#Claudrat

[frightnightindustries]

"Hey. Claudrat?" The black and white tom looked up at Smallkit. Smallkit was...tense, flexing his claws and tightening his muscles.

"Hello, Smallkit. What are you angry about?" He replied. Smallkit had already gotten used to the strange skill Claudrat had of telling emotions, so he continued.

"Someone said something mean to me. They think I'm mean because of Parsleykit, and that I don't blame myself like everyone else." Smallkit snarled. They were wrong. Smallkit was mean because of his general personality, not because of some simple prank gone wrong.

"I thought about fighting them, but..." "You didn't want to get in trouble." Claudrat finished the sentence.

The kit nodded, avoiding Claudrat's gaze, Claudrat took that as permission to continue. "Well, you chose the right cat for advice. Ripperclaw would tell you to poison them, Snipvoice would fight them for you, Gingerstamp is...soft...and A-...that's about it." He wasn't about to spill the secret of Applefoot also taking care of Smallkit. It was hilarious.

"Get to the point." Smallkit snapped. Claudrat got up, and walked over to the kit. "Use your words." He whispered.

"What?" Smallkit asked, but Claudrat only winked. He would figure it out. -------- "And what did you call them?" Gingerstamp asked, some time later. Smallkit bristled. "I didn't call them anything."

"He said that they would die alone, unloved, and deserving of such fate, because they are incredibly rude and a curse upon this plain of existence." Fungichomp sighed. "I think I know exactly where this came from, and please tell Claudrat to not spread his influence on the kits."

Gingerstamp internally groaned. "I'll talk to him."

----- Fungichomp belongs to @wills-woodland-warriors Smallkit and Parsleykit belong to @residents-of-the-darkforest Claudrat, Ripperclaw, Snipvoice, and Gingerstamp belong to me.

[bonefall]

I tried my luck at Clanmew oc translations, I'm trying to find something better for Claud and I'm not exactly happy with Siltstar's prefix, but I thought you might want to see it.

CLAUDRAT For now I'm using Paoke'eb for the prefix, a portmanteau of the words for wandered, and squall. Eek is the translation for rat. Peoke'eb. Wander-strong-wind rat.

SNIPVOICE Faine means a sudden clearing of the skies. Ababa is the present tense form of spoke/talked, which was similar enough to voice. Faineababa. Sudden clear talk.

GINGERSTAMP Kemree also means ginger. Yaupab is a portmanteau of the words for loud and pawstep. Kemreeyaupab. Ginger loud-step.

REDTREE Rey is red, and also the color of yew berries, and the translation for trunk is chok. Reychok.

RIPPERCLAW Arrya is the word for ripped in the future tense. kach is the translation for claw. Ripperclaw was a child when he chose his prefix. Arryakach.

ORANGEFLUFF Kemree means orange, hefu means fluffy. Kemreehefu.

FIREFEATHER Swarfyf translates to "set on fire". bufr is the translation for a large wing or tail feather from a bird. Swarfyfbufr.

SILTSTAR Shefsski are the words for sand and ice combined, as DayClan (where Siltstar is from) is a beach clan, I think that this would be the closest approximation. shai is the translation for star. Shefsskishai.

FINCHSTAR Afigu is the word for a finch. shai is the translation for star. Afigushai.

LIMPETSONG Kewikki is the portmanteu of the words for snail and cone. Yanaya is the word for singing. Kewikkiyanaya.

PALEPAW Olurr is the translation for Pale, pwyr is the translation for paw. Olurrpwyr.

Fantastic translations! Shoutout to Snipvoice-- I love the sound of "Sudden Clearing of the Skies Talk," it brings to mind the image of her very voice making the rain clear away suddenly.

New words!

Stomping = Bumbuma/Bumbum/Bum

Silt/River Grit = Gssar The fine particles that build up on a thing that stays in water too long. Clan cats don't use the geological definition for this; so it can be translated as 'river grit' too.

[incorrect-quotes-of-the-df]

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Claudrat Snipvoice Gingerstamp Limpetsong Ripperclaw Orangefluff Redtree Firefeather Siltstar

Alderstar

Myrtlewing

Hootpetal

Grousemane

Pidgeonfang

Houndtooth

Glowingshadow

Jackdawfoot

Ferndoe

Fungichomp

Smallclaw

Dappletuft

Webstripe

Gorseheart

Emberdawn

Birchflight

Foxfire

[frightnightindustries]

@residents-of-the-darkforest

I imagine this is Snipvoice talking to Claudrat.

