#bloodclan era

[burning-thistles-bt]

"Goodbye to the good life, and to daddy's little girl Gotta ripped dress, and some red nails So completely off the rails Never does anything fun, repeating the days as they come It's a countdown to the day she comes undone There's a girl and she's badder than the bad boys Psychopath, yea she'll play you like a cheap toy There's a girl and she's badder than the bad boys Look at them run, isn't it fun, didn't they tell you She's the baddest of the baddest Got no method to the madness"

Lightningfur vibes 💕

[pigeocore]

The diffrent collars colors of Scourge

[scourge-sympathiser]

SCOURGE SUNDAY 013/???

[AU] tht weird guy who keepz showing up in jaypawz dreamz

[bonefall]

while i do agree with the sentiment that bloodclan should be more nuanced as an entity i still believe it is wrong to portray them as the necessary "response" to clan injustice (haven't read the books in years but i am pretty sure that bloodclan started with no connection to the clans) / an opposition to the clan's flaws. some of the thing scourge did was out of selfishness and bloodclan isn't the other colour of the black and white debacle with the clans. the clans are heavily flawed yes, but it isn't realistic to completely say that their structure had no redeeming qualities altogether and that all outsider groups is fundamentally better than the clans.

all clans and groups are flawed in their own way and i believe we shouldnt brush past the things that other groups (the sisters and what they do with their toms *cough cough*) did solely to be able to degrade the clans and their culture.

Buddy, you're setting up a strawman. I promise you that if you look into the reduxes I've made of BloodClan, Guardians, The Sisters, and the Tribe, you will see that I don't make any of them a "flawless" alternative to Clan life.

Nor do I say that the Clans have no redeeming qualities. In fact, you can browse the "Clan Culture" tag to see the various expansions I've made to show how these traditions, values, and technological advances make Clan life so alluring.

The overarching theme of BB is that the nature of culture is change. For better AND for worse.

With respect, I think there's something insidious in the wording of "the things the other groups did." We're talking about fan responses to a work that consistently demonizes and degrades foreigners to make the Clans look like the "best way to live," justifying xenophobia. These are not real groups, they are writing choices.

In the franchise with some pretty extreme examples of misogyny, the authors said "What if bizarro world where women rule and have no men... woag..." and only includes a single Clan-alligned member of this culture, with a BAD opinion of them, who can't even do his diplomatic job because he HATES them so much.

In the same franchise that shows Fireheart getting bullied, facing prejudice, and fighting a murderous tyrant who publically executes a mixed-race character, their endgame villain is an outsider, like him, but this one IS a godless heathen who HATES love and friendship and banned families.

In the VERY same franchise which made its first non-malicious group barely able to get through an arc without needing to be saved by Clan cats, totally unable to defend themselves, framed as "whiny" for not wanting their clearly 'inferior' culture to be forcefully changed.

And I'm re-stating all this because, again, no offense to you in particular Anon, but I've been seeing a few people with a sentiment like yours lately. Complaints into a vacuum that don't make targeted critique of anyone's fanworks, gesturing at this broad "woobification" which is apparently out there somewhere over the rainbow, saying things like "well Scourge is selfish" or "well Moonlight abandoned her 13 year old" as if we haven't BEEN knew.

As if we're not all directly responding to these choices. As if I haven't written ESSAYS on this topic.

Since this was about BloodClan in particular though, and you admit you haven't read the books in years, please go back and actually read Rise of Scourge before trying to make critique of the ways fanon rewrites its origin. It's EXPLICITLY a response to the Clans, in the text, that the Erins wrote, it is canon that fanon is working with.

And you want people to take that out and approach it a different way... why? Because it's so incredulous to you that a nation forms in response to a threatening neighbor? That a common enemy through invasions is a way that people might choose to unite, and encourage their new culture to value brutality? Because you don't like the idea of Clan Culture's XENOPHOBIC BATTLE CULTURE affecting surrounding communities??

Could YOU, maybe, be doing this "woobification" thing I keep hearing about? Can I play this stupid game too? What's our stupid prize? Can it be a lollipop? Do we get stickers

TL;DR, ok.

