Tansytail

A brown spotted tabby tom with a golden underbelly and a bobbed tail.

*A sturdy, brown tabby bobtail tom with golden underfur and a creamy chest. His tail is bobbed and fluffy. His eyes are a lively yellow color.*

## Server history

Tansytail started out as a ShadowClan warrior and has stayed that until his death. His first interaction was with Twopaw.

## RP history

### Kithood

Not much is know about Tansytail's youth aside from him being a mischievious kit in the past.

### Apprenticeship

Again, not much is known. However, he liked spending his time by the lake.

### Warrior

From their very first meeting, Tansytail and Twopaw got along very well and became friends quickly. Later on he got to know Twopaw closer as the apprentice confided in him - both her love for a cat outside of ShadowClan and her recent argument with Stormstar. He comforted her and they've been inseperable friends ever since.

Once as he was hunting alone, Tansytail found a loner she-cat in the ShadowClan territory - Freckles. Despite the hostility he should be feeling towards her, he couldn't help but act friendly and their conversation was respectful and she expressed her wish to join ShadowClan. With that in mind, Tansytail led her to Stormstar to discuss the possibility, however both of them got scolded - Freckles for crossing the border, Tansytail for bringing an outsider to the camp. He wanted to argue more, but Badgertooth, the deputy, joined the argument and this officially shut Tansytail down. He escorted Freckles back to the broder, talking with her all the way there. That's when something sparked between them and they made a promise to meet at a hollowed tree just at at the edge of the territory. With every passing meeting the two would get closer unil eventually Tansytail realized he was in love.

Another major event him was the confrontation between the ShadowClan patrol he was part of and WindClan cats, Cindernose and Barkclaw. This escalated into a fight where Lumberpelt got accidentally killed by Cindernose. Tansytail, despite trying to help his fellow warrior, couldn't prevent that and so pinned the WindClan she-cat to the ground before letting her go. Lumberpelt's death would hunt him for moons, making him regret not being able to save the tom.

During the **rogue invasion** Tansytail was mostly seen by Badgertooth's - later Badgerstar's - side, conspiring against the invaders. He, along with Crowheart, decided it would be the best to protect the nursery. He helped isolate it with moss and then would guide the elders away from the rogues by moving them to the nursery. By the end of the invasion he had witnessed Salem's death and stood by as Crowheart murdered the rogue.

Once it was over, Tansytail almost immediately rushed to Freckles to check on her. Unknown to him, this was their last meeting. He found the she-cat moving her nest and with a sprained paw, but she never revealed what exactly happened to her. Tansytail left, and so did Freckles.

The rogue invasion caused many apprentices to be "orphaned", so Tanytail was trusted with training his first apprentice, Spottedpaw. However, roughly a moon into the training the she-cat died of a mysterious disease. Watching his pupil waste away left a deep mark on him as time passed and he'd recall her death moons after it happened.

Moons passed, his meetings with Freckles would be constantly interrupted and delayed - either by a beast, another cat or Gatherings. After that time passed, he realized what he had with Freckles was over - *she left.* He was getting lonely and quiet, only Twoface knew what was happening. They confided in each other a lot and tried to support themselves through those times. This led to Twoface getting accidentally pregnant with Tansytail's kit Onekit, which unfortunately died along with his mother upon birth.

Tansytail is mentored Dapplepaw, his second apprentice. The training is being delayed by a sprain Dapplepaw suffered during the tour around ShadowClan's territory. Dapplepaw made it through to receive the title of a warrior and this eventually left Tansytail to continue with his duties until his retirement. Tansytail's mobility decreased with time as he suffered from arthritis. He passed on peacefully in his nest, traumatizing the apprentice who found him dead.

## Character development

At the beginning of his warrior career, Tansytail was energetic and snarky, prejudiced against other clans and rather hypocritical of his actions. Constant failures in his life, losing cats dear to him and having to watch them leave his life to never return had made the tom much more quiet than he used to. He had realised just how easily attached he got to others, even when he didn't like them. Freckles, Twoface and Spottedpaw had a large, permanent influence on his life. Tansytail's self esteem had dropped to near zero, keeping secrets from his clanmates has caused his mental health to deteriorate as he slumbered into depression after Freckles left and Spottedpaw died. Despite that, he tried his best to carry on, he lived his life, kept meeting new cats, slowly picked his life up together after the tragic romance he had and enjoyed the reputation of being one of Badgerstar's most trusted warriors.

He just hoped for things to settle down for him someday, but even in StarClan he is haunted by the many lies he had told to meet with the she-cat who left without a word.