Smokeface

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### StarClan Mentor(s)

Bouncestar, Fishpaw, Yarrowsnow, Breezeflight, Hazelkit, Elmclaw, Nimbleleap, Vixenbelly, Cinderflake

## Medicine Cat Position

### Succeeded by

Sorrelfoot

Smokeface was a ThunderClan elder who served under Poppystar's, Boulderstar's, Ashstar's, Harestar's, and Antstar's leaderships, living from Reverse 2 Generation through after Twenty-First Generation. She was born to Needlecloud and Sootmask, but her mother died during her birth and she was fostered by Robinkit's unknown mother. As a kit, she had the power to wander into StarClan and became friends with many StarClan cats. She was apprenticed to Nightshade, the medicine cat, for her powers, before training as a warrior apprentice under Ravenfur. As an apprentice, she gained nine lives from her StarClan friends. She mentored Boulderclaw. She mated with an albino cat outside the clans and gave birth to Snowkit and Spotkit. She died from battle wounds, drowning, smoke inhalation, deathberries, wound infection, lightning, a dog attack, and greencough before retiring to the elders' den and finally losing her final life to old age.

# Appearance

Very old gray she-cat with darker points as well as a nick in her ear, a bite mark on her tail, and a scar across her neck.

# History

Smokekit was born with an unexplained ability to walk with StarClan whenever she dreamed. She never had normal dreams, she always woke up in StarClan, and then would re-awaken back in the ThunderClan nursery. Newer, recently deceased StarClan found her an oddity and an intrusion, but all the old, nearly faded StarClan warriors were happy to entertain and chat with the little energetic kit as she wander their lands. She was their “special little star."  Her mother, Needlecloud, died when she was young, and her father, Sootmask, blamed it on her for being “weird,” believing StarClan has cursed her, as she always talked about her starry friends in the waking world. Nightshade, the current medicine cat of ThunderClan, took an interest in Smokekit, taking her under her wing for her gift. She was apprenticed to Nightshade, but she was always interested in being a warrior. Still, she remained a medicine cat apprentice for now as she was ‘closer’ to her StarClan friends. The non-faded StarClan cats wanted to use her to give warnings to the clans, while the soon-to-fade StarClan cats, her friends, wanted to tell her all about their lives and their clanmates, not wanting to be forgotten. Smokepaw preferred to just do whatever she wanted, so she never listened to the newer StarClan cats’ omens and prophecies.

Then, one day, she got a bright idea- what if she could have nine lives just like Poppystar, current leader of ThunderClan? She kept it a secret from everyone except her nine friends in StarClan who she trusted dearly. She suggested the idea to them, and they all eagerly agreed. They didn’t want their friend to die anytime soon, after all. She wouldn’t be able to keep their memory alive. And they all had never given a cat a life before. So, they gave her nine lives.

Unfortunately, this was soon discovered by the other StarClan cats, as she had gotten attacked by a WindClan apprentice during a battle between WindClan and ThunderClan fought. The apprentice hadn’t realized she was a medicine cat apprentice, and mistakenly clawed her. She didn’t know how to defend herself and got hit right in the throat. She died swiftly. The apprentice had panicked, but, then, she came back to life. He was confused, but she urged him to just leave, so he did, terrified out of his mind. She bandaged her scars and went about her duties. But, StarClan was furious, and told Nightshade of what her apprentice had done. Nightshade was curious, but insulted, because she felt like it was disrespectful to her sister, Poppystar. She banned Smokepaw from going to the Moonpool. But, Smokepaw could still walk with StarClan in her dreams. As she spoke with her StarClan friends, who had been banished to the Dark Forest for their crime, she decided to become a warrior instead, since StarClan would no longer share omens with her, and because of Nightshade and Poppystar's harsh treatment of her. Sorrelpaw, a recently made apprentice, happily took over the position of medicine cat apprentice. Poppystar appointed Smokepaw to her brother and the current deputy, Ravenfur.

