recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Flamethorn

Name - Flamethorn

Gender - She-cat

Clan - HorizonClan

Rank - Deputy

Family - Pineclaw (ex-mate), Kitefeather (daughter), Swiftstrike (daughter)

Friends - I'm sure she has some.

Enemies - Pineclaw

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Flamethorn is a golden brown she-cat with blue eyes and a burning hatred of Pineclaw.

#### Personality

Flamethorn can be put in the same "don't mess with me" category as Weepingstar and Permafrost. She distrusts just about everyone and toms in particular. Being betrayed the way she was can do that for you.

## Other

#### Trivia

▪ Some songs that fit her very well: First Burn (Hamilton), Irreplaceable (Beyonce), Take A Bow (Rihanna)

▪ She hates rabbits
Echo

Echo is currently a loner.

Name- Echo

Gender- She-cat

Clan- None

Rank- Loner

Family- Jess (mother), Rat (father), Chivethistle (sister), Rippledusk and Shadow (half-brothers), River and Drip (half-sisters), Joel (uncle), Turtleheart and Puddlespirit (cousins)

Friends- also River

Enemies- noop

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Echo is a ruddy, mottled, light reddish-brown tortoiseshell she-cat with gray markings and blue eyes. She has a small rip in one ear and a tiny scar on one flank. Her fur is sort of tufty and ragged like her sister's, but she makes more of an effort to keep it clean and sleek.

#### Personality

Echo is very uptight, strict, and firm. She has been shaped into a very obedient and rule-abiding cat. However, around someone she trusts, she will become more relaxed and sarcastic, like Chivethistle.

## Backstory

#### Pre-Clan Life

Echo was born to an ex-kittypet named Jess alongside her sister Chive. Jess sucked. There's more info on that on Chivethistle’s page. But she was incredibly possessive and overprotective, even hurting her kits in order to do what she thought was keeping them safe.

Echo tried to leave once, but Chive ratted her out to Jess. Jess gave Echo the notch in her ear as a consequence. Echo really, really hated Chive after that.

When they were six moons old, Chive snuck off and left for good while on a hunting mission with Echo. Echo couldn’t find her and had to return to Jess without her sister. Jess didn’t like that. Jess gave her the scar on her flank. That was the final straw for Echo, and she stayed with Jess for two more moons just to think over her next course of action - then took off at eight moons old while Jess was off getting water. She managed to get away that time.

She wandered for a while, and one moon later, she stumbled across River. There's more info on that on River's page. They got to know each other, and after speaking a bit about their families, they realized to both of their amazement that they were half-sisters through their father, Rat. They currently travel together as friends and- I guess- sisters.

## Other

#### Trivia

* She and River are gonna join FallClan. Except Echo will probably move to HorizonClan at some point.
Marbledawn

Name - Marbledawn

Gender - She-cat

Clan - HorizonClan

Rank - Warrior

Family - Starlingtuft (daughter), Magpiefur (son)

Friends - Dawnfire (bestest friendo), Flamethorn, and Nettlewhisper

Enemies - N/A

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Marbledawn has soft black and white fur. Her eyes are a pretty, periwinkle blue.

## Backstory

Dawnfire, Marbledawn's best friend, died when Marbledawn was 45 moons old.

## Other

#### Trivia

* She doesn't actually hate Pineclaw. She wishes they'd gotten to have a bit more of a relationship before he left her, but she's always wanted kits so she isn't filled with the same murderous rage as Flamethorn or Sol.
* Fun fact: her design is based off the beauty blender that I (Warrior) got for my birthday. Congratulations, Marbledawn. You are supposed to look like a make-up brush thing.
Magpiefur

Name - Magpiefur

Gender - Tom

Clan - HorizonClan

Rank - Warrior

Family - Marbledawn (mother), Pineclaw (father), Starlingtuft (sister)

Friends - Ambershine (she's also his half-sister tho :0)

Enemies - Also none

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Magpiefur is a small white tom with a long, fluffy tail. His head is all black except for a white mask around his eyes. There is also a large black diamond on his back and his tail is also black.

#### Personality

Magpiefur is usually very quiet. He's an eager young cat and he cares about his sister a lot.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Magpiekit and his sister were born in HorizonClan.

#### Apprenticeship

Magpiepaw was apprenticed to Lightningflower.

## Other

#### Trivia

* I (Warrior) kind of wanted his warrior name to be Magpiemask because of, you know, the mask. It's kind of the most distinctive part of him. On that note, I also would have named his sister Starlingswirl.
* Starling's love of alliterative names seems to have gotten to me.

#### Quotes

*"This is it! Come on, Starlingkit!"*

**Conchsong:** *“I can imagine it gets hard sometimes.”*

**Magpiefur:** *"You have noooo idea."*
Firsong

Name - Firsong

Gender - She-cat

Clan - MarshClan

Rank - Warrior

Family - Cedarpoppy (mother), Cardinalflutter (sister)

Friends -

Enemies -

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

   Firsong is a soft white cat with a mask the color of Cardinalflutter's fur. Her eyes are green with flecks of gold and brown in them.

#### Personality

This child is pure and innocent and if you lay one hand on her I will personally end you. She is very quiet and reserved, though she loves her sister very much and doesn't like being away from her. She has a strict moral code and will never deviate from it.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Firkit and Cardinalkit were born to Cedarpoppy in the MarshClan nursery. They spent their kithood in a fairly normal way. They bugged Sootsnow a couple times. Nothing really major happened.

Firkit was always more curious about their father than Cardinalkit. She occasionally tried to ask Cedarpoppy about it and when that failed, she asked other cats in MarshClan.

