Dogbanethorn

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**Dogbanethorn** is a long-furred dilute tortoiseshell biologically male cat with amber eyes and a scarred pelt.
**Dogbanethorn** was born to Brackensnap and Viperstrike. They have served under Valleystar's and Dawnstar's reigns. When only an apprentice, at the time a Sentinel under the care of Blizzardclaw, Dogbanethorn was mauled by dogs after straying into the territory of Farseer's Mantle, permanently disfiguring the tom and leaving him tasked with a new role as a Tunneler for an unknown reason. He was reassigned to a cat named Harefrolic as his new mentor. He proceeded to take part in the badger attack that claimed his former mentors life.

## Relations

Crush: TBD

Friendships: Snowthistle, Velvetkit, Pansykit, Snakeback

Enemies: TBD

Mentors: Blizzardclaw. Harefrolic

Apprentices: Spotpaw

## Interests

*Likes*

*Updated*

Dogbanethorn loves a good share of competition and exploration. They enjoy spending time with close friends and loved ones. They also like going on patrols, even though they're often not chosen for them. They often enjoy sharing tongues, keeping their own pelt clean, and, on occasion, helping groom kits. They have a particular fondness towards kits, of which they themselves can't explain, loving to play little games with them like moss ball. They love showing off their scars and other wounds from the dog attack, describing the story, of course it's a bit skewed to make them seem 'cooler'. Kits don’t usually ask deep questions on the matter, so it doesn’t bother them. Besides that, they love to get into Cloverpool’s mischievous antics or meeting new cats (as long as their friendly, that is). They adore spending time with any sentinels willing tolerate them, often asking to be taught any new fighting tactics they’ve learned or asking to be taught certain moves they might find difficult. They, particularly, enjoy spending time with Snakeback, Harefrolic, and Blizzardclaw (when the Tom was alive). Doesn’t matter what they’re up to, it simply appreciates sending them with them.

*Former*

Dogbanethorn loves a good share of competition and exploration. They enjoy spending time with close friends and loved ones. They also like going on patrols, even though they're often not choosen for them. They often enjoy sharing tongues, keeping their own pelt clean, and, on occasion, helping groom kits. They have a particular fondenss towards kits, of which they themselves can't explain, loving to play little games with them like moss ball. They love showing off their scars and other wounds from the dog attack, discribing the story, of course it's a bit skewed to make them seem 'cooler'.

*Dislikes*

*Updated*

They dislike the fact that their often not allowed on patrols. It also dislikes getting their pelt too dirty. A little mud and dirt never hurts anyone but after a point, it annoys them after a certain extent. Dogbanethron dislikes when cats ask sensitive questions about the dog attack or when they think it’s a good idea to go picking at their wounds, with the exception of some of the medicine cats and nurse. They cannot stand to be in the same area as their parents, bitter about them not caring for them or Snakeback.

*Former*

They dislike the fact that their often not allowed on patrols. It also dislikes getting their pelt too dirty. A little mud and dirt never hurts anyone but after a point, it annoys them after a certain point.

## Skills/Faults

*Skills*

*Updated*

Dogbanethorn has large, powerful paws and tail, making them to a great swimmer. Their grey and pale ginger pelt often helps them hide among the undergrowth in the Eastern and Western forests. Their pelt being so well-kept and silky often means it’s unlikely for the feline to get objects tangled in their fur, like branches, leaves, and other debris. They’re willingness to toss themselves into danger for others makes them a good asset to have on patrols if something potentially life threatening is to come up. Such as a fox or coyote, or even something as small as an aggressive hare. They’re amazing skill in the tunnels and great vision in the dark makes them an excellent guide in late evenings or for navigating the tunnels. They have a mental map of the territory engraved into their mind, able to easily identify landmarks and figure out where they are based on small details some may overlook. Dogabanethorn chooses to laugh in the face of danger or death, making them quite fearless, in a sense with one major downside.

*Former*

Dogbanethorn has large, powerful paws and tail, making them to a great swimmer. Their grey and pale ginger pelt often helps them hide among the undergrowth in the Eastern and Western forests. Their pelt being so well-kept and silky often means it’s unlikely for the feline to get objects tangled in their fur, like branches, leaves, and other debris.

*Faults*

*Updated*

This feline’s reckless behavior often leads into into trouble. Such behavior include their arrogance and spitefulness. Their impulsive behavior, coupled with their immaturity, tends to make them often overlooked. It’s soft, well kept fur is easy to claw through. The kinks in their tail are incredibly sensitive. This moved the wrong way, it'll leave them in extreme pain. In the face on danger with a dog, of any size, will leave them in fear, often leading to a panic attack, long before the dog reaches them. They’ll often freeze In place, unable to move or fight. Just stunned in fear. This reaction applies to anything that brings them fear. With dogs in particular, even hearing of one on the territory will cause them to confine itself to camp, with their tail constantly caught between their paws.

