#Windstar wc

[shallowbreeze]

Windstar

Windstar, also known as Wind or Wind Runner, is a wiry brown she-cat with narrow tabby stripes, a thin, striped face, and yellow eyes

[clanslist]

[midzukishino]

Willow Tail's death for the vk challenge, "Shocking death"

[bonefall]

.. opinions on wind runner? i feel like im one of the only ones that genuinely hates her sometimes

If you feel like the only one who genuinely hates her, I think you need to look around more. Wind Runner is a very widely disliked character, because she's often used within the story as a small antagonist who "threatens" the authority of Tall Shadow. Gray Wing dislikes her. Thunder is openly cat-racist to her. She spends several books trying to break through the moor cats' xenophobia to join a group that came to HER LAND.

Then, when Moth Flight is old enough to be a relevant character in Forest Divided, Wind Runner is turned into Yet Another mean mom the very moment Moth displays ADHD. She's contrasted to her mate Gorse Fur, who is a Soft And Good Dad, and ultimately MASSIVELY punished with the harrowing events of Moth Flight's Vision (even though, for most of that book, she's completely right.)

Ask yourself why they're especially harsh on WIND RUNNER for being mean to her child, in the arc with Tom the Fucking Wifebeater and his redemption death, plus Thunder being forced to stop being mad at his abuser Clear Sky, please.

To me, Wind Runner is an intense, ambitious woman who's demonized for it in a way that men just aren't. She's subject to several misogynistic trends within WC, plus a huge helping of xenophobia that goes absolutely unexamined. If DOTC cared at all about women, it would have treated her with the nuance she deserves.

Wind Runner is treated with nearly endless suspicion by Gray Wing through books 1 - 3, while he's bending over backwards to suck Clear Sky's toes.

Her wanting to join the group that came TO HER HOME and being a bit pushy about it earns a stronger reaction from Gray Wing than Clear Sky murdering people.

She's pressured into changing her name "to fit in," and it's still not enough. She wanted to join the group so bad she changed her name, at the request of the Mountain Cats, for a chance of being better accepted

This came after she'd already saved Jagged Peak's life when a burrow collapsed on him. She's plenty trustworthy.

She keeps doing shit to try and prove herself to this group of assholes. Remember Bumble being dragged back to her domestic abuser? Gray Wing interprets this as a power struggle, when WIND RUNNER WAS NOT EVEN PART OF THE GROUP AT THE TIME.

From Wind Runner's POV, she did something that the Moor cats wanted done. It was fucking evil. It was committing violence against another member of the out-group the cats see her as.

But who actually has the power here? Tall Shadow does.

Gray Wing said it himself that she could have come up with some excuse for Bumble to stay, and she didn't. In fact, any cat could have spoken up. No one did.

and still. STILL. Wind Runner gets nothing. Her reward is Gray Wing surmising that actually, her doing their sick dirtywork was a political move.

It's more consistent as a motivation with how Wind Runner wants to join their group. The thing she's been doing.

She only actually gets to join the group after Thunder starts publicly hurling slurs at her for suggesting they need to be ready for Clear Sky to attack them. "What do you know about peace? Last time I was here you were NOTHING BUT A ROGUE WITH A ROGUE'S NAME"

Gray Wing even starts purring when she gives birth, because her ambition goes away briefly and she "stops bossing everyone around." this is treated like a sweet thing. god forbid women retain their personalities when they have kids

She loses her first premature child to a seizure and Gray Wing starts proselytizing his religion to her. "Maybe it's a good thing your weakest child died because Jesus has them now" I want to beat him with a hammer

When her second child gets sick, Clear Sky has a bright idea that involves killing it. I refer to this as his "reverse leper colony" suggestion. He only develops a sense of humanity towards the sick when his brother's pregnant wife is in danger. Wind Runner and her kitten barely seem to clock as people to him.

It's only after her SECOND baby succumbs to a horrible, painful death that she decides the moor cats are assholes, and she goes to start her own group. It's LONG overdue. I was extremely excited to see it.

Now. Listen.

I've been treated just like Moth Flight before. I've practically heard the scolding in Book 6 Chapter 3 verbatim. I'm not downplaying anything about Wind Runner being harsh to her; being yelled at like that never fixed the problem.

What I'm saying is that this is the SAME arc that summons the hollowed-out ghost of Storm to coo that Clear Sky "never drove anyone away" with his abusive behavior and gives Tom the Wifebeater a heroic redemption death.

So why is the scolding from Wind Runner treated as unambiguously harsh? What's the difference between her and them?

