Name: Silverstrike

Prefix Meaning: Silver; Silver pelt

Suffix Meaning: Strike; Prowess in
fighting and keeping others out of danger

Age: 25 Moons

Sexuality: Bisexual
Rank: Warrior

Role: Guard

Adopt Thread: None

Last Character: First character

Base Coat Color: Grey
Eye Color: Amber
Body Size and Build: Large & Muscled

Markings: Dark grey tabby markings everywhere except chest & muzzle

Fur Length and Texture: Long fur that's neither thin nor thick, soft & well-groomed

Additional Physical Traits: Silverstrike has large ears and strong, muscly limbs.

Health and Scars: Silverstrike is healthy. She has several scars, mainly on her back from crawling through collapsed tunnels.

Full Appearance Description: Silverstrike is a large, muscled she-cat with a triangular face shape, large ears and small amber eyes. Her body is most medium-grey with dark-grey tabby markings, except for her chest and muzzle which is very light grey. Her fur is decently long, and is not particularly thick or thin. It is smooth, soft and matte. Her legs and paws are especially large, packed with muscle and used to hauling heavy things (or cats) around. Silverstrike's body is littered with scars from her work saving other cats both within the tunnels of ChasmClan and in the dangerous outside territory.

Positive Traits: Eloquent, Intelligent, Calm, Disciplined & Leadership

Neutral Traits: Quiet, Conservative, Forgiving & Maternal

Negative Traits: Aloof, Calculative, Complacent, Reactionary & Indecisive

Full Trait Description: Silverstrike has always been a very introspective person who constantly focuses her thoughts inwards on herself, allowing herself to develop a very well-balanced, calm attitude about life. Her positive traits are mainly focused on self-discipline and intelligence; she's eloquent, intelligent & calm, always articulating what she means in a straightforward and appropriate way, and latching onto concepts and situations quickly. She is disciplined and a natural leader, able to motivate herself and others to push them in the right direction when leadership is needed. Silverstrike is comfortable in her leadership abilities and is not afraid to defer that leadership to others who are more suited, instead of resorting to alpha posturing nonsense. Silverstrike has been working on these traits her entire life, and they possess little to no drawbacks due to how she chooses to execute them and the views she holds about having these traits, making them her positive traits.

She has a number of other traits which have both benefits and drawbacks. She may be forgiving and maternal, allowing her to bond closely with those younger than her and provide support to them, but she's prone to forgiving too easy and getting hurt or being unintentionally condescending in how she takes care of others. She is quiet & conservative which makes her seem polite, but oftentimes she may become close-minded to new concepts or stuck in her comfort zone. These benefits and drawbacks in tandem make them her neutral traits.

Silverstrike also has personality traits which offer little to no benefit as well as significant drawbacks. Since Silverstrike is so introspective, she doesn't voice her opinions, needs or wants unless she deems it necessary for others to know, leading to her seeming aloof, calculative and complacent even when she isn't. She, unfortunately, does possess these traits in daily life as well. Her aloofness is the result of no communication, but she often tries to calculate the best response to a situation with little regard of other's emotions. She cares about their feelings, of course, but if they'll get over it soon and the pros outweigh the cons why should she treat them kindly? It's better for both of them this way. When she notices a problem, Silverstrike often justifies it in a backwards way like this, leading to her complacency in fixing problems since she's decently comfortable where she is already. She rarely takes actions to stop a problem she sees coming, only reacting to it once something has gone wrong. When faced with decisions, Silverstrike finds herself over-thinking and stressing over issues both great and small. These negative traits are things Silverstrike tries to ignore about herself, as they aren't pretty or charming offering no benefit to her or other's lives.

Strengths: Defence, Attack, Climbing, Stealth

Normals: Flexibility, Eyesight, Hearing, Speed

Weaknesses: Hunting, Swimming, Jumping, Smelling

Silverkit was born as the single kit in her litter, but she had two older sisters to keep her company. She spent her days playing with them, until the day they become apprentices and they had more important things to do. Silverkit didn't mind - she knew they loved her and she enjoyed being on her own, too. After the death of her sister's mother, her father had found another mate and they had had Silverkit, as well as a brand-new little brother 6 moons later. Their family was a little unorthodox, but her clanmates didn't seem to mind since no one was breaking any rules. Finally, the day of her apprentice ceremony came. At 8 moons, Silverkit received her new name of Silverpaw. Just as the leader spoke her new name, there was a shriek where her family slept. Littlekit had pulled out his parents' marriage stone to play with, but this time, it was completely black.

Ironically, the only ones who cared about it were her parents. The other clanmates were simply superstitious, telling their family to be careful. But they never directed any malice towards their family; no, her parents took care of that for her. Constantly fighting, constantly pushing Silverpaw and her younger brother away. She heard her father say that he never should have married her mother. She heard her mother say that she never should have given birth to Silverpaw and Littlekit. They both cuddled close to her afterwards and said that they would always love her, but the damage was already done. All 4 siblings had heard what they said, and they quickly drifted away from their parents.

The older sisters tried to keep a close bond with Silverpaw, but everyday she would recede more and more into herself. She wasn't really sad, but... it was hard having to ask all the other warriors to train her, when it should've been her parents doing so. Soon, Silverpaw became Silverstrike, a brand-new Guard for ChasmClan. As she grew older, Silverstrike gained renown for always being the one to venture into collapsed tunnels and help trapped cats, gaining a myriad of scars along the way. The truth was that she never wanted anyone to feel as alone as she had.

Silverstrike has stayed close to Little-, and is on friendly terms with her older sisters who she now attempts to become closer to. She wants something more in life, but doesn't know how to go about getting it. We'll see.