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"Only some leaders and medicine cats are remembered by the Clans. Their names cast long shadows over the forest; their deeds—good or evil—are told and retold by each generation until they pass from history to legend. Of the others, the ones whose names and deeds have been forgotten or, in some cases, banished from living memory, only StarClan knows."
—Secrets of the Clans
There have been many ThunderClan medicine cats in the Warrior Cats series, and each has fulfilled their duty as both Clan healer and emissary of StarClan. This page lists those heroes.
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Cloudspots
Cloudspots
"Unite or die! Don't you remember the Great Battle? The spirit-cats told us afterward that we could not live without each other."
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The first medicine cat of ThunderClan, a tom. Also see his entry under Cloudspots here.
- Child Hater: He is said to have been "not quite so keen on dealing with sickly kits."
- Hero of Another Story: In Secrets of the Clans it's said that he is the cat who not only figured out that greencough and whitecough were different, but also identified catmint as a cure.
- The Medic: The first ever of ThunderClan.
- Shrinking Violet: Works hard to care for cats, but likes the job of curing more than the actual interaction with, say, sick kits. Also described as shy.
Pearnose
Pearnose
"You know me better than that, Morningstar. I would not walk in your paws for all the mice in the forest. Your path is lonelier than I could bear."
The medicine cat of ThunderClan during Morningstar's leadership.
- The Medic: Comes with the job.
- The Mentor: To Fallowpaw while alive, and after death, one to Goosefeather.
- Spirit Advisor: Of a sort, she teaches Goosefeather about herbs.
Fallowpaw
Fallowpaw
"I went along the border this morning, looking for yarrow, and I couldn't even tell where our scent marks were supposed to be."
The medicine cat apprentice of ThunderClan during Morningstar's leadership. Only appears in "The Leader Who Sought Peace".
- Ambiguous Gender: It is not known if Fallowpaw is a tom or she-cat.
- The Apprentice: To Pearnose.
- Meaningful Name: Named after fallow, which is land that isn't fertile, or unproductive. This could not describe ThunderClan's state in "The Leader Who Sought Peace" better.
- The Medic: To ThunderClan, like Pearnose.
Kestrelwing
Kestrelwing
"I believe my leader was wrong, but he won't condemn helpless kits to die. They will have a future in ThunderClan, and so will you, Birdflight."
The medicine cat of ThunderClan at the time SkyClan left the forest.
- Friend to All Children: Persuades Redstar to take in two kits who are too small to make a long journey, and their mother.
- The Medic: To his Clan.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: Zig-zagged. Believes the clans are wrong to drive SkyClan out, but doesn't protest. He does, however, convince his leader to take in Birdflight, Spottedkit, and Gorsekit, who cannot leave the forest with their Clan.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: As the medicine cat, he's very important. He also persuades Redstar to take in Cloudstar's kits, who are too young to travel, along with their mother.
Oatspeckle
Oatspeckle
The medicine cat of ThunderClan before Ravenwing.
- Ambiguous Gender: Oatspeckle's gender is not specified.
- The Medic: To ThunderClan, before Ravenwing.
- The Mentor: To Ravenwing.
- Posthumous Character: Only mentioned once, to have died two moons before Mapleshade's kitting.
Ravenwing
Ravenwing
"I cannot let you lie to our Clanmates! And now that I know the truth, I cannot lie either."
ThunderClan's medicine cat when Mapleshade was alive. He plays a pivotal role in her backstory.
- The Apprentice: His mentor, Oatspeckle, died two moons before Mapleshade’s kits are born. He never had an apprentice of his own because Mapleshade kills him.
- Cannot Keep a Secret: He was the medicine cat who told the rest of his Clan about Mapleshade's kits leading into their exile.
- Death by Irony: Mapleshade kills him at Mothermouth (a sacred location for medicine cats) and later digs up his body after it has been buried so that the hawks can eat his corpse.
- Desecrating the Dead: After he was buried by his fellow medicine cats, Mapleshade dug up his corpse and left it to be eaten by hawks, in revenge for getting her and her kits kicked out of ThunderClan.
- Honor Before Reason: When he found out that Mapleshade's kits were half-RiverClan and fathered by Appledusk, he immediately told the rest of the Clan, even though he knew it would put them in danger because Oakstar wouldn't react well to the news of Appledusk, his son's killer, having fathered kits in his Clan.
- The Medic: Of ThunderClan, and the only one at the time of his death.
- Succession Crisis: He had no apprentice at the time of his death, forcing Cloudberry of RiverClan to fill in.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: If he'd just kept quiet about Mapleshade and her kits, they wouldn't have been driven out of ThunderClan, the kits wouldn't have drowned trying to cross the river, and Mapleshade wouldn't have had a reason to become the most feared cat in the Dark Forest.
Cloudberry
Cloudberry
"There’s more to being a medicine cat than talking with StarClan. There are herbs and ways of healing to learn, and omens to find. The other cats must see you preparing to be a medicine cat in the ways that they expect."
ThunderClan's medicine cat after Ravenwing was killed by Mapleshade. She was originally from RiverClan.
- The Apprentice: To Echosnout, her mentor in RiverClan.
- Friend to All Children: Implied. When Goosefeather expresses awe and amazement at the birth of Larksong's litter, Cloudberry agrees that seeing kits be born is something she never gets tired of.
- Meaningful Name: She has white fur like a cloud.
- The Mentor: She mentored Goosefeather.
- Riddle for the Ages: It is not known why she left RiverClan to be ThunderClan's medicine cat.
- Secret-Keeper: She keeps Goosefeather's gift of prophecy a secret.
Goosefeather
Goosefeather
"I may be an old fool. But at least my heart is true."
"You should tread the path you're following with care, Mapleshade. A destiny shouldn't be played with like prey."Image source
ThunderClan's medicine cat while Pinestar was leader, and early during Sunstar's reign. Sometimes acts insane, but is also fairly wise. However, his predictions are sometimes disastrous for the Clan. Crookedstar's Promise reveals that he's had some association with the Dark Forest, but the extent of this and his reasons for it are unclear.
Stars in a 2015 novella titled Goosefeather's Curse.
