Lizardstripe

Lizardstripe is a pale brown tabby she-cat with a white underbelly and yellow eyes.
Lizardstripe was a ShadowClan warrior under Cedarstar's, Raggedstar's, and Brokenstar's leaderships in the forest territories. Lizardstripe was mates with Mudclaw, and later became a reluctant mother to their kits, Runningkit, Tanglekit, and Deerkit. She was hostile towards Brokenkit when she was forced to nurse him. Her bitterness and resentment towards Brokenstar is what led him down his path of hatred, something that Yellowfang deeply regrets.
==History==
===In The Prophecies Begin arc===
====Fire and Ice====
:Although unnamed, Yellowfang mentions to Fireheart that when she gave birth to Brokenstar, she gave him to Lizardstripe to raise him as her own.
===In the Omen of the Stars arc===
====Fading Echoes====
:When Jayfeather enters Yellowfang's memories about Brokenstar during their visit to the Dark Forest, Lizardstripe nips, hisses, growls, and deprives him of milk to remind him of how she didn't want him. This shows that when Brokenkit grew up he learned to hate and want revenge towards almost everyone.
===In the Super Editions===
====Yellowfang's Secret====
:Lizardstripe is a young ShadowClan warrior. Yellowkit spots her soon after Raggedpaw and Scorchpaw's apprentice ceremonies when the tabby she-cat limps into camp with a thorn in her paw. Yellowkit feels a pain similar to hers and waits outside of Sagewhisker's den until Lizardstripe re-emerges, thanking the medicine cat. Later, Foxheart mentions that she will get Lizardstripe to come with her and Raggedpelt to a training session. Yellowfang encounters the three again while taking some herbs back to the camp for Sagewhisker. Raggedpelt says he can scent Lizardstripe hiding in a hazel thicket. Once Raggedpelt is done talking with Yellowfang, he calls out to Lizardstripe, saying they knew she was there.
:After a Gathering, she pushes her way into the warriors' den after Foxheart. Foxheart teases Yellowfang about hunting herbs, and Lizardstripe adds sarcastically that it must be hard to hunt leaves, sharing a glance and laughing at her. Lizardstripe later taunts Yellowfang after she becomes a medicine cat apprentice, calling out mockingly if she'd clean her nest, saying she wanted feathers in it and to bring fresh-kill to the elders. Stonetooth soon interrupts, saying she was supposed to be on a hunting patrol. She bounds off with a hiss of annoyance, going to join Frogtail. During an attack on the rats at Carrionplace, Newtspeck, Frogtail, and Lizardstripe roll a small tree trunk towards the rest of the cats, as its roots were rotten and easy to pull it out.
:Lizardstripe talks to Hollyflower about having kits, anticipating the arrival of her own. Hollyflower tries to get her to be more enthusiastic about her kits, but it is a sore subject with Lizardstripe. She becomes more irritable and upset as the conversation continues, despite Hollyflower's efforts to make kitting seem more enjoyable than not. As Lizardstripe walks away, Yellowfang notices how swollen her belly is getting. She thinks about telling Lizardstripe she is about to have kits as well, thinking that this is a new experience both of them could share, but knows no one can find out, and that she and Lizardstripe had never gotten along very well. While Yellowfang explains to Raggedpelt that she cannot be a mother to their kits, she tells him Lizardstripe is also expecting kits and can care for theirs until they are old enough to feed alone.
:Lizardstripe has had her kits when Yellowfang and Raggedpelt bring Brokenkit to her. Raggedpelt tells her that it is his kit when he brings Brokenkit to her. Lizardstripe comments that if she'd known toms could have kits, she would have made Mudclaw have them himself. Raggedpelt tells her that the kit's mother does not wish to reveal herself, saying that she hopes Lizardstripe would take care of him. Lizardstripe protests, saying it's not her job to look after unwanted kits, but Raggedpelt snarls at her, saying she was being given a great honor and should be proud to mother the Clan deputy's kit. She hisses softly, eventually agreeing to look after the kit. Yellowfang tells her that he is called Brokenkit, and she nods, touching the bend in his tail with her paw.
:Sagewhisker says she'll visit Lizardstripe the following dawn, returning as Yellowfang is examining Nightpaw. Once he is gone, Sagewhisker informs Yellowfang that Lizardstripe doesn't seem very happy about having to look after another kit. Yellowfang snorts that she didn't want to have kits in the first place. Lizardstripe and her mate Mudclaw are outside the nursery when their kits are going outside for the first time. Mudclaw goes over to his mate to join her, and she licks her paw and draws it over her ear with her eyes glinting, with Yellowfang thinking she might be proud of them after all. While Yellowfang talks to Littlebird about the amount of kits, she says Lizardstripe seems to be managing.
:Lizardstripe shares tongues with Nettlespot and Ashheart when Yellowfang returns to the camp from gathering herbs. Yellowfang soon witnesses her kits, Deerkit, Tanglekit, and Runningkit, tormenting Brokenkit. She takes Brokenkit away, saying she'd tell Lizardstripe and she'd punish them. Brokenkit begs her not to, telling her she'd only blame him, since she didn't like him. Brokenkit insists he heard her telling Amberleaf when Yellowfang doesn't believe him. Lizardstripe attends her kits' apprentice ceremony. When it is over, she rejoins the warriors with a huge sigh of relief.
