#and her clan is still alive

[impossible-rat-babies]

trying to think of how eshka, a dalish crow, ended up in the situation she did hrmmmmm

[mythalism]

pondering this ask from this morning and thinking about how readily lavellan runs away from the entire world (“if i could leave it all behind and just have him”) and like yeah. of course she does. he is the only person in the inquisition saw her as just a person thrust into the mantle of a savior. he is the only one who had been in this same position. he is the only one who understands what it’s like to have who you were stripped away for the good of the cause. two little sacrificial lambs who gave up everything they were on the altar of saving the world. even dorian and varric admit to the inquisitor that they believe she was sent by the maker. he’s literally the only one who gets it. and even if the world rebuilds after the blight she can never shed being the herald of andraste just like he can never escape being the dread wolf. there is only one way to escape it and she takes the chance as soon as she sees it

[cricketclan]

MANY good things this moon but rip Thicketspring. Hes so hard to see with the starclan lineart i use LOL

ALSO!!! Parsleykit is the first male tortie ive gotten! I love him sm

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[rileys-battlecats]

I read that Doveheart ended up nursing/caring for Mudpaw when he came to MicaClan as a kit. I wanted to know what their relationship was like. I could see her keeping him at arms-length and it would make sense that’s where Whitepaw also learned to keep his distance from Mudpaw, since his own mother did it like all the other older cats, but I can also see her following her name sake and being tender-hearted since she looks like a nice cat. I mean Snaptail’s family seem to be far more endearing and welcoming than the other cats in the clan and I'm curious, does she see him like a son or a young cat that needs love. I would like to know that Mudpaw has more cats looking out for him. It would be sweet if she asked Owlpounce or even Birchspeckle if Mudpaw was getting enough sleep and was eating well, maybe she would encourage Whitepaw to talk to him more. 

That's a great question, and not one I've thought about very deeply if I'm honest! Doveheart being a later addition to the clan makes some things more difficult to parse out, her relationship with Mudpaw being one of them.

I think Doveheart would have the same ingrained biases that the rest of the clan holds, but was also Not Immune To Tiny Kitten In Need. I think she would've been more comfortable being affectionate with Mudkit when he was still very young, but when he started getting old enough to like. Have Thoughts And Feelings As An Individual. She would probably be like 'oh, no longer Tiny Baby In Need' and just sort of assume that the rest of the clan would fill in for her if she took a step back?

To be clear, the clan doesn't go out of their way to neglect Mudpaw. They just sort of... assume someone else is doing the whole 'caring for him' thing. They're all vaguely uncomfortable around him due to the whole culturally ingrained "in-group vs out-group" mentality they've got going on, but the clan is usually really good at supporting each other as a whole, so they kind of subconsciously assume "well, someone's gonna make sure that's covered, maybe I don't have to do it".

All that being said, I could see Doveheart being more conscious of Mudpaw's wellbeing than the average micaclan cat. More likely to ask after him and make sure he's eating enough, you know?

[raindreames]

the handling of the hyuga clan is probably what annoys me the most within the naruto continuation/ending especially as someone who has neji and hinata as favorites (apart from sasuke) but what i need people to understand is that the lack of coverage over the resolution of their issues was kishimoto's fault and he dropped the ball because he had too much on his plate and too little time lol

what some people fail to understand is: neji is justified in his anger. more than justified, he has the right to be angry and use violence. he's under a system where he's basically a slave.

and what other people fail to understand too, is this: hinata was a privileged child. she was from the main family. she was the personification of neji's struggle, in a way. yet, she was still a child, one that was shunned and abused by her family too. she had power over neji and the second branch, power that wasn't chosen and that she didn't want, but still had.

could she change the power balance? could she abolish the seal? well THAT'S the real question.

during the war, it's said both her and neji are working together to change the hyuga clan. so maybe there is a way to abolish the seal. but what if there's not? it is made to understand that both families are fighting as equals, no longer divided, and from that moment on — blank period, boruto — we're not shown any divide between the hyuga, any mention of "first" or "second" family and no hyuga clan member with a seal in their heads.

so, what happened? how did it change?

we don't know and probably won't. kishimoto is not worried about getting the resolve on those political matters he himself created when they don't affect naruto (and now boruto) himself directly. it was important back when naruto could motivate both neji and hinata. once that was over, there's no need to expand.

the point is: yes, it sucks that a topic so crucial that basically shaped two very important and iconic characters from the series is so underwritten, but that's that. i feel like misogyny plays a role in that too, since the only relevant hyuga alive is hinata and her character is constantly sidelined anyway. also, kishimoto is always on the side of "everyone can be redeemed without showing them actually repenting" which is why hiashi hyuga is a cute little old grandpa after he just apologized to neji once.

