Ravenstar

Art by Demi

SeaClan

## **Description**

A glossy dark grey, near black she-cat with three dark grey paws and one white-paw reaching a little bit above her left hind knee. Other white markings include a white ring around her tail and three white spots on her chest. Moreover, she has a darker grey left ear and dark amber eyes.

## **Personality**

Ravenstar is a rather compulsive and somewhat playful cat, although the playfulness can be taken as immaturity and childishness. Aside from these Ravenstar can show slight paranoia in who to trust and who to distrust. Furthermore, her loyalty for ReedClan runs high, she places her clan above anything else, even if this would cost lives or endanger other clans and factions.

## **Life-Events**

Ravenstar was born in ReedClan, earning the name Ravenkit, after her dark grey fur, claiming the name Ravenpaw after reaching the age of six moons. Hawthorneyes, back then known as Hawthorngaze the deputy of ReedClan, was appointed as her mentor. Together they specialised her in combat, while learning sneaky and cruel tricks to defeat any opponent that could someday face her. Besides the combat they would discuss plenty of plans and thoughts Ravenstar had back then, Hawthorngaze perceived most of these as rather problematic and had to tell her off countless of times.

During her apprenticeship the humongous gang war was on, ReedClan camp and territory were taken, and Ravenpaw spend some good days of her apprentice hood in CavernClan. Day by day her dislike towards the other clans, specifically CavernClan, and the gangs grew. This hate would later be released when she was out patrolling CavernClan territory with some other apprentices, while strolling passed the border the patrol picked up some gang scents, collectively the apprentices decided to hide in a tree and stay far away from trouble. However, upon seeing the gang cats Ravenpaw felt infuriated, resulting in her revealing their location and starting a battle on the spot.During this battle Ravenpaw suffered her first major defeat after Scythe beat her and broke her leg in a one to one fight. This would not be her last encounter with both Scythe and the gangs.

As time passed Ravenpaw met a gang cat, Jester, portraying himself as a poor loner kit, lost and alone. Ravenpaw in all her naivety and pureness believed him immediately, and this became the start of a deep rooted friendship. Unaware of Jester’s true intentions, destroying ReedClan from within using Ravenpaw as his pawn, she kept seeing him on a daily basis, exchanging pebbles for training. This continuous process continued for quite a well, up and till the final days of Ravenpaw’s apprenticeship. During these final days Ravenpaw finally dared to speak up for herself and told Jester no after he requested something. The sudden disobedience enraged Jester and resulted in him running his claws along her forehead, causing a faint scar still visible to this day on. After this incident Jester disappeared, leaving Ravenpaw with a broken heart and broken trust in those around her.

Shortly after Hawthorngaze decided to challenge the still young apprentice, if she managed to beat Hawthorngaze in battle, he would grant her with her warrior name. After plenty of failed attempts she finally managed to beat Hawthorngaze after he was already injured and weakened from a previous battle. She would be known as Ravenwhisper, a proud young warrior of ReedClan.

During her warriorship everything passed relatively calmly, until Cherrystar retired and Hawthorngaze was in need of a new deputy, this deputy would be Ravenwhisper. Despite her young age and lack of experience,Ravenwhisper was excited and looked forward to this new challenge in her life.As a deputy she would often keep her thoughts close to her chest, refusing to share them with Hawthorngaze, as she was used by him degrading and denying her ideas and thoughts during her apprenticeship. Commonly Ravenwhisper would accept Hawthorngaze’s final decision, but there were times in which she couldn’t, and would sneak out and figure out for herself whether or not he made the right decision.

One of these times also includes her second encounter with Scythe, back then the leader of The Glinting Claws, had come to ReedClan with a truce, a truce Hawthornstar had denied with all his might and power. A truce which sparked great interest for Ravenwhisper, that much interest she decided to ask and confront Scythe about it personally. Although nothing came out of the truce, Ravenwhisper had a blast talking to the former gang leader, deciding the gangs may not be that unreasonable and useless as often depicted by her fellow clanmates.

