Warrior cats writing contest

[Snowfeather]

Welcome to the Warrior cats writing competition contest

This contest will revolve around your skills to form a new warrior cat, with its own personality, backstory and everything that possibly takes to make a new character.

If you've ever entered a roleplay you've made a description. A form of traits names and identities that you tie together to great a new warrior cat that you control. These cats are unique because you thought them up and everything about them depends on your ability of imagination storytelling and writing.


These cats will include 

- A well thought out name matching their personally or appearance (there are exceptions)
So please no entries  with a name like "Limefur" and the cat have absolutely nothing related to that .Did the mother of the kit decide a brown kit should be called "Limekit? " . Firestar was given the name fire because of his coat,
Graystripe because of his gray pelt and stripe going down his back.
Crookedjaw was called that because of his...well Crooked jaw.

Now there ARE exceptions. For instance Silentowl or softstep. With these names you picture a cat with the silence of an owl or a very light tread. If you have a name like "Moonflower" ect that doesn't relate to looks personality or something the character has done please find a way to explain why this character earned the name. Maybe they were born under a full moon and have the beauty of a blooming flower.

-A picture of any kind showing the looks of the character. Digital. Someone's photography. One of the Warrior makers where you choose your cats looks.
However if you can find a good picture, dont want to make one or any of the above you MAY just give a description.
Please give me something realistic . Dont be a Starkit. And thats all I gotta say about that.

-A full personality of pros and cons (not a Mary Sue)
You will have a major deduction in your grade scale if your cat as no cons. Please dont give me the super boring personality of "Loyal to the clan and protects others" yes you can put that BUT you need some cons. Your character is not super perfect and likable to everyone. Your character must have an off to their personality. Their size intimidates others that their a big bad cat and their a softy. They hate non clan members. They are a player. They have a fear of water or heights. They always secretly try to deliver more deadly blows in battle and have a thirst for blood. They snap under pressure.. Ect ect.
Every cat had pros and cons. Squrrielflight is sweet at times but a hothead.
Firestar was an amazing cat for those who needed him but was too softhearted. 
Bluestar was a strong leader but she completely snapped under pressure.

Your cat can be loyal and caring to their clanmates but you must have something else.

-A good backstory, it doesn't have to be sad. Just interesting and believable 

The reason I say "Doesn't have to be sad" is a lot of times ill see a backstory and its something like "Mothers dead" "abandoned kit" "abusive mother/father" "hated because of looks or family " alright. Great . if you can make it work and wanna go the Disney route thumbs up. Shows your character can prevail hardship BUT backstories dont have to be sad. Ill leave you to make your own but think of other warrior cat backstories. Not all of them are Disney. Maybe their more like Mapleshade or Ashfur.Or like lion blaze and jay. You decide.

You must tie all of these things together and make them fit into your new cat.

Rules

- Ill be the judge of this round, so please no one try to do it for me.

-You CANNOT use a character you've already made . I will allow you to use your rp clans. If you read the rules the password is "Navy"

-You may however, relate your character to anyone in the books


-Use proper grammar . Please no text talking or starkit(-ing)

-Absolutely dont give me a Mary sue . If you dont know what that is visit Shadowstalkers Mary sue thread. It will explain that term perfectly.

-Ill be giving critiques of each cat once we pass the deadline, so dont be offended if I dont quote your post

-ill be grading these on scale. How everything fits ect.

-You may edit the cat as much as you want but once the dead line hits thats it

-You must put something for every cat-igory (Hahaha! ) . You are FREE to mix cat-igories and put them in whatever order. 

-Dont worry if your backstory is small compared to someone else. This is judged based on how well you form your character and how interesting it is

-You have no set amount of how long your personality or backstory is but please dont like..give me chapters 

-You may have your cat be a relative to book characters or random cats you make up.

-Please dont be "THAT PERSON" if another member wins and receives a lot of praise. I will be doing things like "Best name."or "best backstory" besides just the winner.

-I will go Gorden Ramsay on you if you ignore these rules. 

-And of course, dont copy others 

Alright lets start! Anyone wanting to enter here is your fill out for the contest. (Or just tell me your entering and you can take your time) you can arrange these how you please .

Name:

Rank:

Gender:

Age:

Looks/other description: 

Personality: 

Backstory:

Ends on August 12th

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[Snowfeather]

If anyone has a question let me know ^^

[Moonwing]

id like to enter.... are you going to extend the deadline untll more people enter

[Shadowstalker]

Well..I'd do this but for the picture part. I don't have any cats....and even if I pulled from the internet, finding a picture of what my charrie looks like would be impossible. He's too different in coloring.
Otherwise I'd enter.

