Icestorm

**Icestorm** is a fluffy, battle-scarred white she-cat with ice blue eyes and torn ears.

## History

Born as Icekit to Lilypetal and Dustcloud, Icekit was three moons when the wages of war between ShadowClan and RiverClan were in full force. Her mother was forced to give Icekit up by Dustcloud, who took her out of her nest one morning and dropped her onto RiverClan's border before walking away.
Icekit was found by a RiverClan patrol led by Runningflame. Runningflame is shocked to see a kit on the border, and decides to take it back to RiverClan to see what can be done. Dapplestar explains that it is a ShadowClan hostage, and that they agreed to send her one to put a stop to the war. Runningflame is confused, but brings the she-kit to the nursery to be nursed by Leopardlight. Icekit bonds with Petalkit in the nursery, and is visited consistently by Shimmerwing, Rippleheart, and Runningflame, who are concerned about her wellbeing as a ShadowClan kit to RiverClan's camp. Icekit is made an apprentice, Icepaw, alongside Petalpaw and her littermate. Much to her surprise, she is given Dapplestar as a mentor.
Dapplestar consistently drills in Icepaw's mind that she was one of the reasons why ShadowClan and RiverClan were at war and that it was her own fault that she was here, since her parents had given her up. Eventually, Icepaw accepts this, but this does not stop Dapplestar from telling her this repeatedly. Unhappy with Icepaw just as a hostage, during her training, Dapplestar rids her of feelings all together. Noting her relationship with the apprentice, Petalpaw, Dapplestar imprisoned Petalpaw and cited the reason that she had been found meeting with a cat from another Clan, which, unbeknownst to Icepaw, is false. She knows that, if she gets Icepaw to kill her best friend, it will be the final blow to kill her heart. On the fateful rainy day, Dapplestar orders Icepaw to kill Petalpaw.
It is clear that Icepaw has worked to kill her emotions. She leaves RiverClan's camp, and hunts down Petalpaw. Petalpaw is shocked at the accusations, and seeing Icepaw, Petalpaw realizes that Dapplestar is behind the whole thing. Knowing that there is no way she will get out of this, Petalpaw accepts Icepaw's punishment, her last words, directed towards Icepaw, being "live." Icepaw leaps on her, Petalpaw accidentally claws her, scarring her. Realizing this, she relaxes all her muscles and allows Icepaw to kill her. With her dead body on the ground, rain pounding the earth, Icepaw watches her, broken and battered as she quietly asks Petalpaw why she did what she did, but Petalpaw does not answer anymore. She speaks out Petalpaw's name, but her hoarse voice is carried away by the rain.
Icepaw returns to the deserted camp, where Dapplestar is waiting for her. Dapplestar praises her work, and Icepaw replies that it was nothing. Dapplestar quietly tells her that Petalpaw had a reason to betray RiverClan, and Icepaw looks up at her, not knowing this before. Dapplestar asks her if she knew this beforehand, if Icepaw still would have killed her. Icepaw does not answer. She is not surprised when Rippleheart brings Petalpaw's body to camp and demands to know how this happened. Dapplestar, calculating and cruel, slowly orders Icepaw to search for Petalpaw's murderer. Icepaw knew Dapplestar well enough to know what she was asking of her. Icepaw leaves the camp and feigns a search mission, and reports half-heartedly that it was a ShadowClan warrior. Dapplestar orders more attacks on ShadowClan, and Icepaw only watches with guilt as her lies continue to kill more and more cats.
Dapplestar continues to send Icepaw on missions throughout the moons. She also takes her out on battles and orders her to help her raze fire to territories, while spying on other Clans and assassinating whoever she must.
Dapplestar issues another mission to Icepaw - which is to kill a ShadowClan warrior named Dustcloud. Icepaw obeys, and sneaks into ShadowClan territory under the cloak of night. She lulls the dusky brown warrior out, and quickly kills him, leaving his body near a fox's den, and slips out of ShadowClan territory. When she returns, Dapplestar tells her calmly that the cat she killed was her father, and Icepaw stares at her. Dapplestar says that it does not matter, as her father gave her up regardless, and he deserved to die.
