Brackenfoot

"Yes, all kits had to be protected whichever Clan they came from, but this kit was still on its own territory! Couldn't they wait for a ThunderClan patrol to come to the rescue? Clearly not. Hollyflower was advancing on the fox, putting herself between it and the kit. Protecting another Clan's kit was one thing; saving your denmate from being savaged was another."

— Brackenfoot's thoughts in Code of the Clans, page 121

Brackenfoot
The pixel artwork is fanart based on the canon description; undefined traits are left to the artist's interpretation.
Affiliations
Current:	StarClan
Past:	ShadowClan
Names
Warrior:	Brackenfoot
StarClan resident:	Brackenfoot
Kin
Mate:	Brightflower
Daughters:	Yellowfang, Rowanberry, Marigoldkit
Sons:	Nutwhisker, Mintkit
Education
Apprentices:	Unnamed apprentice, Raggedstar
Book appearances
Living	Tallstar's Revenge, Yellowfang's Secret, Crookedstar's Promise, Leopardstar's Honor, Bluestar's Prophecy, Redtail's Debt, Onestar's Confession, Code of the Clans
Living	Tallstar's Revenge, Yellowfang's Secret, Crookedstar's Promise, Leopardstar's Honor, Bluestar's Prophecy, Redtail's Debt, Onestar's Confession, Code of the Clans

Brackenfoot is a pale ginger tom with dark ginger legs.

Brackenfoot was a warrior of ShadowClan under Cedarstar's, Raggedstar's, and Brokenstar's leaderships in the forest territories. During his time as a warrior, he saved a young ThunderClan kit from a fox, and the kit promised to return the favor when he grew up. Brackenfoot was mates with Brightflower, and their first litter consisted of Yellowkit, Rowankit, and Nutkit. He later mentored his second apprentice, Raggedpaw, and had a second litter with Brightflower, this one consisting of Mintkit and Marigoldkit. His young kits were found dead outside of the camp, and Brokenstar convinced the Clan that Yellowfang killed them. Brackenfoot was wracked with grief and horrified by what he believed one of his daughters did, and allowed Brokenstar to banish her from ShadowClan. After his death, he ascended to StarClan.

History

In the Super Editions

Yellowfang's Secret

«[Yellowkit] thought of her own father, Brackenfoot, who told her stories of patrols and hunting and Gatherings at Fourtrees, who let his kits scramble all over him and pretend to be a fox so they would attack him. Yellowkit loved him and wanted to be like him.»

—Yellowkit's thoughts about her father ^{Yellowfang's Secret, chapter 1}

Brackenfoot is a ShadowClan warrior. He is the father of Rowankit, Nutkit, and Yellowkit, and the mate of Brightflower. Yellowkit thinks of him when she thinks of Scorchkit and Raggedkit's lack of a father, wondering what it must be like to not know who their father is and being told that their father might be a kittypet. Rowankit later points out Brackenfoot eating with Brightflower, who is keeping an eye on the kits' antics. He sits with his kits during Scorchkit and Raggedkit's apprentice ceremony and is given Raggedpaw as an apprentice, which makes Yellowkit jealous. Later, Yellowkit peeks under the barrier of the camp and sees her father training Raggedpaw for battle. Brackenfoot tricks the young tom into believing that he has won, and defeats him with a surprise attack. After the training, he and his apprentice start back towards camp. When Raggedpaw sees Yellowkit watching them, he complains, but Brackenfoot tells him that she should watch and learn, though Raggedpaw disagrees.

Brackenfoot attends his kits' apprentice ceremony later that day and is proud of his son and daughters, cheering for them alongside his mate. Brackenfoot watches Raggedpaw and Scorchpaw train along with Crowtail as Yellowpaw, Rowanpaw, Deerleap, Finchflight, and Nutpaw go to the training scoop for battle training. He offers advice to the two older apprentices as they practice again. When the younger apprentices join in, he tells everyone to keep their claws sheathed. He is part of the patrol that goes to WindClan to stop them from trespassing and hunting prey on ShadowClan territory. He is told by Stonetooth to keep an eye on the rear of the patrol, and reassures Yellowpaw when she gets scared of the monsters on the Thunderpath.

