"Fun" Fact: Pinestar initially planned on taking Tigerkit with him when he joined the kingdoms as a farmer - he's hoped that by making him a normal kit who has to do chores like everyone else would help him avert his destiny. Leopardfoot fought him viciously and eventually blinded him in his left eye. Instead of standing up for him, many of the sitters and monarchs sided with Leopardfoot, disagreeing with him and insisting that he was unnecessarily hard on his son.
When Pinestar left, Sunstar didn't become deputy for half a moon because everyone assumed he was kidding. When it became clear that Pinestar wasn't coming back, Sunstar stepped in and declared the matter not to be talked about.
Everyone claimed not to know why ThunderClan was suffering but the elders know it's because ThunderClan chased out their own leader - a leader trying to do his best for them.
When TIgerclaw began his fall, the older cats desperately ignored it hoping that if they pretended they didn't see it, it would never happen.
Cause if it did.... that means Pinestar was right.
A large reddish-brown tabby tom with large paws, thick stripes and green eyes with a torn right ear. His muzzle is steadily turning silver before his time and some cats think he looks like one stiff breeze will knock him over. His coat is thick and long; though he tries to keep it neat, the recent events that’ve happened in his life have made him miserable and he’s begun to struggle with caring for himself.
Pinestar had a rather rough start to life being born during the second famine of ThunderClan. It was a lesser famine - lighter than the one from Doestar’s time - but his father’s xenophobia had resulted in the collapsing relationship between the Sun and ThunderClan. As a result, his mother often ate very little; passing around a single bite so that every cat could eat. His brother and sister - Birchpaw and Rowan - struggled alongside him through the difficult times that Oakstar wrought for them.
Pinestar feels a cocktail of negative emotions towards his father. It was an open secret back when he was growing up that his birth mother was pressured into the relationship that resulted in him by Oakstar. Though Sweetbriar and Cloudshine were on reasonably good terms, Oakstar’s blatant favoritism towards him over his half-sister Rowan caused tension between the three of them as Birchpaw was forced to mediate. When Cloudshine died, Sweetbriar took in all three of them as her own bringing that part of their family closer together.
Paws down, the roughest days of his life were when he was elected deputy in the stead of his deceased brother and he leaned heavily on his sister and his mate, Nightsabre. His father’s descent into true madness put a lot of stress on him - though Oakstar was still leader, Pineheart had felt that he was the only thing holding his clan together. The exile and subsequent rampage from Mapleshade was the final straw in an already wavering resolve he had. He teamed up with the rest of the clan, forcing his father to step down from the mantle of leader - ignoring the frustration of Oakstar choosing to keep his remaining 3 lives - and very early took on the title as leader.
Within the first two moons of his new position, he ran himself ragged de-escalating the situation with RiverClan, repairing the relationship with the Shining Sun and taking potential war off the debating table. Suffering through all the stress of putting out his father’s fires on top of barely taking care of himself it was to no one’s surprise that he eventually lost two lives in rapid succession of each other - one to starvation and the next to greencough at the same time their precious first litter was lost to the illness.
Pinestar has now recently hit his stride with leadership; it’s hard and sometimes thankless but it’s for his clan. After the lost of their most recent potential kit in Mayhawkit, Pinestar and Nightsabre have both agreed to wait for a later date before they try having another litter.
Pinegrowl is the name he was given by his father but he felt Pineheart fit him better. So his clanmates called him that in private until Oakstar was dethroned.
Oof and when tigerclaw does fall they realize that Pinestar was right… and wait Starclan punished thunderclan?!
IIt's assumed that no one actually punished ThunderClan but ThunderClan themselves. The elders from that time now believe Tigerkit was a test to see if they were worthy of the Souls' favor and they failed - the reason they never found Pinestar again is that he passed.
