Hawkshade

lineart by pkrockin\_, colored by Kokochips

### Allegiances

ShadowClan----Commander of Outcast Shadows (formerly), Rogue (formerly), WindClan (formerly)

## Kin

### Mate(s)

Lakestar (deceased) --- Littlewhisper (formerly)

### Kits

Serenity, Toby, Cyrus, Hollyhock (adopted) --- Wolfsong, Toadpool, Batfang, Featherpaw (stepkits) --- Bellsong, Fernglide, Lunareyes --- Lightpaw, Sunpaw, Songlake, Turtletuft (deceased)

## Education

### Apprentices

Ratpaw, Riso, Huitzilopochtli, Xufeng, Toby, Serenity, Cyrus, Fernglide, Stagstar

## Overview

Hawkshade is a former power cat and leader of the Celestial Council.

### Appearance

Hawkshade is a tall slender all-black shecat with bright yellow eyes. Her pelt is so black that at night or in the dark, her pelt melds with the shadows around her to make her nearly invisible, besides her eyes. She also has a fully invisible form (see Power). She has a black nose and pointed features. Her left ear is ripped off to the base, her tail is bent at 90° from a break, and she has scars on her neck and hip.

### Personality

Hawkshade is hotheaded, holds grudges, and is persistent to a fault. She doesn't have much self-preservation but she is fiercely loyal to her family. She finds purpose in training apprentices, raising her kits, and in getting to know cats she feels are interesting, such as Splat, Hiddenlight, or Summoner. She doesn't let her emotions show on her face very often, but she is not opposed to violence as a way to achieve a goal, or get revenge. But to the cats she deems worthy, even revealing her inner self to, she would die for them.

### Power - Shadow Invisibility

Hawkshade's black body blended perfectly with shadows and darkness, besides her eyes. When her power was active, she could become fully invisible even in the light, for short periods of time

#### Drawbacks

Hawkshade gets light-sensitive headaches after use of her power, that are stronger the longer that she uses them. If she gets a head injury, her power will be damaged for as long as her head is injured, resulting even in a "flickering" of visibility effect one time when her head was hit against a rock by an opponent.

Hawkshade can't stay invisible for long because the longer she is invisible, the weaker she gets. Whenever she turns invisible she slowly disappears from existence in the living world, as the power she is using is a power of a Dark Forest or StarClan cat. If she was to stay invisible for long enough, she would fade - like Dark Forest death - without ever going to an afterlife.

## Detailed History

### Apprenticeship

Hawkpaw was raised with ridiculous expectations on her to not embarrass her mother from a young age. When she was a kit, ShadowClan was taken over along with every clan by Lunarstar, and while surveying ShadowClan the leader met Hawkpaw and saw potential in her. She took Hawkpaw as her apprentice, and taught the young cat her vision of a united clan future. Hawkpaw idolized Lunarstar and felt valued by her, recruiting others to her cause, and even following Lunarstar to WindClan.

While in WindClan training, Lunarstar began to spin out into insanity as she neared her final lives. One night during a training session, Hawkpaw got the better of Lunarstar, which resulted in Lunarstar using her power to fight back, and ripping Hawkpaw's ear off. Lunarstar's support from her clanmates was weaning as well, which made Hawkpaw isolate herself. After Lunarstar was killed, Hawkpaw soon left WindClan to return to her birth clan to finish her training. She continued to be trained by Lunarstar in the dark forest, and to recruit for Lunarstar's cause.

During this time Hawkpaw was given her power by Lunarstar, in order to continue to promote Lunarstar's vision, or like Hawkpaw decided to do, pursue revenge for her dead mentor. It was also then that she met Lightstorm, one of Lunarstar's children who had betrayed her and taken a life. Hawkpaw and Lightstorm fought multiple times and formed an intense rivalry.

### Warrior Life

Hawkshade got her name along with her childhood friends Littlewhisper and Skyshard. Hawkshade and Littlewhisper became very close as Littlewhisper was Hawkshade's only true confidant, and they eventually became mates. She continued to pursue followers of Lunarstar, which sometimes would not go well. In two cases, Ebonywillow and Rainpaw, her cover was nearly blown as they refused her, so she had to kill them to keep them quiet. Additionally she continued to pursue revenge for Lunarstar and for her own future, taking a life from Waterstar and from Spiderstar under the cover of darkness and with help from her power. But Spiderstar was able to identify Hawkshade as she left the scene of the crime, and report her killing to Hiddenlight, who then passed this on to Talonstar. For her murders, Talonstar banished Hawkshade.

