Stormsurge

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## Overview

Stormsurge was a current power cat with the power of Astral Frost. He was the Deputy of SkyClan under Iciclestar.

### Appearance

A heavy-bodied, muscular gray-blue tom with darker tabby markings. He has a white underbelly, soles, fore paws, and hind legs with a white tail tip. His eyes are bright amber. He has been described as having large paws and wide shoulders. Significantly, he is missing one of his fangs. As such, he has one fang which sticks out of his mouth.

While he has his power, Stormsurge is notably covered in a layer of sparkling frost which glistens beautifully under direct sunlight.

### Personality

A heroic tom with a heart bigger than his brain half the time. While he may not always be the smartest cat in the bunch, Stormsurge’s strength and determination could be considered unmatched for his young age. He is highly skilled in combat, and his high tolerance for pain makes him a formidable foe - capable of taking on multiple cats alone before finally going down. This blue-gray tom believes in pure, sympathetic justice. He is always ready to give cats a second chance, regardless of who they are and whether or not they deserve it. He cares deeply for those that he considers his friends, and though previously easily manipulated in the past, Stormsurge has promised himself that he will not fall victim to the same fate once again - fighting purely for his own beliefs rather than the beliefs of others.

### Power

##### **Summary:**

Summoning of translucent colored ice fog and spears from the air, which can be directed and shot toward the ground or cats to create a frozen impact zone. At the feet of a cat and it will freeze their paws in place, into a cat it will puncture them. Stormsurge himself is always coated in a layer of frost, and has a lower body temperature that must be warmed by external sources on cold days.

**Power Details:**

The user conjures and controls what appears as a colorful fog not unlike an Aurora Borealis in the way it bends the light. They can cause the fog to thicken and shatter into flecks of snow that glint and shimmer like a packet of glitter, or they can shape the fog into an ice spear that targets the creature of their intent that they can see.

The spear of ice will always purposefully miss the target, instead hitting the ground and forming a 2'' thick sheet of ice in a moderate circle around the impact zone that will slowly freeze the feet/paws of anyone in the area - target or not. The color of the ice is almost holographic in nature, but primarily appears as a very light translucent purple. The purpose of this ability needing a target in the first place is that the wielder must harbor *intent* to hurt that target. Anyone/thing caught in the radius of the spear is simply collateral.

Should the spear actually hit a living target by accident (the spear does not predict movements), the target will be pierced and any internals as well as externals in the vicinity of the spear will be frozen. The spear will then break, leaving only a frozen-over hole where the target was pierced. Over time, this wound will thaw and the target will start bleeding as normal. This can be thawed faster by applying any form of additional heat, but the wound will not heal itself even if the ice is gone*.* If the area hit was not vital, the cat could survive given very urgent attention, though that's still a roll of the dice - so to speak.

**Drawbacks:**

The description and plans above and below respectively both already include drawbacks written within them, but not all of them.

While he has this ability, Stormsurge's pelt will always remain coated in a layer of frost that doesn't melt. His body has adjusted to his dropped temperature, meaning that he doesn't feel the cold. However, this means that on particularly cold days, he could be spending all day curled up with other cats trying to keep him warm - otherwise, the tom's temperature drops to levels that not even he can withstand and under prolonged periods of time this could cost him his life. Due to the tom's naturally cold body, the cats keeping him warm have to swap out more and more frequently depending on the length of their coat. Otherwise, the tips of their fur will begin to freeze and they will get sick. A cat should know when they've stayed by him too long when they can no longer feel the tips of their ears or have "adjusted" to how cold he is. Ignoring these signs can lead to the aforementioned happening.

Additionally, this cat will always leave frosty paw prints in the grass. Each print lasts about 30 minutes before melting, meaning if he were to be tracked or chased, there is no escaping without help. This also means it's easy to keep track of what he's done around camp, as sometimes it might be covered in these noticeable prints. *If there is already snow on the ground* their prints instead have a light purple shimmer to them that sets them apart from other prints. However, after the allotted 30 minutes for the individual prints, they stop shimmering.
Upon losing this power, this cat becomes more prone to colds and cold-related illnesses. Hot days will feel like desert temperatures, normal days like hot days, and cold days like normal days.

## History

Stormsurge was born to Couatl (Father, ex Kittypet) and Bell (Mother, Loner). He had two unnamed siblings. Upon learning that Bell was actually pregnant after their fling, Couatl was furious - but he wasn’t the type to be mad at himself, no, it was Bell’s fault. After a short abusive relationship, Bell had managed to hide away from Couatl in a secluded area of Bloodclan’s territory (of which she was unaware, as Bell believed that the clans were just myths/folklore, and had never had any experience with them). For a while, things were peaceful.

