Warrior Cats SkyClan / Characters

"SkyClan's destiny is that we will never live in isolation from other cats. We're not like the forest Clans; we can't shut ourselves off entirely from kittypets and rogues. And visitors will be welcome."

—Leafstar on SkyClan, SkyClan's Destiny

Clan Facts
Leader: Leafstar
Deputy: Hawkwing
Medicine Cat: Frecklewish & Fidgetflake
Hunting Territory: Mountainous Forest
Camp: Lush Valley
Unique Battle Skill: Aboveground combat

SkyClan was the fifth Clan in Warrior Cats, exiled when humans destroyed their territory and soon disbanded and forgotten. During the events of Firestar's Quest, Firestar travels to the new home SkyClan temporarily inhabited and recruits cats to live there and be a new SkyClan.

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General Clan Tropes

Determinator: They have been driven out of their homes over and over, even going extinct at one point—yet they continue to endure, start over, and thrive.
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In SkyClan's Destiny, they takes it upon themselves to defeat the Twoleg who keeps abusing cats.
The Exile:
- They are exiled from the forest years ago when Twolegs took over their territory. None of the Clans would help them.
- They are again exiled from their home in Hawkwing's Journey when Darktail and his rogues drove them out.
Fighting for a Homeland: When they were exiled from the forest. Again, when they're exiled from the gorge.
From Stray to Pet: A few of the last remaining members of Old SkyClan became kittypets when the Clan finally split up.
It's Raining Men: The "Skydrop" move that they developed.
A Pet into the Wild: Many of New SkyClan were kittypets who left their homes to join the Clan.
Trauma Conga Line: Out of all the Clans, SkyClan has perhaps suffered the most. They were abandoned by the other Clans and exiled from the forest when Twolegs destroyed their territory. They were driven out of the gorge, their new home, by rats, and more permanently by Darktail. They endured a long journey, losing members, and when they thought they found a new place to settle, had to flee from there too. Even their beginning was rough—their first leader was a tyrant, and when he reformed, he was temporarily exiled and the Clan taken over by an even worse tyrant.
Unperson: After their exile from the forest, the other Clans ceased talking about SkyClan entirely out of shame for what they'd done. Since the Clans have no written records, only oral tradition, this meant that SkyClan was eventually forgotten by the later generations and had no trace of their existence left.
Walking Spoiler: Any mention of SkyClan, the lost "fifth Clan" that was once disbanded and reformed, whose very existence is a massive spoiler for Firestar's Quest and the sixth series.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Due to the battle with the rats at the end of Firestar's Quest, most of SkyClan is scared of rats.

Leaders and Deputies

Skystar

"SkyClan will never end! We have suffered great losses before, only to rise and thrive again."

The legendary founder of SkyClan. Mentioned in Cloudstar's Journey. For more information about him, see his entry here.

Famed In-Story: Still remembered many years after his death as the cat that founded SkyClan.
Founder of the Kingdom: He founded SkyClan.
The Leader: Clear Sky was the first leader of SkyClan.
Retcon: Was called Sky in Code of the Clans, but Cloudstar's Journey has him called Clear Sky. Can be hand waved or justified by Secrets of the Clans, which says that the Dawn of the Clans happened so long ago that each version is told differently.

Beechstar

"They won't be safe for long. RiverClan will not be content with my death. SkyClan must attack before they do. Take the battle into their territory this time. And make sure we win."

The leader of SkyClan shortly before the code about the deputy replacing the leader was established.

King on His Deathbed: As he dies of an injury, he spends his last breaths naming his successor.
The Leader: Of SkyClan.
Nepotism: Appointed his son, Mothpelt, to succeed him as leader.

Maplestar (Maplewhisker)

"And I'm not mouse-brained enough to think that my Clan doesn't need me. If Mothpelt agrees, then I'll lead SkyClan."

The deputy under Beechstar, and eventually, after Mothpelt's disastrous attempt to attack RiverClan, the leader of SkyClan.

The Cameo: Appears in Cloudstar's Journey.
The Leader: Of SkyClan.
Number Two: To Beechstar, before his death, and briefly to Mothpelt, before realizing she, as the most qualified, should be leader herself.
Undying Loyalty: To SkyClan, and to its leader, regardless of who it is. Despite sharing Robinwing's doubts about Mothpelt's leadership skills, she agrees to follow him. After he attacks RiverClan in a flood, she realizes she is a better leader, but decides to assume command if Mothpelt himself agrees.

Darkstar

"No other leader should have to face such insubordination in front of the other Clans. I propose a law that the word of a leader is the warrior code. What we say must never be challenged. StarClan gave us the power to lead; StarClan would wish it to be so."

The leader of SkyClan at the time the thirteenth code was established.

Famed In-Story: He's remembered, at least until SkyClan was driven out, as the reason for the thirteenth code. He claims in StarClan that his contribution to the code was the greatest.
The Leader: Of SkyClan.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His decision to give some of his Clan's territory to ThunderClan, while well-intentioned, ended up costing SkyClan its home when Twolegs started destroying their territory. While they would have lost it anyway due to Smudge's home being built on the location of their camp, the missing territory caused them to be forced out quicker.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. There are two RiverClan leaders, one in Code of the Clans who led at the time of the inspiration for the third code to be created, and one during Mapleshade's time, who were both named Darkstar.
Series Continuity Error: He's called Duskstar in Cloudstar's Journey.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In addition to the Nice Job Breaking It, Hero above, the thirteenth code has also allowed cruel leaders like Brokenstar, Tigerstar and Bramblestar's imposter (Ashfur possessing Bramblestar's body) to rule unchallenged because thanks to him, the code says a leader's word is law.

Raincloud

"Did you really want this, StarClan? What happens when a leader comes who wants to change everything? Turn the Clans against one another, wipe out all the values we have ever lived by? What will you do then?"

Darkstar's deputy at the time the thirteenth code was established.

Armor-Piercing Question: She questions StarClan about allowing the thirteenth code. As seen by the actions of some future leaders, she was right to do so.
Commander Contrarian: Disagrees with Darkstar's choice to give up a quarter of SkyClan's territory, to the point of challenging it at a Gathering.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: While SkyClan would still have lost the territory, if she hadn't publicly challenged Darkstar, he would never have proposed that a leader's word be unchallengeable law. Without that code, a lot of problems caused by Brokenstar, Tigerstar, and Ashfur (possessing Bramblestar's body) could have been avoided.
Number Two: To Darkstar.
Only Sane Woman: In her story, she questions Darkstar's choice to give up territory and silently is against the thirteenth code. Unfortunately, all the other leaders agree to it despite her thoughts, and it becomes law.
Rage Against the Heavens: See her quote.

Flystar

The leader of SkyClan before Cloudstar.

The Greatest Story Never Told: Once he finds out his Clan has dealt with the kittypet problem while he was away, he doesn't tell them what StarClan told him, or if they said anything at all.
The Leader: Of ancient SkyClan.

Petalfall

"I will fight alongside you, and with StarClan's blessing, we will win. But if I were you, I'd be careful about dismissing our ancestors so lightly. We owe them everything, and it is a debt that will never be repaid."

The deputy of ancient SkyClan under Flystar, before Cloudstar.

Commander Contrarian: Wonders if attacking the kittypets is the right thing to do, and would rather place her faith in StarClan to handle it, though Cloudstorm convinces her it's the right thing.
Cool Old Lady: As an elder, she gives up food when the territory is being destroyed so the queens won't go hungry.
I Coulda Been a Contender!: Had to step down from the deputyship due to a sickness that caused her to have seizures.
Number Two: To Flystar, before she retired.

Cloudstar (Cloudstorm)

"StarClan may go where they please. They have betrayed SkyClan. From this day on, I will have nothing more to do with our warrior ancestors. StarClan allowed the Twolegs to destroy our home. They look down on us now, and let the moon go on shining while you drive us out. They said there would always be five Clans in the forest, but they lied. SkyClan will never look to the stars again."

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"I have waited long for you to come, a strong cat, a leader, and one who bears no taint of our betrayal in his blood. You are not descended from the cats that drove us out, and yet you are a true Clan warrior. It is your destiny to rebuilt SkyClan."

An ancient leader, and the last SkyClan leader of the forest. As a young warrior, he questioned StarClan, but he grew to become a very devout believer in their guidance and power. However, when his home was destroyed and his Clan was driven from the forest, all his old doubts returned and he swore that SkyClan would never follow StarClan again. He led his Clan on a long journey and they eventually found a new home, but it was not enough and they died out.

After his death, he watched over the Clans for years, bitter because of SkyClan's exile. Finally, in Firestar's Quest, he appeared again, this time speaking to Firestar. Firestar was born a kittypet, and thus was a leader not descended from the cats that had driven SkyClan from the forest. Cloudstar begged Firestar to rebuilt SkyClan as penance for how the other four Clans had driven them from the forest. This began Firestar's longest and greatest journey.

A Day in the Limelight: He got his own eBook novella called Cloudstar's Journey. Earlier, he got two stories in Battles of the Clans: "The Defeated Clan" and "A Lesson to Kittypet Thieves".
Broken Ace: He was confident, strong, and charismatic, but SkyClan's exile completely broke him and shattered his belief in StarClan. He finally gets better once his spirit is reunited with the spirit of his mate during Leafstar's nine lives ceremony.
Crisis of Faith: His novella Cloudstar's Journey features him losing his faith entirely in StarClan. Unlike most examples of this trope he never regains his faith until after his death.
Disappeared Dad: He ultimately becomes this to his kits Gorseclaw and Spottedpelt, as he's forced to leave them behind in ThunderClan because they wouldn't survive the journey.
The Exile: He and his Clan were driven out of the forest.
Happily Married: To Birdflight. Having to leave her and their kits behind in ThunderClan while he found a new home for his Clan broke him, to the point of describing his dreams as empty, and that his fresh-kill as tasting like nothing.
I Will Wait for You: He promises Birdflight that he will wait for her until they are reunited in death.
The Leader: He was the leader of SkyClan many moons before Into the Wild happened.
Nay-Theist: Vows that he and his whole Clan will cease to worship StarClan since he feels that they betrayed SkyClan by allowing their territory to be destroyed and by allowing the other Clans to drive them out.
The Promise: With her dying breaths, Petalfall asks Cloudstar to promise her that he won't let Twolegs drive them from their territory. He promises that "as long as I have my nine lives, we will never leave the forest", but is ultimately unable to keep that promise.
Rage Against the Heavens: Blames StarClan for SkyClan being driven out and swears that he will never follow them again.
Reasonable Authority Figure: As leader, he renounces StarClan after his Clan is driven out, but allows his warriors to keep looking to their ancestors, reasoning after everything they have lost, he can't take their faith away too.
Rousing Speech: He gives one to his Clan in Cloudstar's Journey after they lose an important battle, in order to keep their spirits up and encourage them to fight another day.
Sensing You Are Outmatched: In Cloudstar's Journey he realizes that his starving, weakened Clanmates cannot win against strong, healthy ThunderClan warriors.
Spirit Advisor: Appears to Firestar and tells him to rebuild SkyClan.
Star-Crossed Lovers: Was separated from his mate Birdflight and believed that he would never see her again. However, they do end up reunited in the afterlife.
Too Unhappy to Be Hungry: After he and his Clan are driven out of the forest, having to leave his mate and kits behind in the process, he laments in his inner monologue, "When I sleep, my dreams are dark and empty, and whatever I eat tastes of nothing."

