Kestrelfall

Brother (Featherdawn)

Dad (Lightning)

Buck (Nephew)

Dawn (Niece)

Sons: Lightning, Smokekit, Driftpaw

Daughter: Puddlekit

## **Appearance**

Kestrelfall is a light cream tom with a brown spotted tail, brown forepaws, and blue eyes.

## **Names**

Kit: Kestrelkit

Apprentice: Kestrelpaw

Warrior: Kestrelfall

StarClan Resident: Kestrelfall

## **Biological Information**

Age at death: Roughly 41 moons

Cause of death: Mauled by dogs

## **History**

### **Kestrelkit**

Kestrelkit as a kit had quite a few friends, including his sister Featherkit, Nightkit, and Autumnkit. When Spottedtail, his mother and closer parent, died of Greencough, Kestrelkit was very distressed, but eventually got over her death just in time for his father, Thunderpelt, to leave. He was never that close with Thunderpelt, but noticed that the loss of their parents and her lack of friends was mentally damaging Featherkit and vowed to protect her.

### **Kestrelpaw**

After being made an apprentice, Kestrelpaw met a ShadowClan apprentice named Redpaw looking for her sister Snowtail. Redpaw found Snowtail, but left without telling Kestrelpaw. He returned home after a little while of looking for her, and upon his return met Stream, a loner kit that would later join RiverClan with Ripplestar's permission.

### **Kestrelfall**

Featherdawn leaves RiverClan right as Kestrelfall meets his future mate, Turtletuft, and introduces her to his friends, Nightmoth and Autumnbreeze. Shortly after, they go hunting together. Icepelt has her kits and causes Ripplestar to lose a life from an infected wound she was too exhausted to treat after nursing her kits. Ripplestar holds a Clan meeting to decide what to do with the kits, where Turtletuft and Kestrelfall agree to raise them together. Only after the kits open their eyes do they officially become mates. Featherdawn returns after sharing a dream with Kestrelfall. Honeypaw, Turtletuft's sister, gets upset that Kestrelfall is stealing Turtletuft from her, and storms out of camp. Kestrelfall offers to help his mate look for her, but she returns before they leave camp. A few moons later, Leopardkit is crippled by a sharp bramble and breaks her leg. After another short time-skip (Nightmoth, Streamkit, and Autumnbreeze disappear in between this time), Honeypaw leaves camp on her own to meet with Nightwhisper (for some forgotten reason) when she is attacked by a fox. Kestrelfall hears and goes to save her. They defeat the fox together, and Honeypaw finally accepts her sister's mate as family. The truth that Kestrelfall and Turtletuft are not Lionpaw, Leopardpaw, and Tigerpaw's parents comes out just in time for Kestrelfall and his mate to have kits of their own. Featherdawn leaves RiverClan again. When his kits are about 5 moons old, Lightningkit sneaks out of camp and needs to be saved by Kestrelfall. When they return, Turtletuft questions Kestrelfall on why he would be so careless to not watch his kits. Nightmoth's son Crowkit joins in the fight, defending Kestrelfall, when Turtletuft attacks him. Kestrelfall exclaims that his mate isn't the same cat he used to know, to which he suggests they take a break from their relationship. Turtletuft isn't pleased and runs away, only to get hit by a monster on the Thunderpath. He is not told about this and is led to believe that she left RiverClan. Dogs attack camp very shortly after, and Kestrelfall is killed alongside Duckkit.

### **Kestrelfall (StarClan)**

After joining StarClan, Kestrelfall met and got along with most of the cats there. However, he still has never met Turtletuft in StarClan and never canonically made up with her. He was the first cat to propose the Moonpool prophecy, which wasn't actually a prophecy and more of a message to the living cats. He was fairly disappointed when Reedstalk objected to having his son, Driftpaw, be in the prophecy.

## **Personality**

Kestrelfall is a very kind fatherly cat who loved his family and put always put them first, even above his warrior duties. He felt bad about lying to his adopted kits, but soon forgot that they weren't actually kin and treated them just like he would to his real family. He's very aware of the way others feel and will do his best to cheer them up or work them through their struggles. Sometimes, he can be misunderstood as soft for his kindness, but his fierce loyalty and protective nature make him a foe you wouldn't want to cross in battle.

## **Trivia**

* Kestrelfall gets his spots from his mother, Spottedtail
	+ He was not always intended to be spotted and used to be a plain cream tom with brown paws
* His favorite biological kit is Puddlekit, and his favorite adopted kit was Lionpaw
* Kestrelfall was never officially a queen, but spent a lot of time in the nursery
* He is Mossystar16's first character on the site
* After breaking up with Turtletuft, Kestrelfall no longer felt romantic attraction to her, but he took a long time to get over her
* Kestrelfall first met Turtletuft on accident

### **Mistakes**

* Kestrelfall has been mistakenly depicted and referred to as a tabby
* Mistakenly called brown, light brown, and gold
* Kestrelfall and Turtletuft were formerly listed as mates in the StarClan allegiances

## **Fan Art**

Art by Silverware of their interpretation of **Kestrelfall** and Turtletuft.Art by Mossystar16 of Kestrelfall's DreamArt by Mossystar16 of Kestrelfall's Dream with no book jacket. Featured in the cover are Kestrelfall, Lionkit, Leopardkit, and Tigerkit.