Horizonpaw

LOOKS
tall, classic orange tabby with bright grayish-blue eyes and a flash of white on his chest. His left front paw is white and his other paws are the same shade as his main coat, but just slightly more brown. He has two extra toes on his right front paw. His paws are kind of large. He has a lean build. His fur is fairly thick and fluffy but still easy enough for him to maintain. He has a scar on his cheek from when he was showing off and it didn't go so well. It didn't teach him much of a lesson, but he's a little more careful now

PERSONALITY
persuasive, good at taking charge of things, reckless, worries about the opinions of others, but pretends not to, likes bending the rules, always wants to help someone who is sick or injured and doesn't discriminate. he's a show off, and can be immature, but when healing a cat he's always mature, though he may joke around to cheer the cat up. actually he jokes with just about anyone. He pays careful attention during lessons and he has a good memory, even remembering random little things sometimes so he rarely second guesses himself, which he admits can sometimes be a problem. He's never reckless when it comes to the life of another cat though. He...sometimes does try to get special treatment since he is the medicine cat apprentice, he's very energetic, and loves to challenge himself. Also pretty judgemental.

Kithood:
Horizonkit and their littermates were born.

Apprenticehood
Horizonpaw was apprenticed to Blackheart medicine cat of CarnationClan.

9 moons:

==== RP with Hickory @SiGirl_85 Summary: Horizonpaw met Hickory a loner and made fun of him for not being good at hunting, despite not being great himself. They gave him a few tips though, and explained clan terminology somewhat but mostly just made fun of him) ==== Horizonpaw was collecting  and considering what challenging stunt to do next. A brown tabby, small for his age, was near the border. He was hunting, not very well, but well enough to have survived for two moons... Horizon stopped what he was doing, tilting their head curiously, watching the newcomer.  Hickory didn't notice the apprentice yet, still trying to scent something. He smelled a strong scent of cats like the old she-cat he'd encountered not too long ago, but not much else. Warriors? Yeah, that's what she said she was. So that scent was a warrior, according to her he was a 'rogue', and there was another type of cat called a 'Cypressclan' that the warriors didn't like. "Hi there," Horizonpaw called, because honestly, he couldn't tell the loner was trying to hunt. No cat he'd ever seen hunted like that. The yong loner jumped, muscles tensing as he spun to face the other He laughed. "StarClan is the spirits of dead cats, and warriors are the ones who hunt and defend the clan. i use herbs to heal, but I'm just learning how. Who's this? Another warrior? They're on the ground that smells like warriors... Or are they Cypressclan? What if the Cypressclans don't have a code, and this cat try to k1ll me? They're not as big as the warrior, I could probably get away... "by StarClan," Horizonpaw exclaimed, "would you like some thyme for your nerves? You seem very on edge." Hickory backed away a bit. Starclan? Like Cypressclan? Is that another type of cat? How many would that make... four? Five, if you counted the type of cat he used to be before... Before they... He shook his head to clear it. He could let himself get sucked back into that train of thought right now, not when there was a situation to deal with. "Come on, you don't need to be scared. My name's Horizonpaw, what's yours?" "I-I'm Ree." he answered, before catching himself. "Um- uh.. Hickory. My name's Hickory. Are you a Cypressclan, a warrior, or a rogue?" "I'm the medicine cat apprentice of CarnationClan," he meowed, puffing out his chest proudly. "Is that another type of cat? Like a Starclan? Or a Warrior?" He laughed. "StarClan is the spirits of dead cats, and warriors are the ones who hunt and defen"I'm just gonna pretend you didn't say that because it sounds really dumbd the clan. I use herbs to heal, but I'm just learning how. Hickory looked confused. "Why are there so many names?" "I'm just gonna pretend you didn't say that because it sounds really dumb," Horizonpaw said. Hickory glared at him. "Well, is a Cypressclan a type of warrior too?" he asked.  "Yeah. There are two living clans. Carnationclan my clan, and CypressClan the other one." Hickory realized he'd let his guard down a bit, fascinated by all the talk of clans and warriors, and hurriedly returned to a tense fighting stance, ready to defend against an attack, or bolt. He doesn't seem like he'd attack you... he thought, then shook his head imperceptibly. You didn't think they'd leave you. You didn't think that she might not be safe. Things never go how you think.  "So...what are you doing?" Horizonpaw asked. "H-hunting?" the loner said. "Ohhhhhh so that's what that was," Horizonpaw said.  "What do you mean!?" Hickory exclaimed, "We- I've been fine for two months hunting like this..." Then paused, it hadn't been going very well this way, barely managing to catch enough between all the prey he scared off. Could it hurt to ask? "How- How else would you hunt?" he asked hesitantly. The fluffy orange tom shrugged. "I'm a medicine cat apprentice. I've just watched other cats hunt, and, well it's a bit different from that. Though, I might know a few tricks." "Don't you just, find something and try to chase and catch it before it gets away?" he asked. It had seemed pretty straightforward to him: find prey, kill prey, eat prey, hope you continued to have good enough luck that you didn't die. "Yeah...not alerting it that you're there when you're still many badgerlengths away from it is helpful," they said with a smirk. Hickory glared. "You sure you don't want some sort of herb to calm you down?" Horizonpaw asked, clearly very amused. Trap! Hickory's thoughts screamed. "Why would I trust anything you gave me? You could just be trying to kill me, or- or get me to let my guard down, or-" he said. At this point Horizonpaw was on the ground, laughing. "Do I look like I could kill you?" more laughter. "You could poison me. With those plant things." Hickory didn't think this was particularly funny. "Look, I may look a little insane but that's just cause I'm lowkey hyperactive." Hickory glared at him again, still not letting his guard down. He didn't look dangerous, he didn't act dangerous, but that didn't mean he wasn't. "I can leave if you want, or I could give you hunting tips," Horizonpaw offered. Hickory was tempted to tell him to go away, but... "I- I still don't trust you, but..." he said, "Could you tell me how?" "sure," Horizonpaw meowed, ignoring the comment about Hickory not trusting them. "So, I've heard something about staying downwind." "So it can't smell you?" Horizonpaw nodded. "That's it." he paused. "well, I think." "You can't say anything about my hunting if you don't know how either..." he grumbled. The medicine cat apprentice paused. "You know, you have a point Ree um uh Hickory," he meowed, mocking him a tiny bit, but with a good-natured grin. "Don't call me that," he said, noticeably quieter. "well then what should call you? ree?" "Not that." he said again, "Just- Just Hickory..." "Okay. so anyway, breathe less heavily too." "Oh." He hadn't even thought of his breathing as much of a factor, not that he'd let him know that. "and something about properly aiming your pounce. I've heard that too," Horizonpaw meowed. Hickory nodded. "Anyway," he looked up at the sky. "I need to hurry up and finish collecting herbs. wanna meet again?" "Okay." Hickory said hesitantly. "This doesn't mean I trust you or anything!" he added hurriedly. "well I find that a bit hurtful." "We've talked for twenty minutes, and you're from the same... clan as that she-cat." he pointed out. " 'That she-cat'? sooooooooooooooo helpful." "I don't know her name! The old, grumpy one, that doesn't like questions or Cypressclan." "Well, I'm nice." "Remains to be seen... But, thanks. For the tips." Horizonpaw stuck his tongue out at him. "You do seem alright though," Hickory admitted. "obviously," Horizonpaw meowed. Hickory laughed a little, "I'll uh- see you later, then." Horizonpaw waved his tail and hurried off to find herbs. Hickory left to continue hunting, keeping what the apprentice had said in mind. Horizonpaw leaped over a rock as he ran to a juniper bush. Hickory padded off into the forest away from the border.

