Earthwhisker || ThunderClan

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NAME! Earthwhisker
AGE!  45 moons.
GENDER! Tom
CLAN! Thunder
SHORT DESC.! Solid brown tom with copper colored eyes

FULL DESCRIPTION!

Earthwisker from head to foot this cat is a solid color of brown -- no stripes mark his pelt, and not a speck of any other can be found. Simply shades of brown. Even Earthwhisker's eyes nearly look brown at a glance, seeing as they are copper in color. The brown is darker on his face, paws, and tail than the rest of his body which comes to a more warm tone than the rest of him. This pelt is often kept clean, if anything Earthwhisker is one to pay attention to detail. He looks far from pampered, of course, but that doesn't mean he doesn't do his best to try and make sure not a whisker falls out of place.

As far as physical build goes, Earthwhisker has slimmed up in his adulthood. Like most warriors, he's not quite on the round side -- he's gone to bed without a morsel of food in the past. He's muscular in the way of many of his Clan, exercising daily is bound to get something worked out beneath the pelt.

He speaks in a soft, quiet tone of voice. As though he's carefully trying not to break the silence around him. Most of the time he expresses what he wants with his facial expressions or simple purrs. He can be quite expressive when the occasion calls for it. More often than not Earthwhisker seems to be off in another world entirely, staring into space.

PERSONALITY!

Earthwhisker is, first and foremost, a cat who usually speaks very little. Conversation with the warrior is more often than not one-sided -- it isn't quite that he refuses to speak outright, so much as he seems to be too busy thinking to really quite bother with something like that. He tends to need to be reminded to put his two cents into any sort of conversation, and even then he speaks so quietly that others may need to strain to listen to him.

Make no mistake, Earthwhisker isn't shy. He enjoys company very much, and goes out of his way to make sure that he is in the presence of other cats. Even if he's simply sitting on the fringes of conversation, he's honestly happy. He doesn't like being alone for too long, and will become quite morose in situations without company.

Now, Earthwhisker -- while usually the sort to simply stare dreamily into space rather than have a nice conversation -- can actually be quite the chatterbox. It just takes a little lifting to get the lid off that box, so to speak. He likes to talk, he likes to ask questions -- Earthwhisker is incredibly inquisitive by nature and never the sort to leave something without wondering about every angle that something could have.

Intelligent, if only because he spends so much time thinking, Earthwhisker is a cat that is decent at strategy and even better at thinking outside of the box. He enjoys making up games and doing things simply for the sake of learning about it. Eating his prey slowly, for example, so as to understand the inner workings of animals.

Curiosity is something vibrant in the tomcat. When he wants to know about something he's going to try his hardest to figure that out -- unfortunately there is very little that can sate this desire, except for said having figured something out. He'll go to great lengths to discover and learn, and proves to be surprisingly tenacious when on one of these kicks. Giving up is not something that Earthwhisker ever takes lightly.

Unsurprisingly, since he's a bit of a space cadet, his social skills leave a lot to be desired. When he's not silent he's chatty, and when he's chatty he tends to babble about things that cat's either do not care about or talk about other cats that the cats really don't care about. He is, all at once, the worst cat you could tell a secret to and the best one -- one simply doesn't know what'll fall out of his mouth next is the problem. There's every chance he won't open up to ever talk about what he's been told, but StarClan forbid he get somehow gets around to that topic.

Genuine and honest, Earthwhisker isn't the sort that often lies. In fact, where he to extend the attempt to ever lie it would quickly be discovered that he was awful at it. The unfortunate thing is that means that Earthwhisker can, at times, have very little sense of tact. He's not quite blunt so much as oblivious to the fact that a cat would want to hear something that might not be the truth.

Unfortunately this also makes him a bit naive, particularly when it comes to other cats -- Earthwhisker tends to believe that everyone is going to be just about as honest as he would be. He's gullible as all get out, and more than easy to manipulate when you get right down to it. If you tell him he's doing something for the Clan he'll be lead blindly into thinking that that something must be all right. Why wouldn't it be, after all?

