Rabbitflight

[Willow]

GENERAL

Name: Rabbitflight
Name Explanation: Rabbit: grey fur with flecks of brown; flight: fast
Gender: Tom
Age: 48 moons
Clan: WindClan
Rank: Warrior

APPEARANCE

Body Type: Skinny with lean muscles and long legs
Fur: dusky grey with flecks of light brown
Eyes: Dark brown
Markings: Very faint tabby markings on his head.
Overall: Rabbitflight is not the largest or most muscular cat ever and finds his strength more in speed and agility. His limbs are long and leanly muscled, ending in small paws. His face is pointed elegantly and dark brown eyes shine from it. His fur is very short and dusky grey in color with flecks of brown intermixed. He is mostly unmarked except for a few brown tabby markings on his face that eventually fade.

PERSONALITY

Positive Traits:
-- Mellow: Rabbitflight is a calm cat, relishing in peace and tranquility and loathing war.
-- Intuitive: He is very good at reading cats and knowing what others are thinking, especially Vixenstar.
-- Flexible: He is open to change and adjusts very easily.
-- Motivated: Rabbitflight is very determined and motivated in everything he does even if he does not completely agree with it.
Flaws:
-- Too Serious: He doesn’t get humor very well and often stares at cats oddly if they tell him a joke.
-- Cowardly: Due to his deep hatred of fighting, Rabbitflight is rather cowardly. He will do absolutely anything to avoid conflict even if that means running away.
-- Grim: Rabbitflight expects the worse in everything and always expects something horrible to happen. He usually does not express this, however, and manages to seem optimistic on the outside.
-- Coarse: He is not the most gentle of cats and has a certain characteristic roughness to his nature and personality.
Fears:
-- Death in battle
-- Frogs
Quirks:
-- Gnaws on bark
-- Paces
Ideals:
-- Change
-- Determination
Overall: Rabbitflight is a cat who cannot easily be understood in a first meeting. It takes a long time to truly understand the complexities of the tom. He seems, at first, to be a mellow and kind tom with a rough nature and decided lack of gentleness. It is also obvious that he seems to be able to read everyone with ease. However, this first impression masks many other traits such as his eagerness for change and inherent flexibility. Also, his cowardly nature and pessimistic outlook are masked by his calm outward appearance.

HISTORY

Family: Oaktail – father; Streampelt – mother; Brackenfur – sister
History:
Kithood:
Rabbitkit and Brackenkit were born to the deeply ambitious Streampelt in ThunderClan. Her pregnancy was unplanned and unwanted, as were her kits. She paid little attention to them and would nearly have let them starve had it not been for the insistence of Oaktail and of her sister to take good care of them. Annoyed, Streampelt consented and cared for her kits until they were six moons of age. She rarely interacted with them, however, and they grew closer to their father and aunt than to their moth.

Apprenticeship:
Once apprenticed, Rabbitpaw hardly ever saw his mother again because she was too wrapped up in her duties as a warrior. His mentor was a she-cat named Yarrowfoot who shared his reluctance for battle. She trained him well in hunting and focused on that in their training. She taught him battle moves as well, but Rabbitpaw never saw true battle until he was a warrior. His apprenticeship was fairly routine and he became a warrior at 12 moons alongside his sister.

Warriorhood
Not long after he was given his warrior name, he was given an apprentice named Vixenpaw. She was lean and agile, like himself. They were a good pair. He taught her to use that agility to outwit her opponents rather than attempt to use brute strength. Not long into her training, the two of them faced the Second Battle of the Sunningrocks together. It was Rabbitflight’s first true battle as well as his apprentice’s. Both were quite unskilled and stuck together during the conflict. In the following moons, he focused on helping Vixenpaw receive her warrior name, which she did at 12 moons of age. She was his only apprentice.

Rabbitflight fought in the Battle of the Gorge as well as the newly named Vixenfang. Other battles occurred after that, but he remained out of the fighting, opting to guard the camp instead or hunt for food. Yet, at the Second Battle of the Fourtrees, he was needed. It was there that he showed his cowardice. Rabbitflight was assailed by the RiverClan deputy who was stronger and more experienced than he was. He was uninjured, but still opted to flee back to ThunderClan territory instead of facing the powerful cat.

Since then, Vixenfang received her vision of WindClan and asked Rabbitflight to join her. He battled with indecision for a while, but eventually his eagerness for change and affection for his former apprentice won out and he left ThunderClan with her at the gathering.