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In which I find out that I am a medicine cat.
Sunday, January 17th, 2010 03:19 pmI made up my user name, Mothwing, myself. I liked the sound, I had just discovered the riddle about the bookworm, and I thought it'd fit somehow.
Turns out that it's also a character in a book.
In a book in a series called WarriorCats. Warrior. Cats.
On the series Wiki page I learned that:
"Mothwing, a beautiful dappled golden tabby she-cat with amber eyes, is the current RiverClan medicine cat and formerly a rogue named Moth. She is the daughter of Tigerstar and Sasha, a rogue cat, the littermate of Hawkfrost and Tadpole, and half-sister to Brambleclaw and Tawnypelt. Her medicine cat mentor was Mudfur, although she initially trained as a Warrior and had already received her Warrior name by the time she became the medicine cat's apprentice. She, along with Hawkfrost, had trouble being accepted into RiverClan because their mother was a rogue and their father was Tigerstar.
Eventually, others accepted her because Mudfur found a moth's wing sign, which he interpreted as an omen from StarClan approving Mothwing as the next medicine cat of RiverClan. It is later revealed that Hawkfrost had actually put it there without Mothwing's initial knowledge in order to help himself in his plan to gain power within his Clan. After he revealed the truth to Mothwing, her faith in StarClan was destroyed (this makes her and Cloudtail the only two Clan cats in the series to not believe in StarClan), though Leafpool, Willowshine, and Jayfeather are the only cats to know this.
Though she does not have faith in StarClan, a vital requirement for a medicine cat, StarClan have let her remain a medicine cat because they have seen how hard she has studied and trained for this role and for clear her devotion to her Clan. She has mentored one medicine cat apprentice, Willowshine. As her two great-grandmothers are direct descendants to SkyClan (Cloudstar and Birdflight having Gorseclaw and Spottedpelt as kits), Mothwing and her brother, Hawkfrost, are part-SkyClan, part-rogue (Sasha being their mother) and part-ThunderClan (Tigerstar being their father), although Mothwing is very loyal to RiverClan, her adopted Clan."
Medicine. Cat. Medicine cat.
Part of me wants to check out this series.
Other than googling useless information I'm revising translation and reading up on the history of literature from the sixteenth century onwards for the exam at the end of the month.
Turns out that it's also a character in a book.
In a book in a series called WarriorCats. Warrior. Cats.
On the series Wiki page I learned that:
"Mothwing is a beautiful, triangular-faced, dappled-golden tabby she-cat with a long coat rippling with dark tabby stripes and large amber eyes. "
Awww. On Wikipedia, I learned more about her story: "Mothwing, a beautiful dappled golden tabby she-cat with amber eyes, is the current RiverClan medicine cat and formerly a rogue named Moth. She is the daughter of Tigerstar and Sasha, a rogue cat, the littermate of Hawkfrost and Tadpole, and half-sister to Brambleclaw and Tawnypelt. Her medicine cat mentor was Mudfur, although she initially trained as a Warrior and had already received her Warrior name by the time she became the medicine cat's apprentice. She, along with Hawkfrost, had trouble being accepted into RiverClan because their mother was a rogue and their father was Tigerstar.
Eventually, others accepted her because Mudfur found a moth's wing sign, which he interpreted as an omen from StarClan approving Mothwing as the next medicine cat of RiverClan. It is later revealed that Hawkfrost had actually put it there without Mothwing's initial knowledge in order to help himself in his plan to gain power within his Clan. After he revealed the truth to Mothwing, her faith in StarClan was destroyed (this makes her and Cloudtail the only two Clan cats in the series to not believe in StarClan), though Leafpool, Willowshine, and Jayfeather are the only cats to know this.
Though she does not have faith in StarClan, a vital requirement for a medicine cat, StarClan have let her remain a medicine cat because they have seen how hard she has studied and trained for this role and for clear her devotion to her Clan. She has mentored one medicine cat apprentice, Willowshine. As her two great-grandmothers are direct descendants to SkyClan (Cloudstar and Birdflight having Gorseclaw and Spottedpelt as kits), Mothwing and her brother, Hawkfrost, are part-SkyClan, part-rogue (Sasha being their mother) and part-ThunderClan (Tigerstar being their father), although Mothwing is very loyal to RiverClan, her adopted Clan."
Medicine. Cat. Medicine cat.
Part of me wants to check out this series.
Other than googling useless information I'm revising translation and reading up on the history of literature from the sixteenth century onwards for the exam at the end of the month.
