Maplestar

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Maplestar is a large, medium-furred, pale brown and white she-cat, with one gray and one hazel eye.

## Maplestar

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## AcornClan Leader

### Suceeded by:

Herself, Waterhusk

**Maplestar** is the founder and current leader of AcornClan. She was born to unknown parents as **Maple** alongside her sister, Rook. The two, having been left to fend for themselves at an early age, didn't know how to survive. However, they found out from another loner that some groups of cats were forming camps, training to become warriors, appointing leaders and deputies, and eventually becoming clans once their numbers grew. So, they decided to try clan life and renamed themselves Maplepelt and Rookshell; Maplepelt being the leader, and Rookshell a medicine cat. Two cats that had become mates not long ago - Blueflame and Winterbranch - asked politely for shelter, becoming the first recruits. A rogue that had been exiled from AvianClan decided to join the group aswell, going by the name Crowwing. He acted charming at first and became mates with Maplepelt, having convinced her to make him the deputy, then soon grew bitter, hateful and manipulative. He wished to be in control of her every move, turning hostile whenever she disobeyed him in any way. Eventually she gathered up the strength to fight back - he was exiled, but attempted to protest with threats and provocations, which eventually led to a physical fight. Nevertheless, Maplepelt never gave him a second chance. Soon after Crowwing's exile, however, Maplepelt had his kit, born only a little before the arrivals of Tanglekit and Sunkit respectively. She named him Corvidkit, but couldn't stand looking at him - he looked exactly like his father. For some time, she mentored the new recruit Snippaw to take her mind off things, but eventually came face-to-face with reality. As Corvidkit grew and earned his apprentice name of Corvidpaw, he started pulling off dangerous stunts to try and get his mother's attention, which eventually led up to him killing one of the LakeClan leader's daughters, Streampaw. With a heavy heart, Maplepelt exiled him aswell.

After spending some time emotionally healing with Rookshell's help, Maplepelt refocused on creating a strong, codependent yet welcoming clan. Blueflame and Winterbranch's second son Coralkit was born, expanding the clan size to nine (9). Waterhusk, Whispertuft and Wolfpaw were allowed refuge in the camp aswell, and soon, *Maplepelt's camp* was finally considered a real clan. She gained her nine lives, becoming **Maplestar** and making Waterhusk her deputy.

Not long after the clan earned its official name of *AcornClan*, Wolfpaw had a vision and an epidemic of an unknown illness broke out. Maplestar herself contracted the illness, now named foamcough, and ended up losing the first of her nine lives. During the time of chaos, more loners and rogues began seeking refuge in the clan, and the more of them there were, the more Maplestar hesitated, finally deciding not to let any more sick cats in after six outsiders waltzed in. For some time, she had to look ill loners, rogues and kittypets in the eyes and coldly deny them entrance to the clan. However, one day Tanglemurk decided to ignore her rules by bringing in Finchkit, and she genuinely considered resigning from her position of leader due to everyone's lack of respect. She almost didn't have a say in it, despite being the main one in charge. Nevertheless, she pushed on with her duties, with a hesitant decision to start letting outsiders in again.

