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Skyclan (Part One) — Description

This is the clan that Jackalberry fled from, the home that raised her, that she loved with all her heart, but was chased out of by scheming and plotting.
Leader
Clawstar
8 (47 in human years)
Skyclan
ENTJ
Gemini
Voice Claim: Nathan Lane
Personality: Clawstar was never made out to be Skyclan's leader, since he's incredibly distrustful and stubborn. He refuses to listen to anyone else's opinion and thinks that since he's the leader, he knows best. He's very power hungry and he wants to be in control of everything and every cat.
Background: Clawstar's mother died having him and his siblings, due to complications during their birth. This also caused the deaths of both his siblings, leaving him completely alone. He had his father, Muddlepelt, but his father pretty much just turned his back on what remained of his family. He didn't believe that his one remaining kit would survive, so he saw no point in getting attached.
Clawstar did survive and continued with his life as normal, just without his father. He trained, became a warrior and worked for his clan. He'd always wanted power and the ability to make other cats listen to him. He worked as hard as he could to make himself look good, which earned him the deputy position. He was very careful about that, not wanting to lose the position like his father did. He barely knew his father but that was one detail that was crystal clear to him. Their leader died soon after, which was just perfect for him. Now he had exactly what he wanted. Being leader was all he could have ever wanted. He had his father cast out for a minor annoyance. He'd never liked him anyway. He was even more satisfied when a patrol discovered his body, starved and dead, on one of their borders.
He ruled Skyclan for many, many moons and couldn't want for anything more in his life. He was faced with a problem when Foxtail came into the picture, however. Foxtail didn't agree with him on anything. He didn't like how power hungry he was, he didn't like how bossy he was, he didn't like anything he told them all to do. He never followed his leader's orders; he just questioned them and even sometimes flat out refused to do what he was told. Clawstar knew he needed to do something about that. If Foxtail kept all this up, more cats would for sure follow his lead. He was well liked within the clan after all.
He gathered some of his more loyal warriors and told them about Foxtail's disloyalty, twisting it so that it seemed like the outspoken tom was a direct threat to all of their safety. So they took him out on a hunting patrol with them and, when he was distracted with a piece of prey, they pounced on him, tearing open his throat and letting him bleed out in the grass. Clawstar was convinced that everything would be OK now but he was wrong. Foxtail's daughter had seen it all and came roaring out of the bushes, tackling Clawstar and tearing into his face, nearly blinding him. His warriors managed to drag her off him but he's still haunted by the fact that he might have been killed if they weren't there. They hauled her back to camp and Clawstar told everyone that she was the one that killed her father. He was the leader, which meant that almost every single warrior in Skyclan believed his words and turned on Jackalberry, chasing her out of their territory. Her mother did protest and fought for her kit, but he was able to silence her after he attacked her and badly wounded her face. He was still pretty mad about his own face getting messed up. After all that, he was able to settle back down into his role as leader. But he couldn't relax. Knowing that he'd actually killed someone and then nearly been killed himself had rattled him. It spun around his head almost constantly and he grew to distrust all the cats in his clan, all but a few that were ultra loyal to him.
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Deputy
Charlieroot
5 (31 in human years)
Skyclan
Voice Claim: Sea Fairy Cookie (Cookie Run)
Personality: She's very shy and anxious, just as much of a bad choice for deputy as Clawstar is for leader. She doesn't hold up well under pressure and is terrified of other cats being angry at her. She wants to please everyone, to make sure that they won't hurt her. That's why she's so supportive of Clawstar. He's the only one she's able to depend on, the only one who's willing to take all control away from her, so she never has to worry about anything at all. She cares about him somewhat, as a result, since she sees him as this dependable, strong figure in her life.
Background: She began her life as a kitty pet named Charlie. She struggles to remember her mother and siblings, her memory becoming fuzzy the more trauma she endured over the course of her life. She wasn't with them for long anyway, eventually being sold to a small family as a Christmas present. When she grew older and became more rambunctious, they couldn't handle with her. They'd only bought her to be a small, cute kitten, not a fully grown animal with needs and undesirable traits. They wrapped her up in a sack while she was sleeping and dumped her in the creek. She barely managed to survive and, not knowing what else to do, tried to make her way back to her home. On the way there, she was picked up by animal control and spent some time in a shelter, before being adopted by a couple. She lost hope in them quickly, since they were constantly fighting, and both would take out their anger on her, throwing her out in the cold over night and throwing objects at her in fits of rage.