When she got no response from anyone else, she decided to make up a father. The name she eventually decided on was Alderfire and she made up a whole story about how he and Cedarpoppy had met and what he looked like and how he'd died. She kept this all to herself, however, not even sharing her fantasy dad with Cardinalkit.

#### Apprenticeship

Firpaw was apprenticed to someone, I don't remember who. She and Cardinalpaw once had a conversation with Sootsnow where Sootsnow asked if either of them were interested in becoming a messenger. Firpaw said that she didn't think she was fast enough to be a messenger and Cardinalpaw expressed interest in becoming leader someday.

#### Warrior Life

After Cardinalflutter's disappearance, Firsong went to Rillwing to ask her about it. She and Rillwing left to find her sister.

## Other

#### Trivia

* Just writing these down for later... kit name ideas: Alderkit (T), Berrykit (S), Cypresskit (S), Featherkit (S), Fennelkit (S), Finchkit (S), Foxkit (T), Hollykit (S), Maplekit (S), Parsleykit (T), Russetkit (S). If she ever has kits, I'm using some of these.
Moss

Moss is currently a loner.

Name- Moss

Gender- Tom

Clan- None

Rank- Loner

Family- Fern (sister), Spruce (son), Birch and Willow (daughters)

Friends- ???

Enemies- ???

#### Adult Life

Moss lives with his sister, Fern. At some point, his mate died, but not before giving birth to his kits: Spruce, Willow, and Birch. They all just sorta live together and vibe.
Palestep

Name - Palestep

Gender - Tom

Clan - OrchidClan

Rank - Warrior

Family - None

Friends - Wheatnose and Firestorm

Enemies - He absolutely hates Suncurrent

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Palestep is a pale, sandy brown tabby tom with light blue eyes. His paws are red up to about halfway up his leg.

#### Personality

Palestep is rude and irritable. He has a softer side, but it's rare that that side is seen. He has a tendency to lash out and really needs someone to counteract his less than sunny disposition. He is loyal and he has unwavering faith in what he believes in.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Palekit was born in OrchidClan. He immediately disliked Lionkit and did his best to ignore his existence. He was always an angry kit, often fighting with other kits for no real reason. When the other kits stopped paying attention to him, he went off to bother the apprentices. Wheatpaw took a liking to him for some reason and allowed Palekit to hang out with him occasionally. Palekit liked this until Wheatpaw became a warrior. Then he wanted to be a warrior too, but he was like two moons old when Wheatnose got his full name, so that wasn't possible.

Firepaw still hung out with him, though. So things weren't terrible.

## Other

#### Trivia

* I keep forgetting this, but he's younger than Suncurrent. Kinda crazy, isn't it?

#### Quotes

*"Well, I'm sure she appreciates your dedication to getting back to her."*

*"There's always a reason to be smug."*

*"Really too bad about the plague. Makes our job much harder."*

*"Firestorm's always up to something."*

*"It's nice and quiet and I don't have to talk to anyone."*
Mottlestrike

Mottlestrike was formerly one of MarshClan's messengers.

Name- Mottlestrike

Gender- Tom

Clan- MarshClan (formerly), StarClan

Rank- Messenger (at death)

Family- I don't know. I didn't own him.

Friends- I don't know. I didn't own him.

Enemies- I don't know. I don't own him.

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Mottlestrike was said to have been a mottled tabby, splotched with white and pale orange-brown. His eyes were hazel.

#### Personality

He was described as being very easygoing and chill. Like,, super relaxed and rarely fazed by anything.

## Backstory

#### Messenger Life

I don't know much about Mottlestrike. He existed. He became one of MarshClan's messengers after Sootsnow. He helped Whitebird and Motheye send messages to the other medicine cats once, hoping to help Eelstride get a raft. There's more info on that on Whitebird's page. Then he got sick with the plague and died. He most likely contributed in spreading the plague to the other Clans, too, since he was a messenger, just like Cootwhisper and Larchflight. Way to go, Mottlestrike.
Lotusmoon

Name - Lotusmoon

Gender - She-cat

Clan - OrchidClan

Rank - Warrior

Family - She has a crush on Foxpounce

Friends - N/A

Enemies - N/A

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Lotusmoon is a pretty, off-white she-cat with green eyes. She has, like, flower shaped pinkish markings on her back, paws, and tail. Idk. Look at the picture.

#### Personality

Lotusmoon is quiet and shy. She is always patient and kind. She has exactly zero self-confidence but she's very sweet. You'll like her, I promise.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Lotuskit was born in MarshClan. Her parents, Brackenflake and Ravenscar, fought a lot. Ravenscar, her father, had been a loner until Brackenflake had become his mate. He thought that Lotuskit would be better off leaving the Clans with him. Brackenflake disagreed.

## Other

#### Trivia

* She is extremely scared of Myrtlepelt. She hasn't told Foxpounce she likes him in part because she's scared Murderpelt will find out and she'll end up like Seagull.
* She's also scared of Redfire, but not in the same way as Murderpelt.

#### Quotes

**Redfire:** *“When do you plan to actually make moves on my brother?”*

**Lotusmoon:** *"I-I don't know what you mean..."*

*"I am putting a lot of trust in you, Redfire, I hope you know that."*

*"Come on, Shiningscale, we must practice fleeing."*
Flyspark

Name- Flypaw

Gender- She-cat

Clan- OrchidClan

Rank- Apprentice

Family- Cornflower (mother), Ravenflower (sister), Jagkit (brother), Lionspark (adoptive father), Moonmist (foster mother for, like, two months)

Friends- N/A, but Sagepaw really wants to get to know her

Enemies- N/A

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Flyspark is a white she-cat with brown patches. Her eyes are golden-brown.

