#I keep mixing up Stonefur and Stormfur

[wc-confessions]

I keep mixing up Stonefur and Stormtail and Stormfur for some reason

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[warriorswritingstuff]

Relationship reminders and relationships never explore

Relationships that often get overlooked, mostly by the books

Canon relationships

Cinderpelt's siblings are Brightheart, Brackenfur, and Thornclaw

Cinderpelt's parents were Lionheart and Frostfur

Tallstar was Deadfoot's mentor

Tallstar's half-family is Wrenflight, Rabbitpaw, Bristlepaw, and Flypaw

Tallstar's mentor is Dawnstripe

Tallstar was friends with Barkface

Tigerstar's mom was Leopardfoot

Cloudtail's foster mom was Brindleface and his foster siblings were Ashfur and Ferncloud

Brackenfur was Tawnypelt's mentor for a while

Dustpelt's mentors were Redtail and Darkstripe. He mentioned respecting Tigerclaw and being devastated at his betrayal.

Thornclaw was mentored by Mousefur

Thornclaw mentored Shrewpaw, Briarlight, and Poppyfrost (also Sootfur, but they're background background)

Ferncloud's kits are- Larchkit, Hollykit, Icecloud, Shrewpaw, Birchfall, Foxleap, Spiderleg

Spiderleg was mentored by Mousefur

Squirrelflight was mentored by Dustpelt

Squirrelflight mentored Foxleap, Rosepetal, and Stormcloud

Bluestar being friends with Barley

Whitestorm's foster parent was Robinwing, making his foster sibling Brindleface and Frostfur

Crookedstar's mentor was Cedarpelt

Crookedstar's friends at that farm

Silverstream's foster mom is Sunfish

Silverstream's adopted siblings are Whiteclaw, Vixenleap, and Grasswhisker

Feathertail and Stormfur's foster mothers were Goldenflower and Mosspelt

Feathertail's mentor was Mistystar

Stormfur's mentor was Stonefur

Unexplored or forgotten possibilities

Cloudtail talking to the three about being adopted is something I need

Hollyleaf talking to Brook that one time

Did Jayfeather ever talk to Brightheart in a positive situation

Did Tawnypelt and Bramblestar talk about Goldenflower that much

Ferncloud grieving over the bunch of kits she lost or helping queens who are grieving because she's been through it

Ferncloud talking to her son who refused to be apart of his kits life????

How the heck did Barley and Bluestar become friends

Bluestar being neglected by Stormtail isn't talked upon a lot

Thistleclaw being Whitestorm's father? Maybe I'm not looking in the right places but it doesn't seem talked about as much.

More about Crookedstar's farm friends I swear-

We never really saw Tallstar's relationship with Woollytail and his half-siblings

Holy cow, Feathertail and Stormfur went through the same thing as their mom. Oof. Maybe Greystripe consoles them since he's heard stories from Silverstream.

The half-clan Thunder/River siblings mentored half-clan Thunder/River siblings

Brightheart and Tawnypelt both being ostracized by their clans bonding moment

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okay i mentioned this to you on discord but i didn't go into it but. okay. okay. the au where mistyfoot is hawk, moth, and tadpole's mother. this has been just. it's been chewing on my brain and i don't know when i'm going to write it so since u gave me a blank canvas, i'm going to ramble about it for as long as i can.

cw: implied/referenced sexual assault; brief suicidal ideation; standard tigerclan content (abuse, child abuse, starvation, dehumanization, etc.); referenced force feeding

okay oh my gosh okay. this has. so obviously i've been thinking about riverclan lately. a lot. it's rcam. anyway. i don't want. i'm trying to get to the point and not loop around aimlessly for two hundred words but okay but okay. anyway.

i've been thinking of all the different ways i can deeply traumatize misty, storm, and feather. and maybe stone. maybe i'll let stone live at some point. that'd be fun.

right so i've been thinking of that and my ideas are all over the place. i'm going to let primrosepaw live at some point. at one point i'm going to have stormpaw, and maybe primrosepaw or reedpaw (and...what's the other one? is it perchpaw or pikepaw? whatever) the point is i'll have some collection of stormpaw and some or all of mistyfoot's kits escape but not misty and feather so we can do survivor's guilt and.

