#duckkit

[stus-warrior-designs]

One of Greenflower’s kits

[sadly-unfortunate]

💚💙

[koolaidcatley]

[mothmans-warriors-designs]

DUCKKIT!!!!

He gains the name Duckspeckle in StarClan.

Born: Fire and Ice

First Appeared: Forest of Secrets (mentioned only, unnamed)

Died: Forest of Secrets

Mother: Greenflower

Father: Reedtail

Littermate: Dragonflystripe

[lemnnshark]

Dragonflykit is "a white tom with dark gray tabby patches and amber eyes."

Duckkit is "a brown tabby tom with green eyes and a straight tail."

Wiki info on them can be found in the trivia section here

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

okay wait I have a funny idea

Adult Duckkit (warrior name Duckheart or Ducklight perhaps?) and her mate Goosesomething (I'm feeling the name Goosestorm for some reason) have a whole litter of kits named after waterfowl and marine birds

Swankit, Petrelkit, Cranekit, and Gullkit

and the kits have a rivalry with the duckling kits xdd

I can't decide if A) having someone named Gullkit be in a family that is rivals with another family whose son (that died) was named Gullkit is either funny or angsty or

B) Gullkit's name is instead Heronkit

OR

C) Gullkit (or Gullpaw, more mature) starts to see more of the duck family's side and requests a name change.....maybe that's why their rivalry started, because the duck family wanted no one else to be named Gullkit because it hurts to hear, but they say that they just don't want it because it belongs to him.

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

mmmmmmmmmmmmm Duckkit grows up, gets a mate called Goosesomething, and has a baby named Swankit

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Duckkit (short story)

“I thought you said you told her,” Fleathistle sighed as he stopped beside Fungichomp. His shoulders slumped.

“I did,” Fungichomp responded. He didn’t need to ask who Fleathistle was talking about.

“Were you clear enough?” Fleathistle asked. He indicated with his tail toward the clearing entrance, where Duckkit was watching excitedly as parents were beginning to retrieve their kits. “She still expects them to take her home.”

“She’s two moons old, Fleathistle,” Fungichomp pointed out roughly, the terrible situation making him easily irritated. “I told her that her mother and father died, that they can’t come back, that she won’t see them again, everything. I thought she understood. She cried for the rest of the day, no one could console her. But then it was as if she forgot that she was ever told anything, and just kept asking when her mommy or daddy were coming, or if they were coming soon. I don’t know how many more of those questions I can take. I know I can’t tell her a tenth time that her parents are dead. She’s so innocent.”

Fleathistle bristled. “They both just died? You believe that? Maybe someone did something. I wouldn’t put it past Myrtlewing, or those twins.”

“I wouldn’t either,” Fungichomp agreed, remembering when Scabpaw and Blightpaw were under his care, and shuddered. “But Clawbear saw it, and he’s a terrible liar. The ground was too dark to tell grass from cliff.  She fell, he tried to grab her….it was a tragedy. Funny. We should be used to those by now.”

Fleathistle slumped to the ground. “What do we say, then?”

Fungichomp shook his head, feeling utterly lost. “I don’t know what we can say that she will remember. Looking for one’s parents is an innate instinct hard to ignore, especially for a kit that doesn’t understand death. All she knows is that her parents leave her here when they need to, and that they pick her up when business is finished. She just…she can’t understand why they’re not picking her up.”

As he spoke, they watched Duckkit. Her tail had stuck up eagerly, bouncing around the parents as she searched them for a familiar pelt. Gradually, her smile faded. She sat heavily, and once again, tears began to well in her eyes.

“I’ll talk with her,” Fleathistle offered, rising. 

“Thank you,” Fungichomp told him. But sorrow continued to weigh in his chest like a frozen stone. He had had kits in his care without parents before, but never before had one been with him after their parents had died. What was he to do, now?

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--both Fungi and Flea belong to @wills-woodland-warriors

--Flea and Myrtle, and I think Fungi are on good terms, but with the situation, their tense. Also..reasonable to not put it past Myrtle.