Nearing the end of Hawthornstar’s leadership The Society made their first appearance, a concept contrary to everything Ravenwhisper believed in. These were also the times in which Ravenwhisper spoke more often at gatherings, which enabled her to observe the leaders from The Society from close by. To her surprise, multiple former ReedClan members either joined or founded The Society once again damaging her trust in those surrounding her. During most battles against The Society she watched silently from the side line, attempting to assure the safety of Hawthornstar. The only damage she did during one of The Society battles was ending the life of Breeze. Notably not the first cat she had ever killed, during her apprentice days she drowned a loner named Rose.

During the times of Seaclan Ravenwhisper took on an unofficial apprentice, Sagepaw. Upon the first look at Sagepaw, Ravenwhisper recognized herself and decided Sagepaw must be protected and guided through life properly at all costs. Besides mentoring her, the two shes also found friendship between them. This friendship grew in a rapid pace, especially after Ravenwhisper and Sagepaw escaped the clan lands to release their anger onto some poor, innocent loner.

After the peace agreement Hawthornstar made with The Society, he called over Ravenwhisper to his den and exclaimed he would be stepping down as the current leader of ReedClan. In utter shock and disbelieve Ravenwhisper watched him head towards the elder den and leave her sitting all alone at the foot of the leader’s den. Knowing what she had to do, Ravenwhisper announced Hawthornstar’s retirement during the following gathering, the reaction from the other leaders was everything but kind and welcoming. Their anger towards Hawthornstar and his peace agreement was massive, and it was released upon Ravenwhisper, confusing and infuriating her greatly. She exclaimed it was not her deal and neither had she supported it, but the other leaders had no speck of sympathy and empathy left and demanded her to solve it by next gathering. In absolute shock and anger, Ravenwhisper led her clan back home, claiming she would never, ever help the other three clans if they were in need. The next gathering, she announced she would lift the peace agreement on the spot, leaving her own clan in shook, but obtaining approving nods from her fellow leaders.

In between these two gatherings Ravenwhisper went to the Mooncavern with Cardinalgaze and Hawthornstar, to obtain her nine lives as the newly appointed leader of ReedClan. This went relatively smoothly, and after gaining her lives she named Tumblingwind as the next deputy of ReedClan. Tumblingwind being one of her closest friends and allies in ReedClan.

After the hardships passed Ravenstar managed to find an old friend, scattered and alone in ReedClan territory, Jester. After a long talk and forgiveness Ravenstar allowed Jester to join ReedClan, to boost the amount of warriors and finally have one of her first and closest friends nearby.

Ravenstar’s first official steps and changes made as a leader included hosting a ReedClan meeting, in which any cat would be allowed to bring up ideas, debate about them and later vote about them. She set up this clan gathering after feeling guilty about her compulsive dropping of the peace agreement with The Society. She did not want history to repeat itself, and wanted to show more transparency in her leadership. During the meeting Ravenstar managed to get all three of her plans through however, some of them underwent some alterations due to dissatisfaction within ReedClan.
The first official idea to pass the votes, without any amendments, was taking back Seaclan territory and use it as unofficial hunting grounds for ReedClan. Despite some hesitation here and there the majority of the Reedclanners saw the opportunity and voted in favour. The second idea was heavily debated and disliked at first. Ravenstar wanted to optionally lower the apprentice age to 5,5 moons, in which the newly named apprentices would take over basic apprentice chores and explore and discover ReedClan territory. Many cats, including Cardinalgaze, Havenwaters and Snakesoul were not in favour and questioned the safety of their young ones. After some arguing back and forth ReedClan settled onto actively encouraging 5,5 moon old kittens to help around in camp, while keeping their suffix -kit. The third idea included bringing loners and kittypets into ReedClan to boost their number of warriors. Many agreed, and a many believed they were already doing it. Moods changed however, when Ravenstar mentioned taking in older loners, as many doubted the loyalty, especially after the hassle with The Society. In the end they settled on kittens only.

During this meeting Ravenstar also mentioned the arrival of a stranger to the clan, Jester. She brought up how he would be staying with them permanently, but that punishment would await if he screwed up.

