Gorsestar

### Aliases/Past Names

PAST NAMES: Gorsekit (kitten), Gorsepaw (medicine apprentice, warrior apprentice), Gorsestorm (warrior, deputy), Gorse that Weathers Storm (honorary Tribe of Rushing Water member)

NICKNAMES: Gorse, Gorsey, Gorseypie

### Affiliation

StarClan (currently), RiverClan (formerly)

### Immediate Family

MATE: Furstar (F☠️), Streamstar (formerly, F☠️)
PARENTS: Yewheart (F☠️), Tigertalon (M☠️)

SIBLINGS: Thistleburr (F☠️), Greytuft (M☠️), Rabbitfoot (M☠️)

HALF-SIBLINGS: Crowstorm (M☠️)

KITS WITH STREAMSTAR: Halfpaw (M☠️), Lilyfire (F☠️), Otterflutter (F☠️). Whisperkit (F☠️), Briarpaw (maybe not his kit, F☠️), Sparkburr (F☠️), Ghostwing (F☠️).

KITS WITH FURSTAR: Shellfeather (F☠️), Streamsong (F☠️), Nettlepaw (M☠️), Dreamstep (F☠️). Wolfstar (M☠️), Badgertalon (M☠️), Copperkit (F☠️), Rainkit (F☠️), Darkkit (F☠️), Ivypaw (F☠️), Hollypaw (F☠️), Beechpaw (M☠️), Mistkit (F☠️).

ADOPTED KITS (not including Furstar's many ShadowClan adoptees): Dewcrow (M☠️), Swiftheart (F☠️) Shadow (M☠️), Shell (F☠️)

## Physical Appearance

### Pelt Colour

Dark chocolate-brown with some white markings

## Biographical Information

### Place of Death

Riverbank, original RiverClan forest territory

## Birth and Death

### Date of Birth

Bio accepted by Pebblestar in early 2017, at 17 moons old.

### Cause of Death

Crushed by landslide.Gave up remaining lives so his son, leader Wolfstar, could finally gain all 9.

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## Physical description

Gorsestar is a large and muscular tom who bears resemblance to a small brown bear. He was the largest cat in the Clans during his lifetime, and most of his relatives are also very tall.

A ticked Agouti with faintly banded tabby legs and fluffy long dark chocolate-brown fur, it is no surprise that he is descended from a mishmash of different breeds, especially from his kittypet mother's side. Most notably this lineage consisted of a few tall Norwegian Forest cats and sleek, angular Havana Browns.

He has dark mossy-green eyes, a dark pink nose, and a wide, angular face. His tail is long and fluffy with spiky tufts that never seem to sit flat. He has a white splotch on his chest and matching forepaw socks.

Even now he rests up in StarClan, his body is dotted with old battle scars - souvenirs of the trials and tribulations of his complex and traumatic past. He very visibly has two slash marks diagonally across his nose from a fight with his half-brother Crowstorm, and several nasty long scars across his stomach from Rabbitspring.

## Skills and Weaknesses

Gorsestar was quite capable at fishing due to all the practice he had in his age, and he was excellent at fighting - using brute force worked to his advantage very well due to his strength and size, and smaller cats would have to work a little harder to cause damage. However his heaviness also meant he was slower on his feet, and he had to put a lot of effort into becoming somewhat stealthy.

## Personality

Emotional and deeply stubborn when he believed in something, as a younger cat, Gorsestar could be quite argumentative and "stormy". However. he mellowed out a lot as he aged, realising not many situations were best solved with anger. He became generally very even-tempered and quite difficult to rile up. However, when something or someone genuinely angers him, it *really* angers him, leading to a fiery outburst of aggression.

Perhaps bolstered by his illegitimate birth, thoughout his life Gorsestar saw the warrior code as a set of loose guidelines as opposed to strict rules to live by. This was encouraged by - and encouraged, in turn - some unusual happenings. within his family. For example, he had a stable, happy relationship and several litters with beloved mate Furstar of ShadowClan, and many of his children (and siblings) switched Clans and had divided loyalties.