Buzzardstar (Buzzardtail)

"Even after watching the heartbreaking defeat of the Clanmates who came after me, I knew that SkyClan could live again, strong and proud and preserved by the warrior code."

The leader of Ancient SkyClan after Cloudstar.

Good Parents: To his kits, mentioned to have been soft when they were born. Also very concerned when Mintpaw, one of them, is injured by a falling tree.
Informed Attribute: As an apprentice, he had a reputation for taking on cats twice his size, according to Cloudstorm. While he is eager to fight the kittypets encroaching on their territory, this doesn't come up again.
The Leader: To SkyClan, while they lived in the gorge.
Mr. Exposition: As a spirit, he's the one who tells the kittypets about SkyClan's battle strategies in Battles of the Clans.
Number Two: To Cloudstar.
Spirit Advisor: A variation. In Battles of the Clans, his spirit is the one who tells the kittypets about his Clan's ways of fighting.

Spiderstar

"May StarClan light a path for all of us. We still live on, but our Clan has died."

The last leader of the Ancient SkyClan. He disbanded his Clan after it became clear that they could not survive the threat of the rats. Appears in the Distant Prologue of SkyClan's Destiny.

Breaking the Fellowship: He disbands SkyClan in a flashback sequence.
I Choose to Stay: After he dissolves SkyClan, he and Brackenheart stay behind to protect the elders, while most of the Clan leave to become kittypets or rogues.
Know When to Fold 'Em: He realizes his Clan can't beat the rats, and they'll all be killed if they stay, so he disbands the Clan.
The Leader: The last leader of the original SkyClan, to be precise.

Honeyleaf

"I never thought I'd hear a SkyClan warrior say that! The warrior code lives in all of us, when we hunt and fight and give thanks for the life of a Clan cat."

The last deputy of ancient SkyClan, under Spiderstar.

Commander Contrarian: Disagrees with Spiderstar's decision to disband SkyClan.
Number Two: To Spiderstar.
Sore Loser: After the Clan is disbanded, she leaves to live up the gorge where there may be better hunting, without saying goodbye to anyone.

Leafstar (Leafdapple)

"The Clan is a family, Harry. A community."

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"Carry on fighting to the death and you'll only lose what you love most."

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A character in the Super Edition Firestar's Quest, Leafdapple was the cat that StarClan chose as the leader of the newly re-formed SkyClan. She introduced the idea of "daylight-warriors" to her Clan (kittypets who help the Clan during the day and stay with their Twolegs at night), and while this was an idea that originally caused some conflict between the daylight-warriors and regular Clan cats, the daylight-warriors eventually were accepted into the Clan. Leafstar also defied tradition by taking a mate and giving birth to kits while still carrying out her leadership duties. She is currently still leader of SkyClan, and has three kits with Billystorm, a daylight-warrior.

A Day in the Limelight: She's the original star of the modern SkyClan saga being the main character of SkyClan's Destiny and the SkyClan and the Stranger manga trilogy.
Action Girl: She's a good fighter and hunter.
Action Mom: In the SkyClan and the Stranger manga series, even though she has kits, she still fights with just as much strength.
Back from the Dead: As with all leaders, she literally has nine lives. So far, we have only seen her lose two lives; during her fight with Misha in SkyClan's Destiny she dies, but surprises her opponent great by coming back. The second life we see her lose is to raccoons in Hawkwing's Journey.
Badass in Distress: In SkyClan and the Stranger: The Rescue, an elderly woman takes Leafstar and her kits into her home. The other members of SkyClan have to rescue their leader.
Battle Couple: With her mate, Billystorm. They fight alongside each other when it comes to battle.
Berserk Button: Telling her how to run her Clan or how to do her job, as Ashfur found out poorly in The Broken Code. She also gets annoyed when people waste her time or are just outright disrespectful to others.
Career Versus Man: Clan tradition is that female leaders and deputies cannot have kits since it might get too in the way of their responsibilities to the Clan. Leafstar spends much of SkyClan's Destiny thinking about how unfair this is after she realizes she has feelings for Billystorm, and by the end of the book she decides that she doesn't care and that it's fine for SkyClan, since the warrior code states "The word of the Clan leader is the warrior code".
Character Development: Her banishing Sol in After The Flood can count as this. One of the reasons she keeps defending that Sol deserves a chance to be a warrior is because a great deal of SkyClan was made from cats who simply wanted to join or even gave up their kittypet life, such as Billystorm. But when she learns that Sol kidnapped her kit for the selfish intention of making himself look worthy, being the mother she is, doesn't take it lying down. She then lets Sol know being a warrior is about more than wanting to join, it's about being a family.
Cool Old Lady: Leafstar is one of the oldest cats in the series right now, but that doesn't stop her from taking part in most Clan affairs and being one of the most kind-hearted and reasonable leaders the Clans have ever seen.
Death Glare: She's pretty good at giving these. She gives them frequently in the SkyClan and the Stranger trilogy. She's especially furious in After the Flood when giving them to Billystorm, who suggested taking their kits back to his home while cleaning up the flood's damage and Sol, who stole her kits so that he could prove himself by "finding" them.
Determinator: Billystorm wonders if anyone has ever been able to stop her from accomplishing her goals.
Dreaming of Things to Come: At the beginning of SkyClan's Destiny, Leafstar has a nightmare about the gorge flooding. Her dream eventually comes true in Beyond the Code.
Foil: She is everything that Sol's mother Cinders never was. Cinders was a pessimist who complained about her adverse life and treated Sol and his siblings with impatience. Leafstar on the other paw is a proactive leader who thinks of her cats' well-being, as well as a good mother who lovingly nurtures her kits.
The Good King: Leafstar is pragmatic, kind, thoughtful, and cautious, but refuses to let herself or her Clan be pushed around.
Good Is Not Nice: Overall Leafstar is a very reasonable cat and a kind one at that, but when you push her buttons she ''will' retaliate and does not tolerate insubordination or people pushing her around.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Echosong. The leader and her medicine cat.
The Leader: The first and so far only leader of modern SkyClan.
Living Is More than Surviving: In Firestar's Quest, she uses this as a reason as to why they should join the new SkyClan.
"Yes, I'll join," Leaf assured him. "If the Clan really works how you say it will, then cats will have a purpose. We'll be more than just rogues, just living to stay alive."
Mama Bear: When she learns that Sol kidnapped her kits in After The Flood, she absolutely loses it and fights him with everything she's got. What really gets under her fur is the very thought that during this whole scheme, Sol left the kits unattended, which could've lead to them getting lost, hurt, or even killed.
Martial Pacifist: She believes in peace and avoiding unnecessary battles, but she still fights to protect her Clan.
The Mentor: To Sparrowpelt.
Missing Child: In After the Flood her kits go missing after the flood and she has no idea where they are or if they're safe.
Outliving One's Offspring: Outlives two of her three kits.
Pragmatic Hero: One of Leafstar's most defining traits is her overal pragmatism, which likely stems from her past as a self-sustaining loner. Luckily for SkyClan, it carries over into her leadership.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Leafstar is arguably this trope embodied.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In SkyClan and the Stranger: After the Flood, she gives an epic one to Sol after he steals her kits so he could rescue them.
Sol: "I'm always overlooked! Never made leader of a patrol...always scorned because I used to be a kittypet! I can be a warrior!"
Leafstar: "No. You can't. You have no understanding of the warrior code at all. What you've done here proves it. You've risked the lives of young kits...by leaving them alone here. Anything could have happened to them. They could have been lost. They could have died. My kits could have died. But you didn't just betray me. You betrayed the entire Clan. You did all this...and you never considered how it would make any of us feel. The Clan is a family, Sol. A community. And you're incapable of thinking about anyone but yourself. I banish you from SkyClan. You've betrayed my trust, betrayed the warrior code...betrayed everything I thought you believed in."
Royals Who Actually Do Something: Works with her Reasonable Authority Figure status. Leafstar works hard to keep her Clan maintained and actively works against injustices.
Supporting Protagonist: In SkyClan's Destiny, Leafstar is the perspective character, however Stick is the main character and the story centers around his struggles with the evil Dodge.
Trauma Conga Line: Has a bit of one in Hawkwing's Journey. She loses her home, her mate, two of her kits, and two of her deputies. Also, as the ending comic of that book reveals, she loses her life-long friend and medicine cat, Echosong.
Unnamed Parent: Her mother appears and even gives her one of her nine lives, but surprisingly - especially considering that they name even minor characters that don't appear in-text - she is never named.
What the Hell, Hero?: In After The Flood, she isn't happy that her mate Billystorm would tell their kittens they would go to live with his Twolegs, or even suggest they all go live with his Twolegs. She calls him out on this.

Sharpclaw

"Sharpclaw has pushed hard for the post of leader when he hadn’t completely understood the full meaning of the warrior code. He could make Leafstar’s life difficult if he had refused to accept her authority. But his fiery courage and fighting skills would balance well with Leafstar’s more thoughtful personality. And one day, when he had lived enough moons by the warrior code, he would make a good leader."

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A founding member of modern SkyClan. He was once a rogue named Scratch.