- All of the Other Reindeer: As a kit, the other apprentices and even a few warriors were jealous of him because he was made an apprentice and then a full medicine cat early. Aside from that, others usually deem him as lazy, weird, insane, or all three as gets older.
- Ambiguously Evil: While alive, it's incredibly unclear whose side he's on, due to his association with the Dark Forest.
- Anti-Villain: He does some bad stuff, but who knows if it's because he's crazy, evil, or just because the road to the Dark Forest is paved with good intentions?
- The Apprentice: To Cloudberry, who joined ThunderClan from RiverClan after ThunderClan lost their previous medicine cat to Mapleshade.
- The Atoner: After he dies, he goes to StarClan, and he seems much saner and generally more of a good guy after death, even giving Bluestar her sixth life and the gift of patience.
- Back for the Finale: Shows up again for a short time in The Last Hope.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Acts fairly crazy but benign, but he does, and orchestrates, some terrible stuff.
- Blessed with Suck: Having accurate visions of the future isn't so great when it means you get to see all the horrible things that will happen to your Clan, but can't do anything to prevent them.
- Cats Are Lazy: In his old age, he spends more time dozing around and eating than looking for herbs.
- Cassandra Truth: He sees visions of the monster that Tigerkit will grow up to become, but nobody believes them because he just seems like a crazy old medicine cat cursing at a kit for no reason.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: He acts strange due to being a Mad Oracle able to see the future. In his old age, he frequently rambles about things only he can see.
- The Cuckoo Lander Was Right: He was right about Tigerkit growing up to be a tyrannical dictator, and Thistleclaw being a danger to the Clan if he had become leader.
- A Day in the Limelight: The novella Goosefeather's Curse expanded on his backstory.
- Foreseeing My Death: It mentions in the narration that he accurately predicted the date of his death.
- Freakiness Shame: Goosefeather's Curse shows that he feels this way about his ability to see dead cats.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Most medicine cats are highly respected and honored by their Clanmates, but Goosefeather becomes disliked by most of his Clan in his old age due to his laziness and the prophecies he makes which seem to cause nothing but disaster. His kind-hearted, clear-minded and hardworking apprentice Featherwhisker is liked and trusted more than he is.Larksong: I'll talk to him. See if I can persuade him to join us in our den. Featherwhisker is plenty able to take his place now.
Robinwing: He’s more than able! He’s been doing most of the medicine cat duties on his own for StarClan knows how long! We should have stopped listening to the raddled old fleabag moons ago! - Grade Skipper: Due to his ability to see StarClan spirits, he is apprenticed at the age of four moons, and he's given his full medicine cat name at the age of seven moons.
- Heel–Face Turn: He is associated with the Dark Forest, but for whatever reason ends up in StarClan.
- I See Dead People: Goosefeather's Curse reveals that he has the ability to see StarClan cats walking among his Clanmates; until he's four moons old he doesn't even realize that they're not his living Clanmates.
- I Want My Mommy!: When a badger attacks him in Goosefeather's Curse and he thinks that he's about to die, he calls his mother's name. Despite having his full medicine cat name, he's only seven moons old - just barely over the age most kits leave the nursery - so he's still quite young.
- Keeping Secrets Sucks: He feels this way about all the secrets he carries throughout Goosefeather's Curse: his ability to see StarClan cats, his knowledge of Sunkit's and Featherkit's future, Doestar's illness, and lastly the knowledge that Pinestar will one day abandon his leadership and leave his Clan to become a kittypet.
- Lazy Bum: Mumblefoot mentions that he naps when he says he's going to be collecting herbs.
- Mad Oracle: Acts nutty sometimes, but is correct fairly often, especially about Tigerstar.
- Meaningful Name: "Silly goose" is often used as a slang term for a crazy person, apt for a medicine cat who makes seemingly meaningless prophecies at random. He also has whitish-grey fur the same color as goose down.
- The Medic: He was ThunderClan's medicine cat before Featherwhisker.
- The Mentor: To Featherwhisker.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His sign from StarClan that said to go to battle gets his Clan weakened, causes them to lose a great deal of respect, and gets his sister killed.
- Not Helping Your Case: By the time of Bluestar's Prophecy, most of his Clanmates think he's lazy, stupid and incompetent, giving more credit to his hardworking and better-liked apprentice, Featherwhisker. His leaving of the medicine cat duties to Featherwhisker while he naps and looks for omens doesn't do much to prove them wrong.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: When he visits StarClan and the Dark Forest, both before and after death, he is a lot less crazy than the way he acts around his Clanmates.
- Secret-Keeper: He knew the truth about Bluestar's kits, but didn't tell anyone.
- Seriously Scruffy: He almost never washes himself and has extremely bad breath, possibly due to his role as the Mad Oracle, and the fact that his prophecies are often misleading.
- Skewed Priorities: When Leopardfoot is giving birth to her kits (and is clearly in pain because her wails can be heard outside the nursery), he's more concerned about looking for omens in the fresh-kill pile, even though he should be seeing to her as the Clan's medicine cat.Snowfur: How can he think about food now?
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: He and Mumblefoot never agree on anything, according to Larksong.
- Theme Naming: Goosefeather and his apprentice, Featherwhisker.
- Third-Person Person: At one point in Crookedstar's Promise he says "You don't get away from Goosefeather that easily!"
- Unreliable Narrator: In Goosefeather's Curse, he is certain that Stormtail tried to kill him by driving a badger toward him due to visions he's had, but as we saw in Bluestar's Prophecy, his visions are not always correct.
- Walking Spoiler: Crookedstar's Promise reveals that he's apparently had something to do with Mapleshade and the Dark Forest in the past. Despite this, we still know next to nothing about him.
- What the Hell, Hero?: About half of ThunderClan gives him one in the aftermath of the disastrous raid on WindClan that got Moonflower killed.
- You Can't Fight Fate: He comes to believe this by the end his novella, and it's why he doesn't say anything about what he knows about Pinestar.
Featherwhisker
Featherwhisker
"Battles are just a very small part of our lives. A true warrior has more love in her heart than hatred. Love for her Clanmates, for the forest that shelters her, for the prey that feeds us all."
