TDC: Driftcloud Application Sheet

|| Name: || Driftcloud
|| Gender: || Female – She cat
|| Clan: ||ScorchClan
|| Rank: ||Medicine Cat


|| Description: || Driftcloud’s pelt is a stunningly-bright golden color, kept shiny due to her care, with thick black tabby markings stretching across her back, shoulders, and tail. Her coat is very thick and fluffy, though in stature she is rather small. Even full-grown now at eighteen moons, she still looks like the apprentice she was. Her muzzle is slightly shorter than a normal cat's, and is a creamy white. A small splash of this same creamy color is found on her chest, as are the toes of all four paws and the tips of her ears. Her eyes are unusually large and are a bright green with golden flecks. She carries a black feather attached to her ear, given to her by Blindstar after she successfully healed her first wound; Redpaw's torn ear.


|| Personality: || As an apprentice, Driftcloud was shy, dreamy, withdrawn, and insecure about her position in the clan. With the tragic death of her mentor (Skygaze) during the Great Flood, she was thrown rather roughly and unprepared into becoming the clan’s full-fledged Medicine Cat. However, this seemed to have kindled a spark of self-confidence in her, and she rose up to the challenge, thus turning her into an able worker.

This she-cat takes her duties to the clan, to her leader, to Mysticclan, and to her friends very seriously. Whether it is to offer advice to Blindstar, to interpret signs from Mysticclan, or to turn a compassionate ear to a friend’s plights, she strives to do what is best with the same eagerness that she had as an apprentice. However, she often starts to cave in under the stress and responsibility her position gives me, making her sometimes act rashly and develop a temper, or else fill her with a feeling of helplessness. She hopes one day to be able to keep her head and help her clan with poise and without fear, but that time has not yet come. She still has a many good years ahead of her to learn, though.

Though she can be considered, in a way, experienced beyond her years— what with the hardships and darkness she and the clan have faced, as well as her encounters with Mysticclan—Driftcloud is still naïve and inexperienced in life. Watching her friends grow up beside her; maturing, starting relationships, starting families, has also distanced her from many parts of the daily clan life. This saddens her at times, but she knows the path she willed her paws to take was the right one.


|| Family: ||
-Parents: Whiteheart – Mother- Deceased. Goldenpelt – Father- Deceased.
-Siblings: None.
-Mate/Crush: None, and never will have. She’s a medicine cat.
-Kits: Idem.


|| History: || Driftkit, named for the faraway look in her large green eyes, was born into the clan to two loving parents. She has very few memories of her father though, Goldenpelt, seeing as he died from a poisonous snake bite when she was only a moon old. She has seen him only once since, in a dream from Mysticclan. From early on, Driftkit’s future as a Medicine Cat Apprentice was easy to be seen. Though learning to hunt and fight interested her, as it did to any kit her age, it just wasn’t suited to her. Rather than roughhousing with her kitmates in the training hollow, she would more often be found in the elder’s den or the nursery, watching, learning, and helping when she could with wide eyes, or else treading the RushingClan or SharkClan border, breathing in the scents of unfamiliar plants and herbs. She was apprenticed to Skygaze at six moons old, to no one’s surprise.

Her apprenticeship went well, and she learned eagerly. Despite his strict methods, she and Skygaze became close, even though he didn’t really understand her that well. However, his forgetfulness and frequent absence hindered her learning. She successfully healed her first wound, her –now deceased— best-friend Redpaw’s torn ear, a few months into her training. To her surprise (since usually medicine cat apprentices did not receive their items until their ceremony), Blindstar gave her one of the two feathers clipped onto her ear, as a token of the moment. She received her first prophetic dream from Mysticclan not too long after, warning her of a great Flood to come ([link]). She didn’t get a chance to make sense of the prophecies, or to relish the concept that she had finally received her first dream, since no sooner had she woken up, did the medicine den start to collapse on top of her. Giving in to a foolish whim, she turned back against Ivystep’s warnings, trying to retrieve her package of herbs. The delay almost cost her her life.

She still hasn’t fully recovered from the shock of the Flood; all within in a few hours, she received her very first message from Mysticclan, almost lost her life, lost the only home she had ever known, and found out almost half the clan had been dragged out to sea, never to be seen again. She lost both her best friend and her mentor in the tragic disaster that day.

Slowly she had been rebuilding her life in the new campsite along with her clanmates. Though darkness and strange prophecies still hang over them all, Driftcloud feels that she will be more prepared to deal with another disaster, should there be one, than she was the first time.


|| Role-play Example: ||
Driftcloud was carefully scouring the camp for fresh herbs to replenish her stock. Taking Blindstar’s advice, she had turned her attention to the confines of the camp rather than the open ScorchClan territory (currently baking under the green-leaf sun), hoping there would be better luck by the oasis.

