#talonpaw

[songclangen]

swankit……practicing bird calls…….you don’t even know how special you are

[hexxo707]

Smokepaw or Nightwing? Smokepaw was the apprentice that fell off the cliff during the journey, and Nightwing was his mother!

Included Talonpaw here too, why not!

[forestclan-clangen]

MOON 2 (Final)

(Note to new viewers: the scenes have dead pixels on purpose! It's meant to emulate a cartridge game you found plugged into an old TV set!)

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Redstar goes to the border and finds a cat on the Thunderpath. She checks to see if this was the work of the woods, but no; the cat was run over by a Twoleg vehicle. She jumps when the cat groans in pain, still alive. Not wanting to leave a cat to die to the woods, she brings them back to camp. Windfur works quickly to fix their broken back, afraid of failing Redstar.

(Redstar, leader, female, 61 moons) (Windfur, medicine cat, male, 16 moons) (???, loner, female, unknown age)

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"Windfur!"

The young medicine cat's ears perked as he heard his name being called. He put down the marigold and tansy he was sorting and quickly pushed past the hanging ferns that covered the medicine den's entrance.

The sunlight warmed the camp as it pierced through the tall pines that usually created dappled shadows, making Windfur wince for a moment before averting his eyes elsewhere.

"I'm needed?" he asked loudly.

"Yes! Redstar brought back someone," Cloudthunder piped up as she leapt off the top of one of the great walls surrounding their camp. She had already dashed towards the entrance with concern before Windfur could speak.

Windfur's eyes immediately fell on the camp's main entrance, and his fur bristled as he saw Redstar carrying a brown tabby she-cat on her back. Iciclepool and Talonpaw must have crossed into Redstar on the way back to camp, as the two were trying to keep the tabby stable by hugging Redstar's sides.

Windfur ran up to them and looked at Redstar crossly."Are you being followed?"

He knew his clanmates never liked him asking this one question before anything else. But he remembered the last time he started working before the danger was gone.

"No," said Redstar.

Windfur beckoned the three cats towards the medicine den with his tail. He started pushing around his herbs and a bed of moss. His heart started racing with anxiety. He forced himself down his routine checklist to keep calm. "Any obvious injuries?"

"I think her back is broken. She was run over by a Twoleg monster," Redstar replied.

Windfur frowned as he started grabbing flat stones and ripped tree bark, elevating certain sections of a bed. His mind fell into autopilot as he started reciting procedures like Chicoryglint used to teach him.

"Redstar, lie down on your stomach, as carefully as you can. Iciclepool and Talonpaw, stick your heads under the tabby's forelegs and back legs until her belly is under your necks."

Iciclepool complied, and Talonpaw grunted as he shoved his nose under the molly's body and wrestled with her fur to bring her over him.

"Then, walk over Redstar and slowly place the molly on her side. Have your paws as a cushion for her back. I'll grab her. Careful - "

As Windfur saw the condition of the molly's lower back, he panicked as Talonpaw lowered too quickly. "Talon, TALON! Slower!"

"Like you're about to stretch, Talonpaw," Redstar added, more calmly.

"Sorry, sorry," Talonpaw hissed as he glanced nervously at his mentor, trying to match her level. Windfur grabbed the molly and secured her back on the elevated segment he made, then secured her down, grabbing vital points where his clanmate's heads were.

"Okay, you're good," he said, letting out a breath he didn't know he was holding. "Now gently pull yourselves out from under her. I've stabilized her spine, it should be okay."

Windfur waited for the two cats to part from the tabby before beginning his process. He muttered under his breath the mantra his mentor taught him for broken bones - Brittlebone the Caster. How did it start again? His memory dug at a middle-aged molly looking down at him with a shine in her eyes. She then recited a nursery rhyme...

Broken was the bone of Brittlebone-he,

Low on the spine, the tail end-be...

"Lift up the back, and align the spine," Windfur mumbled as he started his work, grazing his tail over his patient's spine and finding the bone that seemed shifted from the rest. He found the proper alignment and shifted around the moss and lifting stones until her body didn't shift any more, then started applying his medicines as he remembered them. "Disinfect the wound and pull the twine..."

"Windfur?"

"Let me work," he said, careful to hold back on his bite. "Please. I'll let you know of her condition when I'm done, Redstar. I promise."

His surroundings became distant hums as he focused intently on his task. He shot the occasional glance at the molly's chest to make sure she was still breathing, and checked the pulse in her ear. He barely registered the three cats leaving the medicine den, too determined to make sure that his patient lived.

