Warrior Cats ThunderClan Warriors and Apprentices / Characters

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"Warriors are the lifeblood of the Clan."

—Secrets of the Clans

Most of the Clans are made up of warriors. From unsung heroes to treacherous villains, ThunderClan has had a great variety of them over the years.

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Pre-Bluestar's Prophecy

Songbird

"Let your warriors fight. Let them prove their courage and their loyalty to you by defending your borders. Peace is not the way of the Clans. We prove ourselves in battle."

Morningstar's mate, who was pregnant with their kits when she died.

The Lost Lenore: To Morningstar.
Posthumous Character: Died before the events of "The Leader Who Sought Peace".
Senseless Sacrifice: A variation. She died in a battle that Morningstar believes didn't need to be fought.
Spirit Advisor: Appears to her mate to encourage him to fight after the deputy dies.

Mapleshade

A villainous she-cat who resides in the Dark Forest. For more information, see the Dark Forest folder on Warrior Cats Others.

Birchface

A ThunderClan tom who was the son of Oakstar, accidentally killed by Appledusk of RiverClan.

The Ace: His Clan speaks highly of his hunting skills even after his death. His sister Frecklewish describes him as "a true ThunderClan hero".
The Mentor: To Flowerpaw.
Posthumous Character: Dies shortly before Mapleshade's Vengeance. Soon after he dies, Mapleshade lets ThunderClan believe that her kits are Birchface's to cover up her affair with Appledusk. Since he's dead, he can't prove her wrong.
Stealth Expert: According to Rabbitfur, he was so good at hunting silently that he couldn't be heard over the sound of leaves rustling in the breeze.
Theme Naming: Named after a tree like his father Oakstar and his brother Pinestar.

Frecklewish

"You have betrayed my brother's name! You have betrayed us all with your lies and disloyalty. You don't deserve to be called a warrior and nor do these... half-Clan creatures. Their father killed Birchface and Flowerpaw! Get them out of here!"

A ThunderClan she-cat who was a warrior when Mapleshade was alive.

Ambiguous Situation: Mapleshade blames her for the deaths of her kits, since she didn't save them from the flooding river. However, she never saw what actually happened, since she only learned from another cat that Frecklewish was present at the scene. It is possible that Frecklewish arrived too late to do anything and couldn't have saved them even if she wanted to, or saw the RiverClan warriors nearby and assumed they would save the kits. Most ThunderClan cats are not good swimmers, and it is possible that Frecklewish would have drowned herself if she had tried to save the kits; not to mention she was also traumatized by the death of her brother who did drown in said river.
Ax-Crazy: When she finds out that Mapleshade's kits were fathered by Appledusk, her brother's murderer, she physically attacks her and has to be held back by Bloomheart and Seedpelt.
Bystander Syndrome: When she sees Mapleshade's kits about to drown in the river, she doesn't intervene because there are RiverClan cats nearby and she thinks they'll be able to save the kits, even though it is Clan law that a warrior is not allowed to ignore a kit in pain or danger. Mapleshade kills her for this later.
The Chief's Daughter: She was the only daughter of Oakstar, the leader of ThunderClan.
Cool Aunt: She is initially warm and loving toward Mapleshade's kits, when she believes they were fathered by her brother Birchface. Cruelly subverted when she instantly turns on them after finding out they're actually the children of Birchface's murderer, spitting at them and calling them "half-Clan creatures". However, she did express shock and persumably remorse when Mapleshade revealed they had drowned.
Empty Eyes: When Goosefeather sees her in a flashback, he describes her with "sad, haunted eyes".
Eye Scream: As revenge for Frecklewish not bothering to save her kits, Mapleshade lures her to Snakerocks, where an adder spits venom in her eyes.
Failure-to-Save Murder: Mapleshade accuses her of this because Frecklewish was there while her kits were being swept away in the flood, but did nothing to help them. Frecklewish responds that she thought someone else would save them and never meant for them to die. Mapleshade doesn't care.
Meaningful Name: She was named for her speckled pelt.
Moment of Weakness: Frecklewish is normally a kind and reasonable cat, but goes bonkers when she finds out Mapleshade lied to her about her kits being Birchface's, and they're actually the children of her brother's killer. She physically attacks Mapleshade and screeches for the kits to be driven out of the Clan.
Odd Name Out: Her father and two brothers are named after trees, while she is not.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. A medicine cat in SkyClan has the same name much later on.
This Is Unforgivable!: Her reaction when she finds out that Mapleshade had a forbidden relationship with Appledusk, who killed her brother, then lied that their kits were Birchface's to cover it up.

Bloomheart

Mapleshade: You were my mentor, Bloomheart! You know I would never betray my Clan!
Bloomheart: You already have. I am ashamed of you.

A ThunderClan tom who was once Mapleshade's mentor. Retired by the time of Pinestar's Choice.

Closest Thing We Got: When Frecklewish is bitten by an adder and gets venom in her eyes, Bloomheart acts as The Medic since their medicine cat is dead, and enlists Seedpelt to get soaked moss to wash the venom out and Thrushtalon to get fennel.
Disappointed in You: Says this to Mapleshade after her kits are discovered to be Appledusk's.
The Mentor: To Mapleshade.

Nettlebreeze

"Don't go getting any fancy ideas, kits becoming apprentices at four moons? It would never have happened in my day."

A ThunderClan tom who was an apprentice when Mapleshade was alive.

The Apprentice: To Deerdapple.
Cool Old Guy: Goosefeather's Curse shows him as an elder, while Mapleshade's Vengeance shows him as a young apprentice.
The Mentor: To Flashnose.
Nice Guy: He's the only cat who doesn't hold a grudge against Mapleshade for having kits with a RiverClan warrior, and even brings her some herbs to help her heal from her injuries.
The Storyteller: As an older warrior in Pinestar's Choice, he tells the Clan apprentices the story of Mapleshade.

Deerdapple

A ThunderClan she-cat who mentored Nettlebreeze. Retired by the time of Pinestar's Choice.

The Mentor: To Nettlebreeze.
Stern Teacher: Her apprentice claims she would have made him pick ticks off the elders for a moon if he were rude to her.
The Voiceless: She is never heard speaking.

Seedpelt

"Thanks. That feels much better."

A ThunderClan warrior at the time of Mapleshade's exile. A cat with the same name appears as an elder in Pinestar's Choice.

Ambiguous Situation: A brown-and-white tom named Seedpelt appears as a warrior in Mapleshade's Vengeance. A gray she-cat named Seedpelt appears as an elder in Pinestar's Choice along with other cats who were warriors at the time of the former novella. It's unclear if the authors mixed up Seedpelt's physical description and gender or if they were meant to be two different characters with the same name.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. In addition to the above point, the deputy of ThunderClan at the time SkyClan left the forest was also named Seedpelt.
Series Continuity Error: Aside from the Ambiguous Situation described above, there is a point in Mapleshade's Vengeance where Seedpelt is called "Seedwhisker" by Bloomheart.

Thrushtalon

A ThunderClan warrior at the time of Mapleshade's exile. Later appears as an elder in Pinestar's Choice.

Living Prop: Only exists to make ThunderClan a little bit larger.
The Voiceless: Never heard speaking, likely due to the above point.

Bluestar's Prophecy exclusive

Windflight

"She'll be fine. She's almost a warrior now, and she's smart enough to take care of herself. Just like her mother."

A ThunderClan tom who was a warrior when Bluestar was young, and who has mixed heritage - his father was a WindClan cat and his mother ThunderClan, but it isn't brought up much. He's also Thistleclaw's father.

Child of Forbidden Love: He's the son of Squirrelwhisker of ThunderClan and Eaglestorm of WindClan.
Heroic Bastard: He's half WindClan.
Meaningful Name: His name refers to his WindClan heritage.
The Mentor: To Swiftbreeze, Moonflower and Dappletail.
Outliving One's Offspring: His daughter, Sweetpaw, died from food poisoning.

Adderfang

"Would you sacrifice our own kits and elders to save theirs? If we don't attack now, ThunderClan will be destroyed. Is it not worth risking a few WindClan lives to save all of ours?"

One of ThunderClan's most senior warriors during Bluestar's Prophecy, mate of Swiftbreeze, and mentor of Thistleclaw.

The Apprentice: To Harepounce.
Back for the Finale: Shows up briefly in The Last Hope.
Blood Knight: When an omen in a vole's fur suggests to Goosefeather that WindClan will destroy ThunderClan, he jumps at the chance to to go fight them before they have the chance to attack.
Childhood Friend Romance: He has known Swiftbreeze ever since their apprentice years.
Duels Decide Everything: Had one with Mudfur in Crookedstar's Promise to decide which Clan would get Sunningrocks. He lost, which embarrassed him a great deal.
Foil: To Thistleclaw, in a way. They're both battle-hungry and have quick tempers, but Adderfang is nowhere near as psycho as his apprentice is.
Good Parents: Bluekit notes that he comes by the nursery a lot to play with his kits or bring them food.
Happily Married: Him and Swiftbreeze.
Hot-Blooded: Loves his clan a lot. In fact, he loves it so much he jumps at any chance he can get to prove ThunderClan's strength.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Too hotheaded and a little too bloodthirsty, but he genuinely cares about ThunderClan, is a good father (better than Stormtail, at least), and is understanding and nice to Bluefur after she loses her kits.
Leeroy Jenkins: It's implied that he doesn't think too much before he finds a reason to jump into battle. When Pinestar is considering attacking WindClan and Moonflower asks if all the apprentices will have to fight, Adderfang answers that all must fight when the Clan is in danger, implicitly including Bluepaw and Snowpaw, who have only been apprentices for two days.
The Mentor: To Thistleclaw.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Ended up passing on his lust for battle to Thistleclaw, which was not a wise move at all.

Stormtail

"I know you do care. And I know you won't let your Clanmates down. You must go on hunting and fighting and living for your Clan."

The father of Bluestar and Snowfur and the mate of Moonflower. He doesn't seem to hang out with his kits or his mate enough.

Abusive Parents: Not as bad as some examples, but he did emotionally neglect his kits a lot.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: That said, he did have moments where he proved that he did love them, like when he comforted Bluefur over Snowfur's death.
The Apprentice: To Rooktail.
Establishing Character Moment: Before meeting him in Bluestar's Prophecy, we learn that he's only visited his kits once since their birth, before they'd opened their eyes. When Moonflower waits in the camp with the kits until Stormtail returns from a patrol so that they can meet him properly, he makes an awkward comment about how they look better with their eyes open, and during the brief exchange with him, Bluekit thinks that he doesn't seem to like them much. He remains a distant father to them for the rest of the book, and Bluestar seems to hardly think of him as her father. It's so pronounced that by the time she's an adult, she appears totally apathetic to the expectation that he and Dappletail will be having kits soon.
Jerkass: He's rude to Goosefeather, distant from his mate, and seems to take little notice of his daughters.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Awkward and distant around his kits, but he really does love them.
Obnoxious In-Laws: He is the Sitcom Arch-Nemesis of Goosefeather, his mate Moonflower's brother.
Outliving One's Offspring: Outlives his daughter, Snowfur, who is hit and killed by a monster.
The Mentor: To Brindleface.
Small Name, Big Ego: Goosefeather's Curse shows that Goosefeather believes this of Stormtail.
The Stoic: Always acts serious.
Uncanny Family Resemblance: Bluestar shares his fur and eye color.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: Bluefur wants to make him proud. Eventually, she gets over it, focusing her efforts on helping her Clan rather than her father's notice.

Swiftbreeze

"If you don't feel any fear, you will never be able to feel brave. Courage is nothing without the knowledge of what you face. Give me time to teach you how to fight and defend yourself, and use the size and weight of your enemy against him. Then you'll find courage deep inside."

Another queen in the nursery at the beginning of Bluestar's Prophecy. Mate of Adderfang, mother of Patchpelt, Leopardfoot, Spottedleaf, Redtail, and Willowpelt, grandmother of Tigerstar and Graystripe.

The Apprentice: To Windflight.
Back for the Finale: Shows up briefly in The Last Hope.
Childhood Friend Romance: She and Adderfang have known each other since they were apprentices. Their mutual crush on each other was evident to the rest of the Clan, some of which correctly predicting they'd become mates once they grew up.
Cool Teacher: When Lionpaw runs away from a border battle with ShadowClan intruders, he hides out in Snakerocks out of shame and fears that his Clanmates will call him a coward and a traitor for ducking out of a fight and exile him. When Swiftbreeze finds him, not only is she immensely relieved that he is safe, but not angry in the slightest as she compassionately and paitently explains that even the bravest warriors get scared sometimes and that the rest of ThunderClan understands that.
Good Parents: She's very proud of her kits, calling Leopardkit and Patchkit natural warriors.
Happily Married: Her and Adderfang.
The Mentor: To Lionheart.
Small Role, Big Impact: She doesn't appear in the main series, but is the mother or grandmother of several main characters.

Poppydawn

"Don’t play with your food. It’s disrespectful. That shrew died so that we may live."

A queen expecting kits in the nursery around the time Bluestar is born in Bluestar's Prophecy. Mate of Windflight and mother of Sweetpaw, Rosetail and Thistleclaw.

Friend to All Children: When she's an elder, she's popular with all the kits in the Clan because she tells the best stories and lets them play with her tail.
Incurable Cough of Death: In a short story in Code of the Clans, she dies due to not being strong enough to fight her sickness.
Outliving One's Offspring: One of her daughters, Sweetpaw, dies of illness from eating a bad mouse.
Series Continuity Error: Even though she retires long before Spottedleaf, Redtail and Willowpelt become apprentices, Spottedleaf's Heart has her as Willowpelt's mentor.

Moonflower

"All warriors are nervous before battle—if not for themselves, then for their denmates and their whole Clan..."

The mother of Bluestar and Snowfur. She is a kind and caring queen.

The Apprentice: To Windflight.
Big Brother Bully: Big sister bully. Goosefeather's Curse shows that she frequently complained about her brother's weird behavior, excluded him from games as kits, made fun of him for not having friends, and insulted him for not being able to fight off a badger (nevermind that he's a medicine cat and badgers are dangerous for even warriors).
Big Damn Heroes: In Goosefeather's Curse, she shows up just in time to save Goosefeather from a badger.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In a meta-sense. Her first major appearance was in Bluestar's Prophecy, where she was a sweet and loving mother to her children. Her next major appearance was in Goosefeather's Curse, where she was an utter bitch to her own brother.
Character Development: ...Maybe. She's a mean bully towards her own brother in Goosefeather's Curse, but a loving and attentive mother to her daughters in Bluestar's Prophecy. Perhaps being a parent caused her to mature?
Good Parents: Loves her kits, and shows it often.
Mama Bear: Do not ever do anything to put her kits in danger. Her own brother gets a tongue-lashing when his failure to watch them results in Snowkit accidentally eating poppy seeds.
Meaningful Name: She has round yellow eyes like a full moon.
Precocious Crush: Had a crush on Stormtail even as a kit.
Series Continuity Error: Her eyes are mistakenly described as blue instead of yellow in Yellowfang's Secret.
Silk Hiding Steel: A nursery queen and fully battle-trained ThunderClan warrior.
Single-Target Sexuality: She's been interested in Stormtail since she was a kit.
Stalker with a Crush: Mild example towards Stormtail. She was always watching him and following him around even as a kit.
Theme Naming: It doesn't seem a coincidence that two of the most important cats in Bluestar's life, her mentor/leader and her mother, are named Sunstar and Moonflower.
What Does She See in Him?: More than a couple of cats wonder why someone as smart as Moonflower picked Stormtail as a mate.
What the Hell, Hero?: She doesn't get to tell Bluefur directly, due to being in StarClan at the time, but in Secrets of the Clans, she makes it clear that she is not pleased with her daughter's decision to mate with a RiverClan cat and then bring her three young kits to RiverClan in the middle of leaf-bare, when Moonflower knows that that one of them will not survive the journey.

Thrushpelt

"Her faithful old friend had kept her secret until the very end, only ever speaking of the lost kits with the fond grief of a father."

A ThunderClan tom in love with Bluestar. Despite many of the Clan warriors fawning over the two of them, he never has a chance with the independent she-cat.

Act of True Love: Him stepping up to pose as the father of Bluefur's kits and keeping the secret of their actual heritage to his dying day can easily be seen as this.
Did Not Get the Girl: To Bluestar.
Give the Baby a Father: When Bluefur becomes pregnant with Oakheart's kits but gossip within ThunderClan slates Thrushpelt as the potential father instead, Thrushpelt pulls her aside upon sensing her immense discomfort among all the assumption and nobly offers to pose as the kittens' father despite knowing that Bluefur doesn't return his romantic affection and mated with a tom outside the Clan. Bluefur is deeply moved by this and accepts, and Thrushpelt ends up loving Mistykit, Stonekit, and Mosskit as though he had sired them himself.
The Gentleman or the Scoundrel: A male version. As an understanding nice guy, he serves as the Gentleman to Oakheart's Scoundrel.
Good Parents: He loved Bluestar's kits unconditionally by showing them all the love and support of a father when they arrived. He never showed any hesitance in caring for the kits just because they weren't his by blood. Thrushpelt was as true a father as any father by birth.
- He is listed as the number 5 best father on the official article "The Best Fathers a Cat Could Have".
Hopeless Suitor: Hopelessly in love with Bluestar for his whole life, but she loves Oakheart.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Understands that Bluestar doesn't love him, and promises to raise her kits like they were his own.
The Mentor: To Spottedleaf before she became a medicine cat apprentice.
Nice Guy: Never fails to be kind to any cat or loyal to his Clan.
- Dogged Nice Guy: To Bluestar.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. He shares his name with a famous WindClan medicine cat.
Secret-Keeper: He knows that Bluestar's kits aren't his, but he pretends that they are so that Bluestar isn't questioned about the father.

Leopardfoot

"Pinestar, what about our kits? Won't you stay to watch them grow up?"

Mate of Pinestar, mother of Tigerstar, Mistkit, and Nightkit, and grandmother of Brambleclaw, Tawnypelt, Hawkfrost, Tadpole, and Mothwing.

Break the Haughty: A minor example. As an apprentice, she seemed to be subtly bragging about getting to fight in the battle against WindClan while Bluepaw and Snowpaw don't by claiming she and her brother Patchpaw know more battle moves than they do. She ends up getting wounded pretty early on in the conflict and has to be evacuated, humbling her and bringing her to apologizing to her denmates.
The Apprentice: To Robinwing.
Death by Childbirth: Subverted. She has a long, difficult birth and loses a lot of blood, but eventually recovers.
Family Theme Naming: Leopardfoot and her son, Tigerstar.
Gone Horribly Right: When she gave birth to her kits, her weakest kit was not expected to survive, so she named him Tigerkit in the hopes that he would grow strong. He grew up to be so strong and fierce that he dreamed of taking over the whole forest...and it was all downhill from there.
Hands-Off Parenting: While she keeps tabs on Tigerkit, she isn't seen doing much when he becomes bossy and trouble-seeking. Whenever he argues with her, she usually responds lightly and without confrontation.
"You know Leopardfoot, she thinks Tigerkit can do no wrong."
I Can Still Fight!: After suffering a bad claw wound in a battle with WindClan, she insists that she can still walk, but collapses and needs to be helped back to safety.
Mama Didn't Raise No Criminal: According to her Clanmates, she indulges an overly-bossy and argumentative Tigerkit and acts as though he could do no wrong even though he quickly establishes himself as a spoiled troublemaker.
May–December Romance: With Pinestar, who is already fairly old and on his second to last life when she is born.
Outliving One's Offspring: Her two she-kits, Nightkit and Mistkit, are born sickly and die before they're one moon old. Her only surviving son became a vicious and cruel tyrant who killed many cats in his senseless quest for power.
Premature Birth Drama: She goes into labor half a moon early and suffers a long, painful birth that results in a lot of blood loss and three small, weak kits. Her difficult birth is interpreted by Goosefeather as a sign of worse things to come.
Pushover Parents: According to Snowfur, she always thought Tigerkit could do no wrong, which probably contributed to his arrogance in adulthood.
Strange Minds Think Alike: She named her weakest child Tigerkit after one of the great Clans, hoping he would grow up to become strong. Mudfur of RiverClan had the same idea when he named his only surviving daughter Leopardkit after an illness killed her mother and siblings.

Thistleclaw

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"Coward! Is that why WindClan cats run so fast — so they can flee?"

A ThunderClan warrior in Bluestar's time. Quarrels with her over deputy position, leading Bluestar to give her kits to RiverClan. He is the main antagonist of Bluestar's Prophecy.

He reappears in Night Whispers, having been sent to the Dark Forest after his death. He's a high-ranking member of it, and serves as a major antagonist of the Omen of the Stars arc.

Abusive Parents: Bluestar firmly believes he is one to Whitestorm, but they aren't shown interacting much.
Anti-Hero: In Bluestar's Prophecy, due to being absolutely freaking insane. He becomes a straight up villain in Omen of the Stars.
The Apprentice: He was in the Dark Forest, and was apprenticed to Silverhawk. (Or was it Shredtail?) In ThunderClan he was the apprentice to Adderfang.
Arch-Enemy: To Bluestar. He was the reason she had to give up her kits in order to become deputy and then leader — because if he ever became Thistlestar, his thirst for blood would lead the Clan into endless battles that would get them all slaughtered.
Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: His spiky pelt just so happens to match his sharp claws and his love for fighting.
Goosefeather: (to Bluefur) A thistle has thorns sharp as claws. Don't let Whitekit get hurt by them.
Ax-Crazy: He was completely crazy about fighting. At one point, he ordered Tigerstar (an apprentice at the time) to kill a kittypet for trespassing on Clan territory. This attitude actually ends up getting him killed, as he attacked an entire RiverClan patrol by himself, arrogantly believing he could beat them all.
Blood Knight: He loved fighting too much, which is why Bluestar realized she couldn't let him become leader.
Bratty Half-Pint: As a kit, he kicked up a ruckus over not being old enough to go to a Gathering and wasted his prey by demonstrating his "battle moves" on it.
Chekhov's Gunman: He was mentioned during Forest of Secrets, and briefly appeared in The Rise of Scourge. He becomes a very important character in the prequel Super Editions and Omen of the Stars.
Chekhov's Skill: The killing blow that Crookedstar learns from him ends up being pivotal to the climax of Crookedstar's Promise.
Childhood Friend Romance: With Snowfur; they were kits in the nursery together and apprentices in the same den.
The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: He joined the Dark Forest so that he could become strong enough to protect ThunderClan. However, he eventually decided that ThunderClan cats were weak and needed to be killed.
Dirty Coward: In The Last Hope, he flees from the battle when it looks like he might lose.
Disproportionate Retribution: It seems to be a habit of his.
- In Bluestar's Prophecy, he orders his apprentice to savagely beat a kit who wandered onto ThunderClan territory. He would have had the kit killed if not for Bluestar's intervention.
- In Sign of the Moon, he murders Antpelt for showing mercy to an enemy.
Drill Sergeant Nasty: Not as bad as many examples of this trope (he's no Brokenstar) but he pushes his apprentice Tigerstar very hard.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: He dies fighting RiverClan off-screen. This isn't even shown in Crookedstar's Promise, which was all about RiverClan.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He had a mate, Snowfur, and a kit, Whitestorm, who he loved dearly.
Evil Mentor: He has stepped into this role as a mentor in the Dark Forest.
Face–Heel Turn: He was a huge jerk in Bluestar's Prophecy, but at the end of the day he was still a good guy. In Omen of the Stars, he's a major villain.
Fallen Hero: He was originally very loyal to ThunderClan. By Omen of the Stars, that's definitely not the case any longer.
Greater-Scope Villain: His harsh training molded Tigerstar into the cruel, vicious and power-hungry cat he is today.
Happily Married: To Snowfur, who is also his Morality Pet. Or was.
He Who Fights Monsters: For all his negative traits in Bluestar's Prophecy, he truly wants to protect ThunderClan from harm. Unfortunately, this leads to him joining the Dark Forest so that he can become stronger. By Omen of the Stars, he is a threat to ThunderClan.
High-Pressure Blood: After he finally died, his Clanmates found him in a huge puddle of his own blood.
Hot-Blooded: He absolutely loves fighting, which contributed to his Face–Heel Turn.
Jerkass: It's all you need to know about him in Bluestar's Prophecy.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Seems to genuinely care for his mate Snowfur and his son Whitestorm.
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Crookedstar's Promise has him insult Snowfur and Whitestorm by calling them weak.
Kick the Dog:
- Bluestar's Prophecy establishes him as an evil bastard by having him order his apprentice to brutally attack a helpless kit. And he would have had the kit killed, had Bluestar not intervened.
- For those who hadn't read Bluestar's Prophecy (or just to show how much worse he became), Sign of the Moon shows his evil when he randomly murders Antpelt, one of the Dark Forest trainees.
Leader Wannabe: He really wanted to be leader, and ended up fighting Bluestar over the position.
Love Is a Weakness: This is what he believes. He even directly states in Spottedleaf's Heart that "Love doesn't win battles!"
Meaningful Name: He has both sharp claws and a prickly pelt, as well as a sharp tongue.
The Mentor:
- He mentored Tigerstar in Bluestar's Prophecy. In fact, many of Tigerstar's philosophies were originally his philosophies.
- He was mentoring a she-cat in between his death and the events of Omen of the Stars. She failed her test to become a Dark Forest Warrior and died.
Obnoxious In-Laws: He is Bluestar's "brother-in-law", being her sister's mate, and they are not fond of each other. She thinks he's too hotheaded and aggressive while he thinks she's softhearted and cowardly.
Panicky Expectant Father: Yes, really. When his mate Snowfur is about to give birth, he's nervously shredding the bracken in her nest with his claws. Featherwhisker distracts him by sending him out to get wet moss so Snowfur can have a drink.
Parental Substitute: It's noted in Bluestar's Prophecy that Tigerclaw sees him as a father, given that his actual father, the much more sensible Pinestar, left the forest barely after he was born. Thistleclaw being who he is, it's not hard to see why Tigerclaw turned out so bad.
Pet the Dog:
- When his sister Sweetpaw died of illness, he was very sad. He buried her and sat vigil all night beside her body.
- He was overjoyed when his son was born, even telling Snowfur he was proud of her and letting her choose their kit's name.
Pintsized Powerhouse: While still an apprentice, he earned his warrior name by fighting a dog. Over prey. And winning.
Predecessor Villain: To Tigerstar, due to being his mentor, and the enemy of Firestar's own mentor, Bluestar.
The Rival: To Bluestar.
Sadist Teacher: He would wake Tigerpaw long before dawn to take him out training, said training mostly involving practicing with claws unsheathed and fangs bared, and more often that not refused to let Tigerpaw rest during the sessions. On top of that, he instructed his apprentice to attack the kit Tiny, a young kitten who stumbled across their patrol out of sheer bad timing.
Shadow Archetype: To Bluestar. They are both ambitious and want to become the leader of ThunderClan, but he makes it clear that he would use his position to lead the Clan into a life of constant fighting and violence, in contrast to Bluestar's more reasonable and peaceful leadership.
Skyward Scream: When Bluefur is selected to be deputy rather than Thistleclaw, he belts out a loud caterwaul when the Clan begins chanting Bluefur's name. The rest of ThunderClan believed that he was showing Bluefur his full support, Thistleclaw was actually screaming to StarClan, his eyes alight with fury, that he wasn't picked to serve as deputy so he could become leader in Sunstar's place. Bluefur states that this was the angriest she'd ever seen him.
Small Name, Big Ego: Bluestar's Prophecy shows him to be an arrogant prick, ever since he was a kit. He believes that he is better than everyone else in his Clan and was convinced that he would become deputy after Tawnyspots.
Smug Snake: He's always been convinced that he was superior to other warriors, and lords this over other warriors.
Social Darwinist: In Omen of the Stars, he believes that the Clan cats are weak, and must be destroyed. Crookedstar's Promise shows that he got these beliefs from his Dark Forest mentor, who was either Silverhawk or Shredtail. (It's unclear if Silverhawk even exists.)
So Proud of You: To his mate Snowfur, when she gives birth to their son, Whitekit.
Start of Darkness: Crookedstar's Promise devoted a significant amount of time to showing how he turned evil.
To Be a Master: His dream is to become Clan Leader. Bluestar gets there before he does.
Took a Level in Jerkass: In Bluestar's Prophecy, he is not a nice cat by any means, but he genuinely cares for his Clan, his mate, and his son. In Omen of the Stars, he's essentially an incarnation of evil.
The Unfought: In The Last Hope, he runs away after Brokenstar dies, and none of the major ThunderClanners end up fighting him.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The rise of Scourge was his fault.
Walking Wasteland: In Omen of the Stars, as a member of the Dark Forest, he causes everything he touches to decay.
Warhawk: Known for being violent and bloodthirsty. The entire reason Bluestar gave up her kits to become deputy was because he would have led the Clan into unnecessary wars if he had become deputy instead of her.
We Have Reserves: He's completely callous over the death of his apprentice, and kills Antpelt without a second thought. Why? Because they can be replaced if the need arises.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: In Bluestar's Prophecy, Bluestar has to stop him from becoming leader because he would have destroyed ThunderClan by fighting many battles that he thought would protect it. This isn't so in Omen of the Stars, where he's a true villain.
Would Hurt a Child: In Bluestar's Prophecy, he orders Tigerpaw to beat up a young kittypet kit who strayed into ThunderClan territory. That kit would grow up to become Scourge, leader of BloodClan.
You Should Have Died Instead: In Crookedstar's Promise, when he is training in the Dark Forest, he says that Bluestar should have died instead of Snowfur.