## Clangen History

### *Before the events of Clangen*

Before Maplepelt's camp officially became AcornClan, it was just Maplepelt, Rookshell, Blueflame's family, Sunkit and Corvidpaw. Corvidpaw was initially a very sweet and playful tom, always spending time with Sunkit, playing mossball and telling her stories of his apprenticeship. Maplepelt mentored him. He was Maplepelt's own kit she had with a father nobody dared to speak of. Although Maplepelt was meant to care for her own son, looking into his eyes just made her remember her old mate, and how helpless she was when he berated and manipulated her into doing his bidding. Corvidpaw never got much attention from her because of that, so he would go out of his way to do unwise things so she would at least talk to him some more. Yet that only made Maplestar push him away further. One night, the camp was shimmering in the cold white moonlight. Fireflies were dancing, flying around, and owls were hooting to themselves. Enjoying the peace, Maplepelt slowly fell asleep, and the others soon followed. Guided by the light, Corvidpaw snuck out of camp, walking all the way to LakeClan – it had just recently been made into an official clan, and it was not much larger than Maple’s Camp. He wished to take over some of their territory, as it would surely get Maplepelt’s attention. It only had eight members, and two of them... appeared from the bramble thicket into the same clearing as him? ***This wasn’t supposed to happen. He wasn’t planning to come to the clearing at the same time as those clan cats, and neither were they.*** The younger of the two cats, a dark gray she-cat, got startled and started hissing and spitting at Corvidpaw. Her older sister, a stocky bluish silver she-cat, immediately threw herself on the clueless tom, who wasn’t even planning to be here in the first place. Fearful, he bit into the larger cat’s neck as hard as he could. He clawed and kicked at her even after she let go of him, and when she tried to get away, Corvidpaw, full of adrenaline, pulled her back by the tail. He attacked her once more, this time clawing at her stomach... and then, the chirping of the crickets stopped. Clouds covered the moon, blocking out all the light. The younger sister, previously frozen from fear, charged at Corvidpaw, and he turned tail to dash off. Only as he was running away did he come back to his senses and realize what he had done. ***Could he have killed the older cat? … He didn’t know. He didn’t want to know.*** But deep down, he felt that he truly killed her. ***What was wrong with him? Why did he continue attacking her? Where did he even get the idea to go out and claim LakeClan territory anyway?*** Countless questions of this nature raced through his mind as he returned to Maple’s camp. ***Maplepelt would have to find out about this one way or another, right?*** He decided to confess in the morning, admitting to what he had done instead of having LakeClan’s leader tell his mother what happened would imminently feel better. Perhaps he could salvage whatever relationship they still had if he did. And so, as the sun rose alongside her, Maplepelt was greeted by Corvidpaw’s nightmarish story. He detailed everything that happened, and apologized a dozen times over, both to her, the victim and her sister. He exclaimed that he prayed for LakeClan to forgive his misdeeds, and that if anything happens, to blame it on him. Stunned and unable to truly process what her son was saying, all Maplepelt could do was stare. Stare coldly as he awaited her response. Closing her heart once more, she just wished for everything to be over with. She exiled him, demanding for him to recite everything that happened to Ripplestar, and see what happened from there - *he murdered someone innocent with zero reason*. That was the last time she saw him, although she felt he still lingered just out of view.

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### *Moon 1*

It was early in the warm, sunlit morning that Whispertuft came rushing back to camp with an unknown kit in her mouth. Every cat in the clan was questioning her and asking about the kit's origins as she was worrying about the kit’s condition. Concerned, Maplestar pulled Whispertuft aside, and she told her what happened. She was on dawn patrol when she smelled something that left an odd tang in her mouth. She tracked down the scent and found a kit all alone, looking hungry and starved despite having a squirrel carcass next to her. Some distance away was a dead queen, already partially rotting. Wolfpaw and Rookshell hadn't told her about the mysterious vision of bloodthirsty creatures ravaging the forest yet, so she decided to just nurse the kit back to health and see what would happen from there. Except, she didn't get healthier. A week had passed, and no progress had been made. Rookshell was thinking what it could be, and then, it hit her - Foxkit had the same illness as the canids from Wolfpaw's dream, likely transmitted through the squirrel she was found next to. She, along with Wolfpaw who received the vision in the first place, recounted the events of the dream to the rest of the clan, including Maplestar, and they quickly began to understand. They protested, saying that Foxkit should've been left alone, and a part of Maplestar agreed. Yet out loud, she silenced her warriors, saying that life is precious, and that if Foxkit truly did have the illness, it was too late to go back and she deserved a stay in the clan to be treated.

### *Moon 2*

Foxkit's condition was improving somewhat, but then, Maplestar got sick. It was her first time making a major decision like this, but soon after she got sick, she went into isolation, and *let StarClan take the first of her nine lives.* This way, StarClan would heal her body, and the number of sick cats in AcornClan would go back to just one.

### *Moon 3*

The situation began worsening once more. Not only was Rookshell infected for some time before visiting StarClan so her body could be healed, but she also passed it onto the newly apprenticed Coralpaw before she could let StarClan heal her as she dreamed. Coralpaw almost died in the first few nights of being sick, and soon, yet another group of outsiders came to the clan. Hearthbracken and her kits - Nightingalekit, Whirlkit and Rosykit - were found by Waterhusk. Maplestar was practically outraged when she found out Waterhusk and Rookshell wanted them to stay, even though could be sick. Soon, the more experienced medicine cat inspected them, and sure enough, Nightingalekit and Rosykit had foamcough. Maplestar was about to send the newcomers away due to the massive risk this was, until being told Heathbracken knew a possible cure. She was intrigued and not as angry anymore, but she decided to pass a degree not to let any more outsiders join the clan, at least until foamcough ended or the cure was proven to be real.

