Murkyheart [MoonClan Medcine Cat Apprentice]

[Grady]

Name: Murkyheart

Age: 46 Moons

Rank: Medicine Cat Apprentice

Gender: Tom

Alliance: Moonclan

Appearance: In certain light, Murkyheart appears to be a black tom. However, in reality, his is the color of dark mud at the bottom of a Murky pond - which is really why he got his name. His coat is a rich chocolate brown, with no real marring marks, of deeper or darker fur. This tom's coat is not discolored, but at the same time, his coat is a distinguishing mark in of itself.

He is marked, however. On the upper part of his right hind leg, a nice, cleaned white gash; an old scar, where the fur has been unable to grow over the shiney skin. In the very center of this patch of furlessness, a long, ugly puckered pink line slices it in half. His leg, in turn, is not exactly useless - but on most days, Murkyheart is unable to place this leg on the ground. You see, this injury, while relatively neat, sliced through a grouping of very important muscles in his leg. The remaining musculature became very taught after infection, and painful.

Other than his injury, Murkyheart is a rather handsome specimen of male cat. He has a charming face, with a slightly flattened nose, and slightly rounded ear tops. His body is lean and lanky - and save for his bum leg, all his appendages are long, with strong muscles. He has keen, very round eyes, with a yellow-greenish hue.

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Personality: Despite the nasty hand Murkyheart has been delt in life, he is a highly charming, charismatic, and optimistic tom. While his original desire in life was to be a Warrior, he seems unaffected by his sudden change of profession.

Murkyheart has never, ever been one to complain. He is always smiling, with a cool head for pressure and a always soft way of expressing himself. While he was always able to defend himself, his paws have adapted for delicate work - such as touching sore limbs and treating smaller wounds.

Murkyheart likes to remain at the heart of his clan. He has always been prepared to lend a helping paw to any cat - but he also has served as a confident. While his medical training is still, well...in training...Murkyheart seems to have always acted as a psychiatrist of sorts. He likes to hear other cat's problems, and he has always tried his best to aid them to the best of his ability.

History: Murkyheart was born into Moonclan - but his family was not from Moonclan. The story goes that one rainy night, a bedraggled she cat stumbled into the territory. She was heavily pregnant, and ill - but the clan immediately took her as a captive, believing her to be a spy from another clan. It turns out, however, that the she cat was simply a confused loner named Puddle. The grey she-cat had no real home, or family to call hers - her mate having been killed by a monster moons before. Begrudgingly, Moonclan allowed Puddle to stay, and one kind tom - known as Grasswhisker, even offered to train the inexperienced cat as a warrior.

Murkykit was born the first of three siblings - a brother named Mudkit and a sister named Rosekit. The three kits were adopted by the clan, only because their mother was beginning to gain acceptance in the clan. His kithood was relatively good - hilighted by her mother being named an authentic warrior of Moonclan, renamed Rainpuddle.

Murkykit was named Murkypaw, and apprenticed to the same warrior who tutored his mother - Grasswhisker. He also would become his stepfather, as Grasswhisker and Rainpuddle began a relationship. Murkypaw's apprenticeship was not really noteworthy, as was most of his warriorhood, once he became Murkyheart.

Then came the battle with Iceclan. Murkyheart and Mudwhisker had just suffered the loss of his sister, Rosewhip, in a skirmish over their border territory, and both brother's attentions were set on revenge. Unfortunately, Mudwhisker - always the impulsive one, led both brothers into trouble - attacking their sister's accidental killer in front of his mate. The she-cat feared for her tom's right, and attacked Murkyheart - who was already exhausted. She sliced open his leg - digging deep. Murkyheart and Mudwhisker disappeared - Mudwhisker would never return, but a month after the aftermath of the battle, Murkyheart was found hidden away, still on Moonclan territory - he had stumbled down a rabbit hole while fleeing.

Murkyheart was brought back to camp in bad shape. Infection had set into his injured leg - eating away at the already torn muscle. While the medicine cat at the time, Lovesong, cared for it the best she could, it never really got any better. Half of the time, Murkyheart could not fully use his leg - but on good days, he tried helping the newly-made Medicine cat with her more mundane duties - itching to help the clan he had almost lost heart in abandoning - to show them that he still could prove useful to them.

It seemed for a while that Murkyheart was destined to a early retirement. However, Murkyheart was offered the position as Apprentice to Lovesong - although the she-cat was several moons his junior, he seemed to have no problem slipping into a new habit of duties and tasks. The tom, needless to say, has jumped at the chance.

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[flamingdawn]

Accepted! LOL, when I first read the age, I thought you made a mistake. Good thing I read the history!