Why is it that outside of this little bubble of the community, you can get buried in a flood of people crying about how "Clear Sky made Summisteaks Butt he thought it was the right thing :((( He feels bad about shoving Thunder's face in a weeping, pus-filled wound and trying to kill him :((((" but Wind Runner is mean about Moth Flight not catching a rabbit and she should be skinned alive

Why is WIND RUNNER held responsible for the death of Clear Sky's child in Moth Flight's Vision, WHEN IT WAS COMPLETELY HIS OWN FAULT??

So, why should I hate her? Because she's mean to the idiot protagonists? Because she's Yet Another Bad Mom whose actions ARE treated as Bad in the story, in the arc famous for openly weeping whenever someone's mad at their abusive dad?? When she has this whole horrific, unexamined story about how incredibly bigoted The Settlers are towards her and the extremes she goes to in order to please them?

I'm glad she's mean, actually. She should have been even meaner. I think she should have a gun

[mousetoe-wc]

CHEETAH TEARS CHEETAH TEARS CHEETAH TEARS-

Windstar and her descendants have those cheetah tear markings, Warrior cats may forget cheetahs but I never will.

Anyway left to right, top we have Darktail, Wrenflight, Palebird and Windstar, Bottom we have Heathertail, Onestar, Tallstar and Moth Flight.

[tpos-comic]

E is for Emberkit

[marmosetpaw]

[aleadom]

Windstar >:)

Windstar!

Im sorry Windstar enjoyers but I am her biggest hater. If there are no more Windstar haters then I am dead. I hated her even before reading Moth Flight’s vision and hated her even more after.

She can still have a pretty design tho, aerodynamic cat. Gave her a little mane, I feel like if she was a lion she would be a maned lioness. I will also try to incorporate the clan’s symbols on each founder (thats why she has the swirls)

Requests for Warrior cats to design are welcome!

[sillisorrels]

Windrunner/star and gorse fur/star

Valentines in 9 days! ( single digits yesss )

I always found their relationship cute! They’re both so loyal to each other <3

Also I always imagine gorse as a lanky but speedy dude

[mistpool]

power of three AU (i made this back in 2022 on an old acc)

the power of three arc still happens, but hollyleaf has a power, and breezepelt and heathertail do as well

while this arc starts, the five original leaders’ spirits are fading- so they choose to reincarnate into five young cats. jayfeather is the reincarnation of riverstar, hollyleaf is the reincarnation of shadowstar, lionblaze is the reincarnation of thunderstar, heathertail is the reincarnation of windstar, and breezepelt is the reincarnation of skystar.

lionblaze has super strength and while he is injured in battle has had super strength which is shown in his part of dismantling the beaver dam

jayfeather can walk in dreams but cannot interact with any cat in the dream, including the dreamer. he also cannot see in his dreams as well

hollyleaf can sense whenever someone is lying and/or breaking the code. the latter makes hollyleaf’s fur tingle whenever she is near leafpool, a sign of breaking the code and/or lying

heathertail has super speed, alongside with her natural windclan speed

breezepelt’s wounds heal very fast and easily, leading to how he can withstand the dark forest for so long

the fire scene still happens, but heathertail and breezepelt witness it since windclan came to help thunderclan evacuate.

breezepelt is angered since he befriended hollyleaf in the tunnels (instead of lionblaze and heathertail) and leaps at ashfur and knocks him into the fire, killing him and burning breezepelt

squirrelflight lies to thunderclan and windclan, saying that while breezepelt was helping ashfur escape, ashfur lost his footing and breezepelt got burned while trying to rescue him

squirrelflight ends up telling the clans the truth at the gathering, backed up by her adopted kids, heathertail, and breezepelt, who sees her as his adoptive mother due to his parents’ toxicity.

the clans dont know what to do. the leader of thunderclan’s daughters both broke the code, but brambleclaw immediately defends his mate and their adopted kids, and firestar swears if anyone tries to hurt his daughters or his grandkits he will attack them

the clans dont really wanna go to war with thunderclan, so they shrug their shoulders and look the other way

squirrelflight doesnt reveal their biological father, due to the request of breezepelt, as he doesnt want the relationship between crowfeather and nightcloud to become even more restrained breezepelt and heathertail end up joining thunderclan, due to breezepelt feeling unsafe and unwanted in windclan due to his support of squirrelflight and the trauma of his parents. heathertail goes with him happily, pregnant with his kits, who are dovewing and ivypool after this entire event the clan leaders rewrite some parts of the code, mainly half-clan relationships and medicine cat rules. half-clan relationships are allowed, but one must join the other in their clan to prevent the cat from being disloyal. medicine cats can now take mates and have kits, but can only have kits if they have an apprentice, second medicine cat, or if someone (brightheart for example) has healing knowledge. med cats can have half-clan relationships without joining the other’s clan due to not fighting in battle. mothwing and leafpool are mates, and jayfeather and kestrelflight are mates. hollyleaf is in a polyamorous relationship with hazeltail and cinderheart. lionblaze is mates with berrynose. breezepelt and heathertail are mates and heathertail gives birth to dovekit and ivykit (neither have powers) similar with cinderheart and cinderpelt, once the five’s mission is done to rewrite the unfair code, they become separate identities to the five og leaders, whose spirits are rejuvenated due to being in live bodies, and who wanted the code to change

[warrior-cats-rewritten]

Anthro!AU. There's no real timeline for this.

