#also tigerheart is an egg

[yuridovewing]

me when the sandfire and tigerdove dont hold up nearly as well as the fantasized versions of them in my head

[warrior-cats-rewritten]

Let's talk about Conflict Names.

If you've scrolled the Warriors Wiki, you've probably seen this message at least once.

And in a universe FULL of name combinations and new prefixes and suffixes being added all the time, it's... Odd. How do names like Robinwing and Seedpelt get used so many times? Why are there 2 Nightstar's now? WHY ARE THERE 3 BIRCHSTARS AND 3 DARKSTARS?

Well, I think it would be nice to change that. In-Universe, all apprentices still go to the Moonstone/Moonpool to foster a connection with Starclan. Starclan will show the leader who goes with them all the name "slots" of the cats who have come before.

Sometimes, in an extremely rare circumstance, there have been multiple cats with the same name (this is more... easter egg for wcr/comedic effect; but lore-wise, Starclan will often not provide the names of Dark Forest cats in an attempt to "erase" them), but it can never be a leader. There cannot be 2 Firestar's, ever. A Star cannot lead if it is being outshone by another.

Where the fun lies, is that sometimes, a leader will give up their leader name in Starclan, freeing up that slot. Heatherstar gave up hers to go back to being Heatherstep, as she did not enjoy being leader. Heatherstar would now be a valid name again. Also, the ancient 2 word names (Sky Petal, Cloud Spots, Blue Whisker, Briar Bloom) do not take up slots. Post-mortem names, such as Swiftpaw being named Swiftclaw, or Mapleshade's kits, also do not take up slots.

During Tigerheart's Light, Starclan ran into a bit of a pickle. Tigerheart was going to become Leader, but there has been a Tigerstar in history who did not give up his name when he went to the Dark Forest. But... His spirit had faded away! But... The memory of him hasn't...

When they asked Tigerheart "Do you wish to be Tigerstar?" What Tigerheart WANTED to say was:

"Sure. It sounds like a good name. Though I have some bad memories with it too, and my relationship with my mother is really strained now because of it, I'm also not sure of the Clans will like having another Tigerstar around. Maybe it's not such a good idea."

All he managed to get out was "Sure. It sounds like a good name-" before Starclan slapped the title onto him without a second thought.

With that MAJOR issue out of the way, let's get to the renaming of cats! Note: Renames are not done on basis of who came first, but which one I like better for the cat. I think Frecklewish fits the Thunderclan cat more than the Skyclan one.

Note: This post is not complete and was only posted due to the Tumblr app being trash. I will repeatedly reblog this with more names added. Thank you.

Thunderclan

Rabbitleap (TC) is now named Rabbitsong

Beechfur (TC) is now named Beechtuft.

Seedpelt (Mapleshade's Vengeance) has now been somewhat fused with Seedpelt (Pinestar's Choice). Now a molly whose fur is streaked gray with age, and her name is Seedwhisker.

Seedpelt (Pinestar's Choice) has been partially fused, as seen above, but the leftover cat (ew) has been named Dragonflypelt.

Seedpelt (FQ) is THE Seedpelt. Seedpaw is almost named Seedpelt as well (that's that little joke I mentioned, but also a sign that Bramblestar's got NO idea what he's doing)

Owlstar (SoTC) and Owlstar (CoTC) have been fused, the way they should have been.

Cloudberry (TC) is now Splashberry.

Shadowclan

Applefur (TF) is now named Applefang.

Ashfur (ShC) is now given the very simple Honor Title Ashclaw by Nightstar, and comes out of retirement.

Marshscar now becomes Marshstar to avoid a future Conflict Name with Marshkit, who will become Marshscar.

Mudclaw (ShC) is now named Mudstep.

Buster, who used to be Rippletail, is now named... Well he still becomes Buster, but BEFORE that he's named Droptail. Pun.

Hollystar has been renamed Birdstar, Jagged Peak and Rainswept Flower's daughter.

Riverclan

Shadepelt (AVoS) is now named Shadenose, and is the sister of Foxnose and an OC, Bumblenose.

Mintfur (RC) is now Mintwhisker, named after Mintclaw (Silverpaw TPB) a Rebel who was killed fighting against Tigerclan alongside his mothers Waterfern and Tangleburr.

Silverpaw (BOTC) is now in Windclan, as they need more padding, and OOTS Riverclan has enough apprentices. Their name is now Streampaw, and they become Streamsong. They are the offspring of Rustlewish, who adopted them from Riverclan, hence the name.

Applefrost and Appleshine actually had their names swapped. Appleshine is now the daughter of Appledusk and Reedshine. Applefrost is now Breezpelt and Heathertail's daughter.

Nightstar (RC) now never becomes leader, as Riverstar outlives her during Riverstar's Life towards the end. She and Nightheart (Ro) are now the same cat. She was inspired by a strange cat named Nightheart and made her name Night Heart.