Suddenly she spun around, thinking she had caught a whiff of horsetail. She breathed in deeply, but the wind was blowing in from the camp entrance and whatever it was she had smelled was unidentifiable now. She scratched around a bit in the shadows, but there was nothing here save some dried up grass, a dead cactus, and… sand. Instead, she now smelled the distinct scents of her clan mates; Blindstar, Copperwing, Ivystep, Brightsong… It has hard to distinguish anything else under the layers upon layers of cat scents. The medicine cat then opened her senses to a broader spectrum than uniquely smell. She knew how to change her focus, something most warriors were unable to do; to see not the individual objects for what they were, but instead for the colors, shapes and scents they had. This enabled her to ‘see’ herbs and plants that were mostly invisible to another’s eye.

Now she got lucky; in between two boulders on the far side of the camp was strung a thick cobweb, glittering in her peripheral vision. She wrapped it carefully around her paw so it wouldn’t break, hobbling on three legs back in the direction of her den. Near the entrance of the nursery, she spied a sad little leaf of goldenrod on the ground. It was crushed by the impression of a heavy paw, and upon closer inspection, she detected the acrid scent of Shadowthorn hanging around it. Driftcloud patted the herb to see if it was salvageable… It was not. She let out a hiss of frustration and glared out into the sandy territory where the culprit was presumably hidden, then turned back to her den with her meager supply. Ah, such is the life of a ScorchClan medicine cat in the middle of green-leaf, she thought to herself. But I wouldn’t give it up for the world.


|| RELATIONSHIPS: ||
- Acquaintance.
- Friend.
- Good Friend.
- Crush.
- Love.
- Hate/Discomfort.
Dislike.
- Mixed Feelings.

|||| Blindstar: Over the many moons that I have had the honor of being Scorchclan’s medicine cat [apprentice], Blindstar has been the leader I look up to. She is not a friend to me like, say, Ivystep is, seeing as she is my leader and I hold a lot of respect for her. But we have spent a considerable amount of time together and I find her a great cat to talk to, despite the number of disagreements we’ve had. She is very wise, and I am often moved by her insight and way of seeing things in another way. Most notably, she has helped teach me to believe in myself, and her support has helped bring me to where I am now. Blindstar is a very complicated cat, but I am entirely loyal to her despite her faults, and I am sure she will continue to be a great leader and friend in the years to follow.

|| || Copperwing: I’d never had any particularly strong feelings for Copperwing, but that changed in the aftermath of the Flood. He’d always struck me as a hot-head, rather inconsiderate, but I’d felt like there was a deeper side to him, covered by the ‘all brawn and no brain’ façade he wears. Then, I found out what he did to Skygaze and… well, the past is the past, and what is done is done… Had I been in his position, I would have had to make a choice too, and I can imagine how hard it must have been. I would have easily forgiven him. However, it is not his actions which lead me to dislike Copperwing. It was in the way that he told me, so… insolent, and uncaring. I know he feels bad, I can tell, but he had no right to hurt me the way he did. I can’t forgive him for that.

|||| Ivystep: She’s probably my best friend in the clan, as of now. She is the sweetest soul, and she understands me in a way which no one else does. I’ve had many memorable conversations with her, and her interest in my work really means a lot to me. She’s one of the few that I can speak freely to, and I trust her wholeheartedly. I hope we can become even closer friends in the future.

|||| Brightsong: Only recently did we become friends, mostly because Ivystep and I were there to comfort her during her… uh, pre-relationship-phase, if you can call it that, with Shadowthorn. Ha, I can’t say I was completely surprised to find out that those two are mates now… Brightsong wasn’t the most subtle in keeping her feelings hidden. Still, I can’t believe it actually happened. She’s shy but sweet, and I hope I get to know her better.

|||| Reedwhisper: We’ve pretty much grown up together, and I can easily call him one of my closest friends in the clan. He is a kind hearted, selfless tom, and I admire him for that. When Redheart and he became a couple, I couldn’t have been more happy for them, even if it did distance me from my two best friends. It breaks my heart to see how her death devastated him.

|||| Hollowheart: I don’t know this tom as well as I should, considering he’s Ivystep’s mate and a long-standing member of the clan. We did have a few conversations while he was recovering in my den from his severe wounds, and he seems like a friendly and charming character, always eager to offer help. However, sometimes I feel like there’s something just a little… off about him, but I can’t quite put my paw on it.

|||| Shadowthorn: I have no idea what to make of him, to tell you the truth. Being in his presence just makes me feel uncomfortable. There’s something not quite right about him… I know he and Copperwing had a bit of a rocky past, but that didn’t excuse his numerous attacks on the clan’s deputy. And now, all of sudden, they’re… friends? Kind of? And plus, after years of living in the shadowy outskirts of the clan, he’s mates with Brightsong? None of it makes any sense. I just hope all his intentions are good, especially if they involve my friends and clanmates.

|| || Sunkit: She’s dug her way into my heart, like she has for almost every member of the clan. I can already see elements of her mother’s personality shining through, and that gives me mixed feelings, ha. I look forward to seeing how she develops, both personality-wise and health-wise (I am her medicine cat after all, and her eye-condition will need careful observation.)

|||| Batwing.

|||| Amberlight.

|||| Darkpaw.

|||| Ashenpaw.

|||| Sootpaw.


||RPed by: || ~Destynee33

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Wow. That took a while. ;D

- Tools Used: Paint tool SAI, Photoshop elements, Word, Bamboo tablet
- Time taken: /faint/

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