Brokenkit and Brokenstar

Brokenstar. You know I had to do it

Drawing Brokenstar because I can't help myself - Day Four

The other character is my OC because no one can stop me, this is my Brokenstar blog

Brokenstar

First Mention: Into the Wild (chapter 8; page 98)

“I don’t know the answers to any of your questions,” meowed Bluestar. “It is well known that ShadowClan has recently appointed a new leader, following the death of Raggedstar. Their new leader, Brokenstar, gave no hint of any threat when we met him at the last Gathering.”

Leaders Lives: Blackstar

Picked a random Leader for the first edition of this. Going to detail who gives Blackstar his 9 Lives, how he loses them and in what order.

Blackstar is actually a unique case. He does NOT get 9 lives all at once. Starclan doesn't trust him enough, and makes him work for them, which he does.

His first life gained is from Stonefur, his victim. Stonefur gives him a life for Hard Work. Good luck, Blackstar. You're going to need it. Blackstar is warned that if he does not work hard, he and his beloved Clan will fall. He gets the life right after The Darkest Hour.

His second is from Blizzardwing, his angry, regret filled father. He doesn't want to be connected with the cat who made him so miserable, but he knows he has to take it, for Shadowclan. The life is Acceptance. He gets it before The New Prophecy, after Firestar's Quest.

The third is a life for Perspective, from Badgerfang. He also gets this life at the same time as Blizzardwing's. These two lives will be a Bonus Scene for Midnight.

The fourth life is from Hollyflower. While Blackstar has a complicated relationship with his mother, and wishes more than anything that she and Blizzardwing had just walked away from each other, he was always closer with his mother. The life she gives is for Compassion. He gains it during Moonrise, right after having lost one of the few lives he has from a poisoned frog. (Sorry for mixing up you and Fernshade!)

Lives five and six are from Swampkit and Yellowfang. Swampkit gives him a life for Judgement, and Yellowfang gives him a life for Trust. He gains the lives at the beginning of Sunset, after seeing Onestar get his 9 from the Moonpool. During the end of Sunset though, he will lose another.

After the events of Leafpool's Wish but before The Sight, he gets 2 more! The first being his old buddy... Brokenkit. When Brokentail died, his soul split in 2. Being the living embodiment of a curse meant that his life was changed before his great grandmother had breath in her lungs. Starclan, as an apology for the torment that Brokenstar's mind gave him due to his cursed birth, allow a different version, the "What could have been" Brokenkit, who would have been named Flamekit after Silverflame and died at 5 moons old. Brokenkit/Flamekit gives Blackstar his seventh life, for Unity.

His eight life after the kitten bounds away to his mom is from Nightstar, who gives him a life for Loyalty. These 2 lives, Unity and Loyalty, would seem a bit at odds to a younger Blackstar. But with his age has come genuine wisdom, he knows he needs to both stand with the other Clans, and do what is best for his cats.

The final life does not come from Shadowstar, but rather, from Sun Shadow. The life is for something that Sun Shadow claims Blackstar "doesn't need any help with". It's Leadership. He gains this life during the end of The Sight, with Jaypaw watching from afar.

As for order lost and how:

Blizzardwing - Acceptance - Hit by a tree branch just days before the events of Midnight.

Badgerfang - Perspective - Poisoned frog in Moonrise, which makes him go to the Moonstone for guidance and gets him a life from Fernshade.

Hollyflower - Compassion - The Fox Trap during Sunset takes this life, soon after he got it too. This is the other half of the Blood Will Spill Blood Prophecy, with Tigerstar's sister Mistfang getting him in a trap beside Firestar.

Yellowfang - Trust - A kidney infection that would not respond to any treatments during Dark River.

Brokenkit/Flamekit - Unity - Infected wounds from The Eclipse Battle. Unity was truly shown here, dying from rightfully defending Thunderclan.

Nightstar - Loyalty - Smoke inhalation during The Fire in Long Shadows. He dies saving his former mate, Tallpoppy.

Swampkit - Judgement - Dehydration during The Fourth Apprentice. This one was brutal.

Sun Shadow - Leadership - Snake bite during Sign of The Moon, not venomous, but it did get an artery. He gets a sick-ass scar from it on his neck though!

Stonefur - Hard Work - In a twist of fate, Blackstar is murdered by Redwillow during the Great Battle.

You know what relationship should have been more developed?

Brokenstar and Blackstar.

As funny as I found (along with a lot of people) Blackstar's reasoning for being so devoted to him, which was that he's a dumbass, I kinda fail to see any interesting thing about it beyond the hilarity.

We see some hints of why he was chosen as Brokenstar's deputy in Blackstar's novel (at least I believe so), which is that they connected as an apprentice/kit over their parentage and how others treat them for it. It's not exactly obvious and I could definitely be looking into it, but I like the thought that that was there, at least a little bit--and at least on Broken's part.

What if the reason Blackstar followed Brokenstar so intently wasn't just because Brokenstar was leader? This idea isn't fully formed or even partially formed, it's just me thinking out loud.

Maybe he became closer to Brokenkit than his littermates, because he knew the secret of who his father was, and he couldn't tell them. So for one he chooses to stay away from them because he knows something about their family that's so important but can't, won't, tell them, and for another because Brokenkit understands.

Brokenkit of course didn't know who his true mother was, but there were rumours that he was Foxheart's kit, a cat in the Clan who didn't want to raise him. If they didn't believe that, they believed he was half-kittypet or half-rogue, exactly what they also called Blackpaw for the same reasons.

