Snailpaw

"StarClan, help us! The Twolegs are destroying the forest!"

— Snailpaw praying to StarClan in Cloudstar's Journey, chapter 3

Snailpaw
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:	Snailpaw
SkyClan ancestor:	Unknown
StarClan resident:	Unknown
Kin
Mother:	Fernpelt
Father:	Buzzardstar
Sisters:	Mintpaw, Tansypaw
Education
Mentor:	Mousefang
Book appearances
Living	Cloudstar's Journey
Living	Cloudstar's Journey
Dead	Shattered Sky
Dead	Shattered Sky

Snailpaw is a dark brown tabby tom with soft fur.

History

In the A Vision of Shadows arc

Shattered Sky

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

In the Novellas

Cloudstar's Journey

"The forest is being crushed! A monster knocked down the tree we were in!"

―Snailpaw to Mousefang ^{Cloudstar's Journey, chapter 4}

Snailpaw is an apprentice of SkyClan with Mousefang as his mentor. When Cloudstar and Buzzardtail, his father, go hunt in SkyClan's borders, they discuss about Cloudstar's future kits with Birdflight. Buzzardtail tells him that he wouldn't feel so welcome once they started pulling his tail and chewing his whiskers, and Cloudstar reminds him that he didn't recall him putting much of a fight with his three when they wanted to play. It is noted that Snailpaw, along with his siblings, Mintpaw and Tansypaw were apprentices, good at climbing trees like other SkyClan warriors, but Buzzardtail had been as soft as honey to them when they were born.

He returns from a patrol with Acornpaw, and is the only one who caught prey. They are wet and muddy, and Acornpaw grumbles that Snailpaw only caught some because it was half-drowned in a puddle. Cloudstar demands if that is all they had caught, but Fernpelt, Snailpaw's mother, defends him and explains how the Twolegs have come to destroy the territory, despite the warm season.

He and his siblings watch Cloudstar climb a tree, and after he and Tansypaw bicker for a bit, Cloudstar gives them a tree-climbing lesson since they were so amazed with his skills. He sends Snailpaw and Mintpaw to take whatever path they choose on the tree while he is tutoring Tansypaw and taking her on a different one. Snailpaw and his sister are cautious when they begin. Later, when Snailpaw and Mintpaw are on a lower branch, Tansypaw nearly falls off the tree. Then, Cloudstar instructs them to jump down from the tree, and so after Tansypaw, Snailpaw takes a daring jump, but ends up jumping too high, but ends up safely on the ground below. On the other hand, Mintpaw takes a perfect, neat jump despite being the smallest of her litter. After this, they climb up the tree again to practice jumping from branch to branch on a tree. All three cats are successful in leaping, but suddenly the tree starts to shake, as a Twoleg monster is knocking down the tree. The four cats try to stay calm and flee to safety, but Mintpaw falls and injures herself, and even gets into a state of unconsciousness. They carry the apprentice back to the camp and they are all checked by Fawnstep, and are fussed over by Tansypaw, Mintpaw, and Snailpaw's mother, Fernpelt, who helps Fawnstep along with Quailheart. He is told to protect the camp with his littermates 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

Sisters:

Tansypaw: Deceased, verified StarClan member

Mintpaw: 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)

Quotes

«Snailpaw, Tansypaw, and Mintpaw were apprentices now, strong and good at climbing trees like all SkyClan warriors.»

—Cloudstar on the apprentices ^{Cloudstar's Journey, chapter 1}

"Yeah, and give us all some peace down here."

―Snailpaw about Tansypaw ^{Cloudstar's Journey, chapter 3}

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}