## Backstory

#### Warrior Life

Flypaw was given the name Flyspark by Leafshine. She was very proud of herself and promised Lionspark that she'd live up to his name.

## Other

#### Quotes

*"Foxpounce has cool ears."*

**Ravenkit:** *"I don't want you to move anywhere,. I'd miss you too much."*

**Flykit:** *"Aw, it's okay. I won't leave you."*
Grayfur

Note: Grayfur is dead and irrelevant. This man is only important in Aspenstar's backstory.

Name- Grayfur

Gender- Tom

Clan- HorizonClan (formerly), StarClan

Rank- Warrior (at death)

Family- Willowrain (mate), Aspenstar, Stonesnap, and Coldpaw (sons), Crowflight (daughter), Featherpaw, Dapplepaw, and Oceandusk (granddaughters), Smokekit and Weaselkit (grandsons)

Friends- haha no

Enemies- e

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Grayfur was tall and thin-furred. He was a dark gray and white tabby with bright amber eyes and tufted ears. The tip of his tail was missing.

#### Personality

Doesn't matter. But he was loyal and brave, really friendly, and generally just a good guy.

## Story

Grayfur existed. He was born in HorizonClan. He lived there his whole life. A loner named Willow joined as a young warrior, and he thought she was hot. She thought he was hot, too. He became mates with the newly-named Willowrain. They had four kits: Aspenkit, Crowkit, Stonekit, and Coldkit. Aspenkit almost got mauled to death by a couple of raccoons once. Grayfur saved him and also got his tail-tip bitten off. It was pretty wack. It was technically Crowkit's fault, too, although Grayfur never learned that.

Also, when his kids were apprentices, he tried to go on a nice lil hiking trip with Aspenpaw and Coldpaw. That was an oop. There was a rockslide, and Coldpaw was in its way. Grayfur jumped down in an attempt to rescue him. Said attempt was unsuccessful. They both died. Way to go, Grayfur, you're a genius. Anyways, like, eight bajillion moons later, he gave Aspenstar a life for selflessness.

## Other

#### Trivia

* I bet you can't guess why his name was Grayfur.
Owlcrash

Name - Owlcrash

Gender - Tom

Clan - HorizonClan

Rank - Warrior

Family - Fawnflower (mate)

Friends - Starlingtuft and Fawnflower

Enemies -

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Owlcrash is a big floofy cat. He's a Norwegian Forest Cat, after all. He's a white tom with a brown patch covering most of his back. His eyes are gold-green.

#### Personality

Owlcrash is a friendly cat. He is good-natured and even-tempered. He tries to maintain a good relationship with his Clanmates and Starlingtuft in particular. He's insecure and often stoops so he doesn't tower over anyone. He's careful and nervous.

## Backstory

#### Warrior Life

At 54 moons, Owlcrash finally asked Fawnflower to be his mate. To his delight, she said yes.

## Other

#### Quotes

*"Are you okay? You aren't sick, are you? Fawnflower?"*
Bubo

Bubo was formerly a loner. He was named after an owl from Guardians of Ga'Hoole. Not the actual word. Do not fear. (Yes, thank you- TheShrimpsons)

Name- Bubo

Gender- Tom

Clan- None

Rank- Loner (at death)

Family- Shriek (father), Mary (mother), Lilith and Lillian (sisters)

Friends- Everyone, basically. (And someone named Beatrice at some point but she was going to be important later.)

Enemies- Unknown.

## Backstory

I don't know much about him. He ended up in MarshClan's territory somehow and came across Viceroypaw and Chivepaw. They talked to Minkstar and she agreed to let him stay for a couple of days. After the aforementioned couple of days, Chivepaw found him again, but he was dead. Oops. She buried him because she didn't know what else to do with him. But she was sad, because Viceroytuft had also died. Oof.
Oasis

Name - Oasis or Palmstar

Gender - She-cat

Clan - Take a guess

Rank - Founder of OasisClan

Family - Waterfall and Orchid (sisters), Marsh and Horizon (brothers)

Friends - Silver, but less so than everyone else

Enemies - Not as many as you would think.

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Oasis was a sleek, well-muscled she-cat. Her fur was the shortest and least soft of all her siblings' and a dull sandy brown. She had one blue eye and one green one.

## Other

#### Trivia

* Oasis was the only one of her siblings who never looked for a mate. While Horizon and Waterfall never ended up taking mates, it wasn't for lack of trying (Silver was the only cat Horizon truly loved, but Waterfall could never find someone who actually cared for her.) Oasis just didn't care.
* After her death, she became the guardian of warriors, true warriors. The kind that fight until their last breath.
* Forget Rillwing and all those new heterochromia cats, Oasis was the OG (odd-eyed goddess). Because of this, she also guards cats with any sort of oddity.
* You can kind of think of her as the cat equivalent of Artemis and Athena. Yes, she was intelligent and strategic, but she was also very much, "screw toms, screw love, I don't need any of that."

#### Quotes

*"Watch your mouth, Waterfall. I'd hate to bring you into this as well."*
Heathermask

Name - Heathermask

Gender - She-cat

Clan - OrchidClan

Rank - Warrior

Family - Violetfern (sister)

Friends - N/A

Enemies - N/A

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Heathermask is a sleek cream she-cat with a very dark brown point pattern. There are faint tabby stripes on her tail. Her eyes are pale violet.

#### Personality

Heathermask is a lot more outgoing than her sister.

