Warrior Cat Names and Characters Reviewer [CLOSED]

[Arcaii]

hmm makes sense, thank you! oWo

Thank you, in turn, for that question. It was a very good one!

[Arcaii]

Quick question, shouldn't there be a suffix like -fang, that deals with a cat equal in hunting and climbing? Because I've seem quite a few cats with those skills. The only problem I see is that, it would have to be something odd like -haunch. [ Since this is where the muscles have to be strongest to allow a cat to jump well. ]

I've recently become of the opinion that there should be a suffix for cats who are equally good at agility and speed (climbing and running). I haven't really seen a lot of cats that have an equal hunting-climbing skill set, but a lot with climbing-running. In cases of things like that, I usually just say "pick one they're better at, even just a little, and stick with it".
But for now, there's no real suffix for that kind of thing.

[Nightshade&Coldstorm]

Image/Description:
Name: Kestrelflame
Gender: tom
Clan: ThunderClan
Rank: warrior
Personality/Skills: Kestrelflame is a friendly and loving tom. Many cats often think of him as "soft". He's excellent at tree climbing, hunting, and stalking.
Important Notes: Kestrelflame fell and hit his head on a rock when he was younger. So he doesn't remember much of his kit-hood. He was also born a kittypet named Flint.

[Nightshade&Coldstorm]

Image/Description:
Name: Moonfern
Gender: she-cat
Clan: ThunderClan
Rank: medicine cat
Personality/Skills: Moonfern is a sweet and gentle she-cat. She's also very fiery and determined, and is good at hunting both herbs and prey.
Important Notes: She was a warrior before she was a medicine cat.

Name Rating: 5/10
Name Type: Canonical
Name Reasoning: The moon is a very sacred object to the cats. The moon is their way of communicating with their ancestors (see: the Gathering, the Moonpool, the Moonstone) and telling time. The Hunters even initially agreed that the prefix Moon- was off limits completely. To name a kitten that is asking for trouble.
Plus, I'm not really sure what -fern is supposed to mean. It could be another way of saying -leaf, but that's redundant, and besides, she's not a skilled medicine cat. I'm not exactly sure what hunting plants means, but I'll make an assumption that she's very good at finding out where her prey and herb sources are, which makes the further assumption that she's a good tracker.
If I'm wrong, correct me.
Alternative Name: Frostnose/Lightnose. Both prefixes indicate a pale grey or white cat, and -nose indicates her tracking.

Character Rating: 6/10
Character Reasoning: A cat can't exactly be gentle and sweet and fiery in the same breath. They contradict as traits. Plus, there isn't much else to go on with this cat, so I'll have to make things up as I go along here.
I suggest making her a bit fiery (read: impatient or quick to argue), but have the best intentions in mind. She might be a perfectionist, who gets upset at others intruding in on her business. She could be prideful, and insist on doing things alone because even though she's a medicine cat, she was once a warrior and she can handle herself, thank you very much. Perhaps she has some prejudices, loathing outsiders and half-Clan cats, but with the feline equivalent of the Hypocritical Oath on her shoulders she doesn't exactly have a choice to ignore outsiders in need.
There's a couple of ideas, but go ahead and make up some of your own if you want.

Moonflower, Bluestar's mother, was born with the prefix 'Moon'. And Honeyfern, Berrynose's first name, of course, has 'fern' as a suffix. And I meant 'hunting herbs' as Moonfern being able to find herbs easily.

[Arcaii]

Moonflower, Bluestar's mother, was born with the prefix 'Moon'. And Honeyfern, Berrynose's first name, of course, has 'fern' as a suffix. And I meant 'hunting herbs' as Moonfern being able to find herbs easily.

I'll answer this before I get to the next cat.

What's considered rational/traditional isn't the same in the books. Just because something showed up in one book or another doesn't mean it's a good part of a name.
See, what happened was, during the second series, the Hunters began using fanmade names, and started disregarding whatever small rules they had put in place. As a result, we got names like Shiningheart, Jumpfoot, and Willowshine, and it got worse from there. There's an entire section of naming called Canonical, where the basic rule is "If it showed up in the book, it's allowed", but we focus on traditionalism here, where the rules are a fair sight more complex than that. We disregard the names that we don't consider to make sense, and we set up a series of names that would be a likely name for a cat and would make sense.
In regards to Moon-, check out a QnA quote from the Hunters themselves:

“VickyHolmes(A): Interesting question. The moon isn’t sacred as such – they don’t worship the moon, or believe that it has any special powers, but they do use it to mark the passage of time. The rest of importance comes from the fact that it is a source of light at night, which must seem pretty strange to the cats! It illuminates the Gatherings (a night when fighting would be difficult anyway because there would be less darkness to hide in), and shines on crystalline stones and still reflective pools where medicine cats can imagine StarClan gathering. So the moon has significance, mystery, beauty, but not actual power, if you see what I mean. Early on, we decided that the name “moon” shouldn’t be used by Clan cats not because it would insult StarClan, but because it would imply that a particular cat had more beauty and significance than its Clanmates. In fact (Warriors trivia coming up!) Bluestar was originally called Moonstone! However, a couple of references crept in to her mother being called Moonflower, most notably in Secrets of the Clans. Although I tried to change this to Duskflower in the website Q&A, there was a general feeling when we came to Bluestar’s Prophecy that we should go with the name that had appeared in previous books. So, uniquely, and kind of by accident, Bluestar’s mom is indeed Moonflower.”

The general plan was to avoid using Moon- entirely. Of course, the Hunters (bless their inconsistent hearts) mucked that up, but it can be regarded as a rule, much like naming a kitten Starkit would be considered a no-go.

[Arcaii]

Image/Description:
Name: Kestrelflame
Gender: tom
Clan: ThunderClan
Rank: warrior
Personality/Skills: Kestrelflame is a friendly and loving tom. Many cats often think of him as "soft". He's excellent at tree climbing, hunting, and stalking.
Important Notes: Kestrelflame fell and hit his head on a rock when he was younger. So he doesn't remember much of his kit-hood. He was also born a kittypet named Flint.

Name Rating: 6/10
Name Type: Canonical
Name Reasoning: Kestrel- refers to a tortoiseshell cat, since the bird itself is patched and mottled. He's not exactly a tortoiseshell (another fun fact: torties exist as females only - if a male is a tortoiseshell, that's a chimera, but that's up on the front page if you want to look), but he does bring to mind a couple different birds.
-flame and -fire are regarded as negative suffixes, at least around here. A suffix is meant to show off the best of a cat - even a -storm personality has a positive spin. -flame usually is seen as referring to a destructive, overly aggressive cat, which is not exactly a good thing to have around.
And even if it was something positive, what it wants to say is said by another suffix. It could mean someone who blazes in battle (-claw), someone who has a wild, unpredictable personality (-storm), someone whose desire to blaze their own trail shines for all to see (-heart), someone who runs so fast they could send up sparks (-foot), etc. etc. etc. You get the point.
Stalking is a part of hunting, just so you know. Hunting kind of blankets over the individual bits involved.
Alternative Name: Eagletail/Owlwhisker. Both prefixes are birds, as a bonus, and refer to a brown tabby (some owls tend to have lighter bellies, too, so there's that). -whisker refers to if he's a better hunter than climber, and -tail is for the opposite.

Character Rating: 9/10
Character Reasoning: Generally, the only issue I have is the loss of memory from a bonk on the head, since, from what I understand, you don't lose memories forever after a hard head injury, just for a couple of hours at most. Otherwise, I think he's fine.

[Arcaii]

boopadoop

[Nightshade&Coldstorm]

Image/Description:
Name: Rainflower
Gender: she-cat
Clan: RiverClan
Rank: queen
Personality/Skills: Rainflower is a sweet, gently, and protective she-cat. She loves her kits (Echokit, Mistkit, Ashkit, and Darkkit) more than anything in the world.
Important Notes: Rainflower's mate died in battle

[~Moony~]

just a quick question for you,
would this cat shown here fit the prefix Quail- ?

[Arcaii]

Image/Description:
Name: Rainflower
Gender: she-cat
Clan: RiverClan
Rank: queen
Personality/Skills: Rainflower is a sweet, gently, and protective she-cat. She loves her kits (Echokit, Mistkit, Ashkit, and Darkkit) more than anything in the world.
Important Notes: Rainflower's mate died in battle

Name Rating: 9/10
Name Type: Traditional
Name Reasoning: Rain- fits her just fine, though it seems like she's more fond of kits than talented at raising them. She has the makings of a -cloud cat, certainly, but if you add in that she's notably skilled in raising and caring for kits, then I'd think that -flower would fit her perfectly.
Alternative Name: Raincloud, only if she isn't notably skilled at raising children.

Character Rating: 8/10
Character Reasoning: There's not much to pick apart, which is the only real issue here, other than this personality seeming a little cliche for a mother cat. I suggest adding in a negative trait like vanity or ego to her - maybe she adores her kits so much because they look quite a lot like her, and everyone clusters around to say how cute they are and how good of a mother she is, thus her ego gets fed. She could be passive-aggressive or manipulative, or just a straight up liar at times, or have a certain disregard for rules. There might've once been rumors that her to-be kits were a loner's, not her mates, before they were born. Maybe she wanders awfully close to the border, or just eats a catch before bringing the rest home. It might not be a contempt for rules, just a certain absentmindedness to her.