[Leopardbright*]

I think this sounds pretty fun! Two things though: when is the new deadline, and how do you put pictures on posts?

[troubledspar7an]

*Reads rules*
Guys, you do realize that your cat cannot be related to any RPG you have done. So... Let's find a random image of a cat from the internet...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cat_eating_a_rabbit.jpeg
(just click on the link please, when I get the actual photo, it is just way too big.)
There we go now let's make a backstory to it, you just got to find a picture and base your stuff around it. Not that hard really.  So now that my little rant is over, let's get started

Name: Poppyclaw
Rank: Warrior
Gender: Female
Age: 14 moons
Looks: You got a real picture of it, I don't see the need for this section, so I guess I'll just put this here a filler: "Navy"
Personality: Very reserved, problem solver though.  Has no trouble staying quiet and letting the patrol leader sort a minor border conflict.  However, she feels a strong urge to fight for the clan's cause, being one of the only things she doesn't overthink


Backstory: Peaceful kithood for the most part, then at the beginning of apprenticeship.  Poppypaw (I'm gonna use rank names chronologically) and her brother, Weaselpaw, split off, with Poppypaw becoming a tunneler apprentice and Weaselpaw becoming a regular Warrior-trainning aprentice (I barely know this kind of lore so be easy on me ).  Poppypaw got very upset by this, wanting them both to be tunnelers, but the more she thought about it the more it became apparent to her that it was just a blind hope, it was never going to happen, so she kept it to herself.  This didn't, however, stop her from letting it show a little before going off on her first day of training.  There for the first few days she learned basic rules of thumb to keep in mind while in the tunnels, and her mentor, Gorsepelt was keep on running them through her head for the longest time.  Poppypaw's father told her that Gorsepelt might be a little slow going, because he lost his last apprentice, who decided to go a little deeper into the tunnels before launching an defensive border attack on Shadowclan.  However Poppypaw didn't expect him to be slow going, repetitive, and outright over-the-shoulder annoying.  A few days in, she decided to bring her brother into the tunnels with her at night, just to let him see what it is like inside them, and Weaselpaw willingly let her take him into the tunnels.  While inside, though, Poppypaw was more easily able to focus on the paths they take, making her confident in how far they can go into the tunnels.  Then, when it started rainning, though, panic flooded her memory just as the water was slowly flooding the tunnel.  Weaselpaw doesn't know why Poppypaw is in such a rush to suddenly get out because of a few raindrops, Lucky she's not Riverclan.   After only a minute of retracing her steps, Poppypaw finds herself at a fork in the tunnels that she doesn't remember.  After a few heartbeats, she choses to go left, and right as she prepared to head in that tunnel, the ground caved in at the tunnel.  This made her hesitate, wondering if Starclan can see down here and was showing her that was the wrong path.   So then she takes a right there, to within a few pawsteps, noticed light up ahead.  Weaselpaw, who seemed to somewhere along the way realise that tunnels and rain are not a good mix, shoves his way past her to sprint to the light.  Less urgent than her brother, Poppypaw walked behind him.  "Com'on, we're almost out!"  Weaselpaw called from ahead.  Poppypaw opened her mouth to reply how he shouldn't get his hopes too high when suddenly something grabbed her from behind and started pulling her back into the tunnels.  She grew furious because Poppypaw realized that she's being seperated from her brother once again!  However she was paralyzed with fear.  The cat only dragged her back to the intersection they were just at and then, to her suprise, he suddenly bashed into the wet earth that was blocking the other pathway.  The cat said "Follow me if you want to make it out alive." "But what about-" Poppypaw started, but got cut off with a swift "There isn't any time." Poppypaw didn't believe a few seconds can make quite a difference, so she started calling "WEASE-" getting cut off as the cat got her back on her feet and moving.  She didn't really mind this because it made it seem more urgent for him to come.

So I am going to cut off here, because it became apparent that my Backstory turned from cliff notes to an actual story, so just doing some cliff notes for the end


Cat brings her to a place she knew as the splitoff between Shadowclan and Windclan and knew the exit from here, but instead of going towards the Windclan's tunnel, he goes to the Shadowclan's

Poppypaw broke off and ran to the exit and got out safely

Weaselpaw didn't make it out

Poppypaw was removed from tunnelers and was put to a regular aprentice in training

After a bit of recovering, and accepting Weaselpaw as dead, she fought hard for the clan, letting any anger out she has in them.

She was eventually made a warrior, Poppyclaw, for her Courage and Dedication.