## Other

#### Trivia

* I really like Thai cats, which is what Heathermask is. They're really pretty.
Featherwhisper

Featherwhisper is currently a medicine cat of MarshClan

Name- Featherwhisper

Gender- Tom

Clan- MarshClan

Rank- Medicine Cat

Family- Unknown

Friends- Probably Whitebird

Enemies- Unknown

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Featherwhisper is a lean tom with soft gray fur and darker speckles on his back and cheeks. He has a long tail and tufted ears, and his eyes are a gentle shade of pale blue.

#### Personality

He’s generally fairly quiet, and when he does speak, he has a very soft, kind voice. He’s usually quite absorbed in his work and doesn’t notice what's happening around him. He can also be very naive, sometimes not being able to tell the difference between good and bad, especially relating to matters with StarClan/The Dark Forest.

## Backstory

#### Apprenticeship

Featherpaw became a medicine cat apprentice in MarshClan during the plague outbreak. Hazewish became his mentor in spite of her youth, because Whitebird - the more experienced medicine cat - didn’t want a repeat of what had happened with Motheye. Unfortunately for all of them, though, Hazewish caught the plague and died before it had even been a moon. So... his mentor ended up being Whitebird anyways. Smooth, Whitebird.

He trained normally for the next several moons and didn’t ever really do anything notable. More cats died. Some cats didn’t. It was probably stressful. He was able to help Whitebird a little bit though, so that was nice.

At thirteen moons old, he got to see the Moon Falls for the first time and earned his full name: Featherwhisper.

#### Medicine Cat Life

Currently, Featherwhisper’s just chilling and helping out Whitebird. He hasn’t done much yet.

## Other

#### Trivia

* He was originally going to be non-binary. Then he was going to be a girl and a lesbian. But that didn’t happen, so he’s just a straight dude now. F in the chat.
* We briefly considered having his full name be Featherwish in honor of Hazewish. That did not happen.
Dustkit

Dustkit was formerly a kit of OasisClan.

Name- Dustkit

Gender- She-cat

Clan- OasisClan (formerly), StarClan

Rank- Kit (at death)

Family- Skyflower (mother), Wheatnose (father), Patchpounce, Silverclaw, Cobrakit, Flaxpaw, and Webpaw (brothers), Lynxkit, Nettlekit, Cloudpaw, and Tawnypaw (sisters), Flowerpaw (aunt, I guess, technically?)

Friends- No one :(

Enemies- No one :)

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Dustkit was a silver and white torbie, but she was patched with pale brown instead of orange. Her eyes were a shade of light blue-gray.

#### Personality

She appeared pretty brave and cheerful, and seemed to have a bit of her father's temper, but she was generally good-natured and loving.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Dustkit was born to Skyflower in OasisClan alongside Patchkit and Silverkit. Wheatnose, her father, was living in OrchidClan when she was born, but he switched Clans to be with his kits within the following moon. Anyways, Dustkit existed. She was cool.

She liked pomegranates. She also liked Snakespeckle because Snakespeckle gave her a pomegranate. She got along better with Patchkit than with Silverkit, but then again, Silverkit was Silverkit. She and her siblings made it their mission to annoy Breezepaw and Monarchpaw as much as possible, although she was sensible enough to not leave the camp with her brothers and Monarchpaw when they wanted to do that later on. By missing out on their little trip, she failed to witness Patchkit epically fall out of a tree and almost get eaten by a snake. Her loss.

However, at four moons old, she was *not* sensible enough to stop herself from sneaking out of camp. She got nae-nae'd by an owl that morning while her brothers were distracted by Bloomheart's stories, and no one could do anything about it. Good job, Dustkit.

## Other

#### Trivia

* She was always the biggest of her littermates. This would have changed at five moons old, when Patchkit would have become fluffier, but she died before her position as largest could be usurped. Good job, Dustkit.
* She was the only cat to die during the plague era who was not actually killed by the plague. Good job, Dustkit.
* Well, I guess Minkstar wasn't, either, but I'm not sure if that counts.
* She died without ever learning about her parents' previous litter. She never knew Lynxkit, Nettlekit, or Cobrakit existed. She probably met them in StarClan, though.
* Her parents also had another litter after her death, consisting of Webpaw, Tawnypaw, Flaxpaw, and Cloudpaw. But Dustkit has never met them.

#### Quotes

*"That's bad, you stinking fish!"* (to Patchkit because he was being stupid)
Frecklekit

Frecklekit is currently a kit of FallClan.

Name- Frecklekit

Gender- She-cat

Clan- FallClan

Rank- Kit

Family- Sunstriker (mother, deceased), Humble (father), Warblerkit, Downykit, and Seedkit (brothers), Silkfur (adoptive mother), Fireflyleap (adoptive father kind of), Knikflower and Archshade (grandparents), Gorseblaze and Redsplash (uncles)

Friends- uh

Enemies- uh

## Appearance & Personality

#### Personality

Again, no clue. I’m too lazy to check right now. I’m supposed to be doing homework anyways. Apologies.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Frecklekit was born in FallClan. Her mother, Sunstriker, died shortly after giving birth to Frecklekit and her brothers, Warblerkit, Downykit, and Seedkit. The four of them were instead taken in by Silkfur, a stationary queen. The only other kits in the nursery became apprentices when Frecklekit was only one moon old, so for the most part, she and her siblings had the whole den to themselves.

Her father was unknown to the Clan, but he was a loner named Humble whom Frecklekit and her littermates would never get to meet. They were still able to spend time with their grandparents, though - Sunstriker’s parents, Archshade and Knikflower, whenever they went to the elders’ den. Silkfur’s son Puddlepaw often came by as well, for he was FallClan’s only medicine cat at the time and felt responsible for losing their mother. As a result, he wanted to at least have a part in the kits’ lives.

