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Charlie
Charredbranch (former warrior name)
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Appearance
The exiled remnant of a vanished clan.
Background
Once a promising young StoneClan warrior, Charlie was exiled by the clan's leader Steadystar after her mate, the clan's last remaining medicine cat and Steadystar's only daughter, died in childbirth. She hasn't seen her kin or her clan in almost a decade. Now frail and exhausted after a long, hard life of isolation, Charlie never expected StarClan to select her to mentor the spirits' next chosen leader of StoneClan. Wary of her ancestors' motivations and unfamiliar with the greatly changed territory, Charlie is nonetheless fiercely protective of her young charges.
A Plan Gone Wrong (WIP)
The story of Charlie and Cinnamonswirl's relationship and how their plan to start a family fell apart.
Relationships
Cinnamonswirl was the love of Charlie's life and the future mother of her kits.
Steadystar was Charlie's combative father-in-law. Bereaved after the death of his daughter which he blamed on charlie, he exiled her from StoneClan territory. Steadystar never recognized Charlie and Cinnamonswirl's relationship as anything more than a misguided friendship.
Cindermask was Charlie's littermate and her near-identical twin. He was the surrogate father of her and Cinnamonswirl's litter of kits and cared for them as best he could after their living mother was exiled. He was forbidden to visit Charlie, and she does not know what became of him.
Celery is Charlie's unofficial apprentice and her first friend in a long time. She cares for him deeply and would do whatever it takes to lift the vengeful eyes of Steadystar's ghost from the young cat.
Wandering Paws is an old friend of Charlie's who shelters in her barn when he passes through the valley. They share a fraught history with Steadystar's ghost, and the pair frequently stay up late over a proverbial mug of cocoa reminiscing about simpler times.
Thrushfur and Charlie have a complicated relationship. Charlie was exiled from StoneClan before Thrushfur was born, but her parents and their kin were Charlie's former clanmates. They have mutual respect for the other's role in their clan, but they don't always see eye-to-eye. Charlie is ashamed to acknowledge that she still holds some resentment towards Thrushfur for having so many kits in her life, despite the younger she-cat having struggled with fertility issues of her own. Nevertheless, nobody else quite knows the struggles that these two aging mothers from Old StoneClan share.
Trivia
- Theme song: Memory (Cats)
- The smoke gene runs in Charlie's family.
- Charlie was TNR'd as a young warrior. She is spayed and vaccinated against rabies.