Brackenfoot and Brightflower both tell Yellowpaw that she will be fine when they go to a Gathering, and he motions her to sit in a certain spot. It has a good view, but would be good for Yellowpaw so she would not be seen by the other Clans as easily. When Yellowpaw asks him who the strange, sleek, and well-fed warriors are, he tells her that they are Timberfur and Oakheart of RiverClan, explaining that they don't see much of them because they do not share a border. Yellowpaw mentions in her thoughts that even if Brackenfoot died, she would still remember him, unlike Raggedpelt who did not know his father at all.

He is part of Cedarstar's rat patrol, and ends up catching a big rat, though Yellowpaw notes it is not quite as big as hers. He praises his daughter, saying that if she kept going like she is, she would be the best hunter in ShadowClan. At his kits' warrior ceremonies, his tail entwined with Brightflower's and they look proudly at their kits. After Red and Boulder are allowed to stay with ShadowClan, Cedarstar tells Brackenfoot to show them the apprentice's den and how to make nests for themselves, and he leads them away. Brackenfoot later supervises a training session with the apprentices, as well as Yellowfang and Rowanberry who had gone along for the practice. He tells Boulder that he did win after pinning down Yellowfang. Brackenfoot says he will tell their mentors that Russetpaw and Boulder fought well. When Foxpaw snidely comments that Yellowfang was a clumsy furball, he agrees that her move needs some work, saying to not forget that there may be someone sneaking up behind her. Yellowfang wins, and Brackenfoot says she can take a rest.

Yellowfang tells her father that she needs to talk to Raggedpelt as she sees him while returning to the camp, and he hesitates as though he was going to insist she come back with them. When she insists that it is important, he nods and says he will see her later. During Foxpaw and Wolfpaw's warrior ceremony, he bounds over to sit next to Brightflower, Rowanberry, and Nutwhisker. He is later on a patrol with Blizzardwing and Newtspeck, led by Raggedpelt. The patrol soon helps out a different patrol consisting of Amberleaf, Archeye, and Wolfstep, who are attacked by WindClan cats. He, along with Raggedpelt, support Yellowfang on their way back to camp. He and Brightflower are excited for their daughter when Yellowfang is announced as Sagewhisker's apprentice. Brackenfoot proudly tells her that he knows she will do well.

He leads a Carrionplace patrol when he gets a thorn stuck in his paw. They soon return covered in scratches and bitemarks, having been attacked by the rats. He tells Newtspeck that these rats do fight back when she exclaims that prey does not attack back, and feels ashamed and embarrassed when he tells Cedarstar that they had to flee because there were too many, though Cedarstar tells him that he did the right thing. He is treated by Yellowfang soon afterwards, telling him that she will fuss over him all she wants and he will have some dock leaf and like it. He dips his head with a gleam of amusement in his eyes. He goes along with Raggedpelt's plan to attack the Carrionplace rats, and shoves a rat towards the hole in the fence. During Brokenpaw's warrior ceremony, he emerges from the warrior's den with his mate. Rats once again attack a patrol, this one with Lizardstripe, Fernshade, Wolfstep, and Brackenfoot. He is picked by Raggedstar to be part of the group holding back the rats while the others kill their denmates as a warning. They swiftly between the piles of rubbish. He yowls to not let the rats out, but far enough so they can see what happens. After it is over, Cedarstar calls Brackenfoot and his cats back.

Brokentail calls Brackenfoot to go on a hunting patrol with Frogtail, Stumpytail, and Blackfoot after an incident involving Frogtail, Poolcloud, and Archeye. Brightflower tells Yellowfang that she is once again expecting Brackenfoot's kits, and is very excited. At the next Gathering, he huddles with Stumpytail, Russetfur, and Brownpaw. After his second litter with Brightflower are born, the two are named Marigoldkit and Mintkit. Yellowfang, their elder sibling, finds the two small bodies outside of ShadowClan's camp, having been killed by a fox. Brokenstar and Yellowfang return to the camp, which is busy with cats searching for the two missing kits. Brackenfoot steps forward, his eyes huge with fear as he asks what happened. Brokenstar says that he found no trace of fox, and steps away from Yellowfang saying only one cat knew what had happened. He stares at his daughter in horror, asking if she had killed his kits. He does not intervene when Brokenstar exiles Yellowfang from ShadowClan for her supposed actions towards Marigoldkit and Mintkit.