His first priority was almost always to do what he thought moral and noble in his heart. He forgave others' actions and gave second chances where not many cats would. This led to a reputation as an empathetic, virtuous, kind-hearted leader by his allies, and an overly trusting, pliable, dithering fool by others.

He was not afraid to speak against friends when he thought they were being cruel or making a mistake. However, deeper down, he was still incredibly loyal to those who had genuinely earned his favour and trust in the past, even if they had wronged him and others since then. It took a lot to permanently shatter his earned loyalty. For instance, even when his ex-mate Streamstar (then Streamheart) left him, took another mate, and chased him away, he still refused to speak ill of her. It wasn't until he discovered her abandonment of her family had led to their three kits deaths that he stopped loving her and forgiving her actions.

This led to much indecisiveness and procrastination when he had to make a hard decision. Crowstorm, then Crowflight/star, was very mentally unstable, and hurt and betrayed him and many of his friends regularly. Gorsestar knew something had to be done about him, but did not want to fight him, and hoped in vain some day he would be his old self again.

As he became older and lost more and more, Gorsestar started to become quite depressed, and more wary of others (though not to the extent of paranoia, unlike much of his family).

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- Beechkit (male, ShadowClan) was killed by greencough.

- Hollypaw's (Female, ShadowClan...?) is living but whereabouts are unknown.

- Mintkit (female, ShadowClan) was killed by greencough.

- Ivypaw's (female, ShadowClan...?) whereabouts are unknown.

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Adopted/fostered kits

- Dewcrow (male, RiverClan) was a kit Gorsestar and his half-brother, Crowstar found abandoned on the border. gorse then found him dying of blood loss as an apprentice and gorse made him a warrior as he passed

- Swiftheart, daughter of Robinwillow, mate of Eelwhisper/Creek. Killed by Antfang.

- Shadow, living. Son of gorse's half bro, the insane Crowstar, and the recently-deceased poor tribe cat Jay.

- Shell, living. Another kit of Crowstar and Jay.

## Parental Backstory

Hundreds of moons ago, there were two naive young cats of very different backgrounds who met by chance one bright, snowy morning, and soon fell in love. A kittypet named Griffin, and a warrior named Rockfall. For six moons they lived happily, keeping their relationship a secret from Rockfall's Clanmates. In late newleaf, once the frost had all gone, Griffin fell pregnant, and the two planned to live a long, plentiful life together with their kits. They hoped that Griffin would be able to join Rockfall's Clan in order to safely achieve this.

There was one large problem, however. Rockfall was a ShadowClan cat, and Hootingstar, the leader of ShadowClan at that time was a ruthless, draconian tyrant, who would not hesitate to kill even a friendly and entirely non-threatening kittypet if they violated ShadowClan borders. Even worse, most of ShadowClan supported Hootingstar's decisions, as her merciless approach to leadership kept them safe and the other Clans completely in check. There was no way Griffin could join ShadowClan in her lifetime.

Rockfall did love his Clanmates, especially his friends Whispfog and Waspwatcher. But he knew he had to protect his mate and future kits. So he made the hard decision of leaving ShadowClan. He and Griffin attempted to appeal to Cobwebstar - the leader of WindClan, renowned for their understanding nature - for a home together. There was a lot of tension between WindClan and the other Clans at the time, especially with ThunderClan and ShadowClan, so many opposed Griffin and Rockfall joining WindClan. Griffin had lived in a warm, safe home her whole life and was presumably soft - and they feared Rockfall was a nothing but a strategically placed ShadowClan spy. However, Cobwebstar felt sympathy for their stories, and made the controversial decision of accepting them. They let Griffin and Rockfall join WindClan under the condition that they would forget their own lives by entirely changing their names and abruptly ending all contact with ShadowClan or other kittypets. They proved they were capable of Clan duties and so were renamed Yewheart and Tigertalon.