"Thistleclaw will teach them how to be a fierce warrior. But who will teach him that softness and strength can exist together? And that loyalty to the Clan comes from the heart, not through teeth and claws?"Image source
One of ThunderClan's medicine cats. Apprentice to Goosefeather, mentor to Spottedleaf, and brother to Sunstar, Featherwhisker was a well-respected and hardworking medicine cat.
- The Apprentice: To Goosefeather.
- Depending on the Artist: On the picture to the right, he lacks the thick mane of fur and long whiskers he has in Secrets of the Clans.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: Even when he's still an apprentice, most of ThunderClan views him as more competent and hard-working than his Mad Oracle of a mentor, and they're not entirely wrong.
- Meaningful Name: He has long, feathery whiskers.
- The Medic: He was ThunderClan's medicine cat before Spottedleaf, and taught her everything she knew.
- The Mentor: To Spottedleaf.
- Mr. Exposition: After Bluestar forgets what happened at a Gathering, he shows up to give the reader a recap.
- Nice Guy: Accentuated when paired with the more unstable, lazy, and ambiguously-intentioned Goosefeather. He even passed on his kind nature to his apprentice.
- Non-Action Guy: Since he's a medicine cat, he doesn't do much fighting. He knows how to hunt, though.
- Sibling Team: With his brother Sunstar, who served the Clan as leader at the same time Featherwhisker was medicine cat.
- Superior Successor: Featherwhisker gets a lot more respect and affection from his Clanmates than his mentor Goosefeather does, because he's hardworking, diligent and kind, while Goosefeather is old, scruffy and crazy.
- Theme Naming: Featherwhisker and his mentor, Goosefeather.
Spottedleaf
Spottedleaf
"We are the heartbeat of the Clans, not the warrior code."
"Wherever your paws lead you, you will never be alone."Image source
ThunderClan's medicine cat when Firestar first joined, she was also his first love. She is killed in a ShadowClan raid before the relationship has much of a chance to go anywhere, but Spottedleaf continues to show up in Firestar's and his descendants' dreams throughout the series. Mapleshade killed her spirit in The Last Hope.
- A Day in the Limelight: She's the star of the novella Spottedleaf's Heart which details her apprentice years and shows why she chose to become a medicine cat apprentice.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Subverted in Spottedleaf's Heart. She did have a crush on Thistleclaw when she was an apprentice, but that ended when she found out he was training in the Dark Forest. Becoming a medicine cat meant she couldn't be his mate anyway.
- Almost Dead Guy: In The Last Hope, she speaks to Firestar while her spirit is dying.
- The Apprentice: To Thrushpelt while training as a warrior, and Featherwhisker while training as a medicine cat.
- Betty and Veronica: She's Firestar's Betty, being sweet and caring while Sandstorm is more blunt and snarky.
- Big Damn Heroes: In The Last Hope she shows up to save Sandstorm from Mapleshade, dying in the process.
- Celibate Hero: As a medicine cat, she is sworn to never take a mate. Though she wishes she wasn't.
- Deader than Dead: Dies in the very first book, and still appears in most of the later books. In the final book of Omen of the Stars, her spirit is killed by Mapleshade, meaning we have actually seen the last of Spottedleaf.
- Death of the Hypotenuse: A variation. She's already dead, but she gets offed by Mapleshade and ends up Deader than Dead.
- Doomed Moral Victor: In The Last Hope, although she dies facing her Evil Counterpart Mapleshade, she ultimately undermines everything Mapleshade stands for by selflessly choosing to save Sandstorm.
- Early Personality Signs: As a kit and apprentice, she was fascinated by Featherwhisker's knowledge of herbs and sometimes helped him prepare medicinal mixtures. He eventually took her on as a medicine cat apprentice after Goosefeather's retirement.
- Everyone Is Related: She and Tigerstar are distant cousins, as their ancestors Gorseclaw and Spottedpelt were brother and sister.
- First Love: Was this to Firestar when he first came to ThunderClan, but when she died he eventually fell for Sandstorm.
- Foil: To Yellowfang, to a certain degree. Both act Spirit Advisors, but have noticeably different temperaments.
- Good Smells Good: She is almost always noted to smell "sweet". Spottedleaf is also a character who is defined by her kindness.
- Greater Need Than Mine: In the Code of the Clans story "A Dark Path Chosen", she gives up her own share of fresh-kill to the sick cats she's trying to heal.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In The Last Hope, she permanently dies to save Sandstorm from Mapleshade, her spirit being destroyed in the process.
- Identical Grandson: Has an ancestor named Spottedpelt that looks exactly like her - it's what made Firestar realize that Spottedleaf was descended from SkyClan.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In The Last Hope, she says that she wasn't jealous of Sandstorm, because all she wanted was for Firestar to be happy.
- The Lost Lenore: Firestar loved her, but he lost her in the first book. However, she still lives on in his dreams. As of The Last Hope, she's a complete example of this trope. Her spirit was destroyed, and she's not coming back.
- Love Interest: Is set up to be this for Firepaw in Into the Wild, but then she dies.
- The Medic: Very much concerned with the well-being of her Clanmates. She probably sees the least fighting of any of ThunderClan’s medicine cats, to boot.
- My Death Is Just the Beginning: She died in the first book in the series, yet is still a recurring character, acting as a guide and mentor to Firestar and his descendants through dreams and visions.
- Nice Girl: Her kindness is her defining trait.
- Out of Focus: In Omen of the Stars, other than a handful of scenes, she mostly disappeared from the plot, with her role as an adviser being given to Yellowfang.
- Posthumous Character: Almost. She's killed toward the end of the first book, but her spirit shows up in almost every successive book, even to cats born seasons after she died.
- The Power of Love: In Spottedleaf's Heart, she states "You're wrong. Love is stronger than everything". This was in response to Thistleclaw when he dismisses the idea of love.
- Precocious Crush: The plot of Spottedleaf's Heart revolves around Spottedpaw's crush on Thistleclaw.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Sandstorm's red. Both of them are Firestar's love interests, but while Sandstorm is very blunt and quick to anger, Spottedleaf is a gentle and nurturing medicine cat.
