Reedwhisker

Reedwhisker is a large, thick-furred slender black tom with small, neat ears and dark gray eyes.
Reedwhisker was the RiverClan deputy under his mother, Mistystar, in the lake territories. He was born to Mistyfoot and Blackclaw as Reedkit along with his siblings, Perchkit, Pikekit and Primrosekit, but was the only one to reach adulthood. During his apprenticeship, Leafpaw rescued Reedpaw from drowning in the river. After the Clans moved to the lake, he earned his warrior name, Reedwhisker, and trained his first two apprentices, Rippletail and Pouncetail. 
After becoming a senior warrior and receiving his third apprentice, Hollowpaw, Reedwhisker was named deputy under Mistystar. However, after saving Hollowpaw and Rushpaw from dogs, Reedwhisker's wounds brought him moments from death, and his life was spared only after Mistystar allowed Mothwing to return to her medicine cat duties. After the Great Battle, Reedwhisker trained one final apprentice, Lizardtail. When the Kin defeated RiverClan, Reedwhisker was taken prisoner along with the other injured RiverClan cats. Yet, Reedwhisker remained defiant even in his starvation, refusing to vow loyalty to Darktail.
During RiverClan's arguments about changing the warrior code, Mistystar died unexpectedly, leaving the Clan to anticipate Reedwhisker as their new leader. However, Reedwhisker never returned from his hunting patrol, having been murdered by Splashtail. Splashtail cast his body into a ravine to make the death appear accidental, per his scheme with Curlfeather to become deputy under Curlfeather's leadership. Reedwhisker's death prompted RiverClan's leader succession crisis. He ascended to StarClan afterwards, where he revealed to Frostpaw the true cause of his death. Following Splashtail's defeat, he gave Icestar a life for sensing danger.
==History==
===The Prophecies Begin===
:Reedkit is born to Mistyfoot and Blackclaw alongside his littermates, Perchkit, Pikekit, and Primrosekit. Two of his littermates—Perchkit and Pikekit—are swept away in a flood. Fireheart and Graystripe rescue them and bring them back to RiverClan's camp.
===The New Prophecy===
:Reedpaw is now a young apprentice. He accidentally falls into the river and is rescued by Mistyfoot. However, he is unconscious and bleeding, and Hawkfrost and Mistyfoot urge Mothwing to help him, but her nerves get the best of her. Leafpaw, with the aid of Spottedleaf, removes the water from his lungs and patches his wound. Reedpaw thanks Leafpaw and suddenly realizes she is a ThunderClan cat. Mothwing frets how she failed to help Reedpaw, but Leafpaw reassures her.
:He makes the journey to their new home and is given his warrior name of Reedwhisker, and later an apprentice, Ripplepaw. He meets Leafpool again when she visits RiverClan to help them with a sickness. She's glad to see him again, and asks him to collect some yarrow and juniper berries with Ripplepaw.
===Power of Three===
:Reedwhisker has another apprentice, Pouncepaw. Willowpaw and Hollypaw spy on Reedwhisker, Voletooth, Blackclaw, Minnowpaw and Pouncepaw barricading their camp with stones and gorse from the Twoleg kits, but they are caught when a dog chases them onto WindClan territory. Ashfoot and Tornear accuses them of trespassing, and the RiverClan patrol takes Hollypaw back to the island. He reports Hollypaw to Leopardstar, who lets her stay until it is safe to return. Reedwhisker participates in the battle between the four Clans, fighting with WindClan and against ShadowClan and ThunderClan with his Clan and WindClan. When Graystripe orders Jaypaw to alert Firestar that RiverClan had joined the fight, he detects Reedwhisker and Mosspelt arguing as they head for Firestar's battle patrol.
===Omen of the Stars===
:He is mentoring his third apprentice, Hollowpaw. During the drought, Leopardstar claims the fish in the lake as RiverClan's and orders her warriors to guard the remaining lake water. Reedwhisker, Graymist, Otterheart and Sneezepaw watch over the water when a ThunderClan patrol comes to collect water. Reedwhisker sharply reminds them to not take any fish. When Dovepaw uses her powers to spy on RiverClan, Reedwhisker hopes that Firestar's plan to send cats to free the water works. After Leopardstar dies, his mother, Mistyfoot, succeeds her as leader. She appoints Reedwhisker as her deputy. At a Gathering when Mistystar reports the increased presence of Twolegs have not threatened their fresh-kill, Reedwhisker remarks the Twolegs are incapable of catching fish.
===A Vision of Shadows===
:When Darktail and his Kin invade RiverClan territory, Reedwhisker fights one-on-one with Darktail when the tyrant attacks Mistystar, preventing him from killing her. However, Darktail easily subdues Reedwhisker and demands to take all of the wounded prisoners. Mistystar does not want to abandon her son, but Reedwhisker insists she must, and Darktail takes him, along with Brackenpelt, Mintfur and Icewing. The four are tortured, starving and their wounds untreated until all four reluctantly swear an oath of loyalty to the Kin. Reedwhisker at first tries to defy Darktail but gives in due to hunger. Violetpaw sneaks them food, and forms a plan to break them out. The prisoners fight back, and the rest of the Clans rescue them. 
:He later journeys with Squirrelflight, Hawkwing, Tigerheart, Violetpaw and Twigpaw to confront Onestar about Darktail, insisting he was fit for the journey. At the next Gathering, Reedwhisker stands by Mistystar when she closes RiverClan's borders. When a lightning strike causes a fire in RiverClan's camp, Reedwhisker helps the medicine cats evacuate the sick ones, but he becomes separated from his Clan. He explains to Hawkwing what happened, and is reunited with his Clanmates.
