Oh! Can we see trapeze's mom?
Dad, actually!
His name is Doveskip. Trapeze’s mom wasn’t in the picture for very long, which caused a lot of strife considering that Doveskip was a very well respected advisor figure of Mottledclan.
Mottledclan is somewhere in northern Appalachia, facing both human/city threats and also the threats of the general wilderness. A leader and deputy proved to not be enough to keep the clan safe, so Doveskip was made into a new role of advisor—very old man of the mountain, very “wind in the east storm coming in” as he stares pensively at the skies.
His affair with the mother of his kits was brief and quite scandalous, as she more or less joined the clan to be with him, and then left soon after the kids were born. He received a lot of judgement and scorn for marrying the cat equivalent of a hillbilly, but rather than demand respect for her, he kind of distanced himself from her altogether—a decision that pushed her to leave and formed a rocky relationship between him and his kids, who both ended up leaving the clan for their own reasons.
As a fun bit of trivia, both of his kids had avian names. Being so well respected and such a figurehead of the clan, Doveskip wanted his legacy and authority to be passed down to his kids— Partridgetangle and Thunderbird.
Both cats ended up removing this part of their names— Trapeze changing his to fit in with the circus, and Thunderbird dropping the suffix entirely to just “Thunder”.
Trapeze had the least beef with his dad, I’d say. He was more like Dove in temperament, and so generally could get along with him better. He doesn’t hate him, and mostly doesn’t resent him. He just wishes things could have been different with his mom.