Became a warrior before The Prophecies Begin

Willowpelt

"Trouble's coming. I can feel it in my paws."

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Mate of Whitestorm and mother of Sorreltail, Rainwhisker, and Sootfur. (According to Word of God, she's also the mother of Darkstripe [with with an unknown tom] and Graystripe [with an unknown tom]). She was a queen for a good portion of the first series.

Action Mom: Even though she enjoys raising kits, she misses her warrior life when she's in the nursery.
Bus Crash: In Midnight, we learn that during the Time Skip between the first arc and The New Prophecy, a badger killed her. Subverted in Firestar's Quest, where we get to see her die onscreen.
Diving Save: Willowpelt leaps in front of her young son Sootpaw to save him from a badger. The blow meant for her son breaks her spine and kills her.
Heroic Sacrifice: Gets killed when pushing her son out of the way of a badger's claws.
Mama Bear: She dies saving her son Sootpaw from a badger.
May–December Romance: With Whitestorm.
Nice Girl: Is one of the few cats who doesn't judge Firepaw by his kittypet heritage.
Outliving One's Offspring: She outlives her son Darkstripe who was killed by his own half-brother in the BloodClan battle. Though considering that Darkstripe was a traitor who tried to kill her daughter, it's doubtful she even cared that he died.
Really Gets Around: Ahem, Willowpelt has had three mates in her lifetime. Consequently, Graystripe, Darkstripe, Sorreltail and her brothers Rainwhisker and Sootfur are all at least half siblings. Sheesh.
What Beautiful Eyes!: She has "unusual blue eyes", however what's so unusual about them is never clarified.

Runningwind

"So it's that simple, is it? We just drop into your camp, snatch the kits, kill your leader, and go home."

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A minor ThunderClan warrior, who is the brother of Mousefur.

The Apprentice: To Bluestar.
Back for the Finale: After his death in Rising Storm, he shows up again in The Darkest Hour. And then he appears again in The Last Hope.
The Cameo: In The Last Hope, he shows up to escort Firestar to StarClan.
Killed Offscreen: In Rising Storm a patrol returns to camp, frantically reporting that they were ambushed by an unknown enemy, and Runningwind is missing from the group. They find his body at the ambush site when they return.
Outliving One's Offspring: According to the family tree, he had two kits named Featherkit and Cricketkit with Dappletail. With Featherkit most likely being Dappletail's dead kit mentioned in Rising Storm, then Cricketkit is most likely dead a well.
Red Herring: He appears to gain a somewhat more active role in Rising Storm, making it seem that he's going to become an important part of the story...only to be killed in an ambush later on in the same book.

Darkstripe

"Every cat in the forest can turn to crowfood for all I care. All I want is to see you dead."

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The most loyal follower of Tigerstar, Darkstripe is disliked by mostly everybody in the Clans, including his leader, due to his deceitful, arrogant nature. Resides in the Place Of No Stars after dying.

Alas, Poor Villain: His last words, "There's nothing left! It's all dark!" cause Firestar to have some sympathy for him.
Almost Dead Guy: In The Darkest Hour, he rambles aimlessly as he dies.
The Aloner: He's stuck hanging out by himself in the Dark Forest for most of The New Prophecy and Power of Three. After that, he teams up with the other Dark Forest warriors.
The Apprentice: To Tigerstar.
Avenging the Villain: In The Darkest Hour he attempts to kill Firestar as vengeance for Tigerstar's death, since he claims Firestar turned Scourge against Tigerstar.
Bathroom Breakout: Tells Brackenfur, who's supposed to be watching him, that he needs to make dirt. He goes behind a bush and sneaks away.
Being Evil Sucks: He spends his entire life dedicating himself to following Tigerstar, who doesn't care about him at all and only uses his help as a last resort. When he dies, he is banished to the Dark Forest for his crimes, and finds that there's no way out when he tries to leave. Even his fellow exiles in the Dark Forest don't give him any respect, comparing him to a whining kit.
Big Bad Wannabe: He's a deceptive, judgemental, and cruel asshole who idolizes Tigerstar and only thinks of himself, but he's nothing more than a pathetic coward who never has anything go right for him.
Blunt "Yes": A variation. During the battle with BloodClan he saves Firestar, only to try to kill him himself. When Firestar asks him if he has no loyalty to anyone, Darkstripe's immediate response is "not anymore".
The Bus Came Back: After fleeing the final battle in Omen of the Stars, he makes his return three arcs later in the last two books of The Broken Code.
Butt-Monkey: All the time.
Leopardstar: "Thank StarClan I'm not [your leader]. You're about as much use as a dead fox." (The Darkest Hour)
Hawkfrost: "Though I expected better of you, Darkstripe. I would have thought you could hold your own against an untrained apprentice." (Fading Echoes)
Brokenstar: "He's no better than a whining kit." (Night Whispers)
Cain and Abel: He's Graystripe's half-brother.
Commander Contrarian: While in ThunderClan. By the end of the series, no one ever agreed with him.
Curb-Stomp Battle: He's on the receiving end of one from Stonefur in The Darkest Hour. To show how pathetic he was, Stonefur had been deprived of food for several days before the fight.
Dark Is Evil: By virtue of his name. He's also a Dark Forest cat.
Deader than Dead: In A Light in the Mist, he is finally killed off forever by Firestar, who is possessing Rootspring's body.
Dirty Coward: Constantly cringes from real fights, despite being ambitious and evil.
The Dragon:
- To Tigerstar in the Original Series. In his mind anyway.
- In The Place of No Stars, he is serving as Ashfur's, guarding the island where all the imprisoned spirits are being kept.
The Exile: He gets kicked out of the Clans in The Darkest Hour.
Fantastic Racism: He hates kittypets.
Hated by All: Very few, if any, characters like or even bother to tolerate him due to him simultanueously being an untrustworthy traitor and a sniveling wimp.
Hate Sink: He is a jerk since the beginning, but The Darkest Hour shows how despicable he truly is.
Jerkass: Constantly, especially after his treacherous nature is revealed. The only time he's not being a jerk is when he's being a pathetic weakling.
Insufferable Imbecile: He spends most of his screentime being an indulgent lackey of Tigerstar's, but he's also notorious for being a coward, a bigot, and a traitor.
Jerkass Has a Point:
- In Forest of Secrets, he is against sheltering Brokentail, and is in favor of killing him or throwing him out to die. While Bluestar wanted to show mercy to a defeated and blinded enemy, Darkstripe says this after WindClan and ShadowClan have launched a coordinated attack on the ThunderClan camp trying to kill Brokentail. His point is further proven when it turns out Brokentail is an Ungrateful Bastard and still plotting against ThunderClan even after they gave him shelter.
  Darkstripe: You made us keep Brokentail here, and now we’ve been torn to pieces defending him. How long before one of us is killed for his sake?
- When he poisons Sorrelkit in The Darkest Hour, Graystripe demands that he wants to know what happened, leading Darkstripe to sneer that Firestar would always take his best friend's side. Firestar himself admits that, no matter how much he distrusts Darkstripe, he has a point, and he has to find enough proof to make sure Graystripe isn't jumping to conclusions.
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: At first in The Darkest Hour, it seems that he redeemed himself by "saving" Firestar from a BloodClan cat. But the conversation he has with him proves that he's still an evil bastard.
Darkstripe: You're mine, kittypet. It's time for you to die.
Firestar: So now you're fighting on the side of Tigerstar's murderer? Have you no loyalty?
Darkstripe: Not anymore. Every cat in the forest can turn to crowfood for all I care. All I want is to see you dead.
Kick the Dog: In the Code of the Clans short story “A Dark Path Chosen,” during a hard leaf-bare, Darkstripe eats a squirrel that Longtail caught and coerces him into having some as well, even though warriors aren’t supposed to eat before elders and kits. When they get back to camp and find out Poppydawn has died from illness and starvation, Longtail is horrified by what they’ve done, but Darkstripe forces him to keep quiet by threatening to lie to everyone that Longtail insisted on eating the squirrel and refused to let Darkstripe bring it back to camp. He even says that Poppydawn’s death is “one fewer mouth to feed now.”
Make It Look Like an Accident: When Sorrelkit caught him plotting with Blackfoot, he tricked her into eating deathberries so she wouldn't be able to tell any cat what she'd seen. If Graystripe hadn't seen what happened, every cat would have just assumed she found the berries and didn't know what they were.
The Mentor: To Longtail, Dustpelt and Ferncloud. Ironically, he's around the same age as Longtail, as Bluestar's Prophecy didn't mention when he was born (though he must have been born after Mousefur and Runningwind), and only mentored Dustpelt and Ferncloud partway through.
The Mole: In the second half of the Original Series, he was giving Tigerstar information from within ThunderClan.
Never My Fault:
- In Code of the Clans, he tries to claim that Poppydawn's death from starvation wasn't his fault, even though it obviously was, because she could have been saved if he'd brought back the squirrel Longtail caught instead of eating it himself.
- In The Darkest Hour, after he is caught poisoning Sorrelkit, Firestar asks him how he could betray his Clan like that. Darkstripe snarls that Firestar has never trusted him, ignoring that Firestar has good reason not to trust him because he has collaborated many times with Tigerstar.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: In The Last Hope, he nearly kills Cloudtail, defeats Dovewing in a fair fight, and leads the patrol that destroys ThunderClan's camp.
Oh, Crap!: He completely freaks out when he realize he's actually facing Firestar instead of Rootspring (who Firestar is possessing with consent) in A Light in the Mist.
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Saves Firestar from a BloodClan cat in the battle with BloodClan, but only so he can kill Firestar himself.
Social Darwinist: In Code of the Clans, he says that old and sick cats who can't protect themselves should die.
Small Name, Big Ego: He thinks that he's one of the most powerful cats who has ever lived. In reality, he's utterly pathetic.
Smug Snake: But not usually to his superiors in the Dark Forest. Everyone else is fair game, though.
Sneaky Departure: In The Darkest Hour, it's revealed that he has been sneaking away from ThunderClan camp to meet with Tigerstar and give him intel on what ThunderClan is up to.
Terrible Trio: He, Tigerstar and Longtail were this in ThunderClan in the first series. Tigerstar was rarely seen without his loyal followers, at least until Tigerstar is exposed as a traitor. Longtail chooses his Clan over his friend, but Darkstripe later joins Tigerstar in exile.
Token Evil Teammate: For ThunderClan to begin with.
Took a Level in Badass: He's actually one of the stronger Dark Forest cats in The Last Hope.
Undying Loyalty: To Tigerstar, following him to ShadowClan.
Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Tigerstar is one of the strongest and most ruthless warriors in the forest. Darkstripe is merely a pathetic weakling.
Villainous Glutton: In Code of the Clans, during a hard leaf-bare where everyone is starving, he decides to eat some fresh-kill rather than give it to his Clan, reasoning that he needs to keep up his strength so he can hunt. As a result, Poppydawn, who is already starving, dies of hunger.
Would Hurt a Child: He attempts to kill Sorrelkit (his own half-sister) for seeing him talking with Blackfoot. Graystripe stops him just in time.

Became a warrior in The Prophecies Begin

Sandstorm

"Bluestar was right. Fire did save the Clan."

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Firestar's eventual mate, although she initially hated his guts. One of the best hunters in the Clan.

Action Girl: Like most female Clan cats, she hunts and fights alongside her male companions.
Alpha Bitch: Has this personality at first, but eventually mellows out and becomes one of Firestar's closest supporters.
The Apprentice: To Whitestorm.
Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: With Firestar in the first arc. Sandstorm hates Firestar until he saves her life in Fire and Ice, when she starts to like him.
Battle Couple: With Firestar.
Betty and Veronica: She's Firestar's Veronica, being sarcastic and blunt while Spottedleaf is sweeter and softer.
The Big Guy: Is unfailingly loyal to ThunderClan and Firestar, and tends toward the Genius Bruiser subcategory.
Bitch Alert: Her first appearance. She snarls that Firepaw smells revolting, and then makes a comment about how he's a kittypet.
Bully Turned Buddy: Originally started out as a bully to Firepaw...but after he saved her life, she started to warm up to him. Eventually, they became best friends and mates.
The Confidant: In the later half of the first series, Fireheart begins confiding in her his worries about Cloudpaw, Bramblekit, and other things.
- She plays one for Bramblestar, too, as well as an advisor of sorts.
Cool Old Lady: In The Apprentice's Quest, she's become a kindly elder and even wants to come with Alderpaw and Sparkpaw on their quest, saying that she'd love to see SkyClan once more.
Deadpan Snarker: Has a tendency to insult cats this way. As she becomes more sympathetic, her jokes get less mean, but no less snarky.
A Death in the Limelight: She gets focus in The Apprentice's Quest by going on the journey to find SkyClan, and ends up dying.
Embarrassing Rescue: In Fire and Ice, Fireheart saves her from falling into the gorge. Considering that up until this point she has done nothing but insult Fireheart and call him useless, it's not surprising that she's angry at him for saving her - and pretends that she didn't need the help.
Enemy Mine: In Into the Wild, Sandpaw and Dustpaw temporarily put their rivalry with Firepaw on hold due to the threat of Brokenstar.
Everyone Can See It: As Cinderpelt said in Rising Storm:
Cinderpelt: Fireheart, every cat in the Clan can see that Sandstorm is very, very fond of you!
Fantastic Racism: At first she hated Firestar because he was a kittypet.
Fiery Red Head: Though her pelt isn't as fiery as her mate's, her temperament is much more so.
Freudian Trio: In the first series, she was the Superego to Firestar's Id and Graystripe's Ego.
Girliness Upgrade: She began the series as a snarky, badass tomboy. However, after being rescued by Firestar, and especially after the first arc of the series, Sandstorm has softened into a gentle, sweet she-cat, now much more of a Girly Girl. However, this doesn't stop her from having sassy moments!
Happily Married: To Firestar.
Hate at First Sight: She hates Firestar the moment he joins the Clan, and the feeling is mutual. Eventually Fireheart saves her life and she falls in love with him.
Informed Attribute: Her hunting skills are usually the golden standard used to show how skilled a cat is, but she rarely is shown actually hunting.
Irony: In Sunrise, Sandstorm declares that when she retires, she'll try and be the grumpiest elder ever. Come The Apprentice's Quest, however, she's definitely a sweet-natured elder.
Lookalike Lovers: She has a ginger pelt and green eyes like Firestar, but her fur is a lighter color than his.
The Medic: She served as temporary medicine cat to modern SkyClan, thanks to the knowledge she got from Cinderpelt, before Echosong came.
The Mentor: To Sorreltail and Honeyfern. Also mentored Echosong on how to be a medicine cat.
Never Mess with Granny: In The Apprentice's Quest when cats ask Bramblestar why Sandstorm's joining the quest since she's an elder, he comments that he was afraid she'd claw his ears off if he forbade her from going. (She agrees that she would have.)
Official Couple: With Firestar.
Pale Females, Dark Males: Her ginger fur is paler than Firestar's.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Spottedleaf's blue. 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.
Rescue Romance: Her romance with Firestar begins when he saves her from falling off a cliff. She actually acts ungrateful at first...at least until Whiteclaw falls off said cliff. After that, she's become friendlier and even falls in love with him.
Retired Badass: Is currently an elder as of Bramblestar's Storm.
Second Love: To Firestar, with his first love being Spottedleaf.
Secret Secret-Keeper: In Code of the Clans, she reveals she knew Ravenpaw wasn't dead before Firestar revealed it, as she saw him and Graystripe sneak him out of the camp.
Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Though it's not as rare in Warriors as in real life, she certainly fits the bill.
Slap-Slap-Kiss: With Firestar.
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: She is one of the oldest cats in the Clan by the time of the sixth series, but after the Great Battle against the Dark Forest she retired so she's out of the action, and healthy enough that she is expected to stick around for a while. She decides to accompany Alderpaw on his quest in the first book of the sixth series and ends up dying on the way.
Theme Naming: Sandstorm and her mentor Whitestorm.
Together in Death: After she dies in The Apprentice's Quest she was reunited with Firestar in StarClan, as she tells Alderheart in his dream that book.
Took a Level in Kindness: She becomes Firestar and Graystripe's friend after Tigerstar was revealed to be evil. She also replaced Ravenpaw in their team.
Tsundere: She was disdainful and looked down on Firestar due to his kittypet blood, but when he saves her life during a border fight, she realizes that she misunderstood Firestar and develops a strong bond and friendship with him. Sandstorm fell in love with Firestar at one point and they had a long-standing relationship. Though Sandstorm is regarded as a sharp-tonged, short-tempered, and independent she-cat and Firestar is not spared because of her feelings towards him, he still has healthy respect for her.
Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Firestar for the middle of the first series and Firestar's Quest.
Unwanted Rescue: In Fire and Ice, Fireheart realizes that Sandpaw and the enemy warrior that she's fighting are about to fall into the gorge, so he knocks the other warrior away from her (and from the edge) and pulls Sandpaw off the edge and to her feet. Sandpaw's furious at him for "saving" her from the enemy warrior because she already dislikes Fireheart and insists she can fight her own battles, but just then another cat falls over the edge and drowns. That makes Sandpaw realize what Fireheart had actually been saving her from, and she grows more friendly toward him from then on.
Wound That Will Not Heal: She ends up getting an infected fox bite in The Apprentice's Quest and dies from it.

Dustpelt

"I looked up to you. I wanted to be like you. But Redtail was my mentor. I owe him more than any cat. And you killed him. You killed him and betrayed the Clan. I'd rather die than follow you."

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Originally one of Tigerclaw's supporters, Dustpelt was horrified when the warrior's treachery was revealed, and refused to follow him any further. Though he has personally never liked Firestar, he nonetheless holds respect for Firestar as a leader and a warrior, and his loyalty to ThunderClan is absolute.

Almost Dead Guy: In Bramblestar's Storm he thanks Bramblestar for everything and prays for StarClan to always light his (Bramblestar's) path before he dies.
The Apprentice: To Redtail and then to Darkstripe.
Broken Pedestal: He respected Tigerstar until it was revealed that Tigerstar had killed his former mentor, Redtail.
The Bully: Constantly insulted Firestar, Graystripe, and Ravenpaw (his own brother) throughout the first half of the Original Series.
Commander Contrarian: He knows it, and relishes it. As the series goes on and he matures, it develops into a more critical variation, but overall well-meaning.
Disowned Sibling: According to Word of God, he was embarrassed by his brother Ravenpaw's pacifism and refused to admit their relation, and often bullied and distanced himself from Ravenpaw in hope that the Clan would forget that they were related.
Enemy Mine: In Into the Wild, Sandpaw and Dustpaw temporarily put their rivalry with Firepaw on hold due to the threat of Brokenstar.
Ghost Reunion Ending: When Graystripe and Sandstorm are retiring near the end of Bramblestar's Storm, Bramblestar briefly sees the spirits of Firestar and Dustpelt with their old denmates. Once he blinks, they're both gone, and Bramblestar reflects that the four older cats were all in the same generation.
Greater Need Than Mine: In The Fourth Apprentice, when Jayfeather tries to give Dustpelt herbs for his sore back, Dustpelt tells him to save them for cats who really need them, but Jayfeather insists, reassuring him that there's more than enough.
Green-Eyed Monster: In Fire and Ice, Fireheart notes that while he is receiving his first apprentice, Dustpaw still is an apprentice. Fireheart decides that Dustpaw is completely justified in this, as he had been training since before Fireheart even showed up, but was still an apprentice.
- He later becomes this to Fireheart in a different way. In Fire and Ice, when Sandpaw and Fireheart share tongues, Fireheart notices him staring in amazement and envy. Later, in Forest of Secrets, when Sandstorm decides to sleep next to Fireheart when he returns, he looks away and is described as jealous. It comes to a head in Rising Storm when he insults Fireheart about Cloudpaw's meager catch, and Sandstorm responds by telling him to go away and that his spite doesn't impress anyone. He gets the message after this, and later in the same book, defends Fernpaw from Darkstripe's scolding.
Happily Married: To Ferncloud.
Hate at First Sight: Dustpelt hates Firestar the moment he joins the Clan, and the feeling is mutual. And though Dustpelt continues to be a bit of a jerk, it ultimately becomes more of a friendly rivalry.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Brackenfur. They often act together as sort of sub-deputies.
Hypocritical Humor: In Long Shadows, Sorreltail tells him that he needs to see Leafpool about getting sick. Dustpelt retorts that there's no need to be bossy, even if he himself is pretty bossy and grumpy.
Jerkass: At first, he's a rude bully to Firepaw, Graypaw and Ravenpaw.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Is rarely nice to any cat, but is a loving mate to Ferncloud, and always loyal to ThunderClan.
Meaningful Name: Named for his dust-brown fur.
The Mentor: To Ashfur, Squirrelflight and Hazeltail.
Morality Pet: He's dere towards Ferncloud!
Mr. Fixit: In later books, he works together with Brackenfur building structures such as dens and bramble walls for the ThunderClan camp.
Not So Stoic: In The Last Hope, he completely loses it in his grief over Ferncloud.
Outliving One's Offspring: Outlives five of his seven kits.
Please Wake Up: When Ferncloud is killed in The Last Hope, Dustpelt starts begging her not to leave him.
Reformed Bully: He was a bit of a jerk and bully as an apprentice, but matured and became a brave, loyal warrior.
The Rival: He and Firestar had a rivalry in the Original Series, but they came to respect each other.
Together in Death: With Ferncloud, as of Bramblestar's Storm.
Trauma Conga Line: He loses three of his young kits (Hollykit, Larchkit, and Shrewpaw) all in a short span of time when the old forest is being destroyed. As if that's not enough, he later loses his mate Ferncloud in the battle with the Dark Forest, his son Foxleap shortly after from the wounds he acquired in that fight, and his daughter Icecloud of greencough less than six moons later. And then he dies. To review: he has seven kits and outlives all but two of them, and also loses his mate.
Tsundere: He spits acid out to everyone else but is a complete softie to Ferncloud. Commence the squeeing.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Lionblaze notes in Fading Echoes that even though Firestar and Dustpelt were never best friends, they still respect each other and seem to like their rivalry.
Unlucky Childhood Friend: Although he and Sandstorm were close as apprentices, she chooses Firestar as her mate over him. Dustpelt falls in love with Ferncloud, though, so it all evens out.

Brackenfur

"If you're going to be a warrior, I want you to concentrate on the present, not the past."

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Brother of Brightheart, Cinderpelt, and Thornclaw, Brackenfur was Graystripe's apprentice. While his role was never as large as Cinderpelt's, he was a faithful supporter of Firestar. In Warrior Cats: The New Prophecy, he gets together with Sorreltail, and they end up having six kits.