[residences-of-the-darkforest]

Since we know some cats have gone across the StarClan border to go to the dark forest, I have an idea for one of them. Troutstorm! Ripperclaw's favorite brother, a medicine cat who accidentally ushered his meeting with Claudrat by giving him poppy seeds, and had to stay strong for the clan even after his mother was forced to kill his father. Sparrowstar, his sister, would be another good option. She never fully accepted that she was the leader of NightClan, because of the role Ripperclaw had in her deputyship, but she still cares about him.

Right this way sir and madam

[frightnightindustries]

@residents-of-the-darkforest

These are from the clangen discord! The first one is from a very nice person by the name of Grim, the second is from a very nice person by the name of Evan. I did not do these, they're way too pretty.

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Dark Forest Resident: Limpetsong 

Aliases / Nicknames: Limpetkit, Limpetpaw, Cursekit

Gender: male 

Sexuality: pansexual, aromantic

Family: Cloudydusk (mother), Blizzardeye (father)

Other Relations: Mousestar (mentor), Snipvoice (Dark Forest mentor)

Clan: ShadowClan 

Rank: warrior 

Characteristics: vengeful, sweet 

Murder Motive + Motive to Harm: mother was exiled   

Number of Victims: 3 

Number of Murders: 1 

Murder Method: trampling 

Method of Harm: ruining reputations and lives

Known Victims: Mousestar, Stemsky, Burningtree, Darkwings 

Victim Profile: cats who he thought hurt his mother

Cause of Death: bitten throat

Cautionary Tale: provide Half-Clan kits with love and strong support when they are young, otherwise they may turn on you when they grow older. 

Story: 

Limpetkit never had a father. Eventually, he lost his mother as well. But he still had dreams. They were pretty dreams! He dreamt of a nice and safe forest, and even of friends! A grey cat who also didn't have a dad! A black and white cat who was really funny! When the other kits began calling him Cursekit, the grey cat comforted him while he cried. 

Mousestar, the leader, said that kits like him needed to be watched closely, and so took Limpetpaw as his own apprentice. And he wasn't half bad! But there was barely any fighting. Mousestar always made excuses. So, Limpetpaw asked the grey cat to teach him. 

The funny one would sometimes watch, and sometimes join! Teaching Limpetpaw how to negotiate, and what to say to different cats. How to ask someone out if he wanted to (he didn't, he was cool with that), how to break off a friendship, and most importantly, how to tell and keep secrets. The grey cat taught him the best fighting moves, how to fix his face, and how to see emotions! 

Mousestar made him a warrior late, a few moons after the other kits around his age became warriors. 

One night, at a gathering, the deputy of WindClan had some important news. WindClan and ShadowClan had a strong alliance back then, so Limpetsong agreed. Blizzardeye wanted to meet that night on the WindClan border. Through tears, Blizzardeye told him the story of how he fell in love with a beautiful ShadowClan cat, only for them to break apart when he became deputy. After that, he never saw her again. In his dreams, a bright orange cat revealed that he had a son. 

Limpetsong was Half-Clan. 

He went rigid. 

Cold. 

Keeping anger out of his face, he smiled. When he returned, he knew what to do. The next night, when he came to the place that was more of a home then ShadowClan had ever been, the grey cat told him the other half of the story. He told him how Burningtree saw his mother with Blizzardeye, how Mousestar exiled her, and how Stemsky drove her away....How Cloudydusk was dead. 

Limpetsong started his vengeance. 

Hey. Splashface. I saw Burningtree meet with this weird brown she-cat...

Yes, I'm sure it wasn't a ShadowClan cat. 

No, I'm not saying this just because Stemsky's apprentice died, how sad. 

They were on a patrol together? She just collapsed? Well, that sounds...no, he wouldn't. 

It's nothing, but...do you think that Stemsky would've... It all makes too much sense. 

No, you're right. We have to get rid of him. 

Mousestar's been sort of lazy, lately. He hasn't been on many patrols. He is getting old... 

The night before his death, the two cats he had spent so much time with finally revealed themselves. The Follower, and The Adder. He...he trusted them. He trusted them. And yet....

Snipvoice had been kinder to him than any ShadowClan cat had been. Finally confronting Mousestar the next day, he shouted for an explanation. But he wouldn't listen. 

