Kestrelstream ; CreekClan Medicine Cat

Kestrel - for her colors and patter on her body. stream - for her ability to swim.

DESCRIPTION

A sleek frame holding nothing but the color of pure white, stripes that slither down each of her legs. Her tail is a bold brown, with a white tip, and a small dot of brown on top of that. Her rear legs hold stripes up until her back. Ears are painted the dusty brown along the back of them. The most significant feature on her face, is her bright pink nose, and the blue eyes that reflect the water of her home in them.

Kestrel was born with off features that many would consider beautiful. Half of her face is ebony like the thundering skies, whilst the other consist of orange, with tabby stripes like lightning. Her eyes are Hetero, green like the leaves in the spring, and blue like the clear water that reflects her mask.

Her body is sleek, with many dapples mixing her two colors, with hints of white on her chest and tail tip. Her slender body not only allows her to run at quick paces, but jump quite high, since it is also light. Her height is that of an average cat so he usually meets eye to eye with her clan mates.

On her right paw she is missing two claws, which weakens her ability to fight as it is her dominant arm. She has made up for it with her superb healing abilities, and swift swimming. Kestrel taught herself to swim as a small kit, starting in crater filled puddles, and advancing to pools of water that gathered when it stormed.

PERSONALITY

Focused - She never takes her eyes off the task at hand. It is very difficult to get her attention once this feline gets to work.

Passionate - about her healing, and she holds the talent to prove it. She doesn't turn anyone away when they need her. No matter who they are, if they need medical attention shes the one to take the task. She has a fire in her heart that is almost impossible to put out, when shes determined it fires it up and its as though she's become someone else completely.

Supportive - She never takes initiative in dire situations ( unless they involve her healing ) and is more of a support behind the leader of the situation. She's prepared to backup her clan members if needed to, and is always there to provide a shoulder to those who need it.

Awkward - Kes never really spoke to anyone outside of her family, and was mostly alone throughout her life before CreekClan. So if she seems a little odd when spoken to, it's just her nature. She has been deprived from communication for sometime now. Also, to add on. Her nightmares have traumatized her, so she's a little jumpy.

Appreciative - If you do something for Kestrel, don't think she'll forget it. She will return kindness back by the tenfolds!

Gluttonous - She loves to eat, everything. Mice, birds, Fish (her favorite.) berries, and she'll sometimes nibble the tasty herbs she stocks up. Sadly, Kestrel is plagued with nightmares from Boneclan for these actions.

Clumsy - It's really not her fault, due to the nightmares that she receives she's always half asleep and crashing into others, or into things. She'll usually fall asleep standing, before crashing to the ground and waking up. She'll usually keep her head when healing, but aside from that this cat makes many mistakes a day.

HISTORY

Kestrel was born to a feral cat, in a litter of 3. Her mother was a feral cat that happened to give birth in the forest one unlucky day. The kits were born and her mother was forced to raise them in the brush. Now Kestrel lived a normal life until she was able to run around with her siblings. It was a nice day out, the sun was shining, birds chirping, and the leaves were green and beautiful. Summer. It wasn't long before the kittens were off playing that one of her siblings fell into the nearby stream. Now, it wasn't that deep, she'd seen her mother stand in it multiple times to drink water. But considering their size, her sibling was not able to touch the floor and have her head over the water. Kestrel watched as her sibling drowned before her, being swept away by the current.Kes couldn't do a thing to help her out of fear that she too would get swept away. Kestrel at that point was traumatized by water.

She refused to go near it anymore, causing her to get dehydrated many times. Her mother at that time had aided to her kitten, teaching her as she went how to heal herself from the dreadful dehydration without throwing up whenever she drank little bits of water. This caused Kestrel to grow a strong admiration for her mother, and she was determined to learn the ways of healing.

The kittens were almost reaching the same size as their mother when Kestrels life took another turn. They came across the stream as they were moving away from their 'home' in which Kestrels sister drowned. They had to cross it and Kestrel couldn't bring herself to touch the water in which she watched her litter mate struggle. She refused to cross, her mother persuaded (forced) her to cross the stream, by shoving her with her leftover sibling across it. Kestrel struggled at first to hold back, before finally figuring she wouldn't win this battle and stepped across it.

Kestrel's paws touching the rocks that were beneath the waters cover carried the memories to her again, and Kestrel decided at that point that she would learn to swim. In order to never allow anyone's death to be on her conscience. To be sure, they would never leave this earth at the hands of the vicious waters. Kestrel taught herself in small ponds, which were very difficult to even step in at first, but soon she began to embrace the water. Decided to step out of crater filled puddles and into small ponds. When she had her paddle down, and her rhythm she returned to the stream.

It took her many moons to master the art of the water. This stream, she could stand in now so it was pointless to practice here. So she walked, and walked, until she found an area that was deep enough to reach her chin. She allowed the current to take her away. The water almost drowned her, because she misjudged the current here which was many times stronger then the one up stream. It was difficult for her to begin swimming, as it continued to pull her beneath the surface and send water rushing into her mouth. Kestrel panicked and stopped trying completely. She allowed herself to be submerged, and when it seemed all hope was lost, Kestrel decided that she in fact did want to live and didn't spend all those moons training to tame these waters for nothing. She wouldn't fall to this death. So she pushed her legs and began paddling to the surface, and rising up she kicked her legs as hard as she could to reach the banks and pulled herself up before passing out.

When Kestrel came to, she seen a scarred cat staring at her with another fragile looking one. In fear she rolled over and leapt away, only to fall after her paws touched the ground. She was too weak to fight, and too inexperienced. But these cats, they didn't want to fight, they were merely checking to see if she was still alive. Kestrel allowed the fragile looking cat to examine her, only to her dismay to find out two of her claws were missing. Kestrel assumed they would send her away now from they clan, but rather they allowed her to stay. She'd been offered the position of apprentice to the current "Medicine cat" which suited Kestrel quite well. She could now continue to learn the ways of healing. Kestrel learned only a little before the medicine cat passed away, leaving the duties to her. She was still fresh to healing and was nervous about it. But she had to take the responsibility. Yes, that is what she vowed when offered the position.  Kestrel took it upon herself to learn then, examining all the herbs that were left in the den where they lived. Learning the shapes, smell, and effects they each held.

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