anyway so i was writing the excerpt for the primrosepaw is definitely there au (it's kind of not Tethered because most of these aren't mutually incompatible like that au could be any of the others), and tigerstar has that dialogue about kits yeah?

so when i was writing it, i was thinking about just. he's trying to dehumanize all of them, right? that's his goal with that line. he's separating mistyfoot from her kits, trying to erase the meaning of their relationships. that's like. that's what i was considering when i was writing it.

buuuuuuut. y'know. my brain is chewing on it. and it just. hm. Hm. what if. what If tadpole, moth, and hawk were misty and tiger kits. hm. hmm. hm.

and so i am just instantly. very on board with this. there's so much potential.

so i Think the point of canon divergence is the rescue attempt. i haven't decided if stormpaw is successfully rescued or not. featherpaw doesn't for reasons i'm circling around to, but stormpaw may or may not. it certainly Matters in a broad sense but i haven't made up my mind, and i doubt i'm going to write Multiple aus about this. i mean i might u never know but it'd b like writing an alternate stolag: i mean i suppose i Could but it would feel weird.

okay almost burnt my dinner i said i'm very this has just been slowly rotting my brain out. i like Angst and it's been a while since i've written any.

okay there was fmtws but really that got me started. i'm not a fluff person. and y'all know that by now.

so Back On Topic. so Anyway after the rescue attempt fails/partially fails, tigerstar takes his anger out at the apprentices being Alive on featherpaw and she gets to. uh. help tigerclan practice fighting.

"Let me see her," Mudfur hissed. "No," Tigerstar said. "I've told you." Mudfur growled. Featherpaw dragged herself to her feet, and Mistyfoot glanced back at her. They would leave they would leave they would leave and then she could lie down again and try not to think. "You're not my leader," Mudfur said, and Featherpaw winced. Mistyfoot could see what was going on, but she was sitting still as a stone. Mudfur pressed into their — Mudfur pressed in, laying a wrapped bundle at Mistyfoot's feet. "Let me—" "No," Mistyfoot said. "Just go." Mudfur dipped his head. Tigerstar's steps moved away from them, but the shouts and arguments surrounding Mudfur were just buzzing noise in Featherpaw's head. She made out, "She's going to die," and she thought, that wouldn't be the worst thing.

thank You featherpaw. you will suffer for the au as a whole. anyway this takes place...i'm not Quite sure but mistyfoot does have a reason for not letting mudfur in. and that reason is she is in Denial about being pregnant.

if mudfur comes in he'll know (i have not forgotten that cats can smell unlike the erins), and mistyfoot is acting in denial. altho she rationalizes it to herself as being for mudfur's protection: runningnose is a medicine cat too, and so tigerstar could off mudfur without much effort.

(also i tend to mix up mudfur and mudclaw sometimes understand i am talking about the riverclan medicine cat, not the windclan deputy. i just mistype them sometimes.)

anyway so she has a legitimate reason (mudfur's continual survival, which is better for her and featherpaw longterm), and she does not want mudfur to know.

yeah.

all in all, this happens before the great battle. mistyfoot fights in it (again, denial), featherpaw and stormpaw are reunited (yes i think i made up my mind), (wait maybe stonefur lives too, and then both pairs of siblings reconnect, and stonefur is like "oh Shit" and. okay yes. maybe. i don't know.)

(there's a Lot. ohh maybe. wait best of both worlds okay. mistyfoot Thinks stonefur is dead. but stonefur doesn't get a proper burial but at the same time riverclan is Not going to go for their deputy on bonepile and even if they do go for it, they're not going to stripe his bones nor are they going to let a Physical Cat Corpse rot in camp. so when firestar and greystripe rescue stormpaw, stormpaw Insists they go back for his body, and then they realize he's Alive but obviously mistyfoot doesn't know.)

(there then i get the Best of both worlds. and stonefur and feathertail are in the Chronic Pain club.)