Both Flintpaw and Fernpaw make arguments that "it doesn't matter" so long as they're great warriors, which frustrates Blackpaw.

It's not just that Brokenkit understands what it's like to be seen as an outsider and teased about his blood, because obviously his littermates do too. But as said in the book, maybe Brokenkit is the only one who understood how he felt.

He doesn't say "it doesn't matter because we'll be great warriors" he says "it doesn't matter because you can make yourself better than them."

And you know what? Maybe Blackpaw wanted to.

He was young and probably as impulsive as the usual apprentice, he was teased often by his peers and called an outsider. On top of that, his father was a cheater who couldn't call himself their dad because of that, and their mother would be shamed--and he had to keep that secret since he was young.

So maybe he didn't want to "be the bigger cat" and move on, maybe he wanted to act out. Maybe he wanted them to hurt. And the only one who agreed with that idea, and in that sense, connected with a deep, emotional part of Blackpaw, was Broken.

Maybe they would fight back together, and when they got in trouble, they would scheme together pranks that wouldn't trace back to them so easily.

Blackpaw was filled with mixed, awful emotions, and they all came out as anger. Not only did Brokenkit/paw--even if he was younger--feed that part of him, but he said that it was good. That it was right.

But don't worry folks, he can still make Blackstar an idiot.

Because he just could not admit to those flaws.

He was still close-ish with his littermates, at least on the outside, but when they would talk about working hard to prove themselves or would have nice talks with the other apprentices that had teased them, he would avoid them because he can't be wrong. They would make sense, they would sound right, but they couldn't be because that would mean that he had been wrong for moons, that he had set up mean pranks and clawed denmates and suffered punishments for those things for no good reason.

No, it had to be because they didn't understand. His littermates, the bullies, his mentor, all of them. The only one that understood was Broken.

The only one who understood why he did what he did, why he acted the way he acted, was Broken. And by extension, the only one who saw through his exterior and actually saw HIM, was Broken.

Brokenstar couldn't have been a monster. He couldn't have been a heartless beast. Because if he did, Blackfoot would have been wrong for all the 'righteous' things he did, all the sins he had committed.

Worse, it would mean that the cat he loved the most, the cat he thought of as a brother (or mate depending on how you wanna look at it) never cared for him at all.

Shadow Colony: I wonder who Brokenkit’s mom is?

Brokenkit: smushed face

Berry Flame: the only other cat with a smushed face and Fir Pelt was close with her when she was a warrior

ShadowClan: Nah, his mom is Fox Heart!

Brokenstar

Hey! Love your art style it's very bjoing, could I request Brokenstar?

Brokenstar

BITCH BABY (sick pun intended)

Design notes:

Long, “emo bangs” but like… beard. Emo bangs beard, but slightly to the left… I’m not entirely sure how to describe them but they’re Very important to his design.

Markings are all very sharp, very jagged, very uneven. Especially on the forepaws; left forepaws marks are very “broken”. Paler marks are all very rough around the edges. Heart-shaped mark on the forehead is chipped around the edges beneath the brows. Tail-tip, belly fur, eye marks and muzzle are also very jagged.

tORTOISESHELL!!!!1!!!! Ginger markings to read as a red herring to the fire prophecy… I know that isn’t canon but I personally think it’d be really cool.

Doesn’t sport very many scars. Primarily they’re located at his face (lip, nose, shredded ears) and right shoulder. His bent tail technically falls into that category as well, I guess?? Permanently bent, possibly the back half of the bones in his tail are underdeveloped.

Inherited some “point” markings from Yellowfang, mostly in his legs… plus a bonus Easter egg in his hind legs from my Dreamtongue design for anyone paying attention ;)

LGBT+ headcanon: Trans man (tortoiseshell) who uses he/it pronouns, and is torensexual.

[Image ID: A digital drawing of Brokenstar, standing in an aggressive pose with most of his body left-facing and his head facing right, somewhat away from the camera; the entire image is outlined in white. He is a massive, stocky, thickset, muscular, ragged-furred, very fluffy, relatively short-furred very dark gray-brown marbled tabby cat with near-black markings, a pale mane and outline of belly with even paler fur near the chest, lower belly, and tail-tip; his tail is long and prominently bent, with a left-facing tip that curls over his back; his face is split in a furious snarl, with small scars at his lip and nose, and significantly long lower canines; he has a thick, “mustache”-like collection of fur at his muzzle, and long hair at his chin, most prominently on either side in which it grows long and straight. His forepaws are tipped with broken white patterns, and he sports a small amount of striking red marbles tabby tortoiseshell markings at his nose, ear tips, chin, and one patch at his tail; his ears are completely shredded and sharply tapered, and he has a small scar on his right shoulder. His eyes are narrow and dark, striking amber, with red lashes beneath and white markings beneath that. Below his tail is his color palette, and above his head and back are the words “BROKENTAIL/BROKENSTAR” written in white, all-caps. Across his lower right side is the stylized artist signature of “spottyissleepwalking” written in faded lavender. / End ID.]

I don’t even know anymore

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HI!!!!!!! AU where Yellowfang gives Brokenkit to Goosefeather or something idk

OR.. or… Au where Yellowfang gives brokenkit to goose like u said but goose freaks out and instead gives the evil baby to mama leopardfoot.

She raises two evil babies, watch em become big ol teddy bears