The Apprentice: To Graystripe.
Happily Married: With Sorreltail.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Dustpelt. They often act together as sort of sub-deputies, and Brackenfur is totally devastated when Dustpelt dies in Bramblestar's Storm.
I Coulda Been a Contender!: He is unaware of this, but Firestar tells Leafpool, when deciding on a new deputy, that he almost decided to choose Brackenfur before she told him about her dream of StarClan choosing Brambleclaw.
The Mentor: To Tawnypelt before she left ThunderClan, Whitewing, Hollyleaf and Sorrelstripe. Wanted to be this to Snowkit, which Fireheart agreed to, but other things happened.
Mr. Fixit: In later books, he works together with Dustpelt building structures such as dens and bramble walls for the ThunderClan camp.
Nice Guy: One of the nicest cats on the series.
Out-of-Character Moment: In Dark River, Brackenfur snaps at Hollyleaf for dawdling during hunting. It can be justified because it's raining hard, and Hollyleaf keeps fretting over having kin in ShadowClan when she's supposed to be hunting.
Outliving One's Offspring: Outlives three of his six kits.
Strong Family Resemblance: He has golden-brown fur, like his brother Thornclaw.
The Quiet One: It's mentioned in Fire and Ice that he doesn't say much.
Sibling Yin-Yang: Firestar notes that he is much more responsible than the hyper Cinderpelt.
Wise Beyond Their Years: He was always a wise cat, even when he was just an apprentice.

Cloudtail

"I've always believed in the warrior code, and I always will."

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Firestar's nephew, who was also born a kittypet. His mother gave him to Firestar to take back to the Clans after hearing how much Firestar liked his life there. Although the Clan was very unhappy about this, they eventually came to accept him. He does not believe in StarClan but is loyal to ThunderClan and utterly devoted to his mate Brightheart.

Agony of the Feet: Sunset reveals that he had a claw torn out during the battle against the badgers in Twilight, and his injured paw continues to hurt him for a while.
All of the Other Reindeer: As a kit he was bullied and ostracized even by adults because he was a kittypet. Even though he was only a moon old when he came to ThunderClan and doesn't even remember his birth mother. Cloudkit was looked down upon by many of his Clan. He was also looked down upon for being white-furred.
Anti-Hero: He's a pretty big jerk in the first arc, doesn't care about The warrior code or believe in StarClan. But he is not so bad after all
The Apprentice: To Fireheart in the first arc.
Badass Adorable: As a tiny kit, he ventures out from the camp in the middle of leaf-bare and successfully catches a small vole...in the middle of a blizzard!
Battle Couple: With Brightheart.
Berserk Button: Murder, especially that of cats he was close to. Unfortunately, this anger usually amounts to Firestar telling him to chill.
Black Sheep: In the first series he didn't quite fit into ThunderClan. From day 1 he was looked down upon for being born a kittypet. When he grew older, he became known for his bratty personality and disrespect for the Warrior Code. He's one of the few characters to not believe in StarClan as well. Ironically, Cloudtail is white furred. His pelt colour is another reason why he's looked down upon though. Most ThunderClan cats are "foresty" colours like gray, orange, or tortoiseshell, with pure-white being very rare.
Bratty Half-Pint: As a kit and an apprentice. Tigerclaw grumbles that he causes more trouble than all the other kits put together. He grows out of it eventually.
Brutal Honesty: He's not afraid to say what he really thinks, even if it's a harsh truth.
Childhood Friend Romance: With Brightheart, who he started falling in love with when they were apprentices.
Child of Two Worlds: Cloudtail struggles with this in the first series; Fireheart, who was born a kittypet, brought Cloudtail to the Clan shortly after Cloudtail's birth. He had to deal with prejudice from Clanborn cats and Cloudtail struggles with the allure of kittypet life while learning to become a Clan warrior.
A Day in the Limelight: Rising Storm focuses on Cloudpaw's apprenticehood and his having to choose between kittypet life and Clan life.
Deadpan Snarker: His comments are like barbed wire. Even the narrative lampshades it.
Distressed Dude: In Rising Storm, he was taken away by Twolegs and had to be rescued by Firestar, Ravenpaw, and Sandstorm.
Failed a Spot Check: In A Dangerous Path he doesn't notice Swiftpaw and Brightpaw sneaking out during his vigil. Swiftpaw had even said to the other apprentices that Cloudtail wouldn't notice a Twoleg monster roaring through camp.
Flat-Earth Atheist: He has seen accurate predictions of the future, as well as his uncle coming Back from the Dead several times, yet still refuses to believe that there is anything supernatural going on, calling StarClan a "tale to scare kits".
Foster Kid: He was taken to ThunderClan as a tiny kit and was fostered by Brindleface.
Happily Adopted: By Brindleface, although he retains some contact with Princess, his birth mother.
Happily Married: To Brightheart, with whom he has four kits.
Hit Me, Dammit!: Part of his training of Daisy in Twilight involves him telling her to hit him, but she finds it hard to make herself do it.
I Can Still Fight!: In The Last Hope, even after being savaged by Darkstripe, he insists on still fighting to protect the Clans.
I Gave My Word: In Rising Storm, Ashfur says that Cloudtail always keeps his word.
Intergenerational Friendship: He forms a close bond with the ThunderClan elders when Tigerclaw assigns him to look after them as punishment for misbehaving.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is rather prickly, but is incredibly sweet to his mate Brightheart and loyal to his Clan.
Kids Are Cruel: As a kit he and his denmates pick on Brokentail, an older, blind prisoner, including painfully biting his tail. Darkstripe sees nothing wrong with this and threatens Brokentail when he tries to swipe them away, but Fireheart stops them and points out to Cloudkit that a true warrior isn't mean or cruel.
The Mentor: To Rainwhisker, Cinderheart, Toadstep and maybe Hollytuft.
Oblivious to Love: Completely fails to notice Daisy's romantic interest in him, when even the other Oblivious to Love cats can see it.
Outliving One's Offspring: Outlives his son Snowbush and daughter Ambermoon.
A Pet into the Wild: Fireheart brought Cloudtail to ThunderClan as a young kit. Fireheart's sister, Princess, wanted to choose what happened to her firstborn as she knew her owners would choose where her other kits went. He was ostracized by others for his kittypet heritage but didn't even know he was adopted until he was almost of apprentice age.
Scare 'Em Straight: How does he learn to say no to dru—er, Twoleg food? By getting kidnapped!
Series Continuity Error: In the manga at the end of Bramblestar's Storm, it's stated he was Hollytuft's mentor. In The Apprentice's Quest it's stated Blossomfall was Hollytuft's mentor.
Skeptic No Longer: He sees StarClan for the first time in The Last Hope.
Sneaky Departure: In Rising Storm, he sneaks away from ThunderClan to get food from humans. Unfortunately for him, this leads to him getting kidnapped.
Snooping Little Kid: As a kit in Forest of Secrets, he tracks Fireheart and Graystripe to the river when they sneak off to share prey with RiverClan, which gets them in trouble with the Clan deputy and leader upon their return.
Strong Family Resemblance: With his daughter Whitewing and his son Snowbush, who are pure-white like him.
Unbroken Vigil: When Brightpaw has been savagely mauled by dogs and is lying wounded in the medicine den, Cloudtail stays watching over her day and night, refusing to eat or sleep.
Undying Loyalty: Despite not believing in StarClan, he remains firmly loyal to ThunderClan and the warrior code.
You Killed My Mother: He's enraged when Tigerstar kills his foster mother, Brindleface, vowing to flay him and scatter his entrails from Snakerocks to Highstones.

Brightheart

Brightheart/Lostface

"I would not have survived that dark time it weren't for Cloudtail. He gave me another destiny, and I knew that no matter what I looked like, I would be all right. As long as Cloudtail loved me, I was no longer Lostface, but Brightheart."

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Cloudtail's mate. She gets mauled by dogs when she joins Swiftpaw in trying to convince Bluestar to make her a warrior during Bluestar's crazy period.

Action Girl: A special example in that she had to retrain herself in hunting and fighting after losing an eye.
The Apprentice: To Whitestorm.
Ascended Extra: Was a minor character until two thirds into A Dangerous Path, where dogs ripped off her face and she became Cloudtail's love interest.
Attractiveness Discrimination: Usually subverted, but Daisy and her kits would exclaim about Brightheart's scars in a couple of scenes in Sunset; upon entering camp and seeing her for the first time (with Cloudtail right there) Daisy is initially frightened by Brightheart's injuries, and a couple of chapters later has Brightheart sternly remove Berrykit, Hazelkit, and Mousekit from the medicine den as they were snooping around. The three kits flee to their mother in terror exclaiming, "That ugly cat scared us!" Thankfully they eventually come to their senses and start treating Brightheart with the respect she deserves.
Blemished Beauty: Many fan artists depict her (with her heavily scarred face, a tattered ear, and a missing eye) as a feline version of this, and even in canon, her mate Cloudtail still thinks she's beautiful despite these injuries.
Break the Cutie: She was a sweet, eager apprentice. When Bluestar made Cloudtail a warrior but refused to promote any of the other apprentices, she and Swiftpaw went to look for the dogs, which resulted in the latter's death, and with Brightheart losing half her face (including an eye and an ear) in the attack. Bluestar then renamed her "Lostface", a name that the young she-cat had to carry with her for months. Even after Cloudtail continued to love her and remained her constant rock, she still avoided puddles so that she wouldn't see her face, and constantly had to deal with cats being afraid of her because of her appearance.
Cabin Fever: When she was expecting her first litter, Brightheart felt frustrated and restless at being cooped up in camp.
Career-Ending Injury: Subverted. She was mauled by a dog, leaving her missing one eye. She however ends up becoming a warrior despite her partial blindness.
Childhood Friend Romance: With Cloudtail, who started falling in love with her when they were apprentices.
Clingy Jealous Girl: It's worth noting that she actually started the conflict with Cloudtail and Daisy, by overreacting to him helping her get the hang of forest life. Given that her self-esteem is somewhere in the tunnels, though, and that Daisy is very beautiful, it's understandable.
Confusion Fu: In The Last Hope, Lionblaze teaches this to her and Daisy.
A Day in the Limelight:
- She had a story in Secrets of the Clans titled The Death of Swiftpaw.
- She was the star of the 2023 graphic novel A Thief in ThunderClan.
Deathbed Promotion: After she has been savagely mauled by dogs and is on death's doorstep, Bluestar decides to make her a warrior. Unfortunately, the name she chooses is "Lostface" to show her anger against StarClan, who she believes sent the dog pack. After she fully recovers, Firestar gives her a proper warrior name, "Brightheart."
Disabled Means Helpless: She was mauled by a dog before she could become a warrior. This left her with a scarred face, one missing eye, and heavy emotional trauma. Despite the others suggesting she retire early, Brightheart refuses to abandon her desire to be a warrior and learns how to fight despite her partial blindness.
Dream-Crushing Handicap: Subverted. As an apprentice, she goes out to find the dog pack with Swiftpaw and is brutally savaged, losing one ear and one eye. For a time, it seems that she will never be a warrior, but Cloudtail teaches her how to fight with only one eye, allowing her to finally gain a place in the warrior's den.
Ear Notch: Her Cats of the Clans portrait shows her with shredded ears from the dog attack.
Eye Scream: When a pack of dogs ripped off half of her face in A Dangerous Path, they took one of her eyes with it.
Facial Horror: She was savaged by a pack of dogs, who mangled her face to the point that she lost an eye and parts of her skull were showing even after she recovered. She was even called "Lostface" for a while, but fortunately Firestar renamed her.
Flashback Nightmare: A Thief in ThunderClan opens with Brightheart having a nightmare about when she and Swiftpaw faced the dogs. This is noted to be a recurring thing and that no matter what she does in the dream, Swiftpaw always dies. She has the dream again partway through the book.
Freakiness Shame: Is deeply ashamed by her scars in A Dangerous Path, understandably, and had self-image issues for a while. Even after she gets over it, it's implied that her scars are a bit of a sore spot for her.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: After the dog attack in A Dangerous Path she has one eye and ear missing and is horrifically scarred in that area, but is still a heroic cat.
Handicapped Badass: Her lost eye does not stop her from learning how to fight just as well as others despite having a blind side and becoming a warrior.
Happily Married: She and her mate Cloudtail will always love each other. He even saved her from depression.
Humble Hero: After she saves Rainpaw's life in her graphic novel, she doesn't get all the fuss everyone's making over her afterward, calling her a hero; she just thinks that anyone would have done it.
I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me: Expresses disbelief that Cloudtail would want to be her mate after her horrific injuries.
Innocent Blue Eyes: Has a kind soul, despite all she's suffered. Before her injuries, they may have indicated her naivete.
Just a Kid: She feels that Bluestar, when she was refusing to make her and the other senior apprentices into warriors, treated them like "dopey kits."
Meaningful Rename: Bluestar changes her name to Lostface after dogs rip off half of her face. Then Cloudtail points out that there has to be an official name-changing ceremony, so Firestar changes her name to Brightheart.
The Medic: Although not an official medicine cat, she sometimes helps Leafpool with her medicine cat duties and has learned a lot of healing skills from her. She knows enough about herbs that she is able to take over as medicine cat for a moon when Leafpool has to go on a long journey.
The Mentor: Briefly to Jayfeather.
Missing Steps Plan: She and Swiftpaw didn't think about what they would do after they found the dog pack...
Morality Pet: To Cloudtail.
Named After the Injury: After Brightpaw was mauled by the dog pack and loses half of her face, Bluestar gives her the warrior name "Lostface" as a way to spite StarClan. One of Firestar's first acts as leader is to rename her "Brightheart," removing the shameful epithet and finally giving her a proper warrior name.
Nightmare Dreams: After dogs rip off her face, she has nightmares where she yells out, "Pack, pack! Kill, kill!"
Outliving One's Offspring: Outlives her son Snowbush and daughter Ambermoon.
Passed-Over Promotion: In A Dangerous Path, she and the other senior apprentices are ready to be warriors, but their leader Bluestar won't promote them because she's suffering from paranoia that all her Clanmates are traitors. Tired of being stuck as apprentices, Brightpaw and Swiftpaw go off to find the dog pack to prove how brave they are, and it doesn't end well...
Pregnant Badass: Just days before giving birth to Whitekit, Brightheart attacks an owl to save Rainpaw's life.
The Quiet One: Shares this with her brother Brackenfur, at least in “The Power Of Three” and onward where she has less lines.
Scars Are Forever: She had half of her face ripped off by dogs. It serves as a constant reminder of her foolish choice to go after the dogs.
Scars Are Ugly: She struggled a lot with her self-esteem following the dog attack that killed Swiftpaw and left her with half a face, and was utterly repulsed the first time she saw her new reflection. It took Cloudtail's gentle encouragement and insistence that she's still beautiful to help her recover, and she still had moments of low confidence afterward anyway.
Shipper on Deck: Sunset implies that she ships Brambleclaw/Squirrelflight.
Brightheart: (to Brambleclaw) It's really good to see you two together again.
Sneaky Departure: In A Dangerous Path, after Bluestar refuses to make them warriors, Swiftpaw and Brightpaw sneak away from the camp to fight the dogs and prove their valour. Swiftpaw ends up dying in the fight and Brightpaw gets half of her face ripped off.
Trauma Button: Seeing her reflection after the dog incident. According to Rock, this is why she never goes down to the lake.
Two-Faced: In A Dangerous Path, a dog pack ripped off half of her face. This leaves one half beautiful, while the other half is horrifically scarred.

Thornclaw

"Thornclaw, the newest warrior of ThunderClan, looking tense and eager at the prospect of his first battle."

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Brother of Brightheart, Cinderpelt and Brackenfur, Thornclaw is the first cat Firestar ever named a warrior, which is something he's quite proud of.

The Apprentice: To Mousefur.
Blood Knight: He's never the focus of a story, so it's not obvious, but he's very often one of the first cats ready to jump into battle at the drop of a whisker.
Claustrophobia: Never outright stated, but he has a Freak Out when travelling through the tunnels in The Forgotten Warrior that is certainly reminiscent of this.
Commander Contrarian: Not just to disagree for the hell of it. He's much more hot-headed than Firestar, and therefore would rather fight when Firestar would rather not.
Face–Heel Turn: He visited the Dark Forest in The Last Hope. But since this was never mentioned again, he most likely defected.
Family Eye Resemblance: He has pale blue eyes, like his sister Cinderpelt.
Hot-Blooded: Particularly in Omen of the Stars. Possibly because he was training in the Dark Forest.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may not be very nice, but that doesn't mean he's not willing to rescue enemy Clan cats from danger.
May–December Romance: After four arcs of being a Celibate Hero, he finally hooks up with Blossomfall in Shattered Sky (presumably bonding over their mutual guilt over their time in the Dark Forest). While cats hooking up with those who were kits when they were warriors isn't unusual, what's particularly notable is that Thornclaw was made a warrior in the first arc, making him almost as old as her father.
The Mentor: To Sootfur, Shrewpaw, Poppyfrost, and Briarlight.
No Sympathy: Does not feel sorry at all about Russetfur's death. Nor about Sunrise getting injured by ShadowClan
Only Sane Man: In A Dangerous Path, he's the only senior apprentice who doesn't decide to go after the dog pack in hopes of being made a warrior. As a result, he's the only one who makes it to his warrior ceremony in one piece.
Outliving One's Offspring: His son Stemleaf is killed by Ashfur during Veil of Shadows.
Panicky Expectant Father: When his and Blossomfall's kits were born in Shattered Sky. According to Alderheart and Leafpool, he was "as nervous as an apprentice on his first hunt" to the point that they had a hard time keeping him calm.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In Darkness Within and Graystripe's Vow he becomes disillusioned with Clan life and his current leadership, and decides to leave alongside a few of his Clanmates. The Place of No Stars shows he eventually comes back.
Strong Family Resemblance: He has golden-brown fur, like his brother Brackenfur.

Became a warrior before The New Prophecy

Ashfur

"I have no quarrel with Brambleclaw. I couldn't care less about Brambleclaw. It's not his fault he fell for a faithless she-cat. I know you think I've never forgiven Brambleclaw for stealing you from me, but you're wrong, and so is every cat that thinks so. My quarrel is with you, Squirrelflight. It always has been."

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Squirrelflight's Romantic False Lead in The New Prophecy. When she chooses Brambleclaw, he doesn't take it well. To be more precise, he tries to make her feel the same amount of emotional pain that he felt when she turned him down by killing some of her family members. When that doesn't work out, he tries to publicly humiliate her. He is also the true imposter possessing Bramblestar and the main antagonist of The Broken Code.

Most of these spoiler tags come from The Broken Code. If you haven't read that yet, you would be wise to avoid them.