(also the thing w/ fighting is also what happens in "someday when the world is much brighter". not that Particular scene or in that Particular way, but it does happen. i mean almost exactly in that particular way. but that scene is from a different fic.)

anyway okay moving on i did add too much chili powder to my dinner but that's fine i'm still not over when someone refused to give me more harissa because "it's spicy" like yes i know i guarantee my mom makes it spicier.

back on topic sorry. i've been writing this as i do other things bc i have so much to say about this and i don't want to wait for tomorrow to share this because it's been just Rotting away my brain.

anyway so siblings reunite. it's...terse. it's complicated.

there's some parallels going on right? like because both featherpaw and stormpaw are basically in the mindset of looking after their mentors (which mistyfoot and stonefur feel Terrible about), everyone has survivor's guilt (i don't know what to call like, survivor's guilt when it's not actually survivor's guilt so if someone has a correct word please let me know) except for Maybe featherpaw.

featherpaw might be the Only one here who doesn't have survivor's guilt. i don't really want to explore the one way she could end up with it. that's past my comfort level at the moment.

but stormpaw and mistyfoot are the most physically healthy, and stormpaw and stonefur escaped.

stormpaw: i have not been hurt by this in any way

everyone around stormpaw: you have definitely been hurt by this

stormpaw: i have not been hurt by this in any way

stormpaw and featherpaw become warriors, leopardstar makes mistyfoot deputy (because stonefur is still recovering and also no longer wants the position. mistyfoot doesn't either but she's in denial and she doesn't want anyone else to have it. mistyfoot is visibly pregnant and still kind of in denial at this point. like it's been at least a moon and she is refusing to talk about it.)

right so i think stormpaw's name is going to be stormheart because i don't know it was always weird to me that stormfur and stonefur have the same suffix. like given Everything that's going on it feels weird to me. ig it'd actually be less weird in this, given that stonefur is still alive, but do you know How Close stonefur and stormfur are. they're one consonant cluster off. they're One consonant cluster off.

so leopardstar names him stormheart. feathertail can keep her name because it's pretty.

mistyfoot is a moon away from kitting. she refuses to talk about it. to anyone. whatsoever.

feathertail and stonefur decide to stage an intervention.

(they leave stormheart out not because he's not part of the found family, but because mistyfoot literally will not tolerate a single word about this. like a single word. like she will growl at you if you look at her stomach for too long.

so given the fairly high odds that mistyfoot gets violent, they keep stormheart out of it. she's the least likely to attack stonefur and feathertail.

stormheart finds out about this later and is like "do you guys realize if this went south you had absolutely 0 control over the situation. like what are you guys going to do. you incapable of doing anything to stop her if something goes wrong."

feathertail is like "yes. that's the point."

feathertail is both kind of right and also very internally messed up from being used for "training" when she wasn't allowed to fight back. feathertail also hates if you call her by just her prefix. she does not tell anyone this. misty is aware of this, and she tells stone and storm, and riverclan does eventually figure it out. plus it's not like feathertail is close enough to anyone else for them to call her "feather".

okay i'm getting off topic sorry i've been working on a tpb thing for swtwimb, and the one scene i have is cats making fun of her for not fighting back (again she is not allowed to they might kill her if she does), so they call her "featherkit" and that eventually gets brought down to feather and i'm rambling anyway On topic again.)

so stonefur and feathertail are like. "mistyfoot you are like. a half moon away from kitting. it is impairing your ability to do warrior duties. you need to like. acknowledge this."

anyway after a very terse conversation. after a veeery terse conversation, where mistyfoot is like. very close to just absolutely abandoning riverclan. they get her to admit that yes she is pregnant and yes she needs to stop doing warrior duties for the moment.

she wasn't exactly Healthy when she was pregnant because even tho tigerstar made a Point of making her like. eat enough to be healthy and also not violently attacking her. she had still been starved for...idk long enough for her ribs to show. i'm not sure what the exact timeline on this is yet.

also then After Tigerclan she did not eat as much as she should have because (a) denial and (b) she had been forcefed and so now she's. not doing that.

oh wow i've written long enough for my grammar checker to turn off again. that hasn't happened in ages.

all bets are off from here on out re grammar and spelling.

okay so mistyfoot isn't going to move into the nursery. i believe mosspelt has had a litter of 3 kits, or will have one as we see in asir, but mistyfoot isn't. she's not moving into it. stone, misty, storm, and feathertail share a den. no one else is allowed into it for Any Reason.

