#lightgale

StarClan Cats

Clovefreckle - golden brown bengal-spotted tom with sage eyes

Downface - ginger-and-black tortoiseshell she-cat with emerald eyes

Curlrise - white cat with brown markings and green eyes

Shadetide - dark gray she-cat with a striped back and greenish-yellow eyes

Algaefreckle - cream spotted she-cat with green eyes

Rippleheart - very dark gray tabby she-cat with sage eyes

Scorchpaw - cream tabby tom with pale yellow eyes

Pumpkinkit - white-and-dark brown she-cat with amber eyes

Poolpaw - brown-and-white she-cat with one amber eye and one blue

Basilbramble - elderly gray she-cat with white markings and emerald eyes

Lightgale - golden-brown tabby tom with sage eyes

Weedspeckle -white she-cat with a light brown spot on her chest and bronze eyes

Jumbledapple - gray-and-brown tortoiseshell she-cat with greenish-yellow eyes

Stonescreech - gray tabby tom with long fur and bronze eyes

Tidalwave - cream spotted she-cat with sage eyes

Patchouliprickle - white tom with brown markings and amber eyes

Nutpaw - golden brown she-cat with a darker-furred face and bronze eyes

Brokenpaw - dark brown tom with a darker-furred face and cyan eyes

Hyacinthpaw - cream tom with a darker-furred face and hazel eyes

Snapfern - gray tabby she-cat with amber eyes

Hootheart - white she-cat with a dark brown spot on her side and cobalt eyes

Icestripe - light brown she-cat with a striped back and cyan eyes

Dark Forest Cats

General Information

Names: Lightgale (clan name), Gale (rogue name)

Current Affiliation: StarClan, formerly belonging to SplashClan

Past Affiliation: None, former rogue

Gender: Male (he/him)

Sexuality: Gay

Age: 139 months at death (11 years; born 58 months before SplashClan's founding)

Cause of Death: Unknown, mysteriously disappeared (month 81)

Description-

golden mackerel tabby tom with medium-length fur and sage eyes

Traits: Compassionate and an eloquent speaker (elder-aged), loving and an excellent speaker (younger)

Role: Medicine Cat

Relationships

Mate: Jadezinnia (became mates in month 3)

Kits: Clovefreckle, Downface, and Gorgeflight (first litter with Jadezinnia; born in month 25) + Tidalwave, Thornheart, and Algaefreckle (second litter with Jadezinnia; born in month 59)

Grandkits: Scorchpaw, Quietpaw, Sparkstep, Rippleheart, Minkscratch, and Bushpaw (through Clovefreckle) + Streakpaw, Octopussplash, Crestedpaw, Fumblestreak, Lightheart, and Meadowwater (through Thornheart)

Great-Grandkits: Littlebat (adopted; through Sparkstep) + Hushkit, Chirpspeck, Hailtorrent, Splashpaw, Snailpaw, Frostyfur, and Leopardkit (through Minkscratch)

Great-Great Grandkits: Scalekit and Lotuspaw (through Littlebat)

Apprentice: Thornheart (months 65-76)

Romantic Feelings: Jadezinnia and Brackenshade

Platonic Love: Snapfern, Weedspeckle, Jadezinnia, Brackenshade, Downface, and Thornheart

Admiration: Jadezinnia, Brackenshade, and Lightstar

Security: Jadezinnia

Reliance: Lightstar

Detailed Biography

Gale was once a wandering rogue who traded his way through life thanks to his knowledge of herbs. He was never skilled in hunting or fighting and so he was able to use his knowledge to trade for protection, shelter, and food from other rogues or loners he stumbled across. One day, he met the cats who lived at the horseplace and began to stay there in exchange for healing and it was there when he met Jade. Beside the horseplace was the temporary camp for the new clan cats and Jade often came by the horseplace to hunt mice, meaning it wasn’t long till they bumped into each other. The two became close friends right away thanks to Jade’s inviting and friendly demeanor. Though initially, Gale had no intentions of joining the clans things changed when Jade arrived at the horseplace in a frantic manner.

Jade had found and rescued an injured cat named Snap and none of the cats currently in the clans could figure out how to help her. Though there were already three medicine cats in the clans, none of the herbs they were using worked. Gale rushed to help Snap and was able to figure out the specific herb she needed, saving her life. After this, he stuck around to keep an eye on Snap and make sure she was recovering well enough. He eventually realized that even after Snap had recovered he was still needed and he decided to stick around, accepting the name Lightgale, becoming a medicine cat, and joining SplashClan once the rogues were officially driven out.

Lightgale was incredibly happy once his life in the clans began and it became clear to him very quickly that he was able to connect to and interact with StarClan, making him the perfect medicine cat SplashClan needed. It wasn’t long after the clans officially began when things changed between him and Jadezinnia. The two no longer saw each other as friends and they realized how much they really loved each other, deciding to become mates. The two spent a lot of time with each other but that did result in Jadezinnia spending more of his time with Lightgale than doing his warrior duties. Though he had already proven his worth as a healer and had a connection to StarClan, StarClan was very silent towards SplashClan, causing some inner conflict for Lightgale. Aside from that though, Lightgale was still very happy and content with the life he had with Jadezinnia, even if his mate was a tad lazy and tended to slack off on warriors duties.