*Former*

This feline’s reckless behavior often leads into into trouble. Such behavior include their arrogance and spitefulness. Their impulsive behavior, coupled with their immaturity, tends to make them often overlooked. It’s soft, well kept fur is easy to claw through. The kinks in their tail are incredibly sensitive. This moved the wrong way, it'll leave them in extreme pain.

## Personality

*Updated*

Dogbanethorn is energetic and rather oblivious. The feline tends to have issues reading the room and misjudging the gravity of a situation unless it's quite obvious or explained to them. For the most part, they are immature with a spiteful attitude. They’ll actively hold bets against other cats, often going to extremes to prove them wrong. This can be as small as putting a thorn in some cat’s nest to treading on dangerous territories. Despite this they're strangely optimistic, always looking for good outcomes. They try not to dwell on the downsides, looking toward the light, praying to StarClan for the best outcomes in life. This seems they enjoy to live in the moment, not missing an opportunity to do something they haven’t already, say swimming, climbing trees, or chasing off foxes. Though, they tend to act on impulse than thought most times, something that occasionally comes to their own detriment. It’ll actively toss themselves into dangerous situations, and upon questioning, seems accepting of th idea of severe injury or death, as long as it can have the time of their life. It never feels remorse for their reckless actions, as long as they don’t result in harm to another cat. It’s confident and comfortable with themselves, not willing to change themselves to suit other cats. They don't like it? They can deal with it. This also means they're a little arrogant, overestimating their own abilities, which again, occasionally comes to their own detriment. It’ll overestimate their skills before tossing themselves into trouble. The only goal in their life anymore is to live it to it’s best, often sending time with cats who’ll accompany them in their antics. They’ll often hold their friends and kin to this, often encouraging them to take risks and to live their best life, no matter what other cats say. It’s happy to take the blame if anything goes wrong as long as others are willing to risk themselves as Dogbanethron does itself. It does care deeply for it’s clan mates, though, willing to risk themselves before others, unless a dog is involved. They’ll risk their own life before the lives of others.

*Former*

Dogbanethorn is energetic and rather oblivious. The feline tends to have issues reading the room and misjudging the gravity of a situation unless it's quite obvious or explained to them. For the nost part, their immature with a spiteful attitude. Despite this they're strangely optimistic, always looking for good outcomes. It tends to act on impulse than thought most times, something that occasionally comes to their own detriment. They're confident and comfortable with themselves, not willing to change themselves to suit other cats. They don't like it? They can deal with it. This also means they're a little arrogant, overestimating their own abilities, which again, occasionally comes to their own detriment. It's surprising supportive of cats they care about, often pushing them to do their best.

## Detailed History

*Dawnstar's Reign*

**Moon 2**

His debut is in the tunnels of the Wildflower Thicket, where he interacts with Snowthistle for the first time since the latter had joined the clan. The pair are friendly and playful with one another, and Dogbanethorn offers up information about his past to Snowthistle, who sympathizes with him.

## Detailed Appearance

*Updated*

Dogbanethorn is well built feline, with a diluted tortieshell pelt. They're lean, with large paws, prime for digging. Dogbanethorn's pelt has scattered bits of pale ginger all over. Most of it can be found on their chest, cheeks, and scattered across its left shoulder, down their back and across their head, and on some of its toes. They have striking, yellow-orange eyes that glow a florescent yellow in direct sunlight. The skin across his body is mottled, being a mixture of gray, dull pink, and black beneath their pelt, the only exception being their inner ears that are dull pink in color. Dogbanethorn has a long, well-kept pelt. Their fur is silky to the touch, with a glossy look to it. They have a odd light grey, almost white, marking on their nose. Along with their already odd markings, some of the feline's whiskers are black toward the base. They have quite a few scars, for example: a large bite wound across their back, scars over their right shoulder, a large scar on the left side of their muzzle. They also have two noticeable kinks in it's tail, one near the base of their tail and one half-way across it. Their ears are torn, their right ear of which looks to be almost torn clean off.

