#There would be more of an argument in Onestar's name

[bonefall]

question! if graystripe wanted to name featherkit after silverstream, is that still a dishonor title?

Dishonor Titles are very much about intent. Naming a kitten after a parent, relative, or someone close to you is an act of love... even if, in cases like Nightheart, that name hurt them.

That's not a dishonor title.

Tigerstar announcing that Featherpaw and Stormpaw are brood parasites, that their mother died giving birth to them as divine punishment, and that Graystripe defected because he couldn't pay for his own mistakes, changing their names to reflect that "reality"...

That's cruelty. It's stripping them of their names to hurt them. It's evil.

And that makes it a Dishonor Title. That it was intended as a punishment.

[felinawrites]

My Top ten headcanons of Redtail

In honor of Redtail's Debt:

1. He loved his sisters Willowpelt and Spottedleaf very much. Despite Spottedleaf being a medicine cat and needing to keep distance he would still visit Spottedleaf under the guise of deputy and patrol business hence, why he and Willowpelt had knowledge on herbs as result. He was close to Leopardfoot and Patchpelt but not as clode since they were older and he had a special connection to his littermates.

2. He often felt a heavy weight on his shoulders. He was made deputy at a very young age by Bluestar and as such often felt strained under the responsibility of keeping his clanmates safe. He often kept this feeling to himself not wanting to burden anyone with his emotions including his sister Spottedleaf and Bluestar who sensed it in his heaviest days.

3. Redtail was trans. ( Big duh this like one of biggest fan headcanons in the fandom). And had several relationships with both toms and she-cats but because of his resposibilites very few lasted however he did have a lasting relationship with Runningwind and Brindleface.

4. Even though he carried, birthed and loved Sandstorm he found it hard to take of her. It was hard for him being in the nursery and experiencing post-partum. He also felt the extreme pressure of his responsibilities as the clan deputy with the winter being fierce, famine hard and a bough of green cough that cost six kits lives and several adults cats. Those deaths haunted him so he left the nursery when Sandkit was barely weaned at around a moon old under the paws of Brindleface who cared for Sandkit,Graykit and Dustkit and Ravenkit who had lost their own parents.

5. Sandkit unfortunately held alot of resenment towards Redtail because of her upbringing. While Brindleface was a lovely surrogate mother she felt Redtail had abadoned her and the fact that he seemed so distant and avoided her ( actually a result of post-partum and the stress and grief from so many cats dying during leaf-bare). As a result she pushed Redtail away along with Brindleface all the way until she was an apprentice.

When he was killed she felt numb yet angry for a long time. She didn't go to his vigil due to shock and denial. And later while processing her feelings lashed out to others especially Firepaw at the time who was an easy target.

It was only many moons later when Sandstorm was an adult and faced the perils of clan life along with her mate and family that she understood her father and why he had acted as he did. A part of her felt guilty for her actions and when she died she was finally able to reconcile with her father.

6. Redtail was a wanderer in Starclan. Despite his faiths and morals he hated Starclan's decisons in allowing the cat who murdered him and betrayed the clan he had protected to become leader. As such Redtail became the Starclan equivalent to a rogue similar to his sister Spottedleaf although while Spottedleaf meddled and clung life in the five clans and Firestar the deputy drifted from place to place not wanting to get involved with Starclan affairs or Lake/Forest Clan affairs but instead choosing his own version of justice according to the situation that fell to his paws as a type of vigilante/renegade figure.

His second name earned many seasons after he died was " Redtail the Renegade" due to this

7. Redtail was oddly enough good friends with Smallear. Smallear was very old school and Redtail was young,hardworking and serious. They made a good team and Smallear would frequently volunteers to set up the dawn patrols.

It was Smallear who kept an eye out for Sandkit because he knew the tom was always concerned. He'd keep Sandkit entertained with stories about how he'd scare kittypets away.

When Sandstorm had just lost Runningwind, her other father. Smallear spent a good day comforting her and telling her the story about the day when Redtail told Runningwind he was expecting his kit and how proud and emotional they've been from the moment she was born.

