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bonefall · 2 years ago

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Wait, who’s onestar’s father in your AU? You said it was Windrunner but I assume that’s incorrect since she’s windclan’s founder and died like a million years ago.

Did you maybe mix up windflight and cloudrunner?

GOD DAMN IT, I meant to say CLOUDRUNNER

Not Windrunner, Onestar was not spat out of the sky in a meteorite like Kal-El. Onekit was the only surviving child of Cloudrunner and Larksplash.

Both of them were very old when they had Onekit. Too old to be having kits safely. Larksplash dies in childbirth with the rest of the stillborn litter and Cloudrunner was distraught. They'd been mates for almost their whole lives, but now, he was left with One Kit.

It's a sad name, but a very meaningful one.

#I could get into my conlang but it's a tangent best saved for later #But I'm super inspired by the stuff that I've learned about the French translation of Onestar's name #It's apparently Lonelystar in that language and I absolutely want that for my conlang #So I'm thinking that Onestar's name in Clanmew is a difficult translation #It directly translates to the number 1 but it's more accurately translated as a whole fraction #No cat is complete without the Clan to serve so whole fractions are associated with loneliness but also significance #Like taking a stand and acting like you alone are a whole clan's worth of cats #So other translations of Onewhisker's name would have been Finalwhisker Fullmoonwhisker Lonelywhisker or Wholewhisker #I plan to really have fun with the fact these cats canonically have fractions #Onewhisker #Onestar #Bonefall Rewrite #Larksplash #Cloudrunner

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