Aspenlily

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**Aspenlily** is a 102-moon-old black tom with green eyes. He has a small scar on his right eye, a nick in his left ear, and a distinct poof of hair. He has the 'Playful' personality and 'Good Hunter' trait.

## History

Aspenlily is one of the founders of GalaxyClan, and is a 1-moon-old kitten when the clan is created. He is the littermate of Squirrelpaw. At the age of 6 moons he becomes a warrior apprentice. His mentor is Burdockfoot, who, having heard from Frogdapple that "a tragedy awaits one of our youngest clanmates", is worried that the omen might pertain to Aspenpaw. In the end, the warning turns out to be about his sister Squirrelpaw, and while she sadly dies as an apprentice, Aspenlily successfully becomes a warrior. Burdockfoot is said to be very proud of the young tom. By the end of Year 1, Aspenlily is the youngest member of GalaxyClan; however, that does not bother him. Instead, he is happy to move to the warriors den as he felt very lonely during the last three moons of his apprenticeship for he was the only apprentice at the time. Due to his denmates' Cinderpetal and Stoneleaf tricky personalities, Aspenlily prefers to hang out with the warrior Ravenspot.

During Year 2, Aspenlily gets a small eye scar while fighting a rogue and Ravenspot is worried for him and checking on him in the Medicine Cat den. Since that day the two toms begin to spend even more time together and become mates later that year.

In Year 3 Ravenspot is busy training Hoppaw and Aspenlily is very proud of how good a mentor his mate is, talking about how Ravenspot has deputy potential. And while Ravenspot is too humble to agree with him, Aspenlily's predictions are proven right when Ravenspot does become deputy in Year 5. The playful tom is also excited about not being the youngest warrior anymore, after Aspenrunner’s and Burdockfoot's litters graduate.

During the battle against CreekClan, Aspenlily is not assigned a fighting role and is on Medicine Cat support and helping retreat duty. Aspenlily is a little nervous prior to the battle, but is confident that Ravenspot will be okay.

During Year 4, Aspenlily and Ravenspot adopt two kittens, Tawnysun and Hazelrunner, who were saved by Ravenspot from a hawk. Aspenlily is very excited to finally have a family and spoils his two sons. And while he is proud of his mate's courage when fighting a hawk, he worries about the injuries Ravenspot sustained in that incident. Although Year 4 is rather rough on the clan as a whole, Aspenlily and his family are doing relatively well.

Unfortunately, Year 5 is much harsher, as both of Aspenlily and Ravenspot's sons die due to the sickness that decimated the rest of the clan. The deaths hit both parents really hard, Aspenlily being the more outwardly emotional around their clanmates. At one point he even breaks down devasted that StarClan took their kits so soon after finally giving them some. Having caught that very sickness himself at one point, Aspenlily feels guilty about surviving it when his children didn't. After a few moons, when the grief has passed a little, Aspenlily and Ravenspot talk about having another litter, this time with the help of a surrogate. Towards the end of the year, Aspenlily also gets a torn ear from fighting a rogue.

During Year 6, he has a new litter with Ravenspot with the help of a surrogate mother, Specklenose. His new kittens are Patchwing, Cinderspeck, and Fernheart. During moon 70, he defends the nursery from two rogues, Stoat and Wren.

During Year 8, he has another litter, again with the help of Specklenose: Spireflake, Cloudjay, and Shellkit, who unfortunately is born weak, and passes away when he is only 1 moon old.

In Year 9, he is killed by Fernheart's former mate, Mintsplash, at the age of 102 moons.

Aspenlily was present during Brightstar's leader ceremony, giving him his 5th life. Brightstar could tell, by the sadness in his eyes, that he would have preferred Ravenspot to be there, instead of him. He softly walked up to Brightstar, simply offering a life for Loving Others.

After Ravenspot's death in year 10, Aspenlily reunites with his mate in StarClan.

## Trivia

* Aspenlily has a tendency to shift in his sleep and try to cuddle, Burdockstar and Ravenspot being some of the first cats who don't really mind.
* He and Ravenspot have matching eye scars, though on different sides. Aspenlily finds that amusing.

## Gallery

Aspenkit amongst the founding kitsAspenkit's reference sheetAspenpaw is apprenticed to Burdockfoot (Year 1)Aspenlily Year 1Aspenlily cuddling with Ravenspot (Year 1)Aspenlily Year 2Aspenlily Year 3Aspenlily Year 4Aspenlily Year 5Aspenlily and Ravenspot mourn Tawnysun and Hazelrunner (Year 5)Aspenlily Year 6Aspenlily and Ravenspot have their First Litter (Year 6)Aspenlily protects the Nursery from Rogues (Year 6)Aspenlily Year 7Patchwing is found Dead (Year 8)Aspenlily and Ravenspot have their Second Litter (Year 8)Aspenlily Year 8Moments before Aspenlily's death (Year 9)Aspenlily Year9/StarClanAspenlily reunites with Ravenspot in StarClan (Year 10)Aspenlily during Brightstar's Leader CeremonyAspenlily giving Brightstar his 5th Life