Lakestar

> "Where we were born and how we were raised shouldn't define us, or shape our future. We should be able to make our own choices, and base them off of morals and what's right, rather than do what everyone expects us to do." - Lakepaw to Flare
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## Lakestar

### Aliases/Past Names

Charlotte, Lakepaw, Lakedapple, Lakeblossom,

### Affiliation

ShadowClan, WindClan (formerly), None (formerly)

### Immediate Family

Mate: PhoenixSiblings: Sedgestar, Elliot (Adopted)

Kits:

Sons-

Flamekit

Thornkit

Icepaw

Beetlewatcher

Snakekit

Greykit

Stagheart

Buzzardstorm

Spiderseeker

Minkkit

Daughters-

Ashkit

Sunblaze

Petalwing

Tinyspirit (adopted)

Dreamshine

Wasptoes

Ferretbounce

Brookkit

Silentkit

Poppyblaze

Fernkit

Acornspirit

## Physical Description

**Lakestar is** a large, grey tabby purebred Maine Coon with bright green eyes. Her left eye is **blind**ed and has a notable scar running from the **to**p of her left eyelid down to her left shoulder. Arguably the biggest she-cat in the Clans alongside her sister, Sedgestar, Lakestar stands at 17.3 inches, nearly twice the height of smaller warriors in the Clans.

## Personality

Lakestar is caring and motherly, having a strong maternal side and preferring to take care of others in the nursery rather than hunting or fighting. Her kittypet roots did not prevent her from being fiercely loyal to her chosen Clan, WindClan, and her current clan, ShadowClan. Although she can be hot-headed at times. This can cause her to be standoffish and harsh unintentionally when she is in a bad mood. Lakestar suffers from Post Natal Depression. As she got older, she kept her intelligence and wits, but is less likely to interact with several cats.

## Skills and Weaknesses

Lakestar shows great **empathy,** understanding other's **emotions** easily**, and** can use her size to her advantage in battle. However, her hot temper can get in the way of her **judgement**, and she's a bit slower than her former clanmates, due to her size, but is still faster than the average cat**.** She doesn't take orders too well, if she believes what she is doing is right. Lakestar isn't highly skilled in battle, having preferred to stay in the nursery over fighting.

## Life

### Kithood

Charlotte was born and raised a kittypet. She lived with her sister, Rachel, in a decent sized home, and was well cared for. She had an adopted older brother, Elliot, and lived a pretty peaceful life until she met Poppyflower, Wolfstar, and Furstar. All three were searching for Wolfstar and Poppyflower's kit, Willowkit, at the time. This encounter gave her the idea of joining the Clans, WindClan in particular. A few moons later, she met a rouge tom named Flare, who was on the run. In the process of helping Flare hide, Rachel spotted them and proceeded to jump onto Flare and crush him right after he started insulting Elliot, although this did not seriously injure Flare.

### Apprenticeship

When Charlotte left the Twolegplace she was about 14 moons, and it was right after the suicide of Elliot, who threw himself into a lake within RiverClan territory. However, she didn't let that hold her back, and she, her sister, their new friend Curious, and Flare all headed out to see if WindClan would accept them. A loner, Fern, was also doing the same. When it came to her apprentice naming ceremony, Charlotte requested the name "Lakepaw" to honor her dead brother and keep him in memory, along with naming herself after Wolfstar, and partially Poppyflower. Her mentor was Palefur, a relatively young warrior. Her sister, Rachel, received the name Sedgepaw, and was given Gorseheart as a mentor. Flare requested to keep his name, unsure if he would join or not, with the deputy Mudsplash as a mentor, and Fern was given the name Nutmegpaw with Buzzardstripe for a mentor. Throughout this time, Lakepaw trained hard to prove her worth as a WindClan cat, and earned the name Lakedapple at 18 moons of age.