Despite Tigertalon's unexplained sudden disappearance from ShadowClan, Hootingstar soon discovered he had joined WindClan with a new name, and she was irate. Tigertalon was despised by his former clanmates for abandoning them just to be closer to a kittypet - they were furious at the idea of Clan secrets being risked to WindClan by a deserter. They were openly hostile and abusive to Tigertalon whenever their patrols crossed paths. Only his former friends Whispfog and Waspwatcher were civil to him. After the first few encounters they ShadowClan changed their approach - they refused to speak to him whatsoever, and instead hissed and whispered when they saw him. Tigertalon informed Cobwebstar of this and confided that he thought they may be planning an attack on him or the Clan. Cobwebstar had not realised just how angry ShadowClan would be at WindClan for accepting their traitor, and was concerned about potential confrontation, but the only action they took was taking Tigertalon off patrol and warning him not to go near ShadowClan borders until things cooled off.

A few moons after joining WindClan, four kits were born to Yewheart and Tigertalon. They were named Gorsekit, Thistlekit, Greykit, and Rabbitkit. Yewheart and Tigertalon were happy but also worried as they now had an extra four small lives to protect from ShadowClan's potential wrath.

Yewheart and Tigertalon's relationship rapidly deteriorated under the looming threat to their kits.

One grey and drizzly green-leaf day, when their kits turned one moon old, the two got into a large argument. Another WindClan cat stepped in and cooled things off, but their union was shattered. A miserable Tigertalon decided to break Cobwebstar's rule just this once and went far from camp to hunt and clear his mind, when he caught the fresh scent of Whispfog - his ShadowClan friend who he hadn't spoken properly to in several moons - near the Shadow-WindClan border. He brazenly followed the trail, searching for her, and they soon found each other in the woods. Whispfog was frantic, and told him she had snuck out of camp to tell him that Hootingstar was planning an attack on the Clan to destroy traitorous Tigertalon, his kittypet mate, and no doubt anyone who got in ShadowClan's way. Even worse, she was sure they were also hoping to kill his kits and put an end to his bloodline.

Whispfog and Tigertalon raced back to WindClan camp to warn Cobwebstar so they could start preparing the warriors, but alas, as they grew nearer and the day grew darker, the shrieking began.

Yewheart lay in the nursery, curled around her four tiny kits protectively, eyes wide with fear as she heard screams of war outside. The kits were too young and scared to run anywhere and she couldn't pick up four at once, though she had tried. And she wouldn't leave them. Their best shot would be to hide until it was all over and WindClan had successfully defended themselves.

She lay there, helpless, absolutely frozen, absolutely silent, telling her four shaking kits to close their eyes and dream of chasing mice across the marsh on a sunny day as she watched Hootingstar and her deputy cut Cobwebstar down. Blood mingled with the mud puddles as the rain poured down over the battlefield.

Finally, Tigertalon and Whispfog arrived. The warriors had been scattered across the territory, and the full force of ShadowClan's finest was too much to defend camp against, so Whispfog had been too late to save much of WindClan. The rest had not returned from hunts or patrols yet, or had fled into the forest to save themselves. More than half a dozen WindClan cats, including Cobwebstar, lay bloodied and broken in the reeds as the two approached through the bushes, sickened. Whispfog bravely decided she would distract the remaining ShadowClan warriors while Tigertalon rescued his beloved ex-mate and kits.

Whispfog taunted them and managed to frustrate Hootingstar enough for the ShadowClanners to chase her away from camp. Tigertalon scooped up Rabbitkit and Greykit while Yewheart took Gorsekit and Thistlekit. They hurried as far as they could from the scent of ShadowClan warriors, and ran desperately onto RiverClan territory.

They decided quickly that the best thing to do would be put their kits in the safety of RiverClan - Yewheart was familiar with their medicine cat, and they had got along well when they had met in their youth. No ShadowClan cat had seen Yewheart's kits, so as long as their WindClan scent was adequately disguised with fish and the RiverClanners shut their mouths, there was no chance Hootingstar would suspect a thing. They found a RiverClan patrol and briefly explained that these kits were in grave, grave danger and would die if they stayed with their parents. The RiverClan warriors were hesitant, worrying that this may provoke Hootingstar and her goons to attack their Clan next, but were ultimately unable to deny helping tiny kits. The two WindClan cats tearfully said goodbye to their children.

