Thundersight

Appearance
Thundersight is a somewhat thick-set, fluffy, thick-furred she-cat. “Short and stout” is a bit extreme, but it works well enough as a descriptor. Her fur is stormcloud gray with black ear tips. She also has black dots just under her ear tips and pale green eyes.

Personality
Thundersight is patient and caring. She’s a very sweet cat, about the complete opposite of her OrchidClan colleague, Swallowfrost. She is dedicated to her role as healer and tries not to let her personal thoughts or feelings taint her work. Her many insecurities stem from how young she was at the death of her mentor and from feelings of inadequacy. She often talks through her process when treating patients to keep both herself and the patient calm.

Kithood
Thunderkit and her sister Lightningkit were born in HorizonClan to Icynight, a pretty black, white, and gray queen who unfortunately died right after her kits were born. The kits' father, Quickpelt, raised the two of them on his own. He was a good father, taking excellent care of the kits and helping to foster their relationship with each other and with the other kits in the nursery. Lightningkit tended to hang out with Ashkit, Sablekit, and Leafkit while Thunderkit preferred Poppykit, Silkkit, and Snowykit's company.

From a very young age, Thunderkit took an interest in herbs and healing. Lightningkit teased her about it, but she was pretty supportive about it. Unfortunately, Silkkit also wanted to be the medicine cat apprentice. She escalated it into a fight, which upset Thunderkit to no end. She had been pretty good friends with Silkkit and losing her friendship really stung.

Poppykit, Leafkit, and Ashkit were older than the other kits and became apprentices when Thunderkit was two moons old. This made Thundersight sad, since now her only friend was Snowykit. Silkkit still refused to talk to her.

Anyway, Thunderkit was picked to be the new medicine cat apprentice by the medicine cat, an older gentleman by the name of Thrushlight. This made Silkkit even more mad at her, but she was willing to live with that. She could finally pursue her short life's ambitions!

Apprenticeship
Thunderpaw was made an apprentice right on time. She remained close to her father and sister and hung out in the apprentices den as often as she could. Though Silkpaw still refused to talk to her, Poppypaw and Snowypaw were still pretty chill.

Thunderpaw loved being a medicine cat. She was learning fascinating new things every day. She helped take care of a few minor injuries.

Her first big challenge came when she was eight moons old. Silkpaw got sick and wasn't responding to regular treatment. Beyond that, she wouldn't let Thunderpaw get near her. Thunderpaw went on a quest of sorts to OrchidClan to get the herbs needed. She returned and managed to heal Silkpaw. Silkpaw begrudgingly thanked her.

Later that moon, Leafpaw went missing. Though Thunderpaw had never been very close to the young tom, Lightningpaw had and seeing her sister in pain hurt Thunderpaw. Poppypaw and Ashpaw, Leafpaw's sisters, were also Thunderpaw's close friends and that hurt her too. Quickpelt went into the mountains to go looking for Leafpaw. He never returned.

Poppypaw and Ashpaw earned their warrior named soon after that, becoming Poppysky and Ashwing. This did nothing to lessen their grief for their brother.

One moon later, when Thunderpaw was ten moons old, Snowypaw and his sister Sablepaw were caught in a rock slide. This truly hurt Thunderpaw. Not only was Sablepaw Lightningpaw's best friend, but Snowypaw had been Thunderpaw's. If that wasn't hard enough on her, Thunderpaw had been developing feelings for Snowypaw her whole apprenticeship and, as far as she knew, her soulmate was now buried under half a mountain. Silkpaw, Snowypaw and Sablepaw's other sister, tried to run away in the middle of the night, but Thunderpaw stopped her. The two made up after moons of separation and became very close friends.

Toward the end of her apprenticeship, Thrushlight's age started weighing on him and he trained her even harder, trying to pass on everything he could before his death.

Medicine Cat Life
Thrushlight gave Thunderpaw the name Thundersight, praising her connection to StarClan and her ability to see things as they are. Thundersight loved her new name.

Thrushlight unfortunately died mere days after giving Thundersight her full name, which was a real downer. However, Lightningpaw also got her warrior name and became Lightningflower. She wasn't very impressed, but Thundersight liked it. Silkpaw also gained her warrior name, becoming Silkstrike.

Things were quiet for several moons. Silkstrike courted and became mates with Timbernose, a young OasisClan warrior. Lightningflower got an apprentice, Mousepaw, when she was fifteen moons old.

Winter began when Thundersight was sixteen moons old. She had begun her apprenticeship at the end of winter, so this was a bit of a struggle. It did not help that her beloved sister caught greencough just one moon later. Even OrchidClan didn't have enough catmint. Leaf-bare was horribly cold and the number of available herbs was practically zero. What OrchidClan had was being used on their own greencough epidemic and the other Clans were barely scraping by. Not a good time for anyone. Without the herbs she needed, Lightningflower died.

Thundersight took this terribly. She still cared for her Clan, but Lightningflower's death took a huge toll on her. One day when she was eighteen moons old, she was out gathering what few herbs could be found when she heard a commotion nearby. She found Runningriver stuck beneath a thornbush and helped him out. She then patched up his leg temporarily and took him back to camp. A fight broke out between Thistlespring, a visiting OasisClan warrior, and Fernsway, a temperamental Clanmate of Thundersight's. Runningriver tried to go intervene, but Thundersight dragged him back to his sickbed and chewed him out for daring to think of doing things while injured. To be fair, leaf-bare had been hard. She was struggling and under a lot of stress. But she yelled at a patient and she felt absolutely terrible about it.

Other Info

 * Thundersight is about 7.6 inches tall. I was not kidding about her being pretty short.

Trivia

 * Thundersight is demi-romantic straight, meaning that she's only interested in dudes and she's only interested after forming a close bond with them. After Snowypaw's death, she hasn't really found that again, but that's how to win her over. Be her friend. Or just be her friend in general, this girl's been through some stuff.

Quotes
"I know I'm not Thrushlight, but I know just as much as he did and you need to respect my professional analysis like you did his! I'm not my mentor. I'm young and inexperienced, but if you don't listen to me, it's very possible you will die. Mistrunner's handling things out there. Stay here." - Thundersight to Runningriver