Doeleap of Ivyclan

[ladyspectral]

Doeleap Female 137 Moons Heterosexual Ivyclan Elder "Don't try to rush things, all you'll feel is regret later." Appearance Doeleap is a wide set she cat, her muscle softened into fat. Her tabby coat is short and well kept, all four paws white. Her muzzle is also marked with white that spills onto her throat and upper chest. Personality Doeleap is generally the quiet sort, keeping to her elder's den except to stretch her old legs or bury one of her clanmates with her fellow elders. Respectful and evenly mannered, she hasn't raised her voice in many, many moons. She has a definite love for kits and will spend hours out of her day telling stories and even play if she feels springy enough. Her quiet melancholy shows though when they leave, often times growing desperate to keep them just a bit longer. History Doekit, like so many other cats, was born in Ivyclan's forest. She had three siblings in her litter, one brother named Smallkit, and two sisters named Birdkit and Rabbitkit. They spent their days carefree as most kits their age did, playing and laughing their days away. Smallkit always had difficulty keeping up with his sisters, born much smaller than them. He struggled to get enough milk, and every day was a fight against their roughhousing. That was how the young she cat's early days were spent, up until she became six moons. As the clan gathered and Doekit became Doepaw, she was apprenticed to a long legged tabby tom. Rabbitpaw and Birdpaw were paired up with mentors of their own of course, and Smallpaw found himself with an overly confident tom as his teacher. Hopefully to inspire confidence in him that his siblings had snuffed out. Doepaw and Birdpaw often found themselves out hunting together, roughhousing occasionally and calling it training. Birdpaw stared up at the clouds more than she paid attention to the ground, and Smallpaw's heart grew as cold as ice and bitter as death berries. Doepaw became Doeleap, Rabbitpaw became Rabbitpelt, Birdpaw became Birdflight, and Smallpaw became Smallbriar. Their vigil was spent cuddled together as siblings, though none of the sisters noticed Smallbriar keeping his distance. That morning Smallbriar left camp, and never returned. For many moons he terrorized Ivyclan in any way he could before he suddenly went silent. To this day it remains a mystery never solved by any cat, a story forgotten to time and lost on Doeleap's silent tongue. As predicted the sisters mourned their brother. They gained apprentices of their own and life went on without Smallbriar. Rabbitpelt came down with whitecough and passed as a warrior, and Birdflight grew colder to her last sibling. Doeleap watched her drift away before she too passed, killed by a lynx on patrol and carried away up the mountain. Moons passed, and Doeleap met a tom named Pinetail. He was a tall tabby with green eyes, and it wasn't long before they became mates. It was a match made in Starclan, and Doeleap was able to start recovering from her losses as she moved to the nursery. She gave birth to two kits, a tom named Briarkit and a she kit named Lizardkit. Tragedy struck yet again as Pinetail found himself in the path of a monster, dying soon after in the medicine den. Her kits became Lizardpaw and Briarpaw, growing strong under their mentors. Now old, Doeleap moved from the nursery to the elder's den, retiring from her warrior duties and beginning her rest. Briarpaw, named after her lost brother, was taken when he strayed too far to a two legs nest. Lizardpaw was struck down in a border dispute soon after, marking the death of the last of Doeleap's family. Now alone and haunted by her endless regrets the old she cat sought comfort in the clan's kits, becoming a surrogate queen of sorts to them.