RP with Reedsparrow @--Moonfeather (at sunhigh just after rp with Hickory) Summary: Just greeting but we gonna copy and paste it anyway!
Just outside camp, Reedsparrow laid stretched out in the shade, the breeze helped to keep her cool. She sat up slightly and began to lap at her medium length fluffy fur. A fluffy ginger tabby tom was padding back to camp carrying a bundle of herbs and thinking about Hickory. Reedsparrow looked up and sat straight “Hello Horizonpaw” she meowed briskly. Horizonpaw raised his head proudly a little, noticing how she sat up straight as if to address him with respect. He then dipped his head politely in greeting since he couldn't speak with herbs in his mouth. Though, then again, that briskness seemed a bit impolite. Didn't she know who she was talking to? Still, she was the deputy, so he wasn't gonna tell on her. He took the herbs to the medicine cat den.

RP with Furzepaw @silvermoon1243 (tbh just a conversation)
One day after meeting Hickory, Horizonpaw was eating a shrew in camp.

Furzepaw was entering camp, grumbling about how terrible a mentor Puffinstar was.

"Hello my brother," Horizonpaw called.

“Yes, hello Horizonpaw," Furzepaw said.

"I take it training isn't....going well?" the medicine cat apprentice meowed.

“Puffinstar’s crazy! She keeps telling me in doing something wrong even though I’m doing it just like her!”

"Maybe she just doesn't want to admit she's doing something wrong," Horizonpaw suggested with a smirk.

Furzepaw scoffed. "Sureeee."

"Or maybe you just suck," Horizonpaw said, a grin spreading across their face.

Furzepaw fake gasped. “rUde!”

"I'm your brother," they meowed.

