Tallmarsh
Salem, Tallpaw |Affiliation| ThunderClan |Former Affiliations| Loner, Kittypet |Rank| Warrior |Former Ranks| Apprentice, Medicine Cat |Gender| Female |Age| 54 moons |Birthday| 9/25/15 |Appearance| gray-black tabby; green eyes; long ears, tail, and legs |Disabilities| deaf in left ear blind in right eye (scar) |Mental State| Along with her glaring anger issues, she also struggles with self esteem issues. While she often loves to think of herself as the best thing that ever happened to ThunderClan, underneath that she knows that it's just all an act and that she is not liked by many others. She wonders why her friends even hang around her. |Personality| | Vain | Sarcastic | Opinionated | Neat | Irritable | Loyal | Tallmarsh tends to see herself as better than everyone else. She doesn’t see herself as stuck-up, more like she knows she’s above the rest (or, at least, she thinks that). She doesn’t really follow rules well, and she is rather snarky and sarcastic. She is fiercely loyal to her Clan and her family. She believes in doing what she feels is right, which sometimes isn’t the right thing to do. She may give off a confident, know-it-all air, but she has insecurities. She holds her reputation in high esteem and would do almost anything to protect it. The warrior code is very important to her, and she believes that any cat who breaks it is a disgrace to the Clan. She has a laser focus on her goals and is always trying to reach them. Despite seeming very stiff, she knows how to relax and enjoys spending time with her friends. She almost always has something to say. She is a neat freak, and her fur always has to be perfect. She doesn’t enjoy getting her paws dirty, but she will if it means she gets something important to her—both literally and figuratively. She isn’t very trusting of new faces. She doesn't believe in StarClan, and she hates that about herself. She wants to be able to serve her Clan as best she can, but she know that she can't do her job to the fullest if she isn't able to be the link between ThunderClan and StarClan. She knows she should believe in StarClan, but she finds the idea ridiculous. |Backstory| Tallmarsh was born to an alley cat. When she was very young, barely three moons old, she and her only sibling were taken from their mother by Two-Legs and raised as kittypets for a moon. Named Salem at the time, she never right when she was with the Two-Legs; she always felt more at home in the forest across the Thunderpath. Her sibling noticed that their sister was disappearing more and more often, and they confronted her about it. She confessed her feelings to them of not belonging, and they told her that she couldn't live "with one paw on either side of the fence." They forced her to make a choice--remain a kittypet or live in the forest. Salem ended up choosing freedom. She didn't want to leave her sibling since they were the only family she had left, but she couldn't live as a kittypet her whole life. For a while (about two moons), she lived alone in the forest, but she was too young to live on her own for long. She was starving, but she decided that it was better than living as a kittypet, having your every move determined by a Two-Leg. One day, she was chasing a mouse when she found herself in ThunderClan territory. She was found by a patrol who, seeing that this kit was starving, took her back to their camp. Salem was renamed Tallpaw and began training to become a warrior. She decided that she was going to do her best to serve the clan that took her in. During her time as a loner, and then as an apprentice, she harbored a lot of anger towards her mother for not being there the majority of her life and towards her sibling for making her choose between family and freedom. Tallpaw was smart and hardworking, ready to do anything for her clan, and she was praised for this, which only fed into her ego. As she got older, she became irritable and vain, and with no family to teach her how to act, this only got worse when she became a warrior and was given the name Tallmarsh. Over the moons, the warrior became known not only for her hardworking nature and determination to succeed, but also for rather inflated ego and quick temper. Despite this, after many moons of serving her clan as a warrior, StarClan came to her in a dream, and she was chosen for the position of ThunderClan's next medicine cat after Caliaflame's disappearance. The only problem with this was that until she was visited by them, Tallmarsh had always found it difficult to believe in StarClan. Even after she was visited, she found it hard to believe that there was a clan of dead cats in the night sky. This put a dent in her ego, because she couldn't completely fulfill her duties as medicine cat if she didn't have a connection with StarClan. Tallmarsh was demoted by Duskstar when she rose to power. She hates Duskstar and said she would rather step down that serve under Duskstar. |
Relations
|Father| Russo (NPC) |Mother| Kiri (NPC) |Sibling| Open |Former Mentor| Open |Former Apprentices| Nightflame @Peachy || deceased Irispaw @Moon Lily |Apprentice| None |Relations| Passionstar @Brilliance || respected him, misses him Flintspirit @RedHead || thinks he's a dork, annoyed by him, mad at him for stepping down Duskstar @hxneysuckle || hates her, believes she will be the downfall of ThunderClan Irispaw @Moon Lily || misses her, thinks she has potential to be an amazing medicine cat Outlook: 3/10 Responsibility: 7/10 Cleanliness: 9/10 Generosity: 3/10 Manners: 4/10 More Logical or Emotional?: Emotional |Voice| BabyToki |Theme Songs| Closing Time by Semisonic The Sharpest Lives by My Chemical Romance (video) |Fun Facts| She was originally supposed to be quiet, shy, and very awkward, but I said 'screw that' and made her as vain and sarcastic as possible. She was also originally supposed to be Clanborn. Her warrior name was a tribute to her father (Marshbelly), who was going to die when she was an apprentice. She is the first high rank character I've had on a forum-style rping site! (I've had others in the past, but I'm not counting those since it was a very small rping community.) She became ThunderClan's medicine cat on September 29, 2018. She was ThunderClan's ninth medicine cat, succeeding Caliaflame. She was demoted by Duskstar when she (Tallmarsh) said she would rather step down that be medicine cat under Duskstar. |Creation Date| Sometime in April of 2018, I don't have an exact date. |
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