When they were one moon old, an old friend of their mother's - Fireflyleap - moved to FallClan. He sort of filled the role of their father. That was very nice of him.

Frecklekit hasn’t really done anything yet.
Slatesnap

Note: Slatesnap is pretty much irrelevant, and only matters in the backstory of Weepingstar at this rate. Well, and Milkweedstar, but he's dead.

Name- Slatesnap

Gender- Tom

Clan- FallClan (formerly), OasisClan (formerly; last known)

Rank- Warrior (last known)

Family- Wreathwillow (mother), Elkflurry (father), Milkweedstar (brother), Ebonydawn (sister), unnamed mate, unnamed kits, Torrentpaw (nephew), Frostkit and Glorykit (nieces), unknown/unborn niece(s)/nephew(s)

Friends- Weepingstar (formerly, possibly more)

Enemies- idk

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

idk, but apparently hot enough to get Weepingstar to fall in love with him.

## Story

I'm lazy... but uh. He was born in FallClan. His dad sucked. His parents divorced when he was 4-5 moons old. He was tight with his siblings and also with Weepingkit, another lil kit in the nursery. When he became an apprentice, he moved to OasisClan. He existed there for a while. He would meet with Ebonypaw, Milkweedpaw, and Slatepaw at the FallClan border whenever he had the chance. He became mates with some she-cat almost as soon as he was a warrior, and she was expecting his kits fairly soon as well. It was later mentioned that his kits had been born, although not much else is known about them. He never really showed up again, and he's no longer a member of OasisClan, so I think it's safe to assume that he either died or left. It's also unknown whether or not he was still alive by the time Milkweedcall became leader, so he may or may not have given his brother a life.
Frostkit

Note: Frostkit is a deceased character, and thus has little significance in the main storyline of A Better Way.

Name - Frostkit

Gender - She-cat

Rank - Kit

Clan - FallClan (formerly), StarClan

Family- Milkweedstar (father), Weepingstar (mother), Torrentcall (brother), Glorykit (sister)

## Appearance

She was an albino like her father. Her eyes would have been paler than his, though, a nice pink color.

## Story

There isn't much. She was a stillborn kit.

After Milkweedstar died, he probably took care of her and Glorykit.

## Trivia

Frostkit was named after Permafrost and is the only kit Weepingbrook named.
Turtleheart

Name - Turtleheart

Gender - She-cat

Clan - FallClan

Rank - Warrior

Family - Silkfur (mom), Puddlespirit (brother)

Friends - None yet, will probably be friends with at least one of Drizzlesnow's kits.

Enemies - None

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Turtleheart is a short-haired, mostly white she-cat with blue eyes. She has patches of ginger tabby fur.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Turtlekit was born in FallClan alongside her brother Puddlekit. Puddlekit almost died at birth, but he didn't. Turtlekit, when she got a bit older and knew what had happened, promised her mother that she'd take care of Puddlekit. She just kinda vibed. Life was chill, except for the plague.

#### Apprenticeship

Turtlepaw was apprenticed to Stormclaw, the FallClan deputy, which she thought was pretty cool. When Puddlepaw became the medicine cat apprentice, Turtlepaw helped out in the medicine den a lot. He needed the help and she wasn't really doing anything else.
Bearfrost

Bearfrost was formerly an apprentice of FallClan. He received his warrior ceremony after death.

Name- Bearfrost

Gender- Tom

Clan- FallClan (formerly), StarClan

Rank- Apprentice (at death), Warrior

Family- Acornlight (sister), Deerpelt (mother), Raintail (father)

Friends- I don't know. I didn't own him.

Enemies- I don't know. I didn't own him

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

He was described as being fluffy and large for his age, with dark brown fur and yellow eyes.

#### Personality

He seemed pretty energetic and happy, and generally good-natured. He was a bit more daring than his sister.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Bearkit and Acornkit were born in FallClan. They existed for six moons. Since their father, Raintail, lived in OrchidClan, they probably didn't see much of him. They played around like normal kits. Bearkit tried to sneak out of camp once while Deerpelt was sleeping, but Acornkit stopped him.

#### Apprenticeship

Bearpaw became an apprentice. I don't think he ever officially received a mentor, so, uh... I'll just pick a random cat- Tidewave. Tidewave was his mentor. That sounds good. Anyways, Bearpaw trained like any other apprentice. Good for Bearpaw. He existed for a while, but then... oh, but then. The second wave of the plague struck. Bearpaw had just been about to become a warrior, but he got really sick. Deerpelt presumably spent a lot of time with him in the medicine den, but she got sick, too, and then both of them died. Weepingstar felt bad and named Bearpaw Bearfrost so that he could be honored as a warrior in StarClan.

## Other

#### Trivia

* He's the second cat to be named a warrior after death, the first being Breezeriver.
Poisonthorn

Poisonthorn is currently a warrior of MarshClan.

Name- Poisonthorn

Gender- Tom

Clan- MarshClan

Rank- Warrior

Family- Dovefrost (sister), Clearnight (father), Olivesplash (mother), a bunch of dead relatives on Clearnight’s side whose names I forgot

Friends- ???

Enemies- ???

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Poisonthorn is a sleek-furred black tom with patches of dark gray, a fluffy tail, small ears, and dark olive-green eyes. There is a scar on his nose.