Yewheart knew in her bones this was final. This would be the last time she would see them until every one of her family was cold and dead. The RiverClan cats suggested she stay with them until they were a little older. But the kits would be safest here alone. Besides, she had a duty to protect her Clan - or what was left of it.

Yewheart and Tigertalon sped over to the ShadowClan side of the forest, not stopping for breath once. They arrived to find only Whispfog fighting Hootingstar herself. Whispfog, with the aid of Waspwatcher who had silently snuck up and attacked Hootingstar, had given Hootingstar's warrior brutal injuries. The ShadowClan deputy had limped with him back to their camp in an attempt to save him from the clutches of death. But now, devastatingly, Waspwatcher lay slain on the pine needles.

Viciousness ignited by fury, Whispfog, Tigertalon and Yewheart worked well as a team, weakening even incredibly skillful Hootingstar until she slowed enough to take a terrible blow from Yewheart. She tore her throat, the final blow, before a rapidly expiring Hootingstar without warning stabbed Yewheart in the stomach with a powerful final kick with her hind legs.

There was no hope for Yewheart. Both the ShadowClan leader and the WindClan warrior died unpleasantly, one after the other, under the dark shelter of the shady pines as the sun sank on the horizon.

But Yewheart's kits were safe. Nobody knew who they were. It was over.

## Kitten

Given the name Gorsekit by his parents after the spiky gorse bushes that offered WindClan cats camouflage and shelter from the cold, Gorsekit grew up in RiverClan and was a chirpy, energetic kit. He thoroughly enjoyed escaping the nursery's clutches to tumble about and playfight with his siblings on the moors.

An extrovert and natural leader from a young age, Gorsekit was charming, friendly, and could be quite diplomatic. He was popular among his Clan. It was predominantly agreed he had much potential.

He was always interested in gaining knowledge, and the only time he sat relatively still was when the medicine cat at the time, Minnowfisher, taught him about herbs and their applications.

## Apprentice

At apprentice age, he started travelling the path of medicine apprentice. However, this lasted briefly (a few moons, enough time for only basic training), before he realised it was not the path for him, and gave it up so a more studious young cat could take his place and do a better job. He happily became a warrior apprentice, due to his combined longing for adventure, excitement, and his natural aptitude at fighting and getting himself into general trouble ( and not to mention, his hopeless romanticism).

He was unaware of his mixed clan heritage and disturbing origins until the medicine cat, Minnowfisher, sadly told the four eight-moon-olds about their WindClan father Tigertalon's passing. Minnowfisher revealed their parents' story after being repeatedly pressed by Thistlepaw. The apprentices were dejected to hear their whole family was gone, and the desolation inflicted by their parents' protection. Rabbitpaw and Thistlepaw soon decided they would leave for WindClan, their birthright, to help repair the damage caused by WindClan protecting the four, whereas Gorsepaw and Greypaw deliberated on following their siblings. They had been given a home by RiverClan, after all. It was where they had grown up. However, Greypaw soon made up his mind and decided to follow, whereas Gorsepaw decided he belonged in riverclan.

## Warrior

Gorsepaw was given the suffix "storm", after the courageous yet fiery, storm-like; often explosive demeanour side to his personality.

Young warrior Gorsestorm formed a close relationship with Troutpaw, who was to become a warrior soon. They hoped to become mates but Troutpaw drifted away from him, and then developed a crush on mysterious bad boy rogue Scar. Troutpaw left both RiverClan and Gorsestorm to be with Scar, but she than discovered that Scar already had a mate - Angel. Angel was expecting kits.

Gorsestorm found it difficult to move on and tried to forget it as a silly crush. He fell in love with and became mates with elegant RiverClan warrior Streamheart. They had three kits - Halfkit, Lilykit, and Otterkit.

However, Streamheart had a lot of well-hidden inner turmoil. During her apprenticehood, her unhappiness and dangerous potential had lead to her being noticed and stalked in her dreams by the murderous cats of the Place of No Stars, until their nightly claims of "wanting to help her" and improve her life wore her down and she agreed to work with them - despite the ulterior motives they plainly had. The Place of No Stars furthered the damage to her mental health. She continued associating with them into adulthood, which needless to say, potentially endangered everyone around her.