Big Damn Heroes: His first appearance has him appear out of nowhere to help Firestar protect Clovertail and her kits from a fox.
The Big Guy: He's a very talented fighter, and described as 'massive'.
Character Development: In SkyClan's Destiny, he's shown to be hostile and scornful towards the daylight warriors. But after that book and in the SkyClan And The Stranger series, he's now accepting towards them, even praising Ebonyclaw for using a clever trick on a border patrol.
Commander Contrarian: Opposed Leafstar mostly throughout SkyClan's Destiny. At the end, it's revealed that he challenges her because he's testing her to see if she's doing the right thing. That, and he just wanted what was best for the Clan.
Hot-Blooded: He's pretty much always willing to fight, and he's so naturally charismatic and strong-willed that Firestar seriously considered the notion that StarClan would choose him as SkyClan's leader. Hawkwing has apparently inherited this trait from him.
Leader Wannabe: Hints to Firestar in Firestar's Quest that he thinks he should lead the Clan. By the end of the book he's learned about the warrior code and is content being deputy.
The Mentor: To Cherrytail and Egg.
Number Two: Becomes a loyal deputy to Leafstar, and (eventually) seems not begrudge her at all for being chosen as leader.
Outliving One's Offspring: His son Duskpaw dies from smoke inhalation.
A Pet into the Wild: The app states he, his sister, and their mother were kittypets whose Twoleg disappeared, and forced to run away after being mistreated by her relatives, managing to adapt to life in the wild.
Teacher/Student Romance: Has kits with his former apprentice, Cherrytail.

Waspwhisker

"I'll protect my clan at the cost of my life. I can never be as great nor as noble as a deputy as Sharpclaw was, but I'll try my best."

A warrior of modern SkyClan who joined after being rescued by the young Clan. He's the father of Plumwillow, Nettlesplash, Rabbitleap, and Creekfeather. In Hawkwing's Journey he takes over as deputy when Sharpclaw dies.

The Mentor: To Mintfur and Duskpaw.
Never Found the Body: In Hawkwing's Journey, he gets kidnapped by twolegs. It's mentioned that they don't look like twolegs that intend to do anything good with the cats they take. The entire Clan treats him as if he is dead.
Number Two: He becomes Leafstar's deputy after Sharpclaw is killed.
Outliving One's Offspring: Possibly. Creekfeather vanished completely from the storyline after SkyClan's Destiny, so we don't know if he's dead or not.
Took a Level in Badass: When he first met SkyClan, Waspwhisker was a scared, lost kittypet. Ultimately he becomes a tough, skilled warrior and Clan deputy.

Hawkwing

"I'm not your father, but that doesn't mean I don't care for you. I'll always be here to help you if you ever need me."

One of four kits of Cherrytail and Sharpclaw, Hawkwing is the protagonist of the Super Edition Hawkwing's Journey.

A Day in the Limelight: He's the star of the Super Edition Hawkwing's Journey.
Angsty Surviving Twin: Well, Angsty Surviving Quadruplet, after Duskpaw dies.
The Apprentice: To Ebonyclaw.
Ascended Extra: He appeared in Ravenpaw's Farewell as a minor SkyClan apprentice. However, he may have been given a speaking role in that book specifically because he was destined to be the hero of a Super Edition, which would make him a Red Herring Shirt.
Disappeared Dad: Inverted. He's the father of Violetpaw and Twigpaw.
Happily Married: Pretty quickly gets together with Pebbleshine once they become close friends.
Hot-Blooded: He has quite a temperament that got him into quite a bit of trouble more than once. He seems to have inherited this from his father and his daughter, Twigpaw, is the same way.
Kissing Cousins:With Pebbleshine. The specifics are:Cherrytail and Sparrowpelt are siblings, and Pebbleshine is Sparrowpelt's kit, while Hawkwing is Cherrytail's. As usual in Warriors, this is never acknowledged In-Universe.
Let's You and Him Fight: Hawkwing goads Dodge into fighting him, one on one, to let him release his apprentice. After an intense fight, Hawkwing ends up killing Dodge and gets his Clan safety in passing through the Twolegplace.
Like a Son to Me: After losing his mate Pebbleshine, Hawkwing helps Plumwillow raise her kits and comes to see them like his own.
Like Father, Like Son: He becomes deputy like his father was at one point.
Luke, I Am Your Father: Reveals this to Twigpaw in Shattered Sky.
The Mentor: To Curlypaw.
Never Got to Say Goodbye: In Hawkwing's Journey, Hawkwing and his father grew distant after his brother Duskpaw's death, and part of why his father's death hurt so much was because Hawkwing would never get to speak to him again and make things right.
Number Two: To Leafstar as of the end of Hawkwing's Journey.
Parental Substitute: He acts as Plumwillow's kits' father until their actual father, Sandynose, returns.
Second Love: He thought he might be this to Plumwillow and Plumwillow to him, but then her actual mate, Sandynose, returns.
Survivor Guilt: Constantly, particularly as a result of Duskpaw's death.
Throw the Dog a Bone: After lots of loss, he finally gets reunited with his kits in Shattered Sky, and his sister and mother rejoin SkyClan in Darkest Night.
Trauma Conga Line: As with many, many Warriors protagonists. Specifically, in Hawkwing's Journey, Hawkwing loses his brother to a fire and blames himself for it because he saved Pebblepaw from the fire instead of saving his brother; fights with his father who then dies before they can make up; many of his other Clanmates die, are stolen, or choose to leave SkyClan; is betrayed by a close friend whom he considered almost a brother and is driven from his home by him; loses his pregnant mate when she's stolen by twolegs; journeys moons on end only to say goodbye to his mother, one of his sisters, and his apprentice; becomes friend with Waspwhisker, Duskpaw's former mentor, who then disappears; almost loses his other sister and foster son; and becomes close to Plumwillow and especially her kits, so much so that the kits think he's their father, only for their REAL father to show back up and the kits eventually becoming close to him instead of Hawkwing.
Unexpected Successor: To Waspwhisker, as Hawkwing is still a young(ish) warrior at the time and also never finished mentoring his apprentice.

Medicine Cats

Fawnstep

"Peace, dear friend. From now on I will walk in your dreams and watch over you until you have learned how to be a true medicine cat. We shall travel far together, you and I."

The SkyClan medicine cat when her Clan is exiled from the forest.

Dreaming of Things to Come: In Cloudstar's Journey, she dreams of the Twolegs causing trouble for SkyClan and of the Clan being forced to leave.
The Medic: The last SkyClan medicine cat of the forest territories.
The Mentor: At Leafstar's leadership ceremony, when SkyClan is fully reformed, she promises to walk in Echosong's dreams and teach her the ways of a medicine cat.
Spirit Advisor: Even though she's dead, she manages to mentor Echosong in dreams until she becomes a true medicine cat.

Brackenheart

"One day, cats will return here and find a way to succeed where we have failed. This is the leaf-bare of our Clan. Greenleaf will come, but it will bring even greater storms than these. SkyClan will need deeper roots if it is to survive."

The last medicine cat of SkyClan. Although he witnessed its end, he always believed that SkyClan would return.

Arc Words: Triggers them for SkyClan's Destiny by saying, "SkyClan will need deeper roots if it is to survive."
I Choose to Stay: After Spiderstar dissolves the Clan, most of the warriors leave to live as rogues or kittypets. He and Spiderstar, however, remain in the gorge to look after the elders.
The Medic: He's a medicine cat, and he's also seen patching up Spiderstar's wounds.
Undying Loyalty: Described as having "unflinching loyalty to the warrior code". He also stays behind to protect the elders after SkyClan is dissolved.

Echosong

"Maybe we will meet again in the paths of dreaming, but my heart tells me this is farewell."

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Echosong was once a kittypet named Echo. She was led by mysterious dreams to meet Firestar, and eventually became the first medicine cat of modern day SkyClan. She's Leafstar's closest friend and confidante.

Action Girl: Not always, but she is seen jumping through the trees in After The Flood.
The Apprentice: To Fawnstep, though is only mentored in dreams due to Fawnstep being dead.
Celibate Hero: Being a medicine cat means that she can never take a mate.
Cloudcuckoolander: Although StarClan picked the smartest cat they could for the role of SkyClan's medicine cat, as a consequence of needing someone who would run off to join SkyClan because of a dream, they had to pick someone who was like this as well. Echosong is quite smart, but she has her moments, like believing that eating roots would mend the divide in SkyClan.
Dreaming of Things to Come: In addition to visions coming naturally with the job, she met and joined Firestar because StarClan sent her a dream saying that she should go and meet him.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Leafstar. The medicine cat and her leader.
Hospital Hottie: She looks quite pretty in the SkyClan And The Stranger manga.
Intro-Only Point of View: She's the POV character of the prologue of Thunder and Shadow.
Killed Offscreen: Revealed in the manga at the end of Hawkwing's Journey.
- Her death was seen in Alderheart's dream in the prologue of Shattered Sky.
The Medic: She is the first medicine cat of modern SkyClan.
The Mentor: To Frecklewish and Fidgetflake.
The Smart Guy: She's very knowledgeable about herbs and generally gives Leafstar good advice.
What the Hell, Hero?: In After The Flood, she had to spell it out for Leafstar that driving Billystorm out of the gorge was not a good idea.

Frecklewish

"You act like this is not your problem. But StarClan has sent this vision to show you that it is! If the Clans don’t stand together to settle this fight, then SkyClan will be driven from the lake."

Frecklewish is the apprentice of Echosong. She's notable for being the only known daylight-medicine cat. Her twolegs call her Freckle.

The Apprentice: To Echosong. And before this, to Ebonyclaw.
Bee Afraid: A scene in SkyClan's Destiny features her being the victim of a bee attack.
Celibate Hero: Naturally, since she's medicine cat.
The Medic: A medicine cat from SkyClan.
The Mentor: To Fidgetflake.
Never Found the Body: In Hawkwing's Journey. It's uncertain whether she's alive or dead, although dead seems likely. Darkest Night reveals she's alive, though, and she makes it back to her Clan.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. There's a ThunderClan warrior with the same name.
The Unchosen One: In a medicine cat sense, rather than a protagonist one. At first Leafstar says Frecklewish won't be allowed to train as a medicine cat until there's a sign indicating she should. Eventually, though, Leafstar allows it, and Frecklewish proves her mettle on her own.
Wrong Line of Work: Preferred being a medicine cat over being a warrior. Eventually Leafstar allows her to switch mentors.

Fidgetflake

"It doesn't matter which Clan a warrior comes from. Or if they come from StarClan at all. If a dead cat has a message to pass on, we must listen to it and do our best to honor their wishes."

The son of Birdwing and Sagenose who becomes a medicine cat.

