Stripe

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**Stripe** is a brown tabby she-cat with hazel eyes.

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## Trivia

### Author statements

* Stripe is named after A23 "Stripe", a killer whale from the Northern Resident community. She is famously known for being the mother of Corky II, the eldest killer whale in captivity.

## Detailed description

Stripe is a brown tabby she-cat with hazel eyes. She is a small build and is described as an old she-cat, evident in the way she carries herself. Her fur is a dusty brown with very distinctive tabby striping. If close enough, a cat can see flecks of gray flecked on her muzzle.

## Personality and traits

Stripe is a wary and cautious cat at first, owing to her experiences in her youth. She is completely distrustful of twolegs and can take a while to even warm up to new cats like Hali. It is thought that Stripe's main passion and goal in life is to protect and nuture her kits, and their subsequent kin. She holds her remaining kits close and is known for adopting those in need (such as Okisollo). This warmth is what many know her to have if they've grown up with her around. This is particularly true for her kits and close friends.
It is also thought that Stripe has been a leader of her cats for countless moons. She holds their respect due to her experience and age. The she-cat's attitudes in life serve as an inspiration to Hali as she deals with her own problems. Stripe shows herself as a confident leader, sure in her thoughts and words. She doesn't think of herself as a born leader instead more of as a grown one. She recounts her experiences as lessons, and uses them as such for younger cats. In this, Stripe is also rather stubborn and somewhat stuck in her ways. To her, if something has worked before it will continue to do so and doesn't need change. Because of this, she clashed with some other strong personalities and continued to do so well into her older years.
## Relationships

### Kin

#### Unnamed daughter

Stripe is known amongst her community as a mother, as many know of her two kits - Fife and Ripple. However, only a few can recall her third, eldest kit, who she had some moons before Ripple. Stripe had been a young mother at the time and the young she-cat she had given birth to was her entire world. The she-cat's world would be turned upside down though when their den had been discovered by Twolegs. In a rush and the following commotion her daughter was caught and trapped by the twolegs, and from that night Stripe never saw her daughter again. According to her son, Fife, Stripe misses her kit dearly but refuses to talk about it.
#### Ripple and Fife

Ripple and Fife are Stripe's youngest kits, having had them some years following her eldest daughter. The pair proved to be a handful for Stripe as at the time, she had become the eldest mother within her group of cats and other she-cat's looked to her for guidance. She loves her two surviving kits dearly and sometimes holds them very close, Ripple moreso than Fife due to her pertaining fear. She was beyond excited to become a grandmother to Ripple's own daughter, Midsummer, and more recently, a great-grandmother to her first litter.
Stripe holds some high expectations for Ripple too. She lives with the assumption that the younger she-cat will take over as their group's leader in her passing. She sees good promise in her, especially after seeing how she had raised Midsummer and subsequently helped other younger mother's out as the group began expanding. With her son Fife, Stripe considers him her baby boy and tries to hold him close. His adventurous nature makes this difficult, and her advancing age doesn't help either. But, Stripe tries to stick with him to ensure his safety, but she knows that he can look after himself and finds himself in good company with Hali.
#### Midsummer, Fern, Eliot, and Ne'nakw

Midsummer is Stripe's grandchild through Ripple, and Midsummer's own kits are her great-grandchildren. Like her own kits, Stripe holds a great level of affection for them. She holds hope that her family will remain strong and healthy.
### Other cats

#### Okisollo

As she was grieving the loss of her daughter Stripe fell into what could only be described as a depressive state. In the same raid of Twolegs that had taken her daughter, Okisollo, a young tom, had lost his mother. Seeking comfort of one of the only other she-cats without kits, he sought out Stripe. She took him in without any sort of a question and raised him as her own. She knew in her heart he would never replace who she had lost, but in taking care of him she learnt to enjoy motherhood once again.
## Family

### Members

**Daughters:**

Unnamed she-cat: Status unknown
Ripple: Living (As of *Hali's Home*)
**Son:**

Fife: Living (As of *Hali's Home*)
**Adoptive Son:**

Okisollo: Living (As of *Hali's Home*)
**Granddaughters:**

Midsummer: Living (As of *Hali's Home*)
Pouriliu: Deceased, verified StarClan member
Morning Wave: Living (As of *Hali's Home*)
Little Sun: Living (As of *Hali's Home*)
**Grandson:**

Dark Water: Living (As of *Hali's Home*)
**Great-Granddaughter:**

Eliot: Living (As of *Hali's Home*)
**Great-Grandson:**

Fern: Living (As of *Hali's Home*)
**Great-Grandkit:**

Ne'nakw: Living (As of *Hali's Home*)
### Biological tree

    = **Male**

    = **Female**

    = **Gender unknown**

### Adoptive tree

    = **Male**

    = **Female**

    = **Gender unknown**

## Appearances

* *Hali's Home* † (First appearance)

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## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Revealed in *Hali's Home*, page epilogue
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Revealed in *Hali's Home*, allegiances
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Revealed in *Hali's Home*, page prologue
4. ↑ Revealed in *Hali's Home*
5. ↑ Revealed in Max's notes