[burning-thistles-bt]

this is so cool!!!!!!

new era bloodclan here we come <3

@burning-thistles-bt basically what i saw when i read the reveal of lightningfur (and claw) as bloodclans new leader(s)

took me roughly 3 days before i was satisfied

i found reference art for lightningfur and a head pic for nightshine, but i mostly just winged it for feathertail, claw, and tadpole

does claw have a collar? no clue, so i gave her a yellow one. because.

i made feathertail a mist marble tabby because i wanted to make her a sokoke tabby but i didnt have the motivation to do so. i didnt want to make her a boring classic tabby because silverstream is described as a very pretty cat (which to me means she doesnt have normal stripes) and feathertail is like.. silverstream with long fur. i made the stripes on her tail vaguely feather-shaped but i cant draw feathers for the life of me, so...

[pinetreepilgrimage]

I nearly cheered when The Elder’s Quest peak chapter actually talked about Oakfur, the cat that has been left to his own devices for well over a decade now. I thought they were gonna kill Oakfur off between books but I do hope he has a shot at being given an actual character like some of the RC cats. I’m actually really glad Oakfur and Mosspelt weren’t entirely forgotten cats, so consider this an appreciation post for them both!

Being apart of the series for that long, both Oakfur and Mosspelt have seen and survived many tragedies and events. Oakfur specifically has survived the aftermath of Brokenstar’s bloody leadership and the sickness that followed, The Kin, The merge of ShadowClan into SkyClan, Mudclaw's Rebellion (as a participant!)

Mosspelt has survived Splashtail’s reign, the death of all her children, The Kin’s raid on RiverClan (which she actually walked away from unlike some of her clanmates who were forced to stay), the fire on RC and the closed border situation.

They both witnessed giant plot events like The Great Journey and the destruction beforehand, The Battle with the Dark Forest, the drought, The Tigerclan situation, BloodClan battle, and many MANY historical bouts of disease.

Basically every large plot point after Into The Wild.

Some more info about Oakfur

-He’s a GIANT DICK. He canonly calls a RiverClan cat a slur during Star and gets his ass handed to him, he also watched Berrykit struggle in a fox trap. Like, he’s been an asshole for YEARS. He has these nice moments here and there but in his most recent appearance he hasn’t learned.

-Oakfur has been alive since the first arc, he was an apprentice RIGHT after Brokenstar’s rule, he’s seen the rise and fall of 5 leaders (do remember that Tigerclawstar and Nightstar’s leaderships weren’t long lasting, and Rowanstar didn’t have the longest reign either.)

- He’s mostly known for being thrown into a tree by Fireheart

- He’s trained four apprentices; Tawnypelt, Smokepaw, Ferretclaw, and Tawnypelt’s son the 2nd Tigerheartstar!

-Speaking of sickness, he’s survived being very ill several times unlike the other cats in his age bracket who died long ago to similar circumstances.

-Oakfur has actually been given a lot of opinion agency as a bg charcter, having joined Mudfur in his rebellion and years later leaving The Kin on his own accord. Which gives us a lot of questions about his morality. I think the many Erins forget about him and just use him as a vessel for SC hate but they… just kept doing that. Therefore I’m taking his character at face value. I feel like Oakfur is one of the very few remaining cats who has the early other-clans-are-enemies mindset. He acts a lot like cats in long ago super editions that had a very survival of the fittest attitude in contrast to how the Clans are now. Current era clans are a lot closer to how the DOTC clans were at the end of that series than to how they were in Tallstar’s Revenge.

Now Mosspelt!

Mosspelt is a RiverClan elder. She’s been given more focus in Frostdawn’s and in Nightheart’s POVs while they were in RiverClan.

- She’s survived 5 leaderships; Crookedstar, Leopardstar, and Mistystar’s being long healthy reigns while Splashtail’s ended quickly and Icestar’s has just begun. She was also a survivor of the Kin’s raid on RiverClan.