“I was just kidding.”

"I might have been too."

Furzepaw snickered.

Horizonpaw took a bite of shrew.

Furzepaw sat and flicked his tail.

"mm want some shrew?"

He shrugged. “Sure.”

They passed him the shrew.

He smiled. "Thanks."

"No problem."

Furzepaw smiled.

"I should do something cool today."

He nodded. “You should.”

"What's an impressive slightly dangerous totally thrill-inducing thing I could do?"

“Crossing the thunderpath?”

"Ooh, there's an idea."

“Or going to CypressClan.”

"Well, I'm a medicine cat so it's not really dangerous for me."

“True..."

Horizonpaw sighed.

Furzepaw shrugged.

"Well, I need a bunch of cats to show off to, obviously."

“Huh. I never really understood the idea of impressing others.” ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀

"Making them jealous and impressing yourself too."

“Why would I want that?”

"I have no idea what goes on in your strange brain," Horizonpaw meowed.

“I’m a weirdo. What else is new.” He laughed.

"Don't you want other cats to know you're better than them?"

“I’m just like everyone else! I’m no worse nor better than them!”

"That's why I push myself to be better."

He scoffed. “That’s not what I meant.”

He rolled his grayish blue eyes.

Furzepaw snickered.

Horizonpaw stretched.

“Oh. Puffinstar is calling. Again.”

"Bye!" Horizonpaw called.

Another RP with Hickory (summary: Horizonpaw is dumb and crosses the thunderpath which worries Hickory. Then they gather mariogolds)
Hickory was walking near the border of Carnationclan.

"well hello again," Horizonpaw meowed, walking over

He jumped, turning to face him. "Oh- hi." he said when he recognized him.

"How's your hunting going?

"Uh- better." he said, "Thanks for the help."

He grinned.

"What are you doing out here?" he asked.

"I was bored."

"Oh."

"wanna watch me run across the thunderpath?"

"Uh. Isn't that- a bit stupid?" he asked.

"No, not really. It's dangerous but I can do it."

"You'll get yourself killed!"

"I will not!"

"What about the monsters?"

"that's the adventure."

"Fine. I'm- I'm coming." he said, "Just- Just so you don't do something that'll get you killed."

He huffed. "I don't wanna be responsible for you too."

"I'm not the one running on the thunderpath! If either of us is responsible, it's not you."

"There's not even that many monsters!"

"There's enough," he muttered.

"mouseheart."

He looked at him a bit confused. "I'm- I'm assuming that's an insult. And in that case, same to you." He stuck his tongue out at him.

and this was the point where Phoenix decided that as nice as putting the entire rp on here was, it took way too much time.

So, Horizonpaw admitted sure, maybe he was dumb, but at least he wasn't a coward. He then crossed the busy thunderpath. He was tired, but a twoleg tried to capture him, so he went back across, narrowly avoiding getting hit. Then he and Hickory collected marigolds and Hickory took some with him and they parted ways.

==== At some point, Newtpaw told him Applepaw had run away, but with the way other stuff has been happening, it doesn't seem like he should know that cause I thought the rp with Blackheart wouldn't last long but it did, so IDK maybe he doesn't know yet and we'll just pretend that rp doesn't exist ====

RP with Blackheart (summary Horizonpaw is a brat and argues with Blackheart...then Blackheart eats deathberries
Okay so Horionpaw brought the marigolds to the medicine cat den, expecting lots of praise, but Blackheart smelled the thunderpath on him, and though that didn't necessarily mean he went on the thunderpath, it did mean he crossed the border, so Blackheart yelled at him. Horizonpaw asked what they'd be learning today, and Blackheart started talking about deathberries. They went out (details are fuzzy cause I've had a lot on my plate and don't feel like scrolling through the rp) but basically Horizonpaw nervously joked about reporting Blackheart to the leader because he was saying something about using deathberries. Then Blackheart ended up purposefully eating them and he collapsed, so Horizonpaw and another cat brought him back. (that rp kind of died off which annoys me because some major stuff was happening))

Okay, I think he's 10 moons old by now..... what the heck happened here? he basically just stressed about the fact that Blackheart was imprisoned so he had to do basically all the med cat work and Puffinstar was planning an attack so he knew there would be lots of wounds.

another rp with Hickory
Horizon was by a river because he was overwhelmed with all the med cat duties getting dumped on him. He found out Hickory knew about the invasion because Puffin had mentioned it while throwing him in prison. Uh, they talked for a bit idk exactly about what, mostly about how all the med cat duties fell to Horizon because something happened to Blackheart. Then Horizon had to hurry back to camp because he had a lot of stuff to do. I think that's how it went but it was a bit ago so idk if it's COMPLETELY acurate.