Jaggedthorn

## Appearance:

Art by @luvvydo on Discord

Large dark brown and black striped tom with scars on his shoulders, muzzle, chest, cheek, head and neck. He also has a torn ear. His eyes are amber-green and look different colors under certain light. He has long Jagged claws that are unkempt, gnarly and sharp.

## Reputation:

Jaggedthorn is known by many as the type of cat to be heroic, buff and just all-around danger. Jaggedthorn was also popular in Windclan because of his sharp claws and Fightclan status. He was the leader of Fightclan and was notorious for having a fan-club of aspiring kits to be just like him. His biggest and rather infamous incident that took place was when he challenged the Thunderclan leader at a gathering. While he had gotten punished, many agreed with what he had to say. They liked how he stood up despite the consequences. That's why many were shocked to know such a potentially amazing warrior would be discovered as a murderer.

## Present:

When Jaggedthorn was exiled he felt his whole world crumble. Everything he had known previously and his whole life, he had to leave behind. It hurt to do so but he knew he had damaged his clanmates far too much. And he couldn't bear to walk by them every sun-up knowing that they knew what he did.

Jaggedthorn and Firerose would become official mates, proclaiming their blossoming love for one another shortly after building a den within a thicket. Firerose was sick and surprisingly was found pregnant and diagnosed by Stork, a fellow kittypet who brought them water during the heatwave. Jaggedthorn is doubtful of his ability to be a father, having grown up without one.

Jaggedthorn's only motivation to keep going is Firerose. He wants her to be safe and so he'd make sure she was. Jaggedthorn would run into a she-cat loner named Stork who would taunt him at first. Soon Jaggedthorn would scare her into gathering information for him about this supposed "Kin", a group of loners and kitty-pets who were out for clan blood.

He would be sure they didn't hurt Firerose any more than she already was.

Just recently, Jaggedthorn had run into a fellow Windclanner, or... in their case, an ex-windclanner. Jaggedthorn would be inside of his burrow when he'd hear Flowerpaw's voice call to him. Then a dog chased her up a tree. Jaggedthorn would fend off the dog and go toe to toe with it, risking his own safety for his ex-clanmate's. Unfortunately, when Jaggedthorn notice the collar on the dog, he rushed to safety, tossing some prey from the shrubbery in hopes that the dog would chase after it instead of waiting for Flowerpaw to fall from the tree. The twolegs came and took Flowerpaw. He had felt at fault for not successfully keeping Flowerpaw safe, even if he didn't have to.

He truly felt horrible when he heard her screaming for him as she was being carried away. He thought back to Fallfire and when he watched her life drain from her gaze. He felt sick and sought comfort in Firerose.

Jaggedthorn and Firerose found out they were expecting kits. The kin, during this time, show up and attack them. Jaggedthorn is fighting against three cats at once while Scorn is preoccupied with Firerose. A pregnant Firerose. Jaggedthorn puts up a big enough fight to cause Harbringer, the leader of the Kin, to retreat. Firerose fends off Scorn well until he sends a rough blow to Firerose's belly.

Firerose and Jaggedthorn recover from the attack, but Firerose is quick to give birth. The first two kits come out fine, except the last one... Which heavily resembles Fallfire. This last kit was also a stillborn, prompting Jaggedthorn to begin questioning whether this was a sign from Starclan. He became frantic with apologizing before he buried his own daughter, giving her the name Fallkit in honor of the cat he so wrongfully killed. He gave her a burial. A proper one unlike the Fallfire she was named after.

Jaggedthorn gives her a final goodbye and gives her a farewell as she leaves for Starclan.

Eventually both Firerose and Jaggedthorn drop their two remaining kits: Lavenderkit and Bluekit, off at Windclan and pass them off as loners to Ashenspirit. Ashenspirit brings them into camp and Bluekit and Lavenderkit are officially Windclan kits. Jaggedthorn and Firerose felt unfit due to their own trauma, to raise their own kits. And after they got rid of the kits, Firerose and Jaggedthorn both gave each other alone time. They split for a moon and then reunited with each other. Jaggedthorn met a kit named Cuddlebug while Firerose was off, trying to better herself, and was slowly and steadily becoming like a father-figure to this kitty-pet.

Jaggedthorn was becoming kinder and then came to grips that the past was the past. And that if he wanted to keep Firerose happy, he too, would need to be happy. His mind had to undergo a lot of personal healing during the time she left him alone. And when Firerose returned, she returned to many nuzzles across her face. Jaggedthorn seemed different. Being alone helped the two realize why they were together, and so they both returned to each other and kept closer than glue.