- She was a foster mother to Feathertail and Stormfur, though a mysterious queen named Greenflower was supoosed to take that role. She later vanished from everything as a handful of first arc cats did. I should write about her too. Mosspelt was actually super friendly towards Graystripe, and loved fostering his children. Though she did have maternal children; Dawnflower, Robinkit, Woodkit, and the late RC medicine cat Willowshine.

- Mosspelt had 3 apprentices: Swallowtail, Pebblefoot, and Perchwing.

- Mosspelt is most likely the oldest cat in the Clans right now, being a queen in Fire and Ice. Mistystar may have been impossibly older than her but she got nine lives which extended it quite a bit. Mosspelt survived with only one AND outlived her.

-Mosspelt doesn’t take a hostile role in the RC conflict, making her one of the only RC cats with clean paws.

-She survived a direct fox attack

Here’s some offical art for these characters

Mosspelt

her design is shockingly consistent.

Oakfur

He’s neat your honor

Welp, here’s to these forgotten old people, I hope they survive this arc or are given character roles that give them interesting deaths or development.

[animatewarriorcats]

Jaggedtooth! Originally named Snag, he was a twplegplace loner that joined Tigerclaw during his destroy Thunderclan era. Becomes Jaggedtooth when they all join Shadowclan, where he becomes Rowanstar's mentor. He defects from Shadowclan after Tigerclaw gets one hit ko'd by Scourge to join Bloodclan. He then attacks Tigerclaw's son Bramblepaw during the battle of Bloodclan, but is driven off when Tawnypaw rushes to defend him, and he isn't seen again. He's kind of terrible and acts out of self interest, with no loyalties at all it seems. Makes him a pretty interesting bad guy lol.

[thunderclangens]

Allegiances - Moon 0

The cats in and outside of the forest, a few moons after the battle with BloodClan. Frostpaw, formerly Scourge, steps into clan life on unsteady and unsure paws after being spared by Firestar. Squirrelkit and Leafkit have just been born, and, hopefully, an era of peace is on the horizon for ThunderClan.

All cats I've added into the game. Includes deceased cats and cats outside of the clan. This will eventually have descriptions but for now, here's the names.

ThunderClan -

Leader - Firestar Deputy - Sandstorm Apprentice: Snowpaw Medic - Cinderpelt Warriors - Mousefur, Greystripe, Ferncloud, Brightheart, Swiftpath, Cloudtail, Brackenfur, Thornclaw, Longtail Apprentices - Snowpaw, Scourge* Queens - Willowpelt (nursing Rainkit, Sootkit and Sorrelkit), Sandstorm (nursing Squirrelkit and Leafkit) Elders - Frostfur, Speckletail, and Goldenflower

Cats Outside The Clans -

Barley, Ravenpaw, Princess, Smudge

StarClan -

Thunderstar, Jake, Redtail, Yellowfang, Spottedleaf, Lionheart, and Whitestorm

Dark Forest -

Mapleshade, Brokenstar, Darkstripe, and Tigerstar

[warrior-cats-rewritten]

Some Dark Forest members that either are put there in the rewrite or little OCs (that aren't really important too often but the Dark Forest needs more than 10 cats come onnn)

Version 1.1: Lizardstripe is now a pretty different kitty and is no longer on this list, her ex Mudstep is here however, and Leopardstar's morality has finally been cemented.

Version 1.2: Clarified Batear and Fenneldust's crimes, as well as recreated Clear Sky's role as no longer self inflicted, but rather a punishment from his first victim.

Spiderclaw - Spottedleaf's killer instead of Clawface, Brokenstar's lackey.

Thornclaw - Supports the Dark Forest, dies during the Great Battle and banished upon death.

Mudstep (Lizardstripe's mate) - Though he had an okay relationship with Runningnose, and was proud to raise a Medicine Cat son, he was a terrible mate and poor excuse for a father, the cherry on top being his physical abuse of Brokenkit. Abuse of kittens and mates is not tolerated by Starclan.

Rabbitswoop - Riverclan Dark Forest Trainee, he takes one of Mistystar's lives before Hawkfrost kills him.