*Former*

Dogbanethorn is well built feline, with a diluted tortieshell pelt. They're lean, with large paws, prime for digging. Dogbanethorn's pelt has scattered bits of pale ginger all over. Most of it can be found on their chest, cheeks, and scattered across its left shoulder, down their back and across their head, and on some of its toes. They have striking, yellow-orange eyes that glow a florescent yellow in direct sunlight. The skin across his body is mottled, being a mixture of gray, dull pink, and black beneath their pelt, the only exception being their inner ears that are dull pink in color. Dogbanethorn has a long, well-kept pelt. Their fur is silky to the touch, with a glossy look to it. They have a odd light grey, almost white, marking on their nose. Along with their already odd markings, some of the feline's whiskers are black toward the base. They have quite a few scars, for example: with a large bite wound across their back, scars over their right shoulder, a large scar on the left side of their muzzle. They also have two noticeable kinks in it's tail, one near the base of their tail and one half-way across it. Their ears are torn, their right ear of which looks to be almost torn clean off.

### Scars gained

The following is a compilation of chronological scars/major injuries that Dogbanethorn has recieved;

* Large bite wound across their back, slice wounds over their right shoulder, a large slice on the left side of their muzzle, two noticeably crooked kinks in their tail, one at the base and one mid-way through, and torn ears, the right of which is nearly torn straight off, all caused by a dog attack while out on patrol with their mentor as an apprentice.

## Kin

Mother: Viperstrike

Father: Brackensnap

Brother: Snakeback

## Backstory

*Updated*

Dogbanethorn, born to their parents as Dogbanekit. Their parents never cared too much for their kit, leaving Dogbanekit to be fed by another queen of the time, with occasional visits from it's parents. Upon finding out about their older kin, Snakeback, the kit tirelessly followed the tom anywhere and everywhere. Dogbanekit, though, was mostly left to be raised by whatever queens were in the nursery at the time. At the age of six moons, when it became an apprentice, they chose to train to be a sentinel and was assigned to train under Blizzardclaw. Dogbanepaw’s decision to become a sentinel was likely influence by Snakeback, of whom is a sentinel. Dogbanepaw, despite being enthusiastic about it's training, struggled a lot. No matter what, they jsut didn’t have that knack for both defensive and offensive fighting tactics, often beaten during sparing between him and his mentor. Dogbanepaw listened intently to every little thing Blizzardclaw said, took mental notes fo what to improve, how to move their paws and body to achieve a specific affect in battle. It finally saw improvement, particularly in offensive fighting. This would later be put to use on one fateful day. On a border patrol Dogbanethorn, while out with Blizzardclaw, and another mentor & apprentice pair, they had wondered too close to Farseer’s Mantle. Two massive dogs chased the patrol for several fox lengths, away from Farseer’s mantle before grabbing Dogbanepaw’s hind left paws, dragging the apprentice toward the, before mauling it. All Dogbanethorn could see was the rapid motion of toothy maws, large paws, and soulless eyes glaring at them. Dogbanepaw was certain they’d die that day, a gruesome death. The dogs didn’t seem to care with damage they did, treating it as if Dogbanepaw was a toy and could be expendable. Dogbanepaw was horribly wounded before the assault on the apprentice’s body was interrupted by, a seemingly reckless move by Blizzardclaw, the large tom launching himself at the dog’s face and maw, disorienting the dogs long enough for them to escape. Dogbanepaw looked like a bloody, messy plump by the time they reached camp. The apprentice was covered from ear tip to tail tip in wounds, bite marks, blunt claws marks, brusies, all left by the dogs after their antics. Blizzardclaw had barged into the medicine den, pleading for help as the bloodied feline hung from their maw. It was lucky to have survived that day. They later woke up in the medicine den, having it's wounds treated, and while this occurred. During this lengthy hearing process, Dogbanepaw seemed anxious, always on the verge of panic attacks when it thought back on the patrol. Dogbanepaw was confined to the medicine den for almost a moon before as their wounds healed. During this time it was decided Dogbanepaw was not suited to train as a sentinel and was forced to train as a tunneler instead. When this change occurred, it was 4 moons into their sentinel training and had to start from scratch. Dogbanepaw, between their trauma and having their dream crush became snappish. Upon being released from the medicine den, they were thrusted into it’s Tunneler training. Their new mentor, Harefrolic, was understanding, taking things slow with the traumatized apprentice. This alongside Blizzardclaw, insisting to be there during the whole of their training, plus comfort from Snakeback, seemed to settle their nerves slightly. Dogbanepaw found the feat of a Tunneler much better suited for them. They seems to have a talent for digging out tunnels, compacting their walls, and even hunting prey, both above and below the surface. Their Tunneler training began in the tunnels, where Dogbanethorn felt safest, learning to create sturdy tunnels and how to hunt prey via the tunnels. Slowly they graduated form the tunnels as Dogbanepaw grew the courage to come up, out of the tunnels. Upon leaving the tunnels, both their mentors, were there to protect them, and it brought it comfort. The rest of their training was based around building in it’s skill in the tunnels by hunting prey above the surface alongside the clan’s moor-runners and learning to fight in a similar feat o the other Tunnelers. Needless to say, this sparked a few petty debates between Blizzardclaw and Harefrolic, which Dogbanepaw found amusing. By the end of their training, Blizzardclaw and Harefrolic felt like family to them, the same way Snakeback was family to them. Blizzardclaw especially, the tom seeming committed to make the apprentice as comfortable in their new rank as he could. Dogbanepaw, by the end of their training, was able to leave camp without the constant fear of being faced with a similar, life threatening experience. Despite this, they refuse to go anywhere near Farrseee’s Mantle, Dandelion Pasture, and Honey Kissed Orchard. In hindsight, most believe that the reason for Dogbanepaw, now Dogbanethorn, being so brutally attacked was due to some kind of disapproval StarClan had for the apprentice crossing the border into Farseer’s Mantle. The apprentice hadn’t crossed the border at any point, though they padded close to the border. Those claims could mostly be chalked down to accusations, of which left them bitter toward any cats who make it. They were lucky enough to have Blizzardclaw, Harefrolic, and Snakeback there to support them. As of now, Dogbanethorn lives a relatively peaceful life, the majority of the wounds from their youth, physical and mental, healing over, almost completely. This leaving them a strangely optimistic, mess of a cat.. Despite all of this, Dogbanethron is still bitter about their rank change and hopes, one day to return to sentinel training, possibly back under Blizzardclaw’s guidance, though the tom’s recent passing has left the feline in grief. They still feel lucky to have survived, leaning on Snakeback and Harefrolic for support with this recent passing.

