Quailbelly

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Name: Quailbelly
Gender: she-cat
Age: 53 moons
Clan: bearclan
Rank: senior warrior
Mentor:Robinheart
Apprentice: Foxglovetalon
Short Description: A heavy set off white she-cat with dark but dull brown stripe marking and green eyes.
Appearance: Quailbelly is a offwhite, more of a vanilla ice cream shade that has a creamy tint to it with dark yet dull markings. She has a strip that starts at her nose and ends at the tip of her tail, a patch of this color on the back of her ears, and two ambiguous shapes of it on her forehead. Her heavy frame is mostly weight due to her having mostly short fur though the section of fur around her neck is actually longer. Despite her heavy frame she has muscle under there and she is a little taller than average but not huge in height.

Personality:
Positive- Loyal. Reliable. Dedicated.
Neutral- Stubborn. Maternal. Proud. Stoic.
Negative- Over protective. Narrow-minded. Crude at times.

Even though she's a very motherly and kind cat who'll greet you with a smile, you shouldn't underestimate her. This she-cat is more than willing to be rough with ya if you dare make a ill comment on her kits or do something to make her mad. She's somewhat stuck in her ways, prefering to keep herself busy with hunting or nurturing kits. If she felt like the clan would be okay with it, she would've become a perma-queen but alas, she knows that such a desire won't fly with Cloudstar's rule. So it's something that she'll always keep to herself. So she makes up for not having the life she wants by ensuring young cats know they can always count on someone even if they aren't her blood. She's all for aiding her clanmates in any help they need; so long as they haven't gotten on her bad side.

Due to the injury that Dimthunder suffered from in his apprenticeship and Cloudstar's current behavoir, she's very protective of her son. Overly so in fact as she knows how some cats of the clan viewed him since he was always a tall and scrawny thing, instead of heavyset and bulky like her; and most others. She can keep a good poker face and usually, you'll only know you're on her bad side when she's about to smack ya upside the head for your tom foolery; and then lecture you about it.


Something she keeps close to her chest is her fear of the water. Specifically it is the drowning aspect of it and she avoids the deeper parts of the liquid. Her mate has helped her on this but since they don't need to be near such deep water, it should be fine...right?

History:
Eaglebreeze and Owlsong's announcement of kits was suppose to be a happy occasion but as it was proven just after the birth of their litter, it wasn't much to celebrate. For one, Eaglebreeze had cheated on Owlsong repetitively with their clanmates and was revealed when her mother's friend, Mousetail went to Owlsong to inform her she was expecting Eaglebreeze's kits too.This rightfully angered Owlsong and it was a whole mess to stop the supposedly happy pair announcing a pregnancy a few moons prior to hissing and spitting in camp at each other as they argued over what was revealed. While Eaglebreeze got reprimanded for his deeds, he was still a member of the clan and Owlsong only let him visit their children for short periods and never alone. It was a peace their leader suggested they do.

Quailkit was named due to how when she curled up, she puffed up like a quail and her chubby frame helped with this illusion. Her siblings were given their names and honestly, the world was pretty nice. Despite seeing her mother agitated with her father a few times, Quailkit's kithood was very positive. She was a little slow due to her chub but her mother was adamant she'd lose it as she got to apprenticeship.

With Robinheart becoming her mentor at six moons, Quailpaw was quick to throw herself into training. She wanted to lose her kitten chub as well as learn but as the moons passed, it just seemed she was naturally plump. This did cause her to get some teasing from fellow apprentices however, Barkpaw helped her feel a bit more comfortable in her own fur. The two developed a friendship that seemed to only grow stronger. And other than that, there was nothing interesting she could recall during that time. Her father seemed to be acting weird but she didn't care much about him as their bond was very weak due to the circumstances and everyone in the clan knowing about it.

