Cinderstripes

''*Not really. It was all very boring. No one had any remotely interesting drama. What does a cat have to do to get at least one love triangle? Honestly"*
— Cinderstripes to Snakeheart in Trouble Amid

## Arc Appearances

### Deceased

The Codeless Clan

Cinderstripes was a NeedleClan elder under Lambcloud, Snowstar and Codstars leadership. She was born alonside Boulderkit to Spirit, a loner and Badgermask, a SwiftClan warrior. They moved to Needleclan so that they could be together, but Spirit died of childbirth soon after Cinderkits birth. Cinderkit often felt out of place and judged by the cats in Needleclan for not being from there. One day she decided to sneak out to DeerClan with her brother. A young kit named Snakekit followed them along, and Cinderkit was irritated and grumpy with him because she thought he wouldn't be able to keep up and would get them caught. On the way back to camp, she was attacked by a fox, and Snakekit managed to distract it and save her, ending with him becoming injured.

After that, she and Snakekit became very close, and she also befriended his brothers Birchkit and Breezekit. One day while they were out playing together, Cinderkit came across a dead SwiftClan apprentice with Snakekit, unaware he was the one who'd killed him. Cinderkit found out he was training in the dark forest and was furious, but they later made up.

As an apprentice, Fawnspeckle threatened to kill Cinderpaw if Snakepaw didn't kill Deer. However, Snakepaw ended up accidently killing Deer, after she leapt in front of Fawnspeckle. Snakepaw was shaken by this, and Cinderpaw comforted him. A few moons afterwards, Cinderpaw was kidnapped by her fathers former friend, Mousewing and a she-cat named Lavendarleaf because of her Swiftclan heritage and brought there. Snakepaw allowed her to be taken, thinking she'd be better off there. However, Cinderpaw was rescued by Needleclan and returned. She was furious at Snakepaw, who ran away.

Cinderpaw was made a warrior and re-named Cinderstripes. One day, she came across Snakepaw, now a rogue, with Birchfern and invited him back into the clan. Snakepaw was renamed Snakeheart, and he and Cinderstripes became mates. Cinderstripes also discovered her brother was seeing a Deerclan warrior named Keepermoth, but decided not to tell anyone.

Later on, she became pregnant and went into early labour due to stress caused by Ivyshadow and had four kits; Hollykit, Antkit, Rookkit and Shadekit. Antkit was cursed with prophecies by Starclan, and was very stressed because of this. Cinderstripes hated watching her son suffer and struggled to comfort him and Shadekit. Soon after their apprentice ceremony, Antpaw was killed, as well as Shadepaw, supposedly. Cinderstripes turned completely against Starclan from that point forward, believing they tortured her son and killed two of her kits for no reason.

A few moons later, Cinderstripes developed dementia, and after Snakehearts death to Ivyshadow, completely lost her grip on reality. She was killed by a fox a couple of moons later.

## Personality

Cinderstripes is fierce, sarcastic, hot-tempered and stubborn. She's sharp tongued and occasionally rude, and she hates being bossed around. She's caring, loving and determined, as well as extremely loyal. She can be grumpy and irritational, but she really just wants what's best for everyone. She doesn't think much of Starclan, and either loves or hates someone, no inbetween.

## Kin

### Mate:

Snakeheart *(deceased, as of The Codeless Clan (arc))*

### Parents:

Spirit *(deceased as of Fatekeeper's Wrath)*

Badgermask *(deceased as of* The Codeless Clan (arc))

### Kits:

Antpaw *(decased as of Trouble Amid)*

Shadefeather *(deceased as of The Codeless Clan (arc))*

Rookstalker *(alive)*

Hollybelly (*alive)*

## Appearances

Fatekeeper's Wrath

Trouble Amid

The Codeless Clan (arc)

## Trivia

- Cinderstripes has no sense of smell, which is why she dislikes hunting

-Cinderstripes is afraid of pigeons