name: lillyheart formerly: maeve gender: female description; a short-haired golden tabby with symmetrical calico spots, white spotting, and blue eyes age: 28 moons apprentice: none personality:
empathetic: True to her suffix, Lillyheart sometimes lets her heart take the lead rather than her head. While a good trait for a medicine cat to have--she sometimes knows cats' sufferings before they admit it to themselves--she cares so much for others, feels so deeply for their suffering, and desires so much to bear their burden for them that sometimes she will end up emotionally scarring herself too, in a fleeting attempt to rescue the other. She ties herself so much to them that if they drown, she will too, but if they soar, she will be right along with them every step of the way.
capable: Though she is young, Lillyheart is determined to be held to the same standards as those around her. If they can do it, so can she, no questions asked. While this has lead her to be rather haughty and occasionally reckless with her bets, she is often not wrong, and she knows her strengths well. Lillyheart holds her own well, though to some, it can come across as arrogance.
idealistic: Due to her kittypet upbringing, though she knew of the clans and even had interactions with them when she was just a kit, she still grew up in a very sheltered and trusting environment. Thus, sometimes, she can be blind to the dangers that face her, expecting the best out of everyone even when that is keenly shown to not be the case. She will fight openly and honestly against any negative thoughts, occurrences or suggestions, no matter how bad the offendent has proven themselves to be. At times, it seems she is almost incapable of seeing the negative in others.
rational: Lillyheart prides herself on her balanced mind. Though it can become easily vexed when involving the intentions of another cat, when solving simple logical puzzles (say, determining the cause of an injury or illness) she is quite quick to figure it out, often impressing those around her. However, this has lead her to hide a very dark secret--she cannot, as much as she wants to, coincide a belief in StarClan with her belief in the natural world. To those who know her secret, she will always say she is open to persuasion, but deep down, she believes in her heart of hearts that no proof exists that can persuade her.
perfectionist: A cat who always has her mind on the details, she refuses to release a task until she is absolutely sure it is done. A strong task to her leaders and those who rely on her work, to those who work alongside her, her nit-picky nature can rapidly become annoying. Though it is all good-natured, Lillyheart will work herself to the bone to simply make something work. She takes failure as a personal offense, and accepts nothing less than perfection.
history: Originally, when Lillyheart was born, she belonged to a rather wealthy Twoleg family. She went by the name Maeve, and, while her mother, who lived with her, told her stories of the alleged warrior cats who lived beyond her fence, it was not until her Twoleg family moved, accidentally leaving Maeve behind, that she was forced to confront these seemingly vicious legends.
Terrified of the forests beyond her fence, but driven from her old home, Maeve took up living in an abandoned, unfinished building, leading the life of a loner, when she met another cat, who initially refused to give her his name. However, eventually, as she opened up to him, talking into thin air about her life in hopes he would respond, the cat divulged that they shared the same father, and were siblings.
Elated, Maeve took this as a sign that they should move on from the abandoned house together, and try to find other siblings like them. However, their fruitless quest led them farther and farther away from their home and towards Flameclan territory, where, eventually, the exhausted duo ended up fighting off a hawk, leaving the black cat by her side almost fatally injured. Terrified of losing her brother and her only link to her past, she stayed by his side, yowling for help as she struggled to save him. When Flameclan warriors finally found them and rescued her brother, allowing them into the Clan as he recovered, she was given the warrior name Lillyheart.
Feeling as though she owed her life to her new Clan, she threw herself into her work with fervor, and it did not take Moonpelt, the current medicine cat, long to take notice of her duties. Quickly, he swept her up under his wing and agreed to train her to become his apprentice.