#### Personality

He's described as being calm, quiet, and sweet, but somewhat lazy. He can be fierce if necessary, though.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Poisonkit and his sister Dovekit were born in MarshClan to Olivesplash and Clearnight. They pretty much chilled for six months. Poisonkit might’ve tried to play around with his denmates - Stonekit, Hollykit, Warrenkit, Lapwingkit, and Chaffinchkit - but it’s most likely that nothing ever really amounted from it.

Something must’ve happened to give him the scar on his nose, too. I have no idea what, though.

#### Apprenticeship

Poisonpaw became an apprentice alongside Dovepaw. Dovepaw left to join HorizonClan, though, so that probably sucked. Whatever the case, Poisonpaw was given Firsong as his mentor.

Then, a few moons later, Firsong temporarily left MarshClan for reasons I’m too lazy to get into at the moment. Poisonpaw’s training was taken over by some other cat. I once again don’t know who.

Whatever the case, he didn't really do much of anything. Stonks.

#### Warrior Life

Poisonthorn became a warrior. Good for him. Again, he has done nothing interesting thus far.
Gingernight

Gingerpaw is currently a warrior of MarshClan.

Name- Gingernight

Gender- She-cat

Clan- MarshClan

Rank- Warrior

Family- Flickerflight (brother), Spiderpaw (brother, deceased), Jade (mother, deceased), Silt (uncle), Tulip (aunt), Crystal (grandmother, deceased), Cougar (grandfather, deceased)

Friends- Pepperdust

Enemies- nope

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Gingernight is a splotchy tortoiseshell, mottled with black, silver, and brown, although most of her pelt is ginger, as her name suggests. Her eyes are dark green.

#### Personality

She's sort of loud and outspoken. She's all over the place. She likes having fun and getting into trouble, though. She also gets angry easily.

Update: At the moment, she's more quiet and sad. Because Spiderpaw.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Ginger and her siblings were born to Jade on the moor. Their father, whom Jade had met in the mountains, had been killed by a snake before they were born, and she never told them much about him. They were never even told his name. They existed for a pretty long while, though. Ginger was tight with Spider and Flicker.

When they were six moons old, though, Jade developed a rather awful illness - the plague, although they didn't know it at the time - and died. Flicker caught the sickness and was pretty weak and needed help. Ginger and Spider were sort of terrified, but they knew they had to do something or their brother would die, so they sort of dragged him around for a while until they found MarshClan.

#### Apprenticeship

They were all permitted to join MarshClan by Canyonstar. Whitebird and Hazewish were able to cure Flickerpaw, so that was cool. Gingerpaw and Spiderpaw kept vibing. Gingerpaw was apprenticed to Adderfrost. She was still sort of upset about Jade and worried about her brother, but she eventually got over it. She trained a lot with Spiderpaw and Fennelfoot at first, but then Spiderpaw got the plague, too, and they couldn't do that anymore. He'd contracted it from Flickerpaw. Uh oh.

For a while, Gingerpaw just existed. She was afraid that Spiderpaw would die. And *oops*, he did die. Gingerpaw was out hunting while he died, and she felt horrible about it and pretty much decided to never forgive herself for not being there for him.

She managed to become friends with Pepperpaw, though. Gingerpaw thought it was kind of cool since Pepperpaw was the leader’s daughter. She’d also lost her own brother, Wolfkit, so they were able to sort of bond over that. They listened to some of Twistwhisker's stories and then went on a hunting patrol together.

For the next few moons, Gingerpaw sort of just chilled and slowly recovered from her grief.

#### Warrior Life

Gingernight earned her warrior name and kept on vibing. She officially managed to move past her brother's death and was able to enjoy herself again. Yay, Gingernight! She was also glad once Pepperdust moved into the warriors' den with her. Aside from that, though, she hasn't really done much yet.

## Other

Trivia

* I hate her design and I am absolutely redoing it. Just look at it. It's abhorrent.
Toadhop

Toadhop had a great name. He was formerly a warrior of OasisClan.

Name- Toadhop

Gender- Tom

Clan- OasisClan (formerly), StarClan

Rank- Warrior (at death)

Family- Unknown

Friends- Unknown

Enemies- None

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Toadhop was described as having been a solid, dark reddish-brown with a white flash on his chest. His eyes were yellow.

#### Personality

He seemed kind of shy and desperate to be liked, although he settled down with age, becoming content with himself and turning into a lax, chill dude.

## Backstory

#### Warrior Life

I don't know much about Toadhop. He existed as a warrior of OasisClan. Then he died. He was killed by the plague as well, but at a later time than most of his Clanmates - he died several days after the deaths of Nightrose, Quailnose, and Sandbelly. Rippledusk was able to keep him alive for a bit longer, but in the end, it wasn’t enough.
Beepaw

Name - Beepaw

Gender - She-cat

Clan - FallClan

Rank - Apprentice

Family - Mothpaw (sister), Flypaw (brother)

Friends - None, probably

Enemies - Also none

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Beepaw is a tan cat with a dark brown mask, ear tips, tail, and stripes. Her tail tip is white and she has the same uneven pale ginger socks as Flypaw.

#### Personality

Beepaw is a lot more shy and quiet than her siblings. She tries to be responsible and mature.
Riverhawk

Riverhawk was formerly one of OrchidClan's medicine cats. She was the mentor of Swallowfrost.

Name- Riverhawk

Gender- She-cat

Clan- OrchidClan (formerly), StarClan

Rank- Medicine cat (at death)

Family- I don't know. I didn't own her.

Friends- I don't know. I didn't own her.

Enemies- I don't know. I didn't own her.

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Riverhawk was described as being solid dark gray with green eyes.

#### Personality

She seemed very intent, serious, and determined, and somewhat easily irritated, although she was pretty brave and good at her job.

