"stop wasting your breath. i love you all. snakeleap... chirpbark.. swiftspeck.."

roleplayer
warriorzlove

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name
waspstar

past names
kit ⋆ waspkit
apprentice ⋆ wasppaw
warrior ⋆ wasptail
deputy ⋆ wasptail

gender
tom

age
64 moons

sexuality
straight

rank
leader

education
mentor ⋆ swallowstorm
apprentices ⋆ pricklepelt, swiftspeck

deputy
preceded by ⋆ harespring
succeeded by ⋆ snakeleap

leader
preceded by ⋆ mothstar
succeeded by ⋆ dimstar

mate
none

children
none

family
mother ⋆ foxlight
father ⋆ leafblaze
brother ⋆ snakeleap
nephew ⋆ swiftspeck
brother in law ⋆ slap

appearance
waspstar is a stocky, well-muscled dark ginger tabby tom with soft but scruffy fur, yellow-green eyes, and white markings. his tail is pointed and curls into a shape that resembles a wasp's tail

personality
waspstar is nothing less than cold and gruff. he shows distaste toward affection and dislikes having to comfort others or be comforted himself. with a distant mind, waspstar could be called a wanderer. unfortunately he's not always there for his clan, which rises questions on whether or not he's even fit to lead them. waspstar doesn't care much about rumors, though; he honestly doesn't care what anyone thinks about him.

despite not showing it, waspstar can be overly protective toward his brother and actually enjoys talking to a few cats — these would include snakeleap, swiftspeck, and chirpbark. he tolerates slap, mostly just because he's his brother-in-law.

of course, he does have a softer side but it's hardly ever seen. the walls he's built around himself are due to early trauma, mostly the abuse from his father and the withering away of his mother. he's never really wanted a mate, and in fact died without ever having one. he didn't believe in true love, and having difficultly showing his emotions correctly was always a hassle when getting close to someone. waspstar did die loving his clan, and was regretful that he couldn't say goodbye to more of his clanmates, but knows they'll move on without him. besides, lightclan isn't so bad.

status
deceased
killed by archangel
resides in spiritclan

backstory
waspkit was born to foxlight and leafblaze with his brother snakekit. he had a relatively calm kithood, spending most of the time with his brother. he adored his father, leafblaze, but could never seem to get close enough to him. he didn't pay much attention to foxlight, who was very kind and sweet, but also cautious and more of a "scaredy cat." leafblaze was very abusive toward her behind the scenes, and said that if she ever left him he'd kill snakekit and waspkit.

wasppaw eventually became an apprentice, mentored by swallowstorm. he was quite tough and hard on wasppaw, but the newly-made apprentice didn't really mind. snakepaw was apprenticed to hazefire, a much kinder she-cat.

during his apprenticeship, wasppaw grew closer to his father. leafblaze helped train him when swallowstorm let him rest, and he learned many battle moves and strategies from him. by spending so much time with his father, leafblaze began to tell him how foxlight had emotionally abused him and how she was a terrible cat. wasppaw, taken aback, still listened and never looked at his mother the same. since his brother spent more time with foxlight, wasppaw also began to drift away from him. of course, they still trained together; they just didn't have the same bond.

after a few more moons, wasppaw aced his apprentice test and became a warrior: wasptail. snakepaw, however, cheated on his test and was held back for three more moons. wasptail didn't want to be seen with his cheating apprentice brother, so he completely cut off all contact with snakepaw.

one day, wasptail visited his mother. she was a lovely dark ginger she-cat, white streaks stretching up her legs like socks. she had a thin tail and calm blue eyes, looking like they held storms inside. he asked foxlight to go into the forest with him, and began to tell her that she was a terrible cat, and began to blame her for everything she'd done. foxlight didn't know how to defend herself, and wasptail left her by saying, "i don't love you and never have." he went to leafblaze after, unaware how much he'd broken her.

after another several moons, snakepaw became a warrior. his new name was snakeleap. wasptail, still under the influence of his father, never really spoke to his brother anymore.

on a normal cloudy day, wasptail wandered into the forest to find his father. he heard arguing and grew interested, following the voices. he covered his scent as he hid in the bushes, realizing that leafblaze and foxlight were arguing. after a few more seconds, leafblaze lashed out at the she-cat and tore open her throat. she gargled on her blood, crumpling to the ground as blood formed around her body. leafblaze had no regret or remorse in his eyes. He showed... no emotion at all, in fact. horrified, wasptail darted back to camp and stayed in the warriors' den for several days, hardly coming out for patrols. foxlight's death was blamed on a badger.

leafblaze seemed to notice how wasptail now ignored and snapped at everyone. he took an interest in his other son, snakeleap, and began talking and helping him out. wasptail saw this and was angry, but snakeleap never listened to him when he tried to talk to him. eventually, he gave up hope.

