#charlynx

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Dark Forest Resident: Batkit

Aliases / Nicknames: ??

Gender: tom

Sexuality: homosexual

Family: unnamed mother, unnamed father, Pebblekit (sister), Barkkit (brother)

Other Relations: N/A

Clan: WindClan

Rank: kit

Characteristics: impulsive, afraid of heights, afraid of birds

Murder Motive: wants quiet

Number of Victims: 1 (unintentionally)

Number of Murders: 1 (unintentionally)

Murder Method: leaving in the open for a hawk

Known Victims: Gorsekit

Victim Profile: noisy kit

Cause of Death: shock

Cautionary Tale: ??

Story: 

He didn't understand.

He knew that it was cold outside, and that's why he had to stay in the nursery, especially during the night. But nothing had to be explained to him further than that; he didn't want to go outside when it was cold anyways.

So he didn't know the dangers.

He didn't know that you could die.

When Littlesplash had her litter of kits, the tiny things were so noisy!

Batkit was awed at first to see cats so small, and was amazed that he had been so small himself, but soon enough the little things showed irksome behaviour. In particular was Gorsekit, who cried for no good reason day-in and day-out.

Too, it seemed everyone in the nursery was a heavy sleeper--everyone but Batkit.

He had enough. He wanted some rest, and to get the noise away from him. So he picked the little kit up and plopped him outside of the nursery, where the den walls would muffle his cries. And maybe the cold would teach him to be quite!

Then he was gone.

Batkit woke to the alarmed wailing of Littlesplash, who cried that she couldn't find Gorsekit anywhere. The Clan searched around and, feeling guilty, Batkit did as well.

But soon it became clear that Gorsekit wasn't still in the camp. Had he run away? Had Batkit upset him that much? Now that he wasn't so irritated from a lack of sleep, he felt bad for what he had done, made worse by everyone's panic.

Still, he didn't tell them the truth, too afraid of being scolded. Instead, while everyone was distracted, he snuck out of camp in search of the little kit.

There was no scent trials. Batkit was getting lost.

A shadow loomed over him, and before he knew it, he was being carried into the air. He screeched, alarmed, which caught the attention of Littlesplash and a patrol, who had left the camp earlier to search for her son.

The queen leaped into the air, unbalancing the hawk. It dropped him, then grabbed him again by the tail while Littlesplash clawed at it. It gripped onto him tightly.

Littlesplash slipped, but managed to grab onto Batkit. She pulled him down, trying to free him at the same time that the hawk jerked upward. Then there was a tearing, and an awful pain that made him screech, then they were falling to the ground.

Batkit and Littlesplash survived the crash thanks to the cats below catching them, but something was wrong. He was breathing quickly, everything was distorted. Cats around him were panicking, and soon, it was all dark.

Additional Information: 

--If not for the shock, he would have survived his injuries--though his apprenticeship would definitely have to be delayed.

--Story inspired by both A Thief in ThunderClan and Tallstar's Revenge.

In TS, Stagkit took Tallkit out of the den because he kept crying, and Sandgorse found him.

--Gorsekit was out in the open, small, and loud, so a hawk quickly found him and took him in a heartbeat. I figured that if they didn't smell the hawk in ATiT, they wouldn't smell it here, and not when it was a blink-in-the-eye swoop.

--He is adopted by Tarantulastar and Hummingbirdstar (likely seeing the Gossamer Trees as somewhere a bird could never get him because of all the mesh). He is adopted when he is three moons old. Charkit/lynx, his adopted brother, is also three moons old, though they do have an age gap of roughly two weeks. This also makes him an adoptive Smalljump grandbaby!

--Base: F2U Oriental Shorthair Cat Base by Grassdew44 on DeviantArt (his ref is more his adult form)

[goshno]

YELLOW

LMFAMO SHRIEKS V LOUDLY CHARLEYU

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SMALLJUMP GRANDBABIES!

Charlynx is the bio kit to Tarantulastar and adoptive kit to Hummingbirdstar.

Batkit was a living kit that died and was adopted by the family (this is how he looks as an adult, if it wasn't obvious).

They were both three moons old when they came together, though Char is older by two weeks.

How exactly Bat joined the family I'm still figuring out. I imagine he found comfort in the Gossamer Trees, where Tarantula's family lives, because the many web-covered trees would provide shelter for whatever hawk would try to get him (there isn't any, but he's a scared kit). But that's as far as I've decided.

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Base: F2U Oriental Longhair Cat Base by Grassdew44 on DeviantArt

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Family line-up!

I wanted to see them through the generations :]

Smalljump, then his youngest kit, Tarantulastar, then Tarantula's kit, Charlynx (no name because it's flipped)

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Bases:

Small and Tarantula

Char

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Smalljump grandbaby!!

Bio parents: Crowsage and Tarantulastar

Adoptive parents: Hummingbirdstar and Tarantulastar

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Because Humming is so small and Tarantula is so huge, they didn't want to have bio kits together because of the health risks to her or the kits. (The fact that someone else, Ferndoe, had a difficult birth and had a kit with health defects because her mate was larger only solidified their idea [and their size difference is much greater]).

So instead they went the surrogate route.

It just so happened that Crowsage, a she-cat, had her own mate who she wanted kits with, but both being gals they couldn't do it on their own. They came to an arrangement that they would help each other have kits, and Crowsage would feed them until they could be weaned. If the litter was even, they would split them in half (Tarantula takes two, Crowsage takes two), if it was odd, Crowsage would take the majority.

It wasn't like splitting a family up. Sure, they lived in different areas, but it wasn't like living in different Clans. They wouldn't grow to be enemies or would have to fight against each other, and they could visit each other as much as they wanted, no big deal.

The families also made sure that the kits kept in touch whenever they could, but also kept apart long enough so that the kit Tarantula and Humming got saw only them as his parents, and that Crowsage's kits only saw her and her mate as their parents (if they're together too much it gets confusing, especially with Crowsage having nursed).

ALSO! There will be a Clan-born kit that will arrive and be adopted by the family when they're very close to Char's age.

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Char's pelt comes from Crowsage's main colour, which looks like a burnt version of either Smalljump or Tarantula, hence the 'Char'. It also leads back to the family friend and @elementaldeityoffood 's character, Sparktail.

@starfalcon555 finally got the design done after a while of struggling with it! (Trick is, change the base).

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Base: F2U Oriental Longhair Cat Base by Grassdew44 on DeviantArt