Zenstar wrote:Image/Description: A plain grey tom with grey eyes. He has a scar over his left flank, and its rather large. He has three small scratches on his right paw.
Name: Slatestorm
Gender: Tom
Clan: Thunderclan
Rank: Warrior, but old enough that he will be retiring soon.
Personality/Skills: Hes a pretty good fighter, and one of the best hunters due to his speed. Some believe he may be part Windclan, but he claims he is Thunderclan nose to tail. He is gruff and short tempered, and very blunt. He doesnt sugarcoat the truth, and is straightforward with everyone. He is a grouchy old cat, but he has a soft spot for kits, and sometimes you can see him playing as the "fox" for kits' games.
Important Notes: He is unusually hostile toward Riverclan, for some reason no one knows. It is rumored that one of their warriors slew his mate though.
Name Rating: 5/10
Name Type: Canonical
Name Reasoning: The term "slate-grey" comes from a sedimentary rock-turned-metamorphic, made from volcanic ash. It can be used for roofing, and comes in a variety of colors - blue, grey, green, or purple. To put it simply, even if it was in an area where cats knew about it, rarely would it be in their territory or worth noticing.
Cats, to my knowledge, don't care much about rocks unless they're part of a territory full of food. Boulder-, Rock-, Stone- and Pebble- are not just describing any rocks, but a wide variety of them. Rocks above ground (slate is not an above ground rock) are pretty much all the same - grey or brown or somewhere in-between.
Meanwhile, -pelt is a nice suffix, but the problem is that he's got skills worth mentioning! He's a good fighter and a great hunter, and a little fast (which I'll address in a moment). I think that he ought to be named for that.
Alternative Name: Stonefang/Boulderfang. He'll still be named for a rock (Boulder-, preferably, is for a larger cat), and -fang denotes his skills in fighting and hunting.
Character Rating: 8/10
Character Reasoning: His personality and other notes are just fine, but his skills appear to be a little off-kilter. He's fast, a fighter, and a hunter. While a cat can be both a good hunter and fighter (whilst -whisker and -claw cats tend to excel specifically at those, -fang cats are just generally above average at both), speed is a very specific thing. A fast cat is a lean one or a small one, a strong cat is big and broad-shouldered, and a hunter is usually sleeker and quieter. Thankfully, -fang cats can easily exist somewhere in between those points, but speed is not a good factor for an average cat. I'd take out the speed, and maybe even out his abilities in hunting and fighting.