Willowshine

Willowshine is a small, lithe, sleek, thick, and soft-furred, pale gray tabby she-cat with bright green eyes.
Willowshine was a RiverClan medicine cat who served under Leopardstar's and Mistystar's leaderships in the lake territories. She was born to Mosspelt as Willowkit and almost immediately discovered a passion for learning and using herbs. She helped Mothwing during the time when several RiverClan cats became sick after drinking tainted water.
She became a medicine cat apprentice as Willowpaw with Mothwing as her mentor. Leafpool also mentored Willowpaw in the ways of their warrior ancestors, as Mothwing did not believe in StarClan. When Hollypaw became a medicine cat apprentice, Willowpaw quickly befriended her. Willowpaw eventually earned her full medicine cat name, Willowshine.
When Mistystar announced that RiverClan wouldn't be interacting with any other Clans for sometime following Darktail's terrible reign, Willowshine and her mentor weren't allowed to go to the Moonpool or speak with the other medicine cats. However, Willowshine had a vision about a six toed cat, and she went to Alderheart to help her with the vision. She eventually became RiverClan's sole medicine cat after Mistystar exiled Mothwing for her being a codebreaker. During an attempt to rescue Squirrelflight from the Dark Forest, Willowshine volunteered to go, but was intercepted and killed by Ashfur, who dragged the she-cat into the Dark Forest and subsequently made part of his imprisoned ghosts under his control. Willowshine was forced to fight for Ashfur, but managed to break free. She fought against the dark warrior in the final battle, and joined StarClan after. 
==History==
===The New Prophecy===
:Willowkit is the daughter of Mosspelt and participates on the Great Journey. When the Clans arrive at their new home, Willowkit helps Mothwing in the medicine cat den, and demonstrates her knack for identifying herbs and nursing sick cats. When Willowkit reaches her sixth moon, she becomes Mothwing's apprentice, but Leafpool wonders how Mothwing could teach her apprentice how to interpret omens and communicate with StarClan since she does not believe herself. Feathertail visits Leafpool in her dreams and asks her to teach Willowpaw the StarClan portion of her training.
===Power of Three===
:Willowpaw and Mothwing visit ThunderClan so Leafpool could interpret Willowpaw's dream. She befriends Hollykit who asks how Willowpaw became a medicine cat and is determined to become Leafpool's medicine apprentice. Instead, Jaypaw becomes Leafpool's apprentice and he snaps at Willowpaw when she tries to guide him to the Moonpool. Mudfur warns Willowpaw about Twoleg kits wrecking havoc on RiverClan's camp, and RiverClan is forced to move their camp. Hollypaw sneaks into RiverClan territory to speak with Willowpaw but is caught. Mothwing gives Willowpaw her full name, Willowshine.
===Omen of the Stars===
:Since Willowshine was given her full name, Mothwing tends to just send Willowshine alone to the half-moon meetings much to Jayfeather's ire. In StarClan, Graypool insists to Willowshine that RiverClan must stand alone with incomplete warnings. She and the other medicine cats remain distant with each other, and agrees with Mistystar and Onestar that Jayfeather's duties should be suspended until he can prove he did not kill Flametail. Mothwing and Jayfeather tell the other medicine cats about the upcoming battle with the Dark Forest and go to StarClan to confirm it.
===A Vision of Shadows===
:Willowshine befriends Alderpaw and insists that he will become a great medicine cat, just like his mentor, Jayfeather. When a sickness devastates ShadowClan, Willowshine tries to find lungwort in their territory but to no avail. When the Kin takes over RiverClan's territory and injure many RiverClan warriors, Darktail takes them as prisoners despite Mothwing and Willowshine's protests. She and Mothwing treat the other injured cats after the final battle.
:Mistystar closes RiverClan's borders as a result of her Clan's devastation, and forbids Willowshine and Mothwing to attend the half-moon meetings. Willowshine worries about her short herb supply and the rising tensions between the other Clans and within her own Clan. Willowshine receives a vision of the camp on fire, but Mothwing brushes it off as a bad dream. Mosspelt, Willowshine's mother, falls ill, and Willowshine implores Mistystar about re-opening the borders, but she refuses. Lightning causes a fire to ignite in RiverClan's camp and ThunderClan comes to their aid. Recognizing the need for the Clans to work together, Willowshine participates on a journey to return SkyClan to the lake.
===The Broken Code===
:When Mistystar exiles Mothwing for being a codebreaker, Willowshine is left as RiverClan's sole medicine cat. Willowshine tries to persuade Mothwing to rejoin RiverClan after the golden she-cat joins ShadowClan, but Mothwing refuses until Icewing and Harelight, cats who were also exiled, are allowed back. Following Squirrelflight's abduction by Ashfur, the spirit possessing Bramblestar's body, Willowshine advocates for herself to travel to the Dark Forest, due to her status as a medicine cat and lack of connection to Squirrelflight. In the process of dreaming her way there, Willowshine is killed by Ashfur and her spirit taken prisoner in the Dark Forest. Willowshine's spirit then forcefully takes Rootspring into the Moonpool, explaining that as the only cat who can see ghosts, she needs his help to save Squirrelflight and the Clans. Rootspring and Willowshine roam the Dark Forest, briefly reuniting with Squirrelflight until Ashfur's ghosts trap and capture them, where Rootspring realizes that Willowshine was always under Ashfur's control ever since she died, and was only pretending to help him.
===Novellas===
:In Mothwing's Secret, Willowpaw becomes Mothwing's apprentice, and while Mothwing is confident she will fulfill Willowpaw's training as a healer, she worries she will fail Willowpaw by not being able to teach her about StarClan. Willowpaw discovers Mothwing's secret when Voletooth pleads for Mothwing to speak to StarClan for him, but she covers for her mentor. Mothwing trains Willowshine to become a skillful medicine cat and reflects that it was their own skills that saved Petalfur instead of StarClan's interference. 
:In Mistystar's Omen, Willowshine offers to go with Mistyfoot for her leadership ceremony, but Mistyfoot insists Mothwing should come instead. When Mistystar discovers Mothwing doesn't believe in StarClan, she realizes Willowshine knew all along. She questions Willowshine about her training, but Willowshine defends her mentor and how Leafpool taught her, too. Mistystar forces Mothwing to retire and makes Willowshine the Clan's sole medicine cat. Reedwhisker is almost killed by a dog, and Willowshine is overwhelmed by his injury. After speaking with Stonefur, Mistystar lets Mothwing help Reedwhisker and become a medicine cat again.
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:Dawnflower: 
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:Robinkit: 
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===Mistakes===
*Willowshine was initially described as dark gray, and has been shown with dark blue eyes.
**She also has been described as grayish-white, and said to have blue eyes.
**In the original version of Twilight, Willowshine was described as pale gray. This was later changed in the reprinted version of Twilight to dark gray.Revealed on the reprinted version of Twilight 
**On the Warrior Cats website, Willowshine is also depicted as a dark gray tabby on her profile page. 
*Willowshine is mistakenly said to be too young to take on the full duties of a medicine cat, despite being approximately three years old at the time.
===Continuity===
*In Su Susann's "Missing Kits" on Vicky's Facebook, Willowshine was described as a very pale gray tabby she-cat with bright green eyes, and her father was Frogleap.Revealed on Vicky's Facebook
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