Mintpaw (CJ)

"But we want to fight! We practiced really hard yesterday, and I only fell off the branch three times!"

— Mintpaw to Cloudstar, eager to start battle training in Cloudstar's Journey, chapter 8

Mintpaw (CJ)
The pixel artwork is fanart based on the canon description; undefined traits are left to the artist's interpretation.
Affiliations
Current:	StarClan
Past:	SkyClan SkyClan ancestor
Names
Kit:	Unknown
Apprentice:	Mintpaw
SkyClan ancestor:	Unknown
StarClan resident:	Unknown
Kin
Mother:	Fernpelt
Father:	Buzzardstar
Sister:	Tansypaw
Brother:	Snailpaw
Education
Mentor:	Rainleap
Book appearances
Living	Cloudstar's Journey
Living	Cloudstar's Journey
Dead	Shattered Sky
Dead	Shattered Sky

Mintpaw is a pale gray she-cat.

History

In the A Vision of Shadows arc

Shattered Sky

Upon SkyClan's return to the other Clans in the lake territories, Alderheart and the other medicine cats happily witness SkyClan's ancestors rejoining StarClan.

In the Novellas

Cloudstar's Journey

Cloudstar: "You will all get the chance to fight – except for you, Snailpaw and Mintpaw."

Mintpaw: "But we want to fight! We practiced really hard yesterday, and I only fell off the branch three times!"

^{Cloudstar's Journey, chapter 8}

Mintpaw is an apprentice of SkyClan. When Cloudstar and Buzzardtail, her father, go hunt at SkyClan's borders, they discuss Cloudstar's future kits with Birdflight. Buzzardtail warns Cloudstar that he will not be so eager for his kits to bother him when they become more playful, and Cloudstar reminds him that he does not recall Buzzardtail fighting back against his own kits. It is noted that Mintpaw, along with her siblings, Snailpaw and Tansypaw, are skilled SkyClan cats, and that Buzzardtail had been gentle with them after their birth.

She is the smallest between her littermates, Snailpaw and Tansypaw. When Tansypaw and Snailpaw quarrel during training, Cloudstar stops them, asking Tansypaw to work with him, while giving Mintpaw and Snailpaw the option to take whichever path they choose up the tree. It is noted that Mintpaw and her brother are slower to get to the tree, growing more serious due to the hazards of tree-climbing. Snailpaw and Mintpaw reach a lower branch after Tansypaw almost falls off the tree. Cloudstar instructs the two to jump, and he will help them if need be. Snailpaw ends up jumping too high, though Mintpaw lands neatly on the ground without her leader's help, and is happy about it. She is learning how to jump from branch to branch with her littermates moments later, and jumps to the branch that holds her siblings successfully, even though she is the smallest. Suddenly, a Twoleg monster appears, and the cats scramble for safety. The monster knocks the tree they were climbing down, injuring Mintpaw and sending her into a state of unconsciousness.

Fernpelt, Mintpaw's mother, demands what happened to them. She is extremely distressed and tries to help Fawnstep, the medicine cat, as much as she can. Mintpaw and her littermates are told to stay behind and protect the camp when SkyClan goes to take some of ThunderClan territory, in order to keep them from getting upset about not going to the battle.

Character pixels

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

Kin

Members

Mother:

Fernpelt: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Father:

Buzzardstar: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Sister:

Tansypaw: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Brother:

Snailpaw: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Tree

Buzzardstar ♂

Fernpelt ♀

Tansypaw ♀

Mintpaw ♀

Snailpaw ♂

    = Tom

    = She-cat

    = Gender unknown

Appearances

• Cloudstar's Journey (First appearance)
• Shattered Sky (Indirect mention only)