Juniperbird

Juniperbird is a light brown she-cat with big blue eyes that in some lights appear violet. She is sweet, friendly, cheerful, optimistic, and tries to help other cats to be less angry, make more friends, less pessimistic etc. Her main 'patient' is Hawthornspark, who eventually became her true friend, and then mate.

She is currently a ZeldaClan queen.

### Family

Mate: Hawthornspark

Son: Thornkit

Daughter: Scarletkit

### Backstory

Juniperbird was born in ZeldaClan, and her siblings died early on. She was always grateful to be alive, and used THE POWER OF POSITIVITY as a way to cope with her grief. This happy attitude soon became her way of life, and she could never understand why her den-mate, Hawthornkit, was such a grump. He was lucky, never having experienced the death of a family member. What reason did he have to be so unhappy? She soon became obsessed with him, always trying to cheer him up. She decided that StarClan had killed her siblings to make her realize her destiny, to improve the mental health and overall energy of ZeldaClan. And so, as an apprentice, she spent all of her free time with some of the most annoying and disrespectful cats in ZeldaClan, such as Vapourcry, Fennelnut, Ivyfrost, Quezalgaze, and of course, her best friend, Hawthornpaw.

Her constant presence usually only made her patients worse though, as they found her to be an annoying and clingy chatterbox. But she didn't give up. She knew, in the very depth of her bones, that she could offer the cure to ZeldaClan's unhappiness. So everyday, she got up, and greeted some of the most unpopular warriors, asking about their morning and analyzing their mood. She was very dedicated to her cause, and took in more insults that were shot her way than any other ZeldaClan warrior. She loved her mission, whether it was going anywhere or not. One day her message would get through their thick skulls, right?

When Xenophon took ZeldaClan camp during the Hawthorn Era, she was busily keeping everything together, preventing fights between confused and scared clanmates, and managing everyone's anger. Although, of course she was feeling the stress herself, she noticed that in such a dire time, her efforts were actually paying off. She was there for Hawthornpaw, as always, as he struggled to find a solution to the disaster he had caused, and without her help, ZeldaClan may never have escaped, and Xenophon never defeated.

(The following subject is still under debate, none of this from here on out is 100% certain)

Juniperpaw managed to escape along with the rest of ZeldaClan (Minus Quezalstar), and in their new camp, she and Hawthornpaw get their warrior names, Hawthornspark and Juniperbird. Soon after, Hawthornspark confesses that he has always sort of kind of not quite maybe loved her, and Juniperbird was almost too pleased that he could even feel love that she almost forgot to share her own feelings. At some point, things become official, and Juniperbird is expecting kits (Though not even she knows at this point).

A moon or so later, she is on a walk, by herself, thinking things over, when she is snatched by Xenophon's cronies. As they rush to get her to the spriit house to be taken, Hawthornspark is anxious. He didn't like her going off on her own, he was so used to her following him around. Soon, he realized something must be wrong, and goes looking for her alone. He picks up Xenophon group scent there, and follows the trail, chasing after them desperately.

When he catches up, he is too late. He finds his way into the Waterphone's basement, and there she is already in the process of being taken. Xenophon is there, and forces him to watch, and once Bobby Bob is in her head, he makes her... (Idk, attack him, do a dance, yell at him for being such a jerk?).

This deeply shakes Hawthornspark, as one can imagine, and he is chased away before he can do anything to try and save her. He returns to ZeldaClan, begging Uakaristar to take a patrol to save her. This article isn't about Hawthornspark, so I will just get right to the point. Uakaristar says no, not wanting to risk the lives of her clan, and pretty much, they are stuck for a good four or five moons, until Xenon arrives.

Meanwhile, Juniperbird is sucked into daily ZeusClan life. Everyone is so sad and angry and spiteful there, it actually starts to rub off on her. She tried to USE THE POWER OF POSITIVITY once again, but being trapped in ZeusClan, away from her mate, not even able to tell him she is expecting, surrounded by unhappy cats, with evil spirits planted in her mind... there wasn't much she could do. She managed to keep her kits secret from ZeusClan, and gave birth remotely, forced to give her cats away to Crab, who was among the only cats in the city to have avoided Xenophon to this day. Then, she left, back to ZeusClan. There was a terrible couple of moons afterwards where she lost all hope of ZeldaClan being able to save her, and she actually became sort of depressed. Until Xenon came, and told her about her plans, and boy was she happy to hear that ZeldaClan was coming to the rescue (finally). Her hope and positive attitude was restored, though she dared not show it too much, and she saw the possibility of her being able to properly meet her kits, and introduce them to their father...

But those dreams were spoiled, when during the battle, she was crippled (or even mortally wounded), by Hawthornspark himself, as Zeus forced poor Juniperbird to kill her mate. Unable to return to battle, she lay there (maybe dead) until Xenon anounced ZeusClan's freedom, and the fighting stopped. Hawthornspark returned to his mate's side, and either grieved or talked, sobbing, to her as she lay unconscious.

If she makes it out alive, she goes to fetch the kits as soon as she is healthy enough, and introduces them, as she had envisioned, to Hawthornspark. If she doesn't make it, then Crab steps forward soon after the battle with the kits, and he takes them in. In both instances, Scarletkit and Thornkit are raised in ZeldaClan.