#ashfur au

[cryptidclaw]

Do you have any info about ashfur/fall in your rewrite??

Ok so I could go on forever abt him bec he's like a secondary villain in Po3 but here's me rambling abt his motives:

His mother Brindleface taught him this idea if the perfect Thunder Warrior life, become a respected warrior, get a loving and dedicated mate, have kits, cary on your legacy. He believed his mother deserved this over anyone else and yet... her mate was Darkstripe who cared little for her or his kits and ended up betraying them all. And to top it all off his mother was killed simply for dog bait by the bastard his father was obsessed with.

Ashfall became obsessed with going above and beyond in achieving this perfect life. He wanted to make his mother proud, he wanted to have what she had wanted as some sort of way to make up for her short life.

He becomes jealous of MANY cats who seem to have achieved this life so easily, he becomes isolated from much of the order... He has caused a rift in his relationship with his sister due to his judgment over her choices (she chose to not follow this lifestyle their mother taught, she had kits on her own and didn't take a mate for years) , at one point Ash even implied that Fern's kits' deaths were the fault of them not having a father....

Ash becomes OBSESSED with Squirrelflight, to him she is the perfect mate, she is not only a young, beautiful and strong Thunder Molly, she is also the daughter of the Leader and Second... if he were to become her mate he would be part of the leadership's family. Their kits would be heirs and if Squirrelflight become leader, Ash himself could have a chance at being Second. To him this was the peak of the honorable warrior's life , to achieve this would be the greatest success. To him he "loved" Squirrelflight because she was a symbol of his chance at that life he so desperately wanted.

Squirrelflight left him because he was obsessive and she could tell he loved the idea of her instead of her... and she knew she still loved someone else (Crowfeather). Ashfall was DEVASTATED, it was as though his whole future had been ripped away from him. Its no wonder he switched to being obsessed with vengeance instead.

...

Also similar to his reasons for becoming attached to Squirrelflight, Ash became obsessed with Hawkfrost bec he symbolized Ash's new goals. Hawk would give him vengeance, Hawk would love him, Hawk would make him his mate and Second, Hawk would help him get the final laugh.

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

There's a lot of "the Three as ____'s kits" aus (and they're probably really good) so I'm gonna propose my own that has also possibly been done before:

since multiple fathers can get a cat pregnant, the three are Ashfur's AND Brambleclaw/star's.

and maybe one of them is Leafpool's? If you want to split them all completely and Squirrel could take them in easily since in this case she is legitamately pregnant.

Squirrel confirmed that she was never mates with Ashfur, but again this is an au anyway. So say she was with Ashfur, and got pregnant with his kit around the end of her relationship with him.

So instead of finding out that their parents weren't who they always thought, their parents AND each other aren't even who they thought they were in terms of their blood connection.

[semicrabbyart]

[spagcatstack]

the fandom: YAYY!! ASHFURS DRAMA IS FINALLY OVER !!! me: *whispering into erin hunters ear the worst idea ever for the next books*

yeah so i made a shitpost au that i accidentally got attached to (which might've already been done but bare with me here) more info below (with tbc ending spoilers)

bristlefrost and ashfur both drowned but instead of the dark forest water killing them it just reincarnated them which would be pretty funny i think as much as i love nightheart (slash negative) i think his story is HORRIBLY written in many different ways, and also its so unrealistic how cats constantly compare a guy called "flamepaw" so badly to firestar even though that. wouldn't happen. so bristlekit being born and NAMED AFTER BRISTLEFROST WHO BASICALLY SAVED THE CLAN CATS would be the perfect opportunity for expectations weighing her, but i don't think it was mentioned at all idk :( also hollytuft will be bristlekits mentor here because she's named after hollyleaf. this is for shits and giggles and i am having my giggles

[puppiekit]

You robbed me of my life. I could have been human -- I could have been alive, but you took my heart and you murdered it. You made me into this.

[willicewc]

What if each one of the Three had the potential to kill Ashfur.......

[ferncloud]

ferncloud

[official-darkforest]

brindleface and flintfang

[kudossi]

Tigerclaw and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Senior Warrior Position AU

In a world where deputies can only be named after their first apprentice has been granted their warrior name, Tigerclaw struggles to keep an apprentice alive long enough to earn their name.

or, a comedy-tragedy AU in which having an apprentice isn't enough — you have to see them to their warrior name, and Tigerclaw cannot fucking get any of his goddamn apprentices to live, damn it.

—

It starts out mostly normally, except for the fact that Tigerclaw hasn't gotten any apprentices to their warrior name, and he needs that so he can accomplish his (very noble, of course) kitty genocide goals. And also be the supreme leader of the world or something. Darkpaw died stupidly, he hasn't had a chance since, and now he's got some tiny thing that's afraid of his own shadow.

Well. It'll have to do.

So naturally this man is so protective over Ravenpaw that Ravenpaw barely even leaves his sight. Firepaw and Graypaw think that this is adorable. Look how much Tigerclaw cares about his apprentice!!

Ravenpaw, of course, is fucking terrified and also slowly losing his mind, just in a different way.

—

"Redtail assigned us to go on a patrol to Snakerocks." "OH NO HE DID NOT. WE'RE STAYING IN THE SANDY HOLLOW WHERE IT'S SAFE."

"Nothing matters more to me than making you a warrior, Ravenpaw. Nothing." And the terrible thing is that Ravenpaw is sure he's being sincere.

—

Ravenpaw disappears and Tigerclaw nearly fucking has a conniption because the timing was all RIGHT and he was going to finally get the position AND HE NEVER GOT HIS DAMN NAME FUCK.

