Stormshade

Stormshade is a thick-furred black tom with a white and gray patch on the left part of his face with cyan eyes.

## Book Appearances

### Living:

Dusk Fury

Stormshade is a current Gorseclan warrior under Nightstar's leadership in the Valley Territories. Stormshade was born as **Stefano,** raised in a twoleg nest, longing to leave due to his abusive mother and sister. His interests were sparked even further when his owner picked up an old cat named Wolfsky; the older cat taught young Stefano how even though he was new to clan life, he joys it. He eventually leaves Kittypet life when a clan cat is looking for Wolfsky, Nightheart finds him, and Stefano goes with them. Now, as **Stormpaw**, he was given Wolfsky as a mentor and became close with Echopaw, Honeypaw, and Sunpaw. Though he almost didn't become a warrior since his mentor stopped training him after his mate's death, he became **Stormshade,** still close with his old friends and became mates with his crush Honeypelt.

## History

### Post-New Clans

Being born as a kittypet, Stefano's life seemed easy at first. Then, however, it became blatant that his mother was distant and tended to favor his sister, born three moons before him; Luna constantly picked him, with their father doing little to aid his son. The only thing he felt connected to was going outside, feeling free at least from his mother, but he still enjoyed kittypet life. However, his life changed when a hissing, angry, and large wild cat was brought in by his owner. He thought little of the cat till he defeated his mother in a battle which caused Stefano to feel curious about the outsider. After learning his name was Wolfsky, he asked many questions about where Wolfsky came from, which the tom was happy to answer, making them closer and hoping that Wolfsky could return home to his mate Moonbranch. However, Stefano's life would entirely change when Nightheart, a member of Wolfsky's clan, comes to rescue him, but before leaving, Wolfsky convinces Stefano to come along.

He removed his collar from his neck and left it on his nest left with the cats, also seeing a small ginger she-cat with them. This cat, named Honey, will also join Gorseclan so that she may reunite with her brother, who is already there. On their return journey, they were also joined by a new cat, Echo, who helped them out of the twoleg-place. Consequently, Nightheart was injured by a "Golden Claw" on the way back and was rushed to find aid. They found themselves in the middle of the first gathering of the new clans in the Great Oaks. Stefano took in the smell of the valley and different cats smelling of tidepools, grassland, and flatland. Even more shockingly, they take Nightheart to the place called the Moonspring just as he dies, only to see him come back to life as Nightstar.

When coming to his new home, Gorseclan camp Nightstar gave him the new name Stormpaw and Wolfsky as his mentor. Although Stormpaw saw his life as perfect in his early training, he and the other apprentices, Honeypaw, Echopaw, and Honeypaw's brother Sunpaw, quickly became his friends. Stormpaw worked tirelessly to prove himself to the clan and his mentor, even if getting used to clanlife took a while. However, everything changed for Stormpaw when Leaf-bare whitecough spread through the camp infecting 1/3 of the clan, including Stormpaw. Stormpaw recovered due to the hard work of Whistlepuddle; however, his mentor's mate, Moonbranch, succumbed to the sickness. Not only did his mentor stop caring for his kits, but he also gave up on Stormpaw's training, making the young cat fear he wouldn't be a warrior.

Luckily, his friends, especially Sunpa,w who was closest to him, kept him out of his training. Stormpaw was one of the loudest cheerings for his friend when he became a warrior early for defeating a dog. While his relationship with his mentor was fully broken as Wolfsky's mental health had deteriorated since his mate's death. Stormpaw at least got to have fun at his first official gathering as a clan with a new and final clan, Pineclan, created. While Stormpaw had fun talking to the other male apprentices of the clans, he and Sunpaw noticed the weird stance of the Pineclan apprentices and the Foamclan apprentices, which was made worse when he and Sunpaw were horrified to hear what happened between the two clans and that Ridgesight's brother was the leader of this new clan.

At the end of leaf-bare, Stormpaw, Echopaw, and Honeypelt became warriors. Now, as, Stormshade, he grew closer to his friends, especially Honeypelt, as she shared a mutual crush on him.

## Ceremonies

**Stormpaw's Apprentice Ceremony**

**Stormshade's Warrior Ceremony**

## Personality and Relationships

### Personality

Stromshade loves using jokes to lighten any mood in a conversation, something he's kept since his kittypet days using it to bring smiles to his clanmates faces. While Stormshade isn't an avid hunter, he does like to hunt alone and gets annoyed when other cats try to join him it's normal to see him have a grumpy face. While his respect for authority lowered after the situation with Wolfsky he does want an apprentice. His biggest dream now is to start a family with his mate.

### **Sunshadow**

Stormshade is Sunshadow's best friend, at first Sunshadow didn't trust Stormshade when they were apprentices since it was clear he had a crush on his sister who Sunshadow was overprotective of. They connected when Wolfsky stopped training Stormshade due to Grief, so as they trained together they grew closer. Today they are the closest of friends, only Stormshade is the only one he told about his crush on Echowish and Sunshadow supports Stormshade and his sister who are now mates.

### **Honeypelt**

Honeypelt is Stormshade's mate, when they first met they started talking during their journey back to Gorseclan were still as Stefano he could make her laugh easily. As apprentices, they liked helping each other, especially with den duty and she also made sure when Sunpaw couldn't train with Stormpaw she would. She is the only cat that can hunt with him that doesn't tip him off and both have funny body movements during their warrior's vigil. Both obviously didn't take long to confess to each other to the celebration of the clan.

### **Echowish**

Echowish is Stormshade's friend, the two weren't especially close as he was closer to Sunpaw and her closer to Honeypaw. But even she grew to chuckle at his jokes and he always playfully annoy her during battle training. Echopaw also allowed Stormpaw to train him when Wolfksky stopped training him and like Stormpaw, was very suspicious of Wolfsky's behavior and made to that Stormshade stayed away from him.