Quailcall

A small red ticked bicolor she-cat with large ears and whispery voice
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Quailcall is an orange furred ticked tabby with medium white markings. Her belly and ears and muzzle are white, and she has a blaze that runs up her forehead. Her eyes are yellow and her nose is pink. She has a very small stature – comparable to that of an apprentice due to a lack of proper nutrition as a kit, coupled with an illness that stunted her growth.

She has large ears, which makes her face look even more youthful since her mismatched appearance (adult facial features on a small body) make her look like an adolescent even as she approaches the age of an elder.

• Her throat has no noticeable scaring, but she crushed it as an apprentice and ever since her voice has been crackly, whisper-y, or – at worse – refuses to work at all.

While she was always a bold cat, after being apprenticed to Shalefury, Quailcall adopted a more aggressive mentality. She is proud, stubborn and currently opposes Moosestar’s more friendly relations with the other clans. She and Goldenstar never got along when he was reigning and this will likely continue into the current leadership.

• She was distraught that her younger kit, Sparrowpaw died and blames her eldest, Sunstrike for his death. The two are not close anymore, although Sunstrike still misses the relationship that they once had when she was a kit and Quailcall was a doting dame.
• Quailcall has a complex about her size but uses her small stature to her advantage to make cats underestimate her, especially to throw her opponents off balance because of her honed skills in such a small package.

• Born in the Moon of Long Sun (2016)
• Made an Apprentice as Quailpaw in ThunderClan during the Moon of Long Nights (2016)
• Named a Warrior as Quailcall in ThunderClan during the Moon of Unnamed Blue (2017)

Kit: 0-6 moons

Born as Quailkit as the only kit in her litter. She was very small and sickly, and spent much of her formative years in the medicine cat den. One would think this would make her interested in herbs but it in fact had the opposite effect. Quailkit hated the medicine den, the herbs and everything to do with healing because it kept her from exploring the Camp, playing with other kits and – she worried – would stop her from becoming an apprentice.

Thankfully she steadily began to grow and gain weight and was able to be apprenticed on her 6th moon. However due to her ailments, she was always a small cat, and never seemed to grow beyond her 9th moon.

Apprentice: 6-13 moons

Quailpaw was apprenticed to Shalefury and quickly began to emulate her mentor’s attitude about life, the clans and most importantly – herself. She was a prideful, opinionated cat who was determined to make a name for herself even from the beginning.

Quailpaw perfected the art of hunting birds from a young age because of her small size. She was able to climb trees and venture out onto thin branches that even other apprentices would balk at. However, this came back to bite her in her 11th moon when she fell from a branch (which by all accounts was fairly stable) and injured her neck and chest. Once again Quailpaw found herself in the medicine cat den, and while she didn’t stay long her throat was permanently damaged, making her voice come out crackly and often – not at all.

Warrior: 13 – Current

Quailcall was granted her name due to her unique battle-cry, which was rather unsettling because of her damaged throat. She worked hard to get into Goldenstar’s good books but unfortunately her aggression and prideful nature never allowed her to advance beyond her station.

In her 33rd moon, she asked the senior warrior Oakbound to sire a litter for her, as she admired the tom, and wanted kits who embodied a more quiet intelligence, which her daughter Sunstrike certainly inherited. Her kits were both a moon after Oakbound passed, and while she did owe the tom his death didn’t emotionally affect her all that badly.

As her kits were apprenticed, Quailcall returned to her duties. She watched out for her kits but found that her attention could not always be on them. Her worst fears came true when her younger kit Sparrowpaw was hit by a monster on the Thunderpath – a tragedy she blames her daughter for.

Quailcall remains a prideful cat, but acts more aloof in her age, silently judging the current leadership whom she had doubt in.

_____Great Grandparents _____
Hopestorm (An amber-eyed ruddy-fawn she-cat with a pale underside and tattered ear)
Foxbright (A rich red tabby van tom with one amber and one green eye)

_____Siblings of Parents_____
Shalefury (A gray primal ticked tabby tom)

_____Cousins_____
Wildcry (A fierce lilac caramel ticked tabby she-cat with a single amber eye)
??paw: (A tawny she-cat)

_____Children of Cousins_____
Savagefox (A svelte green-eyed tom with a red tabby bicolor pelt)
Kestrelswipe ( )

[Genealogy Details]

Mated with Oakbound. She asked him to sire a litter due to his longevity and reputation for excellence in the clan. He died the moon before the kits were born.

Shalefury was Quailcall’s mentor, who taught her much of the Fierceblood ideals that she still upholds to this day.