Wisteriastar

> *"Would it be selfish of me to ask you to stay?"* - Wisteriastar, to Fallowstar
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**Wisteriastar** is a tall, thin, dark-lavender furred tortoiseshell she-cat with dark ginger and maroon patches, white cheeks, small white paws and belly, and a long, feathery white tail. She has wide green eyes, and a flecked muzzle.

## History

Wisteriastar was born **Wisteriakit** to Berrybloom and Goldenpetal, two highly esteemed warriors of Rippleclan. She had a brother, Acaciakit, who unfortunately passed away a moon after his birth. Her parents, in their high esteem, held high expectations for her, and often gave her pre-apprenticeship training to help ready her for her apprentice training, showing her gentle training and hunting techniques.

On her sixth moon, she became an apprentice, and Berrybloom requested she be given Stagflight, Squirrelstar's mate, as a mentor to ensure her good training as **Wisteriapaw**. She did her best to live up to her parent's high expectations, however they never truly showed pride in her training. She was a seemingly clumsy apprentice at times, however, she did her best in training, despite their apathetic encouragement. She had a seemingly magnetic and sociable personality, and made friends easily. Her parents insisted, however, that she put her training first, and she did just that, training with apprentices she would rather call friends than just training partners. This led her to grow into a slightly more awkward and quiet molly, not having much of the social experience she could have, had her parents allowed her to make friends.

She was given her warrior name, **Wisteriabud**, as a nod to her parent's names, Goldenpetal and Berrybloom. As she grew older and more independent, she also grew seemingly closer to her parents, as they became prouder and prouder of the cat she had become. Two moons after her warrior ceremony, Berrybloom grew ill with greencough, and passed away. Wracked with grief, Wisteriabud grew closer to Goldenpetal as they grieved her. She was given Pepperpaw as an apprentice two moons after her mother's death, who she lovingly trained for the next six moons until she received her warrior name, Pepperstone.

At 24 moons of age, a fox pack attacked the clan. In the attack, Pepperstone was killed, along with Stagflight, the former deputy. Squirrelstar lost her eighth life, and grew bitter towards her clanmates for the death of her deputy and mate. In her anger and grief, she appointed Wisteriabud as her deputy to spite her clan, assuming Wisteriabud's passive nature would outweigh any corruption in her clan. Goldenpetal, who was fatally wounded, but stayed alive in the medicine den for a few sunrises. He was rightfully proud of his daughter for earning her title as Rippleclan's deputy, but passed away from his injuries two sunrises later.

Wisteriabud stayed deputy for a mere four moons before Squirrelstar lost her final life, taking an apprentice in Walnutpaw along the way. Feeling nervous and unsure of herself and her experience, she visited the Starstone to receive her nine lives. She was greeted by Squirrelstar, to whom she promptly expressed her worries to, but was soon shot down and told to "Grow her own backbone and figure it out herself." Wisteriabud then received her nine lives from the following: Squirrelstar, the life of assertion, Berrybloom, the life of forgiveness, Goldenpetal, the life of judgement, Acaciakit, the life of love, Pepperstone, the life of justice, Stonestar, the life of wrath, Stagflight, the life of dedication, Webstrike, the life of protection, and finally Sorrowstar, the life of determination. She received her leader name, **Wisteriastar**, and returned home.

Wisteriastar attended her first gathering as a leader a few sunrises after receiving her lives. She was worried about being late, and frequently apologized for her posture to the other leaders. Fallowstar introduced her to the other leaders as a leader properly, allowing her a warm welcome to Frogstar and Robinstar, and she quickly seems to warm up to the three. After the gathering, Wisteriastar is seen taking frequent walks to clear her mind, sometimes bringing her apprentice along on her journeys with her. On one of her walks, Fallowstar found her relaxing beside the lake between territories, and decided to join her. Upon admitting that she was worried she was unfit to be a leader, Fallowstar offers to help her if she ever needed it, support in which Wisteriastar was grateful for. Fallowstar later goes back on her word a quarter moon later when she visits Rippleclan to talk to Wisteriastar and see how her clan was fairing, along with the she-cat's confidence.

At her second gathering, Wisteriastar proudly announces that her clan is fairing well. She has friendly chats with the other leaders, happy to hear in turn that their clans were also running just as well. Just before the gathering was about to be called to an end, Bitterclaw stepped forward and declared anarchy, and Wisteriastar is horrified to find one of her own warriors, Frigidstream, joining his rebellion. She demands her cats head home, and she grows anxious at the rising threat of a new rebellion clan. These suspicions were proven true a quartermoon later when Bitterclaw breaks into Rippleclan territory and kills Garlicpaw. Horrified, Wisteriastar runs to Brambleclan to find Fallowstar and ask her for help and guidance, who proposes the four leaders have a leader-exclusive meeting to discuss the situation. Fallowstar also offers a patrol to examine the territories, along with her condolences. Wisteriastar heads home, and once she is finally able to fall asleep, is greeted by the former leaders of Rippleclan with a prophecy :

☀*The nights grow cold and ambition grows with it, Anarchy is set in motion by a claw, Without resistance the forest cats are doomed to fall.*

Wisteriastar, frightened, informs the other leaders of the warning, and they decide to stick together in times of calamity. After the meeting, Wisteriastar grows more and more on edge, and a half a moon later, a patrol of BItterclaw's cats kill Williowwisp, a Rippleclan queen. Bitterclaw then leads his army to Rippleclan for an ambush, and Wisteriastar is forced to defend her clan alone, until Fallowstar brings a patrol to fight beside her. She confronts Bitterclaw, and in a raw fit of anger, fights him with all of her power, but is outmatched. She wills him to fight her, and he obliges, tackling her until he assumes she has lost her first life. He calls his clan to retreat, assuming victory. Fallowstar greets her, and brings her to the medicine den for Silentstorm's attention. She visits again two days later, and Wisteriastar informs her that Starclan had yet to come and take her first life, as she used it recklessly and must now face the consequences. Fallowstar keeps her company, and Wisteriastar realizes how dedicated the molly truly was to her, and thanked Fallowstar for being such a great ally to Rippleclan. Fallowstar grows nervous, and Wisteriastar asks her to stay the night with her - comforting both of the leaders in turn.

## Trivia

-Wisteriastar sounds like Cady Heron from the Mean Girls musical.

-Wisteriastar, while predominately showing interest in only mollies, is actually homoflexible, and has an off chance of falling in love with a tom.

-Wisteriastar is great at swimming, but has never successfully climbed a tree.