"Do you think I could convince the elders that Fireheart was my apprentice?" "Fireheart was Bluestar's apprentice, as approved by StarClan. You're going to have to wait for the next litter to be apprenticed."

So he begs and begs and gets Cinderpaw and then she accidentally falls into the trap he'd set for a better deputy candidate at the Thunderpath. Fuck.

—

Well. Time to resort to drastic measures.

"I was thinking that Darkstripe would have been a good name. Because he had dark stripes." "Again, Tigerclaw, it's admirable that you loved your apprentice so much, but I cannot grant him a name." "Are you sure?" "Honestly, Tigerclaw, I'm not sure he ever would have gotten a name. Missing quite a few feathers from his nest, that one..." Fuck. The worst part was that she wasn't even wrong.

— Swiftpaw and Brightpaw get mauled by the dogs he set up to happen like right after he got the title and they sprang it before and he's like FUCK NOW WHAT DO I DO WITH THESE DAMN DOGS? His world domination plans literally never come to fruition because he cannot keep his apprentices alive/in the clan/his own.

— "Brightheart counts. She HAS to count." "Actually, Cloudtail took over her training…" [demented noises]

—

Turns out that Ravenpaw is alive and no one — no one — in the Harper Collins Extended Universe is happier than Tigerclaw.

"You're alive! …You deserve your warrior name!" "Actually, I've come to peace with my name and my way of life. I have no need for a—" "GET YOUR FUCKING NAME RIGHT NOW RAVENPAW OR SO HELP ME STARCLAN—" "I know you really wanted Ravenpaw to become a warrior," Barley says gently, "but he's made his decision. It's very kind of you to acknowledge that he deserves it, though. You must have been so close as mentor and apprentice." Tigerclaw's eye twitches. "Yes. Close. Very... close." —

He finally, finally retires as an elder after his plans go absolutely nowhere for years on end. And maybe StarClan is still like "Brambleclaw would be chill actually, we can forget that pesky little law" and Tigerclaw is sitting there like "excuse me what the actual fuck?" —

But at this point Tigerclaw is about as dangerous as Ashfur without a freak forest fire. Which is to say about as dangerous as using a leaf as a weapon. Which is, incidentally, how Darkpaw managed to get himself killed in the first place.

—

"Is this the Dark Forest? This has to be the Dark Forest. It doesn't look like Thistleclaw described it, but it must be. This Clan is all an elaborate punishment meted down by StarClan for my sins." "Tigerclaw, sir, I'm just here to help you with your ticks. See? I have the mousebile right here." "…Yes, thank you, Alderpaw." — Graystripe joins him in the elder's den and he's like, "You know, Ravenpaw thought you were up to some… scheme, back in the day. Crazy, right? You've been a model Clanmate as long as I've been alive." [muffled screaming] "Huh, what do you think that is? It sounds almost like someone killed a rabbit, but they know not to come this close to camp…"

[t4twnyclaw]

i dont have the heart to actually draw their deaths :( **edit: notes below

THE AU: everything is the same, except ashfur doesn't let the three live after squirrelflight tells him they're not hers. In desperation, squirrelflight attacks ashfur, but in her weakened state he pushes her into the fire. she's engulfed by the flames and the three fall from the cliff/edge and also die.

ashfur survives with burn scars and battle wounds, as his mental state declines quickly-he never meant to kill squirrelflight, just her kids. at the next gathering, he tells everyone that the three weren't hers, just to drag her name in the mud-despite her being dead.

a few things happen all at once;

everyone begins to hate ashfur. four cats are dead and he's looking awfully suspicious, and now he's just...bad-mouthing the dead???

when TC returns back to camp firestar threatens to exile ashfur for this. the only reason why he doesn't is that ashfur is critically injured and despite the suspicions, there's no concrete proof of his murder of squirrelflight.

brambleclaw, in his grief probably would've attacked ashfur, not believing a word he said *AT FIRST* but leafpool is the one to murder him.

leafpool is having an awful time and after the murder of ashfur, she decides to come clean, to everything. she admits that the three were her's,not squirrelflights but she doesn't throw crowfeather under the bus. TC reacts...pretty good, no one blames her for murdering ashfur especially after ferncloud openly supports leafpool and squirrelflight. this becomes TC's little secret, as no one really sees the point in dragging out her 'betrayal'

BECAUSE no one knows crowfeather is the father, only the older warriors of TC, this makes breezepelt not a future villain to TC.

[thylacid]

what if tbc was the arc after oots and alder&spark were the protags,,,,, ive been thinking abt this for a while

[willicebattlecatsblog]

AU where the three team up and kill Ashfur together ???

[cryptidclaw]

Fun fact: When I was a kid I learned most everything I know about warrior cats from the fandom and fan animations…

As a result my main theory abt wtf was going on with the Ashfur and Sqilf drama was that Squirrel’s kits (Holly, jay and lion) were her and ashfur’s but she realized she didn’t love him and loved Brambleclaw so she lied and said they were Bramble’s….

Tbh this was fair, it explained why ppl hated on Squilf so much too 😭😭😭

… it could be a fun au actually, tho now that I’ve read the books, I can’t imagine my Squilf doing that lol

[semicrabbyart]

[sunshades-frozen-sky-take-3]

Some very old art of an au where Leafpool doesn't tell anyone she's pregnant, dies during kitting, and Squirrelflight is only able to find Hollykit and Lionkit.

Jaykit is found later, however

By Ashfur.

[lockandkeyhyena]

ashstar au leafpool is something that can be so personal