The Apprentice: To Echosong before he got captured by Twolegs, but after he escaped and managed to return back to SkyClan he got Frecklewish as a mentor instead.
Dreaming of Things to Come: In Darkest Night Fidgetflake tells Hawkwing that he had dreamed that Hawkwing and the others would return to find them.
From Stray to Pet: He was captured by Twolegs and attempted to be made into a pet, but he managed to escape and find his way back home.
The Medic: A medicine cat from SkyClan.

Warriors and Apprentices

Brightspirit

"It takes great strength to have mercy—more strength than it takes to win a battle."

One of the three spirit cats that comes to Jayfeather in Long Shadows to show him where to find catnip. Also appeared in the short play Brightspirit's Mercy. Confirmed by Word of God to be a member of SkyClan, along with her parents (Braveheart and Shiningheart). ^{image note}

Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She's a pretty prominent supporting character in Long Shadows, but doesn't make another appearance in any later books.
The Medic: She stated that she once thought to become a medicine cat, but that was not the path laid down for her by StarClan.
Posthumous Character: Only appears in one book and a play, as a StarClan cat.
Tuckerization: This character and her parents are based on a fan and her parents (Emmy, Dana, and Jimmy Cherry), who died in a tornado and were given warrior names by Warriors fans.

Mothpelt

"No! This battle will be fought now, before the memory of my father fades in our hearts. His death must be avenged!"

The son of Beechstar, appointed as leader to succeed his dying father. However, his incompetence at leading the Clan led to the code about deputies replacing their leader being established.

Brought Down to Normal: After several warriors agree that the deputy, Maplewhisker, should be the new leader, they believe the Clan will still respect Mothpelt as a warrior, and he is demoted.
The Leader: Of SkyClan, for less than a day, before he was replaced by his father's deputy.
The Mentor: To more than one apprentice, though he apparently struggled to do it.
Nepotism: Was made the leader due to being the son of the prior leader, which was how leaders were chosen back then.
Revenge Before Reason: Leads an attack on RiverClan in revenge for his father's death, in a storm, during a flood, his reason being he needs to attack now before the memory of his father's death fades.
You Killed My Father: The reason for the above trope.

Robinwing

"I am as loyal to SkyClan as I ever was. Too loyal to watch my Clanmates drown before they have a chance to fight. We can fight this battle another day."

A warrior of SkyClan at the time the code about the deputy becoming the leader after the death or retirement of the prior one was established.

A Day in the Limelight: Is the protagonist of "Follow My Leader", a short story in Code of the Clans which shows how the rule about deputies replacing leaders when they can no longer perform their duties became part of the warrior code.
Honor Before Reason: Subverted, he refuses to follow his leader into the river, and tries to stop him, because he knows they cannot cross in the middle of a flood.
The Mentor: To Rubblepaw.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. There have been three other cats named Robinwing, a RiverClan warrior in the later series', a WindClan warrior mentioned in the allegiances of Dawn, and a ThunderClan warrior in the prequels, who is the mother of Frostfur, Brindleface, Dustpelt and Ravenpaw with Fuzzypelt, and the mother of Longtail with Patchpelt, as well as Whitestorm's foster mother.

Cherrytail

"Your future lies ahead of you, where the Clans are. I'm not sure where my future lies, and I need time to work it out. Oh, my dear kits, you are all so brave and loyal. I shall miss you dreadfully, but I can't follow you into a future I know is not the right one for me."

One of the first cats to join modern SkyClan. She was formerly a kittypet named Cherry, but after Firestar showed her and her brother the ways of a warrior, she eagerly accepted his offer to join the new Clan. She was mentored by Sharpclaw, but became a warrior at the end of Firestar's Quest. She is descended from Ancient SkyClan, as shown by her powerful haunches and thick pads.

Action Girl: Like most she-cats. She's one of the cats in SkyClan's Destiny to go and help Stick's group fight Dodge and his gang.
The Apprentice: To Sharpclaw.
Genki Girl: In Firestar's Quest she is bouncy, excitable, and full of energy.
Jumped at the Call: After Firestar explained it to her, she was super eager to become a warrior of SkyClan.
The Mentor: To Rockshade.
Outliving One's Offspring: Her son Duskpaw dies from smoke inhalation.
Teacher/Student Romance: In SkyClan and the Stranger, she has kits with her mentor Sharpclaw.
Took a Level in Kindness: At first she was rather rude and picked on Skywatcher, but after meeting Firestar she became kinder and more respectful.

Sparrowpelt

"The code gives us strength, and the certainty that StarClan watches over us."

One of the founding members of modern SkyClan. He was formerly a kittypet named Boris, but he joined the young Clan after Firestar showed him the ways of a warrior. He was mentored by Leafstar, and became a warrior at the end of Firestar's Quest. He also likely has the blood of Ancient SkyClan, which is shown by his powerful haunches.

The Apprentice: To Leafstar.
Fantastic Racism: He seemed to have taken a disdainful dislike towards those who weren't permanent gorge-bound warriors. But after SkyClan's Destiny, he got over it.
The Mentor: To Tinycloud and Nectarsong.
Offscreen Romance: With Tinycloud. They have apprentice-age kits together by Ravenpaw's Farewell.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. His name is the same as the ThunderClan tom who later became Halftail.
Outliving One's Offspring: His daughter Pebbleshine died after a car hit her.
Out of Focus: In Hawkwing's Journey, he's surprisingly unimportant.
Teacher/Student Romance: He was Tinycloud's mentor and is now her mate.
Took a Level in Kindness: Picked on Skywatcher at first, but became nicer in Firestar's Quest.

Rainfur

"It was my decision. Now I'll always be part of a Clan, and have a place among the stars. The warrior code is worth dying for."

Mate of Petalnose and father of Mintfur and Sagenose. He joined SkyClan, along with his family, after they helped him rescue them.

Action Dad: Fights alongside the others in the battle against the rats.
Defiant to the End: When his body is found, he has his claws in a dead rat, still fighting.
Disappeared Dad: Not intentionally, but he died in the battle with the rats while Mintfur and Sagenose were still kits.
I Was Named "My Name": Most of the SkyClan cats are given new names by Firestar to sound more like Clan cats, however, Rainfur's name already sounds like a Clan name, so he isn't renamed, instead, his name is "confirmed".
I Regret Nothing: When he appears in StarClan at Leafstar's leader ceremony, he doesn't blame Firestar for his death, even though if he hadn't joined SkyClan he'd still be alive, instead saying it was worth it and he knows his mate and kits will be taken care of.
Meaningful Name: His fur is light gray and speckled, as though covered in raindrops.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. There's a ThunderClan queen named Rainfur in Goosefeather's Curse.
Papa Wolf: Does anything to rescue his mate and kits from an abusive Twoleg, even join SkyClan, which he initially didn't want to.

Petalnose

"It always makes my heart just glow when new kits arrive in the Clan."

Mate of Rainfur and mother of Mintfur and Sagenose. She was originally trapped in the home of an abusive Twoleg, until SkyClan rescued her.

Action Girl: She fights and hunts like all the warriors.
Action Mom: Like most mothers in this series. She actually gets to be her son's mentor and train him in the ways of a warrior.
Character Development: Fallowfern, Patchfoot, and Petalnose initially wanted to leave SkyClan in After the Flood, because they feared what would come about if they experienced another flood or some other unforeseen problems. But later, during the battle against the rogues, they all join in the fight as The Cavalry. At the conclusion of the battle, one of the even tells off a rogue that they are stronger as a Clan.
Damsel in Distress: She's being held captive by an abusive Twoleg who is starving her when she's introduced in Firestar's Quest.
The Dog Bites Back: Gets her revenge on the abusive Twoleg in SkyClan's Destiny.
Family Theme Naming: Named both her kits after herbs in her Twoleg's garden.
- A possibly unintentional example done by Leafstar rather than her, but she and her mate are Petalnose and Rainfur, while their kits, as warriors, have the names Sagenose and Mintfur.
Her Heart Will Go On: While her mate Rainfur gets killed off during the rat battle, Petalnose lives on and raises their two kits.
Killed Offscreen: Presumably. In Hawkwing's Journey, as she doesn't appear at all.
The Mentor: To her son, Sagenose.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. Her original name, Petal, is the name of both one of the Sisters and of a major character in Dawn of the Clans.
Revenge: Petalnose is keen to get some payback for what she suffered under the abusive Twoleg's care.

Patchfoot

"I'm a member of this Clan. I wanted to be at our first Gathering."

One of the first cats to join modern SkyClan.

Character Development: Fallowfern, Patchfoot, and Petalnose initially wanted to leave SkyClan in After the Flood, because they feared what would come about if they experienced another flood or some other unforeseen problems. But later, during the battle against the rogues, they all join in the fight as The Cavalry. At the conclusion of the battle, one of the even tells off a rogue that they are stronger as a Clan.
Cool Old Guy: Hawkwing notes that he's always cheerful, always ready with a story for the kits and apprentices.
The Mentor: To Bouncefire.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. His original name, Patch, is both the name of a kittypet in Escape from the Forest and Violet's son in Ravenpaw's Farewell.
Outliving One's Offspring: His daughter Honeytail was killed by racoons.

Billystorm

"My place is in the gorge from now on. My family needs me, and this is where I belong. The Clan united against those rogues. We proved that no cat is going to leave the gorge, not until StarClan calls them. If SkyClan's future is here, then so is mine."

A daylight-warrior and Leafstar's mate. He is also the father of her kits: Firefern, Stormheart, and Harrybrook.

Battle Couple: Billystorm and his mate Leafstar often fight together, making a good pair.
The Exile: In After the Flood Leafstar temporarily exiles Billystorm after he suggests bringing their kits to his home while the cleanup of the camp is underway.
Happily Married: After SkyClan's Destiny, Billystorm gets together with Leafstar, and the two are happy together. They have a few problems in SkyClan and the Stranger, but it all works out in the end.
The Lancer: Always by Leafstar's side and contrasts her nature with his softer, kinder one.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: He's kind-hearted, gentle, and likes being a kittypet. Leafstar is badass, throws around death glares, and is unafraid to tell others exactly what she thinks about them.
The Mentor: To Snookthorn/Snooky and Pebbleshine.
Nice Guy: He's pretty nice to everyone, and is fairly wise.
Oh, Crap!: Does this and drops the squirrel he's carrying when Leafstar gives him the Death Glare.
Shut Up, Hannibal!: In SkyClan and the Stranger: After the Flood Billystorm gives one to Sol after Sol's rant about him being a daylight warrior, then concludes it by declaring that he will become a full warrior of SkyClan for his family.
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: He's one of the earliest casualties in Hawkwing's Journey, being killed by a badger.
Tricked to Death: In Hawkwing's Journey Darktail gives a patrol false directions, leading the group directly to a badger den where Billystorm is slain.

