Shadepaw
[pure black pelt ; dark gray mackerel markings ; amber eyes ]
She/her • 12 moons • Shadowclan Apprentice
⤷ post count: [/] | purrks: Just a Scratch, Agatha Kitty, Silver Tongue [T2], Shadow Fiend
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Shadepaw followed the group outside of camp to their destination, frustrated that she had missed a simple direction—find a partner. Anger and disgust at herself prickled her paws. How had it happened? How had it happened? Perhaps she’d been too excited about the prospect of finally learning battle training, but she knew that was no excuse. I’ll just do better next time. She had to. She’d remember this moment.
She listened to the warrior intently, dropping into a crouch and adjusting it as he continued. Claws sheathed, shoulders loose, center your balance. Shadepaw focused her weight into her paws as evenly as she could, although she tensed her muscles too much before remembering ‘shoulders loose’. Think of a hunting crouch, she thought.
An apprentice speaking up caught her attention, and she stared at him in disbelief as he had the nerve to challenge the warrior, even going so far as to suggest they partner up. He was either stupid or extremely self-confident, which didn’t bode well for his character either way. She scoffed. The apprentice would surely get shredded, which would be amusing to watch, but she had a better idea.
“Hey, smartypants,” she called, padding forward. “Why don’t you go up against someone your own size? Maybe you won’t get immediately shredded.” She gave Tigernight a narrowed glance before focusing back on the offending apprentice with her sharp amber eyes. She hadn’t gotten any battle training before, but she assumed the other apprentice hadn’t either, because of how he had suggested going against a trained warrior rather than his peers. If he actually had experience, he’d probably know that that would be a bad idea—although she knew it because she had something many of her clanmates seemed to be lacking: common sense.
“Well? Or are you too cowardly?” Shadepaw added. That would surely provoke him to accept, and if he’s angry, he wouldn’t be thinking clearly. That would be in her favor. She was fairly certain she could handle him… Although she had to remember that this was her first time, too. Don’t get overconfident. The problem was, she didn’t know how good he was, which made it hard to tell if she was or wasn’t. Nevertheless, she had signed up for this, she would deal with it.
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˜”*°•.˜”*°• DeerClaw•°*”˜.•°*”˜
˜”*°•.˜”*°• Tom|70 moons old|ShadowClan Apprentice|Silver Tongue Tier 1 - not active •°*”˜.•°*”˜
*•.¸♡ "A smile always brightens my day! As goes for the blood on my paws..." ♡¸.•*
▁ ▂ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █"ah so she is a mother!" Deerclaw purred "well I thank your mother a lot for allowing me to join" he scratches his ear after a moment "ah my mama? she is no longer with us, hunting in starclan, she believed in it so I shall as well" he began to lick his chest, he wondered what they were even supposed to do...oh right training "mama says the clans would welcome me if I were to ever follow the stars" he hums, looking up for a moment before looking at weepingpaw "you have a good mama, know that" he smiled "now lets finish this little training session and I can tell you many more stories of my life before the clan" he meows with a little smile. █ ▇ ▆ ▅ ▄ ▂ ▁
Weepingpaw stares pensively at the tom upon hearing that he lost his mama. That sounded terrible. He knew one day he'd lost his parents too, but the idea of thinking about it made him want to cry, so he stopped. Instead, the apprentice latched onto the mention of stars and how good his Momster was. He sits up a little straight, trying to look all dignified as best he could while grinning stupidly.
"Yup, know everyone should Momster is best." He agreed rapidly. He didn't hear the rest of what Deerclaw was saying. The other cat, whose name he still wasn't sure of, was talking about stances and partners. His big eyes return to his apparent partner as they leave camp. He has questions about the tom's old home, but he saves them for later since they were working on something.
After watching the warrior demonstrate this stance, Weepingpaw mimed without any trouble. It seemed like the same crouch one used for hunting. Paws evenly spaced apart, drop down low, but not too low, can't touch the ground with the belly, and tail still. He was a little lopsided, putting too much weight on one side, but all in all, he'd done a decent job of playing the copy game.
