Sixth Claws: Kinkstar

You may think I'm gone

But I'm

Still

HERE!

Appearance
Kinkstar is a dark brown tabby she-cat. Her eyes are orange and have a darker orange ring around them. Her underside, chin, throat, chest and tail-tip are a caramel orange colour. Her right ear is nothing but a ragged stump and she has four long clawmarks over her right eye.

Awoken I stand, 

A four-legged creature!

(Four-legged creature!)

Personality
Kinkstar is fierce and easily angered. She is acutely aware of all her surroundings. When there is a threat, she will run away unless she cannot or someone she cares about is in danger. In those scenarios, she fights, and she will usually kill or viciously maim her enemy. She has taught herself to hide her emotions, unless she is enraged, in which she yowls and screams and fights.

Buried alive,

I crashed through the ether!

(Crashed through the ether!)

Biography
Kinkstar spent the first two seasons of her life in the desert with her mother and sisters. There she learnt to hunt, run and leap.

When her family was murdered, she fled in terror. Knowing she needed someone strong to protect her, she ran to the cats of the sclerophyll forest, who were known for their marvellous fighting skills and fierce loyalty.

Bellowing in circles,

I'm a survivor!

(I'm a survivor!)

However, Kink was shunned by most, as they didn't see how a desert cat could be of use to them.

The only ones who didn't shun her was the scrawny she-cat Star, the tom Flight of the Crow and the current Fifth Claw, Leaf. Flight of the Crow taught her how to fight and climb.

When the moon was gone, the creature who had killed Kink's family returned. In the form of a fox, it tried to kill her, Star and Flight of the Crow. Without a second thought, she hurled herself into battle. They valiantly fought it off with the help of a handful of other cats, but Kink gained her scars.

After that, Flight of the Crow gave her the new name of Kinkclaws, and was granted adult responsibility with Star, who chose the name Starstalker.

The credit was taken

But I wasn't either!

(I wasn't either!)

After a season of this, she was given her first student: a young she-cat named Red. Red was very enthusiastic and eager to learn, and Kinkclaws taught her all she knew.

When Red had been training for half a season, Flight of the Crow was made one of the Four Claws, and was put in place as Leaf's successor.

Red grew to be a very skilled hunter, and was fantastic at sneaking through the undergrowth unheard. Kinkclaws requested many times for her to be given adult responsibility.

Red was finally granted adult responsibility when a rogue dog tried to come into the area where their dens were. Alongside Kinkclaws, Starstalker, Flight of the Crow and Leaf, she fought valiantly and bravely.

I am the fear

I'm the creator

Trapped in a torture machine!

Leaf died of blood loss after the dog was driven away, and Flight of the Crow took over. He granted Red the name of Redfeather and gave her adult responsibility. He also gave Kinkclaws a new student: a cautious, fearful little cat named Flight.

Flight was a small black-and-white tom, and he was terrified of heights. Kinkclaws tried to cure him of his fear.

He grew braver and better at dealing with heights, but one day a wildfire started. All the cats had to leap to safety over the flames beside a river, over the branches of a tree. Kinkclaws was at Flight's side when he slipped and fell, barely missing the fire and snapping his neck.

She gave him the adult name of Flightpaw and buried his body where he'd died.

I'm broken

But I swear for the unspoken

I'M

STILL

HERE!

After Flightpaw's death, she did not take a student for a long time. Two seasons after he died, Flight of the Crow forced Kinkclaws to train a new, peculiar little she-cat named Wild. Wild had reported seeing things that weren't there, and didn't seem to be able to feel anything.

Kinkclaws trained her as best she could, and soon Wild began to be able to distinguish whether or not what she was seeing was real or not. She wasn't perfect at it, but it was getting better.

After Flight of the Crow discovered what Kinkclaws had done, he made her one of the Four Claws, and his successor. This caused a lot of outrage, but Wild, Redfeather and Starstalker stuck by her.

GET OUT THE WAY OF ME

YOU CANNOT BETRAY ME AGAIN

I'M ARMED WITH DESTINY

MORE TIMES THAN YOUR ANARCHY

IT'S BEEN HARDER TO BREATHE

I CAN'T PLACE ALL THE PAIN I FEEL

INSIDE

PREPARE TO MEET THY MAKER!

In the cold season, the cats entered a serious period of starvation. They grew so desperate that Kinkclaws took Starstalker, Redfeather and Wild into the Desolate Land to find food.

The Desolate Land was where the Destroyers lived. They made immense structures to live in and they had dogs in their homes.

While in the Desolate Land, Kinkclaws met three cats who lived with the Destroyers. Their names were Tiger, Chicken and Molly, and they helped the wild cats find food.

However, they couldn't save Starstalker.

Wild had gone to cross the Death River, and an immense, shiny beast had come down. Starstalker had given her life to save Wild, by shoving her out of the way.

The beast plowed over Starstalker like she was nothing. It left her bloodied, broken corpse behind.

Tiger, Chicken and Molly helped the wild cats through their grief. They helped them find food to take back and they helped bury Starstalker.

When they left, Kinkclaws remembered those cats. She owed them her life, and the lives of all the forest cats. \

Redeem

The power

Step down in the carriage and follow me

After they'd returned, Flight of the Crow granted WIld adult responsibility, and named her Wildest Eyes.

They lived in peace for the next three seasons, until the murderer of Kinkclaws's family returned.

He had brought friends.

Kinkclaws learned of their presence when she found Flight of the Crow dead in his den.

That meant she was the Fifth Claw now.

In honour of Starstalker, she took the name of Kinkstar. When her family's murderer returned with his friends, she charged into battle and mercilessly slaughtered them in their cat forms.

When all of his friends were dead, as well as a few of Kinkstar's own cats, she came to face him. Alone, she battled him, and slit him open. She pulled all his intestines out and made sure he was definitely dead.

Then, with blood pouring out of her mouth and from her reopened scars and new wounds, she died of blood loss and organ damage.

I have devoured

You friend on the other side

Who could it be?

What did we do?

Tis but a sign that I'm coming for you

Neighbours in heart

I sold him in parts

Trivia Neighbours in heart
 * She was originally a Warriors OC
 * She was the first character I ever wrote about

I sold him in parts

Came for the slaughter

Through angels' doors!