#dawn of the clans au

[nonbinary-weirdo]

I need a fic of Gray Wing leading Jagged Peak, Turtle Tail, Jackdaws Cry, Rainswept Flower and Moon Shadow to the Lake instead of following the Sun Trail

Then they'd not have to deal with Clear Sky's horse shit, meet One Eye or the other dangerous rouges and loners.

Turtle Tail has Gray Wings kits, allows a few good loners into their group, and Thunder is still born but from Rainswept Flowers litter with another loner ginger tom called Sage Runner, Bumble lives in the Horseplace but visits to share gossip on the Island (pretend it has stepping stones due to a drout) and some cats live on the moorland but Jagged Peak moves to the Quarry in the forest part of the lake with a silver tabby queen his age called Dew Drop.

GrayClan has begun (or should it be WingClan cuz Gray 'Wing'?)

[justapigeonn]

// minor blood warning

(rough wip) women's rage <3

from an au where tom shows up trying to take the kits and turtle tail intercepts him and nails him where he stands

[moonlessnight-things]

Some time ago, I've stumbled upon posts made by @skinwretch and @blimbo-buddy about an au there Bumble is a daughter of One Eye, and my own ideas spiralled out of control. So, Flower Bumble AU! Star Flower and Bumble are born and raised as a part of the proto Sisters group. One Eye, their father, lived with his own rouges amoungst them, and had quite ambitious goals for Star Flower, seing her as the next leader for his group or the Sisters. I feel like the siblings have a very strong bond, despite Star knowing that Bumble left mostly to escape the influence of her father. Bumble worries a lot about her sister, but Star always reassures her that its the live that she wants (despite having very complicated feelings about being held up to such high standarts) The plot of this au mostly goes as in canon, except the fact that Bumble can freely see ghosts without a proper ritual. Star Flower comes in the area as a scout of her group, and decides to stay with her sister for a bit, and, oh, she has a roommate! What's a "clan" though? ...Bumble, what do you mean theres been more ghosts in the area?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN SOMEONE KILLED A CAT AND TOOK HER CHILDREN??? So, yea, Bumble and Star Flower are weary of thouse "clan cats" coming into their territorry, surely nothing bad will come of it, right?

[the-owl-tree]

some dotc three refs(?) i always thought it was a missed opportunity not to have them play a bigger part in the arc so uuhh au where they do? the tribe doesn't exist in this so everyone is just a regular kitty

jay is a loner who lives near highstones and the unofficial apprentice of midnight, lion is part of one-eye's group and has a nasty reputation as his strongest fighter, and dove is a housecat who knows pretty much everything that happens around the area

[ofowlsdinosaursanddragons]

"Crack go your bones as you trip and flee Snap goes your grip on reality I return, now you learn No fate for you but to burn”

-Man of the Internet’s Down to Hell.

Wanted to do a lil redraw of this amazing artwork by @monsoon-of-art and their Pokerus au!

[rayan12sworld]

💙Dreams of Dawn

By:Reverie (cl410)

Summary:

Uncle Jiang wouldn’t look him in the eyes anymore.

The realization only fueled the anxiety that clawed frantically inside him, scraping his heart raw and leaving wounds that stung like fire with every breath. Something had changed. Something drastic, something that left Jiang Fengmian drifting around Lotus Pier as though in mourning and Madam Yu brimming with vindictive pleasure.

“Do…” Jiang Cheng hesitated, cast a quick, wary glance around them before asking in hushed tones, “Do you think my mother has something to do with it?”

Wei Wuxian looked up, eyes sharp, assessing, wondering if Jiang Cheng had also noticed Madam Yu’s glittering stare. If he’d also felt the ominous, bone-deep certainty that she’d had a hand in whatever terrible thing awaited Wei Wuxian the moment shijie and Jiang Cheng left Lotus Pier.

Chapter:5/25

Words:33,125

Status:ongoing

[javatello]

It’s time.

[residents-of-the-darkforest]

Bumble's Curse AU (DOTC) (half-baked)

The Bullshit

I think what really annoys me about Bumble's death aside from the sexism and xenophobia and the sending her back to an abuser and not doing anything against Clear Sky is the fact that THEY AT LEAST COULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING WITH IT.