Milktail - Born during the Brokenstar era and hates her non-clan born adopted brother. She supports Tigerstar, Blackstar makes her deputy after her "I'm sooo sorry' act that actually is convincing. She and Mistfang (Tigerstar's surviving sister) try to kill Blackstar only to get stopped by her adoptive brother. She is a piece of the Blood Will Spill Blood Prophecy (which you can imagine drove her mad), along with Hawkfrost killing Mistfang.

Mistfang - Speaking of. Tigerclaw's dickhead sister. Her attitude stemmed not from 'being spoiled' or anything like that. But the fact that her brother was praised for his strength non-stop, which made this once sweetheart begin to act more like her brother, on a very dangerous path. She thinks her brother is perfect, and idolized him. She followed him to the Dark Forest after being killed by her own nephew.

Nestfur - Another Brokenstar lackey, killed by Mudclaw during the Battle Of Bloodclan.

Parsnipfang - Shinecloud's brother. Oakstar's brother-in-law, Birchface and Frecklewish's uncle. Tried to kill the leader and abused his mate to gain power, Oaksnap (Oakstar) killed him before he could kill the leader, becoming deputy after his death, but something feels... Familiar, about that scenario.

Ratscar - Dark Forest Trainee who kills (yes, KILLS) Blackstar with Redwillow's help (not that he'll let Redwillow have any credit), before Ferncloud beats him into paste.

Rotflower - Rainflower.

Leopardstar - Genuine Tiger Law supporter who tried to instill the mentality into Hawkfrost, and allowed Tigerclan to get out of control/endorsing it.

Onestar - Prison Sentence, but not for too long. Roughly 1 and a half moons.

Sol - After his death, he is banished here and he is PISSED about it, everyone picks on him, guy basically has a kick-me sign on his butt.

Frecklewish - HANG ON! Let me explain. She CHOSE to be in the Dark Forest, because she realizes what Thunderclan has done, and no one but Mapleshade was punishes for trying to give them justice. She can travel the border at will, but spends most of her time in the Dark Forest.

Batear - Fenneldust's boyfriend who helped cover up the murder and supplied the 'weapon', a Boar.

Fenneldust - Thunderclan cat who killed the Medicine cat that gave an omen that she would make a bad deputy. Gee, I wonder why?

Quick Water - Apologizing as you bleed out is not enough. She is one of the OLDEST spirits there, and is mostly uninvolved in things.

Oakstar - Only punished after a huge uproar Frecklewish started. But he seems to be missing. How odd...

One Eye - The OG Dark Forest King.

Star Flower - A genuine force of evil, like she should have always been. Dark Magic practices and trying to destroy the Clans leads to her getting trapped in the Dark Forest.

Clear Sky - Due to not being leader, his toxic influence is now seen by the spirits of Starclan. Bright Storm had the most perfect punishment for him. You wanna make borders? You can be one. To protect the cats of Starclan from the ones in the Dark Forest, Bright Storm and the other cats of Starclan sacrificed his spirit to become the fog border around the area, the fog choking and thick, just like his thick white fur. Now only appears as blue eyes in the shadows and a disembodied voice. His spirit has whittled away, now gaining holes in it. Not to mention the... things... rumored to be laying within the fog.

Gray Wing - The OG Curse Layer. His horrid enabling behavior has damned him, but he'll never see it that way. He technically still roams the earth, but he SHOULD be here. His hatred is toxic, and he plans to destroy the Stars of the Clans, starting with Riverclan....

[splashspeck]

Concept I'm jotting down here and may flesh out later but it's nearly midnight and I need to go to bed:

Warrior Cats Royalty AU, complete with political marriages and a fun twist

SilverFire arranged marriage ruined when his best friend knocks up his wife and she dies giving birth to her kits out of wedlock.

Tigerclaw is the result of a political marriage with Pinestar, then Pineheart, of Thunderstar's line with Leopardfoot of Shadowstar's line, and because he's Shadowstar's kin he can take over when Brokenstar's line dies out and Blackstar, who is Shadowstar's kin as well, is exiled with his littermates dead in this au.