so anyway, they expand the den. riverclan as a whole might? i'm not sure who's good at weaving bc i don't have headcanons for this time period. probably not feathertail, but possibly stonefur. hm. anyway, they expand the den, mistyfoot will raise the kits in this den, everyone is on board with this.

mostly because it's this or mistyfoot like. runs away. which obviously no one wants. riverclan is on the side of...the four? riverclan is on the side of the four. even if they're not like, even though the four don't trust them, feathertail and misty especially (stone and storm tolerate it much better). but even tho things are complicated, riverclan is certainly going to do actions. they're certainly going to try to demonstrate their support.

okay so mistyfoot gives birth to her kits, and she is. not feeling good. about it. she's feeling terrible about it actually. she's feeling terrible about things. she doesn't want to name them.

usuuually in this situation, after the queens (collective) decided its in the best interest of the kits to be raised by someone other than their birth mother, the kits would be given to another queen.

but see. feathertail, stonefur, and stormheart are All attatched to these kits. deeply attatched to them. and mistyfoot is not willing to give them up either.

so mistyfoot isn't willing to give them up to another riverclan queen, and feathertail, stone, and storm all Want to raise them, and also don't want to give them to another queen.

the queens confer with mudfur that it is absolutely the worst possible thing they could do to forcibly remove the kits from mistyfoot. like that is the Worst option. they'd be lucky to get the kits alive, feathertail and mistyfoot are likely to abandon riverclan, and if misty and feathertail abandon riverclan, stone and storm will follow.

they're stuck in a standstill for a while. the four eventually do name them hawkkit, mothkit, and tadpolekit. the kits are about a moon old and ready to be weaned. mistyfoot is still extremely tense about the affair, but she's willing to part with them. she's able to recognize that's in the best interest of the kits, mosspelt's litter is about the same age, moving them into the nursery is going to give them a more normal upbringing, everyone is on the same page.

feathertail, who's having a lot of self worth issues, decides that moving into the nursery is her best bet for clan usefulness (which (a) feathertail you cannot keep up with kits and (b) the whole Place she's in is bad to begin with), moves in with them.

the kits decide feathertail is their mother now (they're old enough to understand that she didn't give birth to them, altho i haven't decided if they remember misty as their mother and if they're told any information re their birth parents depends exactly What kind of angst i want to write), and feathertail is. okay with this.

unlike asir, she's not blindsided with the tigerstar-is-their-father reveal, so she does have some issues with hawkkit reminding her of tigerstar, he's not really her Big Bad Trauma Nightmares. she has way more issues with the riverclan warriors directly involved in her abuse.

anyway, i don't know what happens tnp era stuff. i haven't gotten that far yet. maybe this will be another au where hawk and/or moth is a prophecy cat. i'm not sure. i haven't gotten farther than this.

but here you go i started writing this like an hour and a half ago and while i did stop to eat, i also just finally put everything i have for this au on one page and i hope and pray that will stave off the brainrot until i have a chance to actually write it.

[goosefeathercore]

14 days until The Broken Code book 4!!!

OH MY GOD WE’RE DOWN TO 2 WEEKS. excited cat noises. Idk if I need to say this but??? all of my countdown has broken code spoilers lol! Alright readers of cat books do y’all think Mistystar is gonna die in this arc?? I love Mistystar so much, but she has been alive longer than any other cat (since before the first arc!) and I think the Erins have stated that she only has one life left? Since Riverclan barely gets any attention we lowkey have no idea what the hell she’s been doing all this time and there haven’t been many conflicts to make her lose a life. I’m also pretty sure that the reason this has happened is because the Erins have a habit of losing track of all of the cats in their universe (which is kinda fair lol I know that not everyone is as serious about warriors as I am) and it seems that they have mistaken Mistystar for Graystripe’s daughter at some point? I think some other tumblr users have pointed out exactly where it happened but it makes sense because Stormfur and Stonefur are easy to mix up and Bluestar’s other kits have been dead for a long time. But she’s estimated to be 16.3 years old!! Mistystar’s omen and Mothwing’s secret were bomb af we Mothwing kinnies are eating good, but she’s lived wayyyyy longer than any other leader and we really need to see the opportunity for a new leader in Riverclan!