8. He had a brief relationship in his youth with Stagleap of Windclan. Eventually they mutually broke up as he become older and tied with his Thunderclan responsibilities and Stagleap became mates with Wrenflight and father of her three kits ( Onewhisker, Morningflower, Ashfoot). It wouldn't be the first time he drew the attention of cats outside his clan. Due to his young age and very attractive apperance many cats were easily charmed and it was not unusual to see nearby patrol cats become flustered while speaking to him.

His quiet almost brooding nature only added to the reputation. With Starclan being more open to cats from other clans being together it was quite common to comment or for thr particularly bold to hit on Redtail.

In one rare situation when Redtail found himself involved in Starclan matters. He found himself in a argument with the newly dead Onestar who once tried to insult Redtail by saying " You think you are so pretty"

Which Redtail then rebutted with " Your father certainly thought so. Such a great tom, shame greatness isn't in the blood and seems to take more than nine lives to learn what your father did in one"

9. Redtail hated Thistleclaw. Even as a kit he felt uncomfortable around Thistleclaw because of the way he looked at Spottedleaf when he was still in the nursery.

He always shied away from him and stayed quiet which older warriors would scold him for " being rude" and having bad manners. Being only a kit he didn't have a way to voice why Thistleclaw's actions made him so uncomforable especially because he was not the one who Thistleclaw seeked and Spottedkit was equally blind and naive to his words and actions.

The only one who even seemed to dislike or see past it was Bluestar who had been very uncomfortable and on edge since Thistleclaw and her shared a nursery. But everyone dismissed since they always seemed to butt heads for apparently no reason.

After Spottedpaw become a medicine cat apprentice a just days after Thistleclaw died she broke down and admitted to Redtail the fearful truth of the so called relationship she found herself at only six moons old with the senior warrior.

Redtail spent the night curled up around his sister who cried herself into a carthatic sleep. He stayed awake the entire night unable to sleep at the realization of what his littermate had to live through and suffer alone and how Thistleclaw had gotten away with it, died a " hero" fighting the clan while the cats he hurt were forced to move on and carry their wounds silently.

The next night during patrol he told Bluefur what he learned and he swore that while he may be young and Thistleclaw may have never paid for his actions he would devote himself to protecting the clan and ensuring that Thistleclaw's philosophy and beliefs or any cat with similar stances would follow through as long as he was alive.

It was this vow why Bluestar made Redtail her deputy.

10. Redtail watched his grandkits and great grandkit as a wandering spirit outside of Starclan.

He was there when Squirrelpaw chose to follow Brambleclaw onto the the Great Journey.

He was there when Leafpool cried as he sister and her best friend Sorreltail started to have mates and even kits and realizing she was becoming distant.

He was there when Lionblaze was at his snapping considering to kill Heathertail after the tunnels.

He whispered " Remember Lionblaze the taking of one's life is something you cannot shake so react wisely"

And Hollyleaf, he was there quiet and watchful by the lake as she took Ashfur after the later tried to murder her and her littermaters in a fire.

He was strict on the side of Starclan that believed that Ashfur should not be allowed. However he bitterly not surprised that one again a cat with the clear intent given the chance to murder was allowed.

In usual Redtail the Renegade manner he would leave small gifts and used Hollyleaf's strong connection and faith in Starclan to whisper encouragement and hope her while she slept.

[prettytoms]

Give me an AU where Breezekit can’t take his parents’ arguing and decides to run away so his father might be happy for once, but he ends up falling into the stream. 

But right before he can be swept away, he’s pulled out of the water. The male voice asking him if he’s alright makes him hope that it’s Crowfeather, but wait, his father is definitely not a brown tabby. 

Anyways, he’s exhausted, scared, and confused as this mystery cat takes him further into the forest until woah they’re in a weird, stone hollow. Weird-smelling cats start crowding around him and the tabby, asking where Breezekit came from and if he’s okay, and Breezekit doesn’t know whether to hiss at them or shake in fear. 