During the Tigerclan Era Mistyfoot's kits are arranged to Tigerclan allies as partial mates partial hostages. Primrosepaw is arranged to a young Bloodclan warrior(idk who yet) who Scourge names his heir out of obligation. Perchpaw is arranged to Tawnypaw. And Reedpaw is arranged to one of Blackstar's kids he gets to have in this AU.

Also. The fun twist; if you aren't related to the Founder(s), you don't get nine lives. Nightpelt, Leopardfoot, and Sunstar were actually all Regents holding power in lieu of cats either not able to or not ready to take leadership.

[harriertail]

Not the anon who talked about it but Scourge as Firestar’s dad has some interesting potential.

Like what if Rusty had been born in Bloodclan and ran to the clans.

What their relationship could’ve been like? Wonder if it would effect Princess she’d be in closer contact.

Rusty born in a pre-BloodClan era Twolegplace full of danger, fleeing to the noble Clans; and his father Tiny, who is grief stricken believing he lost his son, raising his daughter alone and building his own Clan of street cats to secure Twolegplace, growing colder and colder by the day as he struggles to control the city and oversee the next generations of kits amidst constant bloodshed and hunger. Fireheart meets Princess on the ThunderClan border years later. She doesn’t know how to tell him his father isn’t the same. She gives him a kit to raise.

[burning-thistles-bt]

Next chapter is up!

this is the one in which Tigerstar realizes he's effed up <3

[yokojpg]

Oc-tober day 5, redesigned oc

So what changed? well, the species for one

Louise was originally created as a Warrior cats oc in 2020, because i was in the era where all of my ocs where warrior cats adjacent in some way, mainly because i didn't know how to draw humans, so when i started watching anime and brute forced myself into drawing people, i decided to humanize most of my still used warrior cats oc

originally she was the..."leader" of an unofficial rogue clan (something like bloodclan) thus, it was sort of like her being a mafiosa, im so smart! the only thing that didn't change is that she still kills people, good for her!

[the-owl-tree]

What happens after gray wing dies in your au? What happens to bumble?

When Sky pulls back from his brother’s dead body, watching the blood drop down highrock, the sky clears. The storm begins to move on to reveal the bright full moon, it’s light casting a shadow with the trees of the five great oaks- a shadow that divides each group’s leader. It’s clear what must happen, that Gray’s attempt to keep them together only postponed the inevitable: they are to separate.

The cats that fought alongside Gray and died are not along the spirits who come to them. They are not accepted into the afterlife that is currently being formed. Their fates lie somewhere else alongside Gray’s restless and angry spirit (a spirit that is invoked when fights break out at a gathering).

I imagine this is the era where the base of the Clans is established: ranks, hierarchies, borders. It’s not the brand era of violence and war that comes to define them, but it is where the seeds are planted. Otherwise, Moth Flight is still the one to discover the moonstone, and I might shuffle the code a bit but otherwise it’s fairly similar in who creates what.

Bumble I’d initially envisioned as the sole survivor of the massacre of Gray’s supporters. She’s not a fighter but she was valued for her kindness, honesty, and networking skills that she and Dove shared. I initially wanted her to be the sole keeper of the original story but I’m thinking of making my BloodClan Founder-ish Bumble au canon to the dotc au. She sows the seeds of a community, creates some light etiquette to what would eventually lead to the creation of the Clan when Scourge emerges. She’s far from a badass leader but she’s the kind of leader that the scared city cats (some who escaped the Clans) need.

[bonefall]

Does Wildfur (cat mentioned as having their back broken and dying of lung infection) get any expansion? They're only mentioned once but knowing how bad the family trees are im guessing they've been stuffed in somewhere (plus i love the name)

My DUDE!!!

MASSIVE expansion. GIGANTIC one. ACTUALLY shows up on screen and is an important supporting character, I actually need to re-do this character summary at some point because it leaves a LOT of the new stuff out.

Wildfur is going to show up as an important character in two side stories; Blackstar's, and a brand new novella for Cinderpelt.

Cinderpelt's is just a fun side novella about her friendship with Littlecloud. I don't even really have a message in mind for it. It's just exploring the brief but fascinating era where the Clan cats were trading with BloodClan.

