy around Fallowstrike so she wouldn't break her heart but with kits in the way she felt she could not pretend any longer.
Inmediately after recieveing the news she called Fallowstride aside, and told her, that she couldn't do it any longer. She told him she would mantain a civil behavior about the subject.They'd raise them together but each having their own life, just together for the kit's sake. She mentioned that she was raised to be fair so she'd have the kits, depending on how many they were they'd take one each. He was still the father obviously, she wouldn't take that away from him, but she would take away his title of 'mate', he was now just another fellow clanmate. The same way he had started.

The brown ticked tom, felt davastated, he mourned for many moons but then decided to forget her and strive to be the best father he could be.

KITHOOD
"Daddy why does Reedkit get to be around mommy all the time?"
"Because he's mommy's boy, but you are daddy's little girl"
-Mink-kit and Fallowstride

Acorntail's kiting was a long one, she spent almost a whole day in labor, finally giving birth to two healthy kittens; a male and a female. Fallowstride refused to eat during the whole day, he was too nervous to take a bite or even have a drink. He had been pacing the clearing all day after one of the other queen's hea popped out and announced he was now a father to two lovely kits.

---

"Alright Fallowstride, a promise is a promise, I want to thank you for all you've done really, now pick your kit, Reedkit" she mewed nuzzling the tiny brown and white tom, "or Adderkit" she mewed pointing at the small chocolate she-cat.

Falconstride's eyes softened as he looked at the tiny bundle of brown fur, crawling towards her mother's belly. "I'll take Mink-kit" he purred pressing his nose against the kitten.

"Mink-kit? Her name is Adderkit.." she mewed dryly.

"You promised the choice was mine to make, I believe it's fair I name her, since she is my chosen kit" he mewed his heart aching to have Mink-kit as his own.

"Alright, Mink-kit it is" she mewed and turned away to end the discussion.

---

Mink-kit and Reedkit grew up to be really good friends, they would play for hours, coming up with amazing pretend-games and stories. I was Mink-kit who liked making up stories the most.Mink-kit was the most playful, everything was a game, Reedkit instead was more of a whiny attention hog. He loved being pampered by their mother, often complaining about Mink-kit's rough playing and constant escapee stunts. 
Mink-kit never liked just sitting around, she preferred exploring and listening to the great stories his father had to tell. It was him who made her fall in love with the hobby of making things up. 
Reedkit on the other hand preferred to stick wiht mom and snuggle next to her.

APPRENTICESHIP
"I don't know Minkpaw, I don't think we're supposed to be out here alone.." -Reedpaw to Minkpaw

When Mink-kit recieved her apprentice name -Minkpaw- she could barely wipe the goofy grin off her face. She was so excited she had dreamed of that moment for so long, she had made up stories of it, fantasized about it. Reedpaw was more troubled with the fact that he had to leave his mother's side and sleep on his own nest. He was also outraged by the fact he was now expected to do all sorts of jobs like cleaning the elder's den.

Minkpaw didn't mind, she loved being able to help and going out on patrols was heaven for her.

But just going to the borders was not enough, she wanted more so one day she convinced Reedpaw to come with her. Her plan was to visit the bridge, were his dad was found.

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...
"Psh, relax Reedpaw we'll be fine" she had mewed peering out the brigde and down into the rushing riverclan river.
"I don't know Minkpaw, Acorntail is not going to like it.. I'm telling her you do know that right.." her older brother whined.
"Come on.. lighten up a bit! This is where dad comes from can you believe it?" she squealed leaning over further.
"Whatever let's just get back.." he complained turning back into the path that led back to camp. 
Ugh Reedkit just didn't understand that there was so much more than this. he just didn't look hard enough for the beauty in theiir surroundings.

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The rest of their apprentice's days went by in a blur, next thing she knew they were all grown up -maybe physically since on the inside she had the same playful spirit she had as a kit-. Their mentors were both pleased with their development; Reedpaw had become a great fighter just like Fallowstride and Minkpaw had grown into a fine hunter and tracker. Fallowstride was so proud of both, but Reedclaw didn't seem to care much for him anyway. Acorntail watched from the back of the crowd, motherhood had claimed a big toll on her life, her bones had become weak due to the long hours she spent laying on her side lazily. This had caused her to retire early making her bitter and grumpy.

WARRIOR LIFE/ CURRENT
"Grow up already Minkflower! You're no longer a kit, stop acting like it!" -Reedclaw to Minkflower

Warrior life wasn't very different from the life she had as an apprentice for Minkflower. The only noticeable difference was the new freedom she had. She could now come and go as she pleased, walking around the whole territory immersed in her own thoughts. 
Besides from walking or swimming in the river, she loved to spend time with the younger members of the clan. She liked to play with them and sometimes try to show them some hunting poses.
This annoyed her brother to pieces..

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"It is not your job to be teaching apprentices anything." he growled
"I'm just playing with them, they're really fun..come on Reedclaw" she invited with a smile
"No! Can't you see it's embarrassing? The older warriors look at you as if you're crazy!" he snarled, "Acorntail was right you're just a joke, just like Fallowstride, he isn't even clanborn.." he mewed bitterly, his tail drooping.

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Since then the relationship between the siblings has been tense -to say the least-, Minkflower acts as if the argument never happened, she loves his father no matter what, but deep inside she feels hurt by his comment. 

about you

alias harls; harley ;harle; harlequin
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