Thistlespring

### Family

Petalfrost (sneaky secret sister), Minkkit (sneaky secret half-sister), Badgerkit (sneaky secret half-brother)

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Thistlespring shares her sister’s long fur, but allows it to be more wild. It is soft and white with patches of gray tabby. Her eyes are a blazing amber.

### Personality

Thistlespring is a very bright, sunny she-cat. She is very confident and often goes against tradition. She is meant to serve as a foil to her more traditional sister Petalfrost, but the thing is, they don’t even know the other one exists. That's a problem, isn't it?

## Backstory

### Kithood

Petalkit and Thistlekit were born outside the Clans. Their mother, a loner named Tina, died when they were about five days old. Their father, Shard, was somewhat insane and often had visions that he thought were of the future. In one of these, he saw that, if his daughters were raised together, they would someday lead to his demise. Shard didn't like that, so he took one kit to each of the Clans bordering his mountain home, OasisClan and OrchidClan. He broke into camp, left the kit with the first cat he saw, and told the cat not to tell the kit or anyone else anything beyond the fact that she had a sister.

Thistlekit was taken to OasisClan, where she was given to Skypaw. Skypaw was very confused and took the kit to the nursery, where she was left with the queens.

Thistlekit was happy in OasisClan. She wasn't told anything about her sister or the stranger who had left her in OasisClan. She grew up as OasisClan's collective child and she loved it.

### Apprenticeship

Thistlepaw was apprenticed to Talonheart. She rather liked her mentor, thinking that he was really cool. He was a well-respected tom and not too bad looking either. He was very skilled and Thistlepaw learned quickly.

Thistlepaw was an extremely mischievous young cat and managed to get herself banned from Gatherings until she was a warrior. Good job, Thistlepaw.

### Warrior Life

Thistlespring earned her warrior name and has done exactly nothing so far. Her former mentor, Talonheart, left the Clans for unspecified reasons.

A little while after that, she went hunting with Scorchface and asked about why Scorchface hated mice so much. Thistlespring immediately regretted asking and continued hunting instead of continuing to be stupid.

A few days later, Thistlespring was walking by the HorizonClan border when she was attacked by Runningriver, a HorizonClan tom. Thistlespring objected loudly and Runningriver let her up. They then had a little talk, during which Thistlespring inadvertently insulted him and didn't apologize. Gotta love that. Anyway, after awhile, Thistlespring admitted that she wanted to visit HorizonClan and Runningriver offered to take her. She agreed and the pair went off to HorizonClan's camp, where Thistlespring met Runningriver's friends Firecloud and Fernsway. For unspecified reasons, Fernsway attacked Thistlespring, at which point Mistrunner, one of HorizonClan's messengers, had to step in and break up the fight. Thistlespring hurried back to OasisClan.

Later that day, while she was play-fighting with Shrewpaw and Whitepaw, Firecloud arrived in OasisClan to apologize for Fernsway's attack. Thistlespring graciously accepted the apology and offered to let him stay the night, which Firecloud accepted.

When she was thirteen, winter finally ended and she decided to pay a visit to her HorizonClan friends again.

## Other

### Other Info

* Thistlespring was only banned from Gatherings because she's a transfer, so I have to justify the plague-gap that existed in her original life.

### Quotes

*"Is HorizonClan in trouble? Did Junglestar finally decide to release her army of relatives upon the poor unsuspecting Clans?"* - Thistlespring to Runningriver.

*"There is no Thistlespring. Only Bush."* - Thistlespring to Runningriver and Firecloud.