Then the crowd parts and he sees this ginger cat and immediately he remembers nursery stories about this tom. It’s Firestar, which means he’s in ThunderClan. Wow. And the cat who saved him turns out to be Brambleclaw, the deputy, and he is just so overwhelmed by it all.

He ends up being looked at by a nice medicine cat named Leafpool, and then is looked after by a queen called Ferncloud while Firestar figures out what to do with him. He quickly befriends Lionkit, Hollykit, and Jaykit. They run all around the nursery, playing moss-ball and hide-and-seek. 

As it turns out, Brambleclaw is a really nice dad to the three kits, and he looks really uncomfortable when Breezekit mentions it. Like, Crowfeather would have cuffed him if he pounced on his tail like Hollykit did to the deputy. But all Brambleclaw did was laugh!

The end of the day comes and Breezekit thinks about how Harekit and Heatherkit will react to his story, only realize that oh yeah, I ran away. But then Firestar says that it’s time for him to go home, since he’s obviously not hurt from the stream, and that gets Breezekit’s mind wandering.

Firestar, Brambleclaw, and a she-cat named Squirrelflight take him home. As Brambleclaw carries him back to the border and over the stream, Breezekit wonders if his parents missed him (more specifically, if Crowfeather missed him). He voices his thoughts and Squirrelflight says Crowfeather would be crazy to not have missed him. That makes Breezekit feel warm and fuzzy on the inside. 

But then they get to WindClan’s camp and dear StarClan, Crowfeather is spitting mad. Mad, not because he was worried, but because of all the trouble Breezekit caused. Onestar sent three patrols to look for him, and all the while Breezekit was having fun in ThunderClan. 

Nightcloud is no better, because she all but snatches Breezekit away from Brambleclaw, asking him if he’s okay and blaming Crowfeather for not watching him. And that sparks an argument.

Breezekit is all but ready to hide in the nursery, away from his arguing parents, when Squirrelflight starts growling at them to stop complaining and be happy that their son is back. It only serves to make both cats angrier, but those words mean a lot to Breezekit. 

Someone, other than Nightcloud or Ashfoot, cares about him. Heck, it seemed like all of ThunderClan cared about him. 

He grows up remembering that day, though he never talks about it. Nightcloud told him to stop a few days after the incident. But even after he becomes an apprentice, he can’t help but wonder if WindClan, where he’s whispered about and stared at, is really where he belongs.

The forest looks very inviting. 

[stimmypaw]

stimmypaw reads Shattered Sky, a late tumblr post

I just, forgot to post this for some reason. It’s me writing my thoughts on the third book of A Vision Of Shadows, I also did that with the first and second ones! Very full of spoilers, enjoy!

Omg.....meet Darktail's Kinnies... someone should name their wc kin server that its a great name, most of them seem to have wc names tho I thought he was a whole gang?? Did more of them get wc names or have already than we knew???

Oh no I barely got to see echosong :c I hope the others are okay, frecklewish is a wonderful name

Chapter one they already have all of the clans going 2 fight???? This absolutely won't go well and that terrifies me

Onestar realized Darktail has a beautiful voice :/ and he feels bad battling him /j

Yup just as I expected, awful loss. Plus Twigpaw was sure her sister was gonna kill her which killed Me

Alderheart parent mode

YASSSS ITS TIME FOR SKYCLAAANNNNNN

obviously the clans are pissed why the hell did they have this as a secret bro!!! why?? bramblestar was just ashamed now firestar???? bro WHY i seriously need to read firestar’s quest I just don’t get it

scenes of elders being cared for by apprentices is always so comforting, seeing it being interrupted and taken from violetpaw feels awful

WHO THE FUCK IS THISTLE he isn’t in the allegiances??????????????????? HELLO ah okay the rogues are showing up slowly ok

Violetpaw did a u-turn to her character here it seems?? She didn't find the elders were lecturing her at first, was Darktail's lil speech about how she was brave enough to convince her they are wrong??? A few compliments couldn't possibly be enough for that. Plus again she is seeing Darktail brutally murder someone and how despite seemingly treating each other nicely these cats are ready to betray each other anytime. Surely this would be enough for her to feel like the elders are still right and she can't trust these cats???

