Rosethorn

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Rosethorn was a WindClan warrior currently serving under Goldenstar's leadership, having perviously served under Birchstar's. She currently resides in the Dark Forest.

#### Appearance

Rosethorn is a pale brown she-cat with darker brown markings covering her back, tail, and face. She has dark brown paws with pale brown markings on her legs. Her eyes are a pale red.

#### Family

Rosethorn is the daughter of Rainfoot and Stonetail. Her brother is Honeywhisker.

#### Comic Involvement

Rosepaw’s first appearance is when the clan is walking to the gathering, where she can briefly be seen with Honeypaw. This takes place when she’s still a kit.

The next time we see Rosepaw is during training, along with Coldpaw and Robinpaw. She is pit against Coldpaw during training, although she briefly voices her complaints about this. However, they are interrupted when Bushberry comes back to inform them that Robinpaw was bitten by a snake. With this, their training is cut short, and the group heads back to camp.

Rosepaw is next seen sitting beneath tallrock during the clan meeting Birchstar called in the middle of the night. When Birchstar tells the clan she has horrible news, Rosepaw looks up at her, fascinated but not scared, and repeats "*Horrible news?*"

   Moons later, as Honeypaw keeps Rockkit and Fernkit occupied, Rosethorn calls him over. She expresses her distaste towards how small the patrols hunting down Birchstar are, claiming they're easy to be picked off, and complains about Thorntail not listening to her concerns, crushing Pierre in a fit of anger. She then expresses how much she misses Birchstar, as despite all she did, Rosethorn feels that she would have listened to her.

As the patrols head out, Rosethorn is assigned to guard camp along with Pinewhisker and Coldpool. She doesn't intervene when Birchstar breaks into camp and attacks both Coldpool and Pinewhisker, instead approaching calmly while Birchstar recovers from losing her sixth life. From the Medicine Den Honeypaw is able to see Rosethorn and Birchstar having a conversation. Rosethorn watches from a distance as Birchstar kills Deerheart.

The following moon Rosethorn is seen taking a sparrow from the fresh-kill pile, and looks around before leaving camp. She goes out into a distant part of WindClan's territory, where she meets Birchstar in a small den and gives her the sparrow. She informs Birchstar of the rising tensions with ThunderClan, and confirms that Birchstar hadn't killed Burrstar. She suggests that, in the case of a battle, they could use the confusion of the battle to kill another cat. Birchstar thanks Rosethorn for warning her about the patrols sent to hunt her down, and asks her to take advantage of WindClan's trust in her to kill a cat if a battle happens. Rosethorn accepts it.

Later that day Rosethorn sits by herself in camp, looking around furious. She's surprised as Silvertail warns WindClan about the upcoming battle and as ThunderClan invades camp, thinking about Birchstar's request. During the battle she fights Specklespray before cornering Goldenstar in the leader's den. Rosethorn questions why Goldenstar isn't fighting like the rest of the clan, ranting about her always relying on the strong cats of the clan, and yet still somehow having their respect. She goes on about Goldenstar not listening to her the day of the patrols, and complains about WindClan no longer having a strong leader. Goldenstar is taken aback by this, and reminds her that Birchstar is a murderer, making Rosethorn become agressive. Rosethorn leaps at her, saying that she'll be doing the clan a favour by killing a "traitorous snitch". She throws Goldenstar against a wall and reveals that - because of Icesplash - both she and Birchstar know that StarClan couldn't grant Goldenstar any lives. Rosethorn pins her to the ground and bites her throat, killing her. While she walks away from the scene, Goldenstar is revived by the life given to her by Snowfoot.

