Brokenslip

Name - Brokenslip

Gender - Tom

Clan - FallClan

Rank - Warrior

Family - Stagheart (father), Ivory (mother), Rock (brother), Sun (sister), Swallowfrost (cousin), Wingbreak and Stoatthroat (paternal grandparents)

Friends - None

Enemies - None

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Brokenslip is a dark ginger tom with a messed up front leg. He broke it as an apprentice and it didn't heal right, so he isn't great at the whole balance thing. He has blue eyes.

#### Personality

Brokenslip is a quiet yet friendly tom who is very unsure of himself. He has been searching for his 'purpose' for so long that he barely remembers to look out for himself. He has a very closed mind and can't see anything good in himself.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Brokenkit was born on FallClan's outer border. His mother, Ivory, died giving birth to him and his siblings, who also died. By some miracle, Brokenkit survived. His father, Stagheart, found him with his dead family and decided to take the tiny kit back to FallClan and naming him Brokenkit after his own broken heart.

Brokenkit had a good kithood. He absolutely loved his father and his grandparents, Wingbreak and Stoatthroat. When he was a young kit, Stoatthroat's scars scared him quite a bit, but eventually Brokenkit got over this fear and loves his grandpa even today.

#### Apprenticeship

Brokenpaw was apprenticed to Ducksun. He got along okay with his mentor, but he didn't particularly like him. He often asked Stagheart, Wingbreak, and Stoatthroat for actual lessons. He quickly improved once he started training with his family.

But then Stagheart died. It was absolutely devastated Brokenpaw and he decided that he didn't want to live in a world without Stagheart in it, so he crept out near sunrise the next morning. The rocks were slick though, and he fell into the water. He didn't even try to save himself. But someone else did. Stormclaw happened to be passing by on his way home from visiting Hazel and saved his life. Brokenpaw was never sure whether to feel grateful or angry toward Stormclaw after that. Anyways, Brokenpaw's leg had gotten banged up pretty badly by the rocks both on the way down and up. It was a pretty bad break. And Brokenpaw felt so guilty about trying to end his life that he didn't let the medicine cats take care of it properly. Which is why it's still so messed up.

#### Warrior Life

Brokenpaw passed his assessment after the second try. Mallowstar named him Brokenslip, because Brokenslip had just said that he'd slipped on some rocks when he'd gotten hurt.

So now, Brokenslip's name was a constant reminder of the way he'd lied and nearly died. He threw himself into doing as much as he could for the Clan. StarClan must have sent Stormclaw to save him for some reason. He wanted to find the reason they'd wanted him to live. And in truth, he couldn't see it. As far as he was concerned, he shouldn't have been saved and there would be no difference if he hadn't been.

When his cousin, Swallowkit, was born, Brokenslip tried to help out in the nursery. He rather liked being around the kits and wondered if his purpose was to serve in the nursery. But then Bramblethorn, Swallowkit's father, died and her mother, Doecreek, moved to OrchidClan with young Swallowkit. And thus Brokenslip lost his purpose again.

When his grandparents moved into the elders den, Brokenslip spent most of his time in there. He still felt like his life should have ended when his father died, but at least he had someone to hang on to.

Currently, Brokenslip has severe depression. He just... he's got so many problems. As much as he believes he's unworthy of life, he hasn't tried anything else yet, mostly because of the fact that his survival the last time had left a permanent mark that he'd had to lie to everyone about.

## Other

#### Trivia

* This man needs friends. Desperately.
* He hasn't told anyone, including Wing and Stoat, the truth about his injury.
* If he ever gets desperate enough to ask StarClan why they saved him, Fallstar's probably going to show up and say something about how he doesn't have any special destiny but everyone deserves a chance to live.
* Similar to how Mistrunner and Sootsnow are Vin and Kelsier, Brokenslip and Fogpaw are Kaladin and Syl. ABW is the Cosmere confirmed.
* "Brokenslip awoke in a starry place. He looked around. He'd been dreaming of this day for moons." I had to get this written down somewhere where it wouldn't get lost.

#### Quotes

*I was a different cat then. A cat who didn't want to die.*

*"You're family. You're extra fun to take care of."*

**Fogpaw:** *“Trying isn’t always enough. You and I both know it. So will you try, or will you really **do**?”*

**Brokenslip:** *"I make no promises."*