Leopardstar

Leopardstar is a dappled golden tabby she-cat with amber eyes.
Leopardstar was a leader of RiverClan in the forest and lake territories. Leopardkit was born to Mudfur and Brightsky alongside three unnamed kits; however, Brightsky and her littermates died during the kitting. Mudfur gave her the name of the mighty spotted cats from LeopardClan to give her the strength to survive. Shimmerpelt took her in as if she were her own, and she gained two adopted siblings, Skykit and Blackkit. As a kit, Leopardkit was destined by her father for greatness, and the young kit pressed to begin her warrior training as soon as possible. Her attitude led to Skykit trying to drown Leopardkit, causing her to be afraid of water and be labeled as a drypaw. As an apprentice, Leopardpaw was mentored by Whitefang, and with the help of her friend Sunpaw, Leopardpaw eventually became a strong swimmer. She earned her warrior name of Leopardfur and served under Hailstar and Crookedstar. Leopardfur was shown to be fiercely loyal to RiverClan and eventually became deputy after Oakheart's death, concurrently becoming a maternal figure to her apprentice Whiteclaw, the son of her best friend Sunfish.
When Crookedstar died, Leopardfur received her leader name of Leopardstar, and she combined her Clan with ShadowClan to co-lead TigerClan with Tigerstar. However, after the death of her deputy, Stonefur, she began to have second thoughts. After Tigerstar's death, she joined her Clan with LionClan, and appointed Mistyfoot as deputy, feeling heavily guilty about Stonefur. As a leader, she became a mentor to Hawkfrost, and when Mistyfoot was captured by Twolegs, she temporarily chose Hawkfrost as her deputy, until Mistyfoot returned back to her original position. She led her Clan during the Great Journey and settled near the river. After leading RiverClan for several more seasons, Leopardstar lost her last life due to a sickness, and Mistyfoot took her place as leader. She joined StarClan and fought in the battle against the Dark Forest. She later gave Icestar a life for humility during her ceremony.
==History==
===The Prophecies Begin===
:Leopardfur is the deputy of RiverClan under the leadership of Crookedstar. As deputy, Leopardfur defends her Clan with tooth and claw and is a strict follower of the warrior code. When she and her patrol attack Fireheart and Graystripe on RiverClan territory as they head home from bringing back WindClan, she witnesses the death of another RiverClan warrior, Whiteclaw, after Graystripe accidentally causes him to fall into the gorge. She becomes intensely bitter against the two cats. Leopardfur is sent to retrieve Silverstream's kits, Stormkit and Featherkit, and refuses to trust Graystripe after he later joins RiverClan with his kits. Despite her distrust of other Clans, she helps ThunderClan flee to RiverClan after their camp is destroyed by a forest fire.
:After Crookedstar dies from greencough, Leopardfur receives her leader name and nine lives. She appoints Stonefur as her first deputy. Now that she is leader, she is able to banish Graystripe from RiverClan after he refuses to fight his friend Fireheart in a battle for Sunningrocks. After Tigerstar becomes leader of ShadowClan, he convinces Leopardstar to join their Clans together to become TigerClan so that they can rule the forest. Tigerstar's first decree is to rid TigerClan of half-Clan cats, which includes Leopardstar's deputy Stonefur, his sister Mistyfoot, and Graystripe's kits Featherpaw and Stormpaw. Blackfoot, Tigerstar's deputy, kills Stonefur after he fights for the honor of the half-Clan cats. Leopardstar is horrified at her deputy's death and immediately regrets her decision to join TigerClan. Leopardstar witnesses Tigerstar's gruesome death and believes that the Clans will be slaughtered at the claws of BloodClan. However, Firestar urges her to fight for the Clans, and she asks him to lead LionClan as she no longer has the strength to lead. She appoints Mistyfoot as her next deputy before the battle with BloodClan in honor of her brother's sacrifice.
===The New Prophecy===
:Under Leopardstar's strong leadership, there are many moons of peace. When Mistyfoot is captured by Twolegs, she appoints Hawkfrost as her temporary deputy. However, to the delight of Leopardstar and the Clan, Mistyfoot returns and Leopardstar appoints her as deputy once more. Hawkfrost is privately angered by this decision, but openly accepts Mistyfoot's return. When the forest is destroyed by Twolegs, Leopardstar is the last leader to agree to leave the forest with the other Clans. She insists that RiverClan can survive off of the river and its fish, but eventually she is convinced that the Twolegs will destroy the river, and she leads RiverClan on the Great Journey.