Dapplestar orders Icepaw to scout out ShadowClan territory before she sets fire to it. Icepaw explores the territory and gives Dapplestar a few places where to set the fire, and which ones would cause the most damage. The next day, Dapplestar orders Icepaw to stay in the shadows and to kill any cat who tries to escape the flames, as there are to be no survivors. The day comes, and Dapplestar and the others set fire to the land. Icepaw obeys Dapplestar's orders and stays in the shadows, cutting down any cat who finds an escape route.
Impressed with Icepaw's work, Dapplestar orders her to do the same thing with WindClan, and when Icepaw reveals her findings, Dapplestar tells her that she has another mission - to rescue a WindClan cat so she does not get consumed in the flames. Icepaw agrees, and the day of the fire, she rescues the cat, Songbreeze, and hides her in remote territory before joining Dapplestar in raging WindClan territory. Icepaw chases the WindClan cats off their land and watches as they retreat. Dapplestar praises her for her work and brings her cats back to camp. Icepaw follows numbly.
A few days before Dapplestar disappears into remote territory, she tells her the truth about Petalpaw - that she orchestrated her betrayal in order to kill Icepaw's heart. Shortly after, Shimmerwing leads a rebellion against Dapplestar. Dapplestar is killed, leading to a civil war in RiverClan, each side led by Shellfall and Shimmerwing. Not knowing why, Icepaw finds herself fighting for Shellfall rather than Shimmerwing. Shellfall tries to convince her to go to Shimmerwing's side, but Icepaw refuses.
During the battle, Icepaw shows herself to be ruthless and merciless, cutting down every warrior she sees and not hesitating to kill. She takes one of Scorchstar's lives, and almost fatally injures Icefrost before being pulled away to help Rippleheart. Iceheart and Iceshine attack her at the same time, but Icepaw defeats the two easily, almost killing both of them. She is stopped just in time by Shellfall's battle cry.
Shellfall gathers Icepaw and a few more RiverClan warriors once he sees that Shimmerwing is winning after Swiftcloud betrays them, pleading for them to surrender and serve under Shimmerwing. Originally, the warriors refuse, saying that they will fight for Shellfall as long as they need, but they cave in. Shellfall pulls his forces back, and disappears into the cloak of night, leaving Rippleheart as the new leader. Rippleheart states that they must stay true to Shellfall's last wish - to surrender. The remaining RiverClan cats spend the night in RiverClan's camp, and then Rippleheart leads the patrol to Shimmerwing's makeshift camp. Shimmerwing almost orders an attack until Rippleheart drops Shellfall's mottled fur and explains that Shellfall surrendered, meaning they did as well. Shimmerwing asks where Shellfall is, which Rippleheart replies that he had left. Shimmerwing is confused, but allows what remained of Shellfall's forces back in RiverClan. Icepaw stays close to Rippleheart, noticing Shimmerwing's disapproving glares at her whenever she is camp.
Icepaw understands why this is so - she is the closest thing Dapplestar has to a kit, and therefore carries on her legacy. None of the RiverClan cats can look at her, so Icepaw keeps to herself, wondering what she can do to get out of this.
After the civil war, the ShadowClan leader, Nightstar, arrives at RiverClan's camp, alone. He tells Shimmerstar that he is here to retrieve Icepaw, and Shimmerstar - a little too quickly - agrees. Nightstar accompanies Icepaw home, and softly tells her that she was going to meet her mother. Icepaw is confused, saying that Dapplestar told her her mother was dead. Nightstar shakes his head, saying that her *father* was dead, not her mother.
In camp, Icepaw sees her mother for the first time, Lilypetal. She is unable to recognize her mother, only knowing Dapplestar as the closest familial figure she had in her life. But seeing the similarities in their faces, Icepaw allows Lilypetal to acknowledge her as her daughter, and tries hard to see her as her mother. However, Icepaw's feelings had been burned out by Dapplestar, and she struggles to be the daughter Lilypetal loved.
Nightstar appoints her an apprentice in ShadowClan and gives her Snakenose as a mentor. She trains hard and earns her warrior name, Icestorm. She serves ShadowClan loyally, but does not say much, even in camp. There are no hints that her loyalty lies to RiverClan, although it can be debatable.
## Personality