Hope she doesn't start seeing this violence as normal

I'm so sorry for blossomfall I can't believe she got with thornclaw of all cats

LIONBLAZE JAYFEATHER CINDERHEART AND TAWNYPELT, ALL JUST CASUALLY LISTENING TO GOSSIP. ABSOLUTELY SCANDALOUS I LOVE THEM

I love like how the book will take breaks every now and then to show for a millisecond ivypool being mad at tigerheart or vice versa and dovewing looking at tigerheart or vice versa and have the POV go "wonder what thats all about" and just proceed with the plot. Wonderful

Twigpaw :c

"A "mrrow" of welcome" has got to be my favorite line on this book

The cats complain there's already enough plots going on.

Whitewing is a very nice background cat and I appreciate her. But God Omen of the Stars only proved Starclan is just a bunch of old dead cats and that can be both good and terrible. Her argument is needed tho.

The others have a point tho, how can they leave the clan with less cats right now? I guess they would come back with more but what if they're not strong enough to defend themselves? A lot of trouble could happen with Skyclan coming as is to the territories and its understandable for the cats to be concerned

Violetpaw and Needletail cope with trauma as best they can and thats not a lot

I hope Violetpaw at least realizes how fucked up it is that they are scared of their leader who is supposedly their kin and the one who they should be the most loyal to

Oh Boy kittypets!

I love kittypets so much they're always fun. Darktail is so creepy tho I read some quotes he said to my girlfriend and she said he sounded like GLaDOS and yeah he's creepy I can feel it without Violetpaw agreeing with me that she's scared of what will happen next. Where did Darktail get that blood thing????

I like Zelda. She seems to be Violetpaw's age I hope she is so they can kiss. ALSO THIS IS KINDA LIKE MENTORING??? Violetpaw should get a warrior name

TWIGPAW PUT A PILLOW UNDER HER BLANKET SO NO ONE WOULD NOTICE SHE LEFT AHAHAHHA I bet she went to find Skyclan didn't she

PURDY

NOOOOOOO PURDYYY NOOOOOOOOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

my gf said indigestion can sometimes have those effects on a cat if its really bad i didn't know that

PURDY CANT BE GONE PLEAS

I am SO sad I knew this was coming and I hated it terrible awful

I never saw a vigil so sweet. We Are All Love Purdy.

OH RIGHT TWIGPAW GSGWHAHAH

I appreciate no one is annoyed or pissed theyre all just worried, I am too

Apparently Alderheart and Bramblestar disagree lot? They seem to get along great though. And uh I guess Bramblestar doesn't always take his advice but, that doesn't mean much they like talk about stuff and Bramblestar forms conclusions taking in consideration the stuff his son said and all. Idk, feels like a weird statement Twigpaw something tells me the Erins are failing to send a message somewhere

Fuck I hope someone finds twigpaw soon, her adventure has been fun but I'm terrified for her

Violetpaw seems to be having a hard time too, not only is everything awful and terrible plus we had a time skip of a few days so who knows what happened to Twigpaw. Anyways Violetpaw having to care for Needletail like a mentor is like a young teen having to care for a young adult's mental health and that always sucks for the kid, there's not much else that can be done though Needletail probably doesn't want to worry

Violetpaw :C

This is so sad and terrible, I wish Violetpaw could be with Twigpaw right now she wouldn't be starclan knows where if they were just together!!! I hope the other cats don't start saying nonsense about Violetpaw now. She's scared she won't be accepted in Thunderclan and doesn't see herself as worthy of acceptance, and feels responsible for her older friend. I'm :CC

PAGGDHAHAHA Zelda is a trash cat and I love her

Violetpaw is suffering so much and Darktail is absolutely brainwashing her ass and she can't understand how he is to blame for everything.

Oh boy when she does.

