NAME: Cherryleaf

RANK: Warrior

AFFILIATION: WillowClan

IMMEDIATE KIN:
Dancingflame (mother)
Acorndrop (father)
Mothkit (sister)

BASIC APPEARANCE: Red tortoiseshell she-cat with green eyes.

DETAILED APPEARANCE: Cherryleaf is a red-and-brown tortoiseshell she-cat with leaf-green eyes contrasting her red-mottled appearance. The reds and browns melt together to form a beautiful patchwork of colors similar to the trees in leaf-fall. She isn't as stocky as her clanmates; she is instead slimmer with a longer tail.

PERSONALITY & DESCRIPTION: She can be described accurately as serious and sensible, an individual who lives in the present and follows the rules. She is seemingly motivated and driven by some internal cue, and her sense of duty and lawfulness binds her to the warrior code like a fish to water. Cherryleaf stays within the boundaries set and would never dare to trespass them. Neither would her ideas and thoughts keep her from being anything other than what she thinks would constitute a model warrior. She begs for stories about warriors and leaders of old and values what her predecessors put down for her and her clanmates—so much so that she takes any potential offense against the warrior code seriously. The code is either broken, or it isn't. She isn't sharp-tongued or mouthy, but she will most certainly let her disapproval show in the form of quiet words or frosty avoidance. It might appear that she can't look at both sides or that she can't see past her own nose to understand others, and she would tentatively agree with that assessment. But flaws don't always have rhyme or reason to them, and that thought keeps her in steady acceptance of what she can't always control. Living with such firm viewpoints doesn't lend itself to balance though, and anything that is firm is also fragile. Cherryleaf wants to live as closely to the warrior code as she can and be the best warrior that she can be under those guidelines, but what she doesn't realize is that those notions themselves are flexible. They are open to interpretation and cannot be so easily ironed out. What about a situation that is gray in nature, where it is a struggle to apply the code she has learned? In what context is a warrior the best warrior? What if she encounters a situation that shatters what she thought were her solid ideals? As correct as Cherryleaf thinks she is, she has a lot to learn about real life, and that sometimes listening to others isn't a bad thing. Sometimes, rules have to be broken for situations to improve. Sometimes, what is considered wrong is actually morally right.