Swanleaf

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**Swanleaf** is a 65 moon-old, white tabby she-cat with orange eyes, and leaves adorning her head fluff. She has the Strict personality, and is both a great speaker, and has omen sight.

## History

Swankit was born in Year 7, to her mother, Blazehare, in BugClan, after her and Ottertail's whirlwind fling. However, the BugClan medicine cat, Shadeneedle, received an omen about her birth, as well with the pressures of other BugClan warriors fearing this half-clan kit would make them seem even weaker to the other clans, and use it as another reason to pick on them, Blazehare reluctantly gave her over to both Ottertail, and GalaxyClan. When she became an apprentice, she was mentored to her dad's old apprentice, Fernheart. She was not happy about the fact she was transferred over to GalaxyClan, as she was not happy with her dad, and missed BugClan, hating that her birth was some kind of "omen" that got her kicked out. She felt like an outsider this year, and hated it, and she also didn't seem thrilled with becoming a warrior.

In Year 8, Swanpaw decided to switch over to being a medicine cat apprentice, being mentored under Cinderspeck. She eventually became Swanleaf, and her suffix was chosen after Cinderspeck blurted out "Leaf!" when he realized he hadn't thought of a name for her. She eventually confronted him about "essentially naming her after a guy she's heard ghost stories of." (aka Stoneleaf, as his redemption & the fulfillment of Brightmask's prophecy was this year as well.) Which he then apologized for, however she said that she was fine with it. She calmed down a bit, but she still had her sass. She grew closer to Cinderspeck, after a fox attacked him, and Fernheart and her had to come rescue him, and she then began being interested in herbs. She had also been playing with his adopted kit, Molekit, this year. Interestingly the BugClan medicine cat that had had the omen about Swanleaf, had died this year, and BugClan was then left with no medicine cats. Because of this, Heatherstar had come to the realization that them omen might have been warning them *against* giving her away, and offered to Swanleaf to come back, yet she refused, out of spite. However she did offer to go help them train an apprentice, known as Pinepaw, into being a medicine cat. She had let Ottertail try to bond with her, but she was still a little guarded around him. She also was ambushed by a rouge, Elk, this year, who tore a nick in her ear.

In Year 9, Swanleaf's overall mood this year, was annoyed. At the beginning of the year, she finished up the training of the Bugclan medicine cat, Pinepaw, who was now Pinecall. Yet she was not happy to have to face even more love drama, with Cinderspeck and Lightsnow, a medicine cat from SharpClan, that had been secretly dating Cinderspeck, and had sought shelter in GalaxyClan, due to his clan's worsening conditions, under their new leader, Makwastar. This was the 3rd time she had encountered it, first being with her parents, and second, with her former mentor Fernheart, and her horrible mate, Mintsplash. She wanted to scream that "this was against the code," but held her tongue, and quietly seethed in anger. Ironically to this, it was discovered that Swanleaf had gained a secret crush on the warrior Lightfoot, who was already in a relationship with Darkwhistle. She had also been extremely worried for her mentor this year, after he became paralyzed, due to being trapped in snow, while trying to save the leader, Burdockstar. But she glared at Lightsnow, as she blamed their relationship for his accident, them, seemingly, being punished. She was just very stressed and emotional this year, and was not having a very good time.

In Year 10, She was on medicine cat duty during the SharpClan battle, healing cats that had been wounded and retreated. Other than the battle, she had taken on an apprentice this year, and the strict Orangepaw became Swanleaf's apprecntice. He had found a new marigold patch on his first patrol, leading him to wear a flower of marigold behind his ear. He was strict, like his mentor, at the start of his training, but unlike her, became more loving overtime, and he grew into the Compassionate Orangeback. She also was trying to make the clan still see and treat Cinderspeck as the head medicine cat, because even if she was upset with him about taking a mate, she still deeply respected him. She did her best collecting herbs, since he couldn't anymore. While she still had a crush on Lightfoot, she had also gained a crush on the warrior Moleshade, who was Cinderspeck's child. Moleshade also requited these feelings about Swanleaf, but they didn't get to act on them as Moleshade had died the next year. She also had been having a mental freakout, as Lightfoot had had kits with Darkwhistle this year, a litter of 2, Pantherkit and Moonkit.

