it's okay to be Silent &eclipseclan&

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Silentbasil

&&Silent- to be quiet or not talk; absence of sound
&&Basil- is a tender low-growing herb.

There's another world inside of me
That you may never see
There're secrets in this life
That I can't hide

&& tom

&& twenty moons

&& eclipseclan

&& warrior

Somewhere in this darkness
There's a light that I can't find
Maybe it's too far away...
Or maybe I'm just blind...

Or maybe I'm just blind...

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By any human, or two-leg, Silentbasil would be called a Caracal. He would be more commonly found in the deserts of Africa more then the forests of Black River. If you were to look at him you would see that for a Caracal he is very small, like the actual size to a normal cat. His body is about the same length of a normal Caracal, two feet. His tail is both abnormally long and a tad fluffy at the end. His legs are a bit short for a Caracal and one of them has a sort of crook in it that pushes it off to the left too much, but it doesn't change his balance for the most part. His head is very round, though his chin is very triangular. For the most part his fur is short and sleek, lying flat on his back. The color of his fur is very grey, like a storm cloud, but his underbelly is a slight cream color with dime sized grey dots on his chest to his mid section and along the insides of his legs.

Silentbasil's eyes are a dark storm gray, but more then anything they look black. Purple flecks lurk in abundance around his pupil, but you can't normally see them unless you look really hard, though they do show when something really interests or excites him. His ears are tall and narrow. Along the edges they are lined with black and on the tips there are tufts of hair, like a lynx's. His paws are large and wide with sharp ivory white claws concealed in the fur and skin. He doesn't have any scars that show, but under the cream colored fur of his chest and his under belly he has a cross like burn and on his hip there are two claw marks that penetrate deep into the flesh of his flank, but it has healed over time and itches at irregular intervals.

Click for Silentbasil

So hold me when I'm here
Right me when I'm wrong
Hold me when I'm scared
And love me when I'm gone

The few words that you could use to describe the entire personality of Silentbasil would be 'closed off'. He is extremely closed off from other felines. sometimes the most emotion you can get out of him is the excited gleam in his eyes or when he is angry and his eyes start to flame black fire. Silentbasil is more often reclusive and alone then chatty and around other cats. He doesn't relish in the dark or being alone, but nor does he like to be around more cats then he needs to be. He is bold and demanding, but he never forces someone to do something for him. He is very stern and firm with younger cats such as apprentices and kits. He doesn't find them amusing, nor does he long for a mate with kits of his own.

Silentbasil is not cruel or evil, but he is a very hard and harsh cat. He wraps himself in a shell harder then rock and nearly impenetrable. No one has tried and Silentbasil is grateful to any who don't try and will actually say so. It is uncommon for him to speak to many felines and few can actually put up with his quietness. But those who do make friends with him will find a loyal cat who would do anything you ask of him. He would never let anyone down and he hates to be comforted.

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Everything I am
And everything in me
Wants to be the one
You wanted me to be
I'll never let you down

Silentbasil was born to Lily and Skylark. Skylark was originally from eclipsclan, but left when he found Lily in a fox trap. He cared for her in secrecy until she got better and during that time he fell in love. At first it wasn't the same for her, but after he left with her and cared for her it became apparent that she was denying her true feelings. So like any couple they decided to have a family and lo and behold comes three kits the next spring. Silentkit, Crowkit, and Kara. Silentkit was a mirror image of his father who was originally shipped from the plains of Africa to Black River as a kit. He escaped his human owner and ran wild before joining eclipseclan. Crowkit and Kara both looked exactly like their mother, who coincidently was also shipped from Africa as a kit.

They grew up happy, all of them, until Lily went out hunting one day and never returned. She was ran over by a Hundai Senata on a small dirt road. Wrung with grief Skylark took the three kits back to eclipseclan. He left them where he knew a patrol would find them, they were six moons old, but still had the scent of their father on them. One of the cats on patrol recognized the smell and confirmed that they were Skylark's kits, it was obvious with Silentkit there. All three kits were put into apprenticeship. Silentpaw's mentor was actually his own uncle, Oaktail. Even though Silentpaw was like Skylark in looks, he was even more like Oaktail in personality. They were both quiet, they worked hard, and they hardly ever spoke a word to each other.

By the end of the apprenticeship Silentpaw was even quieter, but he was lean and muscular, brimming with good health. He never saw his father after the night he was made a warrior. His father congratulated him and then took off into the night. Oaktail died the next year and Silentbasil had to say goodbye to the only 'friend' that really ever understood him. He was left with an aching in his heart that he could never stop.

Even if I could
I'd give up everything
If only for your good
So hold me when I'm here

Jun 25, 2009 16:12:40 GMT -5 &&rhythmic said:

&&cream-colored tom with a brown-black smudge on his nose, brown-black ears and blue eyes
&& day-dreamy, romantic, sentimental, not as "manly" as his other brothers, nice, easily trusting, easily taken advantage of, very close to his brothers, associates more with Pandapaw

&&I quote this so that I could remember his info hope you don't mind, and I also started this with the day he turns into an apprentice... I can change it though.