- Romantic False Lead: Seems to be Firestar's love interest in Into the Wild. Then Clawface kills her.
- Spirit Advisor: She gives advice to Firestar, his descendants, and other medicine cats as a spirit in StarClan.
- Stalker with a Crush: She spends the first series stalking Firestar, and still watches over him afterwards. Additionally, she also stalks each successive generation of his family. Although, Firestar does love her back, in spite of him also truly loving Sandstorm, who he fathered kits with (Leafpool and Squirrelflight).
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Is beautiful, young, kind, wise, sincere, hardworking, and killed off partway through the very first novel.
Yellowfang
Yellowfang
"We have the wisdom of ages. You have the stupidity of youth."
"I can keep a secret."Image source
A former ShadowClan warrior and medicine cat, Yellowfang was exiled by Brokenstar (her illegitimate son) in the first book, and was captured on ThunderClan territory by a young Firestar. She remains in ThunderClan as a prisoner until Spottedleaf's death. Disgusted at what her birth Clan has become, she agrees to formally join ThunderClan as their medicine cat. Currently resides in StarClan.
- Action Girl: As with pretty much all female characters, she can hold her own in a fight. Notable for being a medicine cat.
- A Day in the Limelight: Stars in a Super Edition named Yellowfang's Secret.
- Almost Dead Guy: Survives the fire in the ThunderClan camp just long enough for Fireheart to find her, and for her to confess to him that she is Brokenstar’s mother, and that she murdered him. And also to tell Fireheart that she
wishes he were her son instead of Brokenstar. - The Apprentice: To Deerleap while training as a warrior and Sagewhisker when becoming a medicine cat.
- Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving: In Cats of the Clans, Rock calls her "stubborn, cranky, and the most loyal cat you will ever meet".
- Berserk Button: Better not mention her ShadowClan origins. When Jayfeather told her that she was once ShadowClan, Yellowfang basically snapped at him that she was ThunderClan.
- Borrowed Catch Phrase: Uses Deerleap's "Look, listen, and scent!" more than Deerleap does.
- Break the Cutie: She started off life as a warrior before being forced into becoming a medicine cat because of her powers. She later has kits, even though she is a medicine cat, with a cat who later essentially refuses to acknowledge her existence, although it is speculated that they may have become traditional mates if her circumstances were different. Only one of her three kits, Brokenstar, manages to survive birth. Yellowfang must then give up her remaining kit to a queen who refuses to love him. Yellowfang now has to watch her son grow up without knowing of his full heritage. Brokenstar eventually kills his father and kicks his mother (though he doesn't know it) out of ShadowClan, allegedly for killing her own younger siblings. Finally, Yellowfang is forced to kill Brokenstar in order to save her new Clan.
- Career Versus Man: In Yellowfang's Secret, she must choose between becoming a medicine cat and being mates with Raggedpelt. At first she breaks her vows by remaining his mate, but once she realizes she's expecting kits, she knows she must give them up and focus on her career.
- Combat Medic: She's a medicine cat, but she fights as ferociously as any warrior. Bluestar's Prophecy explains that she was a fully trained warrior before she became medicine cat of ShadowClan.
- Continuity Snarl: In The Fourth Apprentice, she witnesses Breezepelt and Brokenstar attacking Jayfeather and tells him that the Dark Forest is rising. In Fading Echoes, a book written by a different author, Jayfeather tells her about the attack and the uprising within the Dark Forest and she is shocked and apparently doesn't know anything about what he's talking about.
- Cool Big Sis: Acts like one for Cloudpelt in Yellowfang's Secret.
- Cool Old Lady: Yellowfang is sarcastic and jaded but always tries to help ThunderClan and advise Fireheart.
- Dark and Troubled Past: She's a medicine cat who had kits with the Clan leader (another forbidden relationship). Two of them died, and the one that lived became cruel and bloodthirsty, killing his own father and taking leadership, breaking the warrior code by stealing kits from other Clans, and even murdering kits from his own Clan and framing Yellowfang.
- Deadpan Snarker: She is rather sarcastic and blunt.
- Defeat Means Friendship: She and Firepaw get along very well after he beats her in combat.
- Dies Wide Open: In Rising Storm. Fireheart gently closes her eyes for the last time.
- Dr. Jerk: A rare female example, but Yellowfang fits this to a t. She’s grumpy and snappish and sarcastic, and, of course, the heart of gold comes standard.
- The Empath: Yellowfang's Secret reveals that she can sense the pain of other cats.
- Exact Words: When Brokentail demands a medicine to ease his pain, Yellowfang gives him deathberries, telling him that they'll make the pain go away for good. They do...because after he eats them, he dies.
- Foil: To Spottedleaf, to a certain degree. Both act as Spirit Advisors, but have noticeably different temperaments. Spottedleaf is young, soft-spoken, and mysterious, while Yellowfang is old, sarcastic, and blunt.
- Grumpy Old Cat: She's grouchy and has a sharp tongue.
- Have You Come to Gloat?: She asks Molepelt this after she kills Brokenstar, since she had been feeling very guilty about it. To her surprise, he says he would never gloat. ShadowClan was his Clan too.
- He's Not My Boyfriend: With Raggedstar in Yellowfang's Secret.
- I Lied: Tells Squirrelflight that she lied about Squirrelflight's inability to have kits in the epilogue of Bramblestar's Storm, and that she can and is going to have some.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Spends a large portion of Yellowfang's Secret claiming that she wants to be a warrior, not a medicine cat.
- I Was Having Such a Nice Dream: As a kit she has a dream of catching a juicy mouse and is just about to take a bite when she's awakened by Foxkit and Wolfkit crashing into her while wrestling.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Fireheart, who befriends her after bringing her into ThunderClan. Later, while Cinderpaw is staying with her while recovering from her broken leg, she takes her on as a helper and eventually a medicine cat apprentice.
- It's All My Fault: She feels guilt for not being able to save Mintkit and Marigoldkit.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Does everything she can to serve her Clan, and genuinely cares for her Clanmates, despite being grumpier than a badger.