That was his task. His job. It's what he was good at. He couldn't be distracted and possibly make a mistake. If he did, he wouldn't be able to forgive himself. He had to do this right. He never had the gift of surgical precision in the midst of chaos like Chicoryglint did. So he needed the silence to get this right.

As he started building a cast out of hardened bark, hoping to mold the spine back in place, he imagined Chicoryglint's spirit watching him, and waiting, her dark grey, long-haired tail wrapped over her paws. Windfur's breath shook for a moment, and then he continued, mumbling the rest of the song under his breath as his paws gently pulled a temporary cast into place.

"Stable was the bone, of Brittlebone-he,

Of hard bark and soft moss, the cast must be,

Fitting for the Caster, of ForestClan, see."

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After some time, the loner wakes and expresses gratitude, although her eyes and demeanor seem to speak otherwise. Her name is Olie, and she joins reluctantly, mainly because she can't go anywhere with a broken back. After listening to Clan life, she offers to be a mediator, having experience with negotiating with loners and kittypets.

(Redstar, leader, female, 61 moons) (Windfur, medicine cat, male, 16 moons) [NEW CLAN MATE ADDED] Olive (mediator, female, 58 moons. Calm.)

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[airocats]

[talonpaw]

thought it might be cute to give him a collar >:3c

[animatewarriorcats]

Talonpaw! Showed up in the Allegiances under his mentor Rowanclaw with Smokepaw In Midnight, but didn't make a written appearance until starlight on a boarder patrol, and even then was only part of the group. the next thing we hear about him in Twilight is that he's been hate crimed off page by a couple of kittypets while hunting on his own, and was able to drag himself back to camp only to succumb to his wounds. We dont know who his kin or mentor were, but Cedarheart was pretty affected by the loss, possibly because he was also a victim of the kittypets and their twolegs, but I headcanon that the tom may have been his relative.

[smewduck]

sketched a bunch of ocs

[rose-warriorcatsrefs]

[celestralferretdesigns]

Talonpaw

[stus-warrior-designs]

His death is brutal

[xxxfoxflowerxxx]

Warrior cat designs: Talonpaw

[songclangen]

WAAHHHH not rainstreak :((( if you want to be alive in songclan, don’t be a gray cat. at least they’re reunited with their sib <3 i do think rain sort of secretly refused to take herbs and heal up properly, in case there was a chance they’d see their brother again. feather is just a tragedy, he’s so young and his brother just became the mew med cat…bee and talon better look after each other

kind of love pinepaw though…and he’s got a high survival chance color

sprite:

[mud-castle]

Sorry for asking but I haven't been keeping track, who are talonclaw and primrosetail

Background characters who've won my heart.

So, they're Talonpaw and Primrosepaw in the books. Talonpaw dies when attacked by two kittypets after the clans settle on the lake, Primrosepaw is Mistyfoot's daughter and...I think dies before TNP?

In Dark Mirror, both of them are chosen to make the journey with Crow, Squilf, and Brambles. Primrose is the eldest of the apprentices and Talonpaw is the youngest. They grow the closest out of all the journey cats after Bramble disappears and has his whole partial character development thing with the mountain colony.

Primrose looks out for her family and herself first and foremost (having been taught that by Misty after the whole half-clan cat persecution thing). And is, at best, neutral towards everyone else...Talon doesn't count as "everyone else" obviously

Talonswipe looks up to her. She's kind of like an older sister to him, who will beat the shit out of him during a border dispute. ...so exactly an older sister actually.

[forestclan-clangen]

MOON 2 (Part 1)

(Note to new viewers: the scenes have dead pixels on purpose! It's meant to emulate a cartridge game you found plugged into an old TV set!)

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Talonpaw is assigned to Iciclepool as a mentor. Redstar defies hundreds of moons of ForestClan tradition, and bans apprentice trials - no cat will need to seek approval from the Woods before being trained.

(Talonpaw, apprentice, male, 6 moons) (Redstar, leader, female, 61 moons) (Iciclepool, deputy, female, 58 moons) (Cloudthunder, warrior, female, 35 moons) (Hopechase, warrior, female, 84 moons) (Barleywave, warrior, male, 31 moons) (Windfur, medicine cat, male, 16 moons) (Morningkit, kitten, female, 4 moons) (Shiverkit, kitten, female, 2 moons)

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Talonkit was nervous.

