Stagheart

Note: Stagheart is a deceased character. He has no significance in the general storyline of A Better Way, and is only important in the backstories of Wingbreak, Stoatthroat, and Brokenslip.

Name- Stagheart

Gender- Tom

Clan- FallClan (formerly), StarClan

Rank- Warrior (at death)

Family- Wingbreak (mother), Stoatthroat (father), Bramblethorn and Fogpaw (brothers), Ivory (mate), Brokenslip and Rock (sons), Sun (daughter), Swallowfrost (niece)

Friends- lol what friends

Enemies- nuh

Appearance
Stagheart was a sleek gray and black tabby with yellow eyes. He was kind of tall and slim. Not very muscly. A noodle boi.

Personality
He was kind of a jerk to everyone he didn’t like, which- honestly- was most people. But toward his family, he was pretty chill and cool. He was kind of defensive and serious most of the time, though, and tolerated no nonsense. Except with his family. With his family, he thought nonsense was great. He was weird.

Story
Stagkit was born to Wingbreak and Stoatthroat in FallClan. He vibed. He thought his dad’s scar was the coolest thing ever and wanted to fight a badger so he could be like him. Well, until Stoatthroat pointed out that he would have to get his neck torn open. Stagkit was less keen on it after that.

He played around and fought a lot with one of his brothers, Bramblekit. His other brother, Fogkit, was always much quieter and more reserved. Fogkit had a bunch of problems, like epilepsy and asthma, although we’re talking about cats, so no one really understood the issues. Whatever the case, Fogkit always had a lot of attention on him, and Stagkit thought that was very annoying. He wanted attention.

At some point, he became an apprentice. Stagpaw and Bramblepaw continued to vibe. Stagpaw found a loner named Ivory stuck on one of their islands once, because she’d jumped the stepping stones to get there, but the water rose and covered them and she was too scared to try and get back across. He laughed at her for a while and got yelled at until he finally helped her. They sort of became friends and decided to meet up a lot. They would do that. They played around. It was fun.

Then, seemingly out of the blue, Fogpaw died one day. He was found on one of the smaller islands one morning, apparently having eaten some water hemlock in what appeared to have been a suicide. That was pretty jarring for Stagpaw, as he’d noticed no warning signs whatsoever, and he got closer with the rest of his family. He also told Ivory about it, and she tried to be comforting and sort of helped him look into the event to try and figure out the truth behind what had happened, but there really wasn’t much for them to go by.

Stagpaw became a warrior under the name of Stagheart. He vibed for a while. He became then mentor of Reedpaw, a young tom that his parents and Bramblethorn had found and rescued from a fox. He yelled at Reedpaw a lot and struggled to discipline him. It was fun. Reedstalk eventually became a warrior and Stagheart was glad to be free of him.

He became mates with Ivory at some point. He kept trying to convince her to join the Clans, and she kept saying no. She got pregnant at some point. Stagheart was pretty shooketh about that, because he had no clue what they would do with their kits, but he was still excited to become a father.

Unfortunately, it didn’t go as planned. Ivory’s kits came early, and she tried to make it to their meeting place before giving birth. Stagheart was held up on a patrol and got there late. Oops, Ivory was dead, as were two of the kits. Stagheart was devastated. He named the dead kits Sun and Rock, then brought his surviving son back to FallClan. He named him Brokenkit after his broken heart like the edgy man he was. He then returned to the outer border to bury Ivory, Rock, and Sun.

Stagheart was kind of a sad man after that, but he still loved his son and would chill with Brokenkit a lot. Bramblethorn died at one point, which made Stagheart even more unhappy, especially after Doecreek moved to OrchidClan with Bramblethorn’s daughter, Swallowkit. Also, Reedstalk got mcmurdered by a dog somewhere along the line. Stagheart just wasn’t having a good time.

When Brokenpaw was apprenticed to Ducksun, Stagheart was kind of pissed. Ducksun was an idiot. He did not want his son to be trained by an idiot. He kind of helped him train the right way, along with Wingbreak and Stoatthroat for a while.

He developed some kind of illness and died before his son had completed his apprenticeship, though. F in the chat for Stagheart. But on the bright side, he got to reunite with all 9 billion of his deceased loved ones!

Trivia
- I literally keep alternating back and forth on whether Bramblethorn or Stagheart died first. All of the pages contradict each other. Why can’t I do this. Help.

Quotes
Bramblekit: “He started it!”

Stagkit: “Did not!”