The death of Streamheart's morally lacking, fellow Place of No Stars warrior best friend Appleshade drove her over the metaphorical edge [foreshadowing!]. She lost her mind entirely with grief, and started forming the idea of a new "death-free" Clan in her head.

Unbeknownst to Gorsestorm, one cloudy morning she silently got up and walked out of RiverClan, leaving Gorsestorm and her kits to wonder where she had went and if she was still alive. Ironically, as Streamheart left, her three tiny kits followed her, and were promptly marked out as easy prey by a fox and eaten.

One day a ShadowClan cat came to RiverClan territory. Gorsestorm tried to chase him off, but this strange black and white tom claimed to be Gorse's brother, which wad unbelievable enough to stop Gorse in his tracks. Crowflight explained the final part of Tigertalon's story.

Tigertalon was desolate. He had lost many of his new clan, his old best friend, his much-loved mate - twice today - and his kits in a matter of hours. He visited

## Deputy

Gorsestorm became deputy, and he was pleased about this at least, even though his mate had deserted him and had gotten herself another mate, Ripplestream, for pretty much no reason at all. He discovered that when Streamheart had left RiverClan she had been expecting four kits. They had now been born, although two of them (Whisperkit and Briarpaw) had already died, and another was dying with greencough. He went to visit his remaining two kits - ill Sparkpaw and depressed Ghostpaw. However, when he eventually arrived, Sparkpaw - Sparkburr - was already dead, and Ghostpaw - Ghostwing - refused to acknowledge that he was her father. Streamheart told her she loved him, then chased him off their territory. Gorsestorm returned to RiverClan, and a few moons later, Ghostwing had been killed by a ThunderClan patrol.

Gorsestorm tried his hardest to forget his past and fell in love with ShadowClanner Furstream. Furstream had previously had a crush on Streamheart's new mate, Ripplestream, and her only kit had just died too, so they were both equally unhappy with their lives. She gave birth to four kits - Shellkit, Streamkit, Nettlekit and Dreamkit.

## Leader

Gorsestorm became Gorsestar, and even though he was upset because his leader had been killed by ShadowClan warriors, he was the happiest he had been in a long time. He had a mate who hadn't deserted him, and now a grand total of three of his eleven kits had lived to become warriors!

Unfortunately, his melodramatic daughter, Streamsong, had kits at the age of about 6 moons, had more kits at the age of eight moons, got exiled, got paralysed, and somehow managed to jump off a cliff when she had an argument with a WindClan cat about who was the most paralysed. Way to go.

Furstream and Gorsestar had another litter - Wolfkit, Copperkit, Darkkit, Badgerkit, and Rainkit. Badgerkit disappeared soon after his birth. Darkkit, Rainkit and Copperkit all died very young, but Furstream and Gorsestar managed to raise Wolfkit to apprenticehood. This was followed by him becoming Wolfcloud the warrior, and later on, Wolfstar, leader of RiverClan! The cats in this family tree was truly destined for greatness (ahem). Badgerkit later came back as Badgertalon but he doesn’t matter (harsh but true).

Anyway, many unpleasant things happened including a battle between WindClan and ShadowClan that Gorsestar couldn't stop. He was criticised for following his heart instead of his head, but continued leading RiverClan. He and Furstream had their final litter. This litter consisted of Hollykit, Ivykit, Beechkit, and Mintkit, all of whom died as kits or apprentices.

## Tribe cat

One day, Gorsestar went fishing in the river with his son/deputy, Wolfcloud, and his brother, Crowstar. Crowstar spotted a large trout in the river. Gorsestar tried to catch it, but fell in. Seeing as the river was much stronger and deeper than normal, he was swept under. Crowstar jumped in after him and promptly hit his head on a rock, falling unconscious. As Wolfcloud ran to get help, Gorsestar grabbed onto Crowstar and a floating log, and they were dragged down the river so far the arrived at the Tribe - a place no clan cat had ever visited before.