A refresher since I forgot most shit in Riverclan- Reedwhisker is current deputy and he’s also kind of old (and happens to be Mistystar’s kit) but I wouldn’t be opposed to seeing Reedstar happen at all if he actually loses lives at a normal rate to keep the plot going. He’s kinda boring rn along with most of Riverclan but when he was a kit, he was saved by Fireheart and Graystripe and was later saved from drowning by Leafpaw. He was also deputy during the Darktail arc! During the initial attack, he actually fought one-on-one with Darktail after protecting Mistystar and preventing her from losing a life. He’s defeated and taken prisoner along with the other injured, but insists that Mistystar must leave him for the survival of the clan. He’s one of the injured cats held captive by Darktail and he remains defiant, refusing to give in to Darktail. This ultimately leads to him being starved, but Violetpaw sneaks the prisoners enough food for them to survive and they plan an escape. He even insists that he’s well enough to join the leaders and other cats who go to confront Onestar, despite just barely having escaped his torturer.

 In The Broken Code, Reedwhisker is one of the main cats to doubt Shadowpaw’s visions and abilities, but he has good reason. He is skeptical that Shadowpaw was struck by lightning which kind of sucked for Shadowpaw but it makes sense because Reedwhisker’s camp had just recently been struck and he helped evacuate everyone but ended up being separated temporarily from everyone in the disaster. He argues that if lightning had hit Shadowpaw, the apprentice would have died, which is a valid thought because he’s correct, any normal cat absolutely would have, Shadowpaw just went through some crazy shit with ghost cats so it was not a natural storm. He is also extremely skeptical and uneasy about Shadowpaw’s plan to ‘cure’ Bramblestar. At the time I was like damn he’s kind of an asshole, but he was so right it literally did end up being a trap!! It’s not Shadowpaw’s fault that he was manipulated of course, but Reedwhisker was still hella big brained to be on to something the whole time.

Reedwhisker is also the injured cat in Mistystar’s omen!! Before doing research on him rn I totally hadn’t realized that this was the same cat from all these situations. But he’s the cat who is bleeding out and Mistystar forbids Mothwing from helping her son because she doesn’t trust Mothwing to do it after finding out she’s an atheist. When Mistystar receives an omen from Stonefur to express Starclan’s approval of Mothwing, she gives Mothwing her trust again and Mothwing is responsible for saving Reedwhisker’s life then!!

In my opinion, the coolest deputies with the most potential to be good leaders are the ones who have had the most individuality in events. Some deputies we really only see in battle, on the border, or at meetings and they’re always just focused on the usual clan rivalries and drama. Deputies who have been involved in their own unique plot points and who have had verbal characterization are always the ones that stick with you. No one could forget deputy Bluefur, with her many tragedies and giving up her kits to stand up against Thistleclaw, or deputy Stonefur who watched his mother die minutes after he learned that he was her son and was slain defending Graystripe’s kits. Even deputies who served for a short time like Whitestorm are memorable because of their interesting upbringing and the surprise of being made deputy. Even if Whitestorm never got to be leader, him dying and telling Firestar that Graystripe was destined to be his deputy will always be a vivid memory of mine. Reedwhisker has so much cool lore and he has a ton of personality; he is seen many times speaking from his own mind! Because of the neglectful writing for Riverclan, I had totally forgotten about all of this cool shit! But, if he became leader and we actually got to read about him then it would all come back! They could even have a recap for those who are new or forgot like me, if we saw his nine lives ceremony, you could incorporate everything into it. There’s tons of cats who could give him lives for the tragedy of the kin! And Stonefur can give him a life in reference to Mistystar’s omen!! Reedstar please Hunters!!!

[sunnymoon-sunshine]

Continuing from my last post containing Feathertail, she and her brother leave RiverClan for ThunderClan after Hawkfrost (and unintentionally Leopardstar) push them out. The forest cats greet them at Sunningrocks with mixed reactions - the older cats are exasperated that Greystripe’s kits seem to think ThunderClan is some place to hide out until the storm is over. “They’ll be back when RiverClan begs for forgiveness, you mark my words.” Are words one would expect from a grouchy elder, but the senior warriors of ThunderClan are starving. They are faring much worse than RiverClan, who have been living fat and fine off the river, even with the absense of land prey.