This is such a good story God im like very tired and in need of sleep but I can't stop reading

Oh God so much has happened, this is so terrible, I love that Mothwing and Alderheart are hanging out tho I forgot what a fun character she can be!!!

Thinking about how so much would be easier since book 1 if Onestar agreed to lend a helping paw. Thinking about the begging dying bodies piling up at his door. Thinking about onestar.

Oh scratch what I said earlier guys WHEN VIOLETPAW FINDS OUT DARKTAIL KILLED DAWNPELT OH BOY

Its terrible knowing dawnpelt isn't there and like, so far thinking she was in thunderclan, only to have thunderclan cats wonder if she's in shadowclan like oh God oh fuckle this is IT

I feel so bad for Loki and Zelda :c I would give them treats

What the fuck Darktail

Holy shit Darktail

I am noticing like, cats making seriously spot on assumptions of things that happened out of small information and idk if that really isn't realistic and just a way to make cats realize things or if I'm just too autistic to relate

I'm so glad the medicine cats treat anxiety. Last time I remember that happening was the prophecy begins but I might be forgetting somethin

The fear these cats have of the clans ending feels so real I am absolutely terrified for them and I love it

It doesn't make sense for twigpaw 2 die so I'm not buying it but wow this hurts

Violetpaw time

I am itching for them to find skyclan so bad

Violetpaw you're not Squirrelpaw or Leafpaw in the new prophecy you wouldn't have felt if Twigpaw died :P

Bro Needletail :c I miss when she was a wild free creature

This prisoner smuggling deal is so fun I am absolutely excited about everyone's plans, it can't all go well so soon though.

TWIGPAW YESSSS BABY I MISSED YOU

Twigpaw lactose intolerant moment

omg she had a vision

Vision cat be nice 2 my baby she is dying

TWIGPAW FOUND SKYCLAN YESSSS YES YES YES

OMG......HAWKWING.....AAAAAAA THATS HER DAD BRO SHE FOUND HER DAD IM YESSSS YEAYESYESYEYD

This is so good im so happy

This is so awful I'm so sad WHERES THE CLAN CATS they were supposed to show up when they were asleep right????? Fuck!!!

This is so scary

NEEDWETAIL IM

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Violetpaw definitely could have used a better friend at times, but God was Needletail good im so sad

Bramblestar: alderheart we need a point of view from thunderclan of what's happening so you're coming to the battle

OMG THEY DID IT!!!! I DID NOT EXPECT THAT WROW VERY NICE

Oh this is so exciting, how will they get Windclan back????

Twigpaw baby you always had your place here

I think they should both go to Skyclan but I understand if Twigpaw is indecisive she has always had a good life in Thunderclan.

Nononono Rowanstar, Scourge is the villain from the The Prophecy Begins here, your guy is named Darktail

Ominousnestar

I have been vaguely spoiled about Onestar being related to Darktail but I have no clue how

I can see Onestar's, Smoke's and Darktail's designs rotating in my mind its beautiful

I'm loving this story this is so cool

You dare challenge the warrior cats Fandom?

SKYCLAN, DROP YOUR CATS

RIVERCLAN, GET THE BUCKET

WINDCLAN, GRAB YOUR LEAFBLOWERS

THUNDERCLAN, GRAB YOUR LIGHTNING RODS

SHADOWCLAN, IDK MAN SAY BOO OR SOMETHING AHHAHA

I'm glad this is the prophecy this series really is Tumblr vs 4chan

Oh my god

This is so surreal

What an astounding battle wow and what an ending

I loved it

That was so so good

Everything here was fantastic, looking back its hard to believe they managed to fit so much plot into one book and like the pacing was Very Good this was just good writing wow? The development of Darktail, everything with Onestar, very fun I was on the edge of my seat through the whole thing it was incredibly fun. I’m very excited for what’s to come too, I worry it probably won’t be as fun and exciting as this since they already got rid of the biggest threat, unless they get another, but still like I really wanna know what’s gonna happen with Skyclan! And Violetpaw and Twigpaw!!!! How will the clans cope with all this loss and receive a new clan in the territories??? There’s a lot of good build up that I don’t know if it will live up to all that happened so far, but I think it can be very good and I’m excited, lots ahead of us!!! Oh boy!!