Always Second Best: To Brambleclaw. Passed over for Squirrelflight's affections, passed over for the deputyship...
The Apprentice: To Dustpelt.
Ascended Extra: He becomes part of Squirrelflight's Love Triangle in The New Prophecy. Then he becomes the Big Bad of the seventh arc! Not bad for someone who was just a minor character in the first arc.
Asshole Victim: Threatened to kill three cats of his own Clan, one of whom was his own apprentice, just to hurt their mother, because she never returned his romantic feelings. And he gloated about it. Then he turns up dead, so the response is more 'wow, who did it?' than 'oh, poor Ashfur!'
Ax-Crazy: Driven out of his mind by Squirrelflight's rejection, he helps Hawkfrost plan to kill Firestar, and tries to kill Hollyleaf, Lionblaze, and Jayfeather. And that's not even getting into what he does in The Broken Code.
Bad Boss: During his reign of ThunderClan while possessing Bramblestar's body, Ashfur takes full advantage of Bramblestar's status as leader and abuses the position, placing his life above the whole Clan. He goes out of his way to bully and even abuse it's members. It's made apparent he doesn't care for any of them (with the exception of Squirrelflight), but still expects them to follow his leadership blindly on the basis that he is Clan leader, something he emphasizes frequently. During Shadowsight's time in ThunderClan's camp as a ghost in Veil of Shadows, he notes that every cat had a wary and scared look, very clearly not wishing to draw attention from their leader.
Bed Trick: A G-rated, but still dark and creepy, version. He possesses Bramblestar's body in The Broken Code so he can finally be Squirrelflight's mate. She's justifiably furious when she finds out.
Best Served Cold: His prologue in A Light in the Mist details how he spent years gathering information, secretly digging a tunnel to the Dark Forest by himself, concentrating power, and patiently biding his time in StarClan, before he found an opportunity to catapult himself back into the living world and punish Bramblestar and Squirrelflight.
Berserk Button: Not getting what he wants (as in Squirrelflight repeatedly rejecting him) makes him more and more frustrated and wrathful as it keeps happening.
Beware the Nice Ones: Ashfur began life as a sweet, shy young apprentice. Then in Book 5 of the third series, he tries to kill all three main characters, one of whom is his own apprentice, and reveals that he also had tried to kill Firestar at the end of the second series.
Big Bad: Of Long Shadows and the Broken Code arc.
Big Bad Ensemble: With Sol in Long Shadows.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Becomes this.
Blaming the Victim: He blames Squirrelflight, and eventually everyone else, for anything he does to them.
Break the Cutie: He first appeared as a timid but determined apprentice who soon had his mother brutally murdered by Tigerstar, then years later lost the cat he thought would be his mate (Squirrelflight) to the son of Tigerstar (Brambleclaw), and then had to mentor their son. The Squirrelflight thing stuck with him the most.
Bullying a Dragon: In Long Shadows, he told Hollyleaf that he didn't care about the Warrior Code. It did not end well for him.
The Bus Came Back: After several generations of absence, he reveals himself as the main villain of the Broken Code arc.
Children as Pawns: This seems to be a favorite tactic of Ashfur's. For example:
- He uses his apprentice, Birchpaw, to deliver the message about Firestar being in danger to Brambleclaw, as part of his and Hawkfrost's plan to goad him into killing Firestar. At the time of New Prophecy, this was one of the only clues as to Ashfur being Hawkfrost's accomplice at all.
- He manipulates Shadowpaw, a young and inexperienced medicine cat apprentice, into causing Bramblestar's death so he can possess his body. After Shadowpaw barely becomes Shadowsight, Ashfur continues to manipulate him, eventually convincing him to help him escape the ShadowClan camp.
- He manipulates Bristlefrost, a young and inexperienced warrior, into being his spy.
Commander Contrarian: In Graystripe's Vow, Dustpelt comments that Ashfur has always argued about and questioned everything, for no apparent reason.
Control Freak: As the impostor in The Broken Code while possessing Bramblestar's body. He becomes extremely strict on enforcing the rules, not only within ThunderClan but the other Clans as well, and begins to exile any cat who speaks against his behavior. He even starts checking on what his Clanmates are doing at all times and butting in on private conversations just to make sure they're not doing anything he doesn't want.
Crazy Jealous Guy: He was willing to murder four cats (one of whom was his own apprentice) to hurt Squirrelflight — who had rejected him two years ago. To say nothing of him possessing her mate's body and later dragging her into the Dark Forest so they could be together.
Creepy Uncle: Ashfur is the half-brother of Sandstorm. He falls for Squirrelflight, Sandstorm's daughter and thus his niece, but it was unrequited. Ashfur then proceeds to try and kill Squirrelflight's father and her kits.
Deader than Dead: In A Light in the Mist, he's gone forever due to being drowned by Bristlefrost as a spirit.
Demonic Possession: In The Broken Code arc, Ashfur manipulates events to kill Bramblestar and then possesses his corpse in an attempt to be with Squirrelflight.
Derailing Love Interests: As explained here, he goes from a loyal warrior whom doesn't hold grudges against the son of his mother's killer, to a psychotic ex of Squirrelflight willing to kill her kids out of spite over the course of the book series.
Despair Event Horizon: Being dumped by Squirrelflight was the start of his Face–Heel Turn.
Did Not Think This Through: In The Silent Thaw, Ashfur banishes Squirrelflight from ThunderClan for trying to rally the other Clans against him and then lying to his face about it. In the next book, Veil of Shadows, he reveals that he expected her to return sooner or later and beg to be allowed back; he never considered that she would instead seek sanctuary in ShadowClan.
- Ashfur actually didn't seem to expect that cats would leave the Clan after getting tired of his poor leadership. When he exiles both Graystripe and Sparkpelt, several other cats join them in leaving the Clan, and Ashfur's response afterwards seems to indicate he wasn't anticipating that.
- While a prisoner of the Clans in Darkness Within, Ashfur knowingly prods and antagonizes his captors and even goads a few of them into attacking him, but knows full well that they won't really kill him because they need Bramblestar's body. However, what Ashfur doesn't account for is that just about everyone is tired of him and his constant gaslighting and antagonizing has made everyone pretty much okay with having him die at the cost of losing Bramblestar. When the Clans hold a vote on whether to kill Ashfur or not, the majority wants him dead. When Ashfur catches wind of this, he actually begins to panic when he realizes he underestimated how much the Clans hate him.
Disproportionate Retribution: The girl he likes chooses another guy over him, while gently saying she still wants to be friends. Ashfur's response is to try to murder her father and later her adopted children. And years later, he possesses her mate's body, drives the Clans into conflict, and drags her into cat-hell. Disporportionate doesn't begin to cover it.
Dissonant Serenity: The ceremony to summon the ghosts of the dead in Darkness Within calls forth a bunch of writhing, howling cats who immediately horrify the Sisters and Rootspring...and then there's Ashfur, walking among the scene with complete calm.
Does This Remind You of Anything?: Him demanding that Alderheart give him more poppy seeds to dull his "pain" after Squirrelflight's banishment and later her alleged death is reminiscent of someone abusing drugs to cope with their emotional issues. In fact, poppy seeds have opiate properties, so it would be like abusing perscription painkillers.
- After Ashfur steals Bramblestar's body and assumes his position as leader, he begins to warp the warrior code for his benefit and abuse his newfound leadership for petty reasons. He begins enforcing strict rules under the guise of trying to appease StarClan, but by the third book it's obvious that's not the case. Shadowsight notes that everyone in ThunderClan looked uneasy and didn't want to draw attention from their now-tryannical leader. Take away the cats, and you've got a situation eerily similar to a political figure usurping a nation's leader and turning everything into a totalitarian fascist state.
- As disgusting as it is, Ashfur knowingly manipulates the young Shadowsight into killing Bramblestar so Ashfur can possess his corpse and pretend to be him. While a prisoner of the Clans, Ashfur is successfully able to prod at Shadowsight's insecurities, feed him praise, and belittle him. While posing as Bramblestar, Ashfur also manipulates the new warrior Bristlefrost into being his "eyes and ears" within ThunderClan and entrusting her with important duties, eventually ostracizing her from the Clan and making them resent Bristlefrost for supporting a horrible leader. He makes both cats isolated and feel alone from their peers, eventually relying on him to make them feel somewhat useful. Both situations are reminiscent of a predator grooming children for their personal gain.
Domestic Abuse:
- Ashfur is probably the most glaring example of this in the series. He desperately and pathetically wants to be Squirrelflight's mate, but he's not above hurting her, emotionally or physically, when she doesn't go along with it. Whenever she rejects him or does things he doesn't like, his first response is to attempt to manipulate her with guilt-trips, and when that fails, he resorts to hurting her loved ones or Squirrelflight herself. This is probably best shown in The Silent Thaw, while Ashfur is possessing Bramblestar's body; he tries to keep Squirrelflight by his side at all times, slowly strips away her power as deputy, either shuts her down or belittles her whenever she disagerees with him, tries to get her daughter killed when she stands up to him, and when she finally realizes he's not her real mate and speaks out against him, he throws her off a ledge in anger and then exiles her.
- His mentorship with Lionblaze counts as this, bordering on if not outright emotional abuse. Ashfur, while believing that Lionpaw was Squirrelflight's and Bramblestar's son, constantly switched between praising and belittling his apprentice, growing to the point where Lionpaw was unsure how Ashfur would react to anything he did. Jayfeather even makes a mental note that Ashfur and Lionblaze never shared the usual bond as mentor and apprentice. Both Jayfeather and Lionblaze mention to themselves that when Ashfur praised Lionpaw, there was never any warmth or genuine enthusiasm. In fact, on two occasions during training (the latter being when Lionblaze was a recently made warrior), Ashfur lets his hatred get ahold of him, and the two end up drawing blood.
- Also, in a broader sense, there's what he does in The Broken Code to ThunderClan as a whole, during his time as the false Bramblestar. Ashfur mistreats ThunderClan, despite it being his birth Clan and has several living family members still there. He verbally abuses several members, emotionally manipulates others, and even outright assaults two of them.
The Determinator: Probably the most villainous example of this in the series. Absolutely nothing, not even his own death, has deterred his goal to have Squirrelflight for himself, or make her suffer for rejecting him.
The Dragon: To Hawkfrost in Sunset.
Elder Abuse: He rakes his claws across Graystripe's nose in Veil of Shadows after Graystripe tells him off for his poor leadership. He also made the Clan stop letting the elders get first pick from the fresh-kill pile, and later outright stopped the Clan for caring for them, despite Ashfur having known the elders (Graystripe, Brackenfur, Brightheart, and Cloudtail) when he was alive. Cloudtail was even his foster brother, and the two were close before Ashfur's death.
Et Tu, Brute?: Ashfur invokes this by angrily telling cats that nobody ThunderClan noticed how he was feeling when Squirrelflight turned him down the first time, and has come to resent the Clan for it.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Deconstructed. Ashfur claims over and over again that he loves Squirrelflight, but his refusal to accept her decision to become mates with Bramblestar, and the outrageously Disproportionate Retribution he tries to inflict on them both, makes that statement ring hollow. While his reaction to her supposed death is a definite sign that he at least cares about her existence, Ashfur's actions show that he ultimately doesn't care one bit if Squirrelflght is happy or not; he only cares about having her for himself and if he can't then he will make her suffer. Ultimately, Ashfur's dark and twisted obsession for Squirrelflight is nothing more than an insanely childish and abusive relationship.
Entitled to Have You: He feels this way about Squirrelflight, even speaking of Brambleclaw "stealing" her from him.
Evil All Along: A variation. Ashfur wasn't always evil per say, but Graystripe's Vow heavily implies that, for all the virtues he once had, Ashfur always had the arrogance and sense of entitlement that led to his obsession with Squirrelflight. Throughout Graystripe's Vow, Ashfur spends most of his time constantly (and ultimately needlessly) arguing with other cats, especially Graystripe, and more or less trying to make them agree with him. When Graystripe reveals this to Dustpelt, Ashfur's former mentor, Dustpelt claims that Ashfur was always like that; as an apprentice, he would always argue with Dustpelt's decisions even if there was absolutely no good reason to do so, and he seemed (and still seems) incapable of understanding a simple fact of life; you can't always get your own way. Dustpelt resolves to tell Ashfur off for his continued arrogance, and while we don't see it happen, if Dustpelt did go through with it, it gives the reader the impression that Ashfur merely suppressed and/or hid his arrogance and sense of entitlement, until Squirrelflight's rejection made it come out again.
Evil Counterpart: Ashfur is this for at least three characters:
- Thrushpelt. They both love she-cats who only see them as friends. Thrushpelt understands and vows to love Bluestar's kits as if they were his own, and genuinely mourns their "death". Ashfur, on the other hand, goes crazy from Squirrelflight's rejection, collaborates with a power-hungry cat to kill his own leader, finally tries to murder three cats, gets killed by one of them, and comes back from the grave to continue his obsessive pursuit of Squirrelflight.
- Lionblaze. In Eclipse and Long Shadows, Lionblaze has terrible visions of brutally murdering his former friend Heathertail. He eventually manages to overcome his hatred and vengeful desires. Ashfur, on the other paw, is completely consumed by his vengeance.
- Bristlefrost: They're both pale gray cats with blue eyes and start out as energetic apprentices eager to serve their Clan. They both suffer the tragedy of falling in love with a cat who doesn't return their feelings and ultimately passes them over in favour of another, leaving Ashfur and Bristlefrost understandably heartbroken. However, whereas Bristlefrost accepts Stemleaf's decision and eventually finds the strength to move on, Ashfur refuses to accept Squirrelflight's decision and ultimately allows his pain and bitterness to consume him to the point that he is willing to destroy everything if he can't have her.
Evil Gloating: Engages in some good old-fashioned evil taunting of Hollyleaf, Lionblaze, and Jayfeather in Long Shadows.
Evil Is Petty: Ashfur is, without a doubt, the most petty, vindictive and needlessly cruel character in the entire series. He tries to murder his own Clan leader, burn alive three innocent cats (including his former apprentice), destroy all the Clans, and obliterate the afterlives just because Squirrelflight refused to be his mate. Not even Tigerstar can compare with that sheer level of pettiness.
Evil Uncle:
- Combined with Creepy Uncle; he's Sandstorm's half-brother, making him Squirrelflight's half-uncle, and is obsessed with wanting her as a mate and abuse her for not loving him.
- He's also actually Shadowsight and Bristlefrost's great-granduncle through their mothers (who are daughters of Birchfall, the son of Ashfur's sister), and grooms, manipulates, and abuses them both throughout The Broken Code.
Face–Heel Turn: Starts out kind and considerate, though a bit arrogant and condescending. Turns into an insanely jealous warrior after Squirrelflight turns him down and then descends into an attempted murderer. Then, in The Broken Code, this goes even further as his years in StarClan have made him even more bitter and sociopathic.
Fallen Angel: "Angel" in this case refers to him once being among the ranks of StarClan, but it counts.
Fallen Hero: As even his abused apprentice, Lionblaze grudgingly acknowledges, Ashfur, for all his faults, was once a genuinely loyal warrior who was willing to risk life and limb for his Clanmates. Sadly, his obsession with wanting Squirrelflight as a mate destroyed his loyalty to ThunderClan, and ultimately any and all redeeming qualities he ever possessed.
Family Extermination:
- Played With. After Squirrelflight turns him down, Ashfur's response is to try and kill Firestar, who is Squirrelflight's father, and later tries to kill Squirrelflight's adopted children. He also tries this in The Broken Code arc, where he lists Lionblaze and Jayfeather as codebreakers for their half-clan heritage and later exiles them for it. He targets Squirrelflight's biological children, Sparkpelt and Alderheart, by trying to kill the former and verbally abuses the latter, exiling both of them from ThunderClan during his reign while possessing Bramblestar's body. He also makes veiled threats to Sparkpelt's children, Flamepaw and Finchpaw, and even yells at Finchpaw before also exiling her from ThunderClan later on.
- Ashfur also takes this another level and shows a dislike of other cats who have ties to Squirrelflight's family. He exiles Cinderheart (Lionblaze's mate) from ThunderClan, shows a dislike of Leafpool (Squirrelflight's sister), and even goes out of his way to bully Lionblaze's grandchildren, such as forcing Flipclaw to become a medicine cat, exiling Thriftear from the Clan, and threatening Bristlefrost if she ever stops spying for him.
Fantastic Racism: Ashfur has made xenophobic remarks towards non-Clan cats, and especially towards those with mixed heritages.
Fatal Flaw: His obsession with Squirrelflight led to his death. This continues even as a spirit; while Ashfur is considerably more cunning, efficient and powerful than he was in life, his judgment becomes severely clouded whenever Squirrelflight is involved. His loss in the climax of Veil of Shadows is directly caused by him stopping in the middle of battle to gape at her when she reveals she was Faking the Dead, while in Darkness Within she is easily able to trick him into exposing himself by pretending to love him.
- Also, in a broader sense, Ashfur's one-track mind and willingness to do anything to achieve what he wants has led to his downfall on several occasions, as he's too hyperfocused to pay attention or consider anything else. His plan to expose Squirrelflight's secret at the gathering? That ended up with Hollyleaf killing him out of desperation, despite Ashfur getting threats from Jayfeather and Lionblaze and was practically begged by Squirrelflight and Hollyleaf to not do it. In The Broken Code, Ashfur is so deadset on destroying the afterlives and the living Clans that he doesn't bother to stop and consider the full extent of what he's doing.
- In A Light in the Mist, Ashfur abandons the final battle to try and kill Shadowsight again. Ashfur is so focused on throwing the medicine cat into the eerie waters of the Dark Forest that he fails to notice Bristlefrost tackling him off the edge until it's too late.
Faux Affably Evil: Acts kind to everyone but Squirrelflight, Brambleclaw, Lionblaze, Hollyleaf, and Jayfeather. But by the end of TPOT, you know it's an act.
Foreshadowing: There are several hints in The Broken Code arc as to him being the identity of the imposter possessing Bramblestar's body.
- In Lost Stars, as an unnamed Star Clan spirit talking to Shadowpaw, the imposter reveals his contempt for Bramblestar by mocking him. Ashfur ended his friendship with Bramblestar back in the second arc when Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight got together, and has hated him ever since.
- In the same book, after possessing Bramblestar's body, Ashfur remarks how good it was to see Squirrelflight again. In the following book, the imposter notes how he missed her "fire", and is extremely clingy to her, almost as if he hadn't seen her in years.
- A more minor one, but several cats comment on "Bramblestar's" sudden change in personality after losing a life, an early-on clue to the current Bramblestar being a fake.
- Again in The Silent Thaw, the imposter mistakenly calls Dewnose "Dewtail" and thought that Flipclaw was Dewnose's apprentice (Dewnose had Flipclaw's sister, Thriftear). After Dewnose corrects him, the imposter snaps that he knew that. Ashfur had died several years before Dewnose's birth and therefore wouldn't have known Dewnose in his life. It's also worth mentioning that Dewnose was one of the first warriors that the real Bramblestar made back in his early days of leadership, something that would have certainly stuck with the real Bramblestar.
- Yet again in The Silent Thaw, Bristlefrost observes that the imposter was inspecting Thunder Clan's camp as if it were unfamiliar (Bristlefrost calls his interest "intriguing") to him despite knowing Squirrelflight quite well. While Ashfur had known the lake camp in his life, it had gone through several changes prior to the start of The Broken Code.
- In The Silent Thaw and Veil of Shadows, while the imposter doesn't care for, if not outright dislike, ThunderClan, it becomes increasingly obvious that he holds a special hatred for Lionblaze, Jayfeather, Alderheart, and Sparkpelt, for apparently no reason at all. However, considering that Ashfur in life targeted Squirrelflight's children to kill them, it makes sense that he would do the same to the four of them while possessing Bramblestar's body. Ashfur is verbally abusive to Alderheart, tried to kill Sparkpelt, and bends over backwards to humiliate and berate Lionblaze and Jayfeather. In fact, Ashfur made sure to exile all of them during his reign of ThunderClan.
- In The Silent Thaw, it's revealed that the imposter set up a trap for Sparkpelt in an attempt to kill her. The trap? Luring a pack of dogs with bloodied prey to a place on Thunder Clan territory. It's alarmingly similar to how Tigerstar killed Brindleface, Ashfur's mother, back in the first arc.
- As The Silent Thaw, as the imposter is about to drag Squirrelflight out of their den and throw her down the Highrock, Bristlefrost overhears "Bramblestar's" voice suddenly change as he's yelling at Squirrelflight.
- In The Silent Thaw, Tigerstar and Squirrelflight deduce that the imposter must have been a Clan warrior once considering he knows quite a bit of Clan culture and customs, effectively ruling out the possibility of it being some rogue.
- The imposter in Veil of Shadows is noted to have dark blue eyes by Shadowsight. Ashfur is the only male cat in the series to be described with them. Bristlefrost later comments to herself that "Bramblestar's" eyes flashed blue briefly.
- Once more in Veil of Shadows, after he's been deposed of and exposed as a fake, the imposter croaks out to Squirrelflight that he came back for her specifically. This is the final clue that Squirrelflight needed to deduce his true identity.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Ashfur lost his mom in an absolutely horrible way while he was still a young apprentice, and then later lost the she-cat he loved to the son of the cat who murdered his mom, but not a single one of the cats he hurts considers this to be justification, with Jayfeather even being incredulous that StarClan did. After Ashfur is revealed to be the imposter, virtually everyone agrees that Squirrelflight rejecting him absolutely does not justify bringing so much pain and suffering on all the Clans. In A Light in the Mist, Shadowsight mentally and verbally lambshapes this.
Shadowsight's thoughts: How could that be an excuse for the kind of malice Ashfur had inflicted on the Clans? A true warrior accepted defeat and moved on. Protecting their Clan was more important. But Ashfur had let his bitternes grow until it tainted his whole life. He must have nursed it in StarClan so that it poisoned his mind even after his death. And now he was determined to make all the Clans suffer, and all because Squirrelflight had chosen Bramblestar instead of him.
Shadowsight's "Reason You Suck" Speech to Ashfur: "Squirrelflight loves Bramblestar. She'll never love you. She chose Bramblestar and she always will. They are happy together and you can't chage that. If you truly loved Squirrelflight, you'd want her to be happy. You wouldn't be trying to destroy everything she loves. You have no idea what love really is. How could a warrior like Squirrelflight ever love a warrior like you? No wonder she chose Bramblestar. He's brave and loyal. He's a true warrior in a way you could never be."
From Nobody to Nightmare: He went from a fairly average and affable apprentice, to an attempted murderer of ThunderClan's then-leader and his family due to his daughter's romantic rejection of him, and then to a supernatural threat even greater than Tigerstar.
Hated by All: When the true nature of his death and motivations are revealed in The Forgotten Warrior, any positive opinions of him held by other cats quickly diminish. By The Broken Code, Ashfur is universally despised by the living and the dead, with the only cats who, at best, tolerate him are his Dark Forest lackeys.
Hero Killer: He indirectly kills Bramblestar via playing Shadowsight, personally kills Stemleaf, Willowshine, and Snowtuft, and delivers the terrible wounds that kill Graystripe even after Ashfur's demise. Bristlefrost also sacrifices herself to kill him. Furthermore, Snowtuft and Bristlefrost are rendered Deader than Dead due to dying as spirits.
Hidden Villain: Conspires with Hawkfrost to kill Firestar in Sunset, but this isn't revealed until five books later, in Long Shadows.
Hypocrite:
- In The New Prophecy, Ashfur is shown to be distrustful of Hawkfrost and later outright claims that no one related to Tigerstar can be trusted, but Long Shadows reveals that he willingly conspired with Hawkfrost to kill Firestar. Heck, before he said the above line, he and Brambleclaw were established as good friends. Ashfur ended their friendship after Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw got together.
- Throughout The Broken Code, Ashfur goes on and on about the warrior code and punishing those who break it, but he breaks the code himself several times, such as when he insists upon eating before the elders, and appoints Berrynose and later Bristlefrost, both of who have never had an apprentice, as deputy.
- In The Place of No Stars, Ashfur insists that he loves Squirrelflight and doesn't want to hurt her...but then minutes later he mind-controls Bramblestar and later Stemleaf into attacking and physically hurting her (the latter is described as beating her). He also conveniently forgets that he has already hurt Squirrelflight, both emotionally and physically.
- In the same book, Ashfur berates Squirrelflight for "forcing" him to hurt her and the Clans, despite the obvious fact that he is willingly choosing to do it all and is currently planning to force the innocent spirits under his control to attack and kill their loved ones against their will.
- In A Light in the Mist, Ashfur claims that Clan cats are "arrogant" and "full of themselves" and criticizes them for it, but these are two of his most prominent personality traits.
The Good King: A variation and viciously subverted at the same time. During his time possessing Bramblestar's body and acting as the leader of ThunderClan, Ashfur becomes drunk on the power a leader holds and twists the code so it benefits him specifically, as well as mistreating many of the Clan members to the point of outright abuse. It's actually a clue that the Bramblestar in the first three books is suddenly acting like such a crappy leader, and pointed out that the real Bramblestar never acted this way. Hell by the next arc, there's an entire rule that was formed to depose a bad leader because of how bad a leader Ashfur was.
I Have You Now, My Pretty: In The Place of No Stars, he drags Squirrelflight into the Dark Forest so that she can't get away from him and he can try to make her be his mate, stopping short of actually hurting her because he still cares about her in his own twisted way. He's completely baffled as to why she still rejects him after this.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Viciously subverted, which is the main reason why Ashfur's repeated claims that he "loves" Squirrelflight and she belongs with him fall flat. As Shadowsight and Squirrelflight herself point out, if Ashfur truly loved Squirrelflight he would want her to be happy, but instead of accepting Squirrelflight's right to make her own choices, Ashfur relentlessly tries to control and make her suffer by threatening everything and everyone she loves.
I Reject Your Reality: By The Broken Code, Squirrelflight has been mates with Bramblestar for years, had kits with him, and given Ashfur increasingly-vitriolic tongue-lashings for his actions and obsession. He continues to think she'll ever want to be with him, going so far as to drag her into the nearly-deserted Dark Forest.
Icy Blue Eyes: Dark blue ones, to be precise. This detail is a hint as to him being the imposter.
It's All About Me: He is such an entitled, obsessive and psychotic brat that he is willing to steamroll every cat, living and dead, and threaten the very planes of the afterlives to get Squirrelflight.
Jealous Romantic Witness: In Sunset, not long after Squirrelflight turns down Ashfur in favor of Brambleclaw, there's a scene where Ashfur notices Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw walking together with their pelts touching, and Leafpool is shaken by the fury in Ashfur's eyes.
Karma Houdini: In-universe, Jayfeather doesn't buy Yellowfang's explanation that Ashfur made it to StarClan because "His only fault was loving too much", despite his numerous murder attempts on himself, his siblings, and Firestar. This is later deconstructed, as him getting let off the hook allows him to return as a vengeful, lustful ghost who possesses Bramblestar, cuts off StarClan from the Clans, and throws the Clans into chaos and battle. Even StarClan asks themselves what they were thinking after that.
Kick the Dog:
- Throughout The Broken Code he mistreats the elders, many of whom were apprentices with him and one of whom is his foster brother.
- In The Silent Thaw, he sets Sparkpelt up to be killed by dogs, which by itself would qualify for this, but context makes it even worse. Sparkpelt is a young, single mother whose two kits are new apprentices. Ashfur tries to get a cat in the same situation as his mother killed the exact horrible way his mother was.
Knight of Cerebus: Ashfur is arguably the darkest villain the Clans have ever faced. Up until his reveal in Long Shadows, the Power of Three arc had been rather episodic and slice-of-life. The rest of the book and Sunrise have much more somber tones in comparison. Additionally, his reign as the antagonist of The Broken Code ushers in the darkest arc in the franchise, with a Genre Shift to supernatural horror, a dystopian regime, Domestic Abuse, the grooming and manipulation of two of the protagonists, the dead being Barred from the Afterlife and brainwashed, and the return of a much scarier Dark Forest. The ending is also the darkest and most bittersweet ever in the series, and leads into an overhaul of the warrior code for the first time.
Light Is Not Good: Because he was accepted into StarClan, he has stars in his fur, which he retains even as the psychopathic Big Bad of The Broken Code.
Love Makes You Crazy: After being dumped by Squirrelflight, he attempts to kill her father and adopted children to make her feel the same pain he did.
Love Makes You Evil: Went mad essentially just because the cat he loved didn't love him back.
Loves the Sound of Screaming: When the Sisters perform a ceremony to call upon the Clan ghosts in Darkness Within, Rootspring spots Ashfur among them, listening to their anguished cries with satisfaction.
Manipulative Bastard:
- He could rival Hawkfrost in this department. Ashfur tricks Shadowsight into murdering Bramblestar by pretending to be a noble StarClan warrior, which lets him possess the poor tom's body; coaxes and threatens Bristlefrost in equal measures into spying for him; and, even when he knows Ashfur's manipulating him, is still able to prod at Shadowsight's insecurities, feed him praise, and persuade him to release him from ShadowClan's camp.
- Moreover, he's able to prod at Lionblaze when his former apprentice confronts him, able to get Lionblaze worked up enough to try killing him in a rage, despite Ashfur still being in Bramblestar's body. He displays a similar tactic when Hawkwing and Tigerstar try to interrogate him. Ashfur is purposefully difficult and elusive to their questions, even gaslighting Hawkwing into attacking him. His refusal to answer questions also causes Tigerstar to join in on attacking him, until both of them are stopped by Shadowsight.
- When he was alive and infatuated with Squirrelflight, upon learning she had become mates with Brambleclaw, he unsuccessfully tried to manipulate her into choosing himself instead. In The Broken Code, while possessing Bramblestar's body and feigning his identity, Ashfur strips away her power as deputy and even prevents her from leaving camp, telling her that she needs to stand by him as "mates". He continues to do this throughout The Silent Thaw, though most notably he was able to touch a nerve when he pressed about why she lied about Leafpool's kits, getting angry with her and making Squirrelflight upset.
Mass Hypnosis: In Darkness Within and The Place of No Stars, Ashfur is revealed to have the power to mind-control other spirit cats into obeying his every command; even attack their family and friends. He is able to control all the innocent spirits he has imprisoned in the Dark Forest at the same time.
The Mentor: To Lionblaze. He was also the mentor to Birchfall in The New Prophecy.
The Mole: He's Hawkfrost's traitor in ThunderClan.
Moral Myopia: Ashfur has made it clear, time and time again, that he believes Squirrelflight hurting him by refusing to be his mate is absolutely unacceptable and completely wrong, despite the fact that she rejected him politely and gently, and never meant to hurt him. Yet, he sees nothing wrong with him trying to hurt her, and countless other cats, on purpose.
Murder the Hypotenuse: Eventually decides the best way to be with Squirrelflight is to possess her mate's body after manipulating Shadowsight into killing Bramblestar.
My Way or the Highway: In Veil of Shadows he, in Bramblestar's body, gives an ultimatum: that any cat who doesn't like his orders can leave the Clan.
My God, What Have I Done?: In Veil of Shadows, Ashfur is genuinely heartbroken when Squirrelflight fakes her death and blames himself for it because he exiled her. It's his one moment of something halfway approaching decency, but he immediately goes right back to shucking responsibility and hurting others.
Never My Fault: The Broken Code makes it apparent that Ashfur feels no remorse or responsibility for any of his own evil deeds. In Darkness Within, he outright tells Shadowsight that he "never feels guilty". In The Place of No Stars, Ashfur asks Squirrelflight why she is "forcing him to do this", to which Squirrelflight rightly points out that she isn't "forcing" him to do anything and Ashfur has no one to blame but himself. In A Light in the Mist, Ashfur silently blames Squirrelflight for "driving" him to commit all his evil deeds.
Nice Guy: At least, until the third series. Or halfway through the second series, depending on your opinion.
Not Good with Rejection: He is extremely upset over Squirrelflight getting back together with Brambleclaw. It's later revealed that he took Squirrelflight's rejection murderously poorly. In The Place of No Stars, Ashfur is still completely baffled as to why Squirrelflight still doesn't want him after he's done so much to try to win her over.
Oh, Crap!: Bristlefrost registers panic overtaking him as she drowns them both in A Light in the Mist, the one moment in his reign of evil where he's actually afraid.
Omnicidal Maniac: Ashfur is completely willing to destroy both StarClan and the Dark Forest if it meets making Squirrelflight his mate, and doesn't care what he has to do in order to achieve it. His hatred of StarClan also plays a factor in this. It is worth noting however, that Ashfur doesn't even seem to be aware of the actual repercussions his actions would have if he follows through.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Three times.
- In Sunset, Jayfeather appears to Ashfur in a dream and borderline threatens him to not reveal the secret. Ashfur remains indignant, but in the waking world the next morning, Jayfeather notices that Ashfur is notably spooked by him regardless.
- In Darkness Within, when he realizes the Clans intend to kill him regardless of Bramblestar's ghostly situation, Ashfur begins to panic and quickly manipulates Shadowsight into freeing him. It's important because up until that point, Ashfur knowingly gaslit and goaded basically everyone around him when he was a prisoner.
- In A Light in the Mist, when Firestar possesses Rootspring while in the Dark Forest and talks to Ashfur in his real voice, Ashfur drops his confident attitude and immediately realizes something's wrong, and races to the border of StarClan and the Dark Forest.
Pitiful Worms: Refers to Clan cats as "like rats" at the end of Darkness Within and clearly shows no loyalty to the culture he once upheld, let alone his birth Clan.
Playing the Victim Card: During Long Shadows, he blames and bemoans other cats for "ignoring" his pain and getting what he wants. He does this ignoring that he is extremely good at masking his feelings and isn't entitled to another cat's affections. He keeps this up in The Broken Code, except now he's added being "forced" into villainy as one of his ways to make his Clan suffer.
Possessing a Dead Body: In The Broken Code, Ashfur is able to manipulate the young Shadowpaw into killing Bramblestar so Ashfur can possess his body in an attempt to be with Squirrelflight. Ashfur, having severed the connection with StarClan prior, leaves Bramblestar stranded as a ghost and unable to reclaim his body.
Psychopathic Man Child: Ashfur is the most glaring example of this in the series. He feels a massive entitlement to Squirrelflight's affections, and eventually, anything else he wants. Whenever he doesn't get what he wants, he refuses to accept it and responds by trying to manipulate those who have refused him, or outright hurting them, or simply losing his temper.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Ashfur receives many of these from other cats.
- In Veil of Shadows, the normally quiet Alderheart gets enraged after Ashfur, as Bramblestar's imposter, exiles both Twigbranch and Finleap. Alderheart reprimands the false leader for demanding the unqestioned obedience of the Clan, and that sometimes it's right to question orders. Ashfur gets angry at his comments and exiles Alderheart from the Clan, calling him a faithless medicine cat. Alderheart retorts back "what about a faithless leader?", and that ends up making Ashfur scream at him to get out of the Clan. Considering this came from Alderheart of all cats, it's really telling how awful Ashfur's leadership of ThunderClan was.
- Once more in Veil of Shadows, as the false Bramblestar, Graystripe tells him off for his poor leadership, demanding the blind obedience of the Clan, and general poor treatment of everyone. This results in Ashfur attacking Graystripe, which Graystripe then uses to proclaim that the real Bramblestar would never have harmed his own warrior, and outs Ashfur as an impostor of Bramblestar.
- In Darkness Within, Lionblaze confronts him while Ashfur is imprisoned in ShadowClan's camp, condemning him for stealing Bramblestar's body and reminding his old mentor that he tried to kill him and his littermates years ago.
- Again in Darkness Within, Squirrelflight condemns him for everything he's done after Ashfur confronts her and pleads that he loves her. She angrily tells him that she could never love him after he killed and stole Bramblestar's body and has nearly torn ThunderClan apart. Ashfur seems to take this a bit more personally, and his immediate reaction is to incapacitate Squirrelflight and drag her into the Dark Forest.
- In The Place of No Stars, Squirrelflight once again refuses to be Ashfur's mate, disgustedly telling him that, after everything he's done, she wouldn't choose to be with him even if he were the only other cat left in the world. As noted by Shadowsight, Ashfur is angered and genuinely hurt and bewildered by Squirrelflight's rejection, showing just how delusional he really is.
- In A Light in the Mist, Shadowsight denounces Ashfur, telling him that he is nothing but an evil fiend who doesn't understand what love is because if he truly loved Squirrelflight he would accept her decision to be with Bramblestar rather than try to destroy everything she loves.
- Once more in A Light in the Mist, Graystripe confronts Ashfur and delivers a pretty harsh speech given to him from Squirrelflight, once more condemning him for all he has done and how Squirrelflight does not, or ever will, love him. Ashfur at first is bewildered, if not outright confused as to why Squirrelflight would want him to hear this, but as Graystripe continues on, Ashfur's reaction turns to anger and assaults Graystripe.
The Rival: To Brambleclaw in the second part of The New Prophecy.
Rival Turned Evil: With Brambleclaw in The New Prophecy, but by the third arc Ashfur has descended into a villain who hates Brambleclaw for "stealing what was his", as Ashfur puts it.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Tries to do this in Long Shadows but ultimately fails. His attempt in The Broken Code is slower, more subtle, and works much better.
Romantic False Lead: He looks like he might end up with Squirrelflight in Twilight, but she gets back together with Brambleclaw in Sunset.
Romantic Runner-Up: When Squirrelflight passes him over in favor of Brambleclaw. This does not bode well for his mental health...
Sadist: The Broken Code makes it clear that Ashfur has become one. He takes a rather disturbing amount of pleasure in tormenting Shadowsight, terrorizing Sparkpelt and trying to get her killed by dogs, turning the Clans against one another, torturing his enslaved ghosts, and forcing Rootspring and Snowtuft to fight each other. Most notably, in A Light in the Mist, he outright admiits that he will enjoy making Squirrelflight for rejecting him.
Satanic Archetype: Ashfur invokes this trope in a rather symbolic way. He started out as a fairly normal individual before Lust combined with Envy led him to betray his leader, and eventually, his fellow spirits in Cat-Heaven. His obsession with Squirrelflight and inability to see her as anything more than a possession is similar to Satan only understanding Lust. During his time manipulating the Clans, Ashfur shows himself to be charismatic, deceitful, manipulative, and narcissistic. Also, a lot of Ashfur's scenes involve fire; a motif associated with the devil.
Secret-Keeper: In Rising Storm, he doesn't tell his Clanmates that Cloudtail is sneaking Twoleg food.
Single-Target Sexuality: He only ever showed interest in Squirrelflight, even after she chose Bramblestar over him. Unfortunately for her and everyone around them, his interest turns into straight-up obsession.
Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Downplayed, but still present. Veil of Shadows makes it clear that no matter how unjustifiably cruel, selfish and petty he is, Ashfur's inner torment about Squirrelflight is actually genuine. After he exiles her, he quickly becomes depressed, doing things like putting on weight, not grooming, sleeping in her old bedding because it smells of her, and even taking poppy seeds to dull his "pain."
Small Name, Big Ego: Ashfur thinks very highly of himself, considering himself entitled to Squirrelflight's affections, being better than Bramblestar, and above the literal law. In The Place of No Stars, Ashfur proclaims himself quite possibly the most powerful cat who has ever lived, with his power and control over the spirits of the dead. Considering he was able to shut off the connection with StarClan by himself, he may be right.
Smarter Than You Look: Despite Ashfur's one-track mind, he's actually one of the smartest villains in the series, and that's a factor ramped up in The Broken Code where he serves as the main antagonist.
- While a prisoner in Shadow Clan, Ashfur knowingly goads and manipulates cats into attacking him and provoking him in Bramblestar's body. He's very aware they all hate him and want him dead, but uses it to his advantage as he knows they won't actually kill him.
- His plan to kill Bramblestar and pose as him actually worked for a bit! Key words here being "a bit" as it wasn't long until cats began to get suspicious as to why "Bramblestar" had suddenly changed so drastically in personality.
- He's able to successfully manipulate Hawkfrost and Birchfall in the second arc. In the seventh arc, Ashfur is able to pry at the young Bristlefrost and Shadowsight in order to become his unwitting accomplices. He also successfully manages to stir up conflict between the Clans just by merely existing at the time.
The Starscream: Hawkfrost's plan in Sunset hinged on Brambleclaw killing Firestar in secret, but Ashfur arranged for help to arrive. Taking his lack of remorse and grudge against Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw into account, it's implied he did so not to try and save Firestar, but to ensure Brambleclaw would be caught in the act. Unfortunately for him, Firestar's daughters arrived to find Brambleclaw trying to save their father, which erased any possible lingering doubts the sisters may have had about his character.
Spotting the Thread: Ashfur's possession of Bramblestar's corpse initially aroused little suspicion aside from a few comments about how strange "Bramblestar" was acting. However, Ashfur's fatal mistake that led to his downfall was that he genuinely didn't even try to act like Bramblestar, and as time went on, many cats began to get suspicious on how "Bramblestar" had such a sudden change in personality when losing lives, treating everyone like crap, and other various hints that led Squirrelflight to deduce his true identity.
Start of Darkness: His descent into evil began when he was dumped by Squirrelflight.
Stepford Smiler: Nice enough on the outside. Madman out for revenge on the inside.
The Sociopath: Ashfur shows many signs of being a low-functioning one. He's a lying Manipulative Bastard who is perfectly willing to hurt and kill others for extremely petty reasons, enjoys it, feels no pity or remorse, and firmly believes everything is about him and his feelings.
The Stoic: He kept his anger and grief to himself rather than talking about it with someone, which wasn't too good for his mental health.
Tom the Dark Lord: A lot of the major villains in the franchise have names that are either scary (Tigerclaw, Hawkfrost, Scourge, Slash), ominous (Sol, One-Eye), or related to darkness (Darktail, Mapleshade). Ashfur's name, in contrast, is unthreatening and even normal, but he's one of the greatest and most terrifying threats the Clans have faced.
Took a Level in Badass: When he becomes the main antagonist of The Broken Code, he has seriously upped his game. Ashfur shows frightening skill in manipulating Shadowsight and the Clans, fools everyone with his impersonation for half the arc, and is an intimidating fighter who makes full use of Bramblestar's larger and more muscular body. Spotfur's Rebellion shows that he personally killed two of his would-be assassins, including Stemleaf, despite being outnumbered five to one for most of the fight.
Treacherous Advisor: To Lionblaze.
Tyrant Takes the Helm: From his treatment of the Clan through control to the way he breaks the code by eating before the elders as the impostor in Veil of Shadows, as well as not caring about the danger he's putting his Clan in by exiling both medicine cats.
Ungrateful Bastard: StarClan allows Ashfur into their ranks, forgiving him for betraying his Clanmates and trying to murder his own Clan leader and Squirrelflight's adopted kits for purely selfish and spiteful reasons. How does Ashfur repay StarClan? As soon as the opportunity presents itself, he betrays them and traps them in their own territory.
Unstoppable Rage: In A Light in the Mist, he goes absolutely bonkers when Graystripe delivers Squirrelflight's "message" and mauls the old tom so savagely that his wounds kill him shortly after.
Villain Episode: He's the POV character for the prologue of A Light in the Mist. Said prologue does not shy away from showing just how utterly deranged he is. He also serves as the POV (albeit, unnamed at the time) for the prologue of Lost Stars, which reveals his intentions for the young Shadowpaw.
Villain Has a Point: Not about Squirrelflight. He goes on a massive rant about StarClan's pretentiousness, Small Name, Big Ego, hypocrisy, and flawed judgments in A Light in the Mist, and is for once in the right. StarClan display double standards in their decisions of who they let in, injustice in their condemnation of Leafpool and Squirrelflight for following their orders in Squirrelflight's Hope, and place too much importance on the warrior code as an infallible, inflexible thing when it was created by fallible, flexible cats. All of these factors mean Ashfur, while fully responsible for his actions, had the opportunity to take them at all, and The Broken Code ends with several living cats questioning their ancestor's wisdom and discussing reformations.
Villainous Crush: His completely one-sided obsession with Squirrelflight turned him into a villain. Death, in-universe years, and multiple rejections haven't weakened it.
"The gray tom’s eyes were full of adoration. Squirrelflight found that more terrifying than open menace would have been."
Villainous Incest: He is actually Squirrelflight's uncle through her mother, though this isn't mentioned in the text, and he's definitely a villain.
Walking Spoiler: The mere reveal of him being the Big Bad of the whole seventh arc is a spoiler-fest.
We Can Rule Together: In The Place of No Stars, he tells Squirrelflight that they can be together when he rules over both the forest and StarClan.
We Used to Be Friends: With Bramblestar. After Squirrelflight chooses Brambleclaw over him, Ashfur takes it very personally and ends his friendship with the dark brown tabby. The Broken Code makes it apparent that Ashfur hates Bramblestar, mocking him to Shadowsight in Lost Stars and Veil of Shadows. However, its arguably best displayed in The Place of No Stars, where Ashfur snarls at Bramblestar for "stealing Squirrelfight from him again" and vows to destroy the Clans as revenge, and Bramblestar later outright says that Ashfur's hatred and jealousy of him has twisted Ashfur into the monster he is now.
- In A Light in the Mist, Graystripe's speech on behalf of Squirrelflight to Ashfur makes it clear that Squirrelflight genuinely did consider Ashfur a friend before his descent into sociopathy.
Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: A variation. In The Place of No Stars, he asks Squirrelflight how she could pass him up for Bramblestar, who is attacking her at that very moment...because Ashfur is forcing him to do so.
Wicked Stepmother: Inverted and played with, oddly enough. After stealing Bramblestar's body and posing as him in Lost Stars, Ashfur has no genuine care for his kits or grandkits within Thunder Clan. He openly bullies and verbally abuses Lionblaze, Jayfeather, Alderheart, and Sparkpelt, exiling them all during his reign of terror in Thunder Clan. This also carries on to Lionblaze's and Sparkpelt's descendants, who unfortunately are still a target for Ashfur because they're simply related to cats he hates. He does this all while posing as their father and grandfather/great-grandfather. Lionblaze, Jayfeather, Alderheart, and Sparkpelt have no clue why their dad is suddenly treating them so terribly.
- Interestingly enough this factor is actually A clue as to the imposter's identity. In life, Ashfur despised Squirelflight's and Brambleclaw's children on the basis that they were their kits. In The Broken Code, Ashfur's obvious bias towards them compared to the rest of the Clan was a hint.
Woman Scorned: Gender inverted. Ashfur has had a huge grudge against Squirrelflight ever since she tried breaking it off amiably. This results in him trying to murder Squirrelflight's father Firestar and her children solely out of spite. And when she reveals her children were actually adopted, he decides to humiliate her by announcing this at a Gathering.
Would Harm a Senior: When Graystripe challenges Ashfur in Veil of Shadows when he is the impostor, he rakes his claws across Graystripe's nose.
Would Hurt a Child: He has no problems with killing young cats, like Squirrelflight's children or Shadowsight.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Deconstructed. Ashfur certainly views himself as this, believing his "love" for Squirrelflight and the pain it causes him justifies all of his cruel and destructive actions, and means everyone's hearts should bleed for him. But many other cats (Thrushpelt, Bristelefrost, Flipclaw to name a few) have suffered the same tragedy he did (falling in love with a cat who rejected them) but they didn't turn evil like he did. Furthermore, despite his crimes, Ashfur was allowed into StarClan, where he was reunited with his kin; cats who loved him (including his mother), but even after years living with them, he selfishly chooses to betray them for the sake of continuing his obsessive pursuit of Squirrelflight.
Yandere: Massively. First, after being dumped by Squirrelflight, he plots to kill off her family as "punishment" for leaving him. Then, after dying, he finds a way to possess her mate Bramblestar's body to be with her. He hoards all of her time and attention, to the point Bristlefrost compares it to a kit needing its mother, and becomes violent when she figures out the truth and refuses to be with him. When he exiles her in a fit of rage, he's noted to sleep in the remnants of her bedding. Finally, at the end of Darkness Within, he drags her through the Moonpool to the Dark Forest, and says in The Place of No Stars that he brought her there so they could be together. Basically, his obsession with Squirrelflight is so intense it transcends the afterlife.

