Feathertail/Trivia

This page contains the trivia for Feathertail.

Trivia

Interesting facts

• She has ThunderClan and RiverClan blood from Graystripe and Silverstream respectively, SkyClan blood through Willowpelt, and WindClan blood via Reedfeather.
• When Crowpaw got his warrior name, he requested it to be Crowfeather in honor of her.
• Feathertail looks like her mother, Silverstream.
• In Forest of Secrets, it was said that Greenflower would nurse her. This is changed in Rising Storm to Mosspelt.
• Feathertail was the second kit of her litter to be born.

Author statements

• When someone asks them who Crowfeather loved most in his life, the authors are very mixed:
  • Kate has said that in StarClan, she believes that Crowfeather would most likely pick Feathertail over Leafpool, stating that "first love always wins."
    • However, this is proven false in A Light in the Mist: Crowfeather does not speak to Feathertail, who also ignores him. On the other hand, he shows himself close to Leafpool from the moment he finds her.
  • In Erin Hunter Chat 3, Vicky believes that if Feathertail did live, her relationship with Crowfeather would not have worked out. She was too old for him, and he would not have gotten the chance to develop his own personality. She also said within that same chat that Crowfeather's love for Feathertail was more of a high school crush.
  • Vicky thinks that if Feathertail had survived her fall, she would have returned to RiverClan and let Crowfeather go back to WindClan, as she was very loyal to the warrior code and would have eventually let her head rule her heart.
• When asked if Feathertail was always intended to die, Vicky clarified that never creates characters just to kill them, but she knew Feathertail's demise would be very dramatic due to her relationship with Crowpaw; "I actually found her death very sad, one of the few that were hard to write. But I knew it would give me a great opportunity to develop Crowpaw's character. And of course, she was in StarClan so I could bring her back in dreams whenever I wanted to!"

Mistakes

• In Cats of the Clans, The Ultimate Guide, and Leopardstar's Honor, it is mistakenly stated that Stonefur was Feathertail's mentor instead of Mistystar.
• She was mistakenly described with a flecked gray pelt, without stripes in Crookedstar's Promise and The Lost Warrior, described as gray, a gray tabby, silver-gray, and as light gray.
  • In the reprint of Midnight, instead of being mistakenly described with a flecked gray pelt, she is mentioned to have a light gray pelt, which is still a mistake.
• She has been mistakenly described with amber eyes.
• She is mistakenly called a WindClan cat in The Ultimate Guide.
• In the comic in Leopardstar's Honor, Feathertail is shown greeting Mistyfoot when she returns to camp, though Feathertail died during the journey from Midnight and never made it back home.
• In her bio for The Ultimate Guide: Updated and Expanded Edition, Feathertail is listed with dark gray fur.
• Leafpool mistakenly describes Feathertail as Crowfeather's first mate when they were never mates to begin with.

Continuity

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

• In Secrets of the Clans, a 2007 field guide, Feathertail gives a tour of RiverClan's camp in the old forest. When Tawnypelt talks about the end of the journeying cats trip in Midnight's cave, she mentions that while she, Squirrelpaw, and Brambleclaw fell, it was Feathertail who found an easier way down by using rocks and ledges. When Crowfeather speaks about forbidden love he says that Feathertail understood him. She was the cat that sacrificed herself to save not only the Clan cats, but the Tribe cats too, and Crowfeather wanted nothing more to serve his Clan and join Feathertail in StarClan. A little later he says how when he rescued Leafpool all he could think about was how he had failed Feathertail and she had died because of it. When Leafpool looked at him he said he remembered Feathertail having the same look in her eyes.