- Like a Son to Me: Claims that Fireheart is like a son to her, and a better son than Brokenstar. She also has something of a motherly relationship with Cinderpelt.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Dramatically chooses to reveal her relationship to Brokenstar right before she kills him.
- Mama Bear: She defends Brokenkit from his foster brothers and sister in Yellowfang's Secret.
- The Medic: Resigns herself to becoming a medicine cat after getting her warrior name because her ability to sense what other cats are physically feeling cripples her ability to fight.
- The Mentor: To Runningnose and Cinderpelt.
- Mentor Archetype: Although she isn't his mentor in the sense the series usually uses the word (training the character to be a warrior or medicine cat), Yellowfang serves this role to Fireheart; she's the elderly, dear friend he always goes to for advice. She later becomes Cinderpelt's actual mentor (training her to be a medicine cat) and does the same for her, and they both remember her wisdom after her death.
- Mentor Occupational Hazard: Both her own mentors and Yellowfang herself, as a mentor to Cinderpelt.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Seems to have this realization immediately after giving birth to the kits she never should have had in the first place, even more so after her two daughters die immediately after being born and she is left with Brokenkit.
- My Greatest Failure: She came to view her forbidden relationship with Raggedstar as this, because it resulted in the birth of Brokenstar, who grew up to become one of ShadowClan's most tyrannical leaders. Indeed, she believes that Brokenstar being born was a punishment from StarClan for falling in love with Raggedstar.
- My Secret Pregnancy: She hides her pregnancy from the rest of her Clan, but not from the father, Raggedstar. Her mentor, Sagewhisker, also knew she was pregnant.
- Never Mess with Granny: She's a formidable fighter even as an elderly medicine cat.
- The Nicknamer: In Into the Wild, where she gives Firepaw the nickname, "kitty".
- Nightmare Dreams: She has one in Yellowfang's Secret, in which she is forced to watch kits inflict damage upon each other that is far beyond what even an adult cat could. Some kits are so young that they haven't even opened their eyes yet.
- Non-Indicative Name: Only StarClan knows why Brightflower would give her gray kit with orange eyes the name Yellowkit.
- Not Afraid to Die: As she lays dying from smoke inhalation, she thanks Fireheart for bringing her to ThunderClan and that she will always be grateful for Bluestar to giving her a home.
- Not His Blood: Upon finding her tiny siblings' bodies she curls around them and licks them, hoping that they'll live. When they return to camp, Runningnose thinks Yellowfang is hurt until she explains that it's the kits' blood.
- Offing the Offspring: Kills her son Brokenstar in Forest of Secrets so that he would no longer cause harm to other cats, and then kills him again in The Last Hope.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Even though medicine cats aren't supposed to have kits, she had three kits. Wishkit was stillborn and Hopekit died right after birth. Yellowfang killed her son, Brokenstar, to save other cats from him.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: To her son Brokentail, before she feeds him deathberries.Yellowfang: Here. Eat these berries, and the pain will go away for good.
- Rage Against the Heavens: In Yellowfang's Secret, she challenges StarClan for allowing Brokenstar to become leader and lead the Clan into ruin; eventually refusing to even go to the Moonstone at the half moon.
- Retired Badass Roundup: In Into the Wild, she gathers a group of elders to form a resistance against Brokenstar.
- Scratchy-Voiced Senior: She is described this way a lot.
- Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: She does not soften her opinion of anyone, for anyone.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
- After Firestar fights her, then gives her some food, a ThunderClan patrol shows up and she decides to ditch him. Subverted, because her legs had stiffened up and she couldn't move.
- In The Last Hope, while she complains about the Clans working together, Sunstar invokes this trope by snapping at her "You can leave if you want!" Amazingly, she stays and cooperates.
- Secret Relationship: With Raggedstar.
- Sneaky Departure: In Into the Wild she sneaks away from ThunderClan camp to chase after Clawface, who she deduces has stolen ThunderClan kits.
- Spirit Advisor: Even after her death, she hangs around to give a bit of advice to Firestar and later Leafpool. When Jayfeather shows up, she becomes much more involved.
- Stopped Caring: After her exile in Yellowfang's Secret, she doesn't care whether she lives or dies.
- Storming the Castle: In the climax of Into the Wild, she leads a ThunderClan patrol into the heart of ShadowClan's territory to confront Brokenstar.
- Strike Me Down: In Into the Wild she tries to convince Firestar to kill her when they first meet, because she is shamed by being defeated (and, as we see in her Super Edition, feels she doesn't have much to live for at this point.)
- Strong Family Resemblance: She has the same face shape and eyes as her mother Brightflower.
- Tsundere: She is often characterized as grumpy and obstinate, with a tongue described as "sharp as thorns." However, she holds a surprising amount of inner compassion in her heart despite her rough exterior; her softer side was usually brought out through her relationships with Cinderpelt (her apprentice), Raggedstar (former mate), Brokenstar (son) and Firestar (who she claimed was like a son to her while on the verge of death).
- Undying Loyalty: To ThunderClan after they take her in and give her a place to stay. She becomes their medicine cat after Spottedleaf's death, and remains with them for the rest of her life.Rock: Brave, loyal Yellowfang, who fought enough battles for nine lifetimes.
Cinderpelt
Cinderpelt
"We cannot change our destiny. We just have to have the courage to know what it is, and accept it."
"There are times when a storm is just a storm."Image source
Firestar's first apprentice, Cinderpelt was hit by a car early in the series, badly breaking and twisting her leg. Because of this, she was unable to become a warrior, and instead trained under Yellowfang as medicine cat. She remains a close friend and confidante of Firestar throughout the series. She is killed during the badger attack, but StarClan reincarnated her as Cinderheart, who is now able to live the life of a warrior that Cinderpelt had to give up.
- Almost Dead Guy: She talks to Leafpool for a little bit before dying.
- The Apprentice: To Firestar before her accident, then to Yellowfang.
- Birth-Death Juxtaposition: She dies shortly before her niece Cinderkit is born.
- Break the Cutie: As an apprentice, she severely injures her back leg after an accident on the Thunderpath and walks with a limp for the rest of her life. She also has crush on Firestar, but she can never act on it because she is a medicine cat.
