Character

Shadetail

From Children of StarClan


Shadetail
A Player Character belonging to Web

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Affiliation
 
A StarClanner; Formerly a Elder of RiverClan
Vitals
 
A Tom by Smokeypelt out of SliptalonBorn Shadowkit in the Moon of Lion's Glory (2002)* Died in the Moon of Tiger's Wrath (2008)
Dead at the age of 72 moons (5 years & 6 months)
and has been so for 19 moons (1 year & 6 months).
Appearance
 
Short Description :
An elderly, cantankerous silver tabby tom
Long Description :
Shadetail is a tabby cat. His fur, instead of being dark grey and black, is more of a silver-grey and black type. Shadetail’s pelt is sleek, and his fur is slick, along with looking more bold and bright than a dark grey bi-colour tabby cat's might look. You could say he was a silver tabby tom, but he’s more accurately a silver tom with seemingly black stripes. His fur is not exactly silver—just light grey with hints of it. Shadetail has a darker tabby tail, something that gave him his name. He can look like he’s sleeping when he’s awake easily, and vice versa. He has striking amber eyes. Shadetail used to takes strides, and to be proud and tall when he walked, but now he hardly uses his tail for balance anymore.
Personality
 
 
Snappish and rude, Shadetail is not the type to be a good friend. He’s snobby and loves arguing about pointless things, though big-deal arguments annoy him. Shadetail doesn’t like to tell stories to anybody, and he is probably a very annoying elder. He’s almost always grumpy, and even though he seems to not be your friend, he’ll zip his lip if you tell him a secret. Shadetail has a big mouth and is not really fond of kind—or cruel, for that matter—warriors. Mainly, he hates most cats, but on the inside he will fight to the death for his Clan. Shadetail is not ambitious, and he disapproves of anything like kittypets or half-Clan cats. He will hardly ever seem to be the cat who is nice to every cat, as he even dislikes other Clans’ cats. When his friends ask something of him, he will do it if he gets something in return. Otherwise, he doesn’t really think it’s worth doing, unless it saves another Clanmate’s life.
History
 
Key Dates  
Full History :
Shadetail was born as Shadowkit to Sliptalon and Smokeypelt, two very caring parents. Shadowkit was the second eldest of a litter of three (Treekit, himself, and Gingerkit). Shadowkit was even grumpy and careless back then, and didn’t even give a thought to become an apprentice. Gingerkit was really excited, Treekit was pretty excited, but Shadowkit was not excited. He just watched the other kits playfight and boasted that he would be better than them when he grew up. That was going to be a half-truth.

Shadowkit was apprenticed as Shadepaw to Redsun of RiverClan. Shadepaw was Redsun’s first apprentice, and she was very excited. Frantically, Redsun trained Shadepaw hard and well, teaching him to fight better than his siblings, hunt better than his siblings, and teach better than his siblings. Well, better than most of them, anyways. But trouble came—Shadepaw was still very cranky, and when a battle came along….that’s when trouble among the three siblings started to brew.

A ferocious battle came along. All three siblings were excited during the battle (except for Shadepaw, of course), and fought well and hard. Treepaw was fighting very hard, Shadepaw was fighting really hard, and Gingerpaw was fighting crazily hard. Gingerpaw, very sadly, died, and the two siblings were left to grieve. Shadepaw was angered, not saddened, by this incident, and blamed it all on the cat who had killed her. This was part of what got Shadetail so bent on being snobby in the first place.

Shadepaw and Treepaw were brightened by their becoming warriors. Shadetail and Treepool lived to learn to be excited, strong, and brave, and led a good life from then on. Shadetail befriended only a few cats, but Treepool became friends with many.

A RiverClan she-cat called Petalnose caught Shadetail's attention when he was 30 moons old. He worked his way around her, trying not to show his feelings for her, but for him that was hard. Petalnose and Shadetail talked together a lot--finally, they mated. Sadly, his mate died bearing his kits, and one was stillborn. Yet Shadetail felt proud that Snowkit, now Snowfoot, and Ratkit, now Mousedust, survived. Later, however, Mousedust and Snowfoot were killed in a fight with an enemy Clan.

Shadetail had a best friend in RiverClan, who was killed when he, his best friend's apprentice, Treepool, and his best friend were sparring when a large hawk appeared. His best friend's apprentice and Treepool, excited, went off to chase it, but they were both killed. The hawk flew off, unknown to them until his best friend went to see where his apprentice had gone. Suddenly, Shadetail heard an angry yowl coming from his friend. His best friend was ambushed! Dashing out to the scene, Shadetail saw a patrol of ThunderClan warriors leaping and clawing at his best friend. Shadetail slashed at them vigorously. While he and his best friend drove most of them off, the strongest stayed, managing to take his best friend's life before Shadetail ran away and the powerful ThunderClan cat left with their comrades. Shadetail went back to camp with the story of the hawk and the fight.

In the Moon of Long Sun in 2006, Shadetail retired to the elders’ den, (not) telling tales of the Great Clans. He died at the age of 72 moons in the Moon of Tiger's Wrath in 2008.
Family
 
Sire :
Smokeypelt (A silver tabby tom)
Dame :
Sliptalon (A brown mackerel tabby she-cat)
Full Siblings :
Treepool (A gray tabby she-cat with pale blue eyes)
Gingerpaw (A silver tabby tom with flaming ginger eyes)
Offspring :
Snowfoot (A pale gray she-cat with amber eyes)
Mousedust (A silver tabby tom with amber eyes)
Genealogy & Pedigree
 
Significant Cats
 
Mated with :
Petalnose (A dilute tortoiseshell she-cat with green-blue eyes)
Mentor :
Redsun (No Sdesc on File)
Mentor of :
None
Others :
Player's Notes
 
Vol Populi :
Relationships :
The player may Create a Page about the character's relationships.
Name Notes :
Name History investigation is required for Shadetail
Special Forms: Full Edit, Adoption
Additional Details
 
Bans Information:
Shadetail has been compiled into the bans records based on his/her physical traits.
Shadetail is a Male cat with Short Gray Mackerel Tabby fur.
He is of Medium-large size and Common build. He has Amber eyes and a Normal tail. He is of non-purebred decent.