Blackmoon

Blackmoon is the leader and founder of PROTESTS, an organization in favour of Talonstar. He looks up to her,

## Personality

Blackmoon is evil. He seems calm and kind on the surface, but in reality, although he does have a code of honour. he is cruel, bloodthirsty and power-hungry. He is also rather manipulative and charming. However, he is fiercely loyal to some cats and is willing to die to pursue his beliefs and protect the cats he cares about. He is also calm, confident and a skilled leader. However he is very reckless and impatient, and can make rash decisions. He also angers easily.

## Appearance

Blackmoon is tall and slender, with long, thin limbs. He also has a long tail. He has short black (melanistic) fur, broken up by darker spots along his back. He has two round, whiteish circles around his eyes. His eyes are bright yellow. His ears are very large and rounded. After the battle, Blackmoon gets his left ear mostly torn off, and also gets scars on his back (all from Willowwhisp).

## History

### During RP

Blackmoon has always admired Talonstar, and a few months ago (irl) he decided to create a group, Pro-Talonstar (or PROTESTS) to support her. While looking for members, he met a rogue tiger named Striker, who also supported Talonstar, and they founded the group together. A while later Blackmoon met Talonstar properly for the first time, and she (Talonstar) learned of PROTESTS.

Blackmoon and Striker began recruiting members to join PROTESTS, and they were very successful; although PROTESTS didn't grow to nearly the size of ANTS, it had a sizable force. Later on in the RP, the Final Battle began, and Blackmoon led PROTESTS into battle. He fought Ivorystar and took one of her lives, but he was scarred and knocked out by Willowwhisp in the process. He came round only to learn that Talonstar was "dead". Horrified, Blackmoon became severely depressed and refused to hold PROTESTS meetings, believing his group was now a waste of time.

Some time after the battle, Blackmoon received his first ever apprentice, Ibispaw. He and the young leopard had previously got along very well when Ibispaw was a kit, but tensions are beginning to grow between the two since Ibispaw has taken a dislike to Talonstar and PROTESTS. Blackmoon later met Striker at the border, and she revealed that Talonstar is actually alive. Blackmoon began preparing his forces to fight ANTS and help Talonstar reign over PounceClan once more.

A little later on, one of Blackmoon's senior PROTESTS members, Nightstalker, started a revolution to take down Darkstar and the rest of ANTS. Blackmoon helped her with the planning and enacting of the revolution, and currently he is helping Nightstalker and the rest of PROTESTS to take Darkstar and PounceClan down.

### Pre-RP

From the project "Blackmoon's backstory - at last!".

WARNING: CONTAINS THEMES OF DEATH, KI//ING AND OVERALL AWFUL ACTIONS. IF THIS TRIGGERS YOU, PLEASE DO NOT READ. You should be ok with this if you’re ok with the stuff that’s roleplayed in TWC, though.

Blackmoon used to be a loner named Mercury. He had two younger siblings, Venus (who was male) and Pluto (who was female). His mother had always wanted a daughter and made no secret that Pluto was her favourite child. Mercury and Venus were somewhat pushed aside; they formed a very close bond because of this. When the kits were all about three moons old, Pluto got sick and d!ed. Her mother was completely distraught, and neglected Venus and Mercury due to her grief. The two kits learned to be very independent and self-sufficient. Mercury loved Venus fiercely and became very protective of him.

When Mercury and Venus were six moons old. Their mother told them that they needed to make their own way in the world. Mercury got very angry with his mother, accusing her of wanting to get rid of them because she loved Pluto more than them. Despite the fact that this was not the case, Mercury refused to believe his mother and he and Venus left her. The two brothers lived as loners for some time, but Venus was eventually ki//ed by a hyena. Mercury was grief-stricken and blamed their mother for his brother’s de@th. He swore revenge on her.

Mercury lived alone for a few moons. One day, while out hunting, he met a caracal named Cherrypaw. Cherrypaw tried to fight him, but he beat her. Later on Mercury saved Cherrypaw from a crocodile, and he was invited to join Cherrypaw’s Clan, SpringClan. He was given the name Blackpaw. Blackpaw and Cherrypaw became very good friends.

Blackpaw soon proved to be brave, intelligent and strong, but a little bit ruthless. Despite this, he was a great member of the Clan. At his first Gathering, Blackpaw first encountered Talonstar (then Talonstrike) and he grew to admire her greatly. Because of this, he wasn’t made a warrior until he was about twenty-four moons old, because Speedstar didn’t really trust him. Also, it caused Blackpaw and Cherrypaw’s relationship to really go downhill. Cherrypaw had been good friends with Blackpaw for a long time (and at one point it looked like they would be more than friends) but the two of them started arguing and fighting a lot, because Cherrypaw hated Talonstar because she thought she was cruel and vicious. Speedstar eventually gave Cherrypaw the warrior name of Cherrywing.

Blackpaw became jealous of Cherrywing getting her warrior name before him even though they were the same age, and that Speedstar actually trusted her. This caused Blackpaw and Cherrywing’s relationship to sour even more. One day, they were out hunting together and Cherrywing mentioned wanting to be a member of ANTS, which at that time was a fairly new group. This enraged Blackpaw, and they fought each other. In the end Blackpaw pushed Cherrywing into the river, and she drowned. Blackpaw expected to feel guilty or sad, but he didn’t really feel anything.

Blackpaw went back to camp and told them that Cherrywing had fallen into the river by accident and drowned. Although Speedstar didn’t really believe him, there was no evidence that Blackpaw had done anything to Cherrywing, so she accepted his story and gave him his warrior name of Blackmoon. Blackmoon was ecstatic to finally be a warrior. Later on, he went back to his mother and took his revenge on her by ki//ing her.

Many moons later, Blackmoon decided to start a group to support Talonstar - Pro-Talonstar, or PROTESTS. And so his story begins.

- END

## Trivia

(STRENGTHS)

Blackmoon is very skilled at hunting and fighting. He is nimble and agile, and can overpower cats larger than him using his swift movements. He jumps very high using his long limbs, and also has extremely sensitive hearing; he will hear an approaching cat long before anyone else. He is also good at ambushing and blends in well hiding in the shadows.

(WEAKNESSES)

As previously stated, he gets easily impatient and despises waiting. He is also not very physically strong. His sense of loyalty can make it easy to lie to and deceive him. He is also constantly fanboying over Talonstar and how great she is XD.

(RANDOM FACTS):

- He was formerly a loner, named Mercury because all his siblings got planet names.

- His prefix is after his black fur, and his suffix is after his eye markings, which look like moons.

- He is the leader and founder (well, co-founder with Striker) of PROTESTS, a group which supports Talonstar.

- Blackmoon is actually my (Stormy's) favourite character to roleplay with, except Ibispaw.

- His main theme song is Everything Black by Unlike Pluto, and he was actually named after some of the lyrics in the song.

- He is deaf in his torn ear; however he still has very strong and sensitive hearing in his non-torn ear.

- He is the only leader in TWC not to have the "star" suffix. Blackmoon doesn't really want to be leader of a Clan, as he thinks it would be a disadvantage to him and he prefers just being a warrior, but if being a leader would help Talonstar, he'd be willing to do it.

- Blackmoon admires and respects Talonstar, but he doesn't feel anything more than that towards her (ie he doesn't feel romantically attracted to her).