Copperhawk

Designed By SLTWaffles

## **Overview**

**Copperhawk** is a former deputy of RiverClan, and had served under **Waterstar** and **Fangstorm** (for a brief period of time), and later on a senior warrior under **Newtstar,** **Thawstar**, and **Moraystar**.

### **Appearance**

Copperhawk is a short, but broad shouldered off-white tom. He has dark chocolate brown patches, brown legs, ears, and muzzle. He has brilliant golden eyes, 2 scars on his left front leg, a nick in his right ear, and a long and lanky frame. After a brief brush with some fire, his left cheek and a small portion of his forehead is burned away.

### **Personality**

Copperhawk was always quiet and level-headed. A very resourceful child, he's good at escaping any situation, with words or claws. As he grew older, he started to exude more of a California surfer vibe to him, with a calm or chilled out look on his face often.

## **Detailed History**

### **Early Life**

Copperhawk was born the youngest of 3 siblings as **Copperkit** to **Honeyfrost** and Fangstorm in the old territories. He enjoyed a normal apprenticeship and life, only experiencing sadness when he learned **Rippleshade** had died sometime afer he (Copperhawk) became a warrior.

### **Warrior Life**

#### **Whitestar's Occupation**

Copperhawk made it through the storm. He made his mother run away from home so she was safe from **Whitestar's** clutches, and even started to fall in love with one of Whitefrost's supporters, **Larksong**. He ran away with her when Whitefrost died and left to his new camp. Larksong later made him return to Riverclan after Whitestar killed **Hazygaze** and **Shiningheart**. It is presumed that she is now dead. Her loss was something Copperhawk would never forget.

#### **Territory Change**

He journeyed with his family to the new territories, but soon after the move, he was cast out of Riverclan by **Icestar** for joining Whitefrost. He lived as a loner for a few moons, before he watched his mother die from a fox, and he was permitted to returned to Riverclan, as it was his mother's dying wish to see him safe. Icestar welcomed him back home, and he started to develop feelings for another she-cat, **Dawnwing**. Soon after Icestar vanished, he was named Waterstar's Deputy.

### **Deputy Life**

#### **Learning The Ropes**

Fought **Confession** during the fight with Bloodclan with Dawnwing. She later friendzoned him, which he took in stride, but doesn't really talk to her anymore. He's not even sure she wants to talk to him anymore.

#### **Lunarstar's Takeover**

Copperhawk didn't really care all that much when **Lunarstar** took over, but he didn't very much taking kindly to having her as a step-mother. He is close to one of his half-sisters, **Lightstorm**. When his father died, he didn't really seemed to care much, and was thouroughly pleased to see Lunarstar die. He rekindled his friendship with Dawnwing, who told him she was in a relationship with **Graysky**, a Thunderclan warrior, but he respected her choice, having dealt with love before and knowing it can make you do some crazy things.

### **Return to Normalcy and Demotion**

Some time after Lunarstar's reign was ended, Copperhawk was visited in a dream by Whitefrost, his former leader. Whitefrost told Copperhawk of Larksong's survival, and sent him off on a journey to find her. Copperhawk said his farewells to Dawnwing and the clan, vowing to return with Larksong. He found a Twoleg dock, and managed to sneak on board a boat which took him across the sea. He managed to find the old lands, which had been devastated by the nuclear events that had taken place. After hours of searching, he came across Larksong, successfully rescuing her and returning her to Riverclan.
At some point, he saved Dawnwing from a fox, but she went into a coma as a result. He was with her when she came out of it. Later, he again saved Dawnwing from a small brush fire, burning part of his face off in the process. Copperhawk later stepped down as RiverClan Deputy, much to everyone's shock.

#### **Leaving the Island**

Copperhawk mildly enjoyed his switch back to warrior life, as it gave him more time to be around Larksong, but he still missed it sometimes. Copperhawk and Larksong travelled with the clans to the new territories. During the journey, Newtstar and **Mudfoot** had fallen off the lower bridge. Copperhawk, being the daring young tom he used to be, stepped up and attempted to save both from certain doom. While he had a few close calls, he saved both. He and Larksong survived the journey, and she surprised him with news that they were finally going to be parents.