### Adult Life

Not too long after Lakedapple received her name alongside her sister, Sedgeflower, and her friends, Nutmegseed and Lionstorm (Flare), there was a flood that hit the Clans. Lakedapple, alongside Sedgeflower, Mudsplash, and the spitfire apprentice Dreampaw, were separated from the Clan, all trying to save each other from the rushing waters. They ended up having to take shelter in No Clans' Land, where Sedgeflower and Dreampaw got attacked by rats. Mudsplash decided to leave them to find the Clan and send a search patrol, and Lakedapple discovered that she was expecting Lionstorm's kits, despite not being official mates. When Lakedapple finally had enough courage to tell Sedgeflower about the kits, Sedgeflower freaked out and ran off. Dreampaw and Lakedapple had to search for Sedgeflower, and by the time they got there, Lakedapple's kits were coming. Sedgeflower proceeded to abandon Lakedapple and Dreampaw followed Sedgeflower, leaving Lakedapple alone as she had her kits. Three of her four kits died, leaving only one, who she named Sunkit, alive.

Two moons passed, and a patrol consisting of Whisperstar, Falconstorm, Gorseheart, and Breezepaw had come into No Clans' Land to find their missing Clanmates. That's when a badger attacked, causing Lakedapple to lose sight in her left eye, along with receiving a scar. Whisperstar ended up losing a life in the battle that ensued right after Sedgeflower came back to help. When returning to the clans, in the barn that WindClan took shelter in, Sedgeflower and Lionstorm quickly got into a fight. This led to Lakedapple threatening Lionstorm with leaving him entirely and taking Sunkit with her if he acted out and fought her sister again. A few moons had passed, and WindClan was back in their camp, rebuilding. Sunkit became Sunpaw, and was given Falconstorm as a mentor. By this time, Lakedapple was expecting her next litter.

Lakedapple and her sister, Sedgeflower, decided to take a visit to the Twolegplace to find catmint to help Daisybreeze's dwindling supplies. In the process of this, Sedgeflower was captured by Twolegs and Lakedapple escaped back into a nearby garden, thinking her sister was following her. When she looked back, she saw Sedgeflower being carried into the Twoleg den beyond the point of being rescued. When Sedgeflower returned to WindClan, within a few sunrises after her capture, Lakedapple was the first to rush and greet her sister. Sedgeflower broke down into tears, telling Lakedapple that she suspected that she would have to move into the nursery, and she was right. Sedgeflower was expecting an unknown kittypet tom's kits, and Lakedapple had offered to help, knowing by this point about her own oncoming litter. Lakedapple had a daughter, Petalkit, and a son, Icekit. Within the same day, Sedgeflower had her two sons, Featherkit and Galekit. A few moons after their birth, Lakedapple had decided to tell Lionstorm that it was time to take a break from whatever relationship they had going on, which caused a series of prolonged fights. During these fights, Lakedapple admitted to hating having her kits with Lionstorm because they were not official mates and let her temper take over her in many ways. When Lionstorm became deputy, Lakedapple was furious. Sedgeflower had to cover up the rift between the two by lying to the kits that nothing was wrong with Lakedapple and Lionstorm, which Lakedapple regretted immensely later on. These fights went on until the kits were apprentices, in which the two made up. Lionstorm had woken Lakedapple up in the middle of the night, brought her to a winter jasmine, and asked Lakedapple to be his mate, to which she replied yes. About a moon passed, and Icepaw was hit by a monster.

After the death of Icepaw, it was quiet for a bit, up until the point that Whisperstar died from food poisoning, and her nephew- who she helped raised like her own son- Feathergorse, died of greencough. Her daughter Petalpaw and her other nephew- Galepaw both received their warrior names, Petalwing and Galewind, however Petalwing lived only long enough to briefly meet Lakedapple's new litter that would consist of Waspkit, Dreamkit, Ferretkit, and Beetlekit. By this point, her eldest living kit, Sunblaze, had gone missing in No-Clan's Land, and a war was brewing in Riverclan.

Lakedapple also had a fourth litter, consisting of three kits, in which two, Greykit and Snakekit, both died, leaving her with Stagkit, who she would soon find to be a curious, loving soul. She was also raising Galewind's kits- Featherkit and Amberkit- born by a forbidden love in which the mother died.