- Call-Back: In The New Prophecy, she asks Leafpool, "Do you think I talk just to hear my own voice?" Yellowfang asked her the same thing in The Original Series.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Is never able to confess to Firestar about her love for him.
- Career-Ending Injury: Dreamed of being a warrior until she was hit by a car.
- Celibate Hero: Comes with the territory of being a medicine cat. Unlike several cats throughout the series, she succeeds in keeping her vow.
- Character Tics: Her special paw twitch that Leafpool mentions in The Sight.
- Dream-Crushing Handicap: As a young apprentice, she gets hit by a car, leaving her permanently crippled and destroying her dreams of becoming a warrior. After spending some time recovering in Yellowfang's den, she learns about healing herbs from her and eventually becomes a medicine cat apprentice instead.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Does anybody remember that blue-eyed, gray-furred kitten that Firepaw picked up in Brokenstar's camp? You know, in the first book?
- Face Death with Dignity: She foresaw her own death in a vision that StarClan showed her, but chose to die saving Sorreltail.
- Family Eye Resemblance: She has pale blue eyes like her brother, Thornclaw.
- Foreseeing My Death: StarClan showed her a vision of her death in the prologue of Twilight, which happened when she dies defending a kitting queen from badgers.
- Genki Girl: Back when she was Firestar's apprentice, he bemoaned the fact that he couldn't control her energy.
- Heroic BSoD: Has one when she fails to keep Silverstream from dying in kitbirth.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Dies preventing the badgers from harming her brother's newborn kits. She actually gets reincarnated as one of those kits.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: She blames herself for not being able to save Silverstream, and despite Yellowfang explaining that every medicine cat loses patients from time to time, she resolves to do her best to never let another cat die again.
- Innocent Blue Eyes: Up until her accident, that is. After that, she is a lot more serious.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Yellowfang, who ends up training her to become a medicine cat.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Presumably why she tells the oblivious Fireheart that Sandstorm loves him, despite clearly liking him as well.
- Just Friends: This is what Firestar thought of their relationship. According to
Word of God, however, Cinderpelt had feelings for him, but due to her position as medicine cat, couldn't act on them. - Look Both Ways: Was hit by a car in Fire and Ice. She didn't die, but she did break a leg.
- Love Informant: She tells Fireheart that Sandstorm loves him (and that it's obvious to everyone else).
- Lured into a Trap: One that wasn't even meant for her! When Tigerclaw plans to kill Bluestar by leading her onto the thunderpath so a monster will hit her, his plan is foiled because the leader is ill with greencough at the time...so Cinderpaw slips away to retrieve the message for her without telling anyone, leading for her to get hit instead and permanently damage her leg via a horrific bone fracture.
- The Medic: She serves as a ThunderClan medicine cat from Forest of Secrets to Twilight.
- The Mentor: To Leafpool.
- Mentor Occupational Hazard: She was Leafpool's mentor and then dies at the end of Twilight.
- Only Sane Man: Among the Clan cats on the subject of StarClan. While she does believe in their power, she also points out that not everything is controlled by them.Cinderpelt: "Sometimes a storm is just a storm."
- Reincarnation: She's alive and well even after her death, as Cinderheart. She doesn't remember her past life until The Forgotten Warrior, though (at least, not while awake).
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: In Rising Storm, she treats two sick ShadowClan warriors, even though she would be punished if she was found out, and there was a risk that she herself would be infected.
- Secret Test of Character: She receives one from StarClan to determine if she will be allowed to be reborn and live as a warrior. When they give her a vision of her death, she faces her fate with dignity and dies heroically to save Sorreltail from a badger. She passes, and is reincarnated as one of Sorreltail's kits.
- Secretly Dying: In Twilight, an unknown cat in the prologue is told by StarClan that they are going to die soon. This cat ends up being Cinderpelt, and she never tells anyone until her death. Turns out that being told in advance was a test, and since she kept it secret she is rewarded by being reincarnated as her own niece, who was born the same instant Cinderpelt died.
- Shipper on Deck: She ships Firestar with Sandstorm... even though she's also in love with the former. But in the end, she decides that Sandstorm is a better choice for him.
- Shared Unusual Trait: She evidently would always flick her paw a certain way when grooming, and later on her reincarnation, Cinderheart, would do the same; this is one of the first times that other characters notice a resemblance between the two.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: When she and Brackenfur were first apprenticed to them, both Fireheart and Graystripe lampshaded how energetic Cinderpaw was to the more responsible Brackenpaw.
- Sneaky Departure: In Fire and Ice, Tigerclaw claims to have found evidence of an invasion that the Clan leader Bluestar needs to see. (It's actually a trap he set to kill Bluestar so that he can take over.) However, Bluestar is too sick to go and see, so Fireheart's apprentice Cinderpaw offers to go instead. Fireheart forbids her from going, but she sneaks out of camp anyway and walks into Tigerclaw's trap, causing her to get hit by a car and break her leg.
- Spanner in the Works: She accidentally ruins Tigerstar's attempt to get Bluestar run over by a car, by running into the trap herself.
- Teacher/Student Romance: One-sided on her part, in that she was in love with her (first) mentor, Firestar.
- A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: In Fire and Ice, Tigerstar sets a trap for Bluestar by the Thunderpath, intending for her to get hit by a car and die, but Cinderpaw runs into it instead, leaving her with a permanently crippled leg.
- Unlucky Childhood Friend: Towards Firestar.
- Unrequited Tragic Maiden: A case of this towards Firestar. She loved him but never acted on her feelings, pushed him towards Sandstorm to let him be happy with her instead, and died tragically. Though, she also got reincarnated.
- You Did Everything You Could: In Forest of Secrets she gets this lesson from Yellowfang after she fails to prevent Silverstream's Death by Childbirth (though she does save the kittens). In this case, Cinderpaw's worries were compounded by the fact that Silverstream is from a rival Clan, and having another Clan member's death on your hands is not a very good place to be in this world.
- You Shall Not Pass!: Does this in Twilight to protect Sorreltail and her kits from badgers. She dies in the process, but is reincarnated as one of Sorreltail's kits.
Leafpool
Leafpool
"It's all right. I'll stay here and take good care of the Clan, I promise. One day we'll meet again, walking among the stars."