## Backstory

#### Medicine Cat Life

Riverhawk existed. She trained alongside Swallowfrost. Her mentor died at some point. She was seemingly fairly chill with Swallowfrost, and they worked well together.

She failed to save Ravenpool at one point, much to the despair of Lionspark. She probably felt pretty bad about that.

Sootsnow showed up once and asked her to help the other medicine cats build a raft for Eelstride. She agreed to participate, along with Thawsun, Snakespeckle, Motheye, and Whitebird.

When Lavenderstar closed off the borders, she also joined the OrchidClan rebellion at Palestep's request, along with several of her Clanmates: Swallowfrost, Poppyshade, Redfire, Firestorm, Saffronsplash, Wheatnose, Leafshine, Moonmist, and Beestripe.

Unfortunately, the plague happened soon after this. Wisteriacall, Willowwish, Rushdawn, Cornflower, and Jagkit all fell sick and died. Riverhawk and Swallowfrost were able to save Leafshine and Fallowfleck, but that barely counted for anything. Riverhawk developed the illness as well, and she died not long afterwards.
Cootwhisper

Cootwhisper was formerly one of OasisClan's messengers.

Name- Cootwhisper

Gender- Tom

Clan- OasisClan (formerly), StarClan

Rank- Messenger (at death)

Family- I don't know. I didn't own him

Friends- I don't know. I didn't own him.

Enemies- I don't know. I didn't own him.

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Cootwhisper was a black-and-white cat with pale blue eyes. He was also a polydactyl.

#### Personality

I don't know. He came across as being pretty nice and chill, but a bit quiet.

## Backstory

#### Messenger Life

I don't know much about him. He existed and became a messenger for OrchidClan. He travelled to OrchidClan once to tell Wheatnose about the birth of Silverkit, Patchkit, and Dustkit. He also took over most of the messengery duties after Brightnight twisted his paw once. He seemed fairly chill. Then he died. He was most likely the first OasisClan cat to catch the plague, since he's a messenger and all that. He most likely was exposed to it in MarshClan somewhere, then he accidentally passed it to some of the other Clans or something, just like Mottlestrike and Larchflight. It ended up killing him, and Snakespeckle, the medicine cat, caught it and died as well, barely a day later. After his death, the empty messenger slot was filled by Zephyr.

## Other

#### Trivia

* A coot is a type of bird. For some reason I (Starling) thought it was a rodent. I'm a genius.
* I believe he is the only cat in the roleplay so far to have had extra toes.
Seagull

Note: Seagull is dead and literally irrelevant except in the stories of Foxpounce and Myrtlepelt. To some extent, Lotusmoon and Redfire, I guess.

Name- Seagull

Gender- She-cat

Clan- None

Rank- Loner (at death)

Family- nope

Friends- Foxpounce (formerly)

Enemies- technically none, but Myrtlepelt killed her, sooo...

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

I'm too lazy to elaborate, but Seagull was a gray and white tabby with yellow eyes. She looked like a seagull.

#### Personality

I'm too lazy to elaborate, but she was spunky and rebellious. Fun gal.

## Story

There are more details on Foxpounce's page, but basically, Seagull existed as a young loner. She lived near OrchidClan's outer border. One day, she saw Foxpaw fail at catching a rabbit near the border, and she made fun of him for it. They talked a little and ended up becoming friends. They would sort of meet up for a while, but soon before Foxpaw became a warrior, Lavenderstar closed OrchidClan's borders, and Foxpaw stopped seeing her. Seagull was sort of salty about that.

Several moons later, once they were both adults, Seagull came across him again. He was now Foxpounce, and she convinced him to meet her at the border daily anyways, because "hEcK wItH tHe RuLeS, dUdE!11!!" He reluctantly went along with it. One day, though, he was followed by Myrtlepelt. Myrtlepelt got angry, jumped out, and killed Seagull. There are more details on why in Myrtlepelt's page, but yeah. That was the end of Seagull.

## Other

#### Trivia

* She never returned Foxpounce's feelings.
* I name a lot of my characters after aquatic birds, don't I? Seagull, Duckfeather, Tern, Auk...
* This woman is only important because she died. F.
Stepleap

Stepleap was formerly a warrior of FallClan.

Name- Stepleap

Gender- Tom

Clan- FallClan (formerly), StarClan

Rank- Warrior (at death)

Family- Nightfurl (father), Perchpoppy (mother)

Friends- I don't know. I didn’t own him.

Enemies- I don't know. I didn’t own him.

#### Personality

He was depicted as being very selfless and thoughtful, always going out of his way to help and support other cats with little to no regard for his own well-being. He was helpful and considerate, and generally liked by most cats in FallClan, although quite a few of his Clanmates were concerned about him.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Stepkit was born to Nightfurl and Perchpoppy. His mother had been very sickly and weak when she gave birth to him, and she died while kitting. Stepkit was presumably very close with his father because of this, and he vowed to always help everyone whenever he could, because Perchpoppy’s weakness had been the result of her starving herself in her youth.

#### Apprenticeship

Steppaw existed. Nightfurl was somewhat worried about how dismissive he seemed to be of his own health and such things, but Steppaw continued being Steppaw.

#### Warrior Life

Stepleap kept existing. Nightfurl died at some point, and while Stepleap missed him, he was glad that his father could be reunited with Perchpoppy. He lived for several more moons, helping as many of his Clanmates as he could, although he died fairly young. He ended up catching the plague, and, along with Pikenose, Larchflight, Eelstride, and Milkweedstar, was killed by it.