[Shadowstalker]

It doesn't say ANYTHING in the rules about basing the cat around a picture you find. If you want to do that, fine, but don't act like it's what we're all suppose to do.
And just because I already have an idea for a cat doesn't mean that I've used them in roleplays before. I almost always have character ideas floating around my head-- some half finished, some only vague ideas, but all waiting to be fleshed out and used. For this contest there's one idea in particular I want to utilize for this contest. That's not the same thing as what you're subtly insinuating.

If Snow decides to extend the deadline, I'll willingly enter in the hopes of getting to write out the character I'm contemplating.

[Snowfeather]

Ok this thread kinda slipped my mind and reading it now im realizing JUST MAYBE.. 12 am isn't the best time to write a thread.

Shadowstalker you are absolutely right and points for saying that because I most definitely should of allowed non-photography pictures if you wanted to get creative.

Troubled im adding on to the rules and also great job so far.

Leopardbright you get your picture and copy the URL, then when you want to post it click "Reply" in the top right corner of the typing box. You'll see a little picture frame icon in the list of buttons, click that, paste your url and submit

Ok ya'll im editing the thread rules and there will be a new date (because honestly I gave ya'll only 3 days)

[Snowfeather]

Ok the threads totally rewritten . I may have missed something so if I did remind me

[Shadowstalker]

Only typo I found was at the end before the form, where you said "now you please" instead of "how you please" ^^

I am entering! I will probably post the form in a few days with my character.

[troubledspar7an]

Aug 1, 2015 23:15:03 GMT -5 Shadowstalker said:

It doesn't say ANYTHING in the rules about basing the cat around a picture you find. If you want to do that, fine, but don't act like it's what we're all suppose to do.
And just because I already have an idea for a cat doesn't mean that I've used them in roleplays before. I almost always have character ideas floating around my head-- some half finished, some only vague ideas, but all waiting to be fleshed out and used. For this contest there's one idea in particular I want to utilize for this contest. That's not the same thing as what you're subtly insinuating.

If Snow decides to extend the deadline, I'll willingly enter in the hopes of getting to write out the character I'm contemplating.

Okay... This is why INTP's shouldn't post at night
Ok, it seems like we both mis-concieved each other here, so let's go back and point things out and things I missed (I stopped my comment because it was literally midnight here, so I missed on some important words)

When I was talking the roleplay stuff, what I meant by it is that you have to let your imagination flow with this, and I was using that rule as a landmark to help my statement, not trying to make it seem like you were going against the rules.  What I was trying to say is to let the personality and backstory flow around the picture; make it up according with the picture, rather than finding a picture that fits your already made/partially made cat.  Like I have at least 16 cats made up, I've only ever done one RP, and I don't even do that one anymore, simply because I cannot really keep everything in line.  Even though I have all of these cats open to chose from, instead I made up an entirely new cat with a new storyline.  My subtle suggestion was to make a new one, rather than looking all over the place for a cat you already have.

Pre-edit: Reviewing the redone rules, I think rule number 2 now applies, though, changed from cat from an RP to a character already made.  Snowfeather, does this instance apply or no (Hate that the end of a make-up comment ends like this... dang it NP irony!)

[Whitedove]

Password: Navy



Name: Pecanpatch (ThunderClan)


Rank: Warrior



Gender: Female



Age: 13 Moons old



Looks/other description: Dark Brown Tabby with blue eyes
 



Personality: Disobedient, strategic, she doesn’t care a whole lot about her clan, she’s a daredevil



Backstory: Though she doesn’t listen to her superiors often, she was very close to her mother and father when she was a kit. She once snuck out of the nursery and led an expedition to RiverClan with her brother Nettlekit and her sister Hickorykit. They had crossed the border, sneaking below the undergrowth past the border patrol, and they stole a bundle of Catmint just for fun. Just as they were celebrating their success, they found themselves surrounded by the warriors and apprentices of RiverClan. “We could smell you rotten ThunderClan cats from a mile away.” The deputy said. “Get them!”



“Run!” Pecankit lead her siblings under the long legs of the grown warriors and ran off towards the river.



“Hey! Foxdung! Get back here!!” A RiverClan warrior spat, as they all chased after the kits. The adrenaline rush pulsed through the kits little legs, making them almost fast enough to outrun their chasers.



“We’re never going to make it, running like this! We need to jump over the river!” Pecankit tried to leap over the rapid flowing river, but fell in about midway. She tried to swim like she once saw a RiverClan cat did when she snuck out a couple of days ago. To her surprise, she actually swam and latched onto the other side, encouraging her siblings to join her. She spit out her herbs on the ground and watched as Nettlekit leaped in and she grabbed his scruff and barely was able to bring him over, and did the same for Hickorykit.



