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This page contains Squirrelflight's personality and relationships. It contains conjecture due to being based off of general novel themes, and all statements must be sourced.

Personality

Squirrelflight is feisty, passionate, scrappy, and expressive. She is also clever and quick-witted, and is quick to defend herself and her Clanmates.

Relationships

Firestar and Sandstorm

Squirrelflight’s parents are proud and supportive of her, and she had a good relationship with them and grieved when they died.

Leafpool

Squirrelflight and Leafpool are as close as can be. They even shared some sort of link where they knew each other’s feelings, though that link seems to have faded over time. They obviously have a very strong bond, and Squirrelflight even agrees to take Leafpool’s kits and raise them as her own. When the secret is revealed that Lionblaze, Jayfeather, and Hollyleaf are not Squirrelflight’s kits, she and Leafpool support each other, and Squirrelflight tries to explain why she had to help her sister. After this, the two sisters spend many moons as deputy and medicine cat of ThunderClan, and Leafpool supports Squirrelflight during the conflict with the Sisters. However, Leafpool and Squirrelflight end up buried in a rockslide, and go to StarClan. There, they are reunited with Hollyleaf and Firestar and Sandstorm, and Leafpool is happy. However, Squirrelflight wants to get back to her Clan. Squirrelflight survives in the end, and her spirit returns to her body, but Leafpool dies, and Squirrelflight mourns for her sister.

Bramblestar

Squirrelflight’s and Bramblestar’s relationship has been very volatile over the years. When Squirrelflight was an apprentice, Brambleclaw thought she was annoying, and Squirrelflight thought he was arrogant. However, they end up beginning to grow affection for each other, until Brambleclaw starts meeting with his half-brother, Hawkfrost. Squirrelflight warns him about Hawkfrost’s nature, but he doesn’t listen, and Squirrelflight begins to grow closer to Ashfur. However, after Brambleclaw kills Hawkfrost, he and Squirrelflight reconcile, and become mates.

When Squirrelflight reveals her kits to Brambleclaw, he is excited and proud. He and Squirrelflight raise the kits together, and love them. But when Squirrelflight’s secret is uncovered, Brambleclaw feels betrayed by Squirrelflight’s lies, and they once again have a falling out. However, Bramblestar eventually grows to understand that Squirrelflight does everything for the best of reasons, and he lets her back into his life as his deputy. Squirrelflight accepts his apology, and the two become mates again, and have their own kits together. When Bramblestar suddenly dies, Squirrelflight is distraught, but then overjoyed when he revives. She initially convinces herself that the reason he's acting oddly is just a side-effect of losing a life and does her best to comfort him, but gradually becomes suspicious. When Rootpaw tells her that the real Bramblestar is trapped as a ghost, Squirrelflight believes him, and agrees to help ShadowClan reveal the imposter’s true identity and restore Bramblestar to leadership.

Lionblaze, Jayfeather, and Hollyleaf

Squirrelflight raised these three as if they were her own kits, and truly loved them. When she reveals the truth about their parents to them, they feel betrayed and do not talk to her. She is dismayed, and tries to reconnect with her kits, but they reject her. However, eventually, all the cats involved with the secret come to terms with the past, and mostly forgive each other.

Sparkpelt, Alderheart, Dandelionkit, and Juniperkit

Squirrelflight loves all her kits. She is proud of Sparkpelt and Alderheart for what they have accomplished, and mourns for her two kits that died, Juniperkit and Dandelionkit. She sees them in StarClan when she goes there temporarily, and briefly gets to spend time with them before she goes back to ThunderClan. She is sad to leave them, but knows that she’ll be with them again someday.

Shrewpaw, Spiderleg, and Whitewing

Shrewpaw was friends with Squirrelflight when they were both apprentices. When Shrewpaw died, Squirrelpaw was deeply saddened.

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Dustpelt

Sandstorm: "What didn’t she do? Slipping out of camp to hunt on her own...getting stuck in bushes, falling into streams...I remember Dustpelt saying to me once, ‘If that kit of yours doesn’t shape up, I’m going to claw her pelt off and hang it on a bush to frighten the foxes!"

Sparkpaw: "He wouldn’t have."

^{The Apprentice's Quest}

Dustpelt was Squirrelflight's mentor, picked specially by Firestar to try and balance Squirrelflight's feisty personality. While Dustpelt was often strict with her, he saw her potential and wanted her to succeed, though this did not stop Squirrelflight from continually testing her mentor's patience. When Squirrelflight helped lead the Clan to their new home in the gorge, Dustpelt sought out Firestar and recommended to him about making her a warrior, and was incredibly proud when she did.

Years later, Sandstorm tells Alderheart and Sparkpelt about the time when Dustpelt told her that he was going to claw off Squirrelflight's pelt if she didn't behave. Though Sandstorm knew he didn't mean it, and truly wanted the best for her.

Ashfur

"I know you think I've never forgiven Brambleclaw for stealing you from me, but you're wrong, and so is every cat that thinks so. My quarrel is with you, Squirrelflight. It always has been."

―Ashfur confrontation with Squirrelflight ^{Long Shadows}

Squirrelpaw and Ashfur were average Clanmates, up until she went traveling to sun-drown-place. In that time, Ashfur worried for her, being one of the few cats to greet her warmly on her return. After moving to the lake territories, the two developed a supportive and playful friendship. However, Ashfur wanted to spend an increasing amount of time with Squirrelflight, usually being the first to approach, even while her focus was elsewhere.

Ashfur became overprotective of Squirrelflight. He fought her battles for her and defended her against their Clanmates, specifically Brambleclaw, much to the frustration of the independent she-cat, needing her closest companion to match her feisty personality, not contain it. As Ashfur’s romantic feelings became clear, Squirrelflight briefly questioned her own feelings, but ultimately wanted to remain friends.

Although Squirrelflight explained this as kindly as she could, Ashfur wouldn't accept her answer. He repeatedly stated he loved her and even attempted to guilt trip her by bringing up Brambleclaw's heritage. However, he soon began ignoring her entirely, even with simple greetings, leaving Squirrelflight guilt-ridden. Her guilt turned to anger when Ashfur made his first move to spite Squirrelflight by accusing her sister Leafpool of lying about her vision of Brambleclaw's deputyship, which provokes Squirrelflight to almost attacking him. Seasons on, Squirrelflight and Ashfur seemingly learned to tolerate one another, despite occasional moments of tension.

However, Ashfur reveals his hidden vendetta went to the extreme, confessing to the four attempted murders of Squirrelflight’s family members and swearing to humiliate her at the Gathering. This was all in an attempt to make her feel the same pain he felt at her rejection. When Squirrelflight begged him not to expose the secret, Ashfur didn’t care to listen, intending to get her exiled.

After Ashfur’s murder, Squirrelflight was unsettled by both the death and the praise he received from his Clanmates, unknowing of his crimes. When she temporarily went to StarClan, Squirrelflight was confused and uncomfortable to discover Ashfur was there, questioning why he didn’t end up in the Dark Forest. She reluctantly dismissed it when Hollyleaf explained he'd apologized to StarClan. The former friends turned enemies awkwardly didn't say a word to each other.