Vespidstar

Lineart by Ren | Design by Python

## Overview

Vespidstar is a former power cat with the power of living swarm and the current leader of ThunderClan.

### Appearance

Vespidstar is a pitch black tom with many different yellow and orange highlights. He has an orange band around his neck that forms into a point on his chest. He has a yellow head tuft and his ears are a faded orange and yellow. His paws are  the same orange to yellow fade socks. He has a mix of orange and yellow stripes streaked across the rest of his pelt and tail. He has eerie, amber eyes and two yellow meowbrows. He is missing his right ear and has three claw marks across his chest. He has a few other scattered scars.

### Personality

When he was younger, Vespidstar was previously a mostly reserved and edgy cat. His parents died when he was 3 Moons, leaving him with a skewed opinion on life. He viewed things from a pessimistic standpoint and often wondered why cats can have such strong emotions when he can't manage to find them. He was numb to most emotions other than anger and the occasional hollow sadness in his gut. He had been horrid at putting his feelings into words, even if he wanted to share them. He's set on proving the world he can be stronger than his parents. He honestly believed they were too weak to defend themselves and that's what must have led to their death, not that foxes are that strong. He will do anything to prove his power. When he actually does have free time and isn't practicing his fighting moves, he's exploring. He has an obsession with wasps and bees of any kind, which is fitting for his name and pattern.

These days as leader and before his curses, Vespidstar has overcome some of the obstacles he couldn't as a kit. He has learned empathy and has come such a long way from where he had been. Vespidstar now values each of the members of his clan as if they were his own kin instead of resenting them for having found happiness and joy in their own lives. He takes his job seriously and will do anything to help someone he cares for out. He can still be pretty awkward when it comes to social situations, as he still hasn't learned to truly connect with others despite getting better. He is a very loyal tom with many values and passions that he holds strongly in his heart.

### Former Power

Vespidstinger could break himself into hundreds of hive-minded hornets (and yellow jackets, wasps, etc.). These vespids are capable of standard bites and stings that are normal to what a wasp can deliver. Each hornet thinks the exact same thoughts that Vespidpaw himself is thinking.

Power Details:

Splitting himself into these swarms is incredibly painful. It feels like his body is being ripped apart and then forced back together each time he "splits". The swarm is not able to split off into different groups or do more than one thing at a time. For example, in a bigger fight, he can't pick two cats to "swarm" at the same time. He would only be able to target one and sting one, then switch to the second. He cannot split the swarm in two.

Drawbacks:

The more stingers he implants in another cat, the more he ends up poisoning himself. Most vespids have a slight venom in their stings that normally dissipate after a while. Each time Vespidstinger is to sting a cat with one of these hornets, a bit of the venom stays in himself. He will slowly grow weaker and weaker towards the end of his time with his power until he isn't able to fully function due to the amount of venom he has produced in other cats throughout his time using the power.

## Detailed History

### Kithood

Vespidkit was an average kit, by himself with his parents. Around the age of 3 moons, his parents left camp together to take a walk by themselves, leaving Vespidkit with one of the other queens of the nursery. However, while they were out, they encountered a fox and tried to fight it off together, only to both die, mauled and broken. A patrol found his parents and brought them back to camp for a proper burial, where he was scared for life.