Saltbreeze

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Saltbreeze is always looking to lighten the mood and cheer others up. She's enthusiastic and energetic, she's light-hearted and seemingly stress-free. She can be excited easily, and yet also calms and relaxes easily as well. She's talkative and happy. She likes to get along with other cats and her lowest points are when she feels like she's failing at that. Her drive is seemingly entirely wrapped around others being friends with her.

At times, she can be simple and straightforward, while other times she can be overly convoluted and calculating. What she seeks out is doing good and making sure as many cats as possible get out of a situation okay; and sometimes that's simple and sometimes that's complex, but she never gives up trying for that. As a result, she can be a pacifist and may act against expectations. She can be counted to make sure kits and elders will come out of anything okay. It's by that priority that one can trust her to hunt and patrol; for the sake of kits and elders being safe, not for her own sense of pride, accomplishment, or loyalty.

She's shameless. She lacks a sense of embarrassment. The only time she seems eager to impress is when she thinks it fits into appeasing someone she wants to appease, such as one of her siblings or someone she's having a hard time befriending (and feels like she needs to show up).

She is ambivalent to Starclan. She respects them and their wisdom for the whole of the clan, but also does not think they have her best interests in heart. She imagines she must be a headache for them.

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PARENTS -> YOUTH
Saltbreeze's parents were both questionable folk. They were known to fight, both with others and with each other. They were often unkind and harsh to their kits as well. Notably surly and many of their previous kits had grown bitter and impersonal. The grandparents of the queen (Greenfoot and Hawkfang) decided to step in and raise the queen's latest litter to the best of their ability. The parents were not keen on having anyone else interject in how they raised their kits but Saltbreeze's grandparents were insistent. They would not allow another litter of kits have their youth marred beyond repair.

One day, the queen perished. She had gone out for a hunt and while chasing prey must have sprinted into the Thunderpath. Not a moon later, the father died in a territory dispute with Riverclan; drowned. Riverclan warriors were able to confirm his death by their claws, after he bolted out from the forest suddenly and into the battle.

For a good while, that was that. Greenfoot and Hawkfang raised Saltkit and her siblings with all the love in their hearts. As the grandparents reached the ends of their life they admitted to a few cats that they had taken part in the deaths of the parents; tossing the queen into the road and chasing, herding the sire into an already chaotic battle; exhausted and wounded already, he was easy prey for the anxious Riverclan cats.

WARRIORHOOD
What her grandparents admitted did not come out until Saltbreeze had already become a warrior, albeit a young one. Eyes turned to Saltbreeze and her siblings, pondering what sort of character might be hiding under their skin. A few of her siblings took up the challenge and became all the more ambitious; seeking out greatness to prove themselves. Saltbreeze was one of the few in the litter that sought out another approach. In her case, Saltbreeze loosened more. Any leftover shyness she had shed away until there was nothing of it left.

Whatever she felt internally, Saltbreeze has only become more and more friendly. She is known to be easily befriended, even to cats outside the clan.