Boarstar

*Character art by Maple*

 Description

Boarstar was a large, short-furred she-cat. Her base fur was roan, and she was often described as having 'siamese-like' darker brown points. Dark brown stripes also peppered her points. Her eyes were a shocking yellow.

Although not the prettiest of cats, her muscular but lithe stature gave her a muscular elegance. Her posture was often upright, with her chest thrown out. She had a habit of letting her tail sweep over the earth.

Her family tree is here: family

## Personality

Although towards the end of her life she slowed down, Boarstar was often viewed as very young at heart. She was sassy and blunt, with all pros and cons of that included. She spoke her mind and was honest, but as a reversal of this she was a terrible liar.

As a warrior, she was very DustClan-supremacist. This has never truly faded, but during the Gang Wars she made friends from other clans. Now, she views the Clans as more civilized than other cats.

Immaturity has always followed Boarstar. However, as leader, she had grown to be more mature. Her policies as leader were opportunistic, and put DustClan first.

Her loyalty to her Clan was not through to the bone, however. Ever since adopting a GladeClan cat as her mate, Lynxshine, she had conflicting opinions within herself. However, since that relationship evaporated, she's retreated back to focusing on her Clan. She put a high value on them, as if they were her family, as well as the family living in DustClan.

Boarstar's attempted to repair the relationships she had in DustClan following the loss of her fourth and fifth life, which had made her confront her own death. She had a loving relationship with Foxshine and Barkheart and their kits, but still looked to Deerfur as an estranged daughter.

Boarstar's belief in the code was questionable. There have been many instances of her breaking the code. She does not seem to have an issue with killing in the defense of the Clans either, but she will not kill a Clan cat.

## History

Boarstar's parents were a mystery. She has very fuzzy recollections of her mother, which she doesn't bother herself with. As a kit, she was somewhat of a bully, being the biggest. Her kithood was short and nothing to note, as soon as she turned six moons she was made an apprentice.

During her apprenticeship, her colors started to truly show. She trained under Flickbeak, who she's always viewed as a mother-figure. She adopted Flickbeak's accent and attitude, as well as a DustClan-supremacist mindset. She has always viewed the old she-cat as a role model.

Boarstar was one of the youngest warriors in DustClan. She became a warrior under Buckstar's rein, during a time when tensions were growing between the clans and the gangs. She befriended Hollowstar, at the time Hollowflame, and Locustflight. For a brief period of time, she had a crush on Locustflight.

Boarstar got into a lot of trouble as a warrior. One of her most notable instances was when she, Buckstar, Locustflight, and Hollowstar all went scorpion hunting. She witnessed Locustflight push Buckstar into the mass of scorpions. Boarstar never told a soul what she saw, but it was then she decided she couldn't pursue Locustflight if he was to raise a paw against another clanmate.

During her warriorship, the Gang Wars started. It was during the Gang Wars that Boarstar established herself as a respected warrior in the forest. When GladeClan and ReedClan were invaded, DustClan offered to let refugees into the camps. Boarstar at first hated this, and was dead set on making everyone know this. However, this changed when she met Hawthornstar and Lynxshine. Both toms became her friends, and her hatred for their clans slowly diminished.

She played an important role in flushing the gangs from GladeClan's camp. When she saw all the warriors working together, she decided then that while she would always put DustClan first, the other clans weren't so bad. In the wake of the Gang Wars, she missed her friends, and continued seeing Lynxshine in secret. She also consults Hawthornstar frequently. Hollowstar was also made leader as Buckstar perished in the Gang Wars, and Boarstar became her deputy.

Not a lot happened during her deputyship. A drought hit DustClan, and she started her habit of hunting at night. During these night hunts, she would occasionally see Lynxshine, who eventually became her mate. Hollowstar eventually retired, and Boarstar took up the duty of leading.

As a warrior, Boarstar could never imagine herself as a peace-time leader. However, this is what she's become, and frankly she's thankful. The massive expansion of her clan has caused some issues for her, and she's slowly adopted DustClan-first policies. However, at the turn of the first new leaf as leader, she had kits with Lynxshine: Foxpaw, Deerpaw, Barkpaw, Rosypaw, and Daisypaw.

After learning Joltstrike is a reincarnation of Joltwing, Boarstar has asked those reincarnated in her clan to act as her advisors. Although still relatively young, Boarstar's mental health has been declining with the stress of a growing clan, leading, and her half-clan kits.

