Featherdust

>  "I'll miss all of you mouse-brains."
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 Physical Description

Featherdust is a dark grey she-cat with a fluffy pelt and light gray on her ears, paws, and tail tip. She has a lean build and blue eyes.

## Personality

Featherdust can come off as cold sometimes, but in reality, she cares deeply for all of her patients, and all of her Clan as well. She's very stubborn, occasionally too much for her own good, and won't rest until every cat has been taken care of. She won't hesitate to snap at anyone if she thinks it's right, and she can kick most cats out of the medicine den with threats of deathberries or mouse bile if need be. However, she has a soft spot for kits, and will always soften up for them, hardly even losing her fairly short temper. She has just about no filter when it comes to warriors--swearing often, which leads to her calling almost every cat a mouse-brain. She will completely ignore her own well-being if it means helping her Clanmates or anyone in need.

## Life

### Adult Life

Featherdust's parents are unknown, although she was the medicine cat of ThunderClan. As her first challenge, Featherdust was thrust into the flood, which affected all of the Clans, though ThunderClan most of all. She first had to heal a large gash on the loner Fog's side, and soon after, Hopekit ate a few deathberries. Acting fast, she managed to save Hopekit, so that she would live to see many other days in the medicine den. After that, Badgerheart had kits; all in all, the flood was very hectic for Featherdust.

After the flood, things were quite uneventful for a few moons. The first big thing that happened was that Hopepaw--formerly Hopekit, whom she'd had to save from deathberries--fell out of a tree and into a thorn bush, effectively getting her pelt stuck with thorns and breaking her paw. Hopepaw visited the medicine den not long after--though this time as Hopepetal--when she was attacked by foxes and had an infected leg wound. At the same time as this, Vineripple had greencough and had to be treated. During this time, and largely every time Hopepetal was in the medicine den, Emberpaw was there, mostly being annoying, though Featherdust did manage to get him to collect herbs a few times.

Once Emberpaw grew up a bit into Emberskip, he became less annoying, though he was still hanging around the medicine den quite often. Part of the reason was that he was attacked by badgers while on a patrol, though Featherdust claimed that an infected shoulder wound is barely an excuse. Soon afterward, his mate Hopepetal gave birth to kits, and Hopepetal caught greencough nearly immediately after that.

The greencough continued to spread, and Songpaw caught it. Featherdust caught whitecough from Hopepetal and Songpaw, leaving her apprentice Songbird to take care of the medicine den affairs. This later evolved into greencough, and it took Featherdust about a moon to recover, as there was little catmint left.

And then Hopepetal got greencough again. This time, it happened while she was on RiverClan territory. Featherdust went to RiverClan to take care of Hopepetal, who had managed to get tangled up in a fox attack along with Badgerkit and Brightpaw. She stayed in RiverClan with Hopepetal until she was healed, then returned to ThunderClan.

When Featherdust was back in ThunderClan, Songpaw fell out of a tree and broke her leg. Featherdust went to help her, and Laurelkit--the unofficial medicine kit at the time--came too. When Songpaw was finally taken care of, Featherdust decided it was time to make Songbird into a full medicine cat. They came back to a relatively uninjured ThunderClan, which remained this way for like, a moon.

After many herbs had been used up over the course of a few moons, Featherdust collected a patrol to collect herbs. A few too many cats came, so some of them went hunting. However, Featherdust and Creekfrost spotted foxes soon after, and Thornstar and Vineripple were fetched to check it out with the cats. The two foxes soon attacked, and the cats had to fight them. Almondnose and Poppybriar of ShadowClan showed up to fight, despite Almondnose being pregnant and Poppybriar having kits in camp. Sunstep showed up as well, and the cats continued fighting. In the process, Creekfrost got injured but kept fighting, so Vineripple and Featherdust dragged her off of the field. Featherdust's leg got scratched by a fox, and she quickly wrapped it in cobwebs so that she could heal Creekfrost and Laurelpaw.

Once the cats had finished fighting, Almondnose began kitting. When this was finished, Featherdust went to the ThunderClan camp with her and Laurelpaw because it was closer than ShadowClan. Furstar was annoyed at this and came back to retrieve Almondnose immediately, despite Featherdust and Laurelpaw's protests.

Soon after this, Songbird was deleted due to inactivity, leaving an injured Featherdust as the Clan's only medicine cat. However, Featherdust's wound became infected and Laurelpaw sort of took over. Featherdust was kind of mentoring Laurelpaw during this, helping her with what herbs to use and how to use them, but Laurelpaw wouldn't let Featherdust actually do anything. In a few days, Featherdust's wound was worse. It was even more infected and Featherdust had a small fever.

The day after that, Featherdust limped into camp to get some fresh-kill. Instead of being able to enjoy her nice, juicy rabbit, she collapsed in multiple coughing fits. She begged Laurelpaw not to use her herbs on her, knowing that it was over for her. After Laurelpaw's failed attempts to heal her, Featherdust passed away, joining the ranks of starry cats in the sky.

While in StarClan, Featherdust visited Laurelpaw a couple times. The first time was during the war with RiverClan when Laurelpaw was healing cats in the ThunderClan camp and keeping kits occupied. She only visited then for a short time, but she later saw Laurelpaw in StarClan. During this visit, Laurelpaw caught her up on recent ThunderClan happenings, which included a lot of death and other drama, and Featherdust and Laurelpaw constructed a plan to ask Thornstar if Laurelpaw could be a full medicine cat for the Clan. If he said no, Featherdust would mentor Laurelaw from StarClan secretly because there was no way that Featherdust would let Laurelpaw get away with not being a medicine cat.

## Friends and Family

Hopepetal - StarClan, she-cat, warrior, friend

Laurelivy - ThunderClan, she-cat, warrior, friend

Emberskip - StarClan, tom, warrior, friend

Songbird - StarClan, she-cat, medicine cat, friend

## Notable Quotes

"OH GREAT STARCLAN, HOPEPETAL! And Emberskip is injured too! I'll have to start calling those two the injury couple." - Featherdust, after finding out that Hopepetal had greencough

"If you think that you are worthless, then you are forgetting the time you kept both Creekfrost and Thornstar from dying while I was away. You were my unofficial medicine kit and you helped so many cats. You are NOT worthless, and the entire Clan would miss you if you died, so for the love of StarClan, tell me what happened so I can heal you." -Featherdust to Laurelpaw when Laurelpaw nearly died

"There is no FREAKING way that StarClan wants you to die. You get wounded because you care about other cats and you want to help them. And occasionally because you're a mouse-brain, but that's not the point. " - Featherdust to Hopepetal when Hopepetal got injured by foxes again

"Smells like... fox? I think it's fresh? Oh StarClan, I'm useless at this. Will someone please confirm or deny the presence of a fox?" - Featherdust at the beginning of the fox attack which ended up taking her life

"I'll miss all of you mouse-brains." - Featherdust's last words

"Think about the future. You can't protect people who are dead. You couldn't protect Crowspirit. But you can protect your kits. They'll need their mother. They'll need you, clearheaded, ready to accept reality. So *be that cat*. Be a good mother to these kits. They'll need you." - Featherdust to Laurelivy when Laurel went a little bit insane over Crowspirit's death