#lightningthorn

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thunderclan — year seven — leafbare

okay. so. deep breath. let's get the easy stuff out of the way first.

dovewing and ivypool become warriors, and lightningthorn (do you remember lightningthorn? paralyzed by raccoons as a young warrior? etc., etc.?) dies.

okay. so instead of whatever sign of the moon is doing. through some more dark forest shenagins, brackenstar and sorreltail are killed. the hope is to, y'know, destabalize thunderclan, which has no leadership. like. who's going to be the leader. lionblaze?! yeah.

so they all kind of flounder for about a half moon, until squirrelflight, brmableclaw, and agoseris return. they're there for another half a moon, thunderclan really needs a fucking leader already, and cottonbreeze is like "it's squirrelflight! our leader is squirrelflight! please get nine lives so the clan doesn't fall apart"

which squirrelflight, now squirrelstar, does. she appoints lostface her deputy, and is kind of forced to give her daughter a warrior name, so she names her agoserisstrike. welcome to thunderclan. squirrelstar finds out about hollyleaf. brambleclaw finds out about goldenflower. agoserisstrike struggles to adapt to clan life.

but hey, thunderclan has a leader!

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thunderclan — year four — greenleaf

poplarpaw dies.

sorreltail's litter, vanillakit and patchkit, die.

(those are distributed throughout the season, as the situation with the twolegs get worse.)

squirrelpaw is apprenticed to dustpelt, and leafpaw to cinderpelt.

ferncloud and dustpelt have another litter, birchkit, hollykit, and larchkit.

lightningthorn is bitten by a raccoon, leading to paralysis. he recovers, but continues to suffer episodes and tremors, and chooses to move to the elders' den, although he does try to help with border patrols and hunting.

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thunderclan — year four — allegiances

leadership

leader: redstar (7y). dark, tortoiseshell tom with a red, bushy tail.

deputy: fireheart (3y). bright, ginger tom with green eyes.

seer: cinderpelt (2y). small, sleek, dark she-cat with pale blue eyes and a twisted leg.

warriors

mousefur (6y). brown she-cat. (apprentice — spiderpaw)

dustpelt (3y). lithe, dark brown tom.

greystripe (3y). dark grey tom with a darker stripe running down his back.

brackenfur (2y). golden-brown tom with amber eyes. (apprentice — whitepaw)

thornclaw (2y). golden-brown tom.

lostface (2y). white she-cat with ginger patches and one blue eye.

ashfur (2y). pale grey tom with darker flecks and blue eyes.

brambleclaw (1y). dark brown tabby tom with amber eyes.

sorreltail (1y). dappled tortoiseshell and white she-cat.

rainwhisker (1y). grey tom.

fiddlenose (1y). pale, golden-brown tom with darker brown stripes.

lightningthorn (1y). white tom with pale brown patches, faint stripes, and long fur.

queens

ferncloud (2y). small, short-furred she-cat with pale eyes.

poplarkit (1s). red, cream, and white tom.

sugarkit (1s). large, smoky-black she-cat.

sandstorm (3y). pale ginger she-cat with fainter stripes and green eyes. (kits — squirrelkit and leafkit)

elders

goldenflower (8y). small, pale she-cat with a nick in one ear, and painful joints.

longtail (4y). silver tom.

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thunderclan — year three — leafbare

quite a harsh leafbare for thunderclan. juniperice, irispaw, birchflower, and swiftwhisker all die.

fiddlenose and lightningthorn become warriors. spiderpaw is apprenticed to mousefur, and whitepaw to brackenfur.

squirrelkit and leafkit are born to sandstorm and fireheart.