Shelltiger

Designed by Lego

Shellkit

Harmony

Tumblepaw

## Overview

Shellswirl is a fairly small white tom with light gray tabby splotches and a particular light gray swirl on his forehead, hence the origin of his name (his forehead looks like a shell). He has cloud-white whiskers except for one black whisker on his left cheek. His blue-gray eyes from kithood have begun to transition into pale green, resulting in his eyes being a soft shade of turquoise at the moment. Shellswirl has a fairly short tail with two light gray splotches along it. His claws are about the average length for a tom of his age and a light shade of cream, though he doesn't unsheathe them often. Shellswirl has dark gray paw pads and a deep pink nose. He was a former medicine cat to RiverClan.

## Detailed History

### Early Life

Shellswirl as a kit was, interesting. He spent his first three moons in the nursery with his mother, learning lessons of respect, responsibility and perseverance. Mistflower took it upon herself to train him these things as Shellswirl struggled with sociability. He found it hard to make friends or even really talk with the other kits. One day, as he was wandering about the nursery, a kit named Kestrelkit, later to be Kestreldash one of his closest friends, invited him to become the medicine cat of their "clan", called CoolClan. This is what sparked Shellswirl's interest in medicine cats, later driving him to become one.

### Medicine Cat Apprenticeship

Buckantler, the RiverClan medicine cat before Shellswirl, died before taking on an apprentice, causing the choice of RiverClan's medicine cat to be in StarClan's paws. They selected when he turned six moons, and the tom couldn't be more thrilled to have the job. He worked his tail off as an apprentice, training in StarClan from various past medicine cats. Not much happened in his days as a Medicine Cat Apprentice, and he quickly worked his way up to become RiverClan's medicine cat.

### Medicine Cat Life

Shellswirl received his name from Shineturtle, an older RiverClan medicine cat. Not much happened in his life till he met Malila, and later on asked if she'd like to become his apprentice. Malila, now Skypaw, accepted. Shellswirl again worked his tail off to train the young Medicine Cat Apprentice, becoming a lot more open to her and finding it easier to have conversations and interact with other cats. Snowstar, the RiverClan leader, died mysteriously a moon or so after he selected Skypaw, and Shellswirl took Tigersong to the moonpool where she became Tigerstar. Skypaw became Skyfall not long after, but things became a little, tense between the two medicine cats. Time only made things tenser, and soon they found themselves not speaking to each other. It only a moon or two after she'd completed her medicine cat training that Skyfall was struct down by lightning, and Shellswirl was devastated. He didn't speak of choosing a new apprentice for quite some time, struggling to get over Skyfall.

Eventually, he recovered and began observing the many kits and apprentices in RiverClan for a potential apprentice. Heronpaw, a RiverClan apprentice, seemed like the best candidate, so he took her on a walk and out on the territory asked her about the position. She accepted, and began training under his paw. At this time, there was an ongoing war between Tigerstar and Emperor, or RiverClan and BloodClan. Shellswirl found this awkward as he had an obligation as RiverClan's medicine cat however was Emperor's friend from an event that occured in his early medicine cat days.

Later on, Emperor asked Shellswirl for a favor. He wished to train a healer in BloodClan, and Shellswirl accepted. Emperor chose Harmony, and Shellswirl trained Harmony whilst he was in BloodClan. He returned in a few moons, to a very unhappy Tigerstar. Shellswirl and Tigerstar's relationship shattered. He remained medicine cat, but they couldn't really see each other in the same light again. Shellswirl later that moon gave Heronpaw her full name, Heronspirit.

After a while, Tansyspiller came to Shellswirl in a dream declaring that Whitefrost was to become the temporary leader while Tigerstar was injured (having just lost a life). Though skeptical, he obliged mainly out of fear and announced the tom leader. He was reassured when Whitestar "killed" Tansyspiller, thinking the tom had gone double-agent and decided to kill the wicked Dark Forest tom. Though this didn't last long, and Shellswirl disapproved of Whitestar's takeover of WindClan, though not voicing his opinion again out of fear.

Upon Tigerstar's return, he apologized to her and their relationship mended a little. It wasn't for a very long time that they actually made up, and it very close to Tigerstar's death. When she died, he made the decision to change his name in memory of her. He became known as Shelltiger.

A few moons later, the tribe decided to shelter in RiverClan, which was fine, till he received some disturbing dreams and together Icestar and Shelltiger sent the tribe cats back home, where they started VolcanoClan.

A very long while after that, Shelltiger along with the other leaders and medicine cats was sucked into the Dark Forest by Spiderfrost during Lunarstar's event. He didn't really have much part in the event other than that. He escaped via portal eventually and chose Tumblepaw as his new apprentice, knowing he probably wouldn't have much time left and needed an apprentice to carry the medicine cat of RiverClan title in his pawsteps.