The second Mousestar began slandering Cloudydusk, saying that she had shirked her duties for her WindClan mate, Limpetsong leapt. 

But Mousestar was quicker. 

Additional Information: 

--Submission by @frightnightindustries​ (SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG)

--The bright orange cat was Fizz! The RiverClan former rogue who organized the defeat of Claudrat. 

--Blizzardeye would've taken good care of Limpetsong, and was horrified when he heard what he had done. He didn't really want kits, but he would've wanted to be responsible for his actions. 

--Cloudydusk was sort of self centered, and didn't have a good reputation. That was the last straw for ShadowClan, who chased her out after she gave birth and revealed it was a Half-WindClan kit. She died alone, outside of the territory. 

--Claudrat and Snipvoice were given those names because of the reputation outside the Clans, which came about because of RiverClan's involvement.

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Imagine if Applepaw went to the df for training in it. StarClan would so do that. Also Claudrat would HATE Haremaw, and think he's so incredibly stupid. It goes along the lines of "that's not how you earn loyalty of an apprentice thats so stupid you are stupid and you have a terrible personality so"

yeah Apple went to the Dark Forest because that's where he trained. So far it's not known what he was training for or why he was so motivated to go to the DF for it, and I'm open to ideas.

To the Death Ring with yee!

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Dark Forest Resident: Ripperclaw 

Aliases / Nicknames: Yellowpaw, Edgepaw (By Claudrat) 

Gender: male 

Sexuality: asexual, panromantic 

Family: Hollybloom (mother), Bramblepatch (father), Sparrowstar, Crabcatcher (sisters), Troutstorm, Archfang, Spottedfinch (brothers)

Other Relations: Hazelstar (mentor)

Clan: NightClan 

Rank: mediator 

Characteristics: wants to avenge his father, angry, cunning, resentful

Number of Victims: 6 

Number of Murders: 6 

Murder Method: poisoning 

Known Victims: Hollybloom, Hazelstar, Quailfeather, Sprucepatch, Flyingpetal, Spottedfinch

Victim Profile: cats who he believed had an influence on his father's death, cats who vitnessed his crimes

Cause of Death: poisoned, suicide. 

Cautionary Tale: unjust revenge is an unsteady path

Story: 

Yellowpaw trotted back into camp with a vole, alongside Whirlsky and Finchlily, and suddenly dropped it as he heard a commotion. 

Whirlsky, deaf, gasped as Finchlily ran into the camp. Using her rarely used vocal cords, she rasped, "seen....that...expression...before...", pausing for her fire damaged voice. 

A louder yowl sounded, and Yellowpaw ran to the center of camp. A crowd was gathering, leaving the middle empty. Larchcloud ushered her two kits inside the nursery, but Yellowpaw took no notice as he darted into the crowd. He heard the noise of claws, then a sharp yowl, then everyone went silent. Yellowpaw burst through the crowd, and froze in shock. 

There were three cats there. His mentor, Hazelstar, grinning at his mother, Hollybloom, and his father....Bramblepatch gave him a single weak shake of the head, and went limp. Hazelstar gave a triumphant yowl. "The traitor no longer lives! Take this as an example." 

Hollybloom walked away with a blank look, and Yellowpaw was ushered away by Troutstorm to the apprentices’ den. His request for poppy seeds was answered quickly, and in his deep sleep he met a black and white figure, with a scar over his left eye. 

The cat empathized with Yellowpaw, and together the two of them came up with a plan. Yellowpaw would become the next mediator of NightClan, and make the lives of those who harmed him hell. 

The black and white tom gave him an idea. Yellowpaw was the name of an innocent cat. He wasn't innocent anymore. When he decided on the name, the black and white cat smirked a little. Yellowpaw asked what was so funny, and the cat complimented him on his interesting name choice. 

Yellowpaw then asked for the mystery cat’s name. ‘Claudius’ was the answer.

The next morning, Yellowpaw stood before Hazelstar and asked to become a mediator, saying that he wanted to make sure no more cats had traitorous thoughts. Hazelstar, in accordance with NightClan traditions, only half followed, giving him the name Ripperpaw, at his request. 

Claudius jokingly called him Edgepaw after that. 

Ripperpaw set his sights on his first victim. 

Sprucepatch, the mentor of Hollybloom. 

She was always crabby, and always complaining. She didn't deserve to grow old in age, or at all. Ripperclaw bet she had something to do with it. Ripperpaw planted the seeds of influence. He made up stories for the kits about mean old Sprucepatch, isolating her from the rest of the Clan, and sweet-talking Troutstorm into letting him gain access to the medicine den. 