Milkfur (YS) is now named Milkpatch, both after her mother and the slowly growing white patches in her fur. Her brother is named Troutfin (the name she was mistakenly given in the preview for Yellowfang's Secret) and he gave Hailstar a life!

Windclan

Thrushpelt (WC) is now not only a girl, but this lady WAS named Thrushpelt and earned the title Thrushleaf for her handling of the epidemic caused by sick rabbits.

Gorsetail (TNP) is now named Eveningtail.

Wrenflight (WC) does start out as Wrenflight, but after her actions supporting The Rebels against Tigerstar, helping Tangleburr and Waterfern free prisoners at risk of her own life, Tallstar renamed her Wrensky, freeing up the Wrenflight slot for the Skyclan one.

Birchstar (WC) is now Warblerstar, she is an ancestor to Onestar through his grandfather, Woollytail.

Skyclan

Frecklewish (SkC) is now named Freckleshine.

Birchstar (SkC) is still Birchstar, but stepped down at his death, going back to being just Birch, the same one in DOTC. The second leader of Skyclan. Birchstar (RC) is now the definitive Birchstar.

Rainfur (SkC) is now Rainyfur, his old name having been Rainy, because "oh it's just a coincidence his name was exactly the same as a Clan name" is a pathetic cop-out.

Unknown Clan

Robinwing (SkC) is now Robintail, after her short, fluffy tail.

Emberdawn (TBC) is still Emberdawn... Because no one remembers her, and Starclan doesn't care much about names that aren't attached to it, meaning that TECHNICALLY, there could be another Houndleap, Emberdawn is not in the Dark Forest, but she is also not in Starclan. Her horror story will be revealed eventually, still working on the finer details.

[canon-notcanon-warriorcats]

Okay time for opinions on warrior names :) Top five prefixes you want to see used for the first time, top five prefixes you want to be reused, top five prefixes not used and you hope never are, and top five prefixes you pray to StarClan the Erins forget about Su's no-longer-canon prefixes can go under never used or reused depending on how you want to look at them Bonus, include suffixes (doesn't have to be five, as many as you want if you do)

i want them to use bear- i don't care if there has never been a bear in the series before, they've used like pear-, cherry-, olive-, apple, otter-, and wolf- before and when the fuck have any of those ever been mentioned in the books, except i think wolves were seen like once in like one paragraph or something i dunno

oh, and also beaver- because they know what beavers are now, i think dovewing and tigerheart should name one of their kits beaverkit, i mean that's how they literally met was on the journey to find the beavers, or petalfur should have, brackenpelt should be beaverpelt, or sedgewhisker should have, featherpelt could have been beaverpelt, or larkwing could have been beaverwing

and raccoon-, skunk-, opossum-, let's get more of a variety of animal names tbh, dragonfly-, caterpillar-, bat-, bug-, ladybug-, mosquito-, chaffinch-, butterfly-, mockingbird-, cardinal-, groundhog-, sheep-, cow-, horse-, firefly-, pig-, chicken-, rooster-, boar-, cocoon- (i dunno if that counts as an animal, i think it should), more specific bird species, etc

also egg-, i want them to use egg-

OH and like, temperature names or adjectives like warm-, chilly-, chill-, frosty-, dewy-, cloudy-, breezy-, clouded-, windy-, stormy-, etc

also dandelion- and other flower names

also purple-, pink-, and orange, they've never used those colors for names before

i'm not doing ones they haven't used that i don't want them to use because honestly i don't think there are any that i would dislike them using, like MAYBE worm- i guess because that was specifically used as an insult towards tallstar when he was a kit so that'd be weird to actually name a kit wormkit

ones i want them to bring back: running- PLEASE bring back running- and like other verb and adverb prefixes like swift-, bring back wolf- and vixen- PLEASE, and also badger- and otter-

this has never technically been a prefix before, but there was that character shivering rose and like FUCK THAT'S SUCH A GOOD NAME, please i want them to use shiver- or shivering- as a prefix

we also haven't really had morning- or dawn- in a while, i like those names

they also don't use color names really anymore since like ambermoon, or technically violetshine though she was named after the flower, and graysky and graypaw, bring blue-, red-, black-, yellow-, silver-, and white- back, and also they've used green- and brown- like ONCE each, bring those back too

ones i don't want them to use anymore: so there aren't really any prefixes that i don't want them to use ever again but like... stop naming cats wrenflight and robinwing, please we have enough wrenflights and robinwings, technically they've only named two cats wrenflight, but like i was looking forward to finding out what wrenpaw's warrior name was gonna be, and when i found out it was wrenflight i was so disappointed like erins PLEASE wrenflight is literally tallstar's sister and onestar's mother, you KNEW you already used that name before and you had JUST given two characters such cool and creative names with kitescratch and turtlecrawl and now you're deciding to go back

actually that's a lie, i want them to name one more character robinwing, but they have to be shadowclan so there can have been a robinwing in every clan, we need the whole set

sorry i ignored the list 5 rule, i had way more ideas than i thought lol