Rainwhisker

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"Sootfur was our brother, she will want to hear it from me."

The kit of Whitestorm and Willowpelt, Rainwhisker is the brother of Sootfur and Sorreltail. He's a fairly minor character in the series.

The Apprentice: To Cloudtail.
Bus Crash: His death is mentioned at the start of "The Sight". He is killed between series two and three by a falling tree branch.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: He was killed by a falling tree branch. In between books.
Flashback Nightmare: As an apprentice he started to have badger nightmares because of how his mother died.
Gender Bender: Either he or his brother Sootfur was born as a she-cat, but became a tom in the later books.
Greater Need Than Mine: He refuses medical aid in Sunset for this reason.
Killed Offscreen: Gets crushed by a tree branch between series two and three.
Series Continuity Error: In Battles of the Clans, Whitepaw says he died in the badger attack with Sootfur and Cinderpelt. This is wrong, he survived that battle, though he had his leg dislocated in it.
Those Two Guys: With his brother Sootfur during The New Prophecy. They're frequently seen together and do nothing of importance. However, he is also seen occasionally on other patrols and is slightly more important than Sootfur.

Sootfur

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"Sootfur was a brave warrior...He's safe with StarClan now."

The kit of Whitestorm and Willowpelt. Brother to Rainwhisker and Sorreltail, and half-brother to Graystripe and Darkstripe. That's pretty much it. Oh, except for also his death which is one the most brutal and horrifying in the series. Outside of that, he mainly appears in The New Prophecy, but doesn't do much.

The Apprentice: To Longtail before he went blind and then to Thornclaw.
C-List Fodder: He's the least important ThunderClanner in The New Prophecy, so he dies in the badger attack to provide a "shock".
Cruel and Unusual Death: A variant. While dying by badgers isn't out of the ordinary in this series, the way he does certainly is. Instead of the normal quick one, he dies blind with agony, fear, and confusion, and struggling to get away, but is unable to because of his newly broken back legs. He then gets his throat torn open, and finally perishes with his eyes still wide with pain, and terror.
Dies Wide Open: In Twilight during a badger fight.
Game-Breaking Injury: Both his back legs are broken in the badger attack. Squirrelflight tries to help him escape the hollow due to this, but he fails to climb out because of these injuries, and is killed by a badger shortly after.
Gender Bender: Either he or his brother Rainwhisker was born as a she-cat, but became a tom in the later books.
Living Prop: He doesn't even speak in some of the installments of The New Prophecy.
Look Both Ways: As an apprentice in A Thief in ThunderClan he is nearly flattened by a monster at one point when stepping onto the Thunderpath; he's only saved by Brightheart pulling him backward out of its path.
Series Continuity Error: Just before his death, he's described as black. He's not, he's dark gray.
Slashed Throat: A badger kills him by ripping his throat open.
Those Two Guys: With his brother Rainwhisker during The New Prophecy. They're frequently seen together and do nothing of importance.

Became a warrior in The New Prophecy

Sorreltail

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"Loyalty is proved by what we do, not where we come from!"

The kit of Whitestorm and Willowpelt, Sorreltail is a strong warrior who has seen a lot of trauma. She's essentially Leafpool's best friend.

Action Girl: Like most Clan she-cats, she fights, hunts, and patrols all as a matter of course.
Action Mom: Becomes no less badass when she is a mother. In fact, she dies in the Great Battle specifically because she was horribly wounded but pretended she was fine in order to comfort her kits. The best of both worlds.
The Apprentice: To Sandstorm.
Curious as a Monkey: As a kit, she was always getting into trouble because of her curiosity and misguided courage. In The Darkest Hour, she decided to follow Darkstripe to his secret meeting with Blackfoot, and Darkstripe fed her deathberries to keep her quiet because she saw too much. If Fireheart and Graystripe hadn't seen what Darkstripe was doing at that very moment, she really would have died.
Genki Girl: Particularly early on in The New Prophecy, she was energetic and eager to take action.
Happily Married: To Brackenfur.
He Knows Too Much: Subverted. She learns something she wasn't supposed to, but survives the attempt on her life.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Leafpool.
Killed Offscreen: In a short story in The Ultimate Guide she appears in StarClan. Word of God is that she died of her wounds while Bramblestar was on his way to the Moonpool.
Look Both Ways: In the Time Skip between The Darkest Hour/Firestar's Quest and The New Prophecy, she was hit by a car and lost three moons of warrior training.
Maternity Crisis: She has her first litter in the middle of a badger raid on the camp, and she can't be moved from the nursery, creating complications that lead to Cinderpelt's death.
Outliving One's Offspring: Outlives two of her six kits.
Snooping Little Kid: As a kit in The Darkest Hour, she knows that Darkstripe is supposed to have Brackenfur guarding him, and is curious to know what he's doing when he sneaks off on his own. He spots her and tricks her into eating poisonous berries so that she can't reveal that she saw him plotting with an enemy warrior; fortunately she survives.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: It's mentioned in Moonrise that she's incredibly scared of deathberries because of Darkstripe trying to kill her with them in The Darkest Hour.

Spiderleg

"These are the qualities ThunderClan needs most. Courage, loyalty, and the willingness to face danger for the sake of a Clanmate. If you ask me, Firestar, we'd be a fool not to make her a warrior."

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Son of Dustpelt and Ferncloud. ThunderClan's resident Jerkass. That's really all there is to say about him, other than how he had a one-night stand with Daisy.

The Apprentice: To Mousefur.
Character Development: During Bramblestar's Storm, he's grown into a good mentor, treats the kittypets fairly, and even shows an interest in getting back together with Daisy. Even prior to that, he was actively putting in effort into being a dad for his kits (rather than letting his uncertainy control him) and becoming nicer at times with his compliments.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: Not only does he die off-screen in the intermission between Bramblestar's Storm and The Apprentice's Quest, the reason isn't even mentioned until the next book! Poor guy's death is basically completely ignored.
Fauxshadowing: The creepy wind that blows when Firestar announces his warrior name. It makes it look like he'll be evil, but nothing ever comes of it.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Develops into this, much like his father did.
Killed Offscreen: He died from greencough in between Bramblestar's Storm and The Apprentice's Quest.
Like Father, Like Son: He starts out as a jerk but becomes a kinder person over time, the same way Dustpelt did. And on a sadder note, he goes through a significant Trauma Conga Line likes his father does.
The Mentor: To Mousewhisker and Ambermoon.
Outliving One's Offspring: Outlives his son, Toadstep.
Parental Neglect: Subverted. He was initially emotionally neglectful of Rosekit and Toadkit, but when Daisy called him on it he revealed he just felt really awkward and unsure around them, and makes a conscious effort to be a part of their lives from then on.
Prematurely Grey-Haired: In Crowfeather's Trial, Crowfeather notices that Spiderleg has gray hairs around his muzzle, despite his young age. To emphasize this, Spiderleg wasn't even 7 when he died.
Series Continuity Error: He's frequently mentioned to be black with a brown underbelly. As a kit in A Thief in ThunderClan, he's drawn as fully black.
Trauma Conga Line: Almost if not just as bad as his father's—both his younger sisters and his twin brother died during the destruction of the old forest. And then the rest of his family—mother, brother, sister, son, father—are all systematically killed off. Bramblestar even notes that, when he's returning from burying Dustpelt, Spiderleg is just walking slowly with his head and tail hanging. Basically the only family he has left is one brother (out of six siblings) and a daughter.
Younger Than They Look: In The Last Hope it's observed that he's starting to get grey hairs in his muzzle, despite many older characters not betraying such signs of aging.

Became a warrior before Power of Three

Whitewing

"Remember, I'm your mother. Nothing you say can ever shock me or make me love you less."

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The only kit of Cloudtail and Brightheart's first litter. Whitewing is a kind and gentle she-cat mated to Birchfall. Once her kits become main characters in Omen of the Stars, she gets a lot more screen time.

The Apprentice: To Brackenfur.
Good Parents: To Ivypool and Dovewing, particularly emphasized when she delivers the line above.
Happily Married: To Birchfall.
Incorruptible Pure Pureness: When Lionblaze was trying to guess which ThunderClan cats might train with the Dark Forest, he had a "No. Just… No" Reaction when considering Whitewing.
Light Is Good: She has a white pelt and is the embodiment of purity if Lionblaze's reaction is anything to go by.
The Mentor: To Icecloud and Dewnose. She also took over as Cherryfall's mentor when Foxleap dies in the Dark Forest battle.
Shipper on Deck: In The Forgotten Warrior, she urges Dovewing to get together with Bumblestripe.
Ship Tease: Plenty of them with Birchfall, until they actually got together.
Strong Family Resemblance: She has white fur, like both of her parents.
White Is Pure: She is a gentle, kind mother. When Lionblaze thinks through his Clanmates, wondering which might be traitors training with the Dark Forest, his thought when he gets to Whitewing is "Never. Just... never."

Birchfall

"I thought I'd learned everything that I could, but now I see that there are ways to be even more powerful in battle for my Clan."

The kit of Dustpelt and Ferncloud, as well as Whitewing's mate.

The Apprentice: To Ashfur.
Face–Heel Turn: In The Forgotten Warrior, he becomes a trainee of the Dark Forest.
Family Theme Naming: Birchfall and his littermates, Hollykit and Larchkit, are all named after trees.
Happily Married: To Whitewing.
Heel–Face Turn: In The Last Hope, he realizes that he was duped by the Dark Forest and turns back to the side of the Clans.
Hot-Blooded: Most definitely. Even more so after joining the Dark Forest.
Idiot Hero: Oh yes. Exploited by the Dark Forest.
Panicky Expectant Father: He spends much of Sunrise worrying about his mate and unborn kits. When they're finally born, Jayfeather is overwhelmed by the strength of Birchfall's relief.
Papa Wolf: Wants to lead a patrol to rescue his daughter Ivypool after she gets kidnapped by ShadowClan.
Ship Tease: Plenty of them with Whitewing, until they actually got together.
Sole Survivor: He outlives his parents and all six of his siblings.
Those Two Guys: With Berrynose.
You Shall Not Pass!: In The Last Hope, he does this to protect a WindClan kit from the Dark Forest invasion. He lives, but still.

Became a warrior in Power of Three

Millie

"I wanted to be as loyal to you as you are to your Clan. I know I can't exactly miss a life I've never known, Graystripe, but I think sharing your life, and your path, is the best journey I could possibly imagine."

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A former kittypet who gave up her home, not because of the enticing Warrior lifestyle, but because of her love for Graystripe. She helped him find his way to the Clans' new home by the lake.

Abusive Parents: As of Sign of the Moon, she neglects, if not outright ignores, Bumblestripe and Blossomfall after Briarlight's accident.
Action Girl: Those lessons Graystripe gave her sure helped.
A Day in the Limelight: The Graystripe's Adventure manga series, which explains how she met Graystripe.
Battle Couple: With Graystripe in Graystripe's Adventure.
Because You Can Cope: She did this to two of her children when the third broke her back. One of the deciding factors in bringing Blossomfall to the Dark Forest.
Big Damn Heroes: She shows up just in the nick of time to save Graystripe at the end of The Lost Warrior.
Deer in the Headlights: In Warrior's Refuge, she freezes when crossing a road. Graystripe has to grab her by her scruff and drag her out of the way of an oncoming car.
Depending on the Artist: In the main series, she is described as a grey cat, but the covers of Warrior's Refuge and Warrior's Return depict her as a light brown cat.
Determinator: It took her a while to find Graystripe, but she never gives up. Also, she doesn't let anything get in the way of helping Graystripe find his clan.
Ear Notch: One of her ears is torn during the final battle in The Last Hope.
Hidden Depths: She knows how to speak the language of dogs, just enough to say the words that will make them leave a cat alone.
Hysterical Woman: Starts acting like one after Briarlight's accident.
I Will Find You: Towards Graystripe after he leaves Twolegplace to find ThunderClan.
I Will Wait for You: In Graystripe's Vow, she says this to Graystripe in a dream he has.
Killed Offscreen: She died from unspecified causes in between A Vision of Shadows and The Broken Code.
Last Girl Wins: To Graystripe. He has a whole Clan (a whole four Clans!) full of she-cats he could be mates with, but ends up with the kittypet he meets in the middle of series two.
Lookalike Lovers: She is a grey-furred cat, like her mate Graystripe.
Outliving One's Offspring: Her daughter Briarlight dies from sickness in River of Fire.
Pale Females, Dark Males: Graystripe is a dark gray while Millie is a light shade of gray.
A Pet into the Wild: She was a kittypet who left her home to help Graystripe find ThunderClan and join it herself.
Second Love: For Graystripe.
Suddenly Always Knew That: She could always speak to dogs.
Teach Me How To Fight: In The Lost Warrior, Graystripe tells her all about his life as a ThunderClan warrior. She is so intrigued that she eventually asks him to train her to fight.
Training Montage: Has one when Graystripe teaches her the ways of the Clans.
Undying Loyalty: To Graystripe.
Walking the Earth: Resolves to do this with Graystripe at the end of The Lost Warrior, at least until they find the Clans.