*Former*

Dogbanethorn, born to their parents as Dogbanekit. Their parents never cared too much for their kit, leaving Dogbanekit to be fed by another queen of the time, with occasional visits from it's parents. Dogbanekit was mostly left to be raised by whatever queens were in the nursery at the time. At the age of six moons, when it became an apprentice, they chose to train to be a sentinel and was assigned to train under Blizzardclaw. Dogbanethorn, despite being enthusiastic about it's training, struggled a lot.

On a border patrol Dogbanethorn, while out with Blizzardclaw, they ran into a dog. Needless to say, neither came out unscathed, Dogbanepaw was badly wounded. They later woke up in the medicine den, having it's wounds treated, and while this occurred, it was decided Dogbanepaw was not suited to train as a sentinel and was forced to train as a tunneler instead. When this change occurred, it was 4 moons into their sentinel training and had to start from scratch, something that frustrated the feline. Dogbanepaw still despises the decision, but doesn’t exactly hold it against the cats involved, being Blizzardclaw and Valleystar. Despite having a new mentor, Dogbanepaw's previous mentor, Blizzardclaw, keep close tabs on the apprentice to make sure Dogbanepaw had settled in nicely into their training, which they did. Why Blizzardclaw did do this? Dogbanethorn would never know, but it brought them comfort to know someone cared. Dogbanepaw, despite their overwhelming optimism, was a bit sensitive about their appearance, though this didn't last long after a certain realization, which acted as a extreme confidence boost for it. Dogbanepaw's wild personality never died down, though, despite both of their mentor's efforts. Dogbanepaw eventually finished its training and became a tunneler at 16 moons of age. Dogbanepaw was given their tunneler name: Dogbanethorn. Dogbanethorn holds no bad feelings towards either of their mentors as both had treated it well and were responsibly patient with the feline. Dogbanethorn spent many comfortable moons as a tunneler, despite still being a bit upset still about the role change, something they'll soon accept with maturity.

## Quotes

*"'Yep, it was never my dream to be a tunneler. Besides, it's easy to get stuck down there, potentially drown or something'....Tunneler is the last rank I would have considered. Not that I ever did...Could they even think anything positive about their tunneler experience? 'At least I made some friends and I had a great mentor who took great care of me and taught me well'"*

-Dogbanethorn about his role in the clan.

"*Dog attack back when I was a sentinel apprentice. I’m gonna be honest, it was terrifying. I’m glad Blizzardclaw got we outta there, or else I may not have been here. But hey, now I have some cool scars I can show off...Blizzardclaw talked to Valleystar and I was forced to train under a Tunneler instead. I guess it was also because I was terrible in sentinel training....I was four moons into my sentinel training at the time. Four moons. And I had to complete a whole six moons of Tunneler training instead."*

-Dogbanethorn venting to Snowthistle about his time as an apprentice.

## Links

Theme Song/Voice Claim

* Playlist: Youtube
* Voice Claim: Tuffnut LaVerne Thorston [How To Train Your Dragon franchise]

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