Most of the tribe cats were just confused as to why they were there, but some were quite rude and (rightfully) questioned whether these ridiculous-sounding " four clams" had just been made up by two untrustworthy rogues. Stoneteller (the Tribe leader equivalent, in case you live under a rock... please excuse my awful pun) allowed them to stay while Crowstar recovered from his head injury. This turned out to be a huge mistake, because Crowstar fell in love with Stoneteller's daughter - a tribe cat named Jay - and got her pregnant. Oops.

In what was a stroke of incredibly bad luck, Aspenblaze (the she-cat Crowstar had cheated on) turned up at the tribe, also pregnant. She had spent the last moon, distressed and alone, looking for her mate. Aspenblaze was however much closer to giving birth. She did so a few days later. They had two kits, but one died as soon as it was born. They named the other Blazekit despite already having a daughter named Blazingfrost (just for confusion's sake).

It then came out that the kits Jay was expecting were Crowstar's too. Jay's brother went off his nut at her having kits with some random weirdo cat and attacked her. She was forced to kill him in self defence. Gorsestar felt bad for Jay. She hadn't wanted kits or a mate￼, and her life had already been ruined by although they hadn't even been born yet. Jay had killed her brother because of these kits! It took a while, but Gorsestar eventually managed to persuade Crowstar to only leave the tribe once Jay's kits were old enough to be taken with them.

A few moons later, Crowstar lost a life when he somehow managed to fall off a cliff and again hit his head. It was a shock for all of them, but it did indeed prove that Gorsestar and Crowstar were not making up the fact they were allowed to die nine times. Many a tribe cat thought that was very unfair. The other tribe cats just thought it had been pretty funny when Crowstar had fallen off the cliff.

Jay gave birth to three kits who she, in an act of defiance, gave tribe names even though they were to become tribe cats. Crowstar was annoyed, but after much arguing between Jay, Crowstar, their three kits (Shadow, Fallen and Shell) and even Gorsestar who they managed to rope in, the kits got to keep their names. Jay decided she would go with them to the clans as she didn't want to be without her kits.

Gorsestar, Crowstar, Aspenblaze, Jay, Shadow, Shell and Fallen made their way back to the clans. The Tribe then pretty much fell apart. Some of the more bitter tribe cats said that the "pesky clam cats" had cursed them. A large group of them then left, lead by mighty clam-hater Eagle. That's a story for another time, though. People with a profound lack of brain cells may want to hear it.

(May I add that Gorsestar was of course a lovely, valued and useful temporary asset to the Tribe of Rushing Water, so hey, at least they didn't regret taking him in. Or not.)

## Death

*One day, old and wisened Gorsestar decided he would go and visit Furstream, his much-loved ShadowClan mate. It was a cold and wet day. Squirrels sat in their dreys with umbrellas, laughing at the stupid felines running about in the rain.*

*A loner sat sheltering in the foliage. The branches were digging into her pelt were prickly and uncomfortable. She was dry, though. That was the main thing. She watched curiously as what she assumed was a clan cat stopped at the river.*

*He was a massive cat, even for clan standards, and carried himself with and air of pride and happiness. The clan cat surveyed the mess of the riverbank. The shape of a muscular orange-and-black cat appeared at the other side of the river. He nodded and smiled at the other cat and stepped backwards. He ran forward and took a huge leap, landing surprisingly gracefully on the soft mud for a cat his size*

*He started to scramble up the bank. Just then, it began to collapse under his weight, folding in on itself like a blanket. The tom began to slip down it. The loner wanted to call out to him, to warn him, but her voice didn't seem to be working all of a sudden. All she could do was watch, wide eyed, as the bear-like clan cat toppled into the deep river with several tonnes of soggy riverbank mud falling on top of him. The ginger-and-black she cat started sobbing. She had been unable to do anything except reach out her paw. Even though she knew Gorsestar was a leader with extra lives remaining, she had an unexplainable bad feeling lurking in her gut that Gorsestar wouldn't have survived that.*

F*or some reason, though, a slightly translucent and fully insane-looking grey tom raced up to the muddy pile and started stabbing viciously at the mud with unsheathed claws. What the heck? Why...?*