Hazeltail

"We'll prove we're not afraid of a battle! We'll rip their treacherous fur off!"

The kit of Daisy, and a first-generation warrior. She's loyal to her Clan, sometimes too much so, but she doesn't get much spotlight.

Action Girl: Like most she-cats in Warriors.
The Apprentice: To Dustpelt.
Hot-Blooded: She is easily manipulated into wanting to attack WindClan by Sol in The Forgotten Warrior.
Killed Offscreen: In Bramblestar's Storm, it was revealed that she died of greencough.
Living Prop: She only exists to make ThunderClan larger. She had a bit of a role in The New Prophecy, but is unimportant after that.
Meaningful Name: She has a lean, whippy tail like the branches of a hazel tree.
The Mentor: To Blossomfall.
Strong Family Resemblance: She has a fluffy gray-and-white pelt like her father Smoky and brother Mousewhisker.

Berrynose

"I'm just like a warrior now!...Every warrior has wounds. It shows how brave they are."

One of Daisy's kits, he is a first-generation Warrior. He's very loyal to the Clan, but is arrogant enough to be thoroughly annoying to some of his Clanmates. He became ThunderClan's deputy after Squirrelflight's exile.

An Arm and a Leg: As a kit in Sunset he gets his tail caught in a fox trap and it gets badly mangled. Leafpool determines that she can't save it, and amputates it, leaving a stump. The injury makes the kit's mother so afraid of life in the wild that she temporarily leaves the Clan with her kits to return to the barn where they were born.
And I Must Scream: Like Ashfur's other mind-controlled minions (see below), it is heavily implied that Berrynose's true self is still in there, but is powerless to do anything. When Bramblestar regains his body, Berrynose recognizes him and appears to want to stop fighting.
The Apprentice: He becomes the apprentice of Brambleclaw, one of the main characters of The New Prophecy.
Barred from the Afterlife: Because StarClan is blocked off at the time of his death, he's stuck as a ghost. He is finally able to enter StarClan at the end of A Light in the Mist.
Brain Washed And Crazy: In The Place of No Stars, Berrynose, along with many other fallen Clan cats who are stuck as ghosts, is imprisoned in the Dark Forest by Ashfur, who sadistically mind-controls them into being his personal army.
Boomerang Bigot: In Power of Three, he insults a cat for being a former kittypet. Then someone points out to him that he was a former kittypet as well.
Caught in a Snare: He gets his tail stuck in a fox trap in Sunset.
Character Development: Loses some of his arrogance and becomes more mature in Bramblestar's Storm.
Chick Magnet: Much to the surprise of other cats.
Commander Contrarian: Slightly Cloudtail-esque in this respect.
Doting Parent: Hilariously. Lionblaze wonders how someone so arrogant can be such a good dad.
Ear Notch: He gains a shredded ear-tip during the eclipse battle.
Good Parents: Lionblaze notes that he's somehow an awesome dad.
Gutted Like a Fish: Tawnypelt kills him in this fashion, eerily similar to how her father was.
Hidden Depths: Compensates for his arrogance by turning out to be one of the most awesome dads ever.
Hurt Foot Hop: In The Fourth Apprentice, he steps on a thistle and hops around on his other three paws.
Insufferable Genius: His already-swollen head practically triples in size when he becomes deputy, but Bristlefrost notes he actually is good at the job.
Kavorka Man: Has lost his tail, and is completely obnoxious, but the she-cats love him.
Keet: As a kit and an apprentice.
Mind-Control Eyes: While under Ashfur's control, Berrynose's eyes are eerily blank.
Number Two: He becomes deputy after Squirrelflight is exiled.
Panicky Expectant Father: He goes crazy trying to make Poppyfrost safe when she's carrying his kits.
Plucky Comic Relief: He's there to add humour to Power of Three, to be so over the top in his love of himself that it's amusing.
Professional Butt-Kisser: After becoming deputy, he begins to kiss up to impostor-Bramblestar and do his best to please him, much to impostor-Bramblestar's displeasure.
The Rival: To Jayfeather in Power of Three.
Settle for Sibling: In The Fourth Apprentice, it's revealed that he got together with Honeyfern's sister Poppyfrost after Honeyfern's death in Sunrise.
Serial Romeo: Two she-cats pad after him. Two.
Small Name, Big Ego: He believes that he's StarClan's gift to the Clans, or something similar.
Strong Family Resemblance: He is a long-furred cream-colored cat like his mother Daisy.
Those Two Guys: With Birchfall.
Took a Level in Jerkass: After he became a warrior, Berrynose became the bossy, arrogant cat we all know today.
- In The Silent Thaw, he becomes ThunderClan's deputy. This inflates Berrynose's already big ego and he becomes absolutely insufferable, much to the annoyance of everyone. Even impostor-Bramblestar becomes annoyed with him.
Tsundere: He may be a jerk to most cats, but he's kind and sweet toward his mate(s) and kits.
Unfortunate Name: Was worried about Firestar calling him Berrystumpytail.

Mousewhisker

"Whatever you say. I'm not an apprentice anymore... I'm a warrior - I hunt and fight. I'll leave the weird medicine cat stuff to you."

The kit of Daisy, brother of Berrynose and Hazeltail, and a first-generation warrior. He's a fairly minor character.

The Apprentice: To Spiderleg.
Cat Up a Tree: In Dark River, he gets caught in a tree while chasing a squirrel and is too scared to come down. So Cinderheart has to go up there to get him down...and ends up breaking her leg in the process.
Epic Fail: He poisons himself (and Cherrypaw) when trying to get over a bellyache.
Face–Heel Turn: In The Last Hope, the Dark Forest recruit him.
Heel–Face Turn: He fights on the side of the Clans in the final battle in The Last Hope.
Living Prop: He's a very minor character, and only exists to add another cat to the ThunderClan allegiances.
The Mentor: To Bumblestripe, Plumstone and Bayshine.
One-Steve Limit: Sort of averted. Mousewhisker is not a name shared by any other Clan cat, but he shares his prefix with Mousefur, which is unusual. Typically, there is never more than one cat with a given prefix in a Clan at one time. His original name was Mouse, briefly, which is shared with a rogue in Dawn of the Clans.
Strong Family Resemblance: He has a fluffy gray-and-white pelt like his father Smoky and sister Hazeltail. Mousewhisker was also stated to be as strong and muscular as his father.

Honeyfern

"Get away! You're not wanted here! And as for you, Breezepelt- You get out of here, too. Or do you want a couple of shredded ears?"

One of Sorreltail and Brackenfur's kits. She dies saving Briarlight from an adder.

The Apprentice: To Sandstorm.
Backup from Otherworld: In The Fourth Apprentice, she helps Jayfeather fight Brokenstar and Breezepelt.
Cruel and Unusual Death: In Sunrise she is bitten by an adder and dies screaming as its poison slowly kills her.
Diving Save: In Sunrise she dives in to knock Briarkit away from a snake and is bitten instead.
Heroic Sacrifice: In Sunrise, she throws herself in front of a snake to save Briarlight.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In The Fourth Apprentice, she explains that she wants Berrynose to be happy with Poppyfrost, since she's dead and can't get together with him.
Morality Pet: Along with her sister Poppyfrost, she is one to Berrynose.
Nice Girl: Her kindness is noted as one of defining traits during her warrior ceremony. Sorreltail states her daughter was super gentle as a kit and that she was always worried that Hollyleaf, Lionblaze and Jayfeather weren't getting enough milk.
Sibling Team: Fights alongside Poppyfrost during the final battle in The Last Hope.
Walking Spoiler: She has her most important role in The Fourth Apprentice, which happens after she dies.
What Does She See in Him?: She had a crush on the arrogant Berrynose ever since she was an apprentice much to the befuddlement of Hollyleaf, Jayfeather and Lionblaze, who constantly wonder why someone would love such a ignorant pain in the tail.

Poppyfrost

"Molekit!....Cherrykit's your sister. You must encourage her, not tease! True warriors help their Clanmates."

One of the kits of Sorreltail and Brackenfur. During the Omen Of The Stars arc she becomes Berrynose's mate.

Adventures in Comaland: In The Sight, Jayfeather saves her from sickness by guiding her out of her dreams.
Angsty Surviving Twin: In The Fourth Apprentice, she wishes that she could have died instead of Honeyfern.
The Apprentice: To Thornclaw.
Break the Cutie: Before the third series starts, her only brother dies from sickness. Then as a young apprentice, she almost died of greencough. Shortly afterward one of her sisters is temporarily taken out of training because of an injured leg. Her only remaining sister dies soon after they become warriors, and her sister's former mate chooses her. Now, she is very happy about this, because she has been in love with this tom since before her sister's death, but she cannot enjoy it because she thinks that he doesn't truly love her. It takes a message from StarClan to get the poor she-cat to believe that her sister doesn't hate her!
Chickification: She's initially portrayed in The Power Of Three as a fearless warrior. By the next series, she's an anxious wreck who stays in the nursery taking care of her kits and fretting over them.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In a twist on this trope, she believes that Berrynose still loves Honeyfern and wishes that she could have died instead so that Berrynose could be with her.
The Mentor: To Lilyheart, her younger sister.
Morality Pet: Along with her sister Honeyfern, she is one to Berrynose.
Neutral Female: During Breezepelt's and Jayfeather's battle, she can't do much to help and ends up retreating to the bushes. However, it's justified because she's pregnant at the time and her belly's too swollen for her to do anything.
Pregnant Hostage: Courtesy of Breezepelt.
Second Love: To Berrynose.
Sibling Team: Fights alongside Honeyfern during the Final Battle in The Last Hope.
Strong Family Resemblance: When she was a kit, she was stated to look like a "tiny copy" of her mother, Sorreltail.
Victorious Childhood Friend: In The Fourth Apprentice, she gets together with Berrynose, who she had harboured a secret crush on in Power of Three.
What Does She See in Him?: Much like her sister Honeyfern, Poppyfrost has feelings for Berrynose, and eventually becomes his mate. The protagonists also wonder how Poppyfrost could love someone as arrogant and know-it-all like as Berrynose.

Became a warrior before Omen of the Stars

Leafpool

See Warrior Cats Thunderclan Medicine Cats

Foxleap

"I've had enough of this! I won't just sit here like a useless lump of fur while lives are at stake!"

One of Dustpelt and Ferncloud's third litter, Foxleap is the brother of Icecloud. So far he has been a minor character, though he did go on a journey to the Tribe in Sign of the Moon.

The Apprentice: To Squirrelflight.
Ascended Extra: He joins Jayfeather, Dovewing and Squirrelflight on their journey to The Tribe Of Rushing Water in Sign of the Moon.
Fiery Redhead
Hot-Blooded: A deconstruction, as he wants to fight even if it would be better to not fight, and his being hot blooded even gets Swoop killed.
Idiot Hero: Deconstructed. His stupidity inadvertently causes the death of another cat and causes him to start feeling immense pain.
It's All My Fault: Says this after Swoop gets carried away by an eagle.
Keet
Killed Offscreen: In Bramblestar's Storm, it's mentioned that he died of his injures after the battle with the Dark Forest.
- Though, his death is shown in Dovewing's Silence.
Leeroy Jenkins: In Sign of the Moon, he decides to save the rogues from an eagle attack, so the Clan and Tribe cats drive the eagle off, but it results in Swoop getting taken away by a hawk. He feels guilty about this, but as one Tribe cats puts it when scolding him, the damage had been done.
The Mentor: To Cherryfall.
My God, What Have I Done?: He feels really upset that he got Swoop killed. One of the prey-hunters then yells at him for it, making him feel worse.
Posthumous Sibling: His older brother Shrewpaw and older sisters Larchkit and Hollykit are already dead by the time Icecloud and Foxleap are born.
Ship Tease: With Rosepetal in Fading Echoes. Nothing ever comes of it thanks to the Erins realizing that the two are kin (her father is Foxleap's brother from another litter). He then gets teased with Dovewing in Sign of the Moon (in a similar manner as Tigerheart and Dovewing in The Fourth Apprentice), but this also leads to nothing because they're kin, as well.

Icecloud

"I want to be called Icestorm. Do you think we get to choose?"

One of Dustpelt and Ferncloud's third litter, Icecloud is the sister of Foxleap, and so far has been a minor character.

Action Girl: As with all female characters.
The Apprentice: To Whitewing.
Chekhov's Gunman: Subverted. She seems to be on her way to becoming a more important character because of her Ship Tease with Lionblaze in Eclipse, but that comes to nothing when he chooses Cinderheart instead.
Genki Girl
Killed Offscreen: She apparently died of greencough in the Time Skip between The Last Hope and Bramblestar's Storm.
Posthumous Sibling: Her older brother Shrewpaw and older sisters Larchkit and Hollykit are already dead by the time Icecloud and Foxleap are born.
Romantic False Lead: Hinted to be Lionblaze's eventual mate in Eclipse. However, Lionblaze opts to get together with Cinderheart in Omen of the Stars.

Rosepetal

"Sometimes Dovewing, you could pay attention to the feelings of other cats."

The daughter of Spiderleg and Daisy.

Ascended Extra: She gets a bit more of a role in Lost Stars due to being Bristlefrost's mentor.
The Apprentice: To Squirrelflight.
And I Must Scream: Sometime after her death, Rosepetal, along with many other fallen Clan cats who are stuck as ghosts, is imprisoned in the Dark Forest by Ashfur, who turns them into brainwashed slaves. Like Ashfur's other mind-controlled minions, it is heavily implied that Rosepetal's true self is still in there and may even be aware of what is happening, but is powerless to do anything.
Barred from the Afterlife: Because StarClan is blocked off at the time of her death, she's stuck as a ghost. She is finally able to enter StarClan at the end of A Light in the Mist.
Brainwashed and Crazy: In The Place of No Stars, Rosepetal, along with many other fallen Clan cats who are stuck as ghosts, is imprisoned in the Dark Forest by Ashfur, who sadistically mind-controls them into being his blank-eyed puppets.
Cool Teacher: Throughout Bristlepaw's apprenticeship, Rosepetal shows herself to be reasonable, supportive, and fair. In fact, Bristlepaw has nothing but praise to sing for her, and refuses to cheat on her warrior assessment because it would be an insult to Rosepetal's mentoring.
Fighting from the Inside: This is heavily implied to be the case when Rosepetal sees Bramblestar reunite with his body; she is described as "shuddering, as if some great conflict was taking place inside her."
Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Delivers a sharp speech that's both this and You Are Better Than You Think You Are to Bristlefrost, who is sulking over being rejected by Stemleaf, in Lost Stars.
Hidden Depths: During her Get A Hold Of Yourself Man to Bristlefrost in Lost Stars, she reveals that she understands exactly how it feels to want someone or something, only for it to not work out. Considering the context was Bristlefrost's unreturned feelings for Stemleaf, the implication is that Rosepetal has also experienced unrequited love.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's a tad sharp-tongued and scornful, but is very sympathetic to other cats' problems and good at reassuring kits or providing sound advice.
Killed Offscreen: She dies in the battle near the end of Veil of Shadows.
Like Father, Like Son: Rosepetal clearly inherited the best aspects of her parents: she has Spiderleg's willingness to say what needs to be said, even if it might be harsh, and Daisy's nurturing heart.
Meaningful Name: She can be as sharp as a rose's thorns but also as gentle as its petals.
Mind-Control Eyes: While under Ashfur's control, Rosepetal's eyes are eerily blank.
The Mentor: To Molewhisker, Fernsong, Larksong, Stemleaf, and Bristlefrost. Apparently she's very good at it!
Sacrificial Lion: She's one of the more fleshed-out background characters and even gets some spotlight in The Broken Code due to being Bristlefrost's mentor...and then she dies in Veil of Shadows.
Shipper on Deck: In The Last Hope, she makes it clear that she supports Dovewing and Bumblestripe.
Ship Tease:
- With Foxleap in Fading Echoes. Nothing ever comes of it thanks to the Erins realizing that the two are kin (her father is Foxleap's brother from another litter).
- Gets a bit with Bumblestripe in Bramblestar's Storm, after he and Dovewing break up.
Silk Hiding Steel: Much like her mother.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Spouts this line in Sign of the Moon, right before being attacked by a dog.
What the Hell, Hero?: She scolds Dovewing for snapping at Bumblestripe just for bumping into her. She also says that a little accident didn't mean she had to act angry at him all the time.
Wise Beyond Their Years: She's been unusually sensible and calm since her apprenticehood.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: She's quick to reassure Bristlepaw whenever she feels like she's not doing enough for the Clan. She doesn't stop when Bristlepaw becomes Bristlefrost, either; when her former apprentice confides that all her training feels like a waste because she pinned so much of her dreams on Stemleaf, Rosepetal is quick to promise her that it isn't a waste, that she can still serve the Clan, and that she can find love again.

Toadstep

"Let them come! We are ready!"

The son of Spiderleg and Daisy.

A Day in the Limelight: He gets a chapter focused on him in Sign of the Moon.
The Apprentice: To Cloudtail.
Big Damn Heroes: He shows up to save Lionblaze from a dog in Sign of the Moon.
Epic Fail: His attempts to copy Lionblaze lead to him being defeated in combat by a tree.
Hot-Blooded: Obsessed with fighting, and with imitating his rival Lionblaze.
Killed Offscreen: In Bramblestar's Storm it's revealed that he died of the greencough epidemic that swept through ThunderClan after the great battle.
The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Is obsessed with Lionblaze to the point of trying to copy his fighting style.
Serial Romeo: He's Ship Teased with a different she-cat in every book.
Ship Tease: With Blossomfall in Fading Echoes and Icecloud in The Forgotten Warrior.

Became a warrior in Omen of the Stars

Briarlight

"Walk? No I can't. But that doesn't mean I can't be useful."

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One of Graystripe and Millie's first litter of kits, she is injured while trying to get a mouse left behind by Mousefur right before a tree fell into the camp, leaving her legs paralyzed.

Action Girl: As an apprentice. Then Break the Cutie happened.
Alliterative Family: Her name starts with a "b" just like her littermates Blossomfall and Bumblestripe.
Almost Dead Guy: As she dies in River of Fire, she has enough time to say an emotional farewell to her parents and littermates.
The Apprentice: To Thornclaw.
Ascended Extra: In Fading Echoes and beyond, due to becoming Jayfeather's assistant.
Born Lucky: Excluding the one time her luck failed her, Briarlight has dodged death seven times in the series. ^note There are main characters who aren't that lucky. Her luck finally runs out in River of Fire, as she gets ill and dies.
Break the Cutie: In the most literal way possible.
Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: With Jayfeather. He's snappish and broods a lot on his powers and role for the Clan, while she's sweet and emotionally supportive.
Career-Ending Injury: After a tree falls on her, she is unable to use her legs, so she can't be a warrior.
Chocolate Baby: Her parents are both grey-furred, but she has dark brown fur.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Her reaction is nowhere near as extreme as is usual for this trope, but she dislikes being pitied.
Expy: Of Cinderpelt, if her character had gone in a different direction.
Feigning Healthiness: In River of Fire, she gets sick and pretends to be healthy because she doesn't want to bother the medicine cats. By the time the medicine cats realize that Briarlight it sick, it's already too late to save her.
Friend to All Children: She plays with the kits often and keeps them entertained.
Genki Girl: As an apprentice. Although downplayed, it still exists even after she breaks her legs.
I Can't Feel My Legs!: A tree falls in the camp and lands on her. She cannot feel her hind legs. It turns out that her spine is broken and her hind legs are paralyzed.
Incurable Cough of Death: This ends up being how she dies in River of Fire, as sickness goes through the ThunderClan camp in the book.
Innocent Blue Eyes: Despite all that's happened, she has an extremely innocent air to her and is always kind to everyone around her.
Meaningful Name: Her warrior name is a reflection of her fierce-burning spirit, a recognition of the unimaginably difficult and unique apprenticeship she had served.
The Medic: Somewhat. She's not an official medicine cat, but she acts as Jayfeather's assistant in Omen of the Stars.
Nice Girl: She's always kind to every cat, providing a contrast with Jayfeather, another disabled cat, who was always a jerk to people instead.
Non-Action Guy: Her injury prevents her from fighting or hunting. Instead, she helps Jayfeather sort herbs, takes care of kits, and soothes the elders when they are troubled by nightmares.
Platonic Life-Partners: With Jayfeather; despite their Ship Tease, they never move into romantic territory. Despite this, they remain extremely close and important to each other. He's absolutely devastated when she dies, at first refusing to admit defeat and then breaking down when he tries to give a speech about her.
Plucky Girl: Refuses to let her disability get her down. Her determination even gets commended at her vigil.
Posthumous Sibling: Her older half-sister Feathertail died a few years before Briarlight, Blossomfall and Bumblestripe were born.
Ship Tease: With Jayfeather.
Stepford Smiler: She's actually angry and upset by her injury, but hides it under a mask of cheerfulness.
Took a Level in Badass: By The Last Hope, she has regained much of the mobility she lost when her legs were crushed.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Jayfeather gives her this speech when he notices how guilty she feels over not being able to do anything for the Clan.

Bumblestripe

"I like to look up at our ancestors. Sometimes I wonder which ones are mine."

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Graystripe and Millie's only tom. Bumblestripe is the kit of Graystripe's with the least traumatic backstory.

Alliterative Family: His name starts with a "b" just like his littermates Blossomfall and Briarlight.
Anger Born of Worry: As an apprentice Spotfur attacks Bumblestripe as a prank and he almost killed her before he realized who it was. As a result, Bumblestripe was quite furious at her.
The Apprentice: To Mousewhisker.
Ascended Extra: In the second half of Omen of the Stars when he becomes Dovewing's love interest.
Battle Couple: With Dovewing in The Last Hope. All that battle training together really pays off in the Final Battle.
Big Eater: Like his father.
Butt-Monkey: It's even pointed out in The Last Hope.
Expy: Of his dad, Graystripe.
Generation Xerox: Personality wise, he's just like his father.
The Gentleman or the Scoundrel: For Dovewing. He's the dorky and cute Gentleman, while Tigerheart is the darker and more intense Scoundrel.
Love Interest: For Dovewing.
Meaningful Name: When he was born, Graystripe stated that he looked like a bumblebee earning him his name.
The Mentor: To Seedpaw, Leafshade and Shellfur.
Mr. Exposition: Battles of the Clans has him explaining the Lightning Strike to Dovewing and Ivypool, while Lionblaze and Purdy pretend to be trees.
Nice Guy: The clan certainly thinks so. His behavior with Dovewing might suggest otherwise.
Official Couple: As of The Last Hope, he's this with Dovewing.
- Until they broke up in Bramblestar's Storm.
Plucky Comic Relief: A lot of his role in Omen of the Stars consists of cats making jokes at his expense.
Posthumous Sibling: His older half-sister Feathertail died a few years before Briarlight, Blossomfall and Bumblestripe were born.
Romantic False Lead: To Ivypool. Though some of the fandom certainly seems to hope not.
- And, it turns out, he's also this to Dovewing, as their relationship ended not long after it began, in Bramblestar's Storm.
Strong Family Resemblance: Like his mother and father, he has grey fur. Notably, he is the only cat in his litter who actually looks like his parents.
Theme Naming: Shares the "-stripe" suffix with his father Graystripe.
Victorious Childhood Friend: As of The Last Hope, he and Dovewing are mates for good...until Bramblestar's Storm, that is.

Blossomfall

"But I can't help what I feel, and that proves I'm not a good cat."

Another of Graystripe and Millie's first litter, she is snappish with with other cats, and neglected by her mom after Briarlight's accident. In Sign of the Moon, she begins training in The Place Of No Stars. Later in The Last Hope, she turns against them and aides the Clans.

Action Girl: As with all female characters.
Alliterative Family: Her name starts with a "b" just like her littermates Briarlight and Bumblestripe.
Anti-Villain: It is made clear she knows the Dark Forest is evil, but she hates herself and believes she deserves it.
The Apprentice: To Hazeltail.
Ascended Extra: In Sign of the Moon and beyond, due to joining the Dark Forest.
The Atoner: As of The Last Hope, where she tries to make up for joining the Dark Forest.
Back-to-Back Badasses: With Applefur in The Last Hope, when protecting WindClan from the Dark Forest invasion.
Break the Cutie: She's completely ignored by their mother after Briarlight's injury to the point where she joins the Dark Forest just so she can be noticed for once.
The Bully: In Fading Echoes, she picks on Ivypool and generally acts like a jerk to her. She grows out of it by joining the Dark Forest.
Chocolate Baby: She is a tortoiseshell-and-white cat with two grey-furred parents.
Dark Is Not Evil: She knows that the Dark Forest are evil, and she isn't really a bad cat.
Face–Heel Turn: In Sign of the Moon she joins the Dark Forest. And in what is a first for Warriors, turning evil makes her nicer and a better person, er, cat.
Heel–Face Turn: In The Last Hope, she turns back to the side of the Clans.
I Just Want to Be Loved: Sign of the Moon reveals that her jerkish behaviour was just a front for the uncertainty and worry she feels over Millie's neglectful treatment of her.
Jerkass: To Ivypool in Fading Echoes. She gets better though.
May–December Romance: Hooks up with Thornclaw in Shattered Sky (presumably bonding over their mutual guilt over their time in the Dark Forest). While cats hooking up with those who were kits when they were warriors isn't unusual, what's particularly notable is that Thornclaw was made a warrior in the first arc, making him almost as old as her father.
Meaningful Name: She is named after her tortoiseshell fur that looks like falling petals.
The Mentor: To Hollytuft. Maybe.
Outliving One's Offspring: Her son Stemleaf is killed by Ashfur during Veil of Shadows.
Posthumous Sibling: Her older half-sister Feathertail died a few years before Briarlight, Blossomfall and Bumblestripe were born.
The Rival: To Ivypool in the first half of Omen of the Stars.
Rival Turned Evil: She joins the Dark Forest. And it actually makes her nicer.
Series Continuity Error: In The Apprentice's Quest, it's stated she was the mentor to Hollytuft. In the manga at the end of Bramblestar's Storm, it's stated Cloudtail was Hollytuft's mentor.
Shipper on Deck: Not so much a shipper, but an anti-shipper. She makes it clear that she doesn't like Bumblestripe and Dovewing's relationship.
Successful Sibling Syndrome: Inverted in the case of Blossomfall being jealous of Briarlight...who was paralyzed and suffering, because Briarlight was the one who got all of their mother's attention, and not because of her skills or talents.
Then Let Me Be Evil: Abused by Millie for not being like Briarlight? Too bad.
The Unfavorite: Ignored by Millie after Briarlight's accident.
Walking Spoiler: Sign of the Moon made her one due to the surprise twist of Brokenstar recruiting her, and the reveal of why she joined.