[stealingpotatoes]

Does this mean Clan Wren is alive in your AU? And by "Clan Wren", I really mean Tristan, since I ship him with Ezra.

very very little of clan wren's alive, could be like 4 ppl tops who knows, but i think its unrealistic every single clanmember died. ON TRISTAN i've been flipflopping between yes and no since the show started. bc on the one hand all of sabine's family being dead works rlly well narratively, she's lost every mandalorian she loves and her whole culture and home planet and has some severe survivors guilt bc she should've been with them instead of her other (also half dead) family and she's dealing with it by being in her fleabag girlfailure era and trying to completely ignore the fact she's mandalorian at all. plus i don't want to disregard ALL of canon gotta keep some things.

on the other hand that's sad and also trizra

[fullscoreshenanigans]

(Chapter 22 Bonus Scene | Mystic Code Book Chapter 1 Q&A)

Thinking about how the photo Ray took of Isabella burned up with plant no.3, so the only pictures the children possibly have of her in the human world are mugshots stored in headquarters' database that might have been updated every year on her birthday.

How surreal it is to see her like that, grappling with memories of the complicated woman they knew—the good and the bad—and the young girl staring back at them who resolutely held her head up high to prove she had what it took to survive in a demon's world, knowing all the unspoken pain behind her eyes.

Yvette's portraits of her quickly become their preferred visual references.

[noirandchocolate]

Yet Another Headcanon: My Master Kohga is not only a musician but a lyricist and poet—more artsy skills he learned from his mama and honed by reading tons of collected and preserved Yiga and ancient Sheikah documents and by hanging around with others in the Clan interested in that kinda stuff.

He is pretty dang good at the Yiga equivalent of haiku and tanka poetry, with syllable/sound-based structure and an emphasis on conveying small moments/feelings.* His particular favorite thing to do is to choose words and phrases with multiple meanings or opportunities for metaphor, that work together to get the theme/imagery across. And he can also do rhyming song lyrics, too.

He can rattle off simple stuff fairly easily if asked to on the fly, but also tries harder on more meaningful verse if the occasion arises. On the other hand, since he's Master Kohga and therefore an irreverent kinda guy, he's not above silly or raunchy subject matter.

For the Clan’s seasonal and event-based lil’ festivals/parties, the Master has been known to join in on reciting appropriately themed poems as well as playing newly-composed and/or improvised music (and old crowd favorites/traditional songs etc). He'll participate with others in the Yiga equivalent of renku collaborative spontaneous poetry at such occasions too, and have lots of fun coming up with the next couple lines in a community effort or with a response to 'beat' someone else's last verse, especially when the saké's been flowing.

If he's got a reason to write down anything he composes, he'll write it in Ancient Sheikah calligraphy (also tutored by mom) more often than modern Hylian. (But the Yiga's use of different scripts in their written language is a tangent to this post.) Anyway, artsy fella, is my bananaMaster.

(*They’re not exactly the same as those Earth Japanese forms, since Hyrule isn’t Japan of course despite the obvious influences especially in the Sheikah and Yiga cultures as presented in the games, but you know what I’m getting at I hope. The Yiga-original forms (which in turn have branched off from or carry on ancient Sheikah ones) do tend to use 5- and 7- syllable/sound lines, but not always in the 5-7-5 and 5-7-5-7-7 of haiku and tanka. For example one popular longer form goes 5-7-5-7-7-5-7-5-7-5.)

[redbean-nom]

the contrast between elsbeth's tribe (nightsister... commoners? peasants? villagers?) fighting grievous vs talzin's clan (nightsister royalty) is so funny like.

elsbeth's clan: probably-Mother Selena dueling grievous with two fire sickles that melt/short out when hit by lightsabers (grievous didn't even split his arms! it's literally a leisurely spar for him). approximately three archers in the background. one single unit of B1s and B2s plus possibly a handful of commando droids. elsbeth hiding in a tree and falling out.

talzin's clan: Mother Talzin voodooing Dooku from the castle basement and then levitating in a giant electric sphere and zapping the entire droid army for like five minutes straight. Ventress dueling four-arms grievous for equally long. An entire army of archers casually force-speed/force-jumping over entire trees. Grievous' full fleet, a bomber squad, a unit of commando droids, magnaguards, state of the art experimental tanks, more regular tanks, and a full army of B1s/B2s. Daka long-distance-necromancing the entire clan and resurrecting every single dead nightsister in the entire region. Talzin finally not-surrending by turning herself into a force ghost and then promptly going to start a cult to revive herself/the dead nightsisters.

[the-owl-tree]

Your spin on Crowfeather and Leafpool running away together made me remember that Mothwing and Bramblestar never interacted as siblings (neither did she and Tawnypelt :/), but since she spends time in camp what do you imagine their dynamic is like? I doubt Bramble appreciates her convicing Squirrelflight to search with her.

Oooohh you’re so right, what a waste they didn’t have Mothwing and Brambleclaw interact at all or even just have him think about her more because it should’ve been mothwing who killed hawkfrost

Like off the top of my head, I like the idea that she initially wants to think that he’s like her. Someone who’s been used but only also wanting to cling onto that familiarity of family, she wants to try and reach out to find comfort in kin who she thinks will understand. She’s seen the way they meet up at the gathering, how they huddle together and talk, and she wants to believe she can help someone who’s being used or at least connect….and then she sees the callous way Brambleclaw tries to rush in her replacement, how he constantly talks down to Squirrelflight and grows aggressive when she wants to go after her sister and has the chilly realization of “oh, you’re not like me. you’re like him.”

