Hawkstorm

*"I'm wrong. You're wrong. We both know that. But it's never to late to change."*

-Hawkstorm to NightTemplate:The Four Clans cat template

## Physical Description

A light grey tabby with white flecks and a muscular build. He has narrow blue eyes. He also has an injured and twisted, crippled leg due to his encounter with Night. Thanks to Night, he also has a scar across his neck, and several others.

## Personality

Just *too brave,*rude and short-tempered. He is soft and sweet inside, but only Silverlight and Almondnose have reached it. He is not an ideal role-model. He is known as grumpy, and is disliked by many.

## Skills and Weaknesses

Hawkstorm is great at hunting and average at fighting. He's strong due to the encounters with Night that shaped him, but he's immensely loyal, which could be seen as a weakness. He is short-tempered, often grumpy and rude.

## Story and origins

Created by user @MoonshineMew after the death of Swiftbrook, this grumpy tom was "born" on October 22, 2018.

### Kithood

As a kit, he was known for being rude and proud of himself, thinking himself superior and disliked by the other kits.

### Apprenticeship

Hawkpaw developed some relationship with @\_RussetStar\_'s she-cat Songbird, formerly a loner and now a medicine cat apprentice after saving her from a monster. (A car.)

He was also quite disobeying to his mentor, Splashmist, and decided to go exploring in No Clan's land. There he was captured by Night (formely Nightecho of Shadowclan) and tormented there, and injured very badly. His leg was twisted, unable to be healed as he later had to walk on three legs, upon reference to Wolfstar by Furstar.

He fell in love with Silverpaw, flirting and they stumble across Night again in the forest, after being injured. That made Songkit angry and so he kept his distance on courtesy of the two.

He became a warrior soon after and was appointed to Lostpaw. (@Epic\_Vini) He is again brought into the Dark Forest by Night to be tormented.

### Warrior

Silverpaw left for Thunderclan with Songpaw, and he fell into great despair. No one but Almondnose, Thornstar, Songpaw, and Silverpaw knows about this, but Hawkstorm decided to meet her at midnight, even when she tells him to go away. Thornstar lets this go but keeps a close watch on him. He was desperate for Silverpaw to come back, although she told him, "Shadowclan never felt like home." With that he felt betrayal and anger, and fell into another period of grumpiness and depression.

### The Dark Forest

As stated earlier, Night began to enjoy bringing Hawkstorm back to the Dark Forest. She threathened that she would keep doing so, and kill him slowly if he didn't do what he wanted. Her first assignment to him was "to blind that insolent Poppystripe", and he promised to do so.

He does, though only succeeding in injuring (though badly) her leg. She tells him, "It's your heart that tells you what's right and what's wrong. If your heart tells you this, just kill me."

He leaves, feeling guilty. Their "meeting" had been a secret, at least for now. Night finds him again and said, "You fought like a kit," and furthermore scolding him and tormenting. Night suddenly grabs him and throws him into a illusion, a pit, where Silverpaw (a illusion) was waiting, bleeding and torn. He tells Night he'd do anything if she was let go.

Thornstar catches him sneaking to find Silverpaw, and surprisingly lets him go as he understands his feelings, but gives him a deal for Hawkstorm to stop visiting her in the night.

Night again shows and forces him to kill Almondnose or else Silverpaw (illusion) would die. He approaches her coldly like an entirely different cat and attacks, but he doesn't notice that Aspenfang was secretly watching. Later, Almondnose tricks him to go near the Thunderclan, border, where Silverpaw finds him. They argue and in the end he decided to bring Almondnose to the Dark Forest.

He appeared next to Night, who was waiting in the shadows with her companion, Rabbitspring.

Later he challenges her to a fight, which he lost as Night slashed him across the neck, but he was saved by Nettlenight when he woke up.

### Love

He and Silverlight became mates after meeting her at the border, and later brings her to meet Shadowclan again. Furstar accepts their relationship, and Hawkstorm had to escort her back after Silverlight reciving too many harsh comments from the rest of his clan. Sliverlight soon has the kits Blossomkit, Robinkit, and Larkkit.

### Death

However, he never really got to met them as he was killed by Raindash by a stream on Shadowclan hunting grounds, bumping into the already snappy she-cat. When she attacked him, he resolved to not fighting back, unwanting to hurt his clanmate.

## Notes

Hawkstorm was a dynamic character, as he changed from a hot-headed and grumpy tom to a more caring cat. This was mostly achieved due to his love for Silverlight, softening his personality further more.

## Quotes

*"How can I stop myself? I know I'm a stubborn and grumpy cat who would risk anything for my desires. You know what? Maybe I need a little love and sweetness in my life to balance it out. So I wouldn't be as queer."*

-Hawkstorm to Almondnose after Silverpaw left for Thunderclan

*"No. I'm tired of being your pawn in your twisted game. I would never want to be like you. Kill me if you want, but don't hurt Almondnose. I'm wrong. You're wrong. We both know that. It's never too late to change."*

-Hawkstorm to Night, defending Almondnose

"*But you'll never have the fun or pride in doing good. You'll never feel what is meant to be. Why accept this path? It's never too late." he hesitated. "Look, vengeance will never get you anywhere. Vengeance will fail you. Remember that.*"

-Hawkpaw to Night

(Picture by @Jilly75)