[Silverfrost]

Snowthistle

BASICS

NAME ► Snowthistle
AGE ► 96 Moons
GENDER ► Female
PRONOUNS ► she/her
RANK ► Elder
CLAN ► Shadowclan

DESCRIPTIONS

ONE LINER ► a small, battle-scarred silver tabby with one green eye
FACECLAIM ► By Silverfrost

DETAILED ► Snowthistle is a small, heavily-scarred she-cat. She is skinny and still has some wiry muscle to her frame. Her fur is short except for around her bottlebrush of a tail. Her fur is silvery with tabby stripes. She has multiple scars on her frame.

PERSONALITY

STRENGTHS ► Snowthistle is a devoted cat and very knowledgeable about healing and herbs. She is quite determined and diligent in what she does. She is the sort to be steady in a crisis and is quite down-to-earth. It's said that if Snowthistle is shaken, then shit is truly about to be hitting the branch. Despite her prickly nature Snowthistle can be trusted to give sound advice and listen to those in need. She is quite gentle towards kits and will handle delicate matters with the utmost care and discretion. She also is very assured and will not back down even towards leaders.
WEAKNESS ► Snowthistle is a stubborn she-cat and quite set in her ways. She can also be quite sarcastic and biting in her jabs. Snowthistle can be a bit ill-tempered and also probably taught all the Shadowclan apprentices and kits how to swear.
LIKES ► herbs, sunlight, teaching kits, helping others
DISLIKES ► leafbare, stupidity, foxes, dogs, Cloudstar telling her to get out of the medicine cat den

DETAILED ► Snowthistle will call anyone out for their stupidity, even leaders.

RELATIONSHIPS

FATHER ► Unknown Windclan Warrior
MOTHER ► Moonleaf
SIBLINGS ► None

MATE ► Firelight*
OFFSPRING ► Birchfrost, Ivythorn, Sparkstrike, Ravenfeather**
* not officially; acknowledged as a "very good friend" to Firelight but also yeah they were totally mates
** not officially but Snowthistle basically helped raised them and considers them her own blood

MENTOR ► Sagemist
APPRENTICE(S) ► Dusklight

HISTORY

TRIGGER WARNINGS ► death

► Snowthistle was born as Snowkit to Moonleaf, a Shadowclan she-cat. Her father is unknown and Moonleaf has never mentioned nor been seen with anyone. Snowkit was apprenticed to Sagemist, the Shadowclan medicine cat. Snowpaw learned a lot under her mentor and was shown to be gifted in the healing arts.

During an herb-gathering trip, Snowpaw was attacked by a twoleg's dog when she was collecting herbs. Another apprentice heard the commotion and attacked the dog as well as called for help. Sagemist was able to stablise Snowpaw but Snowpaw would always walk with a limp. The apprentice who saved Snowpaw was named Firepaw. Snowpaw recovered and continued to work under Sagemist until she was made a fully-fledged medicine cat when she was 20 moons old. By this time, Firepaw had been made a warrior named Firelight.

The she-cats remained close and at some point became closer. They were in love and while they were never officially mates, it would be hard to deny that Firelight and Snowthistle were close. Firelight and Snowthistle were often seen going on walks and could be found sharing tongues. There were some nights that Firelight would spend them in the medicine den with Snowthistle and some may have seen them sharing a nest. But both Snowthistle and Firelight were respected and both were devoted to the clan.

Firelight would fall pregnant when she was thirty moons old. A father was never acknowledged nor named but Snowthistle filled the missing parental role. She considers the kits her children as well and they saw her as another mother figure. Some warriors may have side-eyed this but who was to say that Snowthistle was just being a very good friend to Firelight. Snowthistle and Firelight saw their kits become warriors and were proud of them.

However, good things never last forever.

When Snowthistle and Firelight were nearing sixty moons they went out on a walk. However, their time together was interrupted by a pack of foxes. Snowthistle was heavily injured and Firelight fought until her last breath to protect Snowthistle. Snowthistle lost the love of her life as well as lost her eye and became even more scarred. She recovered but was never the same.

She grew even more snappish and ill-tempered. But she continued to serve her clan loyally for many more seasons.

However, st the age of ninety moons she was more or less forced into the elder's den. She wasn't particularly happy about this.

[hailstormsdown]

Accepted!