“You ThunderClan foxdung. You’re all lucky we have to get back to our camp right now.” The deputy snorted and walked away.



Despite all of the scolding and lectures from her mom, Pecankit continued going off on adventures with her littermates. As she became an apprentice, ThunderClan cats were starting to catch greencough, and their numbers were dwindling, so she went out on a hunting patrol with her mentor Beechstorm. “Don’t wander off, Pecanpaw. We have to get food for our sick cats back at camp.”



They’ll be fine, after all, we still have a lot of catmint saved up from when I was a kit. I’m sure a little hunger won’t hurt them. Instead of hunting, she watched as Beechstorm padded off looking for prey, and she turned the other way and went deeper into the forest. She enjoyed herself, listening to the birds sing, the crunchy grass underneath her, the wind rustling her fur, and the smell of fresh prey ready to be killed. As she reached the edge of ThunderClan territory, nearing ShadowClan, she turned around. “I should head back before Beechstorm gets a tick stuck in his fur…” Before she could go back, she felt a heavy weight fall down on her. “Uuughh! Wh-what is that?” She tried to push it off. “Gosh this is heavy-“ The mysterious figure hissed.



“You clan cats think you’re so good with your little fancy piles of prey and medicine storages. I despise you!” He spat.



“A-a rogue cat?!” Pecanpaw said, surprised. The rogue cat jumped off, and kicked her with his hind legs, sending her rolling away in the dirt. I need to look for a weak point. She saw him racing towards her, claws unsheathed, as she tried to remember her battle training when she actually participated instead of ditching it like usual. The rogue swiped at her face, leaving a nick on her cheek. She dodged his next attack, examining his pattern of attacks. “Swipe…swipe… lunge” She saw him leap into the air, and saw his belly. His belly had a wound that was in its healing stage and looked as if he had fallen on something sharp. Before she could retaliate, he grappled her neck and threw her down with his powerful front paws, and raked her belly with his hind legs.



“Hmmpphf, you can’t even fight back. You clan cats just fill your bellies with prey and pretend that you can actually fight. How sad. I am the fierce, Scratch. Only few have been able to match my power!” He snarled, and began his flurry of attacks again. Pecanpaw dodged some more.



“Swipe…swipe.. now he’ll leap into the air.” Unexpectedly, he ducked under her and bit her front paws, and clawed her ear.



“How typical of a clan cat to think they’ve got me all figured out. I’m full of surprises!” Scratch leaped into the air once more, lunging at her.



“Now’s my chance!” She lashed out her front paw weakly. “Ouch! It hurts to move my paws.” Suddenly, a cat came crashing into Scratch before he could land on her, crashing into the ground with dust flying up. “Beechstorm!”

Beechstorm pinned him down and clawed at his belly where his wound was. Scratched yowled painfully.



“Pecanpaw! I told you not to-“



“Foxdung!” Scratch quickly flipped over and pinned Beechstorm. He raked Beechstorm’s pelt.



Oh no! What have I done? I should’ve stayed with Beechstorm. “I got to think of something fast! Hm… Beechstorm always told me to fight using my head.” She spotted a large rock at the top of a hill. There! Sorry Beechstorm, hang on! She dashed up the hill as quickly as she could, her front paws aching with each step. “Beechstorm, look out!” She pushed the mini boulder down the hill, building up speed and tumbling straight towards Scratch. Beechstorm rolled out of the way as Scratch tried to jump over it, but ended up getting his back leg caught by the rock, making him land in an awkward position and produced a loud SNAP!



“MY LEG!” Scratch screeched. “You… you pieces of crowfood. Foxhearted, foxdung. Gah…” He painfully tried to get up, and limped slowly away. “I… I’ll come back one day.” Pecanpaw ran up to Beechstorm.



“Beechstorm! Are you okay? I’m sorry for leaving!” She saw deep cuts in his pelt. “We need to get you to the medicine cat den!” He stood up.



“As you should be. And I could say the same about you, you have cuts everywhere.” Pecanpaw looked embarrassed. “We have sick cats, and you go and get yourself in trouble!” He spat. “May StarClan have mercy on your soul!” His fur bristled with anger. Pecanpaw drooped her ears and her tail. Beechstorm’s pelt sat back down flat on his body. “But I commend your courage and your use of thinking before acting. I saw you fighting, you may be hard-headed, but you’ve learned well.”



“Thanks.” Pecanpaw said, feeling a little bit better.



“Now let’s get back to camp. I’ve got enough prey that requires both of us to carry.” They made their way back to camp, Pecanpaw leaning on her mentor for support.



