Faintstar

Lineart by Ren | Design by Ren

## Overview

Faintstar is the current ShadowClan leader succeeding Arcanestar.

### Appearance

Faintstar is a russet NB cat with false marbled markings and a white underbelly. Their fluffy tail looks like a feather when viewed from top down. They have green eyes that are a shade between olive and emerald and long white whiskers that droop down.

### Personality

Faintstar is a fairly cautious cat, always careful to not cause drama within their clan. They care deeply about appearances to the other clans, wanting to stay friendly or neutral to the best of their abilities. This extends to themself as well, always wanting to be friendly with other cats rather than have any distain towards them; Only a very select few cats will get their hatred. Despite being friendly, Faint avoids actually getting close to any cat, too afraid of getting feelings for them. They are numb to death but they subconsciously try to avoid having to deal with it by making themself isolated from any personal connections. This extends even to family. The only real exceptions to this now is Arcane and Arsenicblaze.

While they've practically been trained to be an executioner, Faintstar prefers to avoid any battle: Both because of their heart condition which causes them to pass out(or worse) if they use too much energy, but also because they prefer a more pacifistic lifestyle.

## Detailed History

### Early Life

Born to a fairly large litter, Faint spent most of their time as a kit playing with their brothers Bogkit and Swampykit. Due to their heart condition though, they weren't able to keep up with them, which their brothers used to playfully tease them. (Jumping on their back and making them run to the point they got weak). They spent a bit of time in the medicine den because of it, learning more about the clan and life in general.

Faint learned to deal with death fast in life though, as both Bogkit and Swampykit were killed, or at least presumed as such, before they became an apprentice. The litter of 7 became a litter of 5 practically overnight. Faint was of course extremely torn up about it as they were closer to those two than the others. They had to learn to cope with it, and that was the start of a long list of losses in their life..

### Apprenticeship

Faintpaw got the deputy as their mentor, a cat who was at first, a strict but fairly nice cat. They learned from their mentor to not need the medicine cats- When they got cut and scraped from gathering brambles for the clan walls, their mentor made sure they never went to the medicine den. Because of this, they never did learn to be okay with getting treatment. When they were an apprentice, more of their family was killed- Siblings from their litter, siblings from other litters.. They started to get numb to it all. Towards the end of their apprenticeship, their mentor started to get worse, more cruel towards the clan and more unhinged. But Faint stuck with them, it was all they knew after all. Their mentor knew they couldn't fight or hunt like the others so trained them to adapt to it. They learned to patiently fish rather than chase quick prey, they learned to be an executioner and kill as fast as they could rather than draw out prolonged battles. They were being trained to rely on their stealth and how to spy on others, learning to listen to the conversations within the clan and keep track of everyone.. Unknowingly becoming a pawn for the future.