Eventually, Lightgale and Jadezinnia had their first litter of kits together, who they named Clovekit, Downkit, and Gorgekit. He loved getting to be a father with Jadezinnia but the birth of his kits caused a lot of stress on him. He now had to juggle his tasks as the clan’s sole healer with caring for his kits with Jadezinnia and on top of all of that, Jadezinnia had recently received a nasty leg injury that was struggling to fully heal. For months Jadezinnia fought through infection and Lightgale questioned his own healing abilities, even traveling to the other clans, desperate for any advice to help his mate. Thankfully, in the end Jadezinnia was alright but his injured back leg would never work properly again, though this didn’t bother him, especially not when he had recently retired to the elders' den.

Lightgale and Jadezinnia’s kits were later apprenticed and with Jadezinnia being an elder, a good chunk of Lightgale’s stress was gone. He no longer had to worry about his mate skipping his tasks to spend time with him and his kits were grown up enough that he didn’t need to be constantly watching over them but he still made sure they were close. Clovefreckle, Downface, and Gorgeflight were eventually made warriors but tragedy struck when Gorgeflight drowned in a flood while on patrol. Their family was devastated by the loss but Lightgale refused to let his grief consume him. He stuck to his herb organizing, refusing to let himself even for a moment fall into depression but he broke when his daughter, Downface, was taken away by twolegs only a few months later. He was unable to keep his emotions back any longer and fell into a lengthy state of grief but thankfully, Downface was able to return to SplashClan unharmed a few months later. 

His recent stress over his kits, his mate, and the loss of Gorgeflight made him realize how overworked he really felt and he began to keep a close watch on the kits of the clan, hoping that maybe one of them could be a potential medicine cat apprentice. It was after this when he suddenly recieved an omen, the first omen StarClan had ever sent to him. In his dream he watched as a group of faceless cats attacked and tore down a beaver dam, only to be washed away by the flood once the dam broke. The message was clear, if SplashClan continued to antagonize and aggrivate HazeClan it could lead to their demise. No matter how many times he tried to tell Gannetstar about his vision, her faith in StarClan was already horribly low and they refused to acknowledge his vision as true. In the end, SplashClan went to war against HazeClan and lost pitifully. Though SplashClan wasn’t destroyed, the war resulted in the deaths of many cats, even long after the war's end. 

Eventually, Lightgale and Jadezinnia were able to have a second litter of kits who they named Tidalkit, Thornkit, and Algaekit. Though a tad older, his new litter of kits were born the same month as his son, Clovefreckle’s litter, allowing for the nine kits to grow up together which also gave him an opportunity to watch for a potential medicine cat apprentice. His eyes were initially on Minkkit who was less interested in fighting and typical clan life and was often curiously investigating the medicine den. It was clear Minkkit wanted to be a medicine cat but during the HazeClan war, Minkkit was left behind in camp during a battle and had to be rescued by Orangefreckle. As a result of this, Orangefreckle died which led to Minkkit becoming traumatized by the event and extremely squeamish when it came to physical injuries, meaning he dropped all hopes of becoming a medicine cat. Strangely, there was another kit who had hopes of being a medicine cat that Lightgale had unknowingly glossed over, his own son, Thornkit. Before Thornkit was apprenticed he asked his father if he could train under him as a medicine cat to which he of course accepted. 

He was initially skeptical of Thornpaw, thinking that he only took the position out of pity for him since Minkpaw passed up the position, but it was clear he was devoted to the job and his skepecism quickly passed. Similarly to Lightgale, Thornpaw developed an incredible knowledge for herbs but aside from that was lacking in everything else. His connection to StarClan was faint and his daring and charismatic personality led to him not being the most patient and gentle of medicine cats, even growing cold as a result of his annoyance towards his patients. Regardless of that, Thornheart recieved his full name and was still honored for his skill in healing and his integrety.  

Before Thornheart received his full name however, multiple tragedies struck not just their family, but SplashClan as a whole. Firstly, Jadezinnia died as a result of old age, causing Lightgale to deeply mourn for his lost mate. Only a few months after that many cats in SplashClan died as a result of eating poisoned fish from the river and his kits, Clovefreckle, Downface, and Algaefreckle were among the deceased. He was unable to pull himself together and Downface’s death caused him the most pain. She had such a bright future ahead of her and he had always imagined her someday becoming deputy and now she would be unable to achieve anything she had dreamed of. After their vigils, Lightgale returned to his nest and sobbed to the point his throat went raw. In the end, he was thankfully able to keep working even just a little bit and helped Thunderisle pick herself up from the grief she was experiencing over her son, Curlrise’s death. 

In the following months, he decided that it might be best for him to move on from Jadezinnia. He didn’t want to linger on the past and his grief and decided that if he ever found it, he would accept love from someone else. In the end however, the opportunity for him to find a second love never came as only a few months later Lightgale was a casualty in the mass disappearance of many of SplashClan’s cats.

Fun Facts

Lightheart, Lightgale's grandson through Thornheart is named after him

If Quietpaw, his grandson through Clovefreckle, lived to become a warrior, his name would've been Quietgale in honor of him

Lightgale was the 33rd cat to die and join SplashClan

His favorite food is rabbit

He's currently the SplashClan cat (along with Jadezinnia) to have the most decendants

His voice claim is Milo Thatch from Atlantis: The Lost Empire (voiced by Michael J. Fox)

StarClan Events

He once sent an omen of things to come to Brackenshade

After his death, Lightgale followed the growth of Thunderisle

Though he died young, Lightgale was proud of Jaykit for trying to fight through his greencough