Milkweedstar

Milkweedstar was formerly the leader of FallClan. At first, he was regarded as a poor leader, and something of an idiot, but in his later moons, he became much less obnoxious and more... intelligent. That was most likely due to the deaths of two of his kits. After his own death, he was succeeded by Weepingstar.

Name - Milkweedstar

Gender - Tom

Clan - FallClan (formerly), StarClan

Rank - Leader (at death)

Family - Weepingstar (mate), Torrentcall (son), Frostkit and Glorykit (daughters), Wreathwillow (mother), Elkflurry (father), Slatesnap (brother), Ebonydawn (sister)

Friends - I don't know,, I didn't own him

Enemies - I don't know,, I didn't own him

## Appearance and Personality

#### Appearance

Milkweedstar was an albino - pure white with deathberry-red eyes. He was also described as being very tall and slim.

#### Personality

Milkweedstar was somewhat narcissistic and full of himself. He wasn't the brightest, but he truly loved his family and cared about his Clan. He became more serious and less self-centered after the deaths of Glorykit and Frostkit, but he did regain a bit of his old silliness before his death. During his youth, he was much quieter and had low self-esteem, but this changed massively by the time he was an apprentice. He was proud of who he was, and - frankly - he had an ego more than twice the size of his brain. All things considered, though, he was a good dude.

## Backstory

#### Kithood

Milkweedkit was born in FallClan to Wreathwillow alongside Ebonykit and Slatekit. Elkflurry, their father, was an OrchidClan tom. Elkflurry was disgusted by Milkweedkit's albinism, and was ashamed of him, trying to convince him to remain silent at all times and to never involve himself too much in any of his siblings' activities.

He was unable to play around a lot anyways since his skin condition caused him to be very easily burned by the sun. He became friends with Weepingkit eventually, though, because while he was an outcast, she was simply younger and they were able to spend more time together. Weepingkit didn’t care about his albinism. She thought it was neat that he looked “almost like a ghost”, as she put it. Silentkit, who was much younger, developed a crush on Milkweedkit, also thinking that his white fur and red eyes were striking. For the most part, though, he ignored her, and never really interacted much with the younger kits aside from Weepingkit. He, Weepingkit, and his siblings would sometimes play in a small juniper tree outside of the nursery when they had nothing better to do.

Eventually, Weepingkit called out Elkflurry for mistreating Milkweedkit. Wreathwillow took the opportunity to claw her mate across the face, and the two of them broke up. Elkflurry fled FallClan’s camp and stopped visiting after that. Milkweedkit didn’t blame Weepingkit for the incident, and was instead rather impressed at her audacity.

Later that night, Milkweedkit snuck over to the edge of the main island to look at his reflection and see if he was really the hideous monster that Elkflurry had told him he was. When he saw himself, however, he came to understand that *he* thought he was quite beautiful, and he shouldn't let others taint his view of himself. Thus began the age of Narcissusstar.

#### Apprenticeship

Milkweedpaw became an apprentice at six moons old and chilled. He just existed. Wreathwillow found another mate at some point, so he was happy for her. Before he’d been an apprentice for a moon, though, both of his littermates left FallClan. Ebonypaw moved to OrchidClan, presumably to try and reconnect with Elkflurry, and Slatepaw moved to OasisClan. Milkweedpaw probably missed them a bit, but he was content enough.

Once Weepingpaw moved into the apprentices’ den with him, the two of them would have regular meetings with his siblings at the borders whenever they could spare the time. Ebonypaw mentioned on one occasion that Elkflurry “seem(ed) to have disappeared”, implying that he might have left the Clans to avoid further interaction with his kits. Milkweedpaw didn’t seem particularly bothered by this.

He remained close with his siblings and friends with Weepingpaw. He continued to pretty much ignore Silentpaw and her brother Goldenpaw. He might’ve felt bad when Goldenpaw died, but no one really knows. He was developing a bit of a complex, believing and acting as though he were better than everyone else. This worried Weepingpaw, Ebonypaw, and Slatepaw, as this was a similar attitude to their father’s. He was becoming comically full of himself, and this disposition only got worse as he aged.

#### Warrior Life

Milkweedpaw passed his assessment, and Mallowstar named him Milkweedcall. He was still pretty narcissistic and proud, causing Weepingpaw to conspire with Ebonydawn and Slatesnap to find a way to calm him down a bit. He continued meeting with his siblings at the border, but he was losing interest in it, and by the time Weepingbrook had become a warrior, he had pretty much stopped doing it altogether.

Slatesnap and Ebonydawn both found mates and started families early, inspiring Weepingbrook to try and become his mate in an attempt to turn his attention to someone who wasn’t himself. She started flirting a bit with him, and he returned her “feelings”. In the process, she accidentally fell in love with him for real. Good job, Milkweedcall.