Eventually, tired of the abuse, she just left one night after they turned her out for the night. She made her way into the woods and spent a while out there, struggling to survive, before being discovered by a Skyclan patrol. They brought her back to camp, despite her terrified struggling and pleading, and she was offered a place with them. She accepted and felt herself become a little happier as a result, despite her extreme anxiety when around the new, unfamiliar cats.
When Clawstar became leader, he appointed her as his deputy, and she felt so special, like he'd seen something in her that no one ever had before. This feeling didn't last very long, especially after he enlisted her to help him kill Foxtail. After that, the two were bonded in a very dark way, and she felt like no one would ever understand how she felt, other than him.
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Medicine Cat
Agony
40 in human years
Skyclan
Voice Claim: Fox (The Little Prince)
Personality: He's almost a hermit within the clan, spending all him time hidden away in his den. He hates his own company and he hates the company of others. He's extremely resentful, feeling like his entire life is nothing more than a wasteful slog. He's constantly wrapped up in thoughts filled with existentialism, pondering the meaning of life and the meaninglessness of it all. It's part of the reason he's so cranky and depressed.
Background: His family began as loners, living peacefully on the outskirts of Skyclan territory for generations. When a badger killed all of them, all that was left was Agony, who was a tiny kit, hidden in the tiny space beneath a tree root. They brought him back and adopted him as one of their own, but he seemed burdened with thoughts that a normal kit would never have. He never spoke about it, but he'd witnessed his entire family being massacred by the badgers, and he struggled to get those memories out of his head.
When it came time to become a warrior, he fled from his very first assessment, terrified that he might be attacked by one of the badgers that killed his family. He was ushered into the medicine den and was offered a place there. He took it and while he felt somewhat happier hiding out there, he didn't appreciate the medicine cat's insistence that he socialize.
When he got old enough, he was sick of their pushiness and suffocated them with a wad of moss in their sleep one night. He thought his life might be a little clearer after that, but it wasn't. When Clawstar took over, he tried to stand up to him, but to no avail. In an act of revenge, he was lured into a burning, abandoned shed and ended up pretty badly hurt, only saved when he grovelled and apologised to his new leader.
After that he stopped even considering standing up to his leader. If he didn't like what he was doing, then whatever. It was none of his business anyway. He'd just sit around and play with his herbs, like he'd always done before that.
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Warriors
Spottedface
Skyclan
Voice Claim: Yae Miko (Genshin Impact)
Personality: She was always known as an extremely kind, soft spoken, gentle cat, a natural mother who adored kits and adored caring for the others around her. That part of her is still there, lurking below the surface, but it's been mostly replaced by a much more timid personality, a fearfulness and shyness that causes her to hide in the shadow of other cats, letting them do the talking for her.
Background: Her early life was a dream. She had loving parents, who, despite splitting up and finding new partners and having more kits, never once faltered in showing how much they cared. They did everything they could to integrate her into their new families, and she was more than happy to have more parents and more siblings.
Her training to become a warrior was simple and successful, and she excelled quite easily. She fell in love with Foxtail as early warriors, the two of them sharing many patrols together and their love story was one that made everyone jealous. They were always by each other's side and always talking about each other.
They wanted a family as quickly as possible, but she struggled with conceiving a litter and began to worry that she might be infertile. Eventually, she fell pregnant with Jackalberry, and it felt like her life was perfect. She had the kit she'd always wanted and she got to watch her grow and become a warrior. She had a mate that adored her and friends that she'd die for. Despite her family slowly dying off or moving away from Skyclan, she didn't mind. She was swaddled in a warm blanket of happiness and she could barely pull herself out of it.
And then Foxtail was killed. Jackalberry was dragged out of camp and almost killed by Clawstar. She fought for her daughter's safety and her throat was almost torn open in retaliation. She was forced to watch her daughter being chased out as she bled out in the dirt. She spent a few weeks in the medicine den after that and was quickly sent to stay full time in the nursery. She helps care for queens and kits now, while also comforting anyone that ended up falling victim to Clawstar's mistreatment. She wants to see her kit again dearly and can barely hold back her grief for her mate, but she does her best.
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