Copperhawk enjoyed the territory change. Soon after they had gotten settled, during a conversation he was having with a kit, Larksong told him she was having pains in her stomach. After she went to the nursery, someone else in the medicine den came out to find him. He told Copperhawk Larksong was in labor, and they needed him there immediately. It was a long and difficult labor, but in the end Larksong and Copperhawk had 3 children, 2 daughters and a son, whom they named **Icekit**, **Ripplekit**, and **Honeykit**. Unfortunately, Icekit was pronounced as stillborn as a result of the difficult birth, and Larksong was told that another litter would possibly kill her. The two were devastated, but determined to give the few kits they could all the love and attention they needed.

After the fight with ThunderClan alongside the Tribe, Copperhawk was approached by Newtstar, who said he was a very vigilant fighter. They chatted for a few moments about Copperhawk's two children, before Newtstar asked him if he wanted to become a senior warrior. Copperhawk at first thought Newtstar was going to ask him to be deputy again, but was very relieved. He said yes.

### **Senior Warrior Life**

Copperhawk's age, like it did when he was a young deputy, served him well as a senior warrior. Being such an experienced warrior, he was often being called on by others around him, like Thawspring and his half-brother **Duskwatcher**, for advice.

#### **Mentoring a Deputy**

One day, Copperhawk was gathering for a clan meeting, unsure of what would happen. As it turned out, Newtstar was very publicly outing out his son, the current deputy Thawspring, for cheating on his mate, **Snowdapple**, even before their children were born. Thawspring was temporarily demoted to an apprentice, and as he was one of Newtstar's most trusted warriors, Copperhawk was chosen to mentor him, something Copperhawk was surprised and confused to hear.

Copperhawk took to training the young deputy in stride, feeling very at ease when he did so. Training the young tom seemed very weird at times, but it was mostly smooth sailing. Some time after the final battle with StormClan, Copperhawk and Dawnwing were patrolling near the SkyClan border when they were attacked by two SkyClan cats, **Blackfeather** and **Fangblaze**. The small skirmish ended when Copperhawk knocked out Fangblaze and ganged up on Blackfeather.

Sometime later, **Cloverdove** was stolen by SkyClan and brainwashed to believe she was someone else named Morningflight. Despite Newtstar's attempts to reason with **Auburnstar**, the SkyClan dictator would not budge on the matter. In response, Newtstar led a raid against SkyClan, during which Copperhawk was a member of the raiding party. His job was quite simple; capture one of Auburnstar's most trusted warriors, Blackfeather, which Copperhawk succeeded in doing.

#### **Newtstar's Coma**

Copperhawk was one of the few who was constantly monitoring Newtstar's condition after he entered his coma, and often showed extreme worry about his leader's condition, an emotion he rarely showed. Sometime afterwards, he was involved in a border skirmish with another RiverClan warrior and 2 WindClan warriors. During the encounter, he contracted whitecough from one of the warriors, and as such, immediately went into quarantine, telling only Larksong. He retreated to an abandoned den on the edge of the territory, but due to his lack of treatment from anyone, his condition worsened into greencough. Delirious, he collapsed into a stream of water and would've surely drowned to death.....

If not for a loner nearby named **Cream** **Cheese**. She brought him back to her her den, and used her prowess of herbs to help him recover. When he woke up, he was shocked to discover that Cream Cheese was an exact copy of his mother Honeyfrost. She explained that she was a reincarnation of his mother, and both were happy to be reunited. The two bantered for a few minutes, before Cream Cheese gave him more herbs, and put him to sleep so he could recover. Copperhawk quickly recovered, and returned to RiverClan without Cream Cheese, who was adamant that she remain a loner. It would be the last time they see each other. He took on two apprentices, **Spotpaw**, Thawspring's adopted son, and **Woollypaw**, one of his step-nephews.

