#snapstar lore

Previously, they were named Shrikewing and Moonhaze before their exile. (taking inspo from @/bonefall's rewrite and using the concept of honor/dishonor titles!) In clanmew, those names are Whrrekekbeof - Red-backed Shrike's Feathered Wing (with Whrrekek being a word i made for a red-backed shrike!) and Shomsheffse - Hazy Moon

Shrikewing was ambitious from the moment he was apprenticed under Hootwhisker. The two bounced off each other incredibly well, for better, or for worse. Once Shrikewing had graduated into a warrior, he had immediately been given an apprentice, Poppypaw, as the clan was short on warriors, but bursting with apprentices at the turn of the season. His name came not only from his pelt resembling the wings of a red-backed shrike, but his cutthroat personality as well. He fiercely defended the borders, upheld the warrior code as if his life depended on it, and Eelstar took note.

Upon the death of the previous deputy, young Shrikewing was Eelstar's first choice to replace her.

But his ambition had quickly whipped into a desire for power, and, believing the leader was on his last life, began to come up with a plan to become the youngest leader in the cove.

Moonhaze, on the other hand, had been deeply shy and insecure for her whole life. Her appearance as a kit resulted in Eelstar's scorn, believing that his mate had been unfaithful, and, once she had opened her eyes, Mottledusk's horror, believing her to be a curse from StarClan. The queen had quickly returned to her warrior duties as soon as her kits were weaned, leaving the other queens to care for Moonkit, but happily tending to her other kit, Sunkit, as needed.

Moonkit's condition causing her sensitivity to light, both visually and physically, made it hard for her to play with the other kits, and she ended up spending much more time in the medicine den, being treated for horrible headaches and severe sunburns.

Her time in the medicine den lead her to earn a love for Cherryleg's work, and she soon asked to be apprenticed under her, and ended up graduating early.

As she grew, she found it clear that her clanmates held the same disdain for her, but none of it for her sibling, Sunsong, who had the attention of just about every tom and queen in the clan.

Shrikewing had easily picked up on this, and made an effort to spend time with her. As soon as he'd heard about her own contempt for her father, told her about his plan to get rid of him so that he could be leader, promising her she'd be shown the respect that she so deserved.

The next moon, Moonhaze lead her father out of camp, insisting they visit the Starpools ( a bundle of tide pools the shoreline clans use to speak to StarClan ) due to a dream she had, only for Shrikewing and Hootwhisker to ambush the leader partway there. Moonhaze told him everything she had wanted to say to him, all the vitriol and curses she'd hoped would strike him down. Shrikewing happily told Eelstar that he'd take care of the clan, and his daughter, in his absence, before landing the killing blow.

Though, much to their surprise later that night, that had not been Eelstar's last life.