[bonefall]

I think Nightcloud's Thaw (assuming you keep that title) is a great idea not only because your Nightcloud is so interesting and because she as a character deserves more spotlight, but also because it would be interesting to see Crowfeather begin to change from her perspective. After all, you said it was a surprise he offered to help save Breezepelt at all- and what better way to show that than for us to not be inside his head when he makes the decision to offer to help?

I'm feeling more and more confident about it. I think BB!Nightcloud is absolutely the best choice of a character to observe the events of "Crowfeather's Trial," now Nightcloud's Thaw.

Nightcloud's Thaw is an okay title for now, but I want to bat around some more names.

It's meant to invoke the way her life begins to turn around, after Crowfeather's exile; beginning with that reveal, how Crowfeather's behavior reaches a breaking point in the Clan, her reputation turn-around, and finally accepting Crowfeather's help in aiding Breezepelt.

So "thaw" is one way to put it... but if I could capture something more related to the change of seasons or time, that would be good too. Nightcloud's Daybreak, Nightcloud's Horizon.

We can go through Nightcloud's process of unlearning with her.

The dread and fury at the reveal, the shock when Crowfeather actually sees a consequence, and the way that suddenly the Clan is sympathetic towards her in a way they'd never been

How this newfound empathy feels somewhat insulting to her, but, how it helps her start to realize that she DOESN'T deserve how Crow treats her.

Makes it easy to truncate most of OotS, can quickly be described as "they stayed together slightly longer, but if it wasn't dead, their relationship was quickly dying."

And really get to the meat of the story with how Crowfeather deflecting the blame of their son's Dark Forest training on her was the LAST straw. For everyone. Including Crowfeather himself.

(I think I'll actually change around the fight in the BOTTE to be Breeze attacking CROW, and Lionblaze STOPS him. Because killing his pathetic dad, in the end, wouldn't fix anything and would ruin his life forever. Really change it to stress that no one likes Crowfeather because of how he keeps treating people. If Crow wants to turn that around, he has to CHANGE.)

(Plus, something just feels nice about letting the two have a bond. Something about how they were both pulled out of the dirt at the Kitty Olympics and washed clean by Nightcloud, starting this deep, brotherly bond somehow. I'll have to revisit this.)

Nightcloud alone can link the way that Crowfeather is trying to change himself, AND the way Breezepelt is getting worse, in the way I want

She's cautious of Crowfeather, for good, obvious reasons. He hurt her, and has only ever used her good faith as leverage against her.

And she's charitable to Breezepelt, because she knows exactly what pain is behind his rash, emotional behaviors.

SO I can frame them both in the way I want through her eyes.

Plus, I need a place to put her childhood. If it's not here, I wouldn't have a good spot to put it.

I could link all the flashback segments with having Addersong pass away, since he would be VERY old at this point. It could be very bittersweet for her

She spent so much time away from her beloved mentor, who taught her so much.

She could have had so many wonderful years with him, his advice, and his songs. But now he's an elder in his last moons

All because she let her heart be hardened after the death of her family. Pain lead her astray so many times...

I'll probably rework a LOT of the stoat stuff. I know right away there's a lot of actions in CT I want to rip away from Crowfeather and hand over to Breezepelt; a lot of the loud, openly argumentative moments he has with Onestar for example. SHOW the way that Breezepelt interprets Harespring/Darkseeker's diplomatic responses as "sniveling and traitorous" to him.

Have Nightcloud be trying to bridge this gap between Breezepelt and his Clanmates with her new reputation, and it just not working.

Maybe shuffle Nightcloud's disappearance near the end of the book, around the time that the Kin appears. Show that his mother being suspected dead was a BIG reason Breezepelt made such an emotional choice to join the Kin, and bring his other allies with him.