#and if cicadakit had lived Dawn wouldn't have become angsty like that

[morningmask27]

Antfur X Juniperclaw shipkids :]

Dawnshade and Cicadakit

Both kits were born after Juniperclaw’s death, Ant was truly devastated, but had support from Strikestone, Tawnypelt (who was at first in denial about being a great-grandmother already) and even Tigerstar to take care of the kids, even if they were somewhat disliked by other cats in the clan. 

Juniper and Ant had talked about the names they wanted to give to the kits and Juniper had mentioned the fact that he wanted one of the kits to be named after Dawnpelt. so when Antfur saw this little black kit with cream spots scattered all about they knew how to name them immediately. Their littermate was named after Antfur’s love of bugs, so little Cicadakit and Dawnkit were named. 

Sadly Cicadakit died pretty young. A freak accident according to some, a curse of StarClan according to others berryheart. Dawnkit’s markings were also being scrutinized. The cream spots were scattered oddly and somewhat resembled stars on their fur. Dawnshade genuinely has no connection to StarClan, even if some cats think they do. They simply want to live a normal, uneventful life, but TBC had other plans for them. 

Antfur died a brutal and painful death and then Strikestone too died; Tigerstar was too busy protecting his son, who had caused this whole mess to happen and Dawnshade was left alone; they became isolated in a clan that was being torn apart by the chaos of the impostor. They were partially also one of the cats that blamed shadowsight, for this mess and for having failed to save antfur. 

They volunteered to go to the dark forest to defeat ashfur once and for all. They wanted to be there to help and get revenge on ashfur as they were also the reason this all happened. They saw both their dads in the dark forest alongside their uncle and they were hurt, they were hurt by everything and forgot the blame on shadowsight after having seen how StarClan cats were. 

They were the one to kill ashfur in one vicious blow, not drowning him in the dark water, but finally cutting their throat open for a second time. Ashfur briefly didn’t see the cream spots on their fur when Dawnshade attacked. Then when the spirits that were controlled by ashfur were freed they got to ascend to StarClan, but Juniperclaw didn’t. These spirits were even bordering on defending their decision of letting ashfur join their ranks before he caused all this chaos. 

Now back in the living world they are one of the few cats that actively don’t believe in StarClan. not in a “they don’t exist” way but in a “they make bad decisions” way, just like Mothwing. Honestly they truly wonder if they should leave the clans and return to live with the guardian cats instead of staying in a place so poisoned by their set ideas of righteousness and ThE CoOoooOoDe.