#but basically she has leafpool's bit of ''was so devoted and got thrown away and treated poorly for it''

[yuridovewing]

silverleaf's story was meant to have an exiled or mistreated clan cat in each clan with a pov that would go on to make their own clans, but i didnt really care about the windclan one at all and the shadowclan one just feels Off to me now, so i think aside from the different ending, I'll just cut it down to two characters. silverleaf from thunderclan and lightheart from riverclan.

lightheart originally didn't have much in the way of personality, the entire basis for her was that she was exiled for being the daughter of the riverclan and shadowclan medics... can't remember if she had anything else going on lmao. but i'm thinking now that if silverleaf is reminiscent of ravenpaw... perhaps lightheart is reminiscent of hollyleaf and leafpool? moreso hollyleaf.

basically, lightheart is a star pupil. she was handpicked by the medic (her secret dad) to be his apprentice because of her "natural connection to starclan" (he actually just wanted to mentor his daughter). she's heavily devoted to starclan and the code, always putting the laws before her very being. she made a point of enforcing the code on others, and pushing starclan's will. she sees anyone who breaks the code as a heathen. she was seen as a prodigy with herbs, even finding new remedies that the clans would use for generations afterwards. everyone admired her and queens pointed at her as a role model to their kits- "lightheart always puts starclan first, as should you!"

but then, lightheart's heritage comes out. likely from a shadowclan cat or so. and the entire clan drops her like a hot potato. suddenly, her existence is a violation of several laws, so scandalous that the clan fears starclan's wrath. everyone doubts her visions now, and while she can still talk with starclan, who knew the whole time naturally, all of the respect is gone. eventually, they have her train up a new apprentice, and once they're done, she gets the boot.

and at first im thinking she's going to be an antagonist towards silverleaf and other exiled cats. she's furious at what happened to her and feels like she has to repent for her own existence to be taken back into her clan, so she takes it upon herself to make sure these "codebreakers" repent forever. maybe she commits a bit of medical malpractice to them or old clanmates idk. but she'd go through an arc where she realizes that her anger is aimed at the wrong people and just how fucked up the code is, to restrict who can have children and to allow halfclan cats to be treated poorly, to demand pure unquestionable loyalty to the leaders, etc. and she actually gets befriended by silverleaf and kind of lets go of riverclan entirely, deciding to finally put herself first and stop punishing herself.

design wise I had her as a white cat with black tabby stripes. i dont think im as fond of that anymore, so to give her some color as opposed to silverleaf's gray, i may make her a calico instead.