The day after the meeting Ravenstar and Jester headed out, to attend some personal business. This business included murdering a loner and a gang cat, while confiscating their kits, turning them into the newest members of ReedClan. After Jester suffocated the father to death, and Ravenstar slashed the mother’s throat the kittens were theirs. After meeting up with Dancingwave at the border, the kittens were safely carried into ReedClan’s nursery and were given the names Crowkit, Cinderkit, Tundrakit and Thunderkit respectfully.

Ravenstar’s second controversial act was banishing Antwatcher, after he spoke up against her. Not wanting to have a risky warrior, one who could raise suspicion and doubt about her leadership, in ReedClan, she decided to exile him for good.

Her quarrel with Antwatcher would never truly end, her amusement in tormenting the tom overpowering the desire to leave Antwatcher alone. Multiple conversations happened along the CavernClan and ReedClan border and the gathering place, each conversation sending Antwatcher into more doubt and insecurity about his believes and sanity.

Shortly after Antwatcher’s banishment, Ravenstar would give birth to her first daughter, Rainykit. Full of love, fear and shame, Ravenstar would lose her first official life. Knowing the full truth regarding the father of her daughter, she remained quiet, worried for a humongous scandal.

Around this time tensions between CavernClan and ReedClan grew massively, resulting in their first official border fight. Unclear who won, Ravenstar claimed victory for her and ReedClan, her confidence increasing rapidly and her opinions on CavernClan shifting at a similar pace. Believing CavernClan was everything but strong, Ravenstar planned the first official battle, hoping ReedClan could successfully invade CavernClan and claim another victory. Quite the contrary happened, clueless and lost in the tunnels of their enemy, Curlingstar and CavernClan ran into them and made sure to revenge their previous loss. The anger within Curlingstar reached limits Ravenstar hadn’t experienced before, resulting in the loss of her second life. Soon after she awakened ReedClan ran for their lives, leaving behind Rustrunner, a warrior she valued greatly.

Shortly after the anger within the young leader was released onto Lynxpaw, a CavernClan apprentice she kidnapped a while back. Knowing Lynxpaw was Curlingstar’s son, Ravenstar made him tell everyone he deflected from CavernClan, after he doubted his father’s leadership.

Once her angered melted away, Ravenstar would experience a lengthy period of sadness and emptiness. Her daughter as an apprentice, the loss of Hawthorneyes, the loss against CavernClan while her deals and alliances dropped left and right weighed down heavily on her. The only sources of light during these hard times were her conversations with Cragpaw, the comfort Jester offered her and her brand new alliance with Ashstar from GladeClan.

## **Lives**

Ravenwhisper got her lives from the following cats in the
following order,

* Cinderop, who gave her the life of love
	+ Lost after giving birth to Rainypaw
* Smokeflash, who gave her the life of mercy
	+ Lost during a battle with Curlingstar
* Smokestar, who gave her the life of pride
	+ Lost during a battle with Lynxstorm
* Dustyflow, who gave her the life of faith
	+ Lost while she saved Amberkit from drowning
* Lightdapple, who gave her the life of friendship
	+ Lost due to green cough, in the presence of Tumblingwind
* Acornstar, who gave her the life of happiness
	+ Lost while she was sleeping, murdered by Cardinalgaze
* Gloomyhollow, who gave her the life of vigilance
	+ Lost during the revolutionary battle, killed by Swanfrost
* Kestrelbounce, who gave her the life of honour
	+ Lost during a fight with Blackpool and Thunderhowl
* Monsoonstar, who gave her the life of wisdom
	+ Lost during a battle with Curlingstar

## **Quotes**

*“We can’t change the past, we can only change the future”* - to Snakesoul, about Jester joining ReedClan

*“Me neither, Hawthorneyes is a cat of many words.. too many words.” -* To Snakesoul, about Hawthorneyes

*"They're a bunch of rebel rats, if you'd ask me."* - to Jester, about The Society

*"You'll regret the day you spoke out against me Antwatcher, you'll regret it until your last dying day"* - to Antwatcher about his betrayal.