"Destiny isn't a path that any cat follows blindly. It is always a matter of choice, and sometimes the heart speaks loudest."Image source
One of Firestar and Sandstorm's daughters, and a protagonist of The New Prophecy. Leafpool takes the opposite path her sister does, and becomes ThunderClan's medicine cat. She is described as being her sister's complete opposite, polite and soft-spoken where Squirrelflight is loud and brash.
- All-Loving Hero/Nice Girl: Kind to most cats, and rarely loses her temper.
- The Apprentice: To Cinderpelt.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Crowfeather. She can't stand him at first, but she slowly grows to love him.
- Break the Cutie: Hoo, boy. She has a bad day, to say the least. First she falls in love with Crowfeather, but ultimately can't be with him and he goes off to have a mate and a kit of his own. She ends up having his kits, but has to give them off to her sister to raise. Then when the truth about her being their mother comes out, her daughter goes insane and tries to murder her, her sons get angry with her for lying to them, and then she has to step down from her medicine cat position in disgrace. Yeesh.
- Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: She's the gentle girl to Crowfeather's brooding boy.
- Celibate Hero: As a medicine cat, she can never take a mate. However, she breaks this rule when she falls in love with Crowfeather.
- Chaste Hero: In Starlight.
- The Chief's Daughter: She is a daughter of Firestar, leader of ThunderClan.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: In The New Prophecy she is a medicine cat apprentice, rather than a warrior apprentice, following an entirely different path in life from her father.
- Cool Aunt: She acts this way to Squirrelflight's kits, bringing them the softest moss and sweetest honey. She is revealed to be their actual mother in Sunrise.
- The Cutie: She's adorable, but she goes through a lot of breaking.
- Dead Guy Junior: She may be partially named after Spottedleaf.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: An unintentional version, as she is apparently killed suddenly between books. She does get a proper, dramatic death scene in Squirrelflight's Hope, but that book was published after Lost Stars, leading to it seeming like this trope.
- Fire/Water Juxtaposition: In Cats of the Clans she is compared to a calm pool of water and Squirrelflight to a burning fire.
- Freudian Trio: In The New Prophecy she, Feathertail and Tawnypelt were the Superego to Brambleclaw and Stormfur's Ego and Squirrelflight and Crowfeather's Id.
- From Hero to Mentor: From a protagonist in the second series to the mentor of third series protagonist Jayfeather.
- Good Smells Good: Her scent is said to have a hint of wildflowers in it.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She dies saving a litter of kits that belonged to a rogue. One of those kits is named Leaf after her.
- Irony: She starts off as The Dutiful Daughter in comparison to her rebellious, hotheaded sister, but is the first to break the warrior code by having kits in secret as a medicine cat.
- Keeping Secrets Sucks: Keeping the secret about Brambleclaw's prophecy puts Leafpaw in a position where she's strained by loyalty to her sister and loyalty to her father.
- Killed Offscreen: Died in between A Vision of Shadows and The Broken Code from a rockslide.
- Though her death was shown in Squirrelflight's Hope.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: In Sunrise, she reveals that she is the mother of Lionblaze, Jayfeather, and Hollyleaf.
- Mama Bear: She's extremely fussy and protective over her sister's kits Hollyleaf, Jayfeather, and Lionblaze, even before it's revealed she's their real mother. When receiving his medicine cat name, Jayfeather senses a powerful emotion of love coming from her. After it's revealed in Sunrise, she still tries to protect them, even when her daughter tries to kill her.
- The Medic: Serves as ThunderClan's medic starting before Midnight. She steps down for a while after it's revealed that she had kits with Crowfeather, but she officially takes back her post later, working alongside Jayfeather as an equal.
- The Mentor: Briefly to Hollyleaf before she decided it wasn’t for her. Also to Jayfeather, Alderheart (shared with Jayfeather) and Puddleshine.
- Meaningful Name: Named after Leafstar and possibly Spottedleaf.
- The "-pool" suffix of her name was given to her because she found the Moonpool.
- Mundane Utility: At one point she uses her Twin Telepathy with Squirrelflight to check the weather outside.
- My Secret Pregnancy: She hides her pregnancy from everyone but Squirrelflight, who then raises the kits as her own. Also, the father was from WindClan.
- Non-Action Guy: Due to having been trained to be a medicine cat, she's a poor hunter and fighter, as noted by Jayfeather when she steps down from her medicine cat position after the events of Sunrise and becomes a warrior.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Like Yellowfang, she had kits even though it was forbidden. Her daughter, Hollyleaf, was killed in the Dark Forest battle.
- Poison Is Evil: This is what she believes.
- Polar Opposite Twins: With Squirrelflight. Squirrelflight is sharp-tongued and energetic, and becomes a warrior, while Leafpool is calm and more reasonable, and becomes a medicine cat.
- Princess Classic: Technically, as Clan Leader's daughter. She's fairly refined as reserved. However, she starts getting rebellious tendencies as early as Midnight.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Squirrelflight's Red. She's calm and thoughtful, while Squirrelflight is hot-tempered and flighty. They're explicitly compared to water and fire.
- Rescue Romance: Crowfeather admits he loves Leafpool after saving her from falling off a cliff at the end of Starlight, causing Leafpool to admit her own feelings for him.
- Second Love: To Crowfeather, after his first love interest Feathertail dies.
- Secret-Keeper: She's the only cat back in the Clans that knows why the traveling cats left, and she also is trusted with keeping the fire-and-tiger sign secret. She also figures out later that Hollyleaf killed Ashfur, and keeps this secret as well.
- Secret Relationship: With Crowfeather in The New Prophecy, due to being from different Clans and Leafpool being a medicine cat.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: With her sister Squirrelflight. Leafpool was once compared to water and Squirrelflight to fire.
- Sneaky Departure: In Twilight, Leafpool and Crowfeather sneak away from their Clans to meet up, and eventually run away with each other. Since they didn't tell anyone, their Clans each think that they went to the other Clan.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: How her relationship with Crowfeather turns out, as they're forced apart.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Though it's not specifically pointed out, she strongly resembles her paternal aunt, Princess, with light brown tabby fur, a white chest, and white paws.