Later on through the moons, when Pecanpaw became a warrior, her name became Pecanpatch, in honor of how her spotted pecan colored pelt shined in the sun as she defeated Scratch.

[Snowfeather]

Shadowstalker- take your time~ and the typo is corrected.

Troubled: your pretty much free of your character creation. Only it just cant be one you've made (in your case your completely fine)

[ScarletteStream]

~I almost died at the Gorden Ramsay thing..~

Password: Navy (Boom peeps I actually read it!)

Name: Juniperclaw

Picture: lh3.ggpht.com/_LlfXWxcpJyU/S-bXhmLSf-I/AAAAAAAAe98/QS6nqYcYd_I/tabby%2520maine%2520coon%2520cat%255B12%255D.jpg




Rank: Warrior




Gender: Female




Age: 22 moons




Looks/other description: Long furred tortie with glistening golden/yellow eyes, large widely set ears
 (That was the best I could find..)



Personality: Restless, can't stand or sit still, loyal to the warrior code, hot-headed and has a sharp tongue, clever




Backstory:

"Juniperkit!" Juniperkit looked over at her sister, Brookkit. "What?" She meowed sharply, her tail flicking. Brookkit's pale grey-blue eyes flash with sadness before jumping back up. "We're becoming apprentices!" Brookkit meows and Juniperkit leaps up. "Really?" She meows, excited. Brookkit nods her head, as Snowstar ordered the Clan to gather. Bluepool shoved the kits up the leader and Snowstar looks down at them.  "Ready to become apprentices?" She meows and they nod their heads eagerly.  "Juniperkit, you have reached the age of six moons, and it is time for you to be apprenticed. From this day on, until you receive your warrior name, you will be known as Juniperpaw. Your mentor will be Ashclaw. I hope Ashclaw will pass down all she knows on to you.
 Ashclaw, you are ready to take on an apprentice. You had received excellent training from Featherfoot and you have shown yourself to be brave and clever. You will be the mentor of Juniperpaw, and I expect you to pass on all you know to Juniperpaw.

~Same thing for Brookpaw, since she isn't the main character, she doesn't get her own~

Juniperpaw looks around in awe at the snow that covered the mountain tops. Brookpaw looked around, bored. Juniperpaw jumped up and ran towards the edge of the mountain. Ashpool yowls for her to stop but when she tries she slides. Brookpaw raced after her and slid to a stop in front of Juniperpaw. Juniperpaw stops but Brookpaw goes flying off the cliff. "Brookpaw!" Juniperpaw yowls and Ashclaw glares at her.  The two pad back to camp solemnly. "Because of you being so restless you killed a apprentice that could've been a great warrior!" Ashclaw snarled. "Well you didn't teach me anything of interest." Juniperpaw snaps back and Ashclaw sighs. Juniperpaw stalks into camp and Ashclaw follows. 

~Alright this is getting boring so something interesting is going to happen now~

Juniperpaw walks out of camp with Ashclaw in front of her. A tom jumped out and glared at the two. "Blackheart?" Ashclaw gasps. "Greetings." He meows coldly stepping towards Juniperpaw. Juniperpaw starts backing away but he jumps and pins her down. Ashclaw grips Blackheart's scruff and throws him off of her. Juniperpaw scrambles up just in time to see him bite Ashclaw's neck. Ashclaw coughed, blood bubbling out of her neck and blood coming out of her mouth. "Run." She meowed weakly. Juniperpaw dashed into camp, fear in her eyes. Snowstar looks up and dashes out of the camp, following the scent of blood.  After a few minutes, she pads back in with Ashclaw not breathing anymore. "When I become a warrior I want my name to be Juniperclaw." Juniperpaw meows quietly. "Well in that case you're new name, as soon as I announce it, is Juniperclaw." Snowstar meows before jumping up onto the rock. "A valued warrior has died today! Ashclaw, a beloved mother, warrior, and mate is dead because of Blackheart!" Snowstar stares down at Juniperclaw.

~Skip the ceremony~

Juniperclaw looks up at the sky. "I'm sorry that I couldn't protect you Ashclaw.. I'm sorry that I caused your death Brookpaw.." Juniperclaw meows quietly before sleep overtakes her and envelopes her in darkness.

[Shadowstalker]

Will get mine in later today

[Snowfeather]

Im extending the date so moon\leopard/shadow can finish. The new date is the 21st ^^

[Moonwing]

Ive been busy with school so I haven't had time to write my entry... so ill just enter next time

[ScarletteStream]

~School's already started for you? Wow.. mine starts tomorrow (I love you to middle school!)~

[Shadowstalker]

Ha, I have three weeks still.