Dapplestar eventually succeeded in killing Icestorm's heart, leaving her empty and cold. She shows no mercy or remorse in battle, and is very flippant. It is unknown where Icestorm's loyalties lie - do they lie in the Clan that gave her up without a fight, but then came to rescue her, or did they lie with the Clan she was persecuted in, but was still raised and trained in?
She considers herself a "child of darkness" due to the amount of cats she had to kill for Dapplestar's sake, and blames herself for all of the sins she committed, knowing that she will forever be a monster in the eyes of herself and her Clanmates.
## Theme song

* **No Love** by Simple Plan

*Broken down, like a mirror smashed to pieces, you learn the hard way to shut your mouth and smile. If these walls could talk they would have so much to say, 'cause every time you fight the scars are going to heal but they're never going to go away.*
* **Don't Let Me Get Me** by P!nk

*Every day I fight a war against the mirror, I can't take the person staring back at me, I'm a hazard to myself. Don't let me get me. I'm my own worst enemy.*
* **I'm Just A Kid** by Simple Plan

*I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare, I'm just a kid and I know it's not fair. Nobody cares 'cause I'm alone in the world is having more fun than me, tonight.*
* **Everglow** by Coldplay

*Like brothers in blood sisters who ride, and we swore on that night, we'd be friends 'til we die. But the changing of winds, and the way waters flow, life is short as the falling of snow. And now I'm gonna miss you, I know.*

## Trivia

These are trivia facts about the character revealed by the roleplayer.

* She is not afraid to die.
* It was raining when Icepaw killed Petalpaw, and due to this, Icestorm is terrified of rain. She cannot be found anywhere during rainy days, and is known to become ill on these days.

## Quotes

"*Light is fleeting. Darkness is eternal.*"
—Icepaw

"*The strength of your conviction matters not. Only the strength of your body matters.*"
—Icepaw

"*She who works alone... dies alone.*"
—Icepaw

"*This is unfortunate. You can punish her. Only you. Go, Icepaw. End her.*"
—Dapplestar to Icepaw

**Narrator**: "*Rain poured down Icepaw as she stared down at the prone figure of what once was her best friend. She had delivered the 'justice' asked of her without so much as a token of protest. The cat's very last word to Icepaw was a command: Live.*"

**Icepaw**: "*...Why?*"

**Narrator**: "*Why did she try and turn on RiverClan? Why did she just accept the punishment of death without putting up a fight or saying anything in her own defense? Now would be a good time to ask those questions, but she was no longer in any position to answer. She was a warm-hearted cat, far removed from what a warrior under Dapplestar's rule should traditionally be. So unlike Icepaw. She had things she cared about.*"

**Icepaw**: "*...That was the reason, wasn't it.*"
**Narrator**: "*Icepaw breathed, reaching for the body and trying to pick it up.*"
**Icepaw**: "*This is too heavy a burden for me to bear. You think so too, don't you?*"
**Narrator**: "*Icepaw turned her eyes to the voiceless corpse of her best friend once more.*"
**Icepaw**: "*...Petalpaw.*"
**Narrator**: "*She croaked out, a broken sound that was drowned out by the increasingly heavy rain.*"

—Icepaw after killing Petalpaw

**Dapplestar**: "*You've done well. It must have been a difficult task for you.*"

**Icepaw**: "*Not really.*"

**Dapplestar**: "*That is to say, she was taken hostage by ShadowClan, and therefore, must have betrayed RiverClan. There was little she could've done.*"

**Icepaw**: "*Wha..?*"
**Narrator**: "*Icepaw raises her face and looks up at Dapplestar. But Dapplestar continues to smile softly.*"
**Dapplestar**: "*But... betrayal is betrayal. You know that well enough already.*"
**Narrator**: "*Icepaw presses her claws together, her line of sight dropping to her paws. After all, my best friend had a reason to betray RiverClan.*"
**Dapplestar**: "*Had you known this, would you have listened to my orders?*"
**Narrator**: "*The answer is no. Even if she had been told the circumstances of the betrayal beforehand, Icepaw would have more than likey obeyed. Still, the sin of killing her own best friend was one that Icepaw suffered for days and years that followed. It would always be her greatest regret.*"

