Emberspeck

Emberspeck is a white tom with an orange face mask and tail. He has golden-yellow speckles and almond brown eyes.

Personality
Emberspeck is a very neutral, yet aggressive-at-first-glance type cat. While he does carry a strong sense of loyalty, he tends to jump to conclusions and hold grudges, especially when he feels intense guilt over something and he finds someone to blame. They are quite insecure about themself, and tends to shut down when situations get too tough for them. Despite all this, they truly care for those they love deep inside, no matter how much they try to hide or ignore it.

Complicated Design
Emberspeck is a tom with rather thin fur that ruffles up on his neck as a “mane” type neck fur. They have head-fur which points up at the edges, and his ears are tufted inside with yellow-gold fur, and he has a dark, reddish-pink inner-ear and nose. He has orange ears and face mask, which fades out a bit at the edges. He has an orange tail which has white and yellow-gold at the tip of it, as well as a yellow-gold nose-bridge which points up like a star. The tips of his ears are also this same color. On his neck, he has a zig-zagged speckle that cuts off into orange, as well as a few orange flecks. He has deep, almond-brown eyes and narrow, dark eyes. One of his eyes is torn out, leaving him with a scar. He also has several scars across his face; one on his cheek, one on his nose bridge, and also an ear-nick. On his back, he has a spiked fur-cape that stops at the end of his hind-legs.

Apprenticeship
Emberpaw was always a shy, quiet and soft spoken cat, and never really was too close to anyone other than Wisppaw— Wisppaw was the more popular and generally more liked apprentice by his clanmates, so it was pretty natural that in many occasions he would be forced to come out of his shell by Wisppaw.

He didn’t grow feelings immediately, but he slowly felt.. different to her. He got more nervous and always caught himself glancing.

His mentor and deputy, Flameburst, noticed this and always teased him about it, growing a friendly bond between the two. After their mother vanished after a hunting patrol, he looked to Flameburst as a maternal-figure, finding comfort in her.

Adulthood
As warriors, Wispwind and Emberspeck grew even closer, them spending more patrols together and often even requesting to go on Dawn patrol together when one of them was chosen. Many of their clanmates suspected they had a thing for eachother, It almost seemed they had requited love for eachother- That was until one patrol, Eaglesight was put on the same patrol as them. Wispwind and Eaglesight immediately clicked, and they started to hang out with eachother more. When Emberspeck would lead patrols and invite Wispwind to join, she’d mostly decline since she was planning to go hunting or something like that with Eaglesight. Emberspeck grew more envious as this happened, and found himself growing more bitter towards Eaglesight— he hated him for taking Wispwind’s affections away from him.

Wispwind’s status in the clan rose as well as Eaglesight, and many of his clanmates already hinted at the two as a couple, completely forgetting about him. Emberspeck fell more into a depressed state.

They tried to confide in Flameburst, but she just got angry at his jealousy and told him he needed to get over himself and stop moping around bitterly, growing an unsolved rift between the two.

One unfortunate day, foxes discovered the clan’s camp and raided it, causing a lot of damage to the camp. Emberspeck saw Flameburst, bleeding out heavily on the ground and rushed to help her with the fox attack, while Wispwind was looking around, looking for a fox to fight against. She saw one fox that was fighting Eaglesight, and another who was attacking Emberspeck, who was yelling out for help from what it seemed. Eaglesight seemed more in trouble at the time in Wispwind’s point of view, since she assumed another clan mate was being called over, so she went to help Eagle. But, for the few seconds she wasn’t looking, Emberspeck was yelling out for help as he was being brutally mauled by the fox— he looked towards Wispwind for help, but noticed her looking between the two but going to help Eaglesight instead.

Emberspeck lost an eye after that, going into a state of unconsciousness for a bit from the severeness of his injury. This also contributed to his sadness, feeling like his beauty was ripped away as well as his relationship with Wispwind. He was so ashamed and insecure that he needed someone to blame— Wispwind. The night he woke up from his state of unconsciousness, it was revealed that the leader had died the same night, along with the deputy, Flameburst. Now, Emberspeck lost all his parental figures in life, and also his last friend. He was all alone now. And it was his fault— he had failed to save Flameburst. The medicine cat had to choose a deputy, and chose none other than Wispwind for “her bravery in battle”.

Oh, how angry Emberspeck was— didn’t they care that it her fault he had this stupid injury? Didn’t they care it was her fault his mentor was dead? But, he said nothing- he was sure he was going to be chosen to be deputy, so why would it matter? Things will work out on the end.

But, when Wispstar returned, she chose none other than..

Eaglesight.

Emberspeck was broken, and stormed away from the scene. After the ceremony, he half expected Wispstar to go after him and talk to him.

No one came to comfort him, making him grow more bitter.

A couple moons later, Emberspeck was a complete mental mess— for some reason, he just.. had this dark cloud hovering over him of sorrow and loneliness that always appeared suddenly when he least expected it. He could be laughing one second and the next sitting there quietly in the corner.

He stopped doing his warrior duties and sometimes starved himself, which lead to concern on his clanmates end.

It didn’t help that Eaglesight and Wispstar were officially a couple since about a moon ago, so he felt even more alone.

Finally, Emberspeck had enough and decided it was better for him if he just left this clan for good. He tried sneaking out at night, but was stopped when Wispstar saw him and approached him— she tried talking to him, but he finally just lashed out at her, pouring out all his anger after keeping it pent up inside. He confronted her about the whole fox-fight situation, leaving her in a situation where she had to defend herself before she lost a clanmate…

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