*The loner looked on with horror and confusion as she watched the following scene play out. A grey tom with a cream-coloured chest attacked the angry translucent tom, who faded into nothing. The ginger cat and the grey cat then fought to dig out the brown cat, with no luck. The loner slowly got up from her cramped position and backed away from the cats, now soggy, but still unnoticed. To this day, she wonders what on earth happened.*

In truth, the large brown cat was indeed Gorsestar. He was crushed by a landslide. Usually, that would only take one life away from a leader who had four lives left like him, but he chose to give all of them up when he got to StarClan.

This was because his grey-and-cream son Wolfcloud had been leading RiverClan instead of him with only one life, contrary to most leaders. The orange and black cat was Furstream, Gorsestar's ShadowClan mate. She knew he had had four lives left, but had somehow known something was going to stop him from coming back to life. This is why she was so distraught.

The angry ghost cat had been Rabbitspring of the Place of No Stars, who had briefly come back to life so he could attack his old enemy, Gorsestar. Oh, the shame for Gorsestar for a stupid dead cat to pretend to kill him and steal the victory that clearly belonged to the landslide! it was so *unjust!* The lack of respect was disgusting, even for Rabbitspring.

Anyway, Gorsestar was mourned. He was buried alongside his fallen kits and friends on the land-border between RiverClan and ShadowClan to represent the conflict of loyalty he had felt between the two clans.

He is reasonably happy in StarClan, but agrees with most other StarClan cats that living is better. He encouraged Furstream to take another mate. She had another litter of kits with good ol' Snowcloud before becoming leader after Rainstar died.

RIP, mighty Gorsestar - leader of RiverClan, father to about 20 kits, and friend to even more than that.

I, the reader of this beautiful article, promises to plant potatoes and gorse bushes in your honour. And give you some steak too. Steak is not easily obtained in StarClan, and Gorseypie does indeed like steak.

Oh, the shame for Gorsestar for one of his old enemies to pretend to have killed him! The injustice! The

## Trivia

* Gorsestar had 13 biological kits with second mate Furstar, bringing his total number of biological kits to 20, which is perhaps one of the record numbers for a male cat in TFCRp
* He was 17 moons old when made, although he was aged down about 4 moons at some point - to make Furstar a more suitable mate, and to make Crowflight being his half brother more plausible. This means he was roleplayed for about 55-60 moons of his life - that is just under a year out of roleplay.
* Gorsestar was the fourth leader of RiverClan to be roleplayed and would have lived to see three before him - Snailstar, Pebblestar, and Willowstar - and one after him - Wolfstar.
* During his lifetime Gorsestar was officially the largest and heaviest cat within the Clans and likely one of the best fighters. However, in his original bio he was listed as "short" in his physical description when he was 17 moons old... he probably had a large growth spurt once he became deputy?
* Gorsestar's MBTI is likely an ESFP (possibly an ENFP).
* Gorsestar is a cornerstone of the famous/infamous Furmily Tree, which has over 1215 recorded cats, many of which are his and Furstar's direct or distant descendants.
* He is the first of two leaders in TFC ever named Gorsestar, the other being retired former ThunderClan leader Gorseburn.
* Many of his direct relatives/loved ones were leaders of the official Four Clans and of the non official BloodClan and BeachClan - Streamstar, Crowstorm, Furstar, Wolfstar. As for vague and indirect relatives and in-laws, according to @alexacat9's Furmily Tree, he and Furstar are the vague ancestors/in-law ancestors of - in no particular order -Leafstar, Socks, Rocks, Dreamstar, Bravestar, Moonstar, Badgerstar, Blazingstar, Swiftstar, Brightstar, Willowstar, Rainstar ((SC)), Lakestar, Beetlestar, Gorsestar/Gorseburn, Beestar, Bunnystar, Sunstar, Thornstar, Rainstar (TC), Emberstar, Redstar, and Sedgestar. (Sorry for the long list, just felt like mental torturing myself via manually linking 23 extra leaders, thumbs up emoji)