Bluestar

**Bluestar** was the leader of ThunderClan before Firestar and after Sunstar. She is an important character in *The Prophecies Begin*, a supporting character in many of the succeeding arcs, and the protagonist of *Bluestar's Prophecy*.

Bluekit was born to Moonflower and Stormtail of ThunderClan alongside her sister, Snowkit.

Both she-kits are apprenticed and receive the suffix 'paw. Bluepaw's mentor is Stonepelt. After a battle that kills Bluepaw's mother, Stonepelt retires, so she is trained under Sunfall, the deputy.

Bluepaw has a hard time getting over her grief for Moonflower, and it takes many talks with Sunfall to boost her spirits again. She becomes a warrior, Bluefur, alongside her sister Snowfur.

Not long afterwards, Snowfur has a son, Whitekit, with Thistleclaw, Bluefur's long-time rival. She hates her sister's relationship with Thistleclaw, but tries not to show it for Snowfur's sake.

However, soon after Whitekit's birth, Snowfur dies on the Thunderpath. Bluefur is again heartbroken and retreats into a shell of grief.

Not long after, Bluefur meets Oakheart, a strong and handsome RiverClan warrior, and begins to fall in love with him, though at first she thinks him arrogant and annoying. She becomes pregnant with his kits and decides to raise them purely ThunderClan, without a father.

Bluefur names her kits Mistykit, Stonekit, and Mosskit, all names that remind her of the river. She cherishes her kits and has no thought to how her queenship will affect her Clan until the medicine cat, Goosefeather, tells her that she must become deputy or Thistleclaw will flood the forest in blood. She makes the heartbreaking decision to take her kits to Oakheart so she can become deputy. Mosskit dies on the way, and Bluefur grieves for her deeply. Mistykit and Stonekit make it to RiverClan.

After Tawnyspots, the deputy, retires, Sunstar makes Bluefur deputy. She lives many long moons as deputy, watching her kits grow up in RiverClan.

Bluefur becomes Bluestar after Sunstar's death. She gets lives from Pinestar, Mumblefoot, Larksong, Sweetpaw, Sunstar, Goosefeather, Mosskit, Moonflower, and Snowfur.

Bluestar leads her Clan through many moons of hardship, but begins to despair when the prey runs short and no new kits are born. She sees a kittypet on the fence that marks the edge of ThunderClan territory and thinks that perhaps he will make a good warrior. Bluestar's medicine cat, Spottedleaf, receives a prophecy saying that "Fire alone can save the Clan," and Bluestar wonders if the kittypet is the "fire."

Bluestar confronts the kittypet along with two of her senior warriors when he trespasses on ThunderClan territory. She gives him the choice to join ThunderClan, and he accepts, becoming the apprentice Firepaw.

Bluestar becomes Firepaw's mentor soon after the deputy, Redtail, dies in a battle with RiverClan. She makes Lionheart the new deputy, but only a few moons later, Lionheart dies in a battle with ShadowClan. Tigerclaw becomes the deputy, and a little while later attempts to kill Bluestar. This betrayal unhinges Bluestar's mind, and after exiling Tigerclaw and making Fireheart deputy, she stops trusting any cat but Fireheart and spends long hours shut up in her den.

Fireheart essentially has to lead the Clan, and after a Gathering in which Tigerclaw (now Tigerstar) is revealed as the new ShadowClan leader, Bluestar is appalled that ShadowClan accepted him and feels that ThunderClan is doomed. After a hawk takes a deaf kit named Snowkit, Bluestar declares that StarClan is at war with ThunderClan. The succeeding events only confirm her belief.

When Fireheart and other members of ThunderClan are leading the dog pack over the gorge, Bluestar comes charging out of nowhere and saves Fireheart's life. She dies from drowning in the river under the gorge, but not before apologizing to her grown kits Mistyfoot and Stonefur and granting Fireheart full leadership of ThunderClan. It is mentioned that Bluestar's mind became clearer than it had been since Tigerclaw's betrayal, and that her death was when she truly became alive again.

*wip*

## Appearance

Bluestar is a blue-gray she-cat with blue eyes.