SuperKityyy wrote:Hello! =D
Image/Description: Black cat with a white paw and belly. Yellowish-Gold eyes.
Name: Nightwing
Gender: Female
Clan: JourneyClan
Rank: Deputy
Personality/Skills: Ambitious and a good fighter.
Important Notes: She has a scar across where her left eye would have been.
(I might have posted this before, I forgot :3)
Hello to you too! No, I haven't seen this character before. Trust me, I'd remember her!
Name Rating: 7/10
Name Type: Canonical/Batman
Name Reasoning: Night- fits her just fine. She is a black cat, even with some white markings. Her suffix, -wing, doesn't really work due to the fact that cats don't have wings, and if you wanted to call her fast (-foot) or an agile climber (-tail) in a fancier way, it'd still be pretty useless.
However, I'm not very interested in her suffix. I'm interested in that injury of hers. This is the first cat on this thread that I've gotten that I think deserves a name-change alluding to an old scar, and I'll explain why.
Name-changes, in the traditional warriors-verse, are used to describe an injury that, even when it heals, is a detriment or disability to the cat that owns it. Take, for example, a cat named Yellowpaw who broke her jaw as an apprentice. She may heal, of course, but her jaw will always look off and she may have trouble speaking or eating. Thus, she's renamed Brokenpaw, and when she becomes a warrior, she is named Brokenjaw. She could also be renamed when she becomes a warrior instead of being renamed right away, so Yellowpaw would become Brokenjaw.
It's an unusual process, and at first glance mean, but the purpose of a name like this is honorable. The leader is calling attention to a missing foot or torn off ears and proudly saying, "We have a warrior in out midst who should have died from this injury, and they won't be able to do as well as they could anymore, but they're still with us and they're strong enough to live until they're in the elder's den." While Bluestar named Brightheart Lostface as a curse to StarClan, it's an accurate name, and she should have kept it.
And your cat's not only survived this, but she's become the deputy! I think she'd have earned this name by now.
Alternative Name: Losteye/One-eye, for the reasons above. If she had lost her eye after becoming a warrior, I would call her Nightclaw, -claw for her fighting skills.
Character Rating: 7/10
Character Reasoning: You've given this cat a good trait for any deputy to have, which is ambition. I think that you should give her a little more than that, though. Does she have any cats she's interested in? Does she hate kits and avoid them at all costs? Does she have a flair for puns and have a record of wheeling them off until the leader threatens to rank her down to apprentice again? Maybe during leaf-bare she gets a headache, and will complain of phantom pains to the medicine cat, who has to patiently explain to her that some cats get odd feelings in old wounds when storms come around. Perhaps she can be immature sometimes, and finds some sort of kinship with apprentices.