However, she could not be at peace for too long. Four moons after Stagkit's birth, Galewind, her nephew, was blinded by a traitor within WindClan. Out of guilt for not being there for her nephew, Lakedapple remained quiet, and reserved, often acting suspicious unintentionally. She was caught off-guard one day by her daughter, Wasppaw, when she started to accuse Lakedapple of blinding Galewind. Lakedapple continuously tried to explain herself, but her daughter kept talking over her, to the point that Lakedapple would keep quiet- up until the point where a fight nearly broke out- due to Lakedapple being too stubborn to deny the false claims. Because of this, she was exiled from WindClan by her mate, Lionstar. Without saying much of a goodbye, Lakedapple dashed off to the Twolegplace, the only place she knew to go to.

Upon arriving at the Twolegplace, Lakedapple changed her name back to Charlotte, and started living as a kittypet again. She moved into an old kithood friend of hers house- Archie, while she looked for her own twolegs again. At this point, she had a brief reunion with her son, Beetlepaw, who insisted that he'd find the traitor and help her come back home. Sunblaze and Wasppaw came along scarcely a quartermoon later, insisting for Charlotte to come back to WindClan. Charlotte, however, furious with Wasppaw for her accusations, ignored her and convinced Sunblaze to live with her- because Sunblaze sent herself into an exile. About another half moon passed, and Furstar showed up in the twolegplace, looking for Raindash. In the process of this, the two met up once again, and Furstar invited Charlotte and Sunblaze to join her in ShadowClan, and Charlotte agreed- under the condition that she could have a suffix change, and be able to remain a stationary queen. Furstar allowed this, changing her suffix to 'blossom' and promptly took the duo to ShadowClan.

Now named Lakeblossom, she did her best to gain a little bit of trust, but kept to herself mostly. While in ShadowClan, she regretfully discovered that she was expecting Lionstar's kits again. Desperate to cut ties with the clan that exiled her of false accusations, Lakeblossom went to the gathering, and lied about the father of her kits. She told Lionstar that she was expecting Archie's kits- when she was in fact expecting Lionstar's. Lionstar, furious that his mate had 'moved on' so quickly already- and was having kits with another tom, proceeded to get into a heated argument with Lakeblossom- twice- which ended the gathering early. When Lakeblossom got back to camp, regret overflowed within her, and she started to have a small meltdown.

Eventually, Lakeblossom had her kits. The litter consisted of four kits, Brookkit, Silentkit, Poppykit, and Buzzardkit. Two of her four kits, Brookkit and Silentkit, died shortly after birth, sending Lakeblossom into another state of a minor depression, that had arisen from her first. Because of this, she was distant, and unable to bond with her son, Buzzardkit, and remaining daughter, Poppykit, the way most mothers would.

By the time her kits were around 2-3 moons old, Lake had gotten into another fight with Lionstar, in which her son, Buzzardkit, ran away to join his father (which was a guarded secret until the fight, that Buzzard witnessed), and was promptly chased down by ShadowClan, and forced to rejoin ShadowClan until apprenticehood. By 6 moons, Buzzardkit left and joined WindClan, leaving Lakeblossom with just the newly named Poppypaw.

A few moons into Poppypaw's apprenticeship, Lakeblossom was named the ShadowClan deputy, and given her second apprentice, Thornpaw, the son of Beechtalon and Flamehawk. Nearing the end of Poppypaw's apprenticeship, The great fire happened, which forced the clans to move territories. This triggered the events of Poppypaw leaving ShadowClan for WindClan, and becoming Poppyblaze, and Lake requesting Thornpaw's name early, because of his excellence demonstrated throughout training, and how he gathered ShadowClan well when the fire started. Thornpaw was then named Thorncall.

Finally, the clans made it to their new territory. Lakeblossom finally started making amends with her family, almost completely, and was given her fourth apprentice once the clans had settled, Lilypaw, after her third apprentice, Brackenpaw (Wicked) ran away from the clans.

Eventually, within a couple moons of living in the new territories, Furstar tragically fell to her death. Lakeblossom refused to receive her nine lives for nearly a moon, but named Ivybrach her deputy. Lakeblossom was also expecting her sixth litter around this time, much to her joy and disappointment. She'd have to raise another litter without their father.