Harveymoon

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"I can't leave here. I'm loyal to SkyClan, but I'm loyal to my Twolegs, too. I'm not going to leave them behind."

A daylight-warrior fond of goofing off with his friend Macgyver. Their laziness leads to them getting exiled from SkyClan for a moon.

Character Development: In After The Flood, when he turns into a nice, helpful guy.
Lazy Bum: Up until After The Flood, where he starts helping out a lot.
Put on a Bus: He remains with his Twolegs when SkyClan leave the gorge to find the other Clans.
Ship Tease: With Mintfur. In Hawkwing's Journey it's revealed that their relationship went nowhere.
Those Two Guys: With Macgyver. In Hawkwing's Journey this is ended, as he stays with his housefolk while Macgyver chooses to stay with SkyClan.

Macgyver

"I'm coming with you. I'll miss my Twolegs, but, well, I'm a SkyClan cat!"

A daylight-warrior who spends his days goofing off with his best friend, Harveymoon. Their laziness leads to them getting exiled from SkyClan for a moon.

Lazy Bum: He doesn't like doing any work whatsoever.
The Mentor: To Dewspring.
Shout-Out: Both Vicky and his twolegs named him after the TV Show.
Those Two Guys: With Harveymoon. In Hawkwing's Journey this is ended, as he chooses to stay with SkyClan while Harveymoon stays with his housefolk.

Ebonyclaw

"We help one another. We're friends."

A daylight warrior.

The Mentor: To Frecklewish and Hawkwing.
Put on a Bus: She remains with her Twolegs when SkyClan leave the gorge to find the other Clans.

Shrewtooth

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"I don't want to be a coward anymore."

A warrior who joined SkyClan in between Firestar's Quest and SkyClan's Destiny. He is very paranoid, and is seen as a hindrance to his Clan, but it's actually because he used to be imprisoned by the abusive Twoleg who had previously captured Petalnose.

Amateur Sleuth: In After The Flood he takes it upon himself to find out the truth about Leafstar's kidnapped kits.
Big Damn Heroes: In After The Flood he arrives with a patrol to help Leafstar just after she finishes defeating Sol in combat.
Cats Hate Water: Averted. He enjoys a bath in After The Flood.
Cowardly Sidekick: To Sharpclaw.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He may be cowardly, but not only did he manage to escape from the house of the abusive Twoleg on his own, he also once defeated a fox while his comrades were stuck in the bushes.
Face Your Fears: Wants to do this by joining the battle against the abusive Twoleg. Leafstar subverts this by making him stay behind. However, in SkyClan and the Stranger: After the Flood, he faces off against Sol at the shed he was once a prisoner in, and is no longer scared of it.
Freudian Excuse: Sure he was so cowardly that he bordered on being a jerkass, but it was all because of his imprisonment by the abusive Twoleg.
Killed Offscreen: Most likely happened to him. In Hawkwing's Journey he doesn't appear or get a mention.
Nervous Wreck: Until he Took a Level in Badass that is.
Revenge: He asks to go along on the mission to defeat the abusive Twoleg so that he can have his revenge for how he was treated.
Took a Level in Badass: He eventually manages to get over his cowardice near the end of SkyClan's Destiny.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He was traumatized by the abusive Twoleg's treatment of him, and is afraid of Twolegs and the abusive Twoleg's home as a result.

Fallowfern

"Now listen, you do exactly what Leafstar and Billystorm tell you. I don't want to hear that you've put one whisker out of place. Do you understand?"

A cat who joins SkyClan before the start of SkyClan's Destiny. She has retired by the time of Hawkwing's Journey due to hearing loss.

Character Development: Fallowfern, Patchfoot, and Petalnose initially wanted to leave SkyClan in After the Flood, because they feared what would come about if they experienced another flood or some other unforeseen problems. But later, during the battle against the rogues, they all join in the fight as The Cavalry. At the conclusion of the battle, one of the even tells off a rogue that they are stronger as a Clan.

Tinycloud

"Tinycloud! I'm not tiny anymore. I thought I'd be big enough to have a different name."

Clovertail's daughter and sister to Bouncefire and Rockshade.

The Apprentice: To Sparrowpelt.
Disappeared Dad: Her father left before she and her littermates were born, which encouraged her mother to join SkyClan to protect them.
The Mentor: To Bellaleaf.
Offscreen Romance: With Sparrowpelt. They have apprentice-age kits together by Ravenpaw's Farewell.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. Her original name, Tiny, was the former name of the leader of BloodClan.
Outliving One's Offspring: Her daughter Pebbleshine died after a car hit her.
Teacher/Student Romance: She was Sparrowpelt's apprentice and is now his mate.

Mintfur

"I want to be the first cat to attack a rat. Rainfur was my father, and this is my chance to avenge his death!"

The daughter of Petalnose and Rainfur.

The Apprentice: To Waspwhisker.
Good Parents: Because her kits were too young to travel with SkyClan to try and find the other Clans, she and her mate Nettlesplash stay behind to keep them safe.
Meaningful Name: She and her brother were named for the herbs in their mothers Twoleg garden.
One-Steve Limit: Averted, there's a RiverClan tom with the same name, who was among those captured by the Kin when they took over RiverClan territory.
Revenge: In SkyClan's Destiny, she is eager to fight the rats and avenge her father, who had died fighting rats in Firestar's Quest.

Sagenose

"We shouldn't let the Clans push us around. If we leave, they will always remember us as weak."

The son of Petalnose and Rainfur.

The Apprentice: To his mother, Petalnose.
Meaningful Name: He and his sister were named for the herbs in their mothers Twoleg garden.
The Mentor: To Gravelnose and Kitescratch.
One-Steve Limit: Averted, his original name, Sage, is the name of a loner in Riverstar's Home.
Outliving One's Offspring: His daughter Snipkit drowned as a, well, kit.

Plumwillow

"I could never have managed this without you. Losing Sandynose still feels so raw, and I could never take another mate, but I'll need help with these kits—if I'm not presuming too much, would you want to help me?"

Daughter of Waspwhisker and Fallowfern, and sister to Nettlesplash, Rabbitleap, and Creekfeather. She is also Sandynose's mate and mother to Reedpaw, Finpaw, and Dewpaw.

Plumwillow is a supporting character in the Super Edition Hawkwing's Journey. She has her kits during SkyClan's journey to the Clans and asks Hawkwing's help in raising her kits as their father had been kidnapped by twolegs. He agrees and the two strike up a close friendship.

Action Girl
Crisis of Faith: Goes through one, like most of the Clan, during Hawkwing's Journey, where she questions whether StarClan really cares about them. She even suggests that maybe they should break the Clan apart. Sandynose and Fallowfern's returns restore her faith, however.
Happily Married: With Sandynose, so much that she wouldn't even consider taking another mate.
The Mentor: To Cloudmist and Sunnypelt.
Platonic Life-Partners: With Hawkwing. They quickly became close late in her pregnancy, understanding and empathizing with each other's pain, in a way no other cat could. They even raised her kits together, but (though Hawkwing did consider the idea of Second Love) never hooked up. The manga at the end of Hawkwing's Journey shows they're still on good terms with each other even despite Sandynose's return.
Pregnant Badass: While she doesn't fight during her pregnancy, she does join her Clan on their journey to find ThunderClan, which was not an easy trip in the slightest.
Second Love: Hawkwing thought he might be one for her and her for him, but she never stopped loving Sandynose and was elated when he returned after being stolen by twolegs.

Rabbitleap

"You are fast and smart. I've seen you hunt and I've watched you practice battle moves. You have all the skills you need to make this crossing."

Rabbitleap is the son of Waspwhisker and Fallowfern. He is the star of the bonus manga at the end of SkyClan's Destiny.

A Day in the Limelight: The manga at the end of SkyClan's Destiny is about him.
Meaningful Name: Particularly the suffix. In his manga, he is shown to be afraid of heights, a fear which he eventually overcomes. Also, the qualities of being a good leaper and having strong hindquarters are generally thought of as traits of Ancient SkyClan cats.
The Mentor: To Parsleyseed, Violetshine, Palesky and Wrenpaw.
Not His Blood: In Veil of Shadows, Rootpaw panics at the blood on Rabbitleap, but most of it is actually a squirrel's blood; Rabbitleap had just returned from hunting.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. There's a ThunderClan warrior with the same name.

Nettlesplash

"I'm not going to do anything. I'm not like Darktail's rogues. I wouldn't attack a helpless cat."

Waspwhisker and Fallowfern's other son.

A Day in the Limelight: He's the star of the exclusive Barnes and Noble bonus scene released with "Darkest Night".
Cats Hate Water: When they were kits, Plumwillow accidentally pushes him in the river while they are play-fighting. He's hated water ever since. When he dipped his paws to cool off in the stream during "The Rescue", Clovertail is glad he had gotten over his fear of water.
Good Parents: Because his kits were too young to travel with SkyClan to try and find the other Clans, him and his mate Mintfur stay behind to keep them safe.
The Mentor: To Rileypool.
Nice Guy: As a kit, when he and his littermates pretend that they are the warriors in the Twoleg attack during "SkyClan's Destiny", he wants to be Billystorm saying that the warrior knows everything about fighting. He only changed his mind because his littermates tell him that if he plays as Billystorm, then he plays by himself.
- During his bonus scene he meets a sickly cat named Dragonfly. Even though she's part of the rogues, Nettlesplash refuses to attack her and instead chooses to help her get better. Dragonfly does go back to the rogues in the end, but when she and Darktail come across Nettlesplash, she chooses to save his life from her leader in thanks to everything he did for her.

Sandynose

"Thank you, Hawkwing. I can never repay you for keeping my family safe."

One of Clovertail's kits with Patchfoot, Sandynose is Plumwillow's mate and father to Finpaw, Dewpaw, and Reedpaw. He's a supporting character in SkyClan and the Stranger and Hawkwing's Journey.

