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Rethinking about the concept of Chara as the final boss of the neutral run for the Buttercups AU, so here's Omega Chara getting a physical body thanks to the 6 human souls

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if the show utilized Adora's knowledge on the Horde, she could've had some of the coolest planning // action // combat scenes.

for example, i was imagining a scenario where the Horde has civilians captive and our heroes are on a time crunch before the innocents become husks, so fighting isn't an option. they have to be careful, invisible, unseen and unheard.

Adora knows there are exactly 10,001 soldiers making rotations every 10 minutes ( Bow makes a question of why that specific number and she simply says "precautions" before resuming ), and that every possible opening is covered by tight security, except one. the ventilation system.

"our only problem will be Catra and Shadow Weaver. i'm not sure of Catra's activity since we last saw each other, but i don't want to give her a chance to spring on us. with her senses, she can sniff us out, so we could use mog and water to throw off her sense of smell. as for hearing, we'll have to avoid common rooms she'd be in, to reduce as much risk as possible. luckily, there's not many. she's not the strongest or fastest, but she's unpredictable and stubborn. i can handle her, but it'd just be easier to avoid her."

and for Shadow Weaver:

"Shadow Weaver's our biggest problem. she can see through the dark, manipulate you with her mind games, and is a powerful sorceress. when she detects us, and she will, Glimmer, you need to turn us invisible. can you do that?"

Glimmer nods, a determined grin on her face. "absolutely."

"good. a weakness of hers is that her magic requires build-up. it's why it's so powerful. worst case scenario, we have a few seconds to completely disarm her and knock her down, but that is the absolute last resort, and not something we should sought after. Shadow Weaver's unforgiving and merciless. one wrong move, and you could be finished. i've seen it myself. so, no matter what, do everything you can to stay hidden."

some other things, location of the civilians, how to get there, etc., etc.

'Roll With It' was a terrible episode, and a lot of it was because no one but Adora was taking the war seriously, but she was treated like she was overreacting for doing so. they had barely survived the Battle of Brightmoon, yet it changes nothing.

Adora should've been offering suggestions in plans from the start to eventually being in charge, given all her knowledge, but it was used maybe only twice, and that was in the first two seasons.

like, Vi's streetsmarts and living in Zaun helped her navigate, blend in, and know how to get information. she's more than just muscles.

and so is Adora, but SPOP ( neither the show or fandom ) hardly ever cared about that. because she doesn't have knowledge of certain things, due to being sheltered, and sometimes mispronounces certain things ( which everyone does ), she's suddenly seen as dumb.

she doesn't have knowledge of parties, then she's a cute dummy.

Catra doesn't have knowledge of parties, then it's suddenly important that she was sheltered and that her excitement is both adorable and sad.

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my fave part of clangen is how grown ass adults will beef with newborn babies

LITERALLYYYYY ITS SO FUNNY...

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starting a compilation of my favorite "no thank you" buttons from when they want you to subscribe so bad

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Nine-episode animated miniseries where each episode is framed as the obligatory beach episode from the middle of a different full season, and figuring out the arc of the show's notional nine seasons from context is left as an exercise for the viewer.

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i miss the days when there were competent and interesting characters in warriors books aside from the 1-3 protagonists. when side characters actually had stuff going on that even affected the plot and protagonists. our main characters had friends, enemies, rivals, crushes and relationships that weren't the sole focus of their arc, meaningful relationships with their mentors, parents and siblings, etc etc. think of sorreltail, berrynose, poppyfrost, heathertail, breezepelt, ashfur, tigerheart, hawkfrost, literally any first arc cat that lives past book 1

to be fair they usually had the bare minimum of interaction to count for anything more than acquaintances but at least it was something. i couldn't tell you who frostdawn or nightheart's friends are if my life depended on it

nightheart doesn't have a single friend other than his immediate family i'm pretty sure. his mom, his sister, his adoptive mom, his adoptive mother, his grandma and grandpa... who else does he talk to more than once? mandatory protagonist bonding with sunbeam and frostdawn doesn't count. he almost had something going on with his mentor slash grandma lilyheart but it was forgotten pretty quick. i can only think of wafflepaw. wafflepaw is nightheart's best friend

frostdawn talked to her siblings like twice and had a decently interesting relationship with mothwing. her mom, by far her most compelling connection, died immediately. she had some fun scenes with whistlebreeze and mandatory nightheart time but other than that...? harelight? i liked harelight. splashtail was her friend i guess but like. you know. she also gets randomly attached to icewing after she has a prophetic dream about her but don't let the erins fool you into thinking they had any sort of relationship before that! they did not. frostdawn's best friend is harelight who is dead so i guess it's mothwing or whistlebreeze! work friends woooo

sunbeam had lightleap and blazefire for at least a book or two which is a modern era warriors friendship RECORD. two cats completely unrelated to her! normal clanmates she got to hang out with regularly and not only in life or death situations!! one was even a romantic interest that wasn't her sole motivation and contribution to the plot!!! not to mention the interesting and consistent dynamics with her entire family and then her thunderclan in-laws, which i personally don't count as family relations in warriors. so that's more friends! sunbeam's best friend can be anyone she wants she's killing it. i vote finchlight

conclusion? sunbeam is the only modern warrior cat to have friends. congrats!