Wildfur gets disabled by a car in that one, and Cinderpelt and Littlecloud put their heads together to invent that mobility device.

I want to show the "evolution" of some technologies as the series progresses, so this is the mobility device that Jessy eventually improves upon for Briarlight!

It helps him overcome a really bad state of depression, which was what was causing him to lay around and catch infection over and over.

In Blackstar's SE, Wildfur's just a friend of Blackstar's.

He's an example of the sorts of cats that TigerClan and Brokenstar would have discarded or given up on. Blackstar's SE is about him sitting with that.

I kinda want him to be the father of Ambermoon through surrogacy. Brightheart and Cloudtail are the bioparents. He just kinda feels like a dude with a punk daughter with a name like that.

He goes on the Great Journey in that mobility device, but needs to be carried at several points.

The Clans aren't going to leave behind the old and disabled like in canon jesus christ. That was super fucked up actually

"Elders are respected and cared for :)" my ASS

In terms of personality;

He's super vain and haughty, VERY proud person. Rockstar vibes.

Takes great care of his hair

Different people take their disability differently, especially when it massively alters your life. Compared to Briarlight, Wildfur actually had an easier time adjusting once his depression subsided.

Unlike Briar, he was never a very active or athletic person.

He doesn't mind being an elder, it means he gets to do whatever he wants and boss apprentices around. Pretty sweet deal tbh.

Campbound activities are more his style. He keeps an extra eye on the kits, likes to help out kitchen patrol. Has a lot to do with flax processing.

[blimbo-buddy]

Regarding the Twolegplace Culture Expansion hiatus

To summarize for those who may be in the dark about it: My Twolegplace Culture Expansion was a series of posts that covered my attempts to properly flesh out different Twolegplaces that we see in the series, stemming from my liking for the Kittypets.

So around month back, an ask that I had gotten from one of my mutuals mentioned the Twolegplace Culture series of posts. I had answered with a sort of “summarization” as to why the series has been put onto a long hold, and I feel that the same also somewhat applies to my wc rewrite in general.

It’s unfortunate that I’ve come to this at the moment: But the series won’t be continuing

Well that’s only half-true. We can more accurately say it’s on a very, very indefinite hiatus.

When the series of posts started gaining traction I was super excited to start working on more stuff for the Twolegplaces and during this phase I had written a few rough drafts and outlines for some big posts:

A revamp of the Demonios post (What the Twolegplaces call evil demons)

Epochs and Eras: Chelford (A huge history post about Chelford’s history)

Recipes and tools

Dogs and other city-dwelling animals

Bloodclan, Skyclan, and Warriorclan

Marriages

Figureheads of the Chelford Raids

Patrons

The Flickering (Ghosts that haven’t moved on from Earth)

A Molly Named Johnny (A cat’s adaptation of “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”)

But I ended up slowly losing that steam through a bunch of shit: School, personal life, decreasing motivation, and comparing my posts and rewrite to other rewrites. The latter one especially just made me feel like total shit and made me feel like I was being a total hack (Didn’t make it better when I got an anon hate about its quality). Coupled with my real life, I slowly started losing motivation about it.

Writing for these posts became absolute chores and not fun anymore for me and I stopped caring about it all together. “A Molly Named Johnny” from the previously mentioned list was a last effort that I just wanted to get out already.

Of course at some point I felt a bit dejected from how little attention that the posts were getting but it blew over pretty quickly. In terms of the rewrite I had, the last one was the Tom Fate post, which itself is also tied to Twolegplace Culture. I decided this one was going to be the “last” one because it was something that I considered to be a good “sendoff”.

I say that the series is on a very indefinite hiatus because I’m still unsure if it’s a project I even see worth going back to and continuing. And I feel that way even more now seeing as I’m trying to balance College and writing/drawing for Bug World No Mercy, a new project of mine. Right now I’d rather put more thought and effort into that story than try and expand upon an already existing one, especially when so many other people have been doing it for longer to a much larger degree.

I keep repeating myself but the project’s status is an indefinite hiatus, but I unfortunately wouldn’t hold out hope that the project will be continued any more.