In fact, most of the Clan was. As Talonkit officially turned six moons old, this meant he was no longer a kit. In ForestClan, this was not a joyous occasion, or a day of celebration. This was a day of dread.

Talonkit loved to be noisy and play pretend with Morningkit about fighting off all the monsters in the woods. He loved winning against fake badgers and fake foxes in the shapes of Barleywave, Iciclepool and Hopechase. But the Woods were real. And he heard whispers when Lakestar was still alive. He heard what ForestClan does to new apprentices - before they could be given a mentor.

"Redstar will keep her promise, won't she?" Cloudthunder whispered to Iciclepool, looking at her expectantly. Iciclepool did not look at the she-cat, her eyes focused on the leader's den as they waited for Redstar.

The crowd grew silent as Redstar finally emerged from the leader's den and padded up onto the High Rock. The gentle wind filled the void left behind by gossiping voices. It left a thick tension in the air, like a dark fog at dusk. Despite that, Redstar's voice rang clearly.

"Talonkit. Please come join me."

Talonkit trembled before reluctantly climbing up onto the High Rock. He stared at his paws.

He didn't expect Redstar to lean in and whisper to him personally.

"Hey. It's going to be okay."

Talonkit hesitated. "Y-You can't...promise that," he said meekly.

"But I can."

Confusion ran through the young cat. What did she mean? Before he could ask, Redstar placed her tail on his shoulder.

"Talonkit, from this day forward until you receive your warrior name, you will be known as Talonpaw." she declared loudly to the Clan. "And by my rule as the new leader of ForestClan, I seek to adjust the Code we follow. I call upon our ancestors in StarClan to hear my decision, and approve my choice. From this day forth, no apprentice shall be forced to seek approval from the Woods. Apprentice trials are now outlawed - and mentors will be appointed right after an apprentice is named."

Shocked and delighted murmurs rose from the small crowd below. Barleywave shoved Cloudthunder playfully and said, "See? She kept her promise."

Talonpaw's eyes were wide, shining with wonder. "Really?!"

As Redstar nodded, Talonpaw let out a screech of joy as he leapt off the rock. Hopechase laughed as she rushed to stop him, grabbing him by the scruff.

"Wait! Your mentor, dummy!" Hopechase let go of him, pushing him back towards the rock. "Wait for your mentor to be named!"

Talonpaw had just enough sense to pretend to be embarassed, climbing back up to a now very pleased Redstar. Her eyes shone with a light that few had ever seen from her when she was a deputy - like a spark of life had been returned to her from the stars. She passed on that look to Iciclepool, who shared in her joy.

"Iciclepool, you have been a wonderful mentor before, when our numbers were greater. I hope that with this new apprentice, you will welcome a wonderful new warrior to our Clan in time."

Iciclepool did not hesitate to approach Talonpaw, who bumped noses with her enthusiastically.

The small crowd below them chanted Talonpaw's new name with joy in their hearts - "Talonpaw! Talonpaw! Talonpaw!"

Redstar felt her heart sing. When she was young, this chant felt like a eulogy - a somber prayer to the youth who may never come back from their initiation. But for the first time in her life, an apprentice ceremony finally sounded like a celebration, a graduation - as it always should have been.

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As Windfur and Talonpaw watch some shooting stars together, Talonpaw asks him for reassurance about the trial ban. Windfur doesn't have the heart to tell him that nor StarClan, nor the Place of No Stars are responsible for the woods' hunger. Talonpaw didn't like that Windfur avoided his question.

(Talonpaw, apprentice, male, 6 moons) (Windfur, medicine cat, male, 16 moons)

Shiverkit is oddly observant of her surroundings, and Cloudthunder learns something very important from her. Redstar watches this interaction from across camp.

(Shiverkit, kitten, female, 2 moons) (Cloudthunder, warrior, female, 35 moons) (Redstar, leader, female, 61 moons)

Redstar is surprised at how much Shiverkit intuitively understands about Deep Roots. ForestClan never told kits how they could rarely enter dens - it gave them nightmares. Shiverkit thinks Redstar is acting weird. Morningkit overhears their conversation and gets really scared.

(Redstar, leader, female, 61 moons) (Shiverkit, kitten, female, 2 moons) (Morningkit, kitten, female, 4 moons)

Hopechase gets a running nose. She has a nice chat with Barleywave, making light of her situation. Windur tries, and fails, to get her to respect her symptoms.

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[talonpaw]

Clean the nursery