Powerstrike (Timeline 2)

**Powerstrike** is an African lioness, Nothing's mother, and the former Hunt Chief of Proudmane's Pride.

**Powerstrike** was born nameless at the Sisters Steppe to Sharptongue alongside her sister, Waterhunter. After Starmane took over the Sisters Steppe, she took him as a mate, and had three cubs with him: Spark, Fire, and Nothing. When Quickmane killed Starmane and Spark to take over her Pride, her daughter, Nothing, received a permanent injury that would cause Powerstrike to neglect her. She later had Quickmane's cubs: Farleap and Silentstalk.

## Personality

**Powerstrike** is seen to be brave, loud, fierce, and smart. She has an intense personality, and will lash out at anyone if she has nobody to direct her anger towards. She is also shown to be quite hypocritical, snapping at Nothing when she had only done what Powerstrike did. Despite having lived through three Manes in her former Pride, she tends to be way more aggressive.*[citation needed]*
Powerstrike hates weakness and neglects her daughter, Nothing, because of this. She is shown to be very sensitive but hides this in her strong and fierce demeanor. She is also fierce in defending her Pridemates, standing up and growling at Proudmane while defending Farleap and Hover.
## Appearances

### Episode 1: No-Mane

**Powerstrike** calls her mother, Sharptongue, for a hunt, and leaves her cubs with their father, Starmane. She is shown to be devastated after she discovers both her son and mate are dead. A while later, Fire takes Nothing to Powerstrike, who is seen enraged with Quickmane, the murderer of her former mate and her son. She then begins to discuss Quickmane's fate with Sharptongue, arguing that he should be killed as he was bested by a cub.
After Sharptongue decides as Hunt Chief to let them co-exist, Nothing and Fire show up, and Sharptongue is relieved to see them alive. After Nothing attempts to walk to her mother, though, she trips, which worries Powerstrike as she hurries over to her. She explains that it hurts when she steps on her leg, to which Powerstrike pretends is fine.
### Episode 2: Nothing

**Powerstrike** is seen giving Nothing her huntress assesment. Nothing, mentions how Sharptongue had turned ill and Powerstrike had replaced her as the Hunt Chief.
Sharptongue asks if she's sure that she doesn't want the name that Powerstrike selected for her, at which she replies that she doesn't want to be named Hobblestep. Quickmane interrupts their conversation, growling that it's disrespectful to keep the Pride waiting. Powerstrike reluctingly begins the assessment, telling her daughter that it's her last chance to turn back, but she insists to go through with the assessment. When she fails, Powerstrike names her Nothing, deducing that she has no useful assets in hunting.
Nothing later speaks with Hover, a Prideless lioness, and mentions how Powerstrike hates Prideless lions, to which Hover jokingly says that she sounds like she has a tree up her butt. Powerstrike, along with Quickmane, Farleap, and Silentstalk, find the two lionesses, and Powerstrike scolds Nothing. She insults Hover and tells her to get out of their territory.
### Episode 3: The Calling

**Powerstrike** wakes up in the middle of the night, witnessing Nothing leaving the Sisters Steppe with Hover. When she returns, Powerstrike asks where she was before dropping the subject.
During a Pride meeting, Sharptongue goes into a coughing fit, and is incredibly worried about her mother. She's then seen leaving the Sisters Steppe to hunt with several other Pride lionesses. While she is gone, Sharptongue succumbs to her illness. She holds her funeral and is seen calling to Asra to guide her mother's spirit to the stars.
When she and the other Pride lions returns to the Sisters Steppe, Nothing introduces her to Hover before trying to comfort her. Powerstrike snaps at her, saying that she doesn't want her pity. She then says that she will judge Hover through a huntress evaluation the next day.
### Episode 4: Outsider (What if ?)

**Powerstrike** briefly appears to hand over her nieces to Nothing, before leaving to go for a hunt with Waterhunter and Quickmane. She then sees Nothing with the cubs of Quickmane at Hover's ceremony.