Open Camp Kamisama no Syndrome / intro

This thread takes place inside the clan's camp.

Dreampaw.

aka The Dark Warrior
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Dreampaw . trans tom (he/him) . 9 moons . apprentice of ThunderClan . mentored by tba . short and small hazel-eyed tortie with mohawk-like head tuft TAGS! ₊˚✧ ゚. It was midday and Dreampaw crouched low on a warm stone in camp, his fiery hazel eyes fixed intently on a lone leaf trembling in the new-leaf-promising breeze. "Behold," he intoned with a voice deep and commanding, "the art of predation perfected! This is no mere slump but a stance ordained by the very stars…one that allows me to strike before my prey even dares to dream of danger." A few bemused glances drifted his way from nearby clanmates who were busy with their own tasks, though Dreampaw stubbornly ignored the suspicion he was merely amusing them.

As he tensed and held his breath in anticipation of launching himself at the unsuspecting leaf, Cricketpaw glided over with a playful flick of her tail. "Really, Dreampaw?" she said with a tone equally challenging as it was light, "Perhaps if you spent less time reciting and more time blending with the earth, you'd catch more than just your own paws. Stealth means vanishing into the shadows without a sound, you know."

Did he really just look like some silly kid spouting poetry to a leaf? Nah! Dreampaw's eyes flashed with both amusement and stubborn defiance as he lifted his chin slightly higher, projecting the fullest image of confidence he could muster, "The Dark Warrior does not simply hide—he commands the darkness to do his bidding! I summon the very shadows to cloak my approach and shroud my every movement, ensuring that when I strike even the wind itself stops in awe." He paused, a fierce-fanged grin tugging at his lips as he became absorbed in the moment and the thought of his own grandiosity. He briefly wondered if his words sounded suitably intimidating or merely like some kit's bedtime story but quickly brushed the thought away. After all, he told himself, it's all about delivery and mine is legendary.

 
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Maybe if Thunderflash hadn't spend every hour of his day arguing with his blood-father, he'd be a bit more like Dreampaw. Maybe.

He's not too far away, having just returned from a midday hunting patrol with a plentiful bounty- considering the warming territory- and was taking a rest before heading back out again. Amusement plays on his face as he watches some of the apprentices tussle just after lunch, though this particular apprentice wasn't really tussling, more just... announcing his actions. He shoots a look at whichever warrior was beside him, a grin pulling at his lips, before he looks towards Dreampaw.

"I dunno kiddo," He starts, "Y' really think y' can jus'... ask th' shadows t' move fer you? Y'ken, they're older then ye'. Waaay older." Thunderflash puts the emphasis on that statement, settling into a laying position with both paws stretched out in front of him. Luckily, his shoulder was feeling better, and moving was nothing to blink at anymore. Lead warrioring was getting easier, too- though it was a funny thing, being one of the only ones without an apprentice. His schedule was far emptier then even Ghoststrike's was. His head tilts towards the leaders den, a brief thought crossing- What if that's on purpose?- before he's looking back at Dreampaw.

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  • THUNDERFLASH he/him, thunderclan storm guard, twenty one moons.
    a sh/lh chocolate tabby with low white and stunning baby blue eyes. stands of average height with a 'mohawk' and spiky-shaped mane.
    mentored by who / mentoring no one
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    peaceful and healing powerplay permitted / / underline and tag when attacking
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A rare sight indeed these days– Rowanpaw's nose isn't buried in herbs, she's outside, enjoying the sun like any other apprentice would be doing. She'd layed down with the other's, intending to mingle, but the only one she could really hear was Dreampaw. He goes on about some dark warrior or other, and Thunderflash chimes in from not far away. She stifles a laugh, stretching her paws out in front of her. It had been a while since she got to sunbathe.

"And I doubt you're going to catch much if you keep narrating the whole ordeal," Rowanpaw says lightly. This was mingling, right? She's mingling? "The prey is going to hear you coming from about 20 fox lengths away. Or are you going to command the sound waves to do your bidding too?"


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    rowanpaw, 11 moons, thunderclan apprentice
    russet furred she-cat, lawful neutral
    healing and soft powerplay allowed
 
"Oh, the lot of you don't understand fun anymore." Ever the contrarian, Serpentberry joins the group to fit in beside her daughter. Normally, she too would be picking apart the apprentice's schemes and games. But when others are already doing that part for her... well, why play the lamb when the wolf always wins? Her tail twitches with no small amount of delight as she looks on to Dreampaw, who is truly just trying to enjoy his young life, even if he must be a bit theatrical whilst doing it.

"Maybe if the two of you hadn't had your noses buried in prey or herbs, you'd see how easy it is to bend a shadow to your will...!" Ignore that she enlists Rowanpaw daily for a run of their herbs, what they need and what they must discard - or that Thunderflash's goal as one of Juniperstar's Storm Guards is to ensure the Clan is fed. She lifts a paw, waving it in the sunlight and casting a shadow across Dreampaw's pelt - before snaking her arm away, and thus 'bending' the shadow as she pleases. "It's not hard to be a little imaginative," she muses, eyes crinkling in the corners.
 
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to call it fun when it leans more closely to childish fantasy is... certainly a spin only someone so staunchly keen on being the opposition would propose. this seems to be a very sincere line of thought for the young Dreampaw, who adorns himself in a cloak of his own whimsy so heavy it practically drags behind him. still... she can't be convinced to dash his soul of derring-do... perhaps that illusion of grandeur might actually morph into reality someday soon.

"Only because you are still so young at heart, Serpentberry," the molly insists, squinting at the corners of her eyes in a light smile. imagination seemed less and less prominent in the duties of day-to-day warriors... perhaps it was like a muscle, gone unexercised and atrophied. her tail curls tightly around her paws, the tip flicking up ever so slightly in a guarded means of sheltering more of herself from view.

"I suppose Dreampaw will have to prove it's not just theatrics soon... looks like he's getting much too bored to be an apprentice for another two seasons..."

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