Became a warrior before A Vision of Shadows

Molewhisker

"I don't want to be an apprentice! You only want us so we can do all the nasty jobs."

The son of Berrynose and Poppyfrost. Named after his deceased uncle, Molepaw. Apprenticed to Rosepetal in The Forgotten Warrior. Has become a warrior by the time of Bramblestar's Storm.

The Apprentice: To Rosepetal.
Ascended Extra: In The Apprentice's Quest due to being Alderheart's first mentor and then going on his former apprentices quest to find SkyClan with him.
Courier: Plays this role in the final battle against the Dark Forest.
Dead Guy Junior: Named after Poppyfrost's deceased brother Molepaw.
Lazy Bum: At first he doesn't want to be an apprentice because he doesn't want to do apprentice duties.
The Mentor: To Alderheart before he started to train to become a medicine cat and then to Honeyfur.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. There's a RiverClan warrior in Code of the Clans named Molewhisker.
The Quiet One: In The Apprentice's Quest he was stated to be a lot quieter than his sister.

Cherryfall

"It's okay to be sad. If you ever want to talk about your brother, I'm always here."

The daughter of Berrynose and Poppyfrost. Apprenticed to Foxleap in The Forgotten Warrior. Has become a warrior by the time of Bramblestar's Storm.

The Apprentice: To Foxleap. After Foxleap dies in the Dark Forest battle her mentor becomes Whitewing.
Ascended Extra: In The Apprentice's Quest due to going on Alderheart's quest to find SkyClan with him.
Catchphrase: "Cool!"
Character Development: In Bramblestar's Storm, she's more sensible, but still spunky.
Courier: Plays this role in the final battle against the Dark Forest.
Genki Girl: She's a very energetic she-cat.
The Mentor: To Sparkpelt.
Ship Tease: With Stormcloud.

Lilyheart

"I'm fighting for Seedpaw too!"

Lilyheart is the daughter of Sorreltail and Brackenfur, from their second litter. She spends most of Bramblestar's Storm apprenticed to Poppyfrost, before getting her warrior name.

Angsty Surviving Twin: For a bit. Then she decides to use her grief to take a level in badass.
The Apprentice: To Poppyfrost, her older sister.
Blood-Splattered Innocents: In Dovewing's Silence, her father finds her and her sister sitting by their mother's body, covered in her blood.
Break the Cutie: Her mother dies when she's a kit (and she gets covered in her blood, to boot), then her sister dies saving her, and then her mate and son die, too.
Childhood Friend Romance: With Snowbush; they've known each other since they were kits, and were actually fostered together.
Good Parents: Twigbranch certainly saw her as this. Twigbranch saw Lilyheart as a great mother figure and in SkyClan before she was going to get her warrior name, Lilyheart was one of the cats she wished could be there.
It's All My Fault: Her reaction when her sister Seedpaw dies.
Kissing Cousins: She and Snowbush are first cousins, as her father Brackenfur and his mother Brightheart are siblings.
Meaningful Name: She was given her name in recognition of her courage, and because Seedpaw and Sorreltail will live forever in her heart.
The Mentor: To her grandson Nightheart. It's noted that Lilyheart would sometimes tell her apprentice stories about his father.
Not Blood Siblings: She becomes mates with Snowbush, who is her cousin and her foster brother; his mother Brightheart took care of Lilykit and Seedkit after Sorreltail died.
Offscreen Romance: She and Snowbush had kits together by the time of A Vision of Shadows, though they're never seen together in the books until Darkest Night when Snowbush is dying from leg infection.
Outliving One's Offspring: Her son Larksong died from prey sickness in Squirrelflight's Hope.
Parental Substitute: She took care of Twigbranch when she was brought to ThunderClan as a kit. Twigbranch is still fond of her foster mother, and is very close to her.
Posthumous Sibling: Her older brother Molepaw and older sister Honeyfern are already dead by the time Lilyheart and Seedpaw are born.
Ship Tease: A little bit with Dewnose in Bramblestar's Storm.
Trauma Conga Line: She's suffered a lot of loss and pain, and she's still a young cat!

Snowbush

"I've collected some thrush feathers for your nest. They're really soft. I'll go in now and make it all cozy for you."

The son of Cloudtail and Brightheart from their second litter.

The Apprentice: To Ivypool.
Childhood Friend Romance: With Lilyheart; they've known each other since they were kits, and were actually fostered together.
Fantastic Racism: He initially treats kittypets with disdain, claiming that they're all fat and lazy...nevermind that his father was born a kittypet.
Kissing Cousins: He and Lilyheart are first cousins, as her father Brackenfur and his mother Brightheart are siblings.
Loud Sleeper Gag: In Bramblestar's Storm, he's seen snoring loudly while the rest of his denmates in the apprentices' den are sleeping quietly. Lilypaw gives him an annoyed kick in the belly, making him roll over and fall silent.
Not Blood Siblings: He becomes mates with Lilyheart, who is his cousin and his foster sister; his mother Brightheart took care of Lilykit and Seedkit after Sorreltail died.
Offscreen Romance: He's the father of Lilyheart's kits in A Vision of Shadows, though they're never seen together in the books until Darkest Night when he's dying from leg infection.
Strong Family Resemblance: He has white fur, like both of his parents and older sister.

Ambermoon

"You should have seen Lionblaze fighting! He was like three cats, all on his own."

The daughter of Cloudtail and Brightheart from their second litter.

The Apprentice: To Spiderleg.
Genki Girl: During Bramblestar's Storm she's full of energy and never slows down.
Killed Offscreen: Died in between A Vision of Shadows and The Broken Code from an owl attack.
The Mentor: To Eaglewing.

Dewnose

"That's our leader, Firestar. He was the best cat in all the whole forest, and he gave up his last life to save us!"

The son of Cloudtail and Brightheart from their second litter.

All There in the Manual: Him being the father of Sorrelstripe's kits was first stated on the Warriors website family tree before being confirmed in Thunder.
The Apprentice: To Whitewing, his older sister.
Children Are Innocent: When his sister asks why Ferncloud is sleeping in The Last Hope, Dewkit brightly tells her she's just tired from the fighting and Dustpelt will wake her up soon.
Insane Troll Logic: Played for laughs in Bramblestar's Storm, when the apprentices bunk in with the warriors temporarily. He says that they must be warriors now since they were in the warriors' den now.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Shows shades of this in Spotfur's Rebellion, when he snaps at the eponymous character for saying they need to find Thriftpaw...before instantly agreeing and volunteering to go out alone.
The Mentor: To Thriftear.
My God, What Have I Done?: In Spotfur's Rebellion, he furiously orders Thriftpaw, who had ruined the medicine cats' supply of marigold, to get some more. Alone. In the snow. As night is falling. He's stricken with guilt when she doesn't return, personally goes out on a patrol to find her, and is relieved when they do.
Ship Tease: A little bit with Lilyheart in "Bramblestar's Storm".
Sole Survivor: He outlives both his littermates.

Stormcloud

"I'd like to join ThunderClan, and stay in the forest forever."

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A former kittypet who spends time in ThunderClan when the lake floods and destroys his twolegs' nest. He decides to join up when the lake recedes and gets his warrior name in the manga at the end of the book.

The Apprentice: To Squirrelflight.
I Choose to Stay: Although he doesn't initially want to live with the Clan, Stormcloud comes to find he belongs there.
Meaningful Rename: He is renamed from Frankie to Stormpaw to symbolize the storm that killed his brother and left him homeless.
A Pet into the Wild: He was a kittypet who joined ThunderClan in Bramblestar's Storm after the storm killed his brother and drove his Twolegs away.
Ship Tease: With Cherryfall.
Starting a New Life: Used to live with his brother and twolegs. But after the storm killed his brother and drove his twolegs away, Stormcloud decided never to go back.

Hollytuft

"We'll do good! We promise!"

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Lionblaze and Cinderheart's daughter.

The Apprentice: To Cloudtail. Or Blossomfall.
Dead Guy Junior: Named after her aunt Hollyleaf, who died in the Great Battle. Overlaps with Named After Somebody Famous.
Family Theme Naming: She and her littermates are all Named After Somebody Famous, as is their mother.
Living Prop: She only exists to make ThunderClan bigger.
The Mentor: To Flipclaw.
Series Continuity Error: The manga at the end of Bramblestar's Storm says Cloudtail was her mentor. In The Apprentice's Quest, it's stated Blossomfall was her mentor.
Uncanny Family Resemblance: Looks very much like Hollyleaf.

Fernsong

"We've come this far. We might as well go all the way."

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The son of Lionblaze and Cinderheart.

The Apprentice: To Rosepetal.
Dead Guy Junior: Named after Ferncloud, who died in the Great Battle. Overlaps with Named After Somebody Famous.
Family Theme Naming: He and his littermates are all Named After Somebody Famous, as is their mother.
Gender-Blender Name: He's a tom, but he's named after Ferncloud, a dead queen.
Good Parents: He's an absolutely wonderful mate and father, as shown when Ivypool voices her dismay over being confined to the nursery instead of out hunting and patrolling. Fernsong eagerly volunteers to stay in the nursery with their kits. In Spotfur's Rebellion he is mentioned to be the most indulgent father in the Clan.
- He is listed as the number 3 best father on the official article "The Best Fathers a Cat Could Have".
Happily Married: Mates with Ivypool.
House Husband: After their kits are weaned, Fernsong's mate Ivypool leaves the nursery to continue her warrior duties. Fernsong moves to the nursery to take care of his kits, being the first tom in the series to do so.
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Ivypool is a she-cat and one of the toughest fighters in the Clan, who survived literal Training from Hell, while Fernsong is a gentler tom. Ivypool wasn't certain about having kits since she didn't want to spend a whole six moons in the nursery, but they decided that once the kits were weaned, Fernsong would move into the nursery to take over their care until they became apprentices. Fernsong's name is also often considered feminine by fans, since both halves of it have been used more often for female characters.
Official Couple: With Ivypool.
Outliving One's Offspring: His daughter Bristlefrost tragically loses her life in the Dark Forest destroying Ashfur once and for all, while also sacrificing her own spirit in the process.

Sorrelstripe

"Wow, that's amazing! Good job, Sparkpaw."

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One of the daughters of Lionblaze and Cinderheart.

All There in the Manual: Dewnose being her mate and the father of her kits was first revealed on the Warriors website family tree before being confirmed in Thunder.
The Apprentice: To Brackenfur.
Dead Guy Junior: She is named after Sorreltail, who died of her injuries after the Great Battle. Overlaps with Named After Somebody Famous.
Family Theme Naming: She and her littermates are all Named After Somebody Famous, as is their mother.
Living Prop: She only exists to make ThunderClan bigger.
Non-Indicative Name: Her suffix is stripe, despite the fact that she's not a tabby. She's also never been said to have any single stripe on her.

Became a warrior in A Vision of Shadows

Sparkpelt

"We've come all this way... We've come so close to being killed by monsters or foxes; we've fought so hard to survive. It doesn't seem fair that Sandstorm died anyway."

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Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight's daughter. She's energetic and fiery, and unlike her brother, extremely talented at almost everything she puts her mind to.

The Ace: She caught a piece of prey her very first time hunting and is a great hunter in general, not to mention being quite intelligent, clever, and a good fighter.
The Apprentice: To Cherryfall.
Big Damn Heroes: Saves Twigbranch from drowning when she was a kit.
Big Sister Instinct: Little sister, in this case, but when Lionblaze didn't return from his temporary banishment in The Silent Thaw, she spurned the imposter's command and snuck out to make sure he was okay.
Brutal Honesty: She always speaks her mind, even if doing so could be construed as rude. She makes no secret of her displeasure at Twigbranch's Clan-hopping or Dovewing's departure. As apprentices, she was also openly wary of Needletail, and said so.
The Chief's Daughter: She is the daughter of Bramblestar, who is the leader of ThunderClan.
Child Prodigy: Seems to be one for hunting, at least.
Expy: She is quite similar to her mother Squirrelflight during her youth.
Fiery Redhead: Inherited her mother's red fur, energy, and quick temper.
Genki Girl: Just like her mother and father.
Heroic BSoD: She goes into a depression after her mate and one of her kits die. Sparkpelt ends up neglecting her other two kits until Squirrelflight and Stormcloud talk to her and she snaps out of it.
Hot-Blooded: She's very passionate, but also very rash.
Identical Grandson: She is said to look exactly like her grandfather, Firestar. One of the authors wanted her name to be Sparkfire to honor that, but she did not get to decide her name.
The Mentor: She finishes Twigbranch's apprenticeship when she comes back to ThunderClan since Ivypool is expecting kits.
Nice Girl: She's constantly chipper and friendly to everyone she meets, except Needlepaw (and only because Needlepaw is from another Clan).
Odd Name Out: She is the only one of her siblings (Juniperkit, Dandelionkit, and Alderheart) not to be named after a type of plant.
Outliving One's Offspring: Her son Flickerkit was stillborn.
Parents as People: Despite not actually being a POV character, Sparkpelt's inner struggles as a single mother trying her best, but sometimes just not being enough, still show. River reveals that due to Sparkpelt's depression in Squirrelflight's Hope and exile in The Broken Code, she has a distant, awkward relationship with Flamepaw that neither is sure how to breach, even though she clearly wants to.
Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: With her brother.
Secret-Keeper: Sparkpelt becomes a temporary one for Squirrelflight, who asks her daughter not to tell anyone, not even her father Bramblestar, about her and Leafstar's mission to explore new territory. Though Sparkpelt agrees, she clearly doesn't like it, and according to Bramblestar, it made her feel torn between loyalty to her mother and loyalty to her father.
Ship Tease: With Larksong in Darkest Night. Sparkpelt is shown to enjoy being around him and she admits that she does like Larksong to her brother. They do eventually become mates, but Larksong soon dies right after she gives birth.
Sibling Yin-Yang: Basically the opposite of her twin brother, Alderheart.

Larksong

"Maybe this was the storm StarClan has promised. Maybe it's over now."

One of the kits of Lilyheart and Snowbush.

Alliterative Family: With his sister, Leafshade.
The Apprentice: To Rosepetal.
Disappeared Dad: He's this to his two surviving kits due to dying the day they were born.
Killed Offscreen: Died in between A Vision of Shadows and The Broken Code from prey sickness. It's shown in Squirrelflight's Hope, however.
The Mentor: After Finleap moves to ThunderClan, Larksong becomes his mentor.
Nice Guy: A very sweet and considerate tom, and it's obvious that he would've been a loving and involved father to his and Sparkpelt's kits if he had lived.
One-Steve Limit: Averted. There's a ThunderClan elder in Bluestar's Prophecy, and the novellas that take place in the same time period, who is also named Larksong, though this elder is a she-cat, not a tom.
Outliving One's Offspring: His son Flickerkit was stillborn, but Larksong died from prey sickness right after his kits were born, so they end up going to StarClan together where Larksong names his son.
Ship Tease: With Sparkpelt in Darkest Night. They do end up becoming mates, but then he died from prey sickness right after Sparkpelt gives birth to their kits.

Leafshade

"Warriors aren't meant to be afraid of anything."

One of the kits of Lilyheart and Snowbush.

Alliterative Family: With her brother, Larksong.
The Apprentice: To Bumblestripe.
The Ditherer: Spotpaw inwardly complains that her mentor always takes a long time to consider anything suggested to her.
Heel–Face Turn: After personally fighting in the impostor's defense in Veil of Shadows, she turns her back when ordered to attack Leafstar in the climax.
The Mentor: To Spotfur.
Stern Teacher: In Spotfur's Rebellion, she show herself to be strict and solemn in her mentoring.

Honeyfur

"So what if Mistystar sided with the impostor? Lots of cats did that-even here in ThunderClan!"

One of the kits of Lilyheart and Snowbush.

The Apprentice: To Molewhisker.
Odd Name Out: The only one of her siblings whose name doesn't start with "L".
Strong Family Resemblance: Aside from some yellow patches, she's white, like her father Snowbush, his older sister Whitewing, and their parents Cloudtail and Brightheart.

Twigbranch

"I know how to prove I'm special! I'll fetch more watermint from the lake. Then the Clan will see how clever and useful I am, and they won't want to get rid of me."

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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 and kept in ThunderClan.

The Apprentice: To Ivypool. When she goes to SkyClan her mentor is Sandynose. After she comes back to ThunderClan, Bramblestar keeps her as an apprentice for a little longer. Since Ivypool is pregnant in the nursery at this time, Sparkpelt finishes Twigbranch's apprenticeship.
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: A variation of ginger/black/gray:
- Ginger Alderheart, black-and-white Violetshine, and gray Twigbranch.
Broken Bird: Not as bad as her sister, but Twigpaw definitely has her own share of issues. She feels as if she's worthless if she isn't special, is also afraid of being cast out, and desperately, desperately wants to be able to live in peace with both her sister and later father and her Clan.
Combat Medic: Of a sort. All the time she spent hanging out with Alderpaw as a kit taught her the basics of medicine, so she's able to help Puddleshine out while she's held hostage in ShadowClan.
Damsel in Distress: She gets captured by ShadowClan in Thunder and Shadow and held hostage out of desperation, as they need Bramblestar to barter with Onestar for a herb to cure their sick cats.
Disappeared Dad & Missing Mom: It's implied in Hawkwing's Journey that Hawkwing and Pebbleshine are her parents. Subverted when she is reunited with Hawkwing. Pebbleshine, however, was presumably killed.
Disney Death: This happens in Shattered Sky, to the point where her survival isn't revealed for seven chapters.
Dramatic Irony:
- Is unable to pick up why Ivypool was acting hostile towards Tigerheart, especially around Dovewing during Thunder and Shadow. Subverted when Ivypool explains to Twigpaw just what the heck is going on.
- She spends all of A Vision of Shadows wishing to be with her family. When she can, she realizes she's a ThunderClan cat at heart, not a SkyClan one. She leaves to return to her adopted family, though she does tell Hawkwing and Violetshine she loves them.
Ear Notch: She has one courtesy of Needletail.
Enthusiastic Newbie Teacher: In The Raging Storm, she has just been made a mentor after becoming a warrior in the previous book, River of Fire. Although excited at first, she finds herself struggling with what the best way to train her apprentice is, and both mentor and apprentice become discouraged and resentful of each other. By the end of the book she comes to understand Flypaw better and plans their lessons in a way that works for them both.
Expy: She shares many parallels with Dovewing.
Family Eye Resemblance: The fact that she has the same green eyes as Pebbleshine is what causes Tree to realize that Pebbleshine is the mother of Twigbranch and Violetshine.
Generation Xerox: Hawkwing stated at one point in Darkest Night that she's just as brave and adventurous as her mother, Pebbleshine, was.
Genki Girl: All her energy caused Jayfeather no amount of trouble.
Happily Adopted: Unlike her sister, Twigpaw was very welcome in ThunderClan. So much so that while Violetshine stays with SkyClan, she leaves to return to the Clan that raised her.
Hot-Blooded: She is not prone to looking before she leaps. Running off to try and find watermint, and then to try and find her kin in SkyClan, are both decisions born of pure emotion.
I Just Want to Be Special: Is utterly convinced that she is worthless to the Clan if she's not special.
Leeroy Jenkins: As said, she can be rather rash at times.
Look Both Ways: Is hit by a car while trying to look for SkyClan. She survives with minimal injury, however.
Meaningful Name:
- Alderheart named her Twigkit because she was as tiny as a twig when she was first found.
- Bramblestar named her Twigbranch in memory of the way she came to ThunderClan as a small, fragile kit, and how she grew into a strong warrior, just as a twig grows into a branch.
The Mentor: To Flywhisker.
Mistaken for Cheating: Finleap thinks she has feelings for Tree due to the amount of time they've been spending together. Keep in mind that he was ignoring her prior to this.
Never Found the Body: When she runs away from ThunderClan to find SkyClan she gets hit by a car. The patrol that goes to look for her finds a tuft of her fur but no body.
Nice Girl: Even while being held hostage, she's worried about ShadowClan when she sees how sick and desperate they are.
The Pollyanna: She has internal angst, but Twigpaw always maintains a positive attitude.
Rescue Romance: Saved Finleap's life, though not his tail, by shoving him away from a falling branch.
Ship Tease: She and Finleap very clearly like each other, playing together, joking around a lot, and supporting the other emotionally when one is feeling down. He even leaves SkyClan to be with her.
Strong Family Resemblance: She looks just like her father, Hawkwing.
Tell Me About My Father: In Darkest Night, she asks Hawkwing to tell her and Violetshine about their late mother. Violetshine's a bit mad at her for asking, thinking that Twigbranch is being insensitive, but Hawkwing assures them that he's always happy to talk about Pebbleshine and tells them a story about when she was young.

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"They can manage without me. I don't care if I'm in ThunderClan or SkyClan or even ShadowClan. Just as long as I'm with you."

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

An Arm and a Leg: In Darkest Night, half of his tail has to be amputated to free him from a massive, heavy branch that the cats cannot shift. The situation emphasizes SkyClan's need for a medicine cat, and it is during his stay in the medicine den that he and Twigpaw first start to realize their feelings for each other.
The Apprentice: To Blossomheart. He was given Larksong as his mentor after he moved to ThunderClan.
Career-Ending Injury: What he's worried will happen after half his tail is amputated, taking his sense of balance with it.
Chekhov's Skill: He was born by a lake, and naturally learned to swim. He puts this to good use when Twigbranch, who cannot swim, falls into a river.
Dating What Daddy Hates: Gender-inverted. Sandynose is not enthused by his relationship with Twigbranch.
Green-Eyed Monster: Briefly. He thinks that Twigbranch and Tree are interested in each other, and even accuses Tree of pulling a Settle for Sibling. His assumptions are completely unfounded, however.
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.
Heroic BSoD: Goes through a brief depression after losing half his tail.
Keet: He's an enthusiastic and energetic young tom.
The Knights Who Say "Squee!": When he joins ThunderClan, he excitedly talks about all the stories he's heard about their greatness.
Loved I Not Honour More: Inverted. He tells Twigbranch he doesn't care where he is as long as it's with her, and follows her out of SkyClan.
The Mentor: To Snaptooth.
The Pollyanna: Finleap has his issues, but he tries to keep a positive and optimistic attitude. Even walking into ThunderClan, which had to be hugely frightening, he treats with good cheer.
Rescue Romance: Not that they weren't already good friends, but he and Twigbranch grow closer after she saves his life from a falling branch.
Sad Clown: He jokes a lot, but losing half his tail also cost him a good deal of his self-esteem. At one point he reveals to Twigbranch that he's certain once she becomes a warrior, she'll forget all about a slow and clumsy cripple like him.
Star-Crossed Lovers: Played with, but ultimately averted. Sandynose doesn't approve of his relationship with Twigbranch, and it looks like they'll have this relationship when she leaves SkyClan, but Finleap runs after her immediately, giving this trope a good kick in the teeth for measure.
Strong Family Resemblance: When he was born, he was stated to look exactly like his father.
Took a Level in Jerkass: To an extent. In the last book of A Vision of Shadows, he's suddenly painfully bitter because Twigbranch doesn't want to get pregnant as soon as possible. But by the end of the book, he's back to his normal self.

Became a warrior before The Broken Code

Plumstone

"Thornclaw says there was no point. He says ThunderClan cats don't hunt on moorland. We hunt in the forest."

Blossomfall and Thornclaw's daughter.

The Apprentice: To Mousewhisker.

Eaglewing

"We'd best be on our guard."

Blossomfall and Thornclaw's daughter

The Apprentice: To Ambermoon.
The Mentor: To Myrtlebloom.

Shellfur

"You don't even know what you're doing! […] It's just getting worse!"

Blossomfall and Thornclaw's son.

Alliterative Family: With his brother, Stemleaf.
The Apprentice: To Bumblestripe.
Cain and Abel: A downplayed Cain to Stemleaf's Abel, in Veil of Shadows. He's on the patrol that defends the impostor from Stemleaf's assassination attempt, but Spotfur's Rebellion reveals he never attacked his brother and was horrified when the impostor killed him.
Damned by Faint Praise: When they become warriors, Spotfur notes that "he wasn’t as bossy now as when they’d been apprentices, but he was still sure he knew best."
Dude Looks Like a Lady: He's a tom with a tortoiseshell coat, which usually only occurs in she-cats.
Family Eye Resemblance: He has the same shade of green eyes as his brother, Stemleaf.
Gender Bender: He was introduced in the allegiances as a white she-cat before being turned into a tortoiseshell tom.
Heel–Face Turn: After personally fighting in the impostor's defense in Veil of Shadows, he turns his back when ordered to attack Leafstar in the climax.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Granted, the "jerk" part is usually what's on display: Spotpaw notes that even as kits he acted high-and-mighty, he rather rudely tells her Bramblestar is too important to listen to her, and then there's the whole him complaining about his hurt paw despite his brother's very recent death thing. But there does seem to be a heart in there: his disapproval of Spotfur's closeness to Stemleaf mostly stems from her often getting his brother in trouble in their apprenticehood, and he's shown to be horrified when the impostor kills Stemleaf.
Obnoxious In-Laws: He and Spotfur consider the other this—she thinks he's too full of himself, while he thinks she's a bad influence on his brother.
Skewed Priorities: In Veil of Shadows, he complains about having injured his paw, even though only a short while ago his brother was killed. The fan reaction was unanimously "what the hell, dude?".
Small Name, Big Ego: In Spotfur's Rebellion, Spotpaw derogatorily thinks to herself that he's always lorded himself over her and her littermates just because he happened to be born a few moons earlier.

Stemleaf

"We have to have faith in our Clanmates. They’ll recognize the truth when they hear it, just like Squirrelflight did. And the more Clans that know the truth, the less power he’ll have."

Blossomfall and Thornclaw's son.

