Cinders

"What did I do to deserve such rotten treatment? Why do things like this always happen to me?"

— Cinders talking to herself in Beyond the Code, page 62

Cinders
The pixel artwork is fanart based on the canon description; undefined traits are left to the artist's interpretation.
Affiliations
Last known:	Loner
Names
Queen:	Cinders
Loner:	Cinders
Kin
Former mate:	Unnamed tom
Son:	Sol
Kits:	Light-colored kit, Tricolored kit, Patched kit
Book appearances
Living	Beyond the Code
Living	Beyond the Code

Cinders is a tortoiseshell-and-white she-cat with green eyes.

History

In the SkyClan and the Stranger arc

Beyond the Code

Cinders appears in her son's flashback as he tells his Clan leader, Leafstar, about his kithood.

She was a loner with a litter of four kits: Sol, a light-colored kit, a tricolored kit and a patched kit. She never named any of them herself. She is described as not being pleasant to be around because she was always complaining about their poor living conditions. She was said to be a poor hunter, and had a difficult time feeding herself and her family.

To make her kits behave, she told them stories about a group of cats that lived long ago, who were noble and strong called "sky warriors." They would float down from the clouds, and they grew as big as lions when they were angry. She told her kits not to be afraid of the sky warriors, because they were good and strong, unlike the loners and rogues they lived around. These stories were a very exaggerated legend about SkyClan; it is unknown where it originated from, or how Cinders knew of it.

Cinders does not have a good relationship with the father of her kits; once, she is seen yowling at him because he had been gone for moons, and when he returned, he had only brought a shrew for them to eat. She complains that it was too sour for them to eat, calling it useless like him and demands to know what kind of father treated his kits so badly. After he leaves, Cinders tells her kits that cats didn't always treat each other the way their father treated them.

During a storm, they try to find a safe place out of the rain. Cinders sees her kits eating kittypet food, and yowls at them to stop. She tells them they'd eat after they had found shelter. When Sol promises to catch enough prey for all of them someday, Cinders doesn't believe him, and instead flatly replies it would be something.

When Cinders is seething over the fact that they can't find a safe place to stay, one of her kits asks her to tell them stories about the sky warriors to cheer all of them up. Cinders snaps at the kit to forget about the legend, because no cat could help them now.

Eventually, they find shelter under a pile of logs. Cinders's mate arrives the following day, and she growls about how she wasn't surprised he hadn't brought them anything to eat. He then tells her he had found another mate, who was kinder, and they were going to a more prey-rich place. Cinders admonishes him for leaving her with a litter of kits to die. He leaves anyway, and she cries out, asking what she had done to deserve such a horrible life. Sol tries to comfort her, but she only shouts at him to be quiet.

Afterward, Cinders mopes around for several days. Finally, she leads her kits away from the pile of logs, and leaves them on the doorsteps of different Twoleg nests. As she leaves them, her kits beg her not to leave and to know why she was doing this. Sol is the last kit she drops off, and she tells him to be good to his housefolk so they would care for him, because she couldn't.

Sol never saw her after this, but he always waited for her, and did as she had asked by respecting his Twoleg housefolk. He hopes that Cinders would be proud and happy that he had really become a SkyClan warrior.

Trivia

Mistakes

• She has been mistakenly called Cinder.

Character pixels

The pixel artwork is fanart based on the canon description; undefined traits are left to the artist's interpretation. Queen Version Loner Version

Official art

Please do not edit this gallery Cinders in Beyond the Code Cinders in SkyClan and the Stranger

Kin

Members

Mate:

Unnamed tom (formerly): Status unknown

Son:

Sol: Living (As of The Forgotten Warrior)

Kits:

Unnamed light-colored kit: Status unknown

Unnamed tricolored kit: Status unknown

Unnamed patched kit: Status unknown

Tree

Cinders ♀

Unnamed ♂

Unnamed ♀

Sol ♂

Unnamed

Unnamed

Unnamed

    = Tom

    = She-cat

    = Gender unknown

Appearances

• Beyond the Code (First appearance)

Quotes

"My mother was called Cinders. She...she...she didn't give us names. I'm not sure if Cinders really wanted to have kits, and she didn't hunt very well."

―Sol about his mother ^{Beyond the Code}

"You can forget about the sky warriors. They're not here now, are they? No one is. No one can help us."

―Cinders snapping at her kit ^{Beyond the Code}

"This life won't be as good as it could have been...if you'd been sky warriors. But there's no choice. Be nice to the housefolk, and they'll look after you. Because I can't."

―Cinders giving up her kits to Twolegs ^{Beyond the Code}

"I never saw her again. But I watched for her every single day. Wishing over and over that I could've been a sky warrior...because then she...might've stayed."

―Sol about Cinders ^{Beyond the Code}