Irisreed

Appearance
Compared to Littlechill, Irisreed is a giant. She's nine and a half inches. She's a dark brown tabby she-cat with a lighter brown underbelly, paws, tail-tip, and ear-tips. Her muzzle is also lighter and she has indigo eyes. Irisreed is also constantly looking tired.

Personality
Irisreed is quite the pessimist. She's overworked, often found wearily working through the day or sleeping in her nest. Other than being exhausted most of the time, Irisreed is thoughtful, intelligent, and ambitious, which seemed to have gotten the better of her because she did not know what she signed up for when becoming deputy/messenger. Too much work for her. Fortunately, she's a hard worker and tough but doesn't strain for perfection too much, but due to her busy job she's often irritable and snappish if you talk to her for too long. Please help her. She needs a nap.

Kithood
Iriskit was born alongside her siblings, Crestedkit, who was her sister, and Midgekit and Mothkit, who were her brothers. Her mother was a tall, lean she-cat named Brimblossom and her father was a stocky, long-furred tom named Lumberlash. She was one out of two surviving kits in her litter, with Midgekit and Crestedkit being stillborn. So it was just her and her brother Mothkit.

Iriskit was a relatively quiet kit, but adored puzzles and getting her brain going. Her parents would always set up puzzles or tell her riddles to solve. She was a smart and clever kit.

Unfortunately, when she and her brother were playing in camp one day, a hawk came and picked up Mothkit while Iriskit cowered in fear, escaping with a small scratch on her shoulder. Mothkit however, was taken away into the air, never to be seen again. Brimblossom was devastated, and left the Clans to start a new life away from all the death. Lumberlash tried to take care of Iriskit the best he could while she grew up, but she was very scared of going out of the nursery after her brother's death.

Eventually though, Iriskit warmed up to the idea of going outside more and finally broke out of her fear, just in time for her to become an apprentice.

Apprenticeship
Irispaw was apprenticed to a warrior named Bonfirebreath who was constantly weird around her. He'd always stutter and trip up on the easiest thing, which she corrected him on a lot. Bonfirebreath was a practically new warrior and hadn't mentored before, but the two eventually warmed up to each other over time.

At this point, Irispaw was nine moons old. Irispaw tried to visit her father as much as she could while she trained, because he hadn't made much friends since Brimblossom left and was pretty depressed about it, and one day, he just...vanished. She and her Clanmates had no idea where he went, but it was pretty hard on Irispaw. She had to tough it out though.

Irispaw blasted through the rest of her apprenticeship like the champ she is, and earned her warrior name a few moons later.

Warrior Life
Irisreed earned her warrior name and was a bit excited about it. She did what she usually did; usually joined the dawn patrol and ate after that, got some rest, went on evening patrol. As you do. She also figured out she was lesbian, so that's awesome.

When she was around eighteen or nineteen moons, Irisreed met a tom she had seen on patrol a lot named Chivetooth, who was very kind and supportive of her. They talked a few times about patrols before, but never casually. They started hanging out after patrols, and it was obvious that Chivetooth had it bad for Irisreed, though somehow she never noticed despite how smart she was.

Chivetooth asked to hunt with Irisreed, which she confusedly agreed, finally getting where the relationship was going. After they caught a few pieces of prey, as they were watching the sunset, Chivetooth finally revealed that he was crushing hard for her and asked her to be his mate. Irisreed, trying to make it as least awkward as possible, let him down gently and told him she didn't like toms. He seemed a little disappointed, but respected her decision and they remained friends.

About half a moon later, a mysterious illness from GustClan was somehow carried to CaveClan and spread to one or two cats. One of those cats was Chivetooth, and he was killed by it. Poor Irisreed.

A few moons passed, and just like that, Irisreed was appointed deputy, which was extremely hard for her. She had a lot of work to do, with the new leader Azuritestar constantly screwing around and being inexperienced and stuff, so she had to basically lead the Clan.

Now Irisreed is just done with everything. She's constantly tired and wanting to nap, but something always comes up and she can't do that. She's in a strand right now, but it's just started. I'll keep you updated when it finishes.

Trivia

 * Irisreed's theme song is "wish i could care less" from the video game Rhythm Doctor. It's a good game. Go check it out.

Quotes
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