===The Broken Code===
:He voices doubt that Shadowsight would be able to connect with StarClan, asking the young cat if he was sure he wasn't dreaming about it. He later is present with the other Clan deputies and leaders as they try to break the ice on the Moonpool, but their efforts are in vain as the ice is too thick. He also appears concerned when Shadowpaw announces his plan to try and cure Bramblestar, asking Squirrelflight what would happen if Bramblestar died for good. When Mistystar decides to enter the Dark Forest with Crowfeather, Violetshine, Graystripe, and Shadowsight to confront Ashfur, Reedwhisker worries for his leader's safety, but she trusts that he'll be a fine leader if she dies.
===A Starless Clan===
:While on a hunting patrol with Fognose, Curlfeather, Splashtail, and Podlight, Reedwhisker goes missing, and his Clanmates assume that he returned to camp on his own or got lost. In ShadowClan, Sunbeam hears a mysterious yowl coming from RiverClan. When RiverClan's patrol returns to camp, they are surprised to learn that Reedwhisker is not there and Mistystar has died. With their leader dead and deputy missing, RiverClan sends patrols to each Clan asking if they have seen Reedwhisker. Frostpaw and Mothwing temporarily lead the Clan until Leopardstar tells Frostpaw of Reedwhisker's location. Frostpaw and her patrol find Reedwhisker's body dead in the bottom of a ravine, his neck broken and strange scratch marks on his back. Reedwhisker ascends to StarClan, and he later sends Frostpaw a vision about his death and warns her about a darkness in RiverClan.
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===Super Editions===
:In Leopardstar's Honor, Reedkit is ushered into the nursery by Mistyfoot along with his siblings after Frogleap's death to play with Robinkit, Woodkit, and Dawnkit. He later becomes an apprentice named Reedpaw. Reedpaw, Primrosepaw, Pikepaw, and Blackclaw watch proudly as Mistyfoot becomes Featherpaw's mentor. After Mistyfoot escapes retribution for being half-Clan, Reedpaw and his siblings huddle together while worrying about her. He joins the TigerClan patrol that meets with BloodClan, ThunderClan, and WindClan, though Blackclaw is ordered by Leopardstar to keep him and the other apprentices out of harm's way.
===Novellas===
:In Mistystar's Omen, Reedwhisker is one of the first cats to honor Mistyfoot as their new leader. She names Reedwhisker her deputy, though Mossypaw believes her choice to be biased since Reedwhisker was Mistystar's son. He greets her when she returns from her leadership ceremony and offers to bring the news to Blackstar. He alerts Mistystar that Hollowpaw and Rushpaw are trapped by dogs, and he and Mallownose rescue them. However, one of the dogs attacks and he is severely wounded. Mistystar forbids Mothwing from treating her son because of her lack of faith in StarClan, but Stonefur gives her an omen to trust in Mothwing's instincts. She allows Mothwing to heal him, and Reedwhisker survives.
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==Personality==
:Reedwhisker is a loyal and brave RiverClan warrior, willing to put himself in harm's way to protect those he loves and his Clan. He is strong-willed and somewhat stubborn, as when he was a prisoner of the Kin, he refused to take Darktail's oath even though he was starved and wounded for many days, though eventually gave in.
==Family==
:Reedwhisker's parents are Blackclaw and Mistystar. His siblings are Primrosepaw, Pikepaw, and Perchkit. For more of Reedwhisker's family, click here!
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===Interesting facts===
*He has ThunderClan blood through Bluestar.
*Despite being an older kit in Forest of Secrets, he does not become an apprentice until at least Moonrise, while gaining his warrior name some time between Starlight and Twilight.
*Reedwhisker's father was mentioned to be Blackclaw on Vicky's FacebookRevealed on Vicky's Facebook and the Warrior Cats website family tree before it was added in Leopardstar's Honor.
===Author statements===
*Kate Cary has said that she wishes that three of Mistystar's four kits could have been Graymist, Rippletail, and Reedwhisker. However, Reedwhisker is confirmed by Vicky later in the same chat, making Rippletail too young to be from the same litter.
**Later it is revealed that Graymist and Rippletail were not Reedwhisker's littermates and that the litter Fireheart saved from the river consisted of Reedwhisker and either Pikepaw, Perchkit, or Primrosepaw.
*Kate has mentioned that she would like Reedwhisker to be Duskfur's mate and even wrote it into her Allegiance list, but it isn't confirmed as canon.
*His deputyship was first revealed in Erin Hunter Chat 6.
===Mistakes===
*He has been mistakenly called Reedfeather twice.
*He is described as a newly made apprentice in Twilight, despite Forest of Secrets stating he was almost six moons old. Due to timeline inconsistencies, he is shown younger than he actually is, when he is actually at the very least the same age as Bramblestar and Tawnypelt.
*He was mistakenly depicted as a tabby with a reed-shaped tail.
*He was mistakenly depicted with green eyes on the cover of Star.
===Continuity===
*In The Clans Decide, when he votes for Firestar, Reedwhisker mentions that Firestar saved his life and that he believes that Firestar can do it again, thus, it is believed that he is one of Mistyfoot's kits who is washed away in the flood in Forest of Secrets, and rescued by Fireheart and Graystripe.
*In Su Susann's "Missing Kits" on Vicky's Facebook, Reedwhisker and Swallowtail were mates and Rainstorm and Mintfur were their sons.Revealed on Vicky's Facebook He also has brilliant blue eyes.Revealed on Vicky's Facebook
*In the Chinese full-color version of Return to the Clans, Reedpaw, Swallowpaw, Duskfur, Pinefur, and Icepaw appear as apprentices playfighting as Tigerstar.Revealed on the Chinese WikiRevealed in Return to the Clans, Chinese full-color edition, page 71
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