Alliterative Family: With his brother, Shellfur.
The Apprentice: To Rosepetal.
And I Must Scream: Like Ashfur's other mind-controlled minions (see below), it is heavily implied that Stemleaf's true self is still in there, but is powerless to do anything. When Bramblestar regains his body, Stemleaf, like the other enslaved ghosts, recognizes him and appears to want to stop fighting.
Barred from the Afterlife: Because StarClan is blocked off at the time of his death, he's stuck as a ghost. He is finally able to enter StarClan at the end of A Light in the Mist.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Sometime after his death, Stemleaf, along with many other fallen Clan cats who are stuck as ghosts, is imprisoned in the Dark Forest by Ashfur, who sadistically mind-controls them into being his puppets. Under Ashfur's influence, Stemleaf captures and beats Squirrelflight, and later jeers at Rootspring as he is forced to fight Snowtuft.
Cain and Abel: A downplayed version with Shellfur in Veil of Shadows. He works with the rebels and tries to kill Bramblestar's impostor, while his brother fights to defend the impostor. However, Shellfur never actually attacked Stemleaf and froze when he saw the impostor kill him.
Childhood Friend Romance: He has been close with Spotfur ever since they were apprentices.
Ear Notch: He received a torn ear in The Dark Forest while escaping from Ashfur.
Family Eye Resemblance: He has the same shade of green eyes as his brother, Shellfur.
Good Is Not Soft: As nice as he is, he also vocally supports assassinating the impostor, and actually makes an attempt even when the other rebels decide to hold off.
Killed Offscreen: Sort of. Bristlefrost is there when he and his patrol attempt to assassinate the impostor, but she runs to get help due to Squirrelflight's request to protect Bramblestar's body. When she gets back, Stemleaf is already dead on the ground. The fight in full and his actual death are shown in Spotfur's Rebellion.
Like Brother and Sister: He turns down Bristlefrost because he always saw her as a really, really good friend, almost like another littermate.
Mind-Control Eyes: While under Ashfur's control, Stemlef's eyes are pupilless and eerily blank.
Nice Guy: He's a kind-hearted, supportive guy.
Official Couple: With Spotfur.
Rebel Leader: He and Spotfur form a rebellion to take down Bramblestar's impostor in The Silent Thaw.
Sacrificial Lion: He's an important and recurring character, being Bristlefrost's crush and one of the founders of La Résistance, but he dies in Veil of Shadows.
Slashed Throat: The impostor kills him with this in Spotfur's Rebellion.
What the Hell, Hero?: He gives a pretty harsh one to Bristlefrost in The Silent Thaw.
"You don't get it, do you? There's more at stake here than whether we're allowed to talk to each other. Something is very wrong. I always thought you were a good cat. Soon we're going to have to make choices. I just hope you'll be ready to make the right ones."

Flywhisker

"We'll be good at it!"

Lionblaze and Cinderheart's daughter from their second litter.

The Apprentice: To Twigbranch.
The Ditz: She gets distracted easily and has a hard time concentrating on one thing at a time.
From Stray to Pet: She chooses to become a kittypet alongside her brother Snaptooth after the whole impostor situation.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In Darkness Within and Graystripe's Vow she becomes disillusioned with Clan life and her current leadership, and decides to leave alongside a few of her Clanmates. The Place of No Stars shows she and her brother became kittypets.
Strong Family Resemblance: She is a gray tabby like her mother.
Tag Along Kid: In The Raging Storm when the cats go to bring SkyClan back to the lake, Flypaw is the youngest on the patrol.

Snaptooth

"Finleap told me that moving sticks would make me strong. I want to be the strongest apprentice in ThunderClan."

Lionblaze and Cinderheart's son from their second litter.

Alliterative Family: With his sister, Spotfur.
The Apprentice: To Finleap.
From Stray to Pet: He chooses to become a kittypet alongside his sister Flywhisker after the whole impostor situation.
Saying Too Much: In Graystripe's Vow, he blurts out to a SkyClan patrol that he, Flywhisker, Graystripe, Flipclaw and Thornclaw are leaving ThunderClan, and Graystripe's annoyed that he's giving that info away.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In Darkness Within and Graystripe's Vow he becomes disillusioned with Clan life and his current leadership, and decides to leave alongside a few of his Clanmates. The Place of No Stars shows he and his sister became kittypets.
Strong Family Resemblance: He is a golden tabby like his father.

Spotfur

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Lionblaze and Cinderheart's other daughter from their second litter.

Alliterative Family: With her brother, Snaptooth.
Anti-Hero: Slides into this after Veil of Shadows. After Stemleaf's death, she becomes a Crusading Widow, openly distrusts Bristlefrost, and shows anger issues in her excessively violent response to being attacked by a hawk. However, she's also freshly grieving, stays committed to helping the Clans, and slowly starts to trust her friend again.
The Apprentice: To Leafshade.
Big Damn Heroes: In Lost Stars she saves Bristlefrost from falling under some ice.
Childhood Friend Romance: She has been close with Stemleaf ever since they were apprentices.
Crusading Widow: She reacts to Stemleaf's death with pure rage and vows to make sure the impostor pays with his life.
A Day in the Limelight: She received a novella in 2021 titled Spotfur's Rebellion.
Due to the Dead: She named her kits after Bristlefrost, Graystripe and Stemleaf.
Former Teen Rebel: She was rather irreverant as an apprentice, until her parents gently informed her why trying to sneak attack Bumblestripe as a prank was a horrible idea that could have gotten her seriously injured and left him emotionally traumatized. After that, Spotpaw devoted herself to being an honorable, loyal and hard-working Clanmate.
Good Is Not Soft: Like her mate, she supported assassinating the impostor, and that was before Stemleaf was killed. But she's still a good cat at heart.
Heroic BSoD: She suffers from this in Darkness Within after her mates death in Veil of Shadows, even resenting the fact that she was pregnant because it just reminds her of the life she and Stemleaf had planned together.
Meaningful Name: She was named after her spotted tabby fur.
Obnoxious In-Laws: She and Shellfur consider the other this—she thinks he's too full of himself, while he thinks she's a bad influence on his brother.
Official Couple: With Stemleaf.
Rebel Leader: She and Stemleaf form a rebellion to take down Bramblestar's imposter in The Silent Thaw. Her novella is centered around it.
Rebellious Spirit: Was this in her apprenticehood, as her novella shows. Her "pranks" often got herself and Stempaw into trouble
Someone to Remember Him By: Her mate Stemleaf died in Veil of Shadows, but she discovers in Darkness Within that she's carrying his kits.
Strong Family Resemblance: She has the same muzzle shape and angle of ears as her great-grandmother, Frostfur.

Became a warrior in The Broken Code

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"Oh, come on. You all heard the leaders. We have to do whatever we can to reach StarClan!"

Ivypool and Fernsong's daughter.

All Love Is Unrequited: She has a crush on Stemleaf, who likes Spotfur instead.
The Apprentice: To Rosepetal.
Big Damn Heroes: Saves Rootpaw from drowning in the frozen lake.
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: A variation. We have yellow Rootspring, dark gray Shadowsight, and pale gray Bristlefrost.
Book Ends: Her first scene has her saving Rootpaw from drowning. Her last scene has her drowning Ashfur alongside herself.
Deader than Dead: She drowns herself along with Ashfur in A Light in the Mist, but because she was a spirit at the time, does not go to either StarClan or the Dark Forest.
Dying Dream: Experiences one as she drowns, where she and Rootspring are mates and looking proudly at their newborn kits. She confuses it for actual memories and dies happily.
Everyone Can See It: Once she reciprocates his feelings, her mutual love for Rootspring becomes so thinly-hidden that complete strangers can pick up on it.
Faint in Shock: In Veil of Shadows, she faints when she sees that one of the dead rebels is Stemleaf.
Go Out with a Smile: She drowns killing Ashfur, but the peace she feels in the knowledge that she saved all the Clans and her Dying Dream mean she goes out knowing only and surrounded only by love.
Grade Skipper: In Lost Stars, she earns her warrior name early, before her littermates.
Green-Eyed Monster: She's a little jealous of Stemleaf and Spotfur's relationship, but does her best to overcome it throughout Lost Stars. By The Silent Thaw she's managed to move on.
Hated by All: Her support of the impostor's strict rules, at first out of misguided good intentions and later as The Mole, does not earn her any popularity in the clan; they make it clear that they consider her a mindless lackey at best and a Professional Butt-Kisser at worse. It gets worse when he makes her his deputy; everyone, especially Bristlefrost, knows it's out of favoritism, she commands absolutely no respect, and no one cheers for her at the following Gathering. Even her own siblings are cold to her at that point.
Hates Small Talk: She never outright says she hates it, but she clearly considers Rootpaw asking her if she likes hunting the equivalent of Talk About the Weather, and responds tartly. When she tries small talk with Spotfur in Darkness Within, it turns into Bristlefrost talking about their mission.
He Is Not My Boyfriend: A bit of a Running Gag in The Broken Code is cats recognizing Rootspring's feelings for her and her denying that she returns them. In the latter half of the arc, when she does return them, the gag becomes cats assuming they're mates and both clarifying that they love each other but aren't.
The Hero Dies: She dies toward the end of A Light in the Mist, sacrificing herself to kill Ashfur.
Hero with Bad Publicity: To maintain her position as The Mole, Bristlefrost has to publicly pretend to show support for the impostor's regime, and as a result is completely alienated and disliked in her Clan. Things get better for her after the impostor is unveiled at the end of Veil of Shadows.
Heroic Sacrifice: She tackles Ashfur into some of the Dark Forest's water, saving Shadowsight's life in the process, then stays in the water to make sure he drowns. It is quite possibly the biggest sacrifice anyone could make, as dying as a spirit kills her Deader than Dead.
Hope Bringer: Takes on this role in A Light in the Mist, encouraging Stemleaf, giving a speech about The Power of Love being what will win the day, and rallying the disgruntled Dark Forest cats.
If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: In Veil of Shadows, the rebels discuss whether to kill the impostor-Bramblestar; Bristlefrost points out that if they do that, they'll be no better than he is.
Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Implied. Dreaming yourself into the Dark Forest involves an amplification of your negative feelings, which serve as a tether, but Bristlefrost is unable to stay very long when she does pull it off. This is actually a bit of a double-edged sword, as while she doesn't lose herself the way Shadowsight nearly does, her efforts to search for and rescue Rootspring are hampered.
Innocent Blue Eyes: Her blue-green eyes highlight her earnestness, romanticism, and good heart.
Like Father, Like Son: Just like her mom Ivypool, she becomes a spy for the Clans.
Loving a Shadow: Realizes in Veil of Shadows that her feelings for Stemleaf were really just an "apprentice crush" when she compares the depth of Spotfur's grief for him to her own.
The Mole: In Veil of Shadows, she pretends to be the fake Bramblestar's most trusted ally, while really working with the rebels.
Never Got to Say Goodbye: Due to a battle going on at the time, she only has time to give Rootspring one loving glance before performing her Heroic Sacrifice. Her parents and siblings don't even get that brief final moment, since they didn't enter the Dark Forest. All of them are devastated by this, especially given how final it is.
No Body Left Behind: Because she died in the Dark Forest, her body disappears in the living world.
Number Two: She briefly becomes deputy under impostor-Bramblestar's rule despite not having mentored an apprentice. She later steps down when Squirrelflight temporarily becomes leader.
Oblivious to Love: She doesn't realize that Rootpaw has a crush on her, just briefly noting how it's weird that he's so nice to her due to being fixated on her crush on Stemleaf.
Reluctant Ruler: "Ruler" is an overstatement, but she's absolutely horrified when the impostor makes her his deputy. Bristlefrost knows she's too young, she hasn't had an apprentice, and no one will take her seriously—and she's right. When the chance comes to step down, she happily takes it.
Rescue Romance: Saves Rootspring from drowning the first time they meet, and he immediately starts crushing hard on her. She eventually returns his feelings.
Second Love: Rootspring is hers.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Rootspring's kindess towards all cats, regardless of Clan (and even if they're not in a Clan), is one of the things she admires and loves the most about him.
Smitten Teenage Girl: Acts like this around Stemleaf in Lost Stars. She grows out of it.
Star-Crossed Lovers:
- With Rootspring as he 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.
Taking the Bullet: She throws herself at Ashfur right as he's about to kill Shadowsight. She doesn't get injured by Ashfur, but the momentum sends them both into nearby water, where she holds them both down.
Thank Your Prey: She decides that it would be best to thank your prey out loud, instead of just in your head. When Rosepetal informs the impostor of Bristlefrost's idea, he immediately takes to it and punishes cats who don't do this.
To Be Lawful or Good: The source of her struggle in The Silent Thaw. She truly believes that strict adherence to the warrior code is the only way to make StarClan return, yet wrestles with the uncertainy she feels in the face of "Bramblestar's" harsh punishments. She ultimately decides to be Good.
Violently Protective Girlfriend: In A Light in the Mist, she attacks the mob of Dark Forest cats about to kill Rootspring and rescues him, all by herself. The exact description is that she charges in, "eyes wide with outrage".
Walking Spoiler: It's very hard to talk about her character arc without bringing up her ultra-doomed romance with Rootspring or her shocking death.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: In the first half of The Silent Thaw. While she's uncomfortable with the impostor's punishments, she spies on her clanmates and reports codebreaking to him out of the misguided belief that doing so will please StarClan.
What You Are in the Dark: During her first warrior assessment, she's unable to find any prey...except for a vole across the WindClan border. Though tempted, Bristlepaw decides that stealing it would be an insult to Rosepetal's mentoring, and turns away. Rosepetal emerges from the bushes right after and expresses her approval for Bristlepaw's integrity.

Thriftear

"You must admit, things have been strange since Bramblestar started his new life."

Ivypool and Fernsong's other daughter.

The Apprentice: To Dewnose.
Not a Morning Person: In contrast to her sister, Thriftear doesn't like getting up early in the morning.

Flipclaw

"You wouldn't know a great job if it sat up and bit you. Or you wouldn't have been so eager to turn your back on Jayfeather and Lionblaze, after all they've done for the Clan."

Ivypool and Fernsong's son.

The Apprentice: To Hollytuft and Alderheart.
Nurse with Good Intentions: After he's forcefully made into a full medicine cat after Jayfeather and Alderheart have been exiled, Flipclaw tries his best to do his new job, but has had very little training and doesn't get what to do.
The Medic: Impostor-Bramblestar forces him to become a medicine cat apprentice, and he later becomes a full medicine cat when Jayfeather and Alderheart get exiled. He proves to be terrible at it and returns to being a warrior once Squirrelflight becomes leader.

Became a warrior in A Starless Clan

Bayshine

"When are we going out to train? You promised to teach me about ShadowClan battle moves today."

Sorrelstripe's son.

All There in the Manual: According to the Warriors website family tree, Dewnose is his father. This is later confirmed in Thunder.
The Apprentice: To Mousewhisker.
Floral Theme Naming: Named after a type of plant alongside his sister, Myrtlebloom.
Strong Family Resemblance: He is a golden tabby like his grandfather Lionblaze and uncle Snaptooth.

Myrtlebloom

Sorrelstripe's daughter.

All There in the Manual: According to the Warriors website family tree, Dewnose is her father. This is later confirmed in Thunder.
The Apprentice: To Eaglewing.
Floral Theme Naming: Named after a type of plant alongside her brother, Bayshine.

Finchlight

"Throw it again! I want to catch it too!"

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Sparkpelt and Larksong's only daughter.

Alliterative Family: Finchlight and Flickerkit. Her other brother, Nightheart, was originally named Flamepaw.
The Apprentice: To Cinderheart.
Family Theme Naming: She is named after a bird like her father Larksong and brother Flickerkit.

Nightheart

Flamepaw/Nightheart

"I'm supposed to be this brilliant ThunderClan warrior, from a line of important ThunderClan warriors—so why do I feel so out of place? Am I just not a good fit for this Clan? Is that why my mother wasn't there for me when I was a kit cowering in the nursery, worrying about the bad cat who'd taken over the Clan?"

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Sparkpelt and Larksong's son.

Alliterative Family: His name originally began with the letter "f" like his littermates.
The Apprentice: To Lilyheart.
Berserk Button: Being compared to Firestar sends him into rage. He learns to better control himself after he returns to ThunderClan.
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: A variation. In A Starless Clan, we have brown-and-white Sunbeam, black Nightheart, and gray Frostpaw.
Dead Guy Junior: As a kit and apprentice he was named after Firestar. Bramblestar originally intended to base his suffix on Firestar's warrior name as well, with the name Flameheart.
Family Theme Naming: He was originally named after a bright light like his mother Sparkpelt and brother Flickerkit.
Held Back in School: He becomes a warrior a couple moons after his denmates, due to failing his assessment twice.
Meaningful Rename: A special case as he actually rejects the name Bramblestar was originally going to give him. So Bramblestar gives him a name that suits his appearance and demeanor instead.
Non-Indicative Name: Instead of being flame-coloured, he actually has black fur. This is even noted in River multiple times. That said it's possible that he could have flame-coloured eyes. During his warrior ceremony after rejecting his name, Bramblestar decided to compromise with the young tom and changed his prefix to "night" to match his black fur.
Sneaky Departure: He sneaks out of camp in Sky to carry out Bramblestar's mission for him.
Speak in Unison: He has a variant of this with Sunbeam at the end Shadow, when she goes to see him in ThunderClan: at the exact same moment, they say "I can't believe (I'm/you're) here!"
Strong Family Resemblance: He has black fur like his father Larksong.
"Well Done, Son" Guy: Wanting Sparkpelt's approval and attention is one of his main motivations in the first half of A Starless Clan. They finally mend their relationship at the climax of the middle of the arc.

Apprentices

Flowerpaw

A ThunderClan apprentice who died along with her mentor Birchface.

The Apprentice: To Birchface.
Death of a Child: She was only an apprentice when she drowned.
Posthumous Character: Like her mentor.
Senseless Sacrifice: She tried to save her mentor Birchface from drowning, but the only thing she accomplished was getting drowned along with him.

Deerpaw

Doestar's littermate, who died as an apprentice.

Afterlife Welcome: Arrived two days before Doestar's death to bring her to StarClan, but she didn't go immediately. Two days later, she did.
The Apprentice: To an unknown cat.
Posthumous Character: Died before her first mention, but does appear off-page to bring her sister to StarClan.
Theme Naming: Doefeather, and her littermate, Deerpaw.

Sweetpaw

"With this life I give you hope. Even on the darkest night, it will be there, waiting for you."

A ThunderClan apprentice in Bluestar's Prophecy, who is Thistleclaw's sister. She dies of food poisoning. When Bluestar receives her nine lives, Sweetpaw is there to give her the life of hope.

The Apprentice: To Smallear.
Dead Guy Junior: She's named after Sweetbriar, Pinestar's deceased mother.
Death of a Child: She dies of illness when she was only an apprentice.
Hope Bringer: At Bluestar's leader ceremony, Sweetpaw bestows a fourth life upon her and the gift of hope.
"Near and Dear" Baby Naming: She is named after Pinestar's mother Sweetbriar.
In-Series Nickname: Is called by her name prefix, "Sweet," at one point.

Swiftpaw

"We have the right to be warriors just as much as Cloudtail does!"

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Longtail's apprentice for the bulk of the first arc. Essentially Longtail, but younger, he tries desperately to prove his worth. After Bluestar refuses to make him a warrior, he tries to defeat the dogs lurking on ThunderClan territory. He makes a valiant effort, but ultimately fails. Later, he gives Firestar one of his nine lives.

The Apprentice: To Longtail.
Back for the Finale: Appears again in The Last Hope.
The Cameo: He shows up in The Last Hope as one of the eight cats leading a newly deceased Firestar into StarClan.
Cruel and Unusual Death: He and Brightpaw sneak off into the forest to find out what is stealing ThunderClan's prey. The culprits turn out to be a ferocious dog pack, and they give Swiftpaw a savage, brutal death.
The apprentice lay on his side, his legs splayed out. His black-and-white fur was torn, and his body was covered with dreadful wounds, ripped by teeth far bigger than any cat’s. His jaws still snarled and his eyes glared. He was dead, and Fireheart could see that he had died fighting.
Defiant to the End: Despite being outnumbered and outmatched, he fought like all of LionClan against the dogs until they finally killed him.
Didn't Think This Through: When Bluestar refuses to make him and his fellow apprentices warriors, he comes up with the idea of trying to find the dog pack in order to prove their bravery and earn their warrior names. He doesn't consider that dogs are much bigger and stronger than the Clan cats, who avoid them for a reason. He gets killed and Brightpaw gets horribly mutilated when they try to fight the dogs.
Expy: He's exactly like his mentor's early characterization, only younger.
Hot-Blooded: Foolishly decides to go after the dog pack with Brightpaw all on their own. He pays for it with his life.
Jerkass: But still a loyal cat.
Killed Offscreen: In A Dangerous Path he is killed by the dog pack and his Clanmates find his body later on.
Missing Steps Plan: He and Brightpaw didn't think about what they would do after they found the dog pack.
Morality Pet: For his mentor Longtail, who cares a lot about him and is devastated by his death.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In Forest of Secrets he lets it slip to the ShadowClan apprentices that ThunderClan is sheltering Brokenstar, angering ShadowClan and WindClan so badly that they stage a raid on the ThunderClan camp in revenge.
Passed-Over Promotion: In A Dangerous Path, he and the other senior apprentices are ready to be warriors, but their leader Bluestar won't promote them because she's suffering from paranoia that all her Clanmates are traitors. Tired of being stuck as apprentices, Brightpaw and Swiftpaw go off to find the dog pack to prove how brave they are, and it doesn't end well...
Saying Too Much: In Forest of Secrets, he lets it slip at a Gathering that ThunderClan is sheltering Brokentail.
Sneaky Departure: In A Dangerous Path, after Bluestar refuses to make them warriors, Swiftpaw and Brightpaw sneak away from the camp to fight the dogs and prove their valour. Swiftpaw ends up dying in the fight and Brightpaw gets half of her face ripped off.

Shrewpaw

"You're not a medicine cat. No cat's going to go on a rescue mission in the middle of the night because you had a dream. They might listen to you in the morning, though. Settle down and go back to sleep."

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A ThunderClan apprentice who is one of Dustpelt and Ferncloud's first litter, along with Spiderleg. In the forest, he was Squirrelflight's best friend, but he becomes envious of her friendship with Brambleclaw. In Dawn, he is hit by a car and dies.

The Apprentice: To Thornclaw.
Arbitrary Skepticism: After Squirreflight tells him her dream about Leafpool and Spottedleaf, he refuses to believe her.
Big Brother Instinct: In StarClan, he nudges his sisters Larchkit and Hollykit away from some water because he's worried they might fall in.
Green-Eyed Monster: Jealous of Squirrelpaw's relationship with Brambleclaw.
Look Both Ways: In Dawn, he gets hit and killed on the Thunderpath.
Neck Snap: In Dawn, a car runs him over and breaks his neck.
Romantic False Lead: It looks like he might become a love interest for Squirrelflight, or at least of member of a love triangle. Then he dies.

Molepaw

One of the kits of Brackenfur and Sorreltail, the only tom in their first litter, and the littermate of Honeyfern, Poppyfrost and Cinderheart. He died of a cough between The New Prophecy and Power of Three.

The Apprentice: Unknown to whom, though.
Incurable Cough of Death: Died of one that didn't respond to herbs.
Killed Offscreen: Died of a cough between series two and series three.
Series Continuity Error: He's called Molepaw in The Sight and Fading Echoes, but in Eclipse and Sunrise he's called Molekit.

Seedpaw

"But we want to do something useful!"

A daughter of Brackenfur and Sorreltail, and the littermate of Lilyheart. She drowns in Bramblestar's Storm.

The Apprentice: To Bumblestripe.
Blood-Splattered Innocents: In Dovewing's Silence, her father finds her and her sister sitting by their mother's body, covered in her blood.
Genki Girl
Heroic Sacrifice: In Bramblestar's Storm, she frees Lilyheart from the ivy trapping her underwater, but then dies herself.
Posthumous Sibling: Her older brother Molepaw and older sister Honeyfern are already dead by the time Lilyheart and Seedpaw are born.

Temporary ThunderClanners

Ravenpaw

See Warrior Cats Others

Tawnypelt

The daughter of Tigerstar and Goldenflower, and sister to Brambleclaw. Tawnypelt used to be a member of ThunderClan, but after being unable to take the comparisons between herself and her tyrannical father, she left to join ShadowClan. For more information, see Warrior Cats ShadowClan.

Stormfur

See Warrior Cats: Tribe of Rushing Water

Feathertail

See Warrior Cats RiverClan

Mistyfoot

Mistyfoot (Refugee)

See Warrior Cats RiverClan

Brook

Brook Where Small Fish Swim

See Warrior Cats: Tribe of Rushing Water

Characters / Warrior Cats ThunderClan Warriors and Apprentices

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Pre-Bluestar's Prophecy

Songbird

Mapleshade

Birchface

Frecklewish

Bloomheart

Nettlebreeze

Deerdapple

Seedpelt

Thrushtalon

Bluestar's Prophecy exclusive

Windflight

Adderfang

Stormtail

Swiftbreeze

Poppydawn

Moonflower

Thrushpelt

Leopardfoot

Thistleclaw

Became a warrior before The Prophecies Begin

Willowpelt

Runningwind

Darkstripe

Became a warrior in The Prophecies Begin

Sandstorm

Dustpelt

Brackenfur

Cloudtail

Brightheart/Lostface

Thornclaw

Became a warrior before The New Prophecy

Ashfur

Rainwhisker

Sootfur

Became a warrior in The New Prophecy

Sorreltail

Spiderleg

Became a warrior before Power of Three

Whitewing

Birchfall

Became a warrior in Power of Three

Millie

Hazeltail

Berrynose

Mousewhisker

Honeyfern

Poppyfrost

Became a warrior before Omen of the Stars

Foxleap

Icecloud

Rosepetal

Toadstep

Became a warrior in Omen of the Stars

Briarlight

Bumblestripe

Blossomfall

Became a warrior before A Vision of Shadows

Molewhisker

Cherryfall

Lilyheart

Snowbush

Ambermoon

Dewnose

Stormcloud

Hollytuft

Fernsong

Sorrelstripe

Became a warrior in A Vision of Shadows

Sparkpelt

Larksong

Leafshade

Honeyfur

Twigbranch

Finleap

Became a warrior before The Broken Code

Plumstone

Eaglewing