:Upon arriving to their new home, Leopardstar is determined to find the best camp for RiverClan and claim as much territory as possible. She is unaware of Hawkfrost's plots with Mudclaw, but her deputy Mistyfoot witnesses the situation and receives help from ThunderClan to stop Mudclaw's rebellion. When Hawkfrost makes up a sign about Stormfur and Brook being obstacles to RiverClan's success, she is initially skeptical, but banishes the mountain cats after Stormfur attacks Hawkfrost in a fit of rage. 
===Power of Three===
:Her Clan moves into the island where Gatherings take place due to Twoleg kits terrorizing them. When the ThunderClan apprentice, Hollypaw, sneaks into RiverClan territory to see what is wrong, Leopardstar decides to keep her hostage out of fear that she would spill RiverClan's weakness to the rest of the Clans. She takes sides with Onestar that ThunderClan thinks every problem is their own, and forms an alliance with WindClan to attack ThunderClan and ShadowClan. She and the other Clan leaders demand ThunderClan to banish Sol from the lake because of all the damage he caused.
===Omen of the Stars===
:Leopardstar and her Clan are heavily affected by the drought causing the lake to dry up. She insists angrily that the remaining lake water belongs to RiverClan, and her Clanmates guard the remaining pond to prevent any other Clan stealing fish. The drought affects her severely, and Leopardstar loses her remaining lives. Mistyfoot succeeds her as leader.
===A Starless Clan===
:Leopardstar grants Icewing a life for humility, warning her to listen to what her Clanmates have to say.
===Super Editions===
:In Crookedstar's Promise, Leopardkit is born to Mudfur and Brightsky along with three other kits. However, her mother and littermates die, and Leopardkit is cherished among every cat in the Clan. Leopardkit knows she is the favorite in the Clan, and uses this knowledge to try to convince Crookedjaw to teach her some battle moves. She becomes an apprentice with Whitefang as her mentor. As a warrior, she participates in a battle against the rats, and Hailstar is killed. 
:In Leopardstar's Honor, Leopardkit is told by her father that she is destined to save the Clans. Leopardkit is openly eager to begin her warrior training to start the path of her destiny, much to the displeasure of some of her denmates; Skykit even nearly drowns her as retribution for her arrogance. Leopardpaw becomes an apprentice at five moons old with Whitefang as her mentor. She and her mentor form a strong bond, and she soon earns her warrior name of Leopardfur. She is devastated when Whitefang and her close friend, Sunfish, die from a border skirmish against ThunderClan at Sunningrocks, and is determined the rival Clan must pay. She resumes Whitepaw's training and becomes a motherly figure towards him. Frogleap assists with his training, and he and Leopardfur grow close. However, she and Frogleap grow apart when Leopardfur focuses more on her deputy duties than spending time with Frogleap. She becomes leader after Crookedstar's death, and Tigerstar—whom Leopardstar admired when they were warriors—suggests they should join Clans to secure prey and stand against the other Clans as TigerClan. Mudfur discourages Leopardstar from Tigerstar's methods and her own ambition, but she continues to cast him aside. After Stonefur's death, Leopardstar realizes her mistake and after Tigerstar's death, Leopardstar decides that in order to fulfill her destiny, she must save her Clan by securing its future against BloodClan.
===Novellas===
:In Mistystar's Omen, Leopardstar, weakened and frail by the drought, is barely clinging to her last life. Mistyfoot stays at her side, and Leopardstar says she never deserved her deputy's forgiveness for everything that happened during Tigerstar's rule. Before Leopardstar passes, she reveals she always thought of Mistyfoot as her surrogate daughter. Mistyfoot wakes up to find Leopardstar dead. 
===Tigerstar and Sasha===
:In Return to the Clans, Sasha, a loner and former kittypet, takes her two kits, Hawk and Moth, to RiverClan where they are confronted by Leopardstar and a patrol. Leopardstar agrees for the three to join RiverClan, and names the kits Hawkpaw and Mothpaw. However, Sasha constantly refuses to accept a warrior name. When Hawkpaw and Mothpaw are playing with the remnants of the Bonehill, Leopardstar reprimands them and informs them of Tigerstar's rule. Leopardstar is hesitant when Sasha reveals she is leaving, but Leopardstar accepts her friend's decision and thanks Sasha for providing two apprentices for RiverClan. 
