NAME: Sleet
— formerly Sleetkit, Sleetpaw
SECOND NAME: "Sinner"
Sleet was given this name because above all, he wants to be good and be viewed honorably, and this Lark's way of reminding him that no matter how much he tries, he is a sinner at heart, and cannot fight his nature.
GENDER: male
APPEARANCE: Everything about this kid is average, from his size and physique to his coloring. Sleetkit is perhaps a hair smaller than normal, the result of malnutrition in the weeks before Larkthroat began to take care of him. His fur is a pale silver, the color of the thin ice that coats the river during the winter, luring over cats foolish enough to believe that it can bear their weight, before plunging them into the icy waters. Sleet is a tabby, and his fur is heavily marked by thick slashes of black, as though he is a descendant of noble tigers. His eyes, small and round, are as yellow as the sun at midday and as hard as stone.
PERSONALITY: Sleetkit is an optimist, although not in the traditional sense of the world. He doesn't believe that world is a happy-go-lucky place and that evil doesn't exist, because he knows that isn't true. Rather, he believes that at the end of the day, with enough hard work, what is right and proper can prevail, and that enough effort can get anyone past their nature. He clings to this belief desperately, for as "Sinner," he knows that inside, he is bad. He tries to act honorably, following the code that dictates his Clanmates' lives, although at times it seems empty. Sleetkit is quite manipulative, a trait he is unaware of. He tends to watch and listen before acting, and takes what he observes to ingratiate himself with his peers.
OTHER:
Sleetkit was born during a time of famine and plague. With his parents dead, he too would have died, if not for RiverClan's medicine cat, Larkthroat, who stepped in to take care of Sleetkit and his siblings. Larkthroat fed them the flesh of other cats, turning the helpless kittens into unknowing cannibals, young creatures who hungered for the flesh of their own kind.
After Larkthroat disappeared, when RiverClan was flooding, Sleetpaw's sister, Tatteredpaw, discovered him cannibalizing a clanmate. Since all of the hounds had been trying to stop, she was shocked that he wasn't, and a fight broke out between the two of them. The fight ended when Sleetpaw drove his sister into the river.
Although he didn't know it, Tatteredpaw survived her journey down the river. Sleetpaw, however, ate himself up over the "murder" and the flood that RiverClan had been faced with, which he viewed as a punishment for his crimes of cannibalism. He fled RiverClan and lived on his own for many moons, before finally joining BloodClan.