Lilies in the prey, even just a small amount, could cause kidney failure. Just as perfect, they were small enough to go undetected. 

Next was Flyingpetal, the current deputy. 

Talking with Sparrowslip, his sister who had just gotten her warrior name, he got it in her head that she could do better. She would be much better as deputy! All he needed was a few words to Hazelstar about a traitorous deputy before he was sure that nobody would care, and Hazelstar would have a replacement ready. That is, nobody who could stop him would care.

Once again, lilies in the prey. And then he went out for a walk in the forest, and began cultivating his own lily patch. He couldn't keep going into the medicine den, after all. But Quailfeather saw him, and afraid that she'd put two and two together and make him a dead apprentice, he had to poison her next. 

After that, he set his sights on Hazelstar. When he asked Troutstorm, he said she had only one life left. Perfect. 

The Clan rejoiced, and so did the newly named Ripperclaw. Throughout all this, Claudius praised him for his work. He went to the lily patch again, unaware that Spottedfinch was watching him. Stuffing the lilies inside a mouse, he walked over and gave them to Hollybloom. In a panic, Spottedfinch leapt out and demanded to know what Ripperclaw was doing. 

It was too late, though. Hollybloom lay on the ground, dead. Before Spottedfinch could react, he stuffed a leftover lily into her throat, but the commotion had attracted the rest of the Clan. 

In a panic, Ripperclaw ate the lilies he had used to take the lives of six of his Clanmates. 

Additional Information: 

--Submission by @frightnightindustries​

--Hollybloom would've died if she hadn't killed Bramblepatch, and both knew that. 

--Ripperclaw was a grieving child, and Claudrat knew it.

[residences-of-the-darkforest]

Snipgaze and Parsleyleaf kinda look like Snipvoice and Claudrat

they run into each other like “huh?”

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

I think Claudrat should get to adopt a kit. Because his heart would hurt so bad for a kit separated from the kits family, and would want to go help asap. Its partly why he chose to train Ripperclaw. He felt all these things for the poor apprentice who felt like he had no one left (I know your pain, you're not alone, I was like you), and then turned it into (I can help you become as I was) because he is my emotionally stunted asshat blorbo

yes he should that is adorable

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Snipvoice combines clan insults with some insults he learned from Claudrat. Like using the adjectives "speeding, mockingdog, galactic, wrecking"

heck yeah

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

I think that, although he lead Ripperclaw down a dark path, Claudrat kept his loyalty because he was the first one who validated his issues. "Yes, it's reasonable to be angry at the ones involved after your dad died. Yes, those geelings towards Heathstar are valid." Too bad that the first cat to acknowledge that Ripperclaw had the right to be angry was this very small inner circle centered asshole we know and love.

D:

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Here's my headcanons for my df ocs having trials. Gingerstamp was sorrowful. He bowed his head, agreeing with all the terrible things they said. He wasn't focused on that. He was focused on his kits. They would never meet him, and it's his fault. Claudrat was cold. Steeling his face, making short and rude remarks to the ones at his trial. Snipvoice was angry, screaming at them that they were all stupid. P1

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

I can imagine a StarClan cat going around and approaching everyone who has Dark Forest family, and Nightfang (gingerstamp mate and snip silt mom) telling them to f off and then going off on her own. Siltflower being against the proposal (but not actually voting no bc its clearly better for the Dark kits) because she's scared of what Claudrat could do, and last time she was involved with the df cats it ruined her life. Troutstorm voting yes because he wants to claw Claudrat.

0O0

That leads me to wonder how the different Starclans connect. Maybe word gets across and they all come to agree to the idea?

The Dark Forest is already filled with all of them, and I proposed before that because Ashfur messed things up, allowing for rogues to cross into Clan afterlives, maybe other Dark Forests have merged together, and the same can be said about the Starclans, they just didn't realize it during the arc because it was so new?

Maybe behind the scenes of the later books, since we see the pov of who's alive, and don't know everything going on in Starclan

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

fun fact!

Claudrat blames himself for Siltflower betraying him. He thinks he shouldn't have involved her in the killings so much, and when it comes to everyone else he just thinks he shouldve been more skilled. He would congratulate Claydust on beating him if they ever met again, while Snipvoice would do the opposite.

"you kicked my ass, I can respect that"