Morality is at issue here, not because he doesn't have it but simply because he has an awful sense for it. At his heart he strives for the greater good, he wants everything and everyone to be happy -- the road to good intentions leads straight to hell, or though they say. Earthwhisker is in no way a cat that doesn't fall under that. It is something that has the potential to dog his every pawstep if he is not careful about it.

HISTORY!

Earthwhisker's first few months of life were pain -- hunger was a thing that was constant for him and his brethren. By the time he could play outside of the den he was little more than skin and bones, shivering from the cold that had settled down around Rapidfalls Circle -- ah yes, that's right. Earthwhisker wasn't born in ThunderClan, he was born far away from there.

Rapidstrike and Stardust were his parents -- the former of the two was whom he most resembled when entering the world. Life was difficult, and  when he became a 'stone (the Circle's word for "apprentice") the cats of his Circle left to fetch food from ThunderClan. They failed, and -- with the resignation of a family torn that would otherwise perish -- the Rapidfalls cats joined ThunderClan. There were whispers, of course, that Rapidfalls Circle were once born from ThunderClan in any case. Perhaps that was why they had been welcomed then -- though Earthwhisker himself had a mother who had roots in the world of Loners and Rogues.

Their proud Circle, and all its customs and traditions, were swallowed alive by the Clan that adopted them back into the forest. Earthwhisker -- then Earthstone -- found himself under the guidance of many of the ThunderClan warriors. Still there was not the ever rushing sound of water to lull him to sleep, and he had so many questions that could never possibly be answered. What happened to their ancestors, the ones that whispered behind Rapidfalls? What of their land, was it lush and fruitful as the season warmed? Would they ever be able to return?

He found solace in his brother in those moons -- though, to be honest, the fact that he was unsettled did very little to curb the curiosity that had always been a prevalent thing in his life. This was a chance to learn, and he would miss their home as much as any cat but he couldn't deny that there was a deep fascination he had for these Clan-cats. Nor could he deny that they weren't dear to him. As the moons swept by and he grew he found himself growing to love his new home as well. The leaves overhead rustling in Greenleaf, the scent of prey under fronds.

Of course it wasn't all happy. The hunger came with Leafbare often, and times like that made Earthwhisker wonder the most if they ought to have stuck it out back at home. If they could have just held out for a few moons longer, during that nearly neverending winter, could they have survived and been their own?

Then the Moonstone fell and the Clans were tossed into chaos. Battles and wars seemed frequent, and hunger even more-so -- the Warrior Ancestors were out of touch with the Clans below and with that brought panic. Earthwhisker knew how that was though, even at that young age, he could stand tall amidst that pain of losing faith because he'd been through that before. Rapidfalls had left their ancestors behind at the waterfall, after all.

He received his warrior several moons after the fall -- standard procedure really. He did nothing grand that had him standing whiskers and tail above his brother or any other cat. He simply passed his training assessment and found himself with a new name, a badge of pride for himself that seemed, to him, to be his final welcoming into ThunderClan. He became Earthwhisker, and he was their warrior. To protect them even at the risk of his very life.

So he did, or he tried. He hunted with his Clan-mates and stepped up to show his claws when it was necessary. He trained a young apprentice, a tom named Adderpaw, until he could receive his warrior name of Adderstep. Earthwhisker found himself falling into the pattern of Clan-life, and he didn't mind that so much.

Ah but curiosity is a difficult thing to curb, and despite himself he began to wonder. If there was Rapidfalls, then surely there would be others like the Clans in the world? Where were they? Who were they? And could he meet them someday?

The itch to travel took him to the edge of the border and back. For fear that he would leave his brother and ThunderClan behind he forced himself to stop going there without the presence of other cats. The temptation of the unknown was far too great.

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