#### **The Lunarstar Paradox**

During the later stages of Newtstar's time as leader, he became increasingly paranoid that Lunarstar would come back and enact her revenge on him. Copperhawk, being the dutiful senior warrior he was, stood by Newtstar in his mission (as he despised Lunarstar, possibly more so than Newtstar did). Towards the end, seeing his apprentice Woollypaw be imprisoned made Copperhawk question Newtstar for one of the first few times in his life. He eventually came to the conclusion that it was better to hate the sinner, not the sinner's offspring. He cleared up his thoughts on it by the time Thawspring returned from his exile. Happy to see his friend return home, Copperhawk looked forward to another era of RiverClan; the Era of **Thawstar**.

### **Era of Thawstar**

#### **LostClan**

Copperhawk continued to serve RiverClan as a senior warrior for the next few moons. He attended the Gathering where LostClan made their presence known. Copperhawk interacted with one or two of the foreign warriors, before returning home. Once home, he had to somewhat sooth the fear of one warrior, **Quakefeather**, that LostClan was actually Dark Forest warriors in disguise. He also took on another apprentice, named **Shiningpaw**. Unknown to Copperhawk (but he suspected) that she was the reincarnation of an old friend, Shiningheart, Icestar's mate who died by Whitefrost.

Copperhawk went with Thawstar for the daylight Gathering with LostClan, and was curious as to see what their camp was like. Arriving at the camp to find its inhabitants massacred, the senior warrior was very confused, especially by the giant shadow monster that had been the perpetrator of the massacre. While everyone else was wary and aggressive towards the monster, Copperhawk dared to ask if it was friendly, as it had only killed the LostClanners, and not the patrol. The monster introduced itself as **Tenebris**, the Spirit of Balance that dictated and combated serious wrongdoing. It explained that **Wolfcrescent**, LostClan's medicine cat, was guided by a Dark Forest warrior named **Draconis**, who brought the clan there for evil reasons. Copperhawk then watched it allow some of the gathered Clanners save LostClanners, at the cost of their own lives, including one of Thawstar's. He then returned to RiverClan with Thawstar and their saved LostClanner.

### **Era of Moraystar**

Thawstar stepped down, wanting to spend life in peace. He deputy, Moraystride, took his place as leader. Remaining as his only senior warrior

#### **A Strange World**

At some point, Moraystar died to a badger while protecting **Sightserpent**, the current medicine cat. His next life was not plesent, which cursed him to have hallucinations constantly. Copperhawk noticed his behavior, and just simply ignored it for the most part, choosing to focus on helping the clan rather than figure out whatever was happening with Moraystar.

Eventually, tragedy struck when **Mimosa**, leader of BloodClan, challenged Moraystar for leadership of RiverClan. The two had an epic fight, before Moraystar almost killed Mimosa. Stepping in to help Mimosa, Sightserpent summoned the powers of StarClan, causing a massive pillar of ice to stab Moraystar and kill him. Sightserpent, however, endured a serious back injury in the fight. As the fight ensued, Copperhawk worked with **Aspenwaters**, the current deputy, in mantaining crowd control and keeping the warriors away from the fight.

Soon after that, Copperhawk attended a Gathering that was unlike the rest. Despite no longer being on his curse life, Moraystar was still acting strangely, so much so that he decided to skip the Gathering on a whim. Going to the Gathering, Copperhawk watched in stunned horror as **Dreamstar**, Quietstar, and **Timberstar** began to get into an argument, which eventually ended with Quietstar killing Dreamstar in a rather violent fashion, by throwing him off the Hightree. Slowly becoming annoyed by how Moraystar had been treating Aspenwaters at the moment, Copperhawk started to side with the deputy more so than the leader.

Copperhawk then participated in the fight against SkyClan, which RiverClan would go on to win. Barely celebrating the 'victory', Copperhawk's annoyance at what Moraystar was doing began to become apparent. Willingly defying Moraystar's orders to kill any warriors found near the border, the older warrior briefly contemplated leaving RiverClan, but before he could make a decision, everything seemingly returned to normal.