Oh, but then he had to copy his partner. Weepingpaw took one look at Deerclaw and burst out laughing. He was too low, or Weepingpaw thought he was, but regardless, they were supposed to play the copy game, so down he dropped his haunches low like he was getting ready to pounce and lower his head so that his chin was nearly touching the grass. He was far from a perfect imitation of Deerclaw, but he was pretty close. Weepingpaw knew this wasn't right, but the instructions were to copy the partner, so he did.
@Rowan [I beg you to fix this or Weeping's going to start doing this on the regular]
˜”*°•.˜”*°• DeerClaw•°*”˜.•°*”˜
˜”*°•.˜”*°• Tom|70 moons old|ShadowClan Apprentice|Silver Tongue Tier 1+2 - not active •°*”˜.•°*”˜
*•.¸♡ "A smile always brightens my day! As goes for the blood on my paws..." ♡¸.•*
▁ ▂ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █he gently chuckles when he realizes weepingpaw copying him, ah he must look just like that. a shame his battle stance wont work in the clan setting "I believe I might be the one doing this wrong" he murmured as he tried his best to fix his battle stance, lifting his head up and firmly setting his paws apart some to take on a more arched stance, fur standing up a long his back as if to look bigger. █ ▇ ▆ ▅ ▄ ▂ ▁
Oakpool is the current Healer of BloodClan, he has a Semi-Closed Den Vm me for healing. BatClaw is the current Deputy of Bloodclan @ me if he is needed. NightStar is the current leader of Nightclan, @ me if he is needed, Sage and saguaro are Alphas of their skulls, @ me if they are needed.
Ah, he'd never clued into how short-tempered Tigernight could be until now. Not dissimilar to himself. The apprentices' total lack of listening skills grated on him, too. He liked to think his apprentices would never do anything of that nature. He trained competent cats. Despite annoyance, snapping at the gaggle of apprentices probably wouldn't get them to do what he wanted. Apprentices were hard to control, always full of emotions - if you upset them, they're gonna tune out. "If you haven't got a partner, get your butt over here, and I'll pair you up." the enforcer announced.
Honestly, he was just thankful to not be sparring with Rookfire today. That could've been embarrassing.
[tags for anyone yet to partner up! Please feel free to scamper up to Newt, and pair them up. If only one characr replies, I will get back to you on 28/05/2025, and Newt will partner with them!]
eh? oh- Oh no he'd gotten distracted and forgot to partner up. Most apprentices already had a partner, damn it. The grey spotted tabby hummed softly as finally his gaze landed on a brown and white pelt. He'd never interacted or even really seen this guy before but whatever, at least he could avoid getting yelled at.
Honeysucklepaw put on a calm expression before flashing Vixenpaw a charming smile "Hey! you got a partner? If not want to partner up?" He asked, peering around for another cat in case Vixenpaw rejected his partnership request.
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Re: claws out and ready [SHC TRAINING]
Vixenpaw ~ 8 moons ~ Genderfluid
Dark brown and white pelt with amber eyes, has a scar across the eye
Vixenpaw turns around and sees Honeysucklepaw, she had forgot that she didn't have a partner, and now she really needed one. So, she will accept this offer to be his partner for this event. "Hey, yeah I will be your partner, I forgot myself that I needed a partner for this training secession. So I'll be your partner now!" she said politely. She stood next to Honeysucklepaw waiting for the event to start.
rookfires tail flicked, returning tigernights recognition. silver eyes only briefly lingering on coldpaw who decided yapping was a good idea before returning to watch for tigernights reaction. he may be responsible for keeping the clan in line but this wasnt his event and he'd let the younger warrior deal with his event as he may, planning to only step in if anything went south.
it looked like he was managing alright so rook stayed quiet, finding his place at the back of the crowd to keep an eye on everyone. so far it didnt look like anyone was falling behind despite the brisk pace making it harder for those with shorter legs to comfortable keep up. everything had its drawbacks huh? small and sneaky meant slow or working harder. shrug, not his issue.
rook circled the apprentices from a distance before breaking the pattern to approach newtbelly, "yo newt! mind if we split the pairs so we can watch em closer?" the older enforcer enquired with a tilt of his head.