### Rogue Life

#### Facing her Idol

Hawkshade's anger only grew when she was banished, and she continued her fighting clashing with Lightstorm more times, taking a life from Shroomstar, and even breaking up with Littlewhisper out of fear. Lightstorm, through her fights with Hawkshade, began to convince her that Lunarstar was not a cat to follow, and that Lunarstar had done things to Hawkshade. That it was morally wrong to follow her, and doing so made Hawkshade a monster. Eventually, Hawkshade agreed. Lunarstar had warped Hawkshade's thinking to such a degree that Hawkshade didn't know who she was outside of Lunarstar. So Hawkshade, after making up and becoming friends with Lightstorm, confronted Lunarstar. In response, Lunarstar took and tortured Littlewhisper, until Hawkshade with Lightstorm and another Dark Forest cat -Hoth- 's help rescued Littlewhisper. Hawkshade and Littlewhisper became mates again, and Hawkshade became free of Lunarstar's influence.

#### Widening Influence

It was at this time that Hawkshade joined the Celestial Council, a group of power-given cats that at the time were lead by Streamspirit and Chill. There she met her friend Harmony and began to "study" Splat, a fellow power cat with an interesting personality. At this same time, she re-met Hiddenlight, who then went by Hidden as he had no memories of his old life. During this time they formed a friendship. Additionally, Hawkshade took on two apprentices: Riso and Huitzilopotchli, and began teaching them everything she knew.

### Outcast Shadows

#### The Good Times

Littlewhisper and Hawkshade decided to adopt kits, now that they were living stablely. The two of them went to the twoleg place and took four kits from twoleg nests: Cyrus, Hollyhock, Serenity, and Toby. They raised the kits better than they had been raised, and Hawkshade trained them all along with her older apprentices. This was also the time she met the rogue Rat, who proposed that she make her growing trusted group into something more official. With Rat as a co-commander, Hawkshade created Outcast Shadows, a rogue group for cats outside of the classic guidelines for a clan. She recruited many other members including her other apprentice, Xufeng, at this time. Additionally, the Celestial Council voted Hawkshade as a celestial leader during this time in her life.

#### And the Bad

However, things were not good forever. Lightstorm, who Hawkshade was still close to, was killed by BloodClan in one of their pit fights. In the aftermath greiving process, she admitted to Littlewhisper that she had also been in love with Lightstorm while Littlewhisper and Hawkshade were together. Littlewhisper could not take this continual lie and eventually, Hawkshade and Littlewhisper split up. At this same time, her apprentice Huitzilopotchtli was old enough to finish training, which came with a proposal to join her group. He adamantly and angrily refused her proposal, which in her eyes had been like a proposal to join her family, so she split ties with the tom completely.

Having lost three of the most important cats in her life all at once, Hawkshade spiraled into dispair and anger, until she encountered the rogue by the name of Bandit. She was angry and he pissed her off, so she attacked him. She thought her apprentice-age instincts would return, now that the cats who were "keeping her good" were gone, but turned out, she couldn't kill the tom. She ended up healing him and the two became friends, and Hawkshade realized she was a changed cat after all.

### Return to Warrior Life

With the help of her fellow celestial leader Wolfsong, Lakestar's daughter, Hawkshade met with the new leader of her birth clan. With Wolfson's trust, as well as her other ShadowClan friends Skyshard and the memory-recovered Hiddenlight, Lakestar came to a decision that Hawkshade deserved another chance, and invited her to join ShadowClan again. Hawkshade lead Outcast Shadows across the bridge to the new territory, and there after leaving her former apprentice Xufeng as the next commander, she left to officially join her birth clan once again. Along with Lakestar and Toadpool, the shecat helped to discover the new home for ShadowClan in this new territory.

Hawkshade and Lakestar grew to be very close as she adjusted to her new place in the clan, and eventually the two became mates. Lakestar's existing kits, Wolfsong, Toadpool, Batfang and Featherpaw, became her step-kits at that time. Through a 3rd party donor, Lakestar became pregnant with and gave birth to kits the two would raise: Bellsong, Sunpaw, Lightpaw, Turtletuft, Fernglide, Songlake, and Lunareyes. Eventually, the warrior was also granted the title of loyal warrior within the clan.

#### Post-Power

As Hawkshade's attachment to Lakestar and ShadowClan grew, so did her trust in StarClan. Eventually, the warrior realized that while still having her power she was forever connected to Lunarstar. It was then that she decided to be summoned by her old mentor, and give up her power forever. She then entered her life as a non-powered warrior of ShadowClan, raising and training her children and apprentices.

After the death of Lakestar, Hawkshade remained in ShadowClan for the sake of her children and legacy afterwards. She served as a loyal warrior under Lakestar's successor Timberstar, and their successor Stagstar. In her post-power life, she provided power and council training to Fernglide, her power cat daughter who became a Celestial Council Leader herself, and power training to Stagstar as well. She grew old but remained in the warrior position instead of retiring to the elders den, until she was eventually forced to retire through an injury at 135 moons. There she still lives out the rest of her days, continuing to provide guidance to leaders, power cats, and her grandkits and further kin of ShadowClan.