When Lakestar received her nine lives, it was as followed:

Stagheart- The life of Acceptance

Elliot- The life of Perseverance

Raindash- The life of Forgiveness

Mudstar- The life of Determination

Beechtalon- The life of Fair Judgement

Poppyflower- The life of Compassion

Wolfstar- The life of Joy

Nutmegseed- The life of Hope

Furstar- The life of Loyalty to one's own clan

Later, Lakestar had her final litter of kits. The birth was hard on her, and she lost a life to it, although the clan never found out, and three of her four kits passed away as well. Life continued on, Lakestar named a few warriors, and took on another apprentice, Brokenpaw. However, behind her back, a rebellion was brewing. Crowbite, a cat she had exiled, Fuyu, an apprentice she exiled for the murder of a kit, and Cedarsoul, one of her own warriors, were planning to take over. And when Acornkit became Acornpaw, they did. Lakestar and a few of her followers escaped with their lives, and had to flee to WindClan, and regather themselves, so that Lakestar could take her clan back. At the end, Lakestar killed Crowbite by ripping out his throat.

A bunch of stuff happened, but it was pretty chill. She found her lost son, who became Spiderseeker (and died after getting his name), Acornpaw became Acornspirit, Brokenpaw became Brokerose.

Then she had to exile Brokenrose for torturing and branding a clanmate.

A few moons after exiling Brokenrose, TC and SC got into a war.

Brokenrose came back. But in the process of the war, Lakestar's deputy, Ivybranch was killed by Rooktalon of ThunderClan. Her son, Beetlewatcher, was named deputy after him.

## Friends and Family

Sedgestar - StarClan, she-cat, Leader, sister

Phoenix - StarClan, tom, honorary warrior, mate

Nutmegseed - StarClan, she-cat, warrior, best friend

Elliot - Tom, StarClan, adopted brother

Furstar - StarClan, she-cat, leader, close friend

Sunblaze - StarClan, she-cat, warrior, daughter

Flamekit - StarClan, tom, kit, son

Ashkit - StarClan, she-cat, kit, daughter

Thornkit - StarClan, tom, kit, son

Petalwing - StarClan, she-cat, warrior, daughter

Icepaw - StarClan, tom, apprentice, son

Dreamshine - StarClan, she-cat, warrior, daughter

Ferretbounce - StarClan, she-cat, warrior, daughter

Wasptoes - WindClan, she-cat, warrior, daughter

Beetlewatcher - ShadowClan, tom, deputy, son

Stagheart - StarClan, tom, warrior, son

Graykit - StarClan, tom, kit, son

Snakekit - StarClan, tom, kit, son

Poppyblaze - WindClan, she-cat, warrior, daughter

Brookkit - StarClan, she-cat, kit, daughter

Silentkit - StarClan, she-cat, kit, daughter

Buzzardstorm - ShadowClan, tom, warrior, son

Emberstar - StarClan, she-cat, leader, close friend

Swiftkit - StarClan, she-cat, kit, adopted daughter

Tinyspirit - StarClan, she-cat, warrior, adopted daughter

Ambercall - StarClan, she-cat, apprentice, foster daughter/niece

Hazelrose - StarClan, she-cat, warrior, friend

Echofeather - StarClan, she-cat, warrior, former apprentice, friend

Raindash - StarClan, she-cat, warrior, bestfriend

Thorncall - StarClan, tom, warrior, former apprentice, friend.

Ivybranch - StarClan, NB (tom), deputy, friend

Cherrydust - ShadowClan, NB, warrior, adopted kin

Several other unnamed cats

## Notable Quotes

"Where we were born and how we were raised shouldn't define us, or shape our future. We should be able to make our own choices, and base them off of morals and what's right, rather than do what everyone expects us to do." - Lakepaw to Flare

"Galewind, you don't need to miss having a father. Besides, I don't think he was a good cat anyways, from what your mother says. And you have Lionstorm who helped you. No need to miss a cat who wasn't involved in your life." - Lakedapple to Galewind, when he mentions missing his father.

"You don't need to thank me for only speaking the truth."

"I wouldn't know. Maybe the same as growing up in one household, then being moved to another as a kittypet. I'd imagine that's how it feels like. But switching homes, temporary or not, is never easy."

"Why stay somewhere, where even if I tell the truth, it would be seen as a lie?" Lakeblossom to Wasptoes

"But not all actions are truthful"

(more to eventually come)