:Yet again, rats attack a patrol that was near Carrionplace. Lizardstripe announces to the Clan that her and her patrol were attacked, her fur bristling, while blood drips from a wound on her belly. She proceeds to explain to the cats what happened in more detail. She tells Yellowfang that she is busy talking to Raggedstar when she tries to treat her belly scratch, and the medicine cat crossly remarks in her mind she cares less if Lizardstripe bleeds out. However, eventually Yellowfang manages to persuade her to get it looked at, giving her some marigold, advising her to take a rest.
===In the Novellas===
====Blackfoot's Reckoning====
:Blackpaw thinks about how Lizardstripe allows her kits to bully Brokenkit. He is disturbed by Brokenkit's remark about using others to get what he wants, thinking that Lizardstripe's treatment of him contributes to how the kit feels. Later, Blackfoot prepares his patrol, including Lizardstripe, to attack ThunderClan and steal their kits. She asks him if Yellowfang might be there. Blackfoot signals to her to lead her cats to the gorse tunnel. On Blackfoot's order, Lizardstripe attacks a guard, and later on in the fight, Blackfoot hears her screech in pain.
====Leafpool's Wish====
:When Yellowfang talks to Leafpool, she explains that her flaw was not giving Brokenstar enough love as a kit. She talks about making sure to give these kits love and to make sure they feel welcome from the moment they are born. Although unnamed, she mentions Lizardstripe, saying that the she-cat never loved Brokenstar and resented him from the moment she was given the tiny kit. Yellowfang warns Leafpool to be smarter than she was, and to not give her kits to a cat like Lizardstripe.
===In the Field Guides===
====Cats of the Clans====
:Rock mentions Lizardstripe when he is talking about Brokenstar. He tells the kits how Lizardstripe was asked to nurse Brokenkit, who was supposedly motherless, and Lizardstripe reluctantly agreed to take him in, but she never hesitated to make Brokenkit feel unwelcome, as he was the only kit who wasn't her own. Because of this mistreatment from such a young age, when he becomes a warrior, Brokentail sees aggressiveness as the only way to gain his Clanmates' respect, leading to him killing his father, Raggedstar. It is also mentioned that she is very ambitious and Brokenkit may have learned to be a cruel leader from her.
====The Ultimate Guide====
:She is mentioned on Sagewhisker's page that Yellowfang took her mentor's advice and gave Brokenkit up to Lizardstripe as soon as he was born. This is also mentioned on Brokenstar's page as Lizardstripe is said to have been the queen who raised Brokenkit, after he was born to Yellowfang, although she hadn't wanted to raise that extra mouth at her belly.
==Character pixels==
==Personality==
:Lizardstripe is a vain and bitter she-cat, who lacks a mother's natural instincts as she is notorious for hating kits, including her own. She despises being in the nursery with her kits, and doesn't understand why anyone would want to have kits. She just wants to be a warrior and protect her Clan. She is unfriendly and prickly, even under normal circumstances.
==Relationships==
===Mudclaw===
:Mudclaw is Lizardstripe's mate. She likes the part where they are mates, but not so much the downside of having kits.
===Deerfoot, Runningnose, and Tangleburr===
:Lizardstripe felt trapped in the nursery with her kits, and saw them as annoying brats. She is extremely relieved when they are finally made apprentices.
===Brokenstar===
:Lizardstripe was extremely annoyed to have another kit dumped on her. She felt it was unfair for her to have to take care of every unwanted kit. Raggedstar warns her to respect a leader's son, but she still takes every opportunity to let Brokenkit know he is unwanted.
==Kin==
===Members===
Mate:
:Mudclaw: 
Daughter:
:Tangleburr: 
Sons:
:Runningnose: 
:Deerfoot: 
Foster son:
:Brokenstar: 
===Trees===
====Genetic====
====Foster====
==Appearances==
==Trivia==
===Author statements===
*Vicky thinks that Lizardstripe resides in StarClan.Revealed on Vicky's Facebook
===Continuity===
*In Secrets of the Clans, a 2007 field guide, Lizardstripe is a ShadowClan queen and is nursing her own kits when Yellowfang gives birth to Brokenkit. She is the only nursing queen at the time, so Raggedstar asks her to take care of Brokenkit. Lizardstripe is bad-tempered and rude, calling Brokenkit an unwanted scrap of fur. Raggedstar snarls at her that she should be honored to have the chance to nurse the Clan leader's son, and Lizardstripe unwillingly agrees. It is said that Brokenstar's bad temper, ambition, and tendency to fight to settle problems is inherited from Lizardstripe. She later dies of greencough.
**This appears to have been retconned, as she partakes in a raid on ThunderClan's camp, and has not died of greencough.
**She is mistakenly said to have two kits, while in Yellowfang's Secret, she has three.
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==Notes and references==
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Category:ShadowClan cats
Category:She-cats
Category:Warriors
Category:Queens