Mouseleg takes another look at Clear Sky’s character in Dawn of the Clans.
A lot of people under estimate Clear Sky, mainly being a bad character. Of course he has flaws, but these flaws make him great either way. A lot of problems of his also affects Gray Wing too, but Gray Wing takes it so much differently, which makes this absolutely flawless interaction with Clear Sky. Both are depressed by their sister, Storm, and Bright Stream.
At first Clear Sky’s depression doesn’t really do anything, as his sister dies, and they watch her buried by stones. He is sad, but we don’t get a mindset of him in this book, just Gray Wing, who takes a reasoning to be in the mountains. After when he and Jagged Peak catch up to the group, Clear Sky is overwhelmed with happiness as he will be the father of Bright Stream’s kits. But when the tabby and white she-cat is carried away, Clear Sky’s future in his mind is destroyed. He may feel that he had caused the death of this because he didn’t tell Shaded Moss.
When the cats arrive to the moor, Clear Sky is more eager too eat and is now not grieving His mate’s death. However, Gray Wing still feels that her death was caused by him. After the two groups settle, Gray Wing confesses how he feels about Bright Stream’s death, but Clear Sky is soon remembered of her, and falls deep again. He says it’s not anyone’s fault, so Gray Wing doesn’t mind.
Soon after, the rouge Storm meets Gray Wing and they have a close bond after a few moons. When Gray Wing is about to ask her to be her mate, he crushes Turtle Tail and she visits Bumble more often. Then Gray Wing shows Storm to the land of Clear Sky’s camp, which they are stopped by unfamiliar guards. This means Clear Sky is cautious about getting his cats hurt by rouges or hostile kittypets, like how no one was there to help Bright Stream. Soon after he falls in love with Storm, who is having his kits. But then while hunting, Jagged Peak falls and shatters his leg, leaving him limping.
Now this is a part where many people, like me (before I re-read it again), are like, “What in the world Clear Sky?” But this is deeper. He doesn’t know how to deal with things that are big, He probably thinks it’s his fault that he got injured and he doesn’t want to feel that pressure of being a horrible brother again. So he think the best idea is to ship him of with Frost to Tall Shadow’s camp. He also did this with Bright Stream’s death, I think.
Then Storm is close to expecting, Clear Sky wants to settle as much as possible, so she can’t get hurt. Remember, Clear Sky lost his mate along with his two unborn kits, so he doesn’t want that to happen again. But when he establishes borders, and Gray Wing accidentally kills Fox as he attacks him, Clear Sky rages, and Storm said she had enough. She probably doesn’t know the backstory behind Clear Sky, so she goes off into a old twoleg house that no cat or animal makes their home of.
Later the house is destroyed, and leaves the death behind Storm and two of her kits, with Thunder strong, and alive. When Gray Wing takes the orange kit to Clear Sky, again he doesn’t want to seem he’s a bad father, so he just leaves him with Gray Wing.
So the real problem with Clear Sky, he can’t handle with big problems. Instead, he leaves them, and being in the situation. Everyone does experience this, whenever its big of a relative getting cancer, or something small, like someone dropped their pencils. But Clear Sky is the type of person, or cat, that has this a lot. Plus when you have depression, it messes you up hard.
I might do a part two.
Great article! I do not like Clear Sky’s decisions, but I do not think that Clear Sky was a bad cat. He still cares about who he loves. He just takes on his decisions differently because what I think is his pride.
Thank you!
I love Clear Sky. I totally agree that he’s a great character.
I agree with all of this. Well written. Skystar is so interesting and complex, which is why I like him.
I think that he was a pretty bad leader. Too haughty, territorial, and all that stuff. I didn’t make the right decisions and has anyone realized how he dates extremely beautiful cats that at least one other tom is going after?
Yeah, I hate Clearsky. Especially in Moth Flight’s vision, he would withhold supplies from other clans and would blame everything on other cats. He also started the great battle, and if his camp was so secure, he wouldn’t have let One-eye join his clan.
Awesome article Mouseleg!!!! 😀👍🏽 Although I did just spoiled myself for DotC, haha……
GAHHH sorry!
Yay! I love Clearsky and DotC! I’m glad you did an article on him!
I personally have mixed feelings on Skystar. I like him because of his flaws, but at the same time dislike him because of how idiotic he can be sometimes (Him interpreting “Grow and spread” as uniting really bugged me for some reason) and his behavior in Moth Flight’s Vision.
Me too!
Great article, but I do not agree. 😛
First off, you seem to imply that he is not strong enough to deal with the problems. But there is a difference between being cruel and being weak.
Secondly, if he’s not strong enough, how did he become leader?
I believe that Clear Sky has character. Because he is flawed, we show strong emotion towards him, good and bad. This means that he is a well developed character unlike Gray Wing who (don’t get me wrong I love Gray Wing) is a little too….perfect…. This just makes Gray Wing seem dull and “fake”.
So… Clear Sky is a great character 😀
You have a good point, however, that doesn’t explain why Clear Sky tried to kill the little bit of kin he still had nearby.
Great article! I agree! 😀 Though I think at first he was kinda bad and then became gooder (if that’s a word 😛 )
“Gooder” is not a word. “Better” would be the best word to use. 🙂😛 Or he redeemed himself.
Great StarClan Foxie 😛
I agree- I really like him as a character because the way that others see him and the way that he sees himself are in such stark contrast. It’s really interesting.
i know, right!
He is meh with me. I think he’s a good cat though.
Same here
Cool! You don’t get many Clear Sky defence articles, so good job!
Yes!! Thank you! Finally someone agrees with me! Not only is Clear Sky a good character, he is my favorite.