Heronflame

> Heronflame's the name!
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> **Heronflame**, Season 1 Filler 0

Art by SwiftAdrift (TH)

**Heronflame** is an orange classic tabby with high degrees of white spotting and fiery golden eyes. She was designed by Aster.

Heronflame is a ParaClan warrior under the leadership of Comfreystar. She was born to Sunslide and Brightblaze as **Heron**. As per ParaClan's rules, she was apprenticed by both Sunslide and Brightblaze, though Sunslide trained her far more often. When she became a warrior, she was given the name **Heronflame**.

Along with 14 others, Heronflame was sent to retrieve Sumire's tooth in Sumire's Blessings season 1. She - along with Larkspring, Doepetal, and Hazlpounce - ran into a forest that caused her vision to be obscured by swirling black smoke. In a ravine, Heronflame was captured by the Nouveau Flame. There, she met Silk, where she grew a quick short-lived crush on the her. While escaping with the rest of her clanmates, she witnessed Turtledove's death. She was about to be caught by the Flames when Fidgetfire saved her. Later, when the ParaClan cats were travelling in the city, Heronflame proposed they walk around the edge. She and some others ran into the Polix, who welcomed them in because of a ghost who told them to take care of them. However, when AlleyClan attacked, Heronflame panicked and killed Rocket. Corviddusk scolded her for it, and she ended up killing him too. Then, in the storm, Heronflame and Forest temporarily worked together in order to not get killed by a half-drowned dog.

## Appearance

*An orange-and-white she-cat with rather long, neatly-groomed fur. Has bright amber eyes.*

Heronflame is an amber classic tabby she-cat with high degrees of white spotting. Her fur is long and silky, swept back to keep it sleek-looking. Suprisingly, her white fur is rarely seen dirtied. She is stocky, yet dainty. She has clean, sleek fur and small paws, but strong-looking legs. She behaves in a peppy manner, preferring to skip rather than walk. However if she is ordered to do anything, she behaves in a serious manner, trying to do it as fast and efficiently as possible. Her left ear has a nick, from when she approached a heron to study it and it ended up attacking her. She bears no other injuries from that incident.

## Personality

One to prove herself, Heronflame can come off as rather desperate for attention and praise. She tends to behave strangely at times, one such time talking and pawing at thin air while lost in a foggy forest of visions.

Otherwise, Heronflame is bold, courageous, excitable, and lawful. She is very eager and obedient, desiring to be the best warrior she can be in the name of Sumire. With a strong aspiration to live up to her parents' expectations, she places the code above all else, so her loyalty can seem unpredictable. However, to those who are close enough to her, she may be willing to break a few rules.. but, no one, including her parents, are close enough for her to do that. To her, morality and goodness are all related to the law. Ones who follow it closely are saints, while ones who even break a single rule are as horrible as those who broke them all. Her confident demeanor mixed with her decently good memory cause her to repeatedly state each and every rule if one is even implied to be broken, which can be pretty annoying.

## Life

### Known Backstory

Sunslide and Brightblaze were two great warriors of ParaClan. But were they compatible? Not in the slightest. Sunslide, despite her name, wouldn't let anything pass by. An opportunist and a courageous fiery spirit with no empathy, she manipulates situations to get the things she wants, like she was taught. Brightblaze on the other had was a contagious smiling beam of light, spreading positivity and joy throughout everyone. He tended to be a little closed-off at times, but when he smiled, the weight on everyone's shoulders was lifted. But he only despised one - Sunslide. However, they were chosen to be mates during the ceremony, and they begrudgingly decided if they wanted a kit, it had to be with the other. When Heron was born, she was named Heron by her dad. Her four other littermates - whom her father had nicknamed Dandelion, Hyacinth, and Falcon - were unfortunately killed as a result of ParaClan's strict laws. However, though her mother assumed Heron knew about her sibling's deaths, her father had actively been covering them up, and claimed she was an only kit. Heron found out she had littermates eventually, of course, but she wasn't too deeply upset. After all, it was the law.

During her life as an apprentice, Sunslide made her work 24/7. She'd clean the nests, hunt prey, patrol the borders, battle train, all that repeatedly for every day. Luckily, her father majorly protested against this, and ensures Heron got at least one break per day. It wasn't like he spent them with her, but he at least cared that much about her health. One day, while her parents were off bickering like they did, she found a heron wandering the small patch of the territory. She wandered right up to it, curiosity getting the better of her. However, the heron attacked her. Luckily, the heron didn't hurt her too much, only nicking her ear before Sunslide interrupted the attack. The memory is vivid, but it isn't all too frightening to her. Additionally, Heronflame does mention that she was friends with her parents and had a frog by the name of "Frog." She, of course, was quite attached to Frog, but Frog didn't like her very much. Frog eventually went missing, and Heronflame was highly distraught for the day. However, she got over it, and doesn't think much about it anymore.

### Season 1

#### Chapter 0 - Leaving the Nest

Heronflame - along with Asterrain, Corviddusk, Spiderbranch, Sunspirit, Lotusfall, Larkspring, and Hazelpounce - tried to convince Gorsedapple to let them go on the journey. This proved to be disastrous, as the multiple cats there only succeeded in annoying Gorsedapple. To convince Skyheart, she, Lotusfall, and Larkspring worked together to act as if they were distressed about not going, guilting her into letting them go. Then, the trio scripted a fake vision for Larkspring to bring to Ebonyfang, which convinced them to let them go.

#### Chapter 1 - Forest Trials

Heronflame was lost in a group with Doepetal, Hazelpounce, and Larkspring. The forest was filled with mist that made it hard to see, but Heronflame could see even less due to the vision-induced black smoke that obscured her line of sight. However, Doepetal was able to see a glowing path out of the forest. They climbed up a cliff and were able to meet up again with the rest of their travelling group.

## Relationships

### Familial

#### Sunslide

ParaClan (Alive) - Female - Warrior - Mom

Heronflame thinks very highly of her mother. After all, her mom was the one that primarily trained her.

#### Brightblaze

ParaClan (Alive) - Male - Warrior - Dad

Heronflame's father was never particularly active in her life, but he did tend to do *some* things on odd days.

### Positive

#### Sunspirit

ParaClan (Alive) - Female - Warrior - Adoptive Sister