StarClan wanted all of Smokepaw’s lives gone. So, as she was walking over the tree to get to the island for a gathering, a storm suddenly raged, making her fall into the water and drown, along with a few other warriors. She went onto her next life, though. The storm raged on, calmly, for the next quarter moon. She was anxious the entire time, and then, it happened. Lightning struck and a fire started. She was caught in the middle of fire. She escaped burns, but died from smoke inhalation. Sorrelpaw was the one to help her, and was very confused why her friend had somehow managed to live. Nightshade told her to shush. Ravenfur died in the fire, and Poppystar seemed to blame it on Smokepaw, as if she knew. An elder named Rattail also died, as Sorrelpaw had left his side to go find Smokepaw in the fire, leaving the elder in the care of a traumatized WindClan apprentice. Smokepaw's new mentor was Furzestep. Next time, StarClan went to Sorrelpaw, telling her to give Smokepaw a certain berry. She gave them to Smokepaw, believing they’d help her sore throat, but they were secretly deadly black nightshade berries. Smokepaw practically choked on them, and died. She resurrected, scaring Sorrelpaw badly, who was lost and confused, especially as Smokepaw, Nightshade and StarClan would explain nothing to her. Smokepaw became a warrior, Smokeface. During a battle with SkyClan, she got a small scar on her tail. But, it got infected. StarClan told Nightshade and Sorrelpaw not to heal it. Nightshade agreed, but Sorrelpaw was thoroughly confused. She tried to help Smokeface, but Nightshade would prevent her at every corner. Smokeface told her to let it be and let her die. Sorrelpaw refused, but could not save her. Smokeface died, and came back to life. Smokeface lived on rather peacefully for a bit.

Her former-StarClan, now-Dark Forest friends talked to her, wondering if her abilities were inherent. So she had kits, Snowkit and Spotkit, even if she was afraid they would recieve the same treatment as she had. She did want to be a mother. Additionally, it seemed as though her birth was the most difficult thing and the harshest pain she'd felt in her life. She was surprised she didn't lose a life during it. Spotkit seemed to wander into StarClan occasionally, but it was nothing as impressive as Smokeface's ability. Snowkit showed no signs of any gifts. StarClan left her alone to raise her kits. Once they were apprentices, Poppystar gave her her own apprentice, Boulderpaw. But, near the start of his apprenticeship, she got struck by lightning during a storm, killing her. Boulderpaw had seen it and was stunned she was still standing afterwards. She told him to be quiet, and to her surprise- knowing her apprentice- he did. He would send her curious glances, but never questioned anything. Then, one day, he lead her to Twolegplace, saying he had found something interesting. There, she was attacked by dogs as he watched. She was killed, and came back. She yelled at him, telling him not to listen to whatever StarClan commanded him to do, fearing for both of their lives. He responded, telling her it wasn’t StarClan. She was puzzled, and backed off. She wondered if it was the Dark Forest- they had always had an interest in her, but her friends got them to back off. But her friends told her they had never seen Boulderpaw in the Dark Forest before. This made her uneasy, wondering if Boulderpaw had acted on his own, purposely leading her to death.

Boulderpaw became a warrior, Boulderclaw. She watched his evil intentions grow, powerless to stop it. Her friends told him he *had* started walking in the Dark Forest- but only to meet with his mother, Thistlesong of SkyClan, who had died and gone there. Seemingly, he had been meeting her in the real world before her death, along with his brothers. Smokeface was worried what he would do, especially since the coincidental death of Furzestep, allowing Boulderclaw to become deputy. And StarClan was too worried about her to care about Boulderclaw and his family. She even watched her own daughter, Snowshard, turn towards the dark side. Finally, though, she caught greencough, and couldn’t handle it. Spotstorm, her daughter, and Sorrelfoot stayed loyally by her side as StarClan killed her off one more time, leaving her on her last life. And… then, Smokeface decided to retire to the elders’ den. She was old, weary, and worn out from all her death. And, finally, StarClan left her alone to worry about the actual problems with the clans, with the rise of Boulderstar, and BoneClan, and the Dark Forest’s meddling… And she watched it all happen from the elders’ den, until, finally, *finally,* she passed away one last time in her sleep from old age. She appeared in StarClan, but was chased into the Dark Forest, but she didn’t mind. She was with her friends.

# Fun Facts

* She has distant Sisters blood on her mother's side.
* Most likely the oldest cat to have ever lived due to her nine lives and having been vaccinated by Twolegs at some point.
* The WindClan apprentice who attacked her was Driftleap.
* The scar on her ear was from Nightshade, the scar on her throat was from Driftpaw, and the scar on her tail was from Honeysplash.
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