wasptail eventually gathered the courage to ask his father to take a walk with him. as they padded by the river, he so badly wanted to ask leafblaze why he'd killed foxlight. however, just thinking back to his mother's death, he grew angry. so angry, in fact, that he quickly overpowered his father and knocked him into the river. everything was a blur to him. he'd never meant to kill his father; but he had, and now had to live with that guilt.

wasptail decided to run away. He left echoclan and wandered the outskirts of the forest, taking a lot of time to think to himself. he was hurt and angry no one, even snakeleap, had come after him. however, he enjoyed this alone time. after much more pondering, wasptail eventually decided he had to return home. it was the only place he fit in.

upon returning, not many cats greeted him. the leader at that time, mothstar, pitied wasptail and gave him an apprentice: pricklepaw. snakeleap was also given an apprentice named acornpaw, which forced the brothers to work together.

out one day training the apprentices, a fox came across the four cats and killed acornpaw. pricklepaw ran back to camp to get help as wasptail and snakeleap attempted to fight the fox. it was eventually driven off, but snakeleap was consumed with grief. his apprentice had died. pricklepaw eventually became pricklepelt not long after this incident.

wasptail felt horrible for his brother, but found an opportunity to finally grow close to him. with both of their parents deceased, they now only had each other. however, snakeleap pushed everyone away, and wasptail wasn't sure what to do.

finally, he asked his brother to take a walk with him. in the middle of the forest, wasptail told snakeleap everything: about how he'd watched leafblaze kill foxlight, about how leafblaze had lied to him, and about how he killed leafblaze for murdering their mother. snakeleap, shocked, hurt and confused, stumbled away, wasptail too shaken with grief to follow.

when snakeleap didn't return, wasptail gatherer the strength to go after his brother. he emerged out of the treeline and watched as snakeleap stood near the edge of the river, looking in. wasptail realized what was going on and he ran to snakeleap, begging him not to jump. when snakeleap asked what the point of life was anymore, wasptail managed to convince his brother to keep living. snakeleap stumbled to wasptail and the two embraced each other, finally becoming the brothers they should have been all along.

they stayed out in the forest all night, talking as true brothers. when morning came, they returned to camp. they found out that the deputy, harespring, died in his sleep, and that mothstar was getting ready to choose the new deputy.

that night, mothstar called a clan meeting. she announced wasptail as the new deputy. he was shocked and confused as to why his leader chose him, but he accepted his new role anyway. wasptail turned to snakeleap and saw that his brother was hurt, angry, and jealous.

the two again grew apart. wasptail was angry since he'd saved snakeleap's life and his brother didn't seem to even appreciate it, but snakeleap was angry because he hadn't become deputy. the two often argued but mostly avoided each other.

wasptail was called up into mothstar's den one day by the medicine cat. mothstar lost her last life due to old age and wasptail was to receive his nine lives. upon arrival in spiritclan, he realized leafblaze wasn't there, and he was quite happy about it. wasptail became waspstar, leader of echoclan, and returned home.

over several more days, waspstar had to think of who he'd choose as deputy. lilybark was the new medicine cat, and he was happy to be working next to such a great cat. however, waspstar wasn't sure who he could work with as a deputy; finally, though, he came to the conclusion.

waspstar announced snakeleap as the deputy, and assigned several apprentices to several different warriors; one of those apprentices was flickerpaw, the first victim of archangel, and the end of peace for echoclan.

many more deaths came along and waspstar was faced with a difficult decision. his brother became mates with slap and they adopted swiftpaw, a parentless apprentice that had been assigned to applefall. when applefall came close to killing swiftpaw, waspstar exiled applefall and took over his nephew's training. shadowfire betrayed the clan and left, joining archangel and his small group of rogues.

slap was eventually hurt and became a medicine cat under lilybark and minktalon. despite their code, waspstar decided to allow snakeleap and slap to stay together.

a fire struck echoclan and waspstar lost a life. he eventually disappeared for a few moons but returned shaken. apparently he'd been captured by archangel. waspstar took control over his clan again and met a she-cat over the border, but she never returned. hurt and angry, he realized that no one ever stayed and that he'd be better off alone. hollowstorm escaped the clan to join archangel later on as well.

slap's old brother lee came around and eventually waspstar made him a warrior with the new name chirpbark. the two became fast friends and, when snakeleap was under the influence of archangel's demons, chirpbark stepped in as a temporary deputy. those two were about the only cats waspstar could even trust.

the truth eventually came out about timber, now known as galestorm, and lilybark being mates. lilybark was now pregnant and eventually had her kits, but died soon after. slap became the full medicine cat and worked alongside waspstar.

the final battle was coming, now. archangel was going to attack, and waspstar knew it wasn't just his small group of rogues. his clan trained and readied for battle, and when the storm hit, chaos broke loose. archangel had demon-like cats on his side and they tore apart echoclan. many cats died that day, including waspstar to archangel.

his last words were to snakeleap, chirpbark, and swiftspeck. he told him he loved them and finally released his last breath, going to spiritclan and watching his clan be prisoners in archangel's new echoclan. what hurt the most is that he couldn't see his family for a long, long time.