Barred from the Afterlife: Because StarClan is blocked off at the time of his death, he's stuck as a ghost.
Brain Washed And Crazy: Sometime after his death, Sandynose, along with many other fallen Clan cats who are stuck as ghosts, is imprisoned in the Dark Forest by Ashfur, who sadistically mind-controls into being his puppets. Under Ashfur's influence, Sandynose brutally captures his former Clanmate, Rootspring, and when the latter tries to get through to him, Sandynose remains errily silent, acting like he's never seen Rootspring before.
Disappeared Dad: He's taken away by twolegs before Plumwillow has their kits. By the time he returns, his kits think Hawkwing is their father.
Distressed Dude: Twolegs take him away and he's stuck with them for a little while. Luckily, he manages to escape.
Green-Eyed Monster: Is initially jealous of his kits' close relationship to Hawkwing, but soon mellows out when Hawkwing encourages the kits to give Sandynose a chance.
Happily Married: With Plumwillow.
Keeping Secrets Sucks: In the SkyClan and the Stranger manga he feels bad about a secret: he and the other apprentices (and a few young warriors) were getting food from Twolegs. In fact, he says that keeping secrets is wrong and he doesn't want to be a part of it anymore. When they get reminded about never taking food from Twolegs, they look ashamed...and he is seen smirking at them.
The Mentor: To Pebbleshine, Twigbranch and Quailfeather.
Stern Teacher: For Twigpaw. He's very harsh on her, but his comments when she rejects her warrior ceremony suggest he was just trying to get her to find for herself where her loyalties lay.
Took a Level in Jerkass: In Darkest Night, he's a pretty harsh mentor to Twigpaw. Even if part of it was just being a Stern Teacher, some of his comments, like telling her she was no good for his son, were uncalled for.

Firefern

"It's okay, Hawkwing. I know how you feel. And look—even if the borage doesn't help, it can't do any harm, right?"

Leafstar and Billystorm's daughter.

Action Girl: As with most she-cats.
Genki Girl: When she was a kit, she was a bundle of energy.
Meaningful Name: She was named after Firestar, the former ThunderClan leader.
The Medic: Becomes this on the journey when Echosong and Frecklewish are missing. It eventually leads to her death from the sickness she was trying to cure.

Stormheart

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"Mama! Mama! We can help! What can we do?"

Leafstar and Billystorm's other daughter

Killed Offscreen: She was killed when SkyClan was being driven from the gorge.
Meaningful Name: She was named after Sandstorm, the prefix of her name being Sandstorm's suffix.

Harrybrook

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"I'm sorry! I don't want to leave you, but I think Echosong is right, and...and she can't just wander off without any warriors to take care of her!"

Leafstar and Billystorm's only son

Meaningful Name: He is named after Harry, the kittypet who helped save him, his littermates and mother, but that was before Leafstar knew his real name was Sol.
The Mentor: To Fringewhisker.
Took a Level in Jerkass: In the Broken Code arc, he is a loud and fervent supporter of the Impostor.

Blossomheart

"All of SkyClan needs to believe that we have a future. If this isn't the right lake, then we have to believe we will find the right one, where the other Clans live. If we don't find it soon, surely StarClan will send us a sign..."

One of the four kits of Cherrytail and Sharpclaw.

Action Girl: She helped to fight off badgers at one point.
The Apprentice: To Bouncefire.
Brother–Sister Team: Several times with Hawkwing.
Genki Girl: She's always full of energy and enthusiasm.
The Mentor: To Finleap, Pigeonfoot and Turtlecrawl.
The Pollyanna: She's one of the few cats to never waver in her faith in StarClan during Hawkwing's Journey.
Wide-Eyed Idealist: Hawkwing states that his sister always tries to see the good in others.

Pebbleshine

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"I want to thank you for rescuing me. I was trapped, and you saved my life. What Leafstar said about you is true. You really are brave and courageous. I'm so happy to be alive, and it's all because of you."

Daughter of Sparrowpelt and Tinycloud, and sister to Parsleyseed. She is a supporting character in the Super Edition Hawkwing's Journey. As an apprentice, she joined Hawkpaw's littermates, Duskpaw and Cloudpaw, in stealing twoleg food and ends up trapped by fire with Duskpaw and Cloudpaw. Believing Duskpaw motioned for Hawkpaw to save Pebblepaw instead of him, Hawkpaw saves Pebblepaw from the fire and loses his brother as a result.

Hawkpaw blames himself and Pebblepaw for it for a while, but Pebblepaw's Character Development wins him over and the two become close friends and eventually mates. Pebblepaw is mentored by Billystorm then Sandynose after Billystorm's death. As a warrior, she becomes pregnant with Hawkwing's kits, but is kidnapped by twolegs shortly after finding out.

Action Girl: She helped to fight off badgers when she was just an apprentice and during the battle when SkyClan was being attacked she fought fiercely to try and defend her Clan.
The Apprentice. To Billystorm, then to Sandynose after Billystorm died.
Ascended Extra: She made a small appearance in Ravenpaw's Farewell as a minor SkyClan apprentice who is noted to not be on good terms with Hawkpaw.
Character Development: Implied. Hawkpaw mentions that she acts superior to the other apprentices despite being one herself, and notes that she becomes more kind and humble after he rescues her from a fire.
A Day in the Limelight: She received a novella in 2020 titled Pebbleshine's Kits.
A Death in the Limelight: Her novella lasts until shortly after her death.
Happily Married: Pretty quickly gets together with Hawkwing once they become close friends.
Heroic BSoD: Suffers a minor one when her mentor, Billystorm, dies.
Jerkass: Implied. Hawkpaw notes that, "(s)he struts around like she's so great, when she's just an apprentice like the rest of us." However, we never really see it as she doesn't get decent screentime until after Hawkpaw rescues her from a fire and Character Development kicks in.
Kissing Cousins: With Hawkwing. The specifics are:Cherrytail and Sparrowpelt are siblings, and Pebbleshine is Sparrowpelt's kit, while Hawkwing is Cherrytail's. As usual in Warriors, this is never acknowledged in-universe.
Missing Mom: Inverted. She's the mother of Violetpaw and Twigpaw.
Never Got to Say Goodbye: In Pebbleshine's Kits, we see from the dead cat's point of view when Pebbleshine realizes that now she'll never grow old with her mate.
Pregnant Badass: She helps Tree to fight off some foxes while heavily pregnant in Tree's Roots.
Rebellious Spirit: She agreed to go with Duskpaw to steal twoleg food even though it was against the rules.
Rescue Romance: With Hawkwing. While it took Hawkwing a while to fall for her, she began crushing on him after he saved her from a fire.
Unfinished Business: After she dies in Pebbleshine's Kits, she decides that rather than staying in StarClan, for now she will return as a spirit to watch over her kits. She passes into StarClan at the end of The Raging Storm because now her kits were full grown with mates of their own and had been reunited with their father.

Parsleyseed

"I don't care. I've made up my mind. Being a kittypet is easier. And safer."

Son of Sparrowpelt and Tinycloud, and brother of Pebbleshine.

The Apprentice: To Rabbitleap.
Breaking the Fellowship: Chooses to leave his Clan to become a kittypet after all the hardships SkyClan had been facing lately and due to never feeling safe.
From Stray to Pet: He left SkyClan to become a kittypet.
Strong Family Resemblance: Both him and his father are dark brown tabbies.

Rileypool

"There's nothing wrong with being a kittypet. But Bella and I were born to be warriors. Please help us, Ravenpaw! You're the only warrior left in the forest!"

The son to a kittypet named Violet. After hearing stories of the Clans that used to live in the forest by another kittypet named Smudge, him and his sister Bellaleaf decide they want to become warriors themselves. They eventually left their mother and littermates to live in SkyClan.

The Apprentice: To Nettlesplash.
Attack the Tail: When he first meets Ravenpaw and Barley, Riley pounces on Ravenpaw's tail.
Disappeared Dad: His father is never seen or mentioned.
A Pet into the Wild: He and his sister were born as kittypets however they wanted to become warriors. Their mother let Ravenpaw take them to join SkyClan.
Romantic False Lead: Hawkwing initially thought Curlypaw was going to get together with Rileypool, due to way she looked at him for the past few days. Turns out, that's not what she wanted to talk to Hawkwing about.

Bellaleaf

"And you heard what we said. We're not going unless you make us! We're warriors, so we know how to fight!"

The daughter to a kittypet named Violet. After hearing stories of the Clans that used to live in the forest by another kittypet named Smudge, her and her brother Rileypool decide they want to become warriors themselves. They eventually left their mother and littermates to live in SkyClan.

The Apprentice: To Tinycloud.
Disappeared Dad: Her father is never seen or mentioned.
I Want My Mommy!: When she's still mostly a kit travelling to SkyClan to join them, she says this after being chased by a dog.
Mama Bear: She is very protective of her surviving kit, Wrenpaw.
The Mentor: To Reedclaw.
Motor Mouth: As a young kit. She was the first of her litter to start talking and asked a lot of questions to Ravenpaw upon first meeting him, one after another without giving Ravenpaw a chance to answer.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. Her original name is also the name of a kittypet who appears in Firestar's Quest but doesn't join SkyClan.
Outliving One's Offspring: Two of her kits die as newborns.
A Pet into the Wild: She and her brother were born as kittypets however they wanted to become warriors. Their mother let Ravenpaw take them to join SkyClan.

Curlypaw

"You're such a great mentor, Hawkwing. I can't imagine learning so much from any other cat. I need you."

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Birdwing and Sagenose's daughter, as well as Hawkwing's apprentice. Leaves the Clan to become a kittypet.

The Apprentice: To Hawkwing.
Breaking the Fellowship: Chooses to leave her Clan to become a kittypet after losing faith in StarClan.
Crisis of Faith: She begins to lose faith in StarClan as her Clan endures hardship after hardship. In the end she tells Hawkwing (her mentor) that StarClan is likely just a pretty story. At the same moment she reveals that she is leaving to become a kittypet.
Damsel in Distress: Twice. First when SkyClan is traveling through twolegplace on their way to Barley, Dodge's cats find them and kidnap Curlypaw. Hawkwing has to fight Dodge for him to let Curlypaw go. Hawkwing ends up killing Dodge in the process.
- Then at the fake lake a water bird swoops down and tries to take off with Curlypaw, but Hawkwing manages to fight it off to save his apprentice. Curlypaw lampshades that Hawkwing had just saved her a second time and is very grateful to him.
From Stray to Pet: She left SkyClan to become a kittypet.

Fringewhisker

"I liked the pigeons Dragonfly used to bring us."

Nettlesplash and Mintfur's daughter.

The Apprentice: To Harrybrook.
Defecting for Love: After the changes to the warrior code are made, she decides to move to ShadowClan to be with her mate, Spireclaw.
Shrinking Violet: She's mentioned to be very shy as a kit.