attention diverted from newtbelly, rookfire raised a whisker brow when coldpaw spoke up, again. he had to admit he was a bit surprised - negatively so - that the apprentice was that bold. tigernight was making an offer, nocat was forcing coldpaw to participate if he didnt think it was worth his time. not to say his misplaced confidence.. coldpaw was somewhat like magpiecove in that way, except he was probably a bit more of a pain. though, he hadnt dealt with magpiecove as of lately.
shadepaw stepped in as well. he couldnt remember anything specific about her but that earned her a small bonus in his mind.
now that nocat was fighting tigernight anymore, for whatever reason coldpaw had thought that was a good idea anyway, rookfire padded over to weepingpaw and deerclaw. he passed by weepingpaw, tail tapping the apprentices back before rook shifted into a battle stance himself. "dont stay that low, it'll limit your movement, see?" the enforcer corrected gently, while giving them a visual example and blissfully ignoring the previous trouble he had with deerclaw for weepingpaws sake. he wasnt one to forget or forgive, but he was willing to give deerclaw a chance. offer him the very grace of a chance he himself had never gotten.
This stance was kinda of uncomfortable. It was probably because it was going against everything he was taught. He looked over at Deerclaw as he commented... so he knew he was doing it wrong then? Weepingpaw was so confused and so focused on this bad stance that he jumped a little bit, startled, when he felt the touch on his back. He swung his head around, ears pinned back, and a hiss stuck in his throat when he met a big, slender, dark-furred cat's gaze.
Oh, it's just him. The name eluded him, but Weepingpaw had seen the cat around camp and knew he was a part of his mentor's group. He blinks his eyes owlishly as Rookfire shows him the same stance he had been in earlier. Flabbergasted, Weepingpaw springs out of his crouch and stomps his paws on the ground in frustration.
"It right, I did." He tells the Enforcer with a gentle frown on his face. Not wanting Rookfire to think he's lying, Weepingpaw drops into a battle stance, leaning down low, though keeping the Enforcer's words in mind, not low enough to touch the ground. He spread his paws apart as evenly as he could get them without feeling like they would slide out from underneath him. No matter how hard he tried, his tail would not stay still like he had earlier:
"Copy partner, loud cat said." He points his tail at Tigernight. "Copy Weeping did." He pointed his nose at Deerclaw. He had done everything he had been told to so... confusion buzzed in the back of his mind. Was doing what he was told not right?
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˜”*°•.˜”*°• DeerClaw•°*”˜.•°*”˜
˜”*°•.˜”*°• Tom|70 moons old|ShadowClan Apprentice|Silver Tongue Tier 1+2 - not active •°*”˜.•°*”˜
*•.¸♡ "A smile always brightens my day! As goes for the blood on my paws..." ♡¸.•*
▁ ▂ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █his eyes looked at rookfire as he corrected weepingpaw, he had the urge to say something smart...something just to get on the toms nerves but his gaze softened on weepingpaw and decided not to cause trouble. "weepingpaw, i am sorry, I made a mistake, its not your fault." he tried to reassure the apprentice, he then focused on copying weepingpaw's now righten battle stance "I did wrong, not you" his tail waved back and forth for a moment. his body relaxing a bit as he stills his tail to hover from the ground. █ ▇ ▆ ▅ ▄ ▂ ▁
Oakpool is the current Healer of BloodClan, he has a Semi-Closed Den Vm me for healing. BatClaw is the current Deputy of Bloodclan @ me if he is needed. NightStar is the current leader of Nightclan, @ me if he is needed, Sage and saguaro are Alphas of their skulls, @ me if they are needed.
The apprentice flashed a bit of a sheepish look, not having found anyone yet to pair up with. Luckily, it seemed Newtbelly had accounted for this situation, and Basspaw listened to the warrior's instructions. He swiftly bounded over and sat "his butt" patiently, his tail waving slightly left and then slightly right idly as he waited for a partner.
Re: claws out and ready [SHC TRAINING]
Re: claws out and ready [SHC TRAINING]
Re: claws out and ready [SHC TRAINING]