When her kits became apprentices, Lynxshine and her arranged a meet up between the kits. When she found her kits resented her, she grew angry. Emotional and overwhelmed, she permanently bruised her relationship with her family and made all by Foxpaw and Barkpaw resent her. During the subsequent Gathering, Canyonstar allowed Daisypaw to announce to all the Clans that her mother had half-clan kits. This put a stop in Boarstar's opening mind, and made her resent GladeClan. She maintained that her former mate, Canyonstar and Daisypaw all conspired against her to bring shame to a formerly well respected warrior.

Since the Gathering, she grew rigid and strict. She closed the borders and focused on training apprentices. Since Honeytooth's passing, Boarstar took it upon herself to train Deerpaw, who ever since that day begrudged her mother. Boarstar confided in Gingerstride.

Later Boarstar learned that Lynxshine took Sorrelchaser as his lover. Then she utterly stiffened up and grew indifferent towards her GladeClan relatives.

Now, Boarstar has resolved to dedicate herself entirely to strengthening DustClan. Motherly instincts, come too little too late, have overwhelmed her. She's projected this onto her Clan, most notably the apprentices. However, she's now shut off to interpersonal relationships, save for those she already has/had with Flickbeak, Hawthornstar, Gingerstride, and the estranged Locustflight.

Boarstar's only son, Barkheart, had kits with Dahliawhisper: Lavenderpaw, Meadowpaw, Roanpaw, and Valleypaw. Boarstar deeply cherished her grandkits.

Her youngest daughter, Foxshine, had kits with the CavernClan tom Badgerpatch: Driftkit II, Rowankit, Howlkit, and Sagekit.

After learning of The Society, Boarstar has pushed DustClan into war-mode. She reached out to the other Clan leaders to make a pact of mutual defense. She was visited by the StarClan cat Venompelt, who told her that StarClan was going to remain neutral. He also indirectly alluded to Deerfur (then a member of The Society) taking Boarstar's final life.

The Society did eventually take over DustClan's camp. Boarstar lost three lives in the altercation, and only retreated when she saw her clanmates were dying. Boarstar retreated to ReedClan, and feels a great deal of guilt in doing so. She has resolved to lose her final life in the defense of DustClan.

Gingerstride confessed his feelings to Boarstar after she gave a speech to the exiled DustClan, where she recognized she was approaching her final moons. Boarstar regretted not being able to explore what she and Gingerstride could've had, but did not regret having her kits.

Unbeknownst to her, her daughter Rosyfreckle had kits with Olivebranch: Juniperkit, Sedgekit, Ferretkit, and Webkit.

Boarstar took on Claypaw as her apprentice much later in her life. She viewed the cat as being like a daughter that she never had, and regretted that she was never able to give her a good training.

Boarstar attempted to avenge her honor by saving DustClan. She did so, first by merging with ReedClan to form SeaClan. Using SeaClan, she led the invasion onto DustClan camp. She fought until she was killed by her own daughter Stag. Well, sort of. See, Boarstar wanted to both demonstrate to Stag that she was becoming her mother, as well as prevent Stag from killing her and going down that path. So, instead of letting Stag slice her throat, Boarstar forced her claws into her throat with her own paw. Thus, she technically killed herself.

## Naming Style

Boarstar likes to name cats for the accomplishment for which she named them or a notable trait that showed itself while the cat was an apprentice. For example, Thornwing was named for killing an eagle, and Barkheart was named for his notable kindness.

Boarstar will also name cats in honor of other cats. For example, she named Deerfur to remind her daughter than she will always have a part of her mother in her.

Boarstar strongly believes in certain suffixes holding certain power. For example, she only gives the suffix -claw/-claws to strong warriors. This was seen in her attempt to name Fallenpaw Noclaws, however she later let him pick his own name: Fallenwalker.

 Lives

Boarstar has passed away.

~~1. Bournwatcher - "love"~~  *Lost by falling into the ravine.*

~~2. Marshfrond - "wisdom"~~ *Lost to greencough.*

3~~. Wolfeyes - "mother's love"~~ *Lost to bearing Rosyfreckle.*

4~~. Softspeckle - "work ethic"~~ *Lost to an internal rupture.*

~~5. Acornstar - "happiness"~~ *Lost to an internal rupture.*

~~6. Monsoonstar - "judgement"~~ *Lost to Caracal while defending DustClan*

~~7. Swiftstrike - "strength"~~ *Lost to Sun while defending DustClan*

~~8. Pricklefur - "confidence"~~ *Lost to Melody while defending DustClan*

~~9. Vixenstar - "humility"~~ *Lost to Stag in a suicide battle to reclaim DustClan*