Brokensnow

Brokensnow was born with the name Dappledkit, to her Guard father and warrior mother. Her father was a cat of action, and, given his first litter consisted of only two kits, Dappledkit and a much smaller brother, Windkit. Despite Dappledkit's size and her voracious appetite for blood, their father took to training Windkit to take over his position. Dappledkit was bitter about this, but she worked past it, throwing herself wholeheartedly into learning. Her father wouldn't train her, but one of the mateless and kitless Guards, a tom named Stormfront, would. Dappledkit attached to him as soon as she was a Charge, and together while her father trained her less able brother, Stormfront began to teach Dappledkit the ins and outs of being a Guard.

In her very early apprenticeship, Dappledpaw, apprenticed under Stormfront, got involved in a battle she wasn't yet truly trained to handle. Stormfront had been pinned and in an attempt to save him Dappledpaw threw herself at her mentor's attackers, resulting in a less than efficient scuffle that would eventually earn her a real name. Dappledpaw was overpowered and double teamed, defending her injured mentor against two adult rogues. One got ahold of her face, and ripped off her ear. The other bit so deeply into her tail that the nerves were permanently damaged. Driven by anger and fear, Dappledpaw managed to get ahold of one of the rogues under his jaw where his throat connected, and she bit hard and didn't let go. The rogue who she had by the throat died in under a minute. The other rogues fled, and the badly hurt mentor and apprentice returned to camp with the help of one another, and sought immediate medical attention. Dappledpaw was comatose from blood loss for two days. In those days, her father brought her brother out on a patrol in the same area Dappledpaw and Stormfront were when they were attacked. There was another attack, and in the chaos Windpaw was killed.

Dappledpaw woke up with an amputated part of her tail, and a missing ear. Her brother was dead, and already buried. Stormfront was still recovering from his wounds. She was informed then that her name had been changed from Dappledpaw to Brokenpaw, representative of her broken ear, tail, and the broken patches on her coat. She took the name in stride, and moved back into her apprentice's den as soon as she was allowed. Her training from there intensified, Stormfront remained her mentor but her father, whom she hated, began to take an interest in the daughter he had shunted off. She rejected him quite intensely, having taken to Stormfront, believing him to be more father to her than her own had ever been. Their training was dangerous and constant, and Brokenpaw constantly engaged in exercises, many based around battle and fighting, but many more around manipulation, control of emotion, and understanding of the laws of PineClan. Around her fourth moon of training, at the age of ten moons, the young mollie Fennelkit was apprenticed. Brokenpaw gew close to young Fennelpaw rather quickly, taking her under her wing and helping her learn the ropes.

Brokenpaw was made a warrior at the age of 13 moons, an incredibly young warrior. She never stopped training under Stormfront, and she found amusement in the way that young Fennelpaw continued to look up to her even after she started taking to the son of their Chieftains, Timberpaw. Her warrior name was Brokensnow, and she quickly found ways to get into bigger and better trouble. Wounds across her body healed into vibrant scars, tokens of each of her battles, each of her triumphs. Brokensnow never lost. There came a time when the current Chieftains died, and the young Timberstar was raised into the position of Chief. He quickly chose his mate, Fennelstar, within a moon, and then the Guards were appointed, Brokensnow being one of them.

Brokensnow's most notable scar was received when a warrior called Lightwing was identified as a Turnclaw. Brokensnow was trying to restrain the warrior, and in the process she received a horrifying injury that left her lying almost completely split open. Her injury ran from above her eye down her throat, through her stomach and then up her side. Despite its depth, she managed to subdue Lightwing and hand him off to another guard before passing out. It took her moons to recover, leaving her with a scar that's hard to refute.

Brokensnow's life through Ashblaze's life was mostly silent. She cared little for Ashblaze but didn't attack her as much as the others. Just did her duty. It was after Ashblaze's death when she was chosen to take over Cinderpaw's training to try to train the Turnclaw influence out of her. Cinderpaw seemed to shape well under Brokensnow's unyielding force, and in truth the hardened mollie began to care very much for the young warrior. That's why, when Brokensnow noticed a pattern of sneaking out at night, she followed her. When she saw Cinderdust snuggling up to the well known rogue Rick, she barged out from the bushes and confronted her. In a panic, Cinderdust attacked Brokensnow. Though the Guard had not meant to ever turn Cinderdust in, just warn her of the danger, she was suddenly hurled into a battle for her own life. She couldn't bring herself to kill the cat she had trained, and with that weakness behind her something happened that had never happened before. Brokensnow lost.

Brokensnow died at Cinderdust's paw, and she was buried under the only willow tree on the territory, a large weeping willow near the stream.