The younger cats, however, remember Feathertail and Stormfur well from their stay in ThunderClan during the darkest days of the forest. Ashfur and Ferncloud are both warm and welcoming, though visably tired and frazzled. Ferncloud can barely produce enough milk to feed her kits. Every able warrior is scouring the forest for prey. Brambleheart and Squirrelpaw, both still plump from their journey, have thrown themselves into every patrol to help assuage their guilt. Feathertail and Stormfur join them on every one. Their pelts feel hot, their paws prickle at the stares of others, and they feel acutely out of place - yet they’re determined to stay. “We’ve no home in RiverClan anymore.” Stormfur insists to Firestar. “Not with... current events going on.”

Firestar welcomes them graciously. Not only are they his best friend’s children, but they’re hardworking warriors, and his daughter swears from the forest and back that they’re some of the best cats she knows. He has already been swayed to leave the forest - it doesn’t take much effort, considering the state of ThunderClan. It fascinates Feathertail how adamant he is that the other clans come with him, however. Greystripe also welcomes them with warm purrs and excitement - his children have decided to come to ThunderClan! It’s a surprise that’s laced with concern. What happened in RiverClan? The siblings agree, they’ll explain it all later.

Even after the missing cats are freed and Greystripe goes missing, Feathertail and Stormfur vow to stick in ThunderClan. It comes to a heartbreaking goodbye at the river, where Feathertail presses her nose to Mistyfoot’s. She’d tried to convince them to come back, but it was no use. Tehy no longer felt safe in RiverClan. Not as long as Hawkfrost was there. And they had something to prove to the ThunderClan cats - they weren’t about to run home at the first sight of danger.

Her old mentor looks ragged, tired. But there’s a certain fury contained in those fierce blue eyes that would make a weaker warrior cower in fear. But Feathertail felt nothing but warmth from it. The righteous anger eminating from Mistyfoot wasn’t a threat - it was a promise. To Feathertail and Stormfur, and to Stonefur.

“I’m going to drag both of them from one side of the camp to the other,” came Mistyfoot’s quiet hiss. Feathertail had never, not once, heard Mistyfoot speak so violently. “Questioning you, questioning your loyalty, and making Hawkfrost deputy. She’ll never learn, will she?” The blue-grey she-cat spat at the ground. She returns as RiverClan’s rightful deputy, a relief to Silverstream’s half-clan kits.

The journey is a long and hard one. Feathertail and Stormfur sway between their old RiverClan clanmates and their new ThunderClan ones. In fact, all the clans seem much more united than they once were. She never thought she’d walk next to a ShadowClan cat while she helped carry a WindClan kit, yet this was the new reality for the time being. She sticks close to Brambleheart and Squirrelpaw the most, however - in fact, all the prophecy cats find themselves drawn to each other during their second journey to the sun-drown place.

Crowpaw still has an obvious itch to talk to her, walk with her, yet Feathertail can’t bring herself to walk alone with him. He’d barely entered her thoughts for the past few weeks, and while she still carried a soft spot for him, she could never bring herself to follow in her mother’s footsteps. She keeps a careful distance between them. Especially now that she has ThunderClan’s eyes hot on her pelt. It’s hard enough for her to be seen with RiverClan cats, what would happen if she had an affair? The journey is the effective end to their budding relationship.

They go along the path of the mountains at the insistence of the prophecy cats. While there, the tribe cats take care of them. They revere Feathertail as their hero, welcome her and her clans back with warmth and gratitude. She rather thinks she’s impressed a number of cats with how fiercely the tribe cats praise her actions.

She supposes no one thought she could be a hero.

Unfortunately, this is where her brother parts. No longer feeling welcome in any clan, and basking in the warm affections of Brook, Stormfur declares he’s going to stay with the Tribe of Rushing Water. It comes as a heavy blow to Feathertail. She has no kin in any clan now, her brother and best friend is gone, Crowpaw is avoiding her now that she’s eased back on their relationship, and it seems like she’s made nothing but mistakes. But she continues to stay with ThunderClan.

