Dovestrike

**"Okay... where's Houndpaw? I'd like to meet him."**

- Dovepaw to Monarchpaw in Chapter 9

**Dovestrike** is a ShadowClan warrior and a secondary protagonist in Tales of Perfectheart.

## Appearance

Dovestrike is a sleek, albino, she-cat. Albinism is a genetic condition relating to a lack of pigment or color, meaning her fur is solid white and her eyes are a reddish-pink color. She has a long tuft of fur - styled like hair - covering her right eye, which has a scar under it.

## Personality

Dovestrike is a very shy and timid cat, for many chapters being quite a pushover. She lacks the confidence to speak to her mother or Moonfall for a long time. She is easily embarrassed and insecure, and seems to believe that most other cats in ShadowClan don't care for her or that they hate her. She worries easily, falling into a pit of doubt upon simply showing up first to a meeting with the friend group. She eventually comes to grow more confident as she is supported by her friends.

In her first few appearances Dovestrike was much more sassy.

## Biography

### Pre-Series

Dovekit was neglected by her mother, Softfur, and instead raised by Bubblepool. She caused Boulderpatch to fail his warrior assessment, and as a result she was banished from ShadowClan. Boulderpatch also caused her to lose her eye in an accident.

### Chapters 7-10

Chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10 are the first few chapters where Dovepaw is introduced. At the gathering, she speaks briefly with the other apprentices, mostly to ask why Houndpaw isn't at the gathering with them. She assumes that he's ugly and is excited to find out he's a dog.

### Chapter 20

In Chapter 20, Dovepaw is the first to arrive at the friend group's meeting spot, and worries about whether the others will show up. When Brownpaw asks about how early she is, Dovepaw says nobody would notice she's missing anyway, but quickly corrects herself, saying it's because ShadowClan is so large. She spots Moonpaw, who brings them to the Moonpool. On the way, she falls into a ditch and is unable to escape because of a spider blocking the way. After Monarchpaw gets rid of it for her, she is immensely embarrassed.

## Relationships

### Moonpaw

Her crush. Dovestrike first confessed this to Moonpaw in Chapter 53, although Moonpaw didn't give an emotional response. In Later chapters Moonpaw snuck into ShadowClan territory after Dovepaw has now earned her warrior name, Dovestrike, to give her feathers.

### Boulderpatch

Her brother. When she was younger, Dovestrike looked up to Boulderpatch and followed him around. She ended up causing Boulderpatch to fail his warrior assessment and he continues to blame her for it even into her warriorhood. He also caused her to lose an eye in the event. When he first debuts in the series, Boulderpatch is shown to have a very antagonistic relationship with Dovestrike. He refuses to get along with her and Dovestrike seems uncomfortable around him, although it is not revealed why until later.

In chapter 76, Boulderpatch explains to Dovestrike that he was planning on trapping Stalkleaf. She calls him out on this, and he attacks her, ranting about how his problems are her fault. She responds in anger and they end up fighting. Dovestrike treats him differently afterwards, and later describes the experience as .

### Mudstar

Mudstar is the leader of Dovestrike's clan. She looks up to him, and wishes he was her dad.

### Cinderglow

Her former mentor. She has a positive relationship with her, and Cinderglow gives her love advice and encourages her to confess to Moonfall. She also gives Dovestrike encouragement when Dovestrike ends up believing that she had been friendzoned.

### Stalkleaf

Stalkleaf is Dovestrike's friend, although she has a tendency to overstep Dovestrike's boundaries. For example, when she finds out about Dovepaw's crush in Chapter 46, she teases her to the point where she breaks down crying. She is extremely supportive of Dovestrike, mostly showing this by telling Boulderpatch off when he acts colder towards Dovestrike.

### Softfur

Softfur is Dovestrike's mother. She has a negative relationship with her, and her mother ignores her often. Dovestrike feels nervous when entering the nursery because of her mother. When accused of caring more for her spider than her kits, Softfur says that, "It's possible."

### Houndpaw

Both a part of the friend group. Upon meeting Houndpaw, she appeared very curious about him, immediately asking him how he joined Windclan.

### Monarchpaw

Both a part of friend group. Monarchpaw helped Dovestrike when she got stuck due to a spider by eating the spider.

## Trivia

* Dovestrike has arachnophobia (fear of spiders), as shown when she falls into a ditch and cannot get out because of a spiderweb blocking her way. This is most likely due to her mother, Softfur, seemingly caring more about her spiders than Dovestrike.
* In the Scratch community, it was discussed that the original refs had been unshared since someone commented on the project that Dovestrike had a scar on her right eye, something that had not been confirmed yet (though Chapter 70 has now confirmed it). It is said that 9rainbowtails freaked out about the comment and then unshared the project. The refs were found again much later.
* When given her warrior name, Mudstar mentions her passion and spirit.
* On 9rainbowtails' project ''Accident'', blood is seen under her hair fluff and then a sketchy memory is seen, in which where she has her hair fluff there's blood, and a body is seen. Theories say she killed somebody, and that's why Boulderpatch hates her.
* Dovemoon is not a forbidden relationship in *ToPH* as relationships in this universe are allowed as long as you put your clan before the relationships.[seems right but a citation would be nice]
* Dovestrike can apparently blush on command.
* Voice Claim: Vee from *The Owl House*

## Gallery

Dovestrike's official refDovepaw confessing to MoonpawBloomnose and Stalkleaf confronting Dovepaw about her crushDovepaw when asked who her favorite person wasDovestrike's scar
1. ↑ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/534229490/
2. ↑ https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/534229490/
3. ↑ Chapter 70
4. ↑ Chapter 20
5. ↑ Chapter 20
6. ↑ Chapter 8