Tickstar | Leader

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TickStar

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Female : 55 : Leader of WaveClan : Bisexual

Appearance: {one-line appearance for clan listings}
A tortisehelll she-cat with gold eyes and a wiry body. 


Detailed Appearance
TickStar looks like a jigsaw puzzle of her parents' pelts, sporting patches of both EveningStar's pitch black fur and Rustswirl's ginger. Like both of her parents, TickStar has bright golden eyes and a short, coarse pelt. Thankfully, she did not inherit her mother's inability to keep her fur flat, so most of the time she looks sleek and well-groomed. Much to her annoyance, she possesses little of the muscle that EveningStar was known for, and instead takes after her mother's wiriness. She is of an average height, just tall enough to make steady eye contact with cats of about any size. Her voice is rougher now than it was in her youth thanks to scarring in her lungs and throat from a fire, which took two of her lives. 

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Personality:

{briefly; Bossy, Desperate for approval }
TickStar has always been a complex creature, constantly feeling as if she is caught between different worlds. She has always been proud of her status as a leader's daughter, though it came with lots of pressures, most of which she made up. As an apprentice, she has a tendency to be very bossy, as she decided it was her job to keep her siblings in line. The thing she desired more than anything else was the attention and praise of her father, EveningStar. 
As she has gone through life, TickStar has been forced to come to terms with he fact that so many of the expectations and responsibilities she claimed people had placed onto her came from her own head. 
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History:

Tick's parents were friends long before they became mates. But that did not mean that they made a good pairing. He was serious and protective, while she could flip her desires on the dime, and didn't care if a few rules got broken along the way. While they may have been a good balance as friends, as mates they were a ticking bomb. 
When Tickkit was only a moon old, the territory began to change, becoming a wasteland. The land was being torn up, and wired chemicals had introduced toxins into the waterways. To top this all off, her mother was already leading them on crazy adventures, much to the chagrin of her father. While under normal circumstances this would just be a little bit on the risky side, this was just plain reckless. Her father, being the protective sort that he was, pushed her mother away, alienating her from himself and the kits. 
At first, Tick thought that the rift between her parents must have been her own fault, and she did everything to try and make amends. This started a long trend of her trying to do anything and everything to please her father, thinking that maybe she could find a way to fix things. 
Just before her apprentice ceremony, the voices of Starclan went silent, and the clans started to journey towards some new and unknown land. Once again, Tickpaw was unable to have answers as to whether or not she was doing anything right. So, as one might expect, she started going to the one cat that she always thought had the answers; her father. She stuck by his side at any possible moment, trying to learn every little thing she possibly could. At the same time, his new mate, Bellfeather, was providing help that Tick was not even aware she had needed. Somehow, she helped the anxious young she-cat to repair the damages in her relationship with Rustswirl, and see her for the cat she really was; a mother who had made mistakes. 
Along the way to the new land, Tickpaw experienced many heartbreaks, including the deaths of two of her brothers, Weevilpaw and Hornpaw. 
About halfway through her apprenticeship, Tickpaw was finally able to find some sense of normalcy in the new territories. The clans were still trying to find themselves, and territory was not yet divided, but she had some place to call her home. 
By the time she became a warrior, the clans had finally been settled, and she was able to really start discovering who she was supposed to be. 

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Family:

parents

mother: Rust-swirl
father: EveningStar
Step-mother: Bellfeather



siblings

ScorpionClaw * Sister * Deceased * Died of smoke inhalation
Hornpaw * Brother * Deceased * Died on the way to the new territories.

Weevilpaw * Brother * Deceased * Died on the way to the new territories.
Lizardpaw-Half-brother-alive


clan relations

Lives

Given by:

-Courage: Weevilpaw

-Mercy: Hornpaw

-Justice: Vipersnap

-Energy: Ravenkit

-Mentoring: Brightpaw

-Love: Blossomheart

-Trust: Sleektail
-Wisdom: Swampymoss
-Pride: EveningStar

Lost:

-Crushed by a tree saving her sister. Scorpionclaw (Kanna ) put her out of her misery.

-Smoke inhalation

-Injured Lungs

-Scorpion sting