One day, returning from hunting, Bell witnessed as Couatl snuffed the life out of one of her kits - another already laid there dead. She, of course, lunged at Couatl and the two fought. She’d managed to mortally wound him before the tom’s fangs tore into her throat. Before Couatl could kill Stormsurge as well, the sound of a Bloodclan patrol’s pawsteps nearby startled the profusely-bleeding tom and he bolted through the bushes, as if to hide and save the little life he had left. He didn’t make it very far, and the few Bloodclan cats which had followed his trail eventually caught up to him, collapsed on some stones without a blink of guilt in his lifeless gaze.

Stormsurge was taken back to Bloodclan, where he was raised by a queen named Snapdragon. Stormsurge has no recollection of these events as a child, and was raised like any other Bloodclan kit. He very quickly proved himself to be on-par with other kits that were even older than he was, and he wasn’t bothered by the sight of battle, blood, nor gore at all. In fact, he was an avid enjoyer of pit battles, even going so far as to try to copy some of the fighters’ moves. By the time he was an apprentice, none of this had changed. He seemed to have a set-in-stone and easily manipulable personality, looking up to Mimosa as some sort of cool, awesome, great, brave, amazing hero. He wanted to be just like her - but reality was, Stormsurge couldn’t have been any more different.

At 8 moons, Stormsurge was granted his power. To dumb it down, it’s just the power of ice. Which at the time, was the polar opposite of Mimosa. Not that he’d thought anything of it, of course. Due to this newfound power, Mimosa took Stormsurge under her wig to train him to better use his powers.

In his late apprentice age, likely 10 or 11 moons, Stormsurge was captured by a patrol of Skyclan cats after he was seen about to attack Lochpaw on Skyclan’s own territory. He'd put up a stubborn fight before his capture, and even continued to fight and argue with Sparkstar after Sparkstar visited him in the Prisoner's Den. Sparkstar spoke poorly of Bloodclan, claiming that they were heartless murderers and just a group of rogues and loners in a faux, wanna-be clan. Stormsurge, despite his injuries, defended his clan and lunged angrily at Sparkstar. After a short scuffle in which resulted in Stormsurge being badly beaten and even losing a fang, Sparkstar left the den.

During his capture, Lochpaw would sneak into the prisoners’ den consistently out of guilt, in order to see Stormsurge. Upon learning that Stormsurge was a power cat like him, and genuinely not a bad cat, their visits became friendly. Lochpaw would tend to his wounds, talk with him, and bring him different kinds of prey to see if he could eat them despite his broken fang. These events would lead up to Stormsurge's unbreakable friendship and crush on Lochpaw. Stormsurge would also convince Lochpaw to use his powers to transform into a cat of his choice and send a message to Bloodclan (which would end up being Rust, Bloodclan's at-the-time deputy) of his presence in Skyclan as a prisoner. Upon hearing of this news, Mimosa began preparations to launch an attack on Skyclan to save Stormsurge. Unbeknownst to everyone, Saltfissure had had a dream about Skyclan's prisoners and broke them out the same night Bloodclan was supposed to raid Skyclan.

Returning to Bloodclan, he would explain everything upon recovering a few days later to Mimosa - even telling her about Lochpaw. Mimosa then told Stormsurge to convince Lochpaw to join them, or at least be allied with them, or else Lochpaw risks becoming a target. For a long time, Stormsurge would dwell on this request, and it would become a huge source of stress. He would spend less time in camp and with his clanmates and more time wandering the territory. He would tell this story to Lochpaw eventually, who forgave him for leaving Skyclan camp so suddenly and telling Mimosa about him, but also told him he wouldn’t be siding with Bloodclan.

During the war between Bloodclan and Riverclan VS. Skyclan, Windclan, and Thunderclan, Stormsurge took to Lochpaw’s side and defended him from Ouroboros, a fellow Bloodclan cat. Stormsurge, after the battle, delivered a message to Riverclan for Mimosa and stayed there for a few days before the second battle. Mimosa then heard of Stormsurge’s actions and traveled to Riverclan, confronting Stormsurge. After going back and forth, Mimosa banished Stormsurge from Bloodclan.

Stormsurge was taken in by Skyclan a few moons later after he appeared at the gathering looking for a new place to call home. When prompted, he explained his situation in front of all cats present. He said that he'd realized he'd only ever been used by Bloodclan, and that he wasn't anything like them. A certain cat - no, a certain clan clan [Skyclan] - had shown him what a real clan was like. Iciclestar, the new leader of Skyclan (after Sparkstar and Mimosa had killed each other during the war) took him into Skyclan *"so long as [his] word is true."* He was renamed to Stormsurge (previously Drizzle) the next day, and only a moon later, was appointed Skyclan's new deputy as a show of faith, confidence, and forgiveness.