### *Moon 4*

While everyone was still asleep in the early morning, Maplestar padded over to the medicine den where her sister was resting. Gently nudging her shoulder, the white she-cat woke up with a low chirp, greeting her as normal before asking why she was awoken. Their conversation was nearly silent, full of barely audible whispers as they conversed with small smiles on their faces about whether or not a certain foamcough patient was ready for the next stage of their life. Rookshell let Maplestar know that she needed to get ready to announce an apprentice ceremony, and the leader quickly nodded before climbing up to the Highbranch and waking up all the remaining members of the clan. Groggy and confused, Foxkit was let out of the isolation den for the first time in a long while, as her adoptive mother nudged her to the front of the gathering. Proud of how far the young one had come, Maplestar called for her deputy with another test ready - mentoring the survivor that had earned the name *Foxpaw*.

### Moon 5

The lead she-cat felt accomplished and happy for some time, as the skies of the clan's future were finally beginning to clear up at long last. The deaths of Blueflame and Winterbranch - her closest friends beside her sister - had left an unbelievably heavy impact on not just her, but their two sons aswell. However, some time later, she was woken up by Rookshell the same way she had awoken her a few weeks prior. She expected good news, but was shattered by her sister's words once she learned that Rosykit had passed on. He had collapsed during his daily checkup and began to spew blood-tinted foam out of his mouth. By the time they had grabbed Heathbracken's herb mix, it was too late, and the kit was already deceased. Although it was perhaps to be expected, Maplestar's wishes of having a large and peaceful clan began dimming once more after the short break of sunlight they had experienced. Sighing, she allowed the other cats to find out about everything aswell before making the decision to grant Whirlkit his apprentice name of Whirlpaw and assign Whispertuft as his mentor. Perhaps it would grant his and Rosykit's mother some level of peace.

### *Moon 6*

When Maplestar found out that Heathbracken gave Nightingale the last bit of lungwort and practically left Coralpaw to die, she genuinely considered exiling her. ***Sure, her herb mix was helping stabilize the conditions of the foamcough patients, but what was the point if she was going to hoard all the necessary herbs for one kit?* *She had broken the obvious rules, and punishment was needed.*** Yet a part of her thought about the way Rosykit died from foamcough and how anxious she likely was about her other sick kit. She remembered Corvidpaw, and the overwhelmingly guilt-ridden look on his face when he was exiled for something so, so much more serious. As far as she could tell, Heathbracken only felt *proud*. With a sigh, she decided to let her off with a warning.

### *Moon 8*

Maplestar woke up to the sketchily obnoxious voice of Tanglemurk - the tomcat that was notorious for lurking around suspicious areas and executing annoyingly unwise ideas. Allegedly, he found a kit alone in the middle of the woods, and felt the need to rescue it. Maplestar immediately recovered from her half-asleep state and went into a fit of anger. She had loudly and clearly expressed her wish for no more outsiders joining the clan, especially now that the foamcough situation had improved. Weirdly, he kept insisting that the kit stayed, as if he promised someone that he would get it into the clan. *Was the kit perhaps his?* Maplestar had no way of knowing, and exhaustedly, she gave in and told him to give the kit to Heathbracken to be examined.  She considered resigning from her position as the leader. ***Apparently, nobody listened to a word she had to say anyway.***

### *Moon 11*

Maplestar decided to go out and train with her deputy Waterhusk due to rising tensions with AvianClan. She saw this as a way of building one another's trust, but also to talk to them one on one about her growing doubts about her leadership skills, and that she considers resigning as the life of a leader is no longer fit for her. Waterhusk listened to every word said to them, diligently taking mental notes and making sure to let Maplestar know they would always be there for her, leader or not. Their faith in each other was expanded upon deeply, plus they got to stretch their legs and exercise.

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## Description

### Scars gained

*The following is a chronological list of scars and/or major injuries that Maplestar has gained:*

* A scar on Maplestar's side was caused by a battle with rogues.

## Personality

Maplestar is a responsible and noble leader, trying to make the wishes of her clanmates come true as long as it's possible - which occasionally gets taken advantage of. The exile of her son Corvidpaw destroyed her, so she closed her heart for some time, but she eventually began showing love and affection towards others once she remembered her clan needed her. She's the type that very easily gives in to the demands of those around her, and cracks under pressure, so she tries her best to be sneaky and discreet about the things she says or does, as she knows how hard it is for her to say no or harm someone.

## Kin

### *Members*

Mother: Unnamed pale brown she-cat (Last seen alive, unknown status)

Sister: Rookshell (Alive as of most recent Clangen playthrough)

Former mate: Crowwing (Deceased, Dark Forest resident)

Son: Corvidpaw (Last seen alive, unknown status)

Adoptive niece: Foxspark (Alive as of most recent Clangen playthrough)

Granddaughter: Houndkit (Alive as of most recent Clangen playthrough)

## References

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2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 *Clangen, Maplestar's info page*