Disclaimer: I, KatieK101, do not own Warriors.
Five Truths About Rainfur
i.
At birth, he is named Rain, because without rain nothing can survive.
His mother is a she-cat called Primrosepaw, and she tells him stories of 'Clans' and warriors, where cats join together and defend each other like kin.
He becomes obsessed with the stories, and asks his mother for a warrior name. She dubs him Rainfur, and asks for her own mother to smile down upon him.
ii.
His mother is killed by a twoleg dog, and the pain he feels when he finds her savaged body is unlike any other. He vows to forget all about the Clans she loved to tell him stories about - that's all they ever were, anyway.
Just stories.
However. He introduces himself to Petal as Rainfur.
iii.
He never intended on taking a mate, but he cannot help but grow attached to Petal.
She reminds him of his mother; kind, born with a fighting spirit.
He believes she could do much better than him, yet she licks his scars and tells him to hush.
iv.
When Firestar invades his forest searching for some "SkyClan", Rainfur knows exactly who he is; one of those fabled Clan cats.
He swears that he will not join the Clan, because it would remind him too much of his mother, and it still hurts to remember her.
That is, until they help him save Petal from her angry twoleg, and he no longer has a choice.
v.
He dies in the rat battle and leaves behind an adoring mate and two innocent kits.
However, he does not mind. He owes them Petal's life, and he would gladly sacrifice his for hers.
Besides. Primrosepaw is waiting for him in StarClan.
I think Rainfur is a fascinating character because we really don't know why he has a Clan name. Snatched: The Story of Snowkit (by Prin Pardus) does an excellent job of explaining this and I felt no need to give him any other backstory. But then I had the thought 'what if his mother was a warrior' and I liked that idea, so I ran with it!
In case it wasn't clear, I implied that Rainfur's mother was Primrosepaw, one of Mistyfoot's kits who were swept away by the river. That would make her Reedwhisker's sister! I don't think her brothers survived, but I like the idea that Primrosepaw did, settled down, and told her own kits stories of RiverClan.
Echosong was requested by Snowfall16. Repeatedly. xD