#crowfrost

Crowfrost

In the Vision of Shadows arc he plays a bigger role, particularly in Thunder and Shadow. He is as vocal in many of the Clan's decisions as Rowanstar, and they really seem to make a good team despite missing the mark on the youngest generations resentments. He is more distrustful and stern to the Kin when they try to offer prey and join Shadowclan than Rowanstar, and is shocked and devastated when Needlepaw and his kits Sleekpaw and Juniperpaw decide to leave to join the Kin. When things start to go downhill with Yellowcough he takes over full leadership of the Clan, sending out Puddleshine with the first patrol for Lungwort and including Violetpaw to be sure that the clan would trust her, to picking up Scorchfur's implied opportunity when Twigpaw tries to visit her sister to use her as a bargaining chip for the needed herb and initiating that plan himself, to Speaking at the Gathering and contending with Onestar who continued to refuse help to his clan, Crowfrost did a hell of a lot more than most deputies and everything within his power to keep Shadowclan from falling apart. There's this moment when Thunderclan comes to rescue Twigpaw that the writing describes his voice as 'hoarse', and I think he knew then that he was sick with Yellowcough when he sends the apprentice home saying it was dangerous to keep her where cats were dying. Its also during this passage that he reveals Rowanstar has been losing lives, undisclosed how many, and that if after everything the other clans chose to let them die than it was up to starclan to judge them. This is obviously an unpopular decision, Scorchfur especially resents it feeling that if they had kept the apprentice they would have gotten the herb, and Spikefur tells him that he should hope that Rowanstar doesn't die because [Crowfrost] is no leader. Crowfrost continues to hide how sick he actually is, to the degree that he doesn't show symptoms to the rest of the clan until Kinkfur's death, and then by that point even though the Lungwort is stolen by the medicine cats that night he is unable to recover and dies just a few days later. The dude is massively tragic and endures the scorn of his clan for letting twigpaw go even as he lays dying. He is a very special guy to me idk just very neat.

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I had a couple of designs of this family laying around, so they are in a family tree now. The au notes on pairings: - Tawny and Rowan never really liked each other romanticaly and were cordial at best, and only much later in life managed to build a friendship. Tawny was paired with a tom by her father, and stuck by her mate to achived a percived sence of security. This, ultimately, blew up in her face then Darktail took over and she had to choose with whom her real loyalties lie. - Dawn and Crow were childhood friends, and thier kits were and unplanned accident. Crow mostly took over as a guardian, and the two never proclaimed themselfs as official partners. - Dove and Tiger are...complicated. It took an unwanted pregnancy, a scared run towards the unknown and the snide remarks towards The Healers by her "mate" for Dove to shake off the naivety of her youth to see Tiger for a egoshentric tom who wanted a molly and a litter of kits beside himself to look better in the eyes of others. After Tiger became a leader he and Dove have been distant towards each other, though they still love their children deeply. P.S: It seems Dove's situation caused a bit of a confusion, so, to elaborate - the term "unwanted pregnancy" was applied because Dove, initially, didnt want kits. The pregnancy happened accidentaly (like with Dawn), but inlike Dawn, Dove held more negative feelings towards her circumstance.

Apprentice: Stonewing

Part two for @artaintfart prefix challenge :)

115- Crowfrost