Violetshine

"Why did Clan cats have to call everyone names? Anger surged through her. Did no cat want her? She'd spent her life being passed around by other cats. First Alderpaw had taken her from her mother's nest. Then Rowanstar had snatched her from ThunderClan. Then Needletail had taken her to the rogues. This was the first time she’d had any choice in the matter, and she was choosing to join ShadowClan."

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One of the kits found by Alderheart and Needletail in The Apprentice's Quest, believed to be part of a prophecy. She was separated from her sister Twigpaw and brought to ShadowClan. She later leaves and joins SkyClan when they settle around the lake.

All of the Other Reindeer: ShadowClan treated her like this in her kithood, as they were very wary and uncertain about whether she was special or could be trusted. They warmed up after she came back from the rogues, but not enough for her to stay when choosing between them and her family in SkyClan.
Anti-Villain: Technically, being a member of the Kin, she's an enemy of the Clans. But she only stays because she wants to feel accepted, is one of the nicest cats there, and helps the other Clans drive Darktail out the moment they ask because she doesn't agree with the way things are run. She's a villain by nothing more than association.
The Apprentice: First to Dawnpelt, then to Rabbitleap.
Babies Ever After: At the end of A Vision of Shadows, she discovers she's pregnant during a Dead Person Conversation with her mom. By the next arc, she's delivered her son and her daughter and is shown to be a loving, if somewhat anxious, mother.
Belligerent Sexual Tension: Has shades of this with Tree. She's thrown off-guard by his flirting and tells at him to be serious, but she also stands up for him and shows complete faith in his abilities.
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: A variation of ginger/black/gray:
- Ginger Alderheart, black-and-white Violetshine, and gray Twigbranch.
Break the Cutie: She started out as a sweet, quiet, and trusting kitten. She was found in a sewer as a newborn and was forcibly separated from her sister to live in a dysfunctional Clan. Her foster mother was caring and tried her best to look out for her, but clearly didn't love her. Her only friend manipulated her and dismissed her for a long time, and she was marginalized by ShadowClan during the conflict with the rogues. She is then forced to attack her sister, who she believed was dead for a large portion of Shattered Sky. Her mentor goes missing, and Needletail is imprisoned and starved by Darktail. Then Violetshine watches her be nearly drowned as a result of her own treasonous actions against the Kin, and then witnesses Needletail slaughtered at the claws of Darktail and his followers. Someone cut the poor thing a break.
Broken Bird: She was this before she was even a year old, thanks to her very hectic kithood. She has abandonment issues from being passed around all the time, seems to believe she's unworthy of love, and is desperately lonely and afraid of not being accepted.
Earn Your Happy Ending: Does she ever! After her emotionally traumatizing kithood and apprenticeship, life becomes much better for her as a warrior: she moves to a new Clan that loves and accepts her without any of the baggage, she reunites with her father, she falls in love, and she becomes a mother.
Expy: She shares many parallels with Ivypool.
Family Eye Resemblance: It's been noted that she has the same yellow eyes as her father, Hawkwing.
Forced to Watch: Double Subverted. Darktail initially forces her to watch as Needletail is slowly drowned in the lake, as punishment for attempting to slip poppyseeds into his prey. He relents, and allows Needletail to live, if she was willing to kill Violetshine herself. Needletail attempts to protect Violetshine, before going out in a Heroic Sacrifice against Darktail and his rogues, while Violetshine watches in horror.
Foster Kid: After being taken to ShadowClan as a kit, she ended up being fostered by Pinenose.
Generation Xerox: It was stated in Darkest Night that she's just like her father, Hawkwing.
I Just Want to Have Friends: All the poor thing wants is to be accepted and loved.
The Infiltration: Attempts this in Shattered Sky. It works out well, for the most part, until she gets caught attempting to drug Darktail.
Meaningful Name:
- She was given the name Violetkit because she smelled like violets when Alderpaw and Needlepaw found her.
- She's given the warrior name "Violetshine" after her mother Pebbleshine.
Mirror Character: To Darktail. Both have been abandoned by a parental figure (his father, her mother) and felt unwanted by those around her. The difference is, Darktail's mother raised him to hate the Clans that abandoned him, while Violetshine was raised by them and desired their affection.
Nice Girl: She never approved of Darktail's way of running things, and only stayed on because ShadowClan was her home. But she is one of the kindest cats in the Kin, sneaking food to the prisoners, befriending the kittypets, and helping the Clans overthrow Darktail the minute she can.
Official Couple: With Tree.
Only Friend: Needletail, initially, though she later befriends Puddleshine and Zelda.
Parental Abandonment: She and her sister were found as kits under a Thunderpath, with no parents in sight. It's later implied in Hawkwing's Journey that Hawkwing and Pebbleshine are her parents. Subverted when she is reunited with Hawkwing. Pebbleshine, however, is dead.
The Perfectionist: Her narration mentions that she works harder than any cat in the clan to prove herself to them.
Strong Family Resemblance: She resembles her mother Pebbleshine in her shoulders and long, thick tail.
Survivor's Guilt: She feels horrible about running and leaving Needletail to die like she told her to.
Throw the Dog a Bone:
- After getting caught up with the rogues, she returns to ShadowClan of her own will. They're impressed by her courage and loyalty, and slowly start to accept her. She even makes a friend with Puddleshine.
- Though initially wary of them, she finally finds the acceptance, friendship and love, without any of the emotional scarring ShadowClan gave, that she was looking for in SkyClan.

Finleap

See Warrior Cats Thunderclan Warriors And Apprentices

Dewspring

"But does that mean you can't be our father anymore? Can't we have two?"

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Plumwillow and Sandynose's son and the brother of Finpaw and Reedpaw. He's also Hawkwing's foster son since Hawkwing helped to raise him and his littermates when they were young.

The Apprentice: To Macgyver.
Happily Adopted: He was quite happy with Hawkwing, believing him to be his actual father. When his real father returned, he and his littermates just saw him as a stranger because of their bond with Hawkwing. Hawkwing had to convince them to give Sandynose a chance.
Kissing Cousins: With Nectarsong. Dewspring's mother Plumwillow and Nectarsong's father Nettlesplash are littermates.
The Mentor: To Rootspring.

Reedclaw

"Wasn't it amazing when the whole Clan called out our names?"

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Plumwillow and Sandynose's daughter and the sister of Dewpaw and Reedpaw. She's also Hawkwing's foster daughter since Hawkwing helped to raise her and her littermates when they were young.

The Apprentice: to Bellaleaf.
Happily Adopted: She was quite happy with Hawkwing, believing him to be her actual father. When her real father returned, she and her littermates just saw him as a stranger because of their bond with Hawkwing. Hawkwing had to convince them to give Sandynose a chance.
The Mentor: To Needleclaw and Beetlepaw.

Twigbranch

See Warrior Cats Thunderclan Warriors And Apprentices

Quailfeather

Tinycloud and Sparrowpelt's son from their second litter.

The Apprentice: To Sandynose.
Strong Family Resemblance: He has white fur like his mother Tinycloud.

Kitescratch and Turtlecrawl

Reedclaw's kits.

The Apprentice: Sagenose was Kitescratch's mentor, while Blossomheart was Turtlecrawl's mentor.
The Bully: In Lost Stars they bullied Rootspring because of how much their mocking gets to him.
Ear Notch: Kitescratch gained a torn ear from the failed Assassination Attempt on the impostor.

Rootspring

"I thought I was the only one who felt like an outsider, not quite fitting into my Clan. Now here's Shadowpaw, and he's struggling too. It feels...sort of good, knowing there's another cat with the same problems."

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Violetshine and Tree's son. Rootpaw wants nothing more than to serve his Clan as a warrior, unlike his father, Tree, who still doesn't quite fit in to Clan life.

