The Essentials

Name: Kestrelpaw
Prefix Meaning: Kestrel- for her pelt colours
Suffix Meaning: -paw for her rank
Sex: Female
Age: 9 moons
Sexuality: TBD (Likely to be Bi)
Rank: Apprentice
Role: Pine Family due to her mother (will likely move to Oak family when able)
Adopt Thread: N/A
Last Character: First Character!

The Body

Base Coat Color: Dilute Calico
Markings: Smudge of white on her chest and muzzle
Eye Color: Sage green
Body Size and Build: Average; slightly muscular
Fur Length and Texture: Short and tufty
Additional Physical Traits: Tufted ears. Has long legs and a longer tail. Her claws may be short, but they are sharp and hooked.
Health and Scars: Healthy; has a small scar on her nose.
Full Appearance Description: A scruffy looking molly who somehow pulls it off. Kestrelpaw has a permanent sneer on her otherwise youthful features and when she smiles it's shark-like and dangerous. Only when she's sleeping does she show signs of her mother's elegant features.  

The Identity

Positive Traits: Driven | Brave | Confident | Smart
Neutral Traits: Argumentative | Lonely | Stubborn | Impulsive
Negative Traits: Volatile | Violent | Brash | Attention-seeking | Jealous

Full Trait Description: Kestrelpaw didn't get a lot of attention, if any at all, when she was a kit. She learned that the only way she could get her sister doting mother to pay attention to her was to act out. As a result, her childhood has moulded Kestrelpaw into an impulsive and brash molly vying for attention for all the wrong reasons. She picks fights with other apprentices, shouts and name calls. You're either scared of her or annoyed by her. If someone just took the time to get to know Kestrelpaw properly, show her how to deal with her problems less violently and with a little patience they'll discover she's a very smart and driven apprentice eager to succeed. Too bad she doesn't let anyone close enough to even see that side of her.

Loves: Winning, letting off steam, cats listening to what she has to say
Likes: Hunting and wrestling
Dislikes: Her sister
Hates: Being told what to do
Fears: Becoming invisible and nobody knowing her
Secrets: Sometimes, she wishes she was sick like her sister. At least then she could spend more time with her Mum.
Dreams: To become a tough and revered warrior. Famous for her heroic deeds.

Strengths: Attack, Defence, Flexibility, Smelling
Normals: Speed, Hunting, Hearing, Climbing
Weaknesses: Eyesight, Jumping, Stealth, Swimming

The Past

Kestrelkit was born in a litter of two. She was lively and healthy, the spitting image of her mother. Her sister, on the other hand, was frail and sickly. She had their fathers looks and apparently, his other 'issues' to boot. Despite the problems and short life expectancy, their mother went into overdrive. Doting on her sickly kitten to the point she forgot she even had another. Kestrelkit learned quickly that if she wanted to get her mother's attention she needed to act out. To do something so big that she couldn't be ignored.

So, she started picking fights with other kits, stealing their playthings and calling them names. She would never pick on her sister, no not her mother's precious little baby, too scared of what the queen would do. During her time in the Nursery, at least once a day, you could hear the exasperated queen calling Kestrelkit over and berating her. While Kestrelkit would sit there, taking it in and being thoroughly pleased with herself.

These habits evolved into nasty ones and moulded Kestrelkit, now Kestrelpaw, into the argumentative apprentice she is today. She continues to be a menace to other apprentices and fights for the love and attention of her mother and now her mentor as well. Sadly, she only knows how to in negative ways.