Rosethorn begins to panic at Goldenstar being revived, but quickly becomes agressive again, stating that she'll just kill her as many times as it takes. However, they are interrupted by Honeywhisker. Honeywhisker questions what is happening, and Goldenstar quickly tells him Rosethorn took one of her lives. Rosethorn tries to deny it, but Honeywhisker reveals that he saw her talking to Birchstar the day Deerheart died. He demands to know how Rosethorn could possibly still be on Birchstar's side after everything, and Rosethorn frantically states that Birchstar listens to reason, adding on that Honeywhisker is still alive because of that. Honeywhisker pauses, asking her what she's talking about, and Rosethorn reveals what she and Birchstar were talking about before she attacked Deerheart: Birchstar had set out to kill Coldpool and Honeywhisker that night, but Rosethorn talked her out of it, convincing her to spare Honeywhisker's life and kill Deerheart instead, as Rosethorn didn't want him dead and losing Deerheart would hurt Honeywhisker a lot more. She desperately tells him that Birchstar spared him, that *Rosethorn* spared him, but all Honeywhisker can take from her story is that Rosethorn was responsible for Deerheart's death. Honeywhisker accuses her of killing Deerheart, and slashes her across the face as she tries to explain herself, causing a fight to break out between them, during which Honeywhisker accidentally slashes her throat. Rosethorn stares at him stunned for a moment before collapsing to the ground. Honeywhisker rushes to her side, frantically apologizing and trying to keep pressure on her wound, but, because of Deerheart's death and her sympathy towards Birchstar, he tearfully leaves her side, leaving her to bleed out in front of him, unable to speak her final words.

#### Killed Victims

*The following is a chronological list of victims that Rosethorn has killed:*

* Deerheart (Caused)
* Goldenstar (First life)

#### Personality

Rosethorn has shown herself to be quite snarky and rude, she expresses all of her ideas and isn't afraid to say what's on her mind. She always has a rather agressive attitude and has a tendency to drop condenscending sarcasm in the middle of a conversation unprovoked. Rosethorn is shown to be very selfish and not treat other cats as themselves, acting resentful towards cats who don't agree with her and glorifying cats who approve of her, regardless of their morals. Additionally, she's not shown to care much about how her actions could hurt the ones closest to her, while not wishing physical harm upon them, she acts rather disregardful of how she may impact them emotionally.

#### Relationships

Honeywhisker: They are said to have been close as kits but to have drifted apart as they grew older, partially due to their very different personalities. Rosethorn trusted Honeywhisker enough to share how much she preferred Birchstar's leadership, but that trust appears to have been severed by him not sharing her opinion. She loves him regardless, however, and made sure to do her best to talk Birchstar out of killing him, suggesting her to kill his mentor, Deerheart, instead.

Birchstar: Rosethorn admires Birchstar, to the point of putting her on a pedestal. She views her as a role model and, despite the murders she commited, genuinely believes she was a good and strong leader. Rosethorn feels that Birchstar is one of the few cats out there who values and respects her, and the fact that she was able to convince Birchstar to kill Deerheart instead of Honeywhisker makes her trustworthy and reasonable in Rosethorn's eyes.

Goldenstar: Rosethorn despises Goldenstar, and views her as the complete opposite of Birchstar. To her, all that Goldenstar is is a weak and frail coward, even stating that she would be doing a favour to WindClan by killing her. That hatred for Goldenstar seems to have started - or at least gotten particularly worse - by Goldenstar's dismissal of Rosethorn's suggestions about the patrols sent out to kill Birchstar.

Crowflight: Despite Crowflight being Rosethorn's mentor, they don't seem to have been very close. Rosethorn is never seen talking with Crowflight as a warrior and doesn't appear concerned during Crowflight's kitting or to be shaken by her death.

Coldpool: Coldpool and Rosethorn trained as apprentices together. As kits they would rarely play together due to Coldkit being a lot more shy and quiet. During training sessions Rosepaw would belittle him and openly disregard him as a weaker opponent, complaining loudly when she'd have to spar with him.

Robinclaw: Robinclaw and Rosethorn trained as apprentices together. As kits they would play together pretty often for their more outgoing natures. As apprentices, while Rosepaw wouldn't belittle Robinpaw as much as she would to Coldpaw, she was still ocasionally rude to her, particularly making snarky comments about Robinpaw's discomfort with water.

#### Fun Facts

* Rosethorn is aromantic, as confirmed the by comic's creator.
* Rosethorn gets her coat color from Rainfoot.
* Rosethorn was originally a lesbian, and was in arelationship with a scrapped ThunderClan cat named Adderheart.
* Originally, Rosethorn was going to be killed by Coldpool.