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What will you do if they give Birchkit defining Tigerkin features in cannon?

Already on it! Birchkit and Rowankit were Strikestone's biokits.

I'm still working on details; but my thought is that it was an honor siring situation. He was going to raise his kittens alone and claim Queen's Rights, but then he died in that fight with the impostor. He only told his close family about it.

So after the dust had settled, Heart and Dove contacted the honor dam/surrogate and asked what her plans with the kittens were, now that Strikestone was dead. That's how they ended up with Birch and Rowan.

Whoever they are, I think Strike was buddies with them, so I'm considering that maybe it was a litter of 3 and they kept one. But it's also possible that they established from the get-go that they did not want to raise kits, and so there were only 2 which Heart and Dove now have.

This means that they are considered Heartstar's kittens by all social means, but biologically, they are her grand-nespring.

#I was initially going to save Strikestone because I hated how they killed him in TBC #But the more I worked on Shadowsight I started to realize it could be meaningful with tweaks #Since Strike is like a fun uncle through TBC and having him there in the final confrontation with Ashfur could make it feel like #he has friends and family there supporting him #Though I'm still mad they killed Strike in canon because... PLEASE stop killing off interesting background characters #clans are full of nobodies #For all Shadowsight reacted to his death it may as well have been Hop or Flax or someone else in his age group #BB!TBC #Better bones au

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