Acorntail

Acorntail is a short-furred, light brown tabby tom.

Code of the Clans

 * Acorntail is first seen in Code of the Clans as a young warrior.


 * Featherstar, WindClan's leader, chooses Acorntail as her new deputy after the death of Pebblefur, Acorntail's old mentor and the former WindClan deputy, who had died from a mysterious and agonizing lump in his stomach.


 * At first, Acorntail is very unsure of himself and is cold with realization that WindClan seems to not want him as their new deputy. He is seen messing up on patrols and begins to despair, feeling desperate and unwanted. But he finally manages to put together a patrol and goes out on a hunting patrol with two other cats; Morningcloud and her apprentice, Quickpaw.


 * While on patrol, Acorntail begins to feel better in knowing that he has the best Clan in the forest and that it's an honor to be their deputy. However, when he spots a ThunderClan patrol near the border and sees rabbit fur on an apprentice's nose, he confronts the patrol and accuses them of crossing the border. But after the cats on the patrol make up a suspicious excuse, Acorntail feels as if it would be foolish not to attack them. So he attacks them without finding out anything first, and feels horrible after Morningcloud tells him that the rabbit had died on ThunderClan territory and that she didn't want to risk her apprentice's fur over crowfood.


 * After the patrol, Acorntail goes to tell Featherstar that he can't be her deputy anymore, because he can't stop messing up. However she's very understanding towards him and tells him that he'll learn. Her words seem to inspire Acorntail, and he tells her that it would be better for a warrior to have an apprentice before becoming deputy, so that a warrior could best learn how to teach a cat and how to give orders. He tells her he will stay as her deputy and be the best deputy he can be and that Pebblefur would have wanted that for him. Featherstar believes he is right about a deputy having an apprentice and this leads to a new law in the Warrior Code: that a cat must have mentored at least one apprentice before becoming deputy.