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.:Yellowpaw:.

Now originally I was supposed to be paying attention when Dragonrush actually spoke to us, I was also supposed to be in the den anyway..... Right! Now where I was was more to the right of the den, between it and another.... not to bright on places right now. For the most part I was sitting in a pile of leaves I had found earlier in the morning. It clung to my cream hued fur like Velcro. My head stuck out like a sore thumb, peering into the bush to my left. A small rainbow colored butterfly hung on the edge of a leaf, twittering it's wings and antennae. It seemed weird at first, but I began to imagine the butterfly's colors swirling around me, mixing into different colors and shapes. My blue eyes widen, viewing even more colors: orange, yellow, pink, blue, purple... They just kept coming and coming, sending me into a daze or trance.

I flick my head back and forth, trying to see around the colors, or to at least make sense of them. I couldn't, they were meaningless to me. Like literally, they had no meaning. I close my eyes for a minute, and then open them. I was grateful to be able to have a little bit of a solid color, but when I opened them a sudden bright light was all I could see. I blink furiously, trying to become accustomed to the light. Wasn't it just sunrise when I came out, I remember suddenly, staring at the sun as it beat down on me. Unsteadily I climb out of the pile of leaves, stretching my muscles gingerly, and grimacing at the soreness of them.

Craning my head around I look at the butterfly's colors once more and finally totter back to the den, just then thinking about how much trouble I may be in...... Oops. The scent of fresh-kill and felines roll towards me, pummeling my nose and bombarding my scents. All around me cats are moving around, doing chores, and eating. My stomach growls and I flinch at the sound, but no one appears to have noticed that I left. Maybe they aren't awake yet, I think and tip toe into the Nursery. The den is dark, no one seems to be awake, except for Pandapaw. I creep around some of the females and kits and lie down next to Fallenkit, my brother. Personally I would rather be next to Pandapaw, but then again he might tell on me to Dragonrush and I wasn't feeling up to being yelled at.

Fallenkit stirred as my fur brushed against his, but I ignored it, acting as if I had just woken up. "Morning Pandapaw." I fake a yawn and sit up. He doesn't respond so I just sigh. Maybe he was feeling down today. That made me feel down just thinking about him sad, because really I spent most of my time around him. I mean I love my other brothers too and am very close with them... but really Pandapaw was always the one I felt closest to. I bring my legs under me and walk over to sit next to him, "What's wrong?" I say this quietly, but I think that DragonRush must have heard because her eyes flitted open and she gave a long yawn.

{Some time after that.... like 2 hours}

Paintedkit and Fallenkit had finally woke up and DragonRush was explaining to them that today was the day, that today we would become apprentices. I paid them no mind, sitting next to Pandakit, speaking with him, away from the others, in hushed whispers. I lean in towards him, my splotched black nose just inches from his. "Well.....erm..uh." He says hesitantly and he looks at me with tear full eyes. "You can trust me Pandakit, you know that. I'll understand." I look at him, let him see the sympathy and the understanding that lurks in my sky blue eyes. Just at that time a single tear leaks from his eye out to the fur that grows along his cheek, and then falls to the floor. "Yes.. I know." He says and sends a soft whimper out, "Well... I'm scared..... What if they come back? And beat me up or something?" He casts a look down, I could see that the tears were welling up, threatening to over flow, but he seemed to restrain them, tried to put on a strong face.

But I knew him better and leaned into him thinking, It will be okay, It will. I pressed against him reassuringly, lending him my strength, "I'll protect you." I whisper, but now I really don't know if I can, if I would be able to. But I would... because he is my friend, my brother, my comrade. Just then Dragonrush turned to us, yelling, "ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING?!!!! GET READY, SHARE TONGUES........." Both I and Pandakit flinch, but her words bring light to my eyes and I begin to lick and pad down my very fluffy and very dirty fur. After what seemed like moons later the call came, "May all those cats old enough to catch their own prey gather here beneath the Shaderock for a clan meeting!"

My heart leaps into my throat and my body begins to tingle and all of us kits began to leap into the air with joy and run out towards the Shaderock. This was it. This was the day that we became apprentices.. probably one of the best days of my life.



[status] finished
[words] nine hundred and fifteen
[colors] [Yellowkit]Light Yellow [Pandakit]Teal [Dragonrush]SkyBlue
[notes] I had a burst of muse.. LONGEST POST EVER!!! I'm so happy. I can't promise that the individual posts will be this long, but I will try to make them as long as possible. [/blockquote][/blockquote][/blockquote][/quote]

Right me when I'm wrong
You can hold me when I'm scared
You won't always be there
So love me when I'm gone

Love me when I'm gone...

FATHER;; skylark
MOTHER;; lily
SIBLINGS;; crowleaf, karasage
MENTOR;; oaktail
UNCLE;; oaktail

Roaming through this darkness
I'm alive but I'm alone
Part of me is fighting this
But part of me is gone

Or maybe I'm just blind...

painting portraits of ghosts

Love me when I'm gone...

Love me when I'm gone
When I'm Gone
When I'm Gone
When I'm Gone

[[xoxo] SHARD !!]

accepted.

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