Kestrelflight

Kestrelflight is a lithe, wiry, and soft-furred mottled gray tom with white splotches like kestrel feathers and blue eyes.
Kestrelflight is the current medicine cat of WindClan, and has served under Onestar's and Harestar's leaderships. He was born as Kestrelkit before training as a medicine cat apprentice under Barkface as Kestrelpaw, and befriended Willowpaw and Jaypaw. After his mentor's death, he became his Clan's sole medicine cat as Kestrelflight. When Darktail attacked WindClan, Onestar closed the borders and refused to let Kestrelflight help ShadowClan or leave without an escort. Kestrelflight and Harespring provided ShadowClan the lungwort despite Onestar's orders after seeking confirmation with StarClan. Kestrelflight remained loyal to his Clan, however, and recognized Mistystar making the same mistake in shutting off RiverClan's territory from the rest of the Clans. During StarClan's silence, Kestrelflight was skeptical of Shadowsight's ability to communicate with their ancestors and the impostor's schemes. After StarClan's return, Kestrelflight decided to train Whistlepaw.
==History==
===Power of Three===
:Kestrelpaw is the WindClan medicine cat apprentice mentored by Barkface. He falls ill due to whitecough during Jaypaw's first half-moon meeting, and later travels to ThunderClan to ask Leafpool for some catmint. He befriends the other apprentices, Willowpaw and Jaypaw, though the latter preferred if he did not. Later, Jaypaw visits his dreams to learn the location of catmint on WindClan's territory, and Kestrelpaw amicably, albeit heedlessly, shows Jaypaw the best areas to catch prey and gather herbs. 
===Omen of the Stars===
:He earns his full name, Kestrelflight, and becomes WindClan's sole medicine cat after Barkface's death. In StarClan, Barkface attempts to convince Kestrelflight to stand alone with WindClan, but Kestrelflight reminds his mentor how Tallstar saw benefits working with other Clans. He becomes distant and suspicious of the other medicine cats, and agrees Jayfeather should step down as ThunderClan's medicine cat after he is accused of murdering Flametail. Flametail and Jayfeather visit Kestrelflight and prove Jayfeather's innocence. He and other medicine cats meet with the Clan leaders to discuss the Dark Forest's plan to destroy the Clans.
===A Vision of Shadows===
:He and his ancestors reveal to the medicine cats the prophecy to clear the sky and shares the news with the rest of the Clans at the Gathering. Onestar's paranoia forces him to send escorts to guard Kestrelflight during the half-moon meetings after Darktail attacks WindClan. When ShadowClan desperately requires lungwort, Kestrelflight begs Onestar to help, but his leader refuses. Alderpaw confronts Kestrelflight during the Gathering, but the medicine cat is conflicted between remaining loyal to his leader and helping innocent cats. Harespring comes up with an idea to give the medicine cats the herb, and Kestrelflight consults StarClan who agrees. 
:Onestar prohibits Kestrelflight from attending the half-moon meetings, and after his leader confesses his demons with Darktail, Kestrelflight wishes Onestar sought his console. Kestrelflight suspects Mothwing and Willowshine were ordered to stay away from the half-moon meetings as he was. He remains loyal to his Clan when RiverClan closes its borders. He meets with the other medicine cats to discuss SkyClan lacking one, and greets Frecklewish and Fidgetflake when they return.
===The Broken Code===
:Following StarClan's silence from the Moonpool, Kestrelflight doubts Shadowpaw as their only way to communicate with StarClan, and questions the ShadowClan medicine cat's visions. When Rootpaw summons Bramblestar's ghost and reveals the truth about the impostor, Kestrelflight is doubtful and is not inclined to believe an apprentice. After the impostor is outed as Ashfur, Kestrelflight believes that killing the dark warrior would restore StarClan, and that Ashfur should atone for all the suffering he has caused. He also considers taking on Whistlepaw as an apprentice, noting her interest in herbs, but refuses to make the decision for her. This causes conflict with the other medicine cats, who argue that Kestrelflight should wait for a sign from StarClan, or to wait for Whistlepaw to make the choice herself. After being told of Ashfur kidnapping Squirrelflight, Kestrelflight readily agrees to go to the Moonpool, and discusses the silence of StarClan with the other medicine cats. When StarClan returns and Ashfur is defeated, Kestrelflight decides to train Whistlepaw with StarClan's approval, and apologizes to Shadowsight for making him feel inadequate.