Names follow 3 formats. Let's grab... Dovewing!

Dovewing is also called Dove, Miss Wing, and Dove Wing.

Turtle Tail is also called Turtletail, Miss Tail (or Miss T) and Turtle.

Cats like Millie or Snake will sometimes take last names, but highly prefer their single name.

Bramblekit absolutely took a cookie when offered while he was at Frostfur's house, thinking they were chocolate chip, only to get oatmeal raisin. He hated it but was too polite to spit it out.

Snowbird cut Ratscar off from seeing his nespring when she found out about his connections to a cult called The Place of No Stars.

Blossompaw and Briarpaw regularly swam in a river nearby their house, with Bumblepaw on watch for anyone coming who might get them in trouble.

Briarlight also put flame stickers/decals on her wheelchair. She sometimes rotates them out for seasonal stuff, like holiday themed ones. She put a weed sticker on it once for 4/20 and Millie threw a fit over it.

During the nasty custody battle between Goldenflower and Tigerclaw, Swiftpaw told Tigerclaw he never wanted to see him again, he would rather be dead than have his father hold any custody of him.

Smudge regularly visits and babysits Squirrelkit and Leafkit, he wishes Firestar would move back to Kittypet Town, but understands that his best friend is happier in Clan City.

Leafpool was in a very bad situation when she was pregnant with her triplets, as Crowfeather left her with nothing when they broke up. She pretended that she was going to be a surrogate, as Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight were having trouble conceiving. That was the lie.

Squirrelflight works as a professional chef. Ferncloud works as a stay-at-home mom but makes plush for her friends and their kids, as sewing is her passion. Thornclaw is a PE teacher. Ashfur is a drama teacher. Brambleberry is a chemistry teacher. Leafpool is a doctor. Cinderheart is a receptionist at the hospital Leafpool works at.

Hollyleaf and Cinderheart were "borderline dating" for MONTHS before Jayfeather snapped and screamed at one of them "just spit it out already!"

Jayfeather is a programmer, and works at making more video games and controllers accessible to blind folks like him! He works with Snowtail (Snowkit) who also works helps out gamers who are HoH.

Scourge is a lawyer, who helps Firestar find the evidence that Tigerstar murdered Redtail during an election.

Turtle Tail is preschool teacher, and works with Sorreltail and Snowbird. They work together at Kit School in Sanctuary Lake Elementary School/Preschool.

Clan City has 5 main districts, for the 5 Clans. Everyone is generally very proud of their home and where their family came from, and xenophobia seems to be on the rise... Many come over, but just as many are driven out by the harsh attitudes of the locals.

In another time, there are more districts. Jingo District, Blood District, and Warrior District. There is also Mountain City, and Gorge City where people in the Sky District lived for many years following a massive disaster that forced everyone to evacuate, they lived with the locals there for years, giving a mjor economy boost to a dying city, and caused quite the controversy when they left.

Guardian Village is nearby as well, traditional people who live amongst ruins, as well as many dotted Sister Settlements, where a semi-nomadic traveling group sets up camps. There is The River Kingdom, a valley where a group of secretive cats live in peace, also called The Park by outsiders.

In another time, the 5 founders of Clan City, Skystar, Thunderstar, Windstar, Shadowstar and Riverstar, settled there together after disaster swept the area. Shadowstar came from Mountain Village, plauge causing some cats to leave for hope of a better life, Windstar came from a village on the Moor that was destroyed by wildfires with her fiance Gorse Fur, Skystar came from what would later become Rogue Town, bounced through orphanages with her brother Fox, Thunderstar was born to 2 Mountain Cats, Clear Sky and Bright Storm, soon after arriving in the area, and Riverstar came from the River Kingdom to escape a flood with his young niece Flutter.

[lemnnshark]

"Mistcloud is a spiky-furred, pale gray she-cat."

[warriors-pride]

Enbyhet squirrelflight, bristlefrost, windstar, whitetail, moth flight, and transhet silverstream and rowanclaw with only Eggfeathers art. Thanks!

[jagged-peaks-number-1-fan]

wind runner! made her a little tiger-like for a personal joke

[juneaupaws]

Some Dawn of The Clans arc characters!

Heres some from OoTS!

[verathena14]

some founders! clear sky isnt here because i dont ljke him /lh

(these were just meant to be silly fluffy cats but after i'd drawn the first two i was like "wait a minute..." lolll)