lynxpaw???? yo who coulda guessed i’d do her ref
she’s p much the character that i secretly really really like but she never gets enough screen time for me to actually show her personality and motivations :/
okay so basically: Lynxpaw is Swiftpaw’s sister. the two are very close- they are also close to Longtail and Cherryfur, as they are half-sibs + Long is Swift’s mentor so they just happen to be on patrols/training a lot together and are close because of it. she was also quick friends with Dustpaw/pelt! she actually admired him a lot, and, while at first it was just a “woah he’s cool, lets be friends!” the closer friends they became, she did develop a crush, tho she kinda tries to hide it while also being jelly when Dust likes/hangs out with someone else. with ambiguous-moralled, homewrecker womanizer Patchpelt as a father, Longtail as a close older brother, and Dust as a friend, she quickly took their ideals, believing cats like Featherpaw to be weak and a hinderance to the clan. she and Cricket got into a LOT of spats over this, as Cricket was fiercely protective of Feather, and Lynx would actually rarely be mean to Feather’s face (he prob thought they were genuinely friends for a bit), only behind his back where he literally couldn’t hear her.
Lynxpaw is the kind of gal to talk shit about her friends behind their backs to make herself look better to others. kind of a “pick me” girl type, honestly. she’ll suck up to authority, and bully those she views as beneath her. but to your face she’ll often be polite or friendly, though sometimes condescending or passive aggressive. she is a very very jealous person- she bonds a lot with Dustpelt over the fact that they were “made warriors late” or “others were made warriors before us unfairly.” or, well, in her case, that she still isn’t a warrior! she and her brother Swiftpaw are both of the strong mindset that they should have been warriors MOONS ago. i mean, as of Ch. 115, they really are over 12 moons, the normal age where apprentices are made warriors.
and that’s about as far as i can go for her without giving spoilers ;)