—Icepaw and Dapplestar

**Dapplestar**: "*I see. You don't know, then. Everything was planned by me. On the pretense that everything she loved was at risk,* I forced her to betray. *I made it seem like the one she held dearest to her had been taken hostage by ShadowClan, thereby winging her to her betrayal.*"

**Icepaw**: "*What...?*"

**Dapplestar**: "*It can't be helped. Everything I did, I did for you, Icepaw. In order to have you grow as a warrior, I had no choice. The Icepaw of those days was still a child, and yet you're still not good enough. Warriors have no need for a heart.*"

—Dapplestar and Icepaw, shortly before Dapplestar's disappearance

"*Get out of my way, or I'll mow you down like all the rest.*"
—Icepaw to Scorchstar before taking a life from him

**Nightstar**: "*I'm not going to ask what you went through in RiverClan, Icepaw, unless you want to tell me. Regardless, I know it wasn't good. Especially through Dapplestar's tyranny and the civil war.*"

**Icepaw**: "*I fought for Shellfall, don't you know that?*"

**Nightstar**: "*And where is he?*"

**Icepaw**: "*I don't know. Dead, maybe.*"
**Nightstar**: "*I see. I don't expect you to tell me anything of RiverClan, or RiverClan's secrets. What you need to focus on is training to become a good ShadowClan warrior. RiverClan is nothing anymore. Your home is in ShadowClan. I apologize for ShadowClan giving you up. Believe me, if I could take back that decision, I would. This was never meant to happen.*"
**Icepaw**: "*But I also fought against your Clanmates. My Clanmates, now.*"
**Nightstar**: "*You were avenging your Clan leader at the time. No cat will blame you for fighting for the Clan you lived in. You were fighting out of loyalty. You should never apologize for that.*"

—Nightstar and Icepaw

"*The darkness shall consume all in its path.*"
—Icepaw

"*Where there is light, there is shadow, but the shadow cannot shine. Thus it lives, fights, and dies in the darkness, so the light can continue to shine. That is the fate of a shadow.*"
—Icepaw

"*I saw a vision of myself, existing as a living shadow. The shadows stayed true to her nature as she hid from the light and banished countless souls into the black depths of the netherworld.*"
—Icepaw

**Icestorm**: "*Nightstar, have you gone mad? You plan to ally yourself with RiverClan?*"

**Nightstar**: "*I understand your feelings, Icestorm. The other senior warriors share them. But this is my decision. Shimmerstar is the leader of RiverClan now. It is no longer Dapplestar.*"

**Icestorm**: "*Nightstar...I have sworn an oath of loyalty to you, and I do not intend to break it.*"

**Nightstar**: "*Then by that, you must accept my decisions.*"
**Icestorm**: "*I am trying to. But you know how RiverClan is.*"
**Nightstar**: "*You must understand that this decision is for the best.*"
**Icestorm**: "*Is that so.*"

**Nightstar**: "*I have principles I refuse to break, just like you do, Icestorm.*"
**Icestorm**: "*I used to know someone who would say things like that. And now she's dead.*"

—Icestorm and Nightstar arguing over Nightstar's choice to ally with RiverClan

"*Do you see now? The worlds you and I live in... they're just too different.*"
—Icestorm to Snakenose

**Icestorm**: "*I used to know someone who would make a big deal about going out to see the camellias. Every single moon.*"

**Splashpelt**: "*What?*"

**Icestorm**: "*She was like you, a little bit. A little too loud. A little too passionate. A little too involved in other cat's business... but that's what made her special. I like the camellias... because they never change. They bloom every year, and make sure I can never, ever forget.*"

—Icestorm and Splashpelt

"*All it would take is one movement from me, and this cat will die. Do it. Say the words. Say 'kill this cat,' and I will kill him. Don't look away from me when deciding whether a cat will live or die! Listen to me. Do not draw your claws on someone if you have not the intent nor the will to kill them. But if you kill, know that you forever carry the soul of the cat whose life you took.*"
—Icestorm

"*Shadows are without form and thus without weakness.*"
—Icestorm