===A Starless Clan===
:Kestrelflight is now training Whistlepaw. Later, when Frostpaw is injured, Whistlepaw helps her in secret, and she wants to get Kestrelflight, but Frostpaw begs her not to. When Kestrelflight learns of this, he punishes Whistlepaw. However, Kestrelflight apologizes to Whistlepaw and Frostpaw for not believing the latter's visions, which resulted in Whistlepaw getting harmed.
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==Personality and traits==
:As an apprentice, Kestrelflight was very friendly but not the brightest. He remained his cheerful attitude, though it diminished as he grew older. At times, Kestrelflight could be bitter, skeptical, argumentative, and pragmatic. Sometimes, his snappy demeanor is a mask for his worries. Kestrelflight sometimes struggles between his duties as a medicine cat and his loyalty to his Clan. At times, Kestrelflight appreciates advice from StarClan when he is unsure of what to do. While faithful to StarClan, Kestrelflight sometimes relied on his own decisions and judgment.
==Relationships==
===Barkface===
:Barkface was Kestrelflight's mentor. During rising tensions between ThunderClan and WindClan, Barkface kept Kestrelpaw at camp to avoid speaking with ThunderClan. Following his mentor's death, Kestrelflight became WindClan's sole medicine cat. Kestrelflight was dubious of his former mentor's claims that WindClan must stand alone in the coming battle. Seasons later, Barkface encouraged Kestrelflight that the new prophecy would effect all the Clans.
===Jayfeather===
:Jayfeather trained alongside Kestrelflight as medicine cat apprentices. Jaypaw found Kestrelpaw's friendly demeanor irritating, especially when the WindClan apprentice was sympathetic towards his blindness. However, Jaypaw used Kestrelpaw's friendly and open demeanor to walk in his dreams to find catmint on WindClan territory. Moons later, Jayfeather walked in Kestrelflight's dreams to learn of StarClan dissuading WindClan from the other Clans. Kestrelflight advocated for Jayfeather to step down from his medicine cat duties until the truth of Flametail's death could be revealed. Later, Kestrelflight and the other medicine cats helped to unite StarClan before the Great Battle. He shared a laugh with Jayfeather when the ThunderClan medicine cat suggested placing poppy seeds in Onestar's fresh-kill. Over the seasons, Jayfeather and Kestrelflight became more cross with each other, though still retained cordial as fellow medicine cats.
===Whistlepaw===
:Willowshine first suggested that Kestrelflight should train an apprentice shortly before the Great Battle. Seasons later, Kestrelflight began teaching Whistlepaw when he noticed her interest in herbs. While the other medicine cats objected due to StarClan's silence, Kestrelflight insisted it was his decision. After StarClan's restoration, Kestrelflight gained approval from their ancestors to train Whistlepaw. When Frostpaw begged Whistlepaw to not tell Kestrelflight about her, Whistlepaw lied to her mentor and Clan that Frostpaw was dead. When Kestrelflight discovered the truth, he was outraged at his apprentice for lying to him, confining her to camp. However, Kestrelflight felt guilty when Whistlepaw became injured trying to save Leafkit, especially when he disregarded Frostpaw's warning. He apologized to both Frostpaw and Whistlepaw.
===Onestar===
:Kestrelflight was one of Onestar's medicine cats. When Onestar grew worried about Darktail's Kin, he assigned escorts for Kestrelflight for the half-moon meeting. Kestrelflight picked up on his leader's distrust, though wondered if there was more he could do to help Onestar. Kestrelflight disagreed with his leader's decision to not provide lungwort to ShadowClan, and he struggled with his loyalty to his Clan leader and his instincts as a medicine cat. However, Kestrelflight and Harespring refused to let ShadowClan suffer any longer, and they permitted the other medicine cats to gather lungwort without Onestar's knowledge. Onestar also did not trust Kestrelflight with his secret about Smoke and Darktail, fearing that his medicine cat would inform the rest of the Clan. However, when Onestar revealed the truth, Kestrelflight wished that his leader had told him sooner.
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*A fan proposed that his full medicine cat name should be Kestrelflight, though Victoria Holmes suspected he was going to be called Kestrelwing instead.
===Mistakes===
*He has been mistakenly said to look just like Owl Feather.
*He was mistakenly called Kestrelwing.
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==Notes and references==
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