- Supporting Protagonist: She is the protagonist of The New Prophecy, but Brambleclaw is the hero.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly girl to Squirreflight's Tomboy.
- Twin Telepathy: She can tell what Squirrelflight is feeling at all times.
- Tsundere: Type B towards Crowfeather, she originally tended toward tsun before they got together.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: Had this with Crowfeather during Starlight before Crowfeather confesses his feelings for her at the end of the book.
- Wham Line: From Sunrise:Leafpool: "Hollyleaf, why did you kill Ashfur?"
- What the Hell, Hero?:
- In Sunset, it's subtly implied that she disapproved of Squirrelflight's decision to leave Ashfur.
- In The Forgotten Warrior, she also disapproved of Jayfeather telling Cinderheart about being Cinderpelt.
Hollyleaf
Hollyleaf (Former Medicine Apprentice)
Jayfeather
Jayfeather
Alderheart
Alderheart
"Embrace what you find in the shadows, for only they can clear the sky."
"We need to find SkyClan!"Image source
Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight's son. He tends to worry and overthink things a lot. While he started out as a warrior apprentice, both his lack of skill and Leafpool's vision had him become a medicine cat apprentice, where he excels at more.
- Always Someone Better: Has a bit of a chip on his shoulder because his sister is The Ace, and he is not.
- The Apprentice: First to Molewhisker while training to be a warrior. Then he got both Leafpool and Jayfeather after switching over to be a medicine cat.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Alderheart is a quiet, kind, and empathetic tom. But, in Veil of Shadows, Alderheart tells off the imposter (who is currently feigning the identity of Bramblestar) for his poor leadership and demanding the blind obedience of the Clan, telling him that perhaps it's right to question orders. This got the imposter angry enough to exile Alderheart from the Clan then and there. This occured once more in Darkness Within, where at a medicine cat meeting, Alderheart gets angry and practically screams that Ashfur should never have been allowed to steal Bramblestar's body.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: A variation of ginger/black/gray:
- Ginger Alderheart, black-and-white Violetshine, and gray Twigbranch.
- Borrowed Catchphrase: In The Apprentice's Quest, he quotes one of Jayfeather's favorite phrases: "You're fine when I say you are."
- Character Development: Learns to have faith in himself and stop worrying so much in The Apprentice's Quest.
- He learns to speak his mind and stand up for what's right in Thunder and Shadow.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Compared to other protagonists, he is far more sensitive, anxious, and uncertain of himself; he blames himself for everything that goes wrong.
- Deadpan Snarker: Spending time around Jayfeather helps him pick up some of his cheek, apparently.
- Expy: Pre-character development Alderheart was very similar to Ravenpaw in Into the Wild.
- Floral Theme Naming: Named after a type of plant alongside his littermates, Juniperkit and Dandelionkit.
- Guilt Complex: His grandmother Sandstorm sums it up nicely.Sandstorm: Sparkpaw thinks she can solve every problem, while you think you cause every problem.
- Loved I Not Honour More: He develops a crush on the kittypet Velvet when she temporarily shelters with ThunderClan. Despite wavering internally a few times, he ultimately decides to cut any friendship short so it won't tempt him. The last time he sneaks away to visit her is only to return her toy and get closure. Notably, this makes him the first ThunderClan medicine cat since Cinderpelt to actually turn down romance.
- Meaningful Name: The bonus scene from The Apprentice's Quest implies that he is named after the alder tree Squirrelflight used to save Bramblestar from a fox, when she realized what being a mother means to her.
- The Medic: He's a medicine cat.
- Nervous Wreck: He frequently second-guesses himself and worries about the consequences of every decision he makes—even for something as small as which way to leap while hunting. He gradually grows out of this though...even if he reverts to this behavior when Twigpaw is involved.
- Nice Guy: He's genuinely compassionate for cats from other Clans, and privately vows not to end up as snarky and grumpy as Jayfeather.
- Non-Action Guy: Even when he was in training to be a warrior, he had much more trouble with training than his sister.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Alderheart rarely, if ever, loses his patience and breaks off from his quiet and reserved nature. That changed when he got tired of the imposter's poor leadership and reprimanded him for demanding the unquestioned obedience of the Clan. This happened again in Darkness Within, where Alderheart gets angry at a medicine cat meeting and yells that Ashfur, the cat possessing Bramblestar's body, should never have been able to steal it in the first place.
- Parental Substitute: He essentially acts as Twigpaw's father, offering her advice, comforting her when she's sad, playing with her when she's a kit, and panicking whenever something may have happened to her.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue oni, both to Sparkpelt's red and Needletail's red.
- Romantic False Lead: Seems to be Needlepaw's love interest until it's revealed in Thunder and Shadow that she's in love with the rogue, Rain. The fact that Alderheart is a medicine cat sure doesn't help.
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Has this dynamic with the more cheeky Needlepaw, as well as his sister.
- Ship Sinking: The Ship Tease he has with Needlepaw in The Apprentice's Quest results in unrequited love on his part when Needlepaw is revealed to have feelings for the rogue, Rain. Not to mention the whole 'medicine cats can't have mates' thing...
- Ship Tease: With Needlepaw. More than a few times he thinks about her with admiration, and notes that his "chest hurts" whenever he sees her laughing with another tom.
- Shrinking Violet: He's very shy and withdrawn, and has a hard time socializing at the Gathering.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Basically the opposite of his sister Sparkpelt.
- Silk Hiding Steel: A male example, post Character Development. It's best showcased in Daisy's Kin, where he politely but firmly tells Smoky that he is a fully-trained medicine cat, these kits are dying, they will bring them to the Clans at least for now so they can have milk, and he is not going to hear any argument otherwise.
- Tangled Family Tree: He trains as a medicine cat under Jayfeather, who is both his adoptive brother and first cousin. Squirrelflight and Bramblestar are the adoptive parents of Jayfeather and his siblings (while being their aunt and uncle by blood), and the biological parents of Alderheart and Sparkpelt.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Constantly worries about making his parents proud, even though they're much kinder and loving than the ones usually seen in this trope.
