#echoflight

Affiliations

Current: PeakClan

Age

49 moons

Kin

Sisters: Dawnbird, Silverpaw

Sibling: Windyfur

Mate: Wolfstep

Daughters: Leopardpaw, Duskpaw

Son: Talonpaw

Nieces: Icefall, Snowshine

Deputy Position

Preceded by: Blizzardstar

Personality

Echoflight is beloved throughout her clan for being a softspoken, gentle molly, and she is well regarded as being the heart of PeakClan. She is the emotional side to Blizzardstar’s tactical leadership, and her close knit relationship with all of her Clanmates makes her a wonderful liaison between Blizzardstar and the rest of the Clan, able to use her charisma and influence as a way to reassure them of Blizzardstar’s good intentions, as the tom can run a little closed off and secretive. She truly does love PeakClan, and a natural mother, cats both young and old seem to flock to her for advice and support, and her, having already lost many family members, welcomes her Clanmates with an open heart, considering each of them to be a treasured member of her family. She isn’t much of a fighter, but is very articulate, and encourages her Clan, as well as her own children to use their words, not their claws.

Backstory

Echoflight has always considered herself to be quite average. Having lost her parents young, as kits she and her littermates, Silverkit and Windykit looked up to their older sister Dawnbird and enjoyed frequent visits from her friend Blizzardbite. The kits often played with the warriors and practiced their moves. Echokit, however, realized that she didn’t much care for fighting, and wondered whether or not she was being pulled towards the medicine den. She may have considered pursuing it, but upon understanding that Windykit could see no other future for themself, she didn’t mind becoming a warrior apprentice. 

She and her siblings were made apprentices in newleaf. But the next leafbare was harsh and made hunting difficult, and the mountainsides treacherous. While her sister, Silverpaw was eager to get out there and be the best apprentice she could be in a time of crisis, Echopaw was more wary. She wished she could be in the medicine den with Windypaw, warm and safe, but knew that becoming a medicine cat because she was cold and hungry was a rotten way to think and decided that it was for the best that she be there to keep her overzealous sister in line. Unfortunately, however, one fateful morning, while out hunting, Silverpaw slipped off an icy ledge, and crashed through a frozen stream. Echopaw and their mentors weren’t able to get her out. Echopaw, Windypaw, and Dawnbird were devastated, and in a turn of events more bitter than sweet, Echoflight was made a warrior not long after. Having lost her sister, Echoflight sought to comfort her Clanmates who were also reeling from feelings of loss during the harsh leafbare as sickness swept through the camp. 

She was given an apprentice to mind when MeadowClan and PeakClan started to have some tension at the worst possible time. Additionally, with Blizzardbite deputy, Dawnbird expecting, and Windyfur acting as sole medicine cat after the sickness, she was mostly navigating alone. She was devastated when Dawnbird was lost to her too, further into the war, but she coped with her grief by being there for Blizzardbite and her nieces, Snowkit and Icekit as well as her Clanmates, as helping them keep their lives together distracted her from the fact that hers felt like it was falling apart. During this time she bonded with Wolfstep, a warrior also reeling from the grief of losing a sibling.