#rooted

Sundapple is the medicine cat of her clan, Fieldclan, and can be maternal and kind as she is merciless and stubborn. (She’s my evil med cat oc <3).

Fieldclan has been at war with their neighbor Fogclab for as long as Sundapple can remember. A war she eventually finds out her leader, Willowstar, is encouraging. However, Willowstar threatens to kill her if she comes forward with the information and so Sundapple is forced to work with her leader.

However, she comes up with a plan and ventures out to find the herbs needed for it. In her way she instead finds this poor kit all alone and smelling of rot and death. Sundapple, seeing this both as an opportunity and feeling genuine sorrow for the kit, takes little Rootkit home and insists Willowstar make’s her Sundapple’s new appearance.

She raises Rootkit, soon Rootpaw, as her own her beloved daughter-but also inducts Rootpaw into her plan. She tells Rootpaw of Willowstar’s deception and admits to Rootpaw that she has been poisoning their clan mates, but for good reason! It’s to save them all, you see, if there’s no healthy warriors to fight Willowstar will have to give up the war! Totally 💯 valid reason right? (lol)

“It’s our job as healers to save our clan, no matter what. This is how we do it. This is how we survive. This must be our path.”

Sundapple isn’t a big star clan fan but once she realizes Rootpaw is she definitely starts lying and saying this is what starclan would want them to do!

And depending on how loyal Rootpaw is Sundapple may even admit to killing some of Willowstar’s most loyal followers.

Eventually however, Willowstar finds out and attempts to kill Sundapple for her actions-the Molly escapes but it’s unknown to everyone. With Willowstar telling the clan that Sundapple was a traitor and they killed her for the clan’s safety, leaving Rootpaw mourning her adopted mother.

For a few moons Rootpaw is left by herself-does she run away? Stay with the clan? If she does Willowstar keeps a close eye on her. If she leaves she may just find her mother

If Rootpaw were to stay and earn her warrior name, Sundapple would try to approach her by the Starpoint(the starclan meeting place in this world), and ask her to kill Willowstar, providing no the death berries.

Rootpaw is left uncertain and speaks to starclan-earning her full name but not given any answer by them.

Conflicted and alone, she’s left with a big choice to make…

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Less story and more just personality and such:

I think Sundapple would be very kind and sort of ‘lovebombing,’ for lack of a better word, to young Root. She spoils her rotten. Later this is somewhat replaced with guilt-tripping, but tbh she never fully stops spoiling Root.

That baby wants anything she’ll get it, and Sundapple would open up a lot while sharing meals in private together-not about her plans but about Sun’s life and the war and her more genuine personality.

Root would also be forced to learn to be a on battlefield medic lol.

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Ahahah sorry I wrote so much. I got exited! You’re free to add whatever you want or think about it differently this is mostly just following Sundapple’s plot as an outline. Hope you like it!