   Weepingbrook *did* help a bit with his attitude. She convinced him to meet with Ebonydawn once, but they happened to get ambushed by a loner named Jayhawk. Jayhawk attempted to drown Ebonydawn, but Weepingbrook and Milkweedcall managed to fight her off. Milkweedcall had been reluctant to participate, though, despite the fact that his sister’s life had been put in danger. This gave Weepingbrook the final push she needed, and she asked him to be her mate. He agreed rather casually without putting much thought into it.

Over the course of the next several moons, he and Weepingbrook established more of a true relationship, which was probably good, since... you know... they were mates. He learned to love her, and even put her needs before his own, which was saying a lot for him. She helped a bit with his attitude, and apparently, he was soon shaped into a cat fit to become deputy. So he must’ve gotten an apprentice at some point and successfully trained it. That’s fun to imagine.

After the death of Mallowstar, Ducksun became leader. He never received his new name or nine lives for some reason. He was an idiot. And for some unfathomable reason, he also thought it would be a good idea to make Milkweedcall his deputy. So Milkweedcall became deputy, and he was probably pretty proud of his position. That probably made him the only cat in all of FallClan who was happy about it.

Ducksun had been in charge for less than a moon when he got sick and died. FallClan was then left in Milkweedcall’s paws. He travelled to the Moon Falls with his medicine cat and received his new name and nine lives. Two of them were from Mallowstar and Duckstar, the latter of whom was for some reason a -star despite not technically *being* a -star. It is unknown whether or not he was given lives by Wreathwillow, Elkflurry, Ebonydawn, or Slatesnap, as their fates were never confirmed.

#### Leadership

Milkweedstar was sort of an airheaded idiot for a while. This wasn’t too much of a problem since the Clans had no pressing concerns, but it was somewhat embarrassing for FallClan’s members all the same. Luckily, he appointed Weepingbrook as his deputy, and she was able to keep things under control for the most part.

He didn’t do much for several moons. He was spooked by Strikepaw's crossed eyes once when he and Slipmallow visited FallClan. He attended gatherings and humiliated all of the other leaders. He had a talk with Silentecho in which she admitted to having been in love with him, but he turned her down, and she then left the Clans in despair. He was more confused by that than anything. He was generally just great.

Before long, he and Weepingbrook decided to have kits. When she became pregnant, he was thrilled about it and had her step down from deputy position, moving into the nursery. At her suggestion, he temporarily appointed Permafrost as his deputy, which was good. Permafrost, like Weepingbrook, was also intelligent and capable of running FallClan due to Milkweedstar’s lack of competence.

When his kits were born, though, things went downhill. His two daughters, Frostkit and Glorykit, were stillborn. He and Weepingbrook were devastated. They named their surviving son Torrentkit and vowed to always be there for him. The loss actually served to bring Milkweedstar’s ego down a few notches, and he became much more rational and serious. He actually stopped being an idiot for a bit, amazingly enough.

He was kind of depressed for a little while, but he was able to bond with his son. He and Torrentkit would chase butterflies and stuff together and generally just be cute. Once Torrentpaw became an apprentice, Milkweedstar appointed Permafrost as his mentor and made Weepingbrook his deputy again. Pretty much all was well.

    But then, only a moon later, the plague happened. Due to being an albino and therefore sickly, Milkweedstar was one of the first cats to catch it after it was inadvertently brought to FallClan by Larchflight. He began losing lives quickly. Eelstride and Crystalrock dedicated almost all of their efforts to keeping him alive, resulting in the deaths of Larchflight, Pikenose, and Stepleap. Eelstride ended up dying, too, and Crystalrock was left to save her leader on her own. She did the best she could. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough, and over the course of a long and painful moon, Milkweedstar lost all nine of his lives to the plague.

He joined StarClan’s ranks and reunited with Frostkit and Glorykit, and presumably with the rest of his family as well. He gave Weepingstar one of her lives and most likely regrets not being able to stick around for Torrentcall.

## Other

#### Trivia

* The prefix “Milkweed” is now banned solely because of his legacy. We can never have another Milkweed. We must respect this dude’s memory.
* Weepingstar gave Torrentcall his warrior name in honor of Milkweedstar.
* His creator considered having him be related to Pikenose in some way. The easiest way to have done this would be to make Ebonydawn Pikenose's mother, since Pikenose was said to have been born in OrchidClan. However, this was never confirmed.
* In an art piece made by his creator, the song Johnny Boy by Twenty One Pilots was featured. That song might represent him or something, then.
* Frostkit inherited his genes and was an albino as well.
* He always had trouble with being too exposed to the sunlight, as his albinism caused him to be very easily burned. So... he always had to either stay under shade or be out mainly at night.
* Albinos are also always very sickly, so that explains how the sickness nae-nae'd him so badly. I mean, it’s technically because his creator left. But his albinism can justify it. Hush.

### Leadership Position

Proceeded by: Duckstar

Succeeded by: Weepingstar

### Deputy Position

Proceeded by: Duckstar, again

Succeeded by: Weepingstar, again. Temporarily Permafrost.