Stoatbite is the oldest warrior on the senior warriors council. Incredibly experienced he is an excellent strategist and well respected for his feats in battle. He has strong beliefs against "outsiders" that stem from a traumatic childhood and adolescence and carries repressed, unexplored trauma that feeds this distrust.

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Stoatkit:

>Stoatbite remembers little from his kithood. From his perspective he had a close relationship with his mother Doespring from an early age but his father Tuisong was distant at the time as he recovered from an intense head injury; in actuality his biological mother Wetawhisker was drowned by Doespring, his aunt, in order for her to take Wetawhiskers place.

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Stoatpaw:

Stoatpaw was apprenticed to an experienced senior warrior. As he was born during the winter, an uncommon season for kits, he didn’t have many apprentices his age and sought out company from the senior warriors, learning tales of their time spent in battle and training advice.

Stoatpaw’s entire early life occurred during the dying days of the war between Duskclan and Dawnclan and he experienced battle for the first time at a young age, watching the death of his leader Burningstar to the claws of a Dawnclan warrior. As an apprentice he quickly learns the importance of strategy and develops an enjoyment for combat as well as a distrust for cats outside of his clan, especially as he believes the conflicts to be primarily instigated by Dawnclan.

Stoatpaw also spends some time assisting Doespring with cleric duties being taken on as a temporary apprentice alongside his warrior’s training. Prior to what would become the last battle he’s pulled aside by Doespring and told to cover his paws and claws with the juice from toxic plants.

That night Duskclan invades Dawnclan’s camp and attacks queens, elders and warriors alike. It’s a short battle, Duskclan retreats quickly but Stoatpaw manages to get a clear deep wound on the chest of Dawnclan’s leader Sleetstar and in the days following her wounds become infected leading to her death and Duskclan’s victory in the war. Stoatpaw is honoured by becoming a warrior early at 16 moons and is nicknamed ‘Dawnbreaker’ by his clanmates.

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Stoatbite:

As a young warrior Stoatbite is given the opportunity to become a mentor, an honour at such a young age, when Autumnpaw and Kiwipaw are assigned to him and an older molly Goosedown accordingly. Stoatbite becomes very close with both apprentices striking up an older brother dynamic as they’re actually some of the closest in the clan to his age, the war and winter being contributing factors to this. This becomes more apparent when Goosedown temporarily steps down as Kiwipaw’s mentor to nurse her newborn son Poppykit with Stoatbite offering to train both apprentices instead of assigning a temporary mentor.

Tragically however an incident occurs during Autumnpaw’s warrior assessment and he drowns near the Riversroots while hunting seabirds; Stoatbite manages to get him back to camp but he inhaled too much water and dies under Doespring’s care. This drives a wedge between him and the newly named Kiwitalon who blames Stoatbite for allowing Autumnpaw to recklessly hunt so close to the ocean’s edge during high tide and the two are never able to reconcile.

Kiwitalon becomes absent from the clan seasons later after his mate Tulipstem dies during leafbare leaving his son Lichenkit in the clan’s care. Lichenkit becomes close to both Stoatbite and Doespring and Stoatbite is reminded of the friendship he once had with his father, becoming protective over him even as he grows to be an adult and full cleric. However when Kiwitalon returns bearing Kowhaikit, his daughter to a housecat, Stoatbite views it as a personal betrayal of everything he believes to be important and isn’t able to extend the same protection to Kowhaikit. To him she represents her fathers rejection of clan life, loyalty and the friendship they once shared.

Stoatbite is now nearing retirement age at 102 moons old, but isn’t anywhere near willing to accept it; he’s fully set in his ways and has a dislike of anything or anyone that tries to challenge that.