## Other

#### Quotes

I think he had one or two in his backstory.
Yarrowpad

Name - Yarrowpad

Gender - Tom

Clan - MarshClan

Rank - Warrior

Family - None

Friends - Also none

Enemies - Still none

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Yarrowpad is an average sized ginger tabby tom. He has amber eyes. His fur is short and kind of scruffy.

#### Personality

He was sort of sad and resigned, but he wanted to do what was right.

## Backstory

No idea for kithood and apprenticeship.

As a warrior, Yarrowpad caught the plague. Feeling that things were out of control, he insisted that Whitebird let him leave camp and go outside to die.

He died that same day, at the age of 45/

## Other

#### Trivia

* I kind of want to make him interesting, but how?
Strawberry

Note: Strawberry is a character who's pretty much out of the picture, and she has no significance in the main storyline of A Better Way. She is only important in the backstories of Appleshine, Redfire, and Foxpounce.

Name- Strawberry

Gender- She-cat

Clan- None

Rank- Kittypet

Family- Scorchstripe (ex-mate), Foxpounce (son), Redfire and Appleshine (daughters)

Friends- haha lol what

Enemies- eh

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

She was a Scottish Fold. Dappled orange, ginger, and cream tortoiseshell with light yellow eyes. She was pretty. Kinda chubby, too. She was small and her fur was super thick and soft.

#### Personality

Doesn't really matter, but Strawberry was soft-spoken and sweet. She was usually optimistic and thoughtful, too, although at times she could be a bit of a ditz.

## Story

She existed. She was a kittypet. When Scorchstripe - a former MarshClan warrior - came to the city, she was one of the first cats he met. They ended up falling in love and becoming mates. He would jump over her fence and visit her garden every night, and she would meet him outside in her yard. She loved hearing his stories about the Clans. She got pregnant eventually, though, and after thinking long and hard, she decided that it would be in their kits' best interest for them to grow up in the Clans. She wanted to give them a chance to be free, and to stay together, and to know at least one of their parents. So she gave her children to Scorchstripe, who took them back to OrchidClan. Strawberry never saw them or Scorchstripe again. She'll never do anything relevant again. Sucks to be Strawberry.

## Other

#### Trivia

* Scorchstripe used to call her "Berry".
* She didn't name her kits before giving them to Scorchstripe because she thought it would be too painful. Even so, the unnamed Applekit was her favorite, because she was a sweet lil kit.
* She's sort of based off of my (Starling's) aunt's cat, who was a calico named Strawberry.
Swiftstrike

SName - Swiftstrike

Gender - She-cat

Clan - HorizonClan

Rank - Warrior

Family - Flamethorn (mother), Pineclaw (father), Kitefeather (sister)

Friends - N/A

Enemies - N/A

#### Personality

Swiftstrike is quiet and calm. She respects her mother and Aspenstar and has a close bond with her sister.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

See Kitefeather's page for now, I'll finish this later.

## Other

#### Trivia

* Swiftstrike had a crush on Slipmallow, she was just too shy to tell him.
* She, like Kitefeather, is somewhat scared of having a family because of what happened with Pineclaw. However, she is more likely than Kitefeather to get a mate and kits.
* She is named after the bird swift, not because she's fast or whatever.
Sedgedawn

Note: Sedgedawn is a deceased character and thus has no significance in the main storyline of A Better Way. She is only important in the backstories of Sorrelseed and Tidewave.

Name- Sedgedawn

Gender- She-cat

Clan- FallClan (formerly), StarClan

Rank- Warrior (at death)

Family- Troutgill (brother), Shortstrike (mate), Sorrelseed and Rosefoot (daughters), Tidewave (nephew & foster son)

Friends- Dusklight and Brightbark

Enemies- Blackbite, sorta

## Appearance & Personality

#### Appearance

Unimportant, but Sedgedawn was a mottled brown and white torbie with some orange. Her eyes were green, and her fur was thick and soft.

#### Personality

Unimportant, and I'm too lazy to make one for her right now.

## Backstory

Nothin much. She was born in FallClan with her bro Troutkit. She existed for six moons. She became an apprentice. At a gathering, she met a bunch of other new apprentices- Duskpaw and Brightpaw of OrchidClan and Shortpaw and Blackpaw of OasisClan, to name a few. She became friends with them all. Except Blackpaw. He annoyed her. Little did she know, Shortpaw had a massive crush on her. She existed for six more moons. She became a warrior, Sedgedawn. Troutgill soon became mates with Dusklight, and Sedgedawn thought, "huh. I should do that." So she went over to Shortstrike and was like "hey, wanna get married?" and he was like "sure!" so they became mates, and Sedgedawn got pregnant. She had her daughters. Sorrelkit and Rosekit were pretty chill, and she raised them fairly well. A few days after they became apprentices, though, Dusklight died on her way to move to FallClan, leaving Tidekit without a mother. She volunteered to nurse her nephew because she felt bad for Troutgill and was sad about losing her friend. She did that, but as it turned out, using up all that milk took a heavy toll on her. She got pretty sick during Tidekit's last moons in the nursery, and only a few days after he joined Rosepaw and Sorrelpaw in the apprentices' den, she died. F in the chat for Sedgedawn, folks.
Shatter

Name - Shatter

Gender - Tom

Clan - None

Rank - Loner

Family - Meiji (father), Hazel (mother), Sorrow and Broken (sisters), Moon and Emberglow (half-sisters), Void (half-brother), more unnamed half-siblings

Friends - I mean, he might be friends with Void. They are stuck together in the loner afterlife, whatever that is, so they might be bros.

Enemies - N/A

More to be added later.