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It makes me really uncomfy when people hc heavily transmasc coded characters as transfem...

Like whenever I see transfem Rowanstar and Nightheart hcs it makes me wonder how those people feel about transmascs since both of them are blatantly transmasc coded. Idk how you read the books and got transfem vibes from them but I wish people would stop

anon, i mean this in the nicest possible sense i can, but none of these characters are coded to be transgender. the writers did not intend any of them to be either transmasc or transfem. you need to understand that "coding" means a character was deliberately written to be something without overtly being labelled as such.

if you see a character as transmasc, that's great! but that is your headcanon. just like someone seeing that character as transfem is also a headcanon. just because you see a character as "coded" for something does not make it canon. it is an interpretation you may have made based on evidence you've read in the books, but it still just an interpretation.

someone not seeing rowanstar or nightheart as transmasc does not mean they dislike transmasc people. i personally don't see nightheart as a trans allegory but i can understand why people do and that's fine, you're allowed to do that. but people headcanoning him as transfem does not mean they have something against transmasc people like you seem to be implying.

idk i know this is a bit of a rant but this is not the first time someone has been like "if you see a character as x it means you hate y group of people/are xyz-ist" in the inbox.

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my friends open drawing requests and i bow my head with shame and avoid eye contact as i ask for the character they Already Knew I Would Ask For

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daily whistlebreeze until bu becomes PoV day 1485

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daily whistlebreeze until la becomes PoV day 1486

chatting with auntie Larkwing

Larkwing as a character has always fascinated me tbh. She's made an apprentice by the tail-end of OOTS and has become trainee in the dark forest in The Last Hope. We obviously have no canon reason why she joined, but her mentor Furzepelt (who had only recently become a warrior) was a trainee too. In Crowfeather's Trial she's there alongside the other trainees being scorned by their clanmates, and that includes her own family. She lost her two aunts in the battle and now both her parents and her grandmother are distant with her. She's also just generally distrusted by her clanmates, but fights hard against the stoats the entire time.

Featherpelt is in CT kinda retconned to be her littermate. It's a weird thing for me since Feather didn't exist in OOTS at all. but in CT she's way closer to her parents who are clearly favoring her over her supposed littermate. She at one point also expresses the idea that the dark forest trainees should be exiled, which kinda struck me because her own sister is one of those trainees. I'm more planning on putting that onto Crowfeather and her parents being so mean to the trainees and her picking it up, but yeah, Feather and Lark don't seem close at all.

I chose to imagine that her relationship with her parents, sister and grandmother never fully recovered from that whole ordeal. They're less hostile now, but they're awkward around her, though they just Don't Address That Thing anymore. She just avoids them when she can now and spends time with other cats (in my mind Harestar most importantly, as he's another dark forest trainee). Though Featherpelt's kits, who have not known the dark forest battle and have no reason to judge her for it, are close to her (in my heart). I like the idea that she might be the black sheep of the family to the older members, but Whistlebreeze, Flutterfoot and Songleap enjoy spending time with her.

as for the stuff with her parents. I've stated a few times that I despise emberfoot. It's kinda because he's just a stock Mean Conservative (though most of WindClan gets that treatment when the books need it), but I also have gripes with Sedgeember as a ship.

Sedgewhisker is born at the end of The Sight. She's made an appretnice in Sunrise. we have to quickly roll with the very nonsensical timeline stuff as warrior cats hates making sense of how many moons have passed, but for all accounts and purposes, she's 6 moons by the time sunrise begins, maybe 7 or 8 if she was made an apprentice earlier in Long Shadows, but it's never announced in the books, so we just can't get a grasp of how old she is.

Emberfoot on the other hand appears as a fully grown warrior with an apprentice for the first time in Eclipse. in the best of cases he's just been named a warrior and immediately got an apprentice in some sort of Fireheart and Cinderpaw but Worse situation. Sunpaw, his apprentice, is being trained at the same time as Sedgepaw is, they are apprentices together and Emberfoot definitely did have interactions with Sedgepaw while training.

by the time the fourth apprentice has begin both Sedgewhisker and Sunstrike get their names. Sedgewhisker goes on the patrol to deal with the beavers and then returns to WindClan and not too long later she must have has Larkwing. for her to be apprenticed by TFW (the wiki's timeline also puts her birth in fading echoes). My problem with this is that Sedgewhisker barely got her name when Larkkit is born whereas Emberfoot has at least been a warrior for 7-8 moons If Not More.

I have no solid proof in canon that ember did something shitty, but even if they only became a thing after Sedge became a warrior, he was a mentor while he was an apprentice, he's been a warrior for a while by the time she gets her name and I don't like it.

In my headcanon world ember is genuinely shitty and they have Larkkit, but eventually Sedge or her family (or Sunstrike) do stop Ember from his scumbaggery, but Lark is kinda stuck in the crossfire and this situation also doesn't help with her band with Sedgewhisker and Gorsetail or Featherpelt later.

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i think the worst thing in the world is seeing two characters with something weird as hell going on between them and you think to urself "wow i love the weird as hell thing these characters have going on between them" and you open archiveofourown.org and find out everyone else thinks they would actually be in a very normal romantic relationship

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