## Past:

Jaggedkit was born to Lightningstar and Sorrelfeather's litter of four. Lightningstar and Sorrelfeather both died before he could meet them, and so he would never know just exactly who his parents were. MIntstar, Eagleflight, Ashenspirit, and Lilyleap all acted as parental figures in Jaggedkit's life, although he wouldn't admit it until later on. He would be the first to find out who Lightnigstar and Sorrelfeather were out of his siblings, and after he found out they had died, he couldn't help but feel he was cursed. Why did none of the other kits not have parents? It was no fair.

His kithood was plagued by visions of Starclan. He had a dream of ash which would choke him and make it hard for him to breathe. The medicine cats would brush it off and tell him he had asthma. Jaggedkit knew differently. During this time, he was also struggling to grasp why he felt as though he was different. Jaggedkit felt so alone and yet wouldn't speak to those who wanted to be there for him: his parental figures. This would also be the time he would get into a fight with a she-kit who in the future he would call his mate. Her name was Firekit.

Firekit would meet Jaggedkit by asking why he was crying, to which the tom-kit would lash out at her. It ended in them both tussling with a draw. Later on Jaggedkit would witness Firekit being swooped up by an eagle, leaving the she-kit permanently weak in one of her legs. He felt as though it was his fault. Just like it was with his own parent's deaths. He felt as though his very aura would bring pain and suffering. He began meeting with Firekit in the medicine den to cheer her up, and so their friendship had began.

Jaggedpaw would receive his apprentice name and would deliver Firekit a rose to show he was there for her. He of course wouldn't admit it was from him, but from the perm queen Bluesong. He removed the thorns and Firekit believed it to be incomplete without the thorns. Jaggedkit saw himself as a thorn and Firekit as the rose, claiming that all thorns did was cause pain. It would continue with them speaking in the medicine den before Firekit would receive her name and also join apprenticeship with Jaggedpaw.

Jaggedpaw, during his apprenticeship, had spoken out in the middle of a gathering. He was furious with what Thunderclan had said about Windclan, and so insulted Palestar by calling him "one-eye". He then goes on to threaten all of Thunderclan before being taken away by Goldensting.

Despite being punished harshly by being forced to remain in camp for a whole moon, even for training, this didn't stop him from going out in the middle of the night to train with a group he called "Fight Clan". And they would train with claws.

Jaggedpaw had founded Fight Clan on the premise that apprentices could learn how to protect themselves during dangerous situations involving other cats. He would fuel any other cat's drive to join by claiming that it was to better their skills. He, also during this time, exchanged information with Hawkpaw to teach him a bit of herb usage.

Jaggedpaw would continue training undercover until one night while sneaking out, Fallpaw and Sparkpaw would follow. He reluctantly let them watch but that didn't mean everyone was satisfied. Fallpaw had grown bitter about this horrid secret.

Fallpaw and Jaggedpaw would prepare to head home from a Fight Clan meeting, but not before a few harsh words were exchanged, and it ended with Fallpaw dead. Firepaw had seen the very last moments that Jaggedpaw had struck her down. He had only struck her once on the neck.

He was shattered to know he had done this, and in a fit of fear, both Jaggedpaw and Firepaw tossed her body over the stream between Windclan and Thunderclan.

Jaggedpaw would remain much more quieter the next few nights. Firepaw would too. Eventually Firepaw would break, and would no longer be able to contain such a secret to cover for her love.

A big meeting was called upon and thus, Mintstar would exile Jaggedpaw, but it was clear on Mintstar's face that she despised doing so. Jaggedpaw had felt guilty for killing Fallpaw, who then received her warrior name: Fallfire.

Jaggedpaw was exiled alongside his future mate, Firepaw. They would receive their warrior names secretly by the Windclan leader: Firerose and Jaggedthorn, because their bond and their everlasting love. Jaggedthorn would protect his rose. As he was the thorn.

Jaggedthorn and Firerose would make a makeshift den in late leaf-bare, settling there as loners would be unfortunate to pass by them. Jaggedthorn has grown more wise since the incident, and only blames himself. Jaggedthorn would become more protective of his mate, Firerose, and would defend her with his life.

## Quotes:

* "What do you think flowers could say if they could talk?" --Jaggedthorn to Firerose in the nursery.
* “And I failed to listen to the warnings that my father sent me in my dreams. And now I'm being exiled. Now my lover is being exiled. I'm worthless.” -- Jaggedthorn in response to Blackmoor. He was being exiled for his crimes, and took the exile with acceptance despite wanting to stay.
* “May Starclan light your path, Fallkit. May Lightningstar, Sorrelfeather, and all of our ancestors greet you in Starclan.” -- Jaggedthorn's goodbye to his dead stillborn as he buries her.