Sandstar

Appearance
Sand-colored she-cat with amber eyes. Her back fur has a dozen parts where the fur from past injuries will never grow back, and she has brutal scars along her underbelly, which she is ashamed to let other cats see. Her filled in sides, however, give her a pretty look from a distance.

Simplified: Light orange she-cat with amber eyes. Her back fur has bald patches that will never grow back, and she bares brutal underbelly scares from claw scratches.

Personality
Trustworthy, understanding, calm, generally friendly, ambitious, assertive, patient, courageous, depressed.

History
Sandkit never knew her parents that well, who died during a dangerous outbreak of greencough, just a few moons after she was born. By some miracle, she survived, and was adopted by Sparkclaw's mother. She had a mother and a brother to call her own, and she was proud of it. The memory of her old parents become plastic, and she didn't think of much of the stories of how they died anymore. She liked to focus on 'what is' instead of 'what was'. Into her apprenticeship, she did well, and became a warrior on time, at exactly 12 moons. Despite her quiet, yet dynamic and bold attitude, she'd graduated from 'Sandpaw' to 'Sandfur'.

As a young warrior, she didn't have anything extraordinary happen to her. While her clan mates fell in love around her, Sandfur never really found a mate, and although she experimented with a few males throughout her life time, they didn't get serious with her.

Than came Snakestar.

Snakestar's reign didn't begin until Sandfur was in her mid 30s. When it did, a dark cloud grew overtop of ThunderClan, and everyone, including Sandfur, knew it was true. A rebellion began over the warrior code, and the way Snakestar treated his clan. His decisions were frowned upon, and he often used deadly punishments against other cats for the smallest of issues. There were rumors that he'd killed cats to get to his position as deputy, and the fact that he'd just become leader didn't ease anyone's minds any less.

Sandfur didn't know what to think when Snakestar appointed her deputy. She didn't know what quality he saw in her that made her a good candidate for such a position, but she was determined to play Snakestar's game, while making her clan better than his intended image. Sandfur yowled commands she would've never yowled if Snakestar were absent, she clawed a warrior across the face, even though she didn't want to do it. She did everything that she knew would please Snakestar. And he loved it. He loved it, in the midst of his evil laughter, in the midst of his pleased glances at Sandfur. He loved it so much, that before Sandfur could blink, he'd placed his trust in her.

She had him wrapped around her claw-tips. As the rebellion went on, Sandfur covertly made peace with the cats she'd hurt, and quickly, she gained their trust. She modeled her version of the clan underneath Snakestar's nose. But some of her attempts ended disastrously for she had to fight off Snakestar's supporters, and some of her attempts succeeded, creating a popular image of Sandfur for all ThunderClan cats.

Then, one day, Snakestar asked to see Sandfur. He wanted to go on a hunting patrol with her. No one else. Just her.

They left, and immediately, Sandfur knew Snakestar had discovered everything she'd done to try and undermine his rule.

But she was too late to realize this. Snakestar too, had Sandfur wrapped around his claw-tips. His supporters had been telling him everything he needed to know about Sandfur that day. So he decided to make sure Sandfur would never disobey him again. He decided to weaken her spirit, to silence the beacon of rebellion. Once out of earshot, Sandfur was pinned to the ground, stabbed multiple times in her back, before being forcibly mated by Snakestar. Mated so brutally that she would never be able to have kits. And to make sure she suffered, he let her live, although he expelled her from ThunderClan, before storming off back to his clan.

Little did he know, Sandfur wasn't finished with him yet. And neither was the clan. Sandfur returned to the clan to find a war had torn apart the camp. The rebellion had caused an intense battle between Snakestar's supporters and Sandfur's. Sandfur joined the battle, just in time to see Stonejaw kill Snakestar. Although she didn't get to kill him, she was grateful that the damned traitor was dead.

In the aftermath, when given the opportunity to become leader, Sandstar gladly accepted, ending the bloodshed. But she would never be the same cat again, no matter how much she wanted to forget what happen to her as a warrior. Her only goal was to never again, repeat the nightmare that was Snakestar, never again, turn ThunderClan into a martyr.

Never again.

Kin

 * Sparkclaw - Adoptive Brother