In the Field Guides

Code of the Clans

"Well, Tigerkit, one day you will be able to fight like us, if you listen to your mentor and train really hard. But you shouldn't even be out of your camp. What if we hadn't seen you? That fox would have made fresh-kill out of you!"

―Brackenfoot to Tigerkit ^{Code of the Clans, pages 121-122}

Brackenfoot goes out on patrol with Hollyflower, Crowclaw, and Archeye along the border. When they reach the Thunderpath, they find a dead pigeon lying on it. Brackenfoot is disgusted by it, and does not share Crowclaw and Archeye's interest in bringing it back to camp as food. He is relieved when Hollyflower tells them the pigeon was not worth walking out onto the Thunderpath for. Soon, Brackenfoot hears a growl coming from the other side of the Thunderpath, and sees a fox looking hungrily at a small ThunderClan kit. At first, Brackenfoot is unwilling to help, and would have preferred for a ThunderClan patrol to help him. However, Hollyflower refuses to let a kit be injured, and rushes over to defend him. Brackenfoot follows her, along with Archeye and Crowclaw, thinking that it was different matter if he was keeping his Clanmate from being torn to shreds. After the fox retreats from the battle, he scolds the kit, Tigerkit, and tells him to be more careful. When Tigerkit does not seem to understand his angry scolding, Brackenfoot tells him to go home, and heads back into ShadowClan territory with the rest of the patrol. Tigerkit calls after them that one day he would help ShadowClan in return.

Character pixels

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Official art

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Kin

Members

Mate:

Brightflower: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Daughters:

Marigoldkit: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Yellowfang: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Rowanberry: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Sons:

Nutwhisker: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Mintkit: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Grandsons:

Brokenstar: Deceased, no residence

Stumpytail: Deceased, verified the Place of No Stars member

Cinderfur: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Granddaughters:

Hopekit: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Wishkit: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Great-grandkits:

Turtlekit: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Quietkit: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Rubblekit: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Tree

Silverflame ♀

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Brightflower ♀

Brackenfoot ♂

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Toadskip ♂

Raggedstar ♂

Yellowfang ♀

Mintkit ♂

Marigoldkit ♀

Nutwhisker ♂

Rowanberry ♀

Clawface ♂

Nightstar ♂

Brokenstar ♂

Hopekit ♀

Wishkit ♀

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Ashheart ♀

Cinderfur ♂

Stumpytail ♂

Turtlekit

Rubblekit

Quietkit

    = Tom

    = She-cat

    = Gender unknown

Appearances

• Tallstar's Revenge (Allegiance only)
• Yellowfang's Secret
• Crookedstar's Promise (Allegiance only)
• Leopardstar's Honor (Allegiance only)
• Bluestar's Prophecy (Allegiance only)
• Redtail's Debt (Allegiance only)
• Onestar's Confession (Allegiance only)
• Code of the Clans (First appearance)

Trivia

Continuity

The following information is from sources considered non-canon, retconned, or from adapted material.

• On Vicky's Facebook, Blizzardpaw was mentored by Brackenfoot.

Quotes

Crowclaw: "Foxes don't hunt full-grown cats. Not unless they're starving."

Brackenfoot: "It's not interested in us. It's found some much easier prey."

^{Code of the Clans, page 120}

External links

• Clan or Kin? on the Warriors official website (backup link) (Indirect mention only)
• Exclusive! Leopardstar's Honor: Excerpt on the Warriors official website (backup link) (Allegiance only)
• Exclusive! Onestar's Confession: Excerpt on the Warriors official website (backup link) (Allegiance only)