Cougarivy

BASIC INFO

Age: 40 moons (as of 11/18/23)

Rank: Missing

Former Ranks: Kit - Apprentice - Warrior - Enforcer Commander

Gender: Female

Other Names: Cougarkit, Cougarpaw

Current Affiliation: (Abducted by Twolegs)

Former Affiliation(s): Shadowclan

INTERPERSONAL CONNECTIONS

Mother: Lynxstrike(NPC)

Father: Blacktiger(NPC; deceased)

Sibling(s): Spottedpaw(NPC; deceased)

Crush: Elmshadow

Mate(s): Elmshadow

Offspring: Lostmoon, Silentpaw(Formerly Deadkit), Frostpaw, Mothpaw, Dogpaw, Shadepaw, Seedpaw

Family Tree

Updated: 6/24/2023

Mentor: Goldenstep (former)

Apprentice(s): Pigeonstep, Ratpaw

PHYSICAL TRAITS

Fur Color/Markings: Black and White with light Grey markings

Fur Length: Short to Medium

Fur Texture: Slick

Eye Color: Blue

Body Type/Structure: Dainty

Height: Small

Weight: Small

Voice: High

Gait: Bouncy

PERSONALITY

Positive Traits: Happy - Bubbly - Playful - Inquisitive

Neutral Traits:

Negative Traits: Blood-thirsty - Volatile - Tenuous grasp on sanctity of life

STORY

Cougarkit was born to her father, Blacktiger, and her mother, Lynxstrike, along with her sister, Spottedkit, in Shadowclan. Cougarkit and Spottedkit had a Shadowclan-typical kithood. Lynxstrike was an attentive mother, caring and involved. She encouraged unity between her kits and put an emphasis on training, of both mind and body. Blacktiger drilled his kits hard and expected nothing less than the best from them. He was not mean nor abusive but he kept the pressure on the kits to keep them improving and encouraged competition between the sisters. From an early age, Cougarkit took to skinning her prey and licking away the blood before eating it. While the oddities and affinity towards bloodlust concerned Lynxstrike, she kept the worries to herself.

Once apprenticed, Cougarpaw's and Spottedpaw's relationship began veering more towards Blacktiger's competitive influence and away from Lynxstrike's unity. Cougarpaw was hungry for the next adrenaline rush and never quite found a thrill like that she felt when battle training. Until Lynxstrike and Blacktiger took Spottedpaw and Cougarpaw out for a family training session. Lynxstrike and Blacktiger took to the sidelines to coach as their daughters sparred. It began as a friendly, though unsheathed, practice but as the sisters fought for the win, the battle intensified. Cougarpaw gained her first scar from a brutal strike by her sister but, no matter how many times Spottedpaw dealt what should've been a crippling blow, Cougarpaw kept pushing, growing increasingly enlivened. Lynxstrike, unnerved and concerned for her daughters' safety tried to put a halt to the training but Cougarpaw and Spottedpaw were too involved in their battle and Blacktiger saw only the strength of his daughters being displayed. The battle ended in exhaustion but only Cougarpaw remained standing. To Lynxstrike's crippling horror, Spottedpaw succumbed to her injuries on the spot. Lynxstrike found the concern over Cougarpaw's strange obsessions had suddenly intensified to outright fear as she noticed Cougarpaw looked, not just remorseless but, downright exhilarated. She'd turned to Blacktiger for his intervention but saw instead that he was proud. He supported Cougarpaw's show of strength and saw the death of his other daughter as collateral damage to Cougarpaw's growth.

Lynxstrike left Shadowclan in a fit of terror and grief. Blacktiger died shortly after in a rock fall.

During her apprenticeship, her idea of fun often clashed with her mentor, Goldenstep, leaving a strained relationship between the two. After receiving her warrior name, Cougarivy made it her mission to get between Goldenstep and her mate, Elmshadow. Amidst this new goal, she found herself gaining a deeper respect and newfound awe for Elmshadow and her goal to steal her former mentor's mate became a simple goal to acquire the tom she'd fallen for.

Nov 2023: After contending with a lame shoulder following a dog fight, Cougarivy made a wish that her shoulder would heal properly. In a cruel twist of fate, her wish was answered in the form of being trapped and abducted by twolegs and brought to a vet. At the vet, she underwent surgery to fix her shoulder then discharged to the twoleg who had trapped her. For months, the twoleg trapped her in a small den, giving her mush food and lingering, She managed to escape once and found herself outside in an expansive pasture dotted with strange miniature twoleg dens. Soft, complacent kittypets wandered slothfully all around her. Except for one of the kittypets was different. He was more rogue than kittypet and was distinctly different from the other meandering, mindless kittypets on the farm. Cougarivy left it all behind, moving quickly to the outter ring of the pasture only to find high twoleg mesh surrounding the pasture. When she leapt to climb out, the top moved out from under her, not allowing any purchase to get over. She was still trapped. She spent the following couple moons evading the twoleg and its traps. She had a few run ins with the rogue-kittypet but each one ended more contentious than the last. It became clear that he was some sort of leader to the soft kittypet farm and he had taken a liking to Cougarivy in particular and the novelty of baiting and antagonizing him was quickly wearing off for her. It all finally came to a head one night when Cougarivy's antagonizing pushed the rogue-kittypet to anger and he attacked. Cougarivy landed the first decisive blow with her agility giving her an advantage but he was far larger and he only had to get ahold of her the once to deal a lasting counter. As soon as she had an opening, she was able to land a fatal blow but the encounter left her beaten and exhausted. The twoleg was able to find and recapture her the following morning and she was back at the vet.

Heavily sedated, she was patched up and sent once again back to the little den trap within the twoleg's den but it was many days before the heavy and disorienting feeling of sedation finally began to abate. A moon later, she felt the unmistakable dreaded heaviness growing in her abdomen. She had only ever carried Elmshadow's kits and that had been a calculated move to keep her desired mate happy. She loathed the thought of dealing with a litter of some lousy kittypet's progeny. Nevertheless, it came. For moons, she was trapped in the den with a litter of four mewling kits and she grew more disgusted by them each sunrise that none had died off in the night. She withheld her milk but the twoleg would come in daily, handling the brood and supplementing. She was disgusted watching the kits take to the twoleg, suckling brazenly from its liquid-filled contraption it offered to each of them.

Two moons locked in the den with the pathetic mewling kittypet brood, turned into three and then into four then into five. The kits were near matching her weight when she snapped, killing one of the four kits. The remaining three were immediately removed and she was taken again to the vet and sedated. When she awoke, she was back in the den trap alone. Her ear was sore where a notch had been removed and her belly shaved and knotted in discomfort.

Present: Trapped in the kittypet farm in her own sectioned off yard with her own miniature twoleg den.

Notable Threads

Cougarivy and Elmshadow Get to Know Each Other

Cougarivy Moves in on Elmshadow

Cougarivy's First Battle as a Warrior

Cougarivy's Pregnant

The Abandoned Trio Are Born

Pigeonpaw's New Mentor