In Year 11, Swanleaf had a pretty bad year, as both her apprentice, Orangeback, and one of her crushes, Moleshade, had died due to the clan fire. She had helped Ottertail get Cinderspeck out of the camp, as he had priority due to his injury, and because he was a medicine cat. However she worried about her apprentice during this time, as he was nowhere to be seen. Orangeback was trying to save Eaglestrike from falling, unfortunately failing to, and was helped out of the clan by Lavenderheather. He soon died after the fire due to smoke inhalation, and Moleshade had been victim to smoke inhalation as well. Because of this, she feels that StarClan is punishing her, in the same way they punished Cinderspeck. She still really likes Lightfoot, but was kind of accepting of fate, as Lightfoot and Darkwhistle had another litter of kits; Tulipkit, Rainkit and Pricklekit. Her father, Ottertail, had been hanging out with her more this year, trying to ease her pain, which cheered her up a bit. Swanleaf had also developed Omen Sight this year, which harrowed the other cats that knew, hoping she wouldn't see something terribly bad.

In Year 12, Swanleaf sadly died due to the greencough outbreak going around the camp. Before that, her and Lightfoot had gotten together, in a hinge-polyamorous relationship, with Lightfoot being the hinge to both her and Darkwhistle. Swanleaf saw how much her mate loved kits, and she agreed to have a litter of 3 kits, with help from a surrogate from outside of the clan, known as Oriole. Two daughters named Weaselkit and Egretkit, and a son named Beetlekit. Sadly, Lightfoot and Egretkit also died of greencough, when they caught it from Swanleaf. Darkwhistle didn't seem to care too much about Lightfoot being mates with both of them, and even started to get along and bond with her, and he watches their two remaining kits. Other than mates and kits, Swanleaf had been plagued with various nightmares, including one about a rushing river (predicting Perchfreckle's death) and even being given an omen, "a dream with dark clouds and cat's paw, devoid of claws" (predicting Hopefern's disability.) She was trying to be happy, however, was really stressed, especially with the lack of herbs around, and more and more cats getting sick with greencough. Both her and Cinderspeck died this year, leaving Flamepaw as the sole medicine cat in Galaxyclan.

## Trivia

* Swanleaf is, canonically, under the Sapphic/WLW Umbrella, as she never showed any attraction for male or masc-aligned cats in the clan.
* Swanleaf is also mainly attracted to cats who annoy her, or clash with her personality, as her crushes had the "Sneaky" and "Childish" traits.
* Her parents are also under the m-Spec umbrella, as Ottertail is now mates with the tom Cloudjay, and Blazehare is now mates with an unidentified Bugclan she-cat.

## Gallery

Swankit is brought to Galaxyclan by Ottertail (Year 7)Swanpaw and Fernheart protect Cinderspeck from an attacking fox (Year 7)Swanpaw in Year 7Swanpaw transfers to Medicine Cat apprenticeship, her mentor being Cinderspeck (Year 8)Swanleaf is attacked by Elk, a rouge, who tears her ear (Year 8)Swanleaf in Year 8Swanleaf develops a secret, unrequited crush on the warrior Lightfoot (Year 9)Swanleaf in Year 9Swanleaf mentoring Orangepaw, her apprentice (Year 10)Swanleaf in Year 10Swanleaf discovering a flaming tree crashing into the Medicine den, at the start of the clan fire. (Year 11)Swanleaf, Worried for Orangeback, as he is nowhere to be seen (Year 11)Swanleaf in Year 11Swanleaf in the Yr 11 Medicine Cats reference cardSwanleaf receives an omen, about a cat's paw without any claws. (Year 12)Swanleaf and Lightfoot have a litter of 3 kits! (Year 12)Swanleaf, Lightfoot and Egretkit in Year 12/StarclanSwanleaf guides her son, Beetlekit, to become a medicine cat. (year 13)