Heathertail

Heathertail is a lithe, light brown tabby she-cat with wide, smoky, heather-blue eyes, and sleek, soft, and thick fur.
Heathertail is a WindClan warrior under Onestar's and Harestar's leaderships in the lake territories. She was born as Heatherkit to Whitetail and Onestar, though her littermate Galekit was stillborn. She was later apprenticed as Heatherpaw to Crowfeather. She formed a close bond with a ThunderClan apprentice, Lionpaw, and they often met in the tunnels. However, these secret meetings ultimately ended, with Lionpaw saying they could no longer meet. To prevent a battle amongst their Clans, Breezepaw, Lionpaw, and his siblings rescued Gorsetail's kits from the flooding tunnels, and afterwards, Heatherpaw ended her friendship with Lionpaw, deciding to only be loyal to her Clan. After earning her warrior name, Heathertail mentored Furzepelt, and following the Great Battle, she defended Breezepelt from her Clanmates. Heathertail became mates with Breezepelt and had two litters with him, the first being Smokekit and Brindlekit, and the second consisting of Applekit and Woodkit.
==History==
===Power of Three===
:Heatherpaw is a WindClan apprentice. Her mentor is Crowfeather, and she befriends Breezepaw, a fellow apprentice. At a Gathering, Heatherpaw warms up to Lionpaw, a ThunderClan apprentice. They agree to meet in secret to play, and Heatherpaw discovers the tunnels underneath their territory. They create DarkClan, an imaginary Clan, and pretend to be leader and deputy. Tigerstar and Hawkfrost convince Lionpaw to stop meeting with Heatherpaw if he wants to be a loyal warrior, and Lionpaw breaks off their friendship. However, Sedgekit, Swallowkit and Thistlekit follow Heatherpaw and are lost. Together with Hollypaw, Jaypaw, and Breezepaw, the pair find the kits, and Heatherpaw agrees to stop meeting with Lionpaw.
:Whitetail is assigned her temporary mentor when Crowfeather and Breezepaw leave for the mountains. During a battle between the Clans, WindClan attacks from the tunnels, and Lionpaw accuses Heatherpaw of breaking their secret. She is horrified when he almost kills Crowfeather, and Lionpaw begins to dream of killing her much to his horror. She earns her warrior name, Heathertail, and confronts Lionblaze when he sneaks into WindClan territory to gather catmint. She sternly allows him to pass and warns him about becoming like Tigerstar.
===Omen of the Stars===
:Heathertail now has an apprentice, Furzepaw. Heathertail and Breezepelt escort Dovepaw and Ivypaw back to their camp when the two apprentices are caught sneaking into WindClan's camp to see Sedgewhisker. She snaps at Breezepelt for being too verbally harsh with the apprentices and scorns Lionblaze for his apprentice's behavior. She is openly angry at Lionblaze and ThunderClan, and she later participates in the raid against ThunderClan in the tunnels with Sol. Soon after, Heathertail accuses Jayfeather of murdering Flametail, ShadowClan's medicine cat. Her apprentice earns her warrior name, Furzepelt, and Heathertail participates in the Great Battle. 
===A Vision of Shadows===
:Heathertail and Breezepelt are now mates, and she has given birth to their daughters, Smokekit and Brindlekit. They become apprentices, and her former apprentice, Furzepelt, dies from an attack by the Kin. Heathertail, with the rest of WindClan, learns of Onestar's former affair with a kittypet named Smoke and the truth about Darktail, a ruthless rogue that was terrorizing the Clans, as well as her half-brother. Her daughters later become warriors with the names Smokehaze and Brindlewing.
===The Broken Code===
:She and Breezepelt have another litter, Applekit and Woodkit, who once are apprenticed, are mentored by their older sisters, Smokehaze and Brindlewing. During a battle against the Clans instigated by Bramblestar's impostor, her daughter, Smokehaze, is killed, and becomes a ghost.
===Super Editions===
:In Crowfeather's Trial, Heathertail is a prominent supporter of Breezepelt when his Clanmates outcast him and accuse him of killing Nightcloud, his mother. Breezepelt saves Heathertail from the stoats while searching for Nightcloud. She, Breezepelt, Gorsetail, Crowfeather, and Hootpaw search for Nightcloud in the Twolegplace and rescue her from a Twoleg nest. She was the one who came up with the idea to ask the kittypets when Crowfeather overlooked that simple fact. However, Heathertail was supposed to be keeping watch over camp, and the stoats attack WindClan's camp during the night. Onestar, who has lost a life, scolds her for leaving her post and had feared her dead but eventually forgives her. She participates in the battle against the stoats with ThunderClan, and Nightcloud allows her to stay with Breezepelt when he's gravely injured. Crowfeather and Nightcloud are proud of Breezepelt's choice of a mate and suspect that there will be new kits soon.
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Mother:
:Whitetail: 
Father:
:Onestar: 
Sister:
:Galekit: 
Half-brother:
:Darktail: 
Half-siblings:
:Unnamed kits: 
Mate:
:Breezepelt: 
Daughters:
:Smokehaze: 
:Brindlewing: 
:Appleshine: 
:Woodsong: 
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*Prior to the release of The Fourth Apprentice, Heathertail was still in love with Lionblaze. At the time, she harbored no romantic feelings towards Breezepelt, but their relationship was more complex than just friends. However, after Fading Echoes was released, it was revealed that Heathertail no longer cares for Lionblaze.
===Author statements===
*After the release of Bramblestar's Storm, it was revealed that during the gap between that book and The Apprentice's Quest, Heathertail and Breezepelt had become mates, and Kate believes that it is because they wanted to redeem Breezepelt, and help him become the happy, loyal, and true warrior that he should have been.
*Kate thinks that Heathertail was lying about Sedgekit boasting about the tunnels, although Vicky believes she was telling the truth.Revealed on Vicky's Facebook 
===Mistakes===
*Heathertail was mistakenly described as gray.
*In her bio for The Ultimate Guide: Updated and Expanded Edition, Heathertail is listed with dark brown fur.
*She is mistakenly depicted as a solid on Breezepelt's profile on the Warrior Cats website. 
===Continuity===
*In Su Susann's "Missing Kits" on Vicky's Facebook, Heathertail's older siblings are Willowclaw, Emberfoot, Rustlepaw, a golden tabby tom with a white belly and chest and green eyes, and Drizzlepaw, a speckled brown-and-white she-cat with amber eyes.Revealed on Vicky's Facebook
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