Becoming Quailbelly was a way to honor her grandmother according to her mother though, Quailbelly felt very..unsure about it. She never met the she-cat as she was already dead before her birth so it felt rather weird yet the request was clearly what her mother wanted and the leader agreed. Whatever right? Quailbelly was quick to forget that as her friendship with Barktooth grew stronger. So strong that she didn't realized that she had fallen for him until she became pregnant. It hit both of them then and there, still young warriors but desiring each other's company and love sealed their fate as mates.

It was just two days before the birth of her kits when there was a commotion in camp and she left the nursery to go and see what was going on. Eaglebreeze had two kits hanging from his mouth that smelled strange and he was looking up at Cloudstar with ears slanted as well as several claw marks to his pelt. Owlsong was the culprit for his injuries but announced that Eaglebreeze had broken the code and mated with a outsider, worse still a kittypet. Quailbelly felt rather strange to hear this, she was never super fixated on the code and ignored her father basically but...to hear this was...well a new low. Cloudstar banished Eaglebreeze and demand he take his half breed kits with him. Eaglebreeze protested that the kits needed a nursing queen and he looked to Quailbelly, a pitiful expression on his face as he begged his daughter to take the kits.

She didn't get a chance to answer as she felt a mixture of things, anger and revoltion but also her maternal instincts to help those kits. Cloudstar was quick to interject and struck the warrior as he demanded he leave. Like a shamed dog, Eaglebreeze grabbed his kits and fled the clan. Quailbelly was...confused, left with these odd thoughts in her head. At twenty moons, she delivered her own litter. Lightkit and Dimkit; Barktooth wasn't too good of a namer but Quailbelly appreciated his attempts and at least Dim matched. It was funny, Dimkit resembled her to a T almost, his fur was just a slightly different shade and he had some more markings than she did but he had that stripe down his back; just a different shade.

However he was a thin and long limbed thing, cats started to whisper and talk about her having slept with someone from Elkclan due to his thin frame and weak build. A outrageous accusation. Quailbelly kept her kits close and Barktooth was always swift to defend his mate and kits. This sadly made things hard for her children to gain friends but it was of course worse for Dimkit. Even into their apprenticeships, the problems persisted and sadly she couldn't train her kits. But she gave them as much moral support as she could and Barktooth helped as well. She was also given her first apprentice in the form of Foxglovepaw and worked to train them. Tragedy only continued to strike however.

Dimpaw was eight moons when the patrol was ambushed by a predator, he obeyed his mentor and the other warriors and fought with them. Only to end up with his face badly hurt. It was a rough go for a while but he recovered, only to see he was now missing his eye. No lives were lost in that patrol but Quailbelly didn't like the look Cloudstar gave towards her son. So as Dimpaw continued training after healing, she approached her leader with his mentor and made her demands known. Her child wasn't going to have some horrid name, her child was going to have a strong name and she knew just what it was going to be.

At fourteen moons, Dimpaw became a warrior as he had missed out on some training form his injuries. Lightcall was already a warrior and Foxglovepaw had become Foxglovetalon at the same time as Lightcall got her name. The family sat together as Dimpaw was named Dimthunder and she saw the confusion on her son's face. After his vigil, she explained that the 'Thunder' was for his perseverance and strength to overcome his injuries and become a strong warrior.

Quailbelly has continued to serve her clan loyally and watches over her children, however she's found herself growing more displeased with Cloudstar's rule. How he handled Badgerscar and poor Brownpaw...renaming the poor apprentice to Twistedpaw! Either he's getting senile or he just couldn't hide his darkside anymore. Eitherway, she's not happy and hopes Goldenstep's leadership when it comes, is a much better improvement.

Family:
Eaglebreeze- father, exiled
Owlsong- mother
Two bio siblings (can't think of names right now)
(undetermined amount of half siblings all from her father)

Barktooth- mate
Lightcall- daughter
Dimthunder- son
Extra: ARt is done by me
Her redesign was inspired by a bi-color cat with a mutation that changed it's markings but she's not a bicolor cat.