To her surprise, several cats come to comfort her. A few RiverClan, a number of ThunderClan - including Ashfur, Ferncloud, and Brightheart - but some from other clans as well. They all move on, leaving the mountains - and Stormfur - behind.

The real troubles come in when Brambleheart begins trying to get to know his siblings better. Tawnypelt has struck up a decent friendship with Mothwing, though it can’t be said the two are close. He desperately wants to get to know his brother, Hawkfrost, and prove once and for all that he isn’t as bad of a cat as some cats imply he is. This manages to infuriate Feathertail more than anything else had done so far. She can handle distrustful ThunderClan cats, or comments about loyalty from RiverClan ones as well. But Hawkfrost successfully drove her out of RiverClan, using his temporary position and his influence with Leopardstar. She doesn’t forgive him, and Brambleheart’s insistence that he can’t possibly be that bad is insulting at best. She and Squirrelpaw turn their back on him, even as they reach the new territory and the clans split once again.

“He’s an idiot.” The newly named Squirrelflight grumbles, walking with her silver-furred friend. “A complete idiot. Hawkfrost can’t be trusted. He can’t! He’s way too suspicious! And he’s awful to you!”

“I think,” Feathertail says, paws shuffling on the ground as she walks, paying no mind to where she’s going, “That he’s desperate to prove he’s not his father’s son.”

“Who, Hawkfrost? Well, I think-”

“No,” Feathertail murmurs, glancing back towards the new ThunderClan camp over her shoulder. “Brambleheart.”

They continue on in silence for nearly the rest of their walk, before Squirrelflight finds something else to mutter about. Feathertail can’t blame her - they’ve all been stressed.

She also rather suspects Squirrelflight misses him, too.

Things in ThunderClan slowly improved for Feathertail, as well. If they had warmed up to her during the journey ever so slightly, their tolerance for her rose sigificantly after the clans split once again, and she followed the ThunderClan cats to their new home. They greet her as she comes in and out of camp, she’s given patrols to lead on her own, and she finds herself sharing prey with more and more cats in her new clan. In return, she gives them her all.

One day, even Mousefur gives her a somewhat nice remark - “You’re so unlike your father. You’re last to the fresh kill pile, while he’d shove his fat-”

“Language, Mousefur!” Cinderpelt calls from across the clearing.

“-tail over to the fresh kill pile first thing.” She finished, with a huff.

Relief comes as swift as a dam breaking when Hawkfrost is found dead in the lake. Feathertail finds herself letting out a breath she hadn’t realized she had been holding for moons upon moons. When the ThunderClan patrol had found them, the lake was tainted with Hawkfrost’s blood, and Brambleheart stood motionless at the smooth shore, his paws stained and his eyes wide.

Hawkfrost had tried to kill the ThunderClan leader. Brambleheart had saved him at the very last moment.

The forest felt safer, yet it came at a cost.

It was a full patrol that included both Feathertail and Leafpool that returned Hawkfrost’s body to RiverClan. Mistyfoot looked at them with a stony expression as they took him back to bury them. Leopardstar, however, tried to argue. Tried to defend Hawkfrost in some way. Swore at the ThunderClan cats. But eventually, she finally had to admit defeat. There were cats in RiverClan who would mourn tonight, and Leopardstar was one of them. Later on, Leopardstar seeks to speak with Feathertail privately during a gathering. It come as a surprise to many, especially Feathertail herself.

“I expect you’ll be wanting to rejoin RiverClan?” Her tone is flat, and her expression is unreadable. It almost felt like a lull in the storm, an offer to cross normally treacherous waters back into familiarity. She rather suspects Mistyfoot snapped at her again for her treatment of the half-clan cats in RiverClan. And for that, Feathertail is grateful. She even thinks there’s a hint of remorse in the expression on Leopardstar’s face.

And yet, she wants to purr in amusement. The entire conversation is ridiculous. “Oh, no thank you.”

“ThunderClan has been my home for a while now. I plan to stay, thank you.”

[a-lost-mother]

I keep mixing up Stormfur and Stonefur. Along with their sisters.

So many damn cats 😂