Flintpaw

**Flintpaw** is an orange and gray striped tabby tom with yellow eyes.

#### Allegiances

Flintkit is listed under Allegiance Update 4 as a kit of Shadowclan, the son of Greenpine and Cliffshade.

Flintpaw is listed under Allegiance Update 5 and Allegiance Update 6 as an apprentice of Shadowclan, being mentored by Swiftstalker.

#### Chapter 17

When Brownstripe and Diamondrain's bodies are brought to camp and Depthstar calls a meeting to discuss the murders, Ebonykit squeaks from the nursery "What's going on?".

Greenpine hesitantly says it's nothing and tells her to come back and play with Flintkit. Bloodfur can understand why she doesn't want her kits to see the bodies. They're only a moon old and don't need to be exposed to such things.

#### Chapter 18

When confronting Bloodfur, Cliffshade bares his teeth and says that ShadowClan has no room for murderers, especially when he has kits in the nursery, referring to Ebonykit and Flintkit. Bloodfur bristles angrily as he asks if he thinks he'd harm kits, and Cliffshade lashes his tail as he states he wouldn't put it past a murderer.

Chapter 21

Outside the nursery, Greenpine is watching Ebonykit and Flintkit play. When she sees Bloodfur, she quickly murmurs to them and herds them back into the nursery.

#### Chapter 22

Depthstar calls a clan meeting, and Ebonykit and Flintkit excitedly race out of the nursery. Ebonykit encourages her brother to hurry, as he's nervously hanging back. Greenpine licks his ear and promises it'll be alright. They near the meeting rock, and Depthstar apprentices Flintpaw to Swiftstalker, who greets him with a friendly purr. Flintpaw eagerly touches noses with him.

#### Chapter 28

Revengeheart and Deserve emerge from the den where they were speaking, and Deserve tells him he'll send a patrol tonight. Swiftstalker nervously asks his brother what he did, and Revengeheart's eyes gleam as he responds he's found a solution to getting rid of their apprentices. Swiftstalker is alarmed and argues that they could recruit Ebonypaw and Flintpaw, but Revengeheart angrily insists the apprentices are weak and a waste of their time. The sooner they're dead, the better.

Deserve asks Castiel to arrange a patrol to go to the burnt sycamore where Revengeheart has arranged for the apprentices to be for a training session. Castiel asks Revengeheart to lead the way, and he does so. As the group leaves, Bloodfur watches, saddened that they're going to kill the apprentices.

#### Chapter 29

Bonfire, Papercut, and Patch are laughing and boasting about their attack on Ebonypaw and Flintpaw. Bloodfur sadly wishes they'd shut up about it. He'd been horrified when Castiel's patrol had returned early that morning and delivered the news. The apprentices had been brutally outnumbered and unprepared. Papercut and Castiel had killed Flintpaw with ease. Castiel and Papercut slash open Ebonypaw's stomach just before a ShadowClan patrol arrives, and they flee the scene. The soldiers have been bragging about it all day.

Bloodfur feels sorry for them. He notes that Flintpaw was too young to die, like Cardinalpaw. Though Cliffshade was horrible to him, Bloodfur feels he doesn't deserve to lose his kits.

## Quotes

*"I'm nervous!"*

-Flintkit to Ebonykit about being apprenticed in *"Shadows of Blood",* chapter 22

## Gallery

Flintpaw on the cover of Ebonypaw's LossEbonypaw wounded beside Flintpaw's body in the Revengeheart Victorious PMV.Flintpaw and Ebonypaw becoming apprentices in the Revengeheart Victorious PMV.

## Character Development and Origins

Originally, Firetail and Greenpine were mates and in the same clan. They were the parents of Ebonystripe, Flintspark, Maroonheart, Sunfire, Leopardthorn, and Brightwing.

In an early description, he is described as an orange tom with dark ginger and dark gray stripes, and dark ginger paws. He had yellow eyes.

In Revengeheart's original story, he wants to avenge Poisonedsap and destroy ThunderClan. He plans to become leader of ShadowClan in order to do this, but first needs an apprentice to become deputy.

He's annoyed when he's given Ebonypaw as an apprentice, as he wanted a strong young tom who would follow his path to glory. Revengeheart is furious with Ebonypaw's lack of skill and ambition, and sends she and her brother, Flintpaw to a fox den in hopes that she'll be killed. Instead, Flintpaw dies, and Ebonypaw lives. When ShadowClan discovers Revengeheart's plot, he's exiled.

I roleplayed with Ebonystripe a few times on a website called Kugyay. She has a scar across her belly from the attack, and is very much traumatized by her experience and mourns for her brother, Flintpaw. This concept is seen in Ebonypaw's Loss.

Later I considered having Flintpaw survive and live on to become Flintspark, however I ended up going with the original idea of his death in Shadows of Blood.