Afraid of Blood: In Veil of Shadows, it's demonstrated that he is not the right fit for the medicine cat role when he panics at seeing a bloodied Clanmate... who just got back from hunting and has a thorn in his paw.
Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Most of his irritation towards Tree is due to how he's affected by his father's embarrassing behavior.
The Apprentice: To Dewspring.
Be Yourself: Part of his Character Development is about learning to accept his powers and that he doesn't have to be like everyone else. By Darkness Within, he's proud to be recognized as "the cat who sees ghosts".
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: A variation. We have yellow Rootspring, dark gray Shadowsight, and pale gray Bristlefrost.
Character Development: He starts off overly sensitive to what others think of him, wanting to be like everyone else, and afraid to get involved with the events of the arc. By Darkness Within, he's openly embraced his powers and is even eager to learn more about them. He's also become bolder and willing to risk punishment to do the right thing.
Claustrophobia: Has a panic attack while squeezing through some bushes in Silent Thaw; he envisions himself getting stuck and no one being able to help him escape, as he's sneaking on ThunderClan territory at the time.
Dead Guy Junior: Possibly named after his paternal grandfather, Root.
Defiant Stone Throw: Does a verbal version twice, during two different Gatherings. The first time is completely by accident (he was trying to tell Bramblestar's ghost to shut up, not the impostor) but gets him noticed by La Résistance; the second, however, is completely intentional, when he decides that someone has to speak out against the impostor and all the other rebels are too scared to.
Distressed Dude: He meets Bristlepaw by falling into a lake, almost drowning, and being rescued by her, which facilitates his crush on her. He's also indirectly kidnapped by Ashfur during The Place of No Stars, and rescuing him forms the second half of that book and the first few chapters of A Light in the Mist.
Everyone Can See It: His feelings for Bristlefrost are so obvious that they actually use them as cover for why he's sneaking onto ThunderClan territory (it was to tell her about Bramblestar's ghost) or why they're staring at each other in Gatherings (rebel concerns about the shifting political landscape).
Gentle Giant: Darkness Within mentions he and his father are much bigger than the other Clan cats due to their Sister blood, and Rootspring is very kind and even-tempered.
He Is All Grown Up: In Darkness Within, Bristlefrost notes that his head and shoulders are now much more broad and he is no longer the gangly apprentice she'd rescued from the lake, or the awkward young 'paw who'd once crossed the ThunderClan border to bring her prey.
I Am Not My Father: A downplayed version. He loves his dad, but he's embarassed by his behavior and sees first-hand how other Clan cats consider Tree weird; at best they're puzzled by him, at worst they scorn him, and Rootspring doesn't want to be treated the same way.
I Just Want to Be Normal: He initially wants nothing to do with his ghost-seeing abilities. Granted, the first ghost he saw frightened him by stalking him and begging for help, so it's understandable.
I See Dead People: He has inherited his father's ability to see and talk to ghosts.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Though a romantic rival is actually not involved. When Bristlefrost asks him why he's so determined to save ThunderClan in Darkness Within, he says it's because he cares about her and she cares about them. She points out that if her Clan survives, she won't leave it, even to be with him. His response is a simple "I know."
Like Parent, Like Child: He shares quite a few personality traits with his mother, namely anxiety, wanting acceptance from the cats around them, and a kind heart.
Nice Guy: He's warm, compassionate, and sweet to every cat regardless of Clan; he offers to walk Shadowpaw (a stranger to him at the time) partially to the Moonpool in Lost Stars and lend him an ear just because he can tell he needs it, and he doesn't even hold a grudge against his bullies for more than a chapter or two!
Not His Blood: When they bring Shadowsight back to camp in Veil of Shadows, Violetshine is worried that something happened to her son, because he's covered in blood, but it's Shadowsight's, not his.
The Power of Love: In The Place of No Stars, while in the Dark Forest, he falls into a strange type of water that saps his strength. He's literally able to escape by focusing on his love for Bristlefrost.
Rescue Romance: A rare flipped example. He starts crushing hard on Bristlepaw after she saves his life.
She Is Not My Girlfriend: A bit of a Running Gag in The Broken Code is cats recognizing his feelings for Bristlefrost and him downplaying it as a one-sided crush. In the latter half of the arc, when she does return his feelings, the gag becomes cats assuming they're mates and both clarifying that they love each other but aren't.
Socially Awkward Hero: For the first few books, his anxiety prevents him from interacting well with others or makes him accidentally commit social faux pas, like when he embarasses Bristlefrost by bringing her prey in the middle of the ThunderClan camp. He grows out of it.
Spanner in the Works: Out of all the protagonists of The Broken Code, Rootspring is perhaps the biggest thorn in the impostor's side. The fact that Rootspring can see ghosts, specifically Bramblestar's, is the reason the impostor's deception is uncovered—the rebellion would have started anyway, but no one had guessed what was going on until Rootpaw told them. Shadowsight would also have died of his wounds in Veil of Shadows if Rootspring hadn't been guided to him by Spiresight, so that's another of the impostor's plots foiled.
Star-Crossed Lovers:
- With Bristlefrost as she is from a different Clan, and the two of them are technically forbidden to be in a relationship. They both love their Clans too much to consider joining each other's.
- The relationship becomes even more tragic and star-crossed thanks to Bristlefrost's Heroic Sacrifice in A Light in the Mist, which renders her Deader than Dead and robs them of even an afterlife.
Strong Family Resemblance: He has a yellow pelt like his father, Tree. As a kit, he was said to look like a tiny version of his father.
These Hands Have Killed: In A Light in the Mist, he gives Firestar permission to take over his body temporarily, and Firestar ends up fighting and killing The Dragon Darkstripe. When Rootspring is given control again, he doesn't remember the fight, but he shivers uneasily at the taste of blood in his mouth and the realization that his claws have killed a cat. He gets over it pretty quickly, though: shortly afterward, he thinks about how his paws defeated one of the strongest Dark Forest warriors and is eager to see more of what they're capable of.
Unhappy Medium: As he inherited his father Tree's abilities, he starts out as this since he's regarded as the resident weirdo at the beginning of The Broken Code arc.
What You Are in the Dark: The morning of his warrior assessment, he's woken up by Spiresight, who tells him that Shadowsight needs his help. No one else can see Spiresight and leaving now means missing his assessment. Rootpaw doesn't even hesitate before following him.
Young and in Charge: In Sky, he is the second-youngest cat on the catmint patrol after Nightheart, but the others tend to listen to him; it's mentioned that his experience in the Dark Forest has given him an authority the others didn't have.

Needleclaw

"Not every cat has to be the same."

Violetshine and Tree's daughter.

The Apprentice: She's Reedclaw's first apprentice.
Dead Guy Junior: She was named after Needletail.
Strong Family Resemblance: She is black-and-white like her mother.

Wrenflight

Bellaleaf's daughter.

The Apprentice: To her father, Rabbitleap.
Sole Survivor: The only one of her litter to survive kithood.

Other SkyClanners

Skywatcher ("Moony")

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"Listen to me? A crazy old rogue who sits looking at the moon? No, you must speak to them. More than anything they need a leader to follow, and you can walk that path more easily than I."

An elderly tom who lived in the gorge. Most local cats initially believed him to be strange and made fun of him, but it turned out that he had simply been following the ways of the old SkyClan. He joined the new Clan but died shortly afterward; he gave the Power of Three prophecy to Firestar the day of his death.

Expy: His temperament is very much like that of Yellowfang. Firestar and Sandstorm both pick up on this and comment on it.
In-Series Nickname: Called "Moony" by the other cats around the gorge.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's bitter and distrustful due to how the other cats treat him, but he's a nice guy deep down inside.
Last of His Kind: Before SkyClan's rebuilding, he was the only cat descended from the old Clan that still tried to live a life following the warrior code - in fact, he was the only cat in the area that even knew about the Clan.
Only Known by Their Nickname: For the longest time, the other cats near the gorge only called him "Moony".
What the Hell, Hero?: Calls Firestar out for trying to leave the gorge without making amends by rebuilding SkyClan.

Clovertail

"Leafstar was impressed with Clovertail's soothing words. She remembered what the she-cat had been like when she first joined SkyClan—lazy, spoiled, and selfish, and interested in Clan life only for the protection it offered herself and her kits. But since then she had become like a mother to all the cats, always ready with comfort and advice. She would never be a great hunter or fighter, but she kept the nursery clean and well-ordered."

Clovertail, along with her three kits, is one of the first cats to join modern SkyClan. Although eager to join the Clan for protection, she is reluctant to learn to hunt and fight in order to protect the rest of her Clan, though she does come around eventually. She later has three more kits with Patchfoot. Like Daisy and Ferncloud, she stays in the nursery as a permanent queen.

Action Girl: Somewhat of an aversion, at least in this series; although she eventually learns hunting and fighting, she prefers to stay in the nursery and help queens raise their kits.
Damsel in Distress: When Firestar and Sandstorm first meet her and her kits, they're being attacked by a fox.
Lazy Bum: Right after she joins the Clan. She only joined so that her kits would be protected, because she didn't think she could keep them safe by herself. She changes her mind after she saves Bouncekit from drowning.
The Load: She wanted to join the Clan for protection but had no interest in giving back to the Clan by hunting and fighting. She eventually got over it after saving her son from drowning and started to learn how to fight and hunt, though it's stated that she'll never be great at it.
Mama Bear: Comes to believe in her own worth after she fearlessly saves her son from drowning. In SkyClan's Destiny Leafstar observes that Clovertail has become like a mother to all the Clan.
Never Found the Body: In Hawkwing's Journey, she gets kidnapped by twolegs. It's mentioned that they don't look like twolegs that intend to do anything good with the cats they take. And with her now being an elder and all, the twolegs could have likely put her down.
One-Steve Limit: Averted, her original name, Clover, is the name of a ThunderClan cat in Dawn of the Clans.
Outliving One's Offspring: She outlives her kits Bouncefire and Honeytail. As of now, it's unknown what happened to Rockshade.
Struggling Single Mother: She starts as this, explaining that her mate left her before her kits were born and that it's hard raising them on her own; it's why she's so eager to join the new Clan after Firestar and Scratch save her and her kits from a fox.

Lichenfur

"Ridiculous. Bouncing about all over the place. We're cats, not rabbits. What does he plan to do, land on prey and squash it to death?"

An elder who joins SkyClan prior to SkyClan's Destiny. She dies in a flood in the SkyClan and the Stranger series.

Grumpy Old Lady: Like her denmate Tangle, she comes across as this.
Platonic Life-Partners: Seemingly has this relationship with Tangle.
Never Mess with Granny: She is old, but still capable, defending Leafstar's kits in the fox attack in Beyond the Code when Sol freezes and is unable to help.

Tangle

"Whatever you decide, you have to be strong. The path SkyClan walks is shadowed, and you're the one leading us along it."

An elder who joins SkyClan prior to SkyClan's Destiny.

Grumpy Old Man: He is portrayed like this.
Heroic BSoD: He suffers this after Lichenfur's death.
Platonic Life-Partners: Seemingly has this relationship with Lichenfur.
Killed Offscreen: Most likely happened to him, since he's elderly, and is gone by the time of Hawkwing's Journey.

Egg

"Er...Leafstar, Eggpaw's an okay name, but if you don't mind I'd like to stay as Egg. Stick said that's what he and his friends did."

A loner who joins SkyClan in SkyClan's Destiny.

The Apprentice: To Sharpclaw.
Cultural Rebel: Joins SkyClan, but keeps his original name, as shown by his quote.
Ear Ache: One of his ears is shredded in the battle with Dodge's cats.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Despite enjoying being a member of SkyClan, he's never seen or mentioned again after SkyClan's Destiny, leaving his fate unknown. Word of God says he may have become a warrior, but had a loner's perspective on Clan matters, but it's unclear.

Honeytail

"I'll see to the kits, Leafstar. Don't worry. We'll play a game or something."

Clovertail and Patchfoot's daughter

Friend to All Children: She loved to play with Leafstar's kits when they were in the nursery. Hawkwing stated that she always loved caring for kits, and lived in the nursery to help with them and the nursing queens.
Killed Offscreen: She gets killed by Racoons in Hawkwing's Journey.
Nice Girl: When Billystorm was accused of stealing Leafstar's kits in After the Flood she was the only cat who believed him to be innocent and went to warn Leafstar of what the Clan was doing.

Snookthorn/Snooky

"I thought I could do it, but I can't. Living as a Clan cat is making me something I don't want to be- fierce and wild and unwelcome among Twolegs. I'm honored that you think I'm good enough to be a warrior, but it's not something that I want. Not anymore."

A daylight-warrior in SkyClan's Destiny, Snookpaw trained with SkyClan, but after receiving his warrior name, ultimately decided that kittypet life was the best lifestyle for him.

The Apprentice: To Billystorm.
But Now I Must Go: Decides to leave SkyClan because he didn't want to become an enemy to twolegs.
Put on a Bus: Leaves partway through SkyClan's Destiny, and isn't seen or heard from again, even in future books.

Shortwhisker

See the "Kittypets" folder on Warrior Cats Others.

Sol/Harry

SkyClan and the Stranger spoilers: See the "Rogues" folder on Warrior Cats Others.

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