Hollykit

Hollyleaf but dead

Hollykit was a RiverClan kit born as a loner during the Reverse Generations. He was born to Gooseshade and Hailfrost alongside his siblings, Willowkit and Tansykit. He and his siblings were killed by their mother, Hailfrost, and ascended to StarClan, where they haunted Hailfrost's dreams. They also attended her trial that decided if she would be in StarClan or the Dark Forest.

# Appearance

Dark bluish black tom-kit with green eyes.

# History

Willowkit, Hollykit and Tansykit were born to Hailfrost, medicine cat of RiverClan, when she was out of the clan territories. There, Hailfrost made an irreversible choice- To kill her own kits. She had thought of leaving them there to starve, but she thought it was even crueler. She had hoped to find a loner to give her kits to, but she had no luck. So, with great heaviness, she killed the newly born trio after a quarter-moon, after naming them so they would have names in StarClan.

In StarClan, the young kits for a long time didn’t really understand much, just that their mother had killed them, and that was bad. But as they ‘grew up’- mentally, if not physically- they began to understand the truth and the crimes. Even though Willowkit wanted nothing to do with her mother, and Tansykit was too scared, Hollykit was curious, and he often would sit and watch his mother. To him, she never looked like a killer, not like all the other evil cats the other StarClanners watched. She was angry, temperamental, yes, but when you caught her alone… she looked sad. Often, he found himself contemplating her life, and wondering what it would have been to grow up as her kit, or at least in RiverClan. He dreamed, often, of being a warrior named Hollyfrost, after her, of course. He named his siblings Willowfang- for her fierceness- and Tansycloud- for his softness- in his dreams. He dreamed and imagined so much, he often believed his dreams were real, until he woke again and he was the same-aged kit as ever, wondering the grounds of StarClan. Being a kit in StarClan was no easy task- they were often the quickest to fade away, after their parents forgot them or died. Most other spirits didn't like to get attached to the kits.

Hollykit grew to understand and sympathize with Hailfrost’s situation, but it was when she got young Briarpaw as an apprentice that hate grew within him. Hailfrost treated her apprentice like her son, and it made him feel like he had meant nothing- that she really was a heartless killer. So, filled with rage, he and his siblings would haunt and yell at her in her dreams. This went on and on, before Hollykit’s rage slowly waned, and he saw the crying, miserable she-cat in front of him again, saying sorry, truly. But this time he was hardened, and he wouldn’t forgive her. He stopped haunting her, but still watched her.

It was when she was killed, fighting off rogues who had killed her leader and her kits’ half-sister, Waterstar, that Hollykit felt his sympathy for her regrow. When her trail came as to whether she would be let into StarClan or go to the Dark Forest, he was one of the only ones to defend her, although his opinion meant little as a “kit”. His siblings disagreed with him, Willowkit adamantly fighting for her going to the Dark Forest. Her famous words, “The only *good* thing she ever did was give birth to *us*.”

“...But she killed us?”

“*Exactly*.”

As for Tansykit’s reason for her going to the Place of No Stars, he stated, “While it surely couldn’t have been an easy choice, it was a choice she made nevertheless.” Unfortunately for Hollykit, and him constantly saying that Goosestar was far, far worse than her, and that it was his fault, the decision was made- Hailfrost would go to the Dark Forest. After all, once you’ve killed a kit, there’s no going back.

Hollykit would often sit near the Dark Forest border, and once, he even glimpsed his mother before she ran away.

# Fun Facts

* He gave Waterstar one of her lives.
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