===Stand-Alone Graphic Novels===
:In A Shadow in RiverClan, Feathertail struggles to trust Leopardstar after she supported Tigerstar and almost allowed him to kill her and Stormfur. When Leopardstar allows Sasha, Moth and Hawk to join RiverClan and mentors Hawkpaw, Feathertail questions her leader's intentions and wonders if she changed. A fox attacks RiverClan's camp, and Leopardstar, Feathertail, Stormfur and Hawkpaw scout for its den to drive it away. However, they are cornered by the fox and Leopardstar is gravely injured trying to protect Hawkpaw. Feathertail and Stormfur save her, and Leopardstar admits her past faults and pride in them. Feathertail forgives Leopardstar for what happened, to which she is grateful.
==Detailed description==
:Leopardstar is a sleek furred, dappled golden tabby she-cat. She has unusual, dark golden spots on her pelt, with a long, winding tail, and amber eyes.
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:Leopardstar is an independent, prideful and sassy leader. She does not care much for the needs of other Clans, but is fiercely loyal to RiverClan. 
==Relationships==
===Whitefang===
:Whitefang was Leopardstar's mentor, but the two created a bond much before Leopardstar's apprentice days. Whitefang first interacts with Leopardstar when the latter is a kit, Leopardkit. Whitefang catches the young kit spying on two warriors, wanting to learn how to hunt. He teaches her about the difference between the scent of live versus the scent of dead prey, and helps her learn the difference of scents between meadow water and river water. Whitefang reports her to Hailstar, and when Leopardkit states that although Mudfur thinks she is too young and too small to become an apprentice, Whitefang does not share the same opinion, causing the white warrior to look at his paws. When Leopardkit is apprenticed, becoming Leopardpaw, Whitefang manages to create a path around the obstacle of Leopardpaw being afraid of water, and is extremely impressed when Leopardpaw and Sunpaw bring him the news that Leopardpaw got over her fear. From then on, Whitefang did exclusive water training with her, knowing that he had to catch her up to the other apprentices. After passing her assessment of catching land prey, Leopardpaw earns her warrior name Leopardfur, and Whitefang is very proud of her. 
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===Mudfur===
:Mudfur was Leopardstar's father, and being Brightsky's only surviving kit, Leopardstar was often spoiled by him as a kit. However, as she grew, her relationship with her father grew more strained, especially after he became a medicine cat and expressed his concern about her ability to lead to Crookedstar. When Mudfur expressed his doubt about trusting Tigerstar, Leopardstar briefly exiled him, but they reconciled after she realized her mistakes.
===Whiteclaw===
:Whiteclaw was the son of Leopardfur's best friend, Sunfish, and she adopted him after his mother's early death. She became his mentor after his first mentor, Whitefang, died in a battle with ThunderClan. Leopardfur had some trouble mentoring him, but with help from Frogleap she trained him into a strong warrior. After Whiteclaw dies after falling off the gorge during a skirmish, Leopardfur grew into a deep depression, blaming herself and Graystripe who failed to save the tom.
 
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Mother:
:Brightsky: 
Adopted mother:
:Shimmerpelt: 
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Adopted sister:
:Skyheart: 
Adopted brother:
:Blackclaw: 
Adopted son:
:Whiteclaw: 
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====Tallstar & Leopardstar - Mini Collector Figures====
*Series 6
*These two leaders took very different paths as the heads of their Clans. While Tallstar battled with rage and vengeance in his youth, then chose peace and temperance as a leader, Leopardstar allowed her pride to blind her and nearly led her Clan to our own destruction in her early days as a leader, causing her to be more careful going forward.
*Also included in a three-pack bundle with the rest of Series 6: Shadowsight, Dovewing, Lionblaze, and Hollyleaf.
*Approximate individual price is $12.99 USD, and the three-pack bundle is $38.97 USD.
==Trivia==
:Did you know Leopardstar was born as what her Clanmates called a "drypaw", meaning she originally did not like to get her paws wet? For more trivia about Leopardstar, click here!
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==Notes and references==
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