Butterslip

*"You can't bring yourself down like that. Be grateful of how you look! I'm sure cats will be very fond. Surviving your burns only proves your strong. It doesn't matter on appearance. It matters on personality. There's a cat for everyone."*
— **Butterslip** to Hornetstripe in *Arc Three: The Codeless Clan*

## Affiliations

### Past

BoulderClan
Rogue
Kittypet

## Arc Appearances

### Living

*Arc Two: Trouble Amid*
*Arc Three: The Codeless Clan*

**Butterslip** is a small pale yellow tom with darker folded ears, a long, fluffy tail, a white jaw, chest, belly, and paws, and crossed blue eyes.

**Butterslip** is a DeerClan caretaker serving under Pebblestar and Sunstar's leadership. He was born as a kittypet named **Butters** to Milk and Mac alongside his sister, Pancake. However, as he and his sister hit six moons old, both had showed clear interest in joining DeerClan and followed through with their plans, earning their apprentice names, **Butterpaw** and Pancakepaw. He was often bullied due to his kittypet origin and his crossed eyes by cats like Taintpath and Sockpaw, however, he did make some friends including Hornetpaw, Baconpaw, Eggpaw, and Basspaw. While exploring the territory with Basspaw and Brittlepaw, the three of them ran into Blaster, who had warned them to back off, acting hostile, however it never phased Butterpaw and he hesitantly left when Brittlepaw had convinced him to, due to not wanting to get more blood on his paws. During his apprenticeship he'd met Sunspeckle, who had offered to train him when Butterpaw admitted to not having a mentor.

Once Butterpaw had gotten himself lost on BoulderClan territory, he met a BoulderClan apprentice named Frizzpaw, who of which Butterpaw admitted to trying to catch a frog to impress Sunspeckle. Frizzpaw had guided him to the marshlands and helped him fish, Butterpaw growing completely unaware that Frizzpaw slowly began to develop a crush on him. The two continue to meet, and as Butterpaw saves Frizzpaw from a rockslide, Frizzpaw's feelings for the tom grow even more. When the two are caught by Hornetstripe, however, Frizzpaw quickly runs off, embarrassed and flustered. He became close friends with Sorbetpaw, and the two had played in the snow together, albeit the latter a bit hesitantly. His next meet with Frizzpaw, Butterpaw again got interrupted by her brother, Coltpaw, who seemed to sass Frizzpaw for her 'taste in toms.' Butterpaw remained perplexed as Frizzpaw had snapped and shortly after ran away, concerned yet finding himself helpless due to being in a whole different Clan. Desperate to try to get to meet her again, he goes back to the territory not long after and runs into Sagepaw, Ratpaw, and Sycamorepaw. The former acts rather viciously while Ratpaw and Sycamorepaw try to calm him down, although all of them realize that this is the cat Frizzpaw seems to like. Later on, Butterpaw eventually earned his warrior name, **Butterslip**. Shortly after, he and Frizzpaw met again while Frizzpaw went on the journey for the Codeless Clan, meeting her friends Bloompaw and Spiritkit while Butterslip brought his friend Sorbetpaw. There, they met a mysterious entity, who granted Frizztuft, Bloomflood, and Sorbetheart with their warrior names, and Spiritpaw with his apprentice name. When the entity had led him to SwiftClan's shore, Owlscar had spotted Butterslip with Moonflare's body and accused him of murdering her Clanmate, only causing him to turn back and attempt to escape. The entity only continued to lure him, having Butterslip spot Peppermintmist's shot body, hardly alive, and the tom was determined to get her to camp no matter what.

During the NeedleClan fire, Butterslip had come to Autumnbreeze's rescue when she was being attacked by Ivyshadow, being burnt alive, and he had gotten Ivyshadow far enough away to where he could lift the she-cat and make a run for it to SwiftClan's camp. Once returning her, he quickly left due to his previous encounter with Owlscar, and went to warn BoulderClan about the fire, bumping into Pepperpaw and Buttonpaw along the way. Once the two apprentices had shown him to Amberstar, he had told her to be cautious and quickly left, but not before saying a greeting to Frizztuft. Moons after the fire, Frizztuft reveals that she is expecting kits to Butterslip, leaving him thrilled for her but unsure of what to do with DeerClan. He hesitantly decides to leave, to the disappointment of Sunstar, although he understands it's for the best, both for his kits, Frizztuft, and for himself. Once Butterslip had came to BoulderClan, he had received several looks from warriors, including Sagethorn, who expressed obvious jealousy. However, Amberstar accepted Butterslip into the Clan and he became an official BoulderClan warrior.

While Butterslip and Bloomflood are talking, the two of them spot Frizztuft leaving camp alone, which both find peculiar as she's close to kitting. Butterslip decides to check it out, Bloomflood right by him. The two find Frizztuft kitting outside of the camp, and both attempt to comfort her, however to no avail, as the queen weakly collapses after giving birth to only one kitten, which Butterslip names Fuzzykit after her mother, grieving over her death. Spiritpaw arrives rather late, horrified by the sight of Frizztuft's dead body, and going to grieve beside Bloomflood and Butterslip. After returning Frizztuft's body, Butterslip is attacked by a hostile Sagethorn, who Bloomflood had forced away. While present for Bloomflood's kitting, Butterslip expressed obvious distress, worried for his friend, however he was relieved to know she had lived with her kitten, Dahliakit. After a tense conversation with Coltwhisper, Butterslip goes on a walk during a bad storm as Fuzzypaw catches up, only for the two to be cornered on the Rocky Cliff by Sagethorn. Although Spiritbomb tries to intervene, Sagethorn refuses to listen due to his half-Clan blood and leaps at Butterslip and Fuzzypaw, only to be knocked into the water by Bloomflood, killing the former as he's stabbed against a rock and drowning the latter. Encouraged by the death of his friend, Butterslip leaves BoulderClan with Fuzzypaw, to Spiritbomb's heartbreak. He runs into Sorbetheart, who runs away as well after hearing the news of Frizztuft and Bloomflood's deaths, and Butterslip, though heartbroken, returns to DeerClan, where Sunspeckle hesitantly accepts him back in, as Fuzzycrest receives her warrior name.

While DeerClan shelters in the barn, Butterslip and Pancakebounce, as well as Pancakebounce's kits Thymekit and Chamomilekit, reunite with their mother and father, Milk and Mac, thanks to Lambpaw and Freddie. The two are both relieved to see their parents alive, and Butterslip offers for Mac and Milk to shelter in the barn as well during the storm.

*More coming soon...*

## Detailed description

Butterslip is a small, pale, yellow tom with a yellow tail, stripes on his back and legs, and back stripe trailing from his tail up to his head, which has a poofy tuft of fur partially covering his left eye. He has dark yellow stripes on his legs, and folded, dark yellow ears. His eyes are abnormally crossed, representing a cyan-blue color. Butterslip has a white chest and belly, and paws.

## Family

*Main article: Butterslip/Family*

Butterslip's parents are Milk and Mac, and his sister is Pancakebounce. His mate is Frizztuft, and his daughter is Fuzzycrest. For more of Butterslip's family, click here!

## Appearances

* *Arc Two: Trouble Amid*

* *Arc Three: The Codeless Clan*