Name: Duskdawn

Gender: she-cat

Clan: NightClan - future lake ShadowClan

Rank: Warrior

Age: 28 moons

Age at death: 66 moons (5.5 yrs)

Cause of death: suicide (will be explained)

Appearance: skinny she-cat with short, dark gray fur. She has one bright, vibrant yellow eye and one pale, faded yellow eye. Her left forepaw is black and her pale eye(the right one) is blind

Personality: one word: unique. Duskdawn is a little strange, her mind doesn't seem to be able to pick one personality to stick with, so she's kind of all over the place. Medicine cats concluded that she has Dissociative Identity Disorder. She also claims to see a cat that isn't there

Family:

Mother: Sagedusk - light gray she-cat with pale green eyes; born blind (deceased)

Father: Fidgethawk - dark gray tom with black stripes, tail tip, and paws and yellow eyes (deceased)

Foster mother/aunt: Hailfeather - gray she-cat with white spots and green eyes

Motherly figure: Sweetheart - white she-cat with honey colored eyes

Brother: Hawkblaze - pale gray tom with black stripes and hind paws, white tail tip, muzzle, underbelly, and forepaws, and bright green eyes; Stormkit - dark gray tom with green eyes (deceased)

Foster sister/cousin: Snowberry - white she-cat with pale gray tail tip and amber eyes

Best friend: Timberspring - brown tabby tom with amber eyes

Mentor: Barkmud - plain brown tom with mud brown eyes

Backstory: Fidgethawk was always really jumpy and paranoid. He would freeze up easily and was always terrified of everything. Most cats found it amusing and called him Jumpyhawk when teasing, but they were never really mean to him. While Fidgethawk was out hunting, he ran into a badger. Fidgethawk froze up and the badger had killed him before the patrol arrived to help. At that time, Sagedusk, his blind mate, had been in the nursery with kits. She was devastated by the news, and her depression lead to her being weakened, which, sadly, also lead to her death. While giving birth, she was too weak and died before her last kit could be born. Fidgethawk's sister, Hailfeather, had luckily given birth to a kit, Snowkit, not to long before. She nursed Sagedusk's kits and named them after parents. Their names were Hawkkit and Duskkit. 

Hawkkit always loved to play with Snowkit, Timberkit, and the others. Duskkit often joined them, but there were days when she wouldn't talk to anyone. Hailfeather noticed that when Duskkit turned to look at someone or something, her head turned to the left. She had Sweetheart, the medicine cat, check it out and she confirmed that Duskkit was half blind.

In her late kithood and early apprenticeship, Duskkit/paw would throw temper tantrums but then be perfectly fine a minute later. She was scared by this, and Sweetheart studied her while she trained. Duskpaw had more mood swings, but they got better as she got older. 

When Duskpaw was 8 moons she and her best friend, Timberpaw, had a huge fight. Duskpaw ran from the camp and sat up in a tall tree, as high as she could go. While she was up there, Duskpaw saw a cat climb the tree, but she didn't recognize the cat.

The cat introduced himself as Twitch. She couldn't tell what his pelt color was, it looked black, but it also looked white, brown, and gold. His pelt was solid but its colors were constantly changing.

Twitch talked to her for a little while until he convinced her to go back to camp and talk to Timberpaw.

Timberpaw and Duskpaw both apologized to each other and had a play fight to seal the apology.

While she was hunting, Duskpaw saw Twitch again. They chatted for a little while until Sweetheart came out of a bush and asked who she was talking to. Duskpaw told her that it was Twitch. After that Sweetheart kind of became her psychiatrist. Every few days, Sweetheart would take Duskpaw to the top of the territory where a nice, abandoned badger den lay. They would go inside and just talk, well, it was mostly Duskpaw talking. Sweetheart just asked questions and listened.

Sometimes Duskpaw would hunt for the two of them and they would just chat and eat. Other times they had to skip their usual meeting because of an injury or illness that Sweetheart had to take care of.

After Duskpaw got her warrior name, Duskdawn, along with Hawkblaze, Snowberry, and Timberspring, her meetings with Sweetheart weren't as often. Duskdawn started seeing Twitch in her dreams and when other cats were around.

One time, in the middle of camp, she and Twitch had a huge fight. Everyone in camp stared at her in shock, and Sweetheart quickly took her out of camp, leaving her apprentice, Gorsepaw, in charge.

When they finally reached the badger den, Duskdawn broke down and told Sweetheart all about the fight. She then told Sweetheart that she thinks she's in love with Twitch. Sweetheart was both shocked and alarmed by this, but she didn't say anything. 

Duskdawn then said something completely unexpected and even more shocking than being in love with Twitch. She called Sweetheart mom. Sweetheart was certainly shocked, but she couldn't exactly blame the ill she-cat. Sweetheart only purrs and smiles, nuzzling Duskdawn close.

Duskdawn eventually falls asleep and Sweetheart with her.

It the morning the two return to camp and Sweetheart explains what happened to Thistlestar while Duskdawn goes to the medicine den.

Sweetheart then sends Gorsepaw to gather some herbs while she checks on Duskdawn. She gives Duskdawn some poppy seeds so the half blind she-cat can sleep some more.

Several moons later, a fox attacks Sweetheart, and she gets gravely injured. Gorsestone(Gorsepaw), rushes into camp and tells everyone. Duskdawn is the first to reach Sweetheart and she and a few other warriors carry her back to camp.

Timberspring and Hawkblaze comfort her, but then Timberspring intertwines their tails and asks softly if they could be mates, so Duskdawn wouldn't be alone anymore. This sends Duskdawn into another mood swing and she goes into a full out rage storm.

She yells at Timberspring for being so insensitive and and rude. Her mother figure was fatally injured and he was worried about love?

Gorsestone walks out of the medicine den and Duskdawn's yelling stops almost immediately. She looks at him hopefully, but the medicine cat shakes his head. Duskdawn freezes, and she can't feel anything. Voices are far away and muffled. 

She runs. Duskdawn runs to the badger den and stays there for hours. Until Twitch arrives and tells her she can be with Sweetheart again if she's dead.

Duskdawn doesn't even think about it. She runs as fast as she can towards the stream. Without slowing down, she jumps into it and eventually drowns.

In StarClan she is greeted by a no-longer blind Sagedusk and Fidgethawk. Sweetheart is there too.  Duskdawn's disorder and blind eye are gone now, and she can finally be herself. Sometimes she regrets jumping into the stream, but she's happy with Fidgethawk, Sagedusk, Sweetheart, and Stormkit, her dead brother.