[yuridovewing]

This would definitely... Bloat some things, but I still want to do it cause then it involves all four clans like it Should, but man I love the idea of each clan having their own "Power of Three" trio. Like a lot. Originally I was going to make them all descendants of the current leaders and spread the litters throughout TNP, Po3, and OotS, but that didn't quite seem right to me. There aren't a ton of descendants for me to work with to this end (especially for Blackstar, who I've decided is Darktail's dad who never has another litter in the clans). Soooo instead, I want all of them to be forbidden kits. Half clan and medic children, baby. So obviously this includes the ThunderClan three, and the other litters I'm considering are Tawnypelt's kittens (moved to be born late in Po3) who would technically be ThunderShadow kits... that or I'm changing who the other parent is. (Here comes TawnyFeather with the steel chair...? They could meet again in Outcast... owo?) and Sedgewhisker and her sisters who are apparently WindRiver kits?? Which I didn't know was a thing til now.

That just leaves the RiverClan three who I'm not totally sure on. My friend Vio suggested Icewing's first litter, which I kinda like cause that includes Beetlewhisker. Makes his fate in the Dark Forest all the more terrifying. But I'm also considering Minnowtail and her siblings (reviving her brother Tumblekit). I do not remember if those guys have confirmed dads but if they do, uhhhhhhhh. Well they aren't their dads anymore. Officially halfclan now.

[on-a-sunbeam]

ah dang whoops—(trips and accidentally turns your guy from the silly spy show into a warrior cat)

[uzumakichcined]

karin being an uzumaki and being in the same fucking places 2 other known uzumakis are but the manga and anime never addressing it *really bothers me*

Ah yes, btw this is karin, she's nagato's distant relative oh cool, this is karin, she's also naruto's distant relative

no one bats a single eye

[red-hemlock]

Headcanon: Hometown

River is not a native Gothamite, instead hailing from a small coastal town called Juttica, in the pacific northwest state of Oregon. Once a semi-successful logging town, it enjoyed prosperity for a little over 100 years before falling into a nosediving decline when the surrounding timber reserves began drying-up. Its fate was effectively sealed, when a portion of the huge sawmill on the town outskirts caught fire... That mill was the beating heart of the place, and the permanent closing of its doors condemned it to the slowest of deaths.

Even in its booming heyday Juttica wasn't particularly large, but currently it is effectively a ghost town, boasting a population of only 15 and gradually shrinking... Most of the remaining are aged individuals, the last of their family lines or those just too plain stubborn to leave. River herself wouldn't be able to recall seeing more than a few spatterings of people here and there, on those odd outings she and her siblings and cousins would take into the town; at the time when she was young, the population was probably 35 at best.

River's family is older than Juttica. They were there, watching from the woods as the town was born, and were there to witness its downfall; and will be there when the rest of the townsfolk become a distant memory. The Lockes never interacted with the town back then, but now that they outnumber the populous, some of the younger members like to wander down and use the rotting buildings for exploratory purposes, and to practice their free-running skills on dangerous surfaces. Juttica's inhabitants likewise ignore them, and are unaware of what the Locke children are really up to: believing the occasional visitors to be the kids of tourists simply interested in exploring a ghost town.

The old sawmill and the town's derelict lighthouse were River's favorite spots as a child.

[rileys-battlecats]

DUDE UR VOICE IS AMAZING!! ALSO I JUST REALIZED OWLPOUNCE IS A BIRDS NAME (OWL) AND MUD BABY USED TO KILL BIRDS SO HOPEFULLY NOTHING HAPPENS TO OWL BC SHES SO SKRUNKLY AND ACTUALLY TALKS TO MUD ( ive also noticed that in johnny when he hunts the birds,he buries them. I think that may be similar to wrentails demise (like owl he also has a birb in his name. I think it was dark when he led the other warriors to wren?? Not sure but in a way he buried him, so in a way he may have seen him as prey?? In the moments before mud boi attacks wrentail, he’s “hunting” him much like a cat would a bird,(low to the ground etc.) so maybe he saw him as a bird, another omen or someone mocking him, taunting him in a way?

THANK YOU :D

the Bird Symbolism™ is definitely true where Wrentail is concerned, and i do have a plan for how it will tie in with Owlpounce, but honestly tons of cats in Micaclan have bird prefixes!

This is partially because I was naming the cats before I had fully fleshed out the story (in the beginning, Mudpaw was going to be a lot more violent of a character than he ended up being in the present version), so a lot of characters were given bird names to reflect their position in the story as things to be hunted. This is no longer accurate to the story, though!

I also just really like how bird names sound as prefixes for warrior names :P

[simbasomba]

How IS mistyStar still alive?