[attr="class","arrgenMAINTEXT"]On the outside, tigerlily can be very sweet. she plays the perfect molly card. sweet, calm, flirtatious... she knows how to win those hearts. she knows how to manipulate the cards in her own favor. she loves messing with other toms. especially toms older than herself. she only has one love, and that's pinefrost, but she's not afraid to break some hearts.

but while she had the perfect molly down, she's also very dangerous. murder is something she's done before and not afraid to do again. her motivation is the leader position and she knows she's going to have to beef herself and her plans up in order to outsmart ramstar. she may be young, but she's not a stupid cat. she's actually rather clever in her plans and strategies.

she's very good at manipulation. this is, in fact, her specialty. she loves making other cats dance around her and isn't afraid to use the talents of other cats to move up her own agenda. this may be why she's so enraptured with pinefrost, because he follows her simply because he wants to, and because she can manipulate him in whatever way she wants to go.

[attr="class","arrgenMAINTEXT"]she was born from pain, misery, and rebellion. lionfire and hawkflight, two well respected medicine cats of shadowclan, gave birth to three young kits that went by the names of tigerkit, foxkit, and eaglekit. but they were cursed to have unnormal lives. eaglekit was the runt of the litter and didn't make it till dawn, while tigerkit became cursed with darkness in her heart. she would take after her grandfather in her thirst for blood, even at a young age.

as medicine cats, lionfire and hawkflight were forbidden by starclan to have kits. and while lionfire's labor was filled with pain and possible death she pulled through and decided to give her kits away to a queen called daisyfur. tigerkit would learn soon enough that daisyfur was her mother and that she and foxkit were found by the two medicine cats within the territory abandoned by their mother.

this formed a bitterness within tigerkit's heart. her mother didn't want her. what gave her the right to think that she could believe this clan wanted her either. her mother, daisyfur, gave her and foxkit all the love and affection they could ever want, but tigerkit would soon reserve herself from everyone else. even her beloved sister. she was the outgoing one, and tigerkit became bitter and jealous of her. everyone loved her and wanted to be around her, including most of the kits in the nursery.

but there was just one kit who wouldn't leave tigerkit alone. pinekit would be her shadow, looking up to her as though she were the best thing since moss balls. she found him absolutely annoying at first, wanting nothing more than to be alone to brood, but this kit just kept following her. he was a few sunrises younger than her and acted like a starstruck kit.

as soon as she realized he would do anything she asked of him, a new plan formed in her mind. she wanted to be leader, if only because she wanted everyone to do her bidding. she wanted to make the decisions within the clan and to do as she saw fit with it. especially since it would never fully accept her into its ranks. pinekit would be her second in command, her general. if he so chose to be.

so she had to test his limits. how far would he go for her? how far would she herself go for this clan?

they became apprentices together. foxpaw, tigerpaw, pinepaw, and his brother cedarpaw, of whom foxpaw had a crush on. they even trained together under the watchful eyes of their mentors. tigerpaw's mentor was one of ramstar's many children. ashencloud was a good mentor. he deepened the bitter pain she felt toward her mother and sister, confirmed her suspicion that ramstar was a terrible leader and that shadowclan should be purged of his evil, and he taught her how to hold a pretty face and a gentle smile. she was soon a changed cat.

but she still hadn't experimented with her beloved pinepaw just how far he would go for her.

one day tigerpaw and pinepaw came back with cedarpaw's body, bones broken, and covered in blood. they said that they went to go see the thunderclan border, to see the thunderpath, and that cedarpaw had gotten too close for his own good. Foxpaw cried for days, saddened that her best friend had died so suddenly.

but tigerpaw and pinepaw knew the real reason cedarpaw was dead. they knew who's paws were stained with his blood. and they were proud of what they had done. surrounding him. cornering him. pinepaw was the one who pushed him. she watched it happen with her own eyes. and then she could only smile. they were on the same page then.

in her own mind there was pomp and circumstance at their naming ceremony. foxpaw failed her warrior assessment and so was held back a moon, but tigerpaw and pinepaw became tigerlily and pinefrost. and they've been planning their ascent ever since that day.