Elmleap

Appearance
Elmleap is about average sized and very fluffy. His fur is long and often tangled, despite Sagestep’s best efforts, and it is pale cream in color. His eyes are green.

Personality
Elmleap is abrasive. He doesn’t like very many cats at all and he is incredibly overprotective of his sisters. He probably means well (we hope he does, at least) but he is utterly hopeless in any kind of social situation, as his idea of social is “yelling at cats to stay away from Basilpool and Sagestep.”

Kithood
Elmkit was born in OasisClan to a former loner named Darkcurrent alongside his siblings, Basilkit and Sagekit. Their father, a former kittypet named Stormheart, ended up naming the kits, because Darkcurrent died shortly after the kits were born. Since Stormheart and Darkcurrent had met before joining the Clan, he remembered some of the plants in his garden that she'd liked and he named their kits accordingly. They were then given to another queen, Springpelt, to take care of.

Springpelt's kits were about a moon older than Elmkit and his siblings, but they were rather kind toward them. Icekit, Summerkit, and Owlkit had lost their father shortly before Darkcurrent's death and were happy to have younger siblings to look after. Basilkit and Sagekit loved their older sisters, but Elmkit regarded them with thinly veiled contempt.

Stormheart always tried to remain close to his kits. Springpelt approved of this, and he was able to spend some time with her kits too, making sure that all six kits got the chance to have a father in their life.

Apprenticeship
Elmpaw was apprenticed to Rainpetal, a young she-cat whose kits had left the nursery only three moons before Elmpaw and his siblings. He enjoyed training with his siblings.

Unfortunately, both Springpelt and Stormheart died of greencough that leaf-bare. Elmpaw was sad, but not completely torn up.

Before his first Gathering, Elmpaw managed to pick a fight with Canyonpaw, a MarshClan apprentice. He was very upset when Basilpaw befriended him at the Gathering.

Elmpaw help fight off the fox that took part of Basilpaw's ear. He's the entire reason she was restricted to the medicine den for so long.

Warrior Life
Almost as soon as the siblings got their warrior names, Basilpool left for MarshClan. This did not put a smile on Elmleap's face. He became very possessive of Sagestep's time, something she did not appreciate. Not much else happened because he was holding both himself and Sagestep back from life in general.

Basilpool eventually had kits, a fact Elmleap did not approve of. He and Sagestep visited, but he went home while Sagestep stayed for a few more days.

Life continued along that way for the next six moons.

Trivia

 * Originally, Elmleap was going to be very supportive of his sisters. Then he wasn't.