Fallingstar

Lineart: pkrockin\_ | Design: Plutohawk

## **Overview**

Fallingstar was the Leader of ThunderClan.

### **Appearance**

Fallingstar is a light brown tom covered in hundreds of small white spots. He also has amber eyes.

### **Personality**

In contrast to his brother Sunshade, Fallingstar is a serious, and hard-working tom. Having been the son of Turtlesnap, the daughter of Celadineblossom, the latter of whom was one of Simmerstar’s most trusted warriors, and also having not been born until right after the leader’s demise, Fallingstar was raised to have some degree of respect for the she-cat, but also not being kept oblivious to how evil she was. He also has somewhat of an ego, believing himself to be faster than Asterstorm and smarter than Sunshade, and stronger than both. Though he is by no means a narcissist, Fallingsnow does have a slight habit of showing off, possibly rooting from his upbringing. He will often request the hardest tasks available just to prove to himself and others that he can do them. He used to get annoyed by kits easily, though this changed when he became a father himself.

Despite his small ego, Fallingstar rarely, if ever, bragged about his deputy position, knowing it's a privilege, honor and significant responsibility.

### Relationships

#### Logpelt and Owlfang

Fallingstar has not had a close relationship with either of his surviving sons in moons, especially Logpelt. Fallingstar has always viewed his son as undisciplined and unfocused.

## **History**

Fallingstar was born to Turtlesnap and an unknown tom, along with Asterstorm and Sunshade. The vicious leader Simmerstar had died not long before the tom's birth, and Turtlesnap, whose mother was Celandineblossom, one of Simmerstar's senior warriors, noted that her son was covered in snow-like spots. Turtlesnap named him Fallingkit knowing he would one day be called Fallingsnow, not only for the aforementioned white spots, but because despite Simmerstar's evil nature, Turtlesnap still had a degree of respect for Simmerstar, whose warrior name had been Simmersnow. However, she never told this to Fallingsnow, though he partially suspected it.

One day, a mysterious Clan named LostClan showed up, only to eventually be massacred, which Fallingsnow was not present for, though Pricklestar, then Pricklepuff, was, along with Celandineblossom. After a shadow figure known as Tenebris offered to bring the LostClan souls back in exchange for the lives of the living cats, Celandineblossom gave herself up for Poppytail, who was given a place in ThunderClan alongside Basilfern, much to Pricklepuff's anger. Fallingsnow was indifferent to Basilfern, but initially shared Pricklepuff's disdain for Poppytail, and the young tom was greatly annoyed by her kits. Eventually, however, Fallingsnow warmed up to the former LostClan she-cat, though he kept this secret from Pricklestar.

Fallingsnow was shocked to have been chosen as deputy, and vowed to be the best deputy he could be for ThunderClan, though he sometimes walks on eggshells, knowing the consequences of letting Pricklestar down might equate to more than just losing his deputyship.

He eventually crossed paths with Aspenwaters, and the two deputies were friendly to one another. Fallingsnow secretly hoped to maintain peace with the RiverClan deputy, knowing they would both be leaders one day.

One day, Pricklestar vanished after being captured by Twolegs, and despite Fallingsnow's and Lotusmoon's best efforts, they were unable to recover her.

Fallingstar went on to become leader, and was forced to deal with a hostage his predecessor had left behind. When Fallingstar revealed to Dreamstar that he had Silverbreeze's son Clashpaw in custody, Dreamstar retaliated by attacking ThunderClan and holding its nursery hostage, resulting in most of the Clan holding a grudge against the white tom. Fallingstar went on to choose Goldenpool as his deputy.

However, Dreamstar's actions made Fallingstar's next decision difficult. When one of ThunderClan's warriors, as well as one of WindClan's, were both found murdered by an unknown BloodClan cat, Fallingstar and Dreamstar reluctantly decided to work together to teach Mimosa a lesson about letting her warriors run wild. All the while, Fallingstar discovered Vespidpaw's powers that resulted in the death of a RiverClan warrior. Moraystar led a raid on ThunderClan where Fallingstar took the blame, citing it as a horrible accident that he didn't speak up about. However, Moraystar responded by taking one of Fallingstar's lives.

Later on, Fallingstar, Dreamstar and Sparkstar ended up waging war against BloodClan for the murders of the Clanmates (though Fallingstar never discovered the identity of the individual who did it) where several warriors, including Mangolily, Logpelt's mate, were killed. Logpelt effectively disowned Fallingstar after this, as his kits (via surrogate) were about to be born. Logpelt would later leave ThunderClan altogether, taking all his kits (save for Lilykit) with him.

After this, Fallingstar met Cinnamonheart, with whom he became mates and they had four kits: Hollowkit, Hognosekit, Speckledkit and Beetlekit.

Fallingstar, moons later, would make plans to retire on the first full moon of newleaf, but a group of rogues (under the direction of Safi, a Dark Forest warrior) attacked ThunderClan. After they ripped away two of his lives, Fallingstar used the third to kill the rogue leader by pinning her down as a monster approached. Sunshade, in a vain attempt to save Fallingstar, jumped in front of the monster. Rivulet was killed on impact, but the two brothers died a few moments later, after bidding their farewells. Fallingstar confidently left ThunderClan in the paws of Goldenstar, and ascended to StarClan.

## Quotes

*"I promise you that once I become leader I will make sure you LostClanners feel as welcome and respected as anyone else."* -Fallingsnow to Basilfern.

*"A leader, and a deputy, are supposed to be responsible for the well-being of a Clan. Every moon, Pricklestar leaves with Lotusmoon for that Gathering and I stay behind to watch ThunderClan. Lead them, if you will. I know every screw-up they make happens under my watch. You could say that it's my fault when they mess up."* -Fallingsnow to Sunshade.

## Trivia

* Like Sunstar, Fallingstar was only given eight lives instead of nine. This was due to Pricklestar still being alive somewhere.
* Pluto has said that out of all his characters, Fallingstar's initial design took the longest to make.