Longtail

Longtail is a lean, pale brown tabby tom with black stripes and green eyes. He has a "V"-shaped nick in his left ear, and a long tail.
Longtail was a ThunderClan elder who lived under Firestar's leadership in the forest and lake territories and previously served as a warrior under Bluestar and Firestar. He was born to Robinwing and Patchpelt as Longkit, and he was later apprenticed to Darkstripe as Longpaw. As a warrior, Longtail was one of Tigerclaw's strongest supporters, and he challenged Firepaw when he first joined ThunderClan, but was defeated by the kittypet. After Tigerclaw's betrayal, Longtail refused to join him, slowly earning Fireheart's respect. After his apprentice, Swiftpaw, was killed by Tigerstar's dogs, Longtail further turned his back on him. He gained Ferncloud as an apprentice and later became a mentor to Sootfur. Longtail was blinded by a rabbit and forced to retire early, but remained valued by the Clan. Longtail formed a close bond with his fellow elders, Mousefur and Purdy, but was killed by a falling tree. He ascended to StarClan and reunited with Mousefur during the battle against the Dark Forest. He was saddened when Mousefur was killed by a Dark Forest tom and killed him in turn.
==History==
===The Prophecies Begin===
:When Rusty joins ThunderClan, Longtail fights him to prove his worth, and Rusty tears Longtail's ear, scarring the warrior for life, which greatly angers Longtail. Longtail tears Rusty's collar off, nearly strangling him, and Bluestar takes this as a sign that the kittypet should be accepted into ThunderClan. Longtail is made the mentor of Swiftpaw and continues to support Tigerclaw, until his betrayal and the truth about Redtail's death comes out. Longtail then declares loyalty to ThunderClan and begins to respect Fireheart. He eventually uncovers a plot by Tigerstar to try and destroy ThunderClan, and Swiftpaw is killed trying to fight the dogs, devastating the mentor. However, he receives Fernpaw as an apprentice when his own former mentor, Darkstripe, is exiled for his treason. Longtail fights against BloodClan and survives to tell the tale.
===The New Prophecy===
:Now blind and an elder, Longtail partakes in the Great Journey. He originally planned on staying behind in the forest with Speckletail and Frostfur, but Firestar convinces him to make the journey. Longtail befriends many other elders from other Clans, as well as becoming better friends with Mousefur and Goldenflower, who help take care of him as he cannot see. 
===Power of Three===
:He helps Brightheart train Jaypaw because he has lived with his blindness for many moons, and he has much more patience with the quarrelsome apprentice. His sense of smell has improved, and he detects Graystripe's scent despite Mousefur's hesitance. He helps keep kits and apprentices out of trouble. 
===Omen of the Stars===
:Longtail strikes up a friendship with Purdy, a former loner who joins ThunderClan. Longtail and Mousefur are often subjected to Purdy's elongated stories, although they do not seem to mind. When a beech tree begins to fall into ThunderClan's camp, Mousefur wishes to retrieve a mouse as it would dishonor StarClan to leave it. Longtail, unwilling to let her do it, runs back in to get it, but he is followed by Briarpaw. The tree falls on the two, paralyzing Briarpaw and killing Longtail. His death is mourned most heavily by Mousefur, and the she-cat feels depressed without her friend, but is able to move on with Purdy's help.
:Longtail, now a spirit of StarClan, has regained his sight and takes part in the Great Battle where he is reunited with Mousefur and Purdy. When Mousefur is killed by a Dark Forest cat, Longtail flies into a rage and brutally mauls Mousefur's killer, causing them to fade from existence. When the battle is over, Longtail helps guide Mousefur into StarClan, along with the others that fell in the battle. 
===Super Editions===
:In Firestar's Quest, Fernpaw becomes a warrior with the name of Ferncloud, and Longtail becomes the mentor to Sootpaw. However, Longtail is blinded while hunting a rabbit that turned on him and scratched his eyes, rendering him unable to hunt or fight properly. This causes him to fall into a depression, and he becomes an elder despite being relatively young, while Sootpaw is given Thornclaw as a replacement mentor. Firestar comforts Longtail and insists he will always have a place in ThunderClan.
===Field Guides===
:In Code of the Clans, Longtail and Darkstripe are assigned to a hunting patrol during a harsh leaf-bare. Despite managing to catch a squirrel, Longtail breaks the warrior code by allowing Darkstripe to convince him to eat their prey, rather than saving it for the elders. Because of this, an elder named Poppydawn is unable to fight her sickness and dies. Longtail blames himself for her death, but Darkstripe refuses to let him admit his wrongdoing.
==Detailed description==
===Scars and injuries gained===
*"V" shaped nick in his left ear caused by a battle with Rusty in Into the Wild, later healed in StarClan.
*Blindness from scratched eyes caused by a rabbit in Firestar's Quest, later healed in StarClan.
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==Killed victims==
*Unnamed Dark Forest tabby tom (Spirit)
==Family==
:Longtail's parents are Patchpelt and Robinwing. For more of Longtail's family, click here!
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===Toys and Plush===
====Cloudtail & Longtail - Mini Collector Figures====
*Series 5
*These toms both struggled in certain ways to prove their loyalty to ThunderClan. The Longtail mini features him at the very beginning of his character arc, with the iconic blue collar still hanging from his jaws and a fresh nick in his ear marking the start of his rivalry with Firestar. While Cloudtail's disregard for the rules and a worrying fondness for kittypet comforts made his Clanmates despair of him, he also rose above the uncertainty of his youth to become a true ThunderClan warrior.
*Approximate individual price is $12.99 USD, and the three-pack bundle is $38.97 USD.
==Trivia==
===Author statements===
*He was named for his tail and knew from the beginning his warrior name would be Longtail.
*Vicky says that Longtail did not develop any romantic feelings for Mousefur, and that they were just good friends.Revealed on Vicky's Facebook 
*Kate has described Longtail's tail as not freakishly long, just elegantly long.
*Patchpelt and Robinwing being the parents of Longtail was originally revealed on Vicky's Facebook before it was confirmed on the Warriors website's family tree.Revealed on Vicky's Facebook 
===Mistakes===
*His name has been mistakenly spelled Longstripe in Code of the Clans.
*There has been much conflict over Longtail's pelt color. Although called silver in Rising Storm, he is called brown less than fifty pages later. When asked about this, Kate, the author of Rising Storm, says that she sees tabbies as brown, and suspects that Cherith sees her tabbies as silver. Kate says that to her, Longtail is brown.
**In addition, Longtail is depicted as a brown tabby in A Thief in ThunderClan, on his profile on the Warrior Cats website,Revealed on and on his mini,:File:Cloudtail and Longtail.minis.png though he is depicted as a silver tabby on the family tree.
===Continuity===
*In the Chinese full-color version of Into the Woods, Longtail and Swiftpaw appear as the ThunderClan trespassers.Revealed on the Chinese WikiRevealed in Into the Woods, Chinese full-color edition, page 70
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==Notes and references==
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