Think about it. The first main character of the series was Rusty/Firestar, a kittypet who proved himself over and over in spite of his origins and became legend among the Clans.

Then we flashback to the creation of the Clans and have Bumble, who was rejected for her kittypet origins and.......nothing comes from it. Literally nothing reasonable.

What They Could Have Done

They could have still killed her, much as that scene absolutely sucked, if it was to intentionally show the Clans' xenophobia, to show the Clans' flaws and how that will eventually lead to Firestar changing things. But rejecting Bumble as a Clanmate was seen as a completely good thing??

Like they could have deliberately made their stories correlate in opposite directions.

So what if the Clans actually faced consequences for literally not helping Bumble when she was abused and leading her on the path of death?

I like the idea of her relating to water or ice, as that's the opposite of fire.

My Main Idea

She becomes a crying spirit, so distraught from her death and how she was treated by everyone--friends to enemies--in her life, that her ghost, if seen, is seen always crying

(cats can't cry, but in the books they shrug, show the whites of their eyes, have kits talk and open their eyes at like one day, so I think it's fine)

The emotions engulf her entirely, so that all she can feel in her death is utter sorrow. And because ~spirit powers~ those tears are the waters that flood SkyClan--the Clan that was founded by her killer. Because she sees how many kittypets reside in it, and if she wasn't so destroyed, so constricted in how she could feel as a spirit doomed to always feel only sadness, she would have been glad for them, she would have been happy!

But because she was a crying spirit, she could only cry at the unfairness of it. Why could they get the life that she had wished for herself?

And, as Patchpelt once said in Forest of Secrets: "I remember the last time the river overflowed, many moons ago. Cats from all Clans drowned. Prey drowned, too, and we went hungry even though our paws stayed dry. This is not just RiverClan's problem."

Maybe Bumble had to do with that flood as well? It's not seen in books, so it could have happened for a number of reasons. Maybe when Featherstorm met with a kittypet or had a kittypet's kits? Maybe, to tie them further, when Firestar was born and she could feel the prophecy, and knew of a kittypet that would be accepted into the Clans and become a wonderful leader?

As well, there's the flood in Bramblestar's Storm--though the kittypets join afterward. What if Benny was destined to become someone great, almost like Firestar, but this knowledge upset Bumble further, resulting in the flood.

As well, Shadowstar lost a life to drowning--and she was the leader to reject Bumble.

To make this short and not put in detail every water-related incident, here's a list of those that drowned, and thus could have possibly been killed (unintentionally and unknowingly) by Bumble:

Splashpaw [died offscreen in Dawn]

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Woodkit + Robinkit [Leopardstar's Honour]

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Tadpole [Tigerstar and Sasha] (kittypet that would have joined the Clans, as would Hawk and Moth, but they survived)

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Lichenfur [Skyclan and The Stranger]

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Flametail [Night Whispers]

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Blackstar [offscreen in Bramblestar's Storm]

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Seedpaw [Bramblestar's Storm]

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Pebblefoot [offscreen in Bramblestar's Storm]

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Grasspelt [offscreen in Bramblestar's Storm]

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Snipkit [Hawkwing's Journey] (Skyclan + being chased away by someone who was once a kittypet possibly induced Bumble's crying??)

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Juniperclaw -[AVOS]

IMPORTANT TO NOTE:

You may say that Bumble's no killer, and I would agree with you! In this case, the deaths are not murders, Bumble is not killing them intentionally--she likely doesn't even realize that she's killing them at all.

She is constantly crying in her afterlife, and whenever she sees something that especially triggers the deep sorrow inside her (like something that reminds her of her own pain or the life she could have had), a flood results--and the flood could kill anyone that gets caught in it, regardless of if they, specifically, caused her sadness.

Then, what if someone--Firestar, Princess, Echosong, another kittypet or kittypet-turned warrior finds her, and breaks the trance that had engulfed Bumble for years?

And she realizes the monster that she had become, that she made herself into, that the Clans made her into--no, the Clan founders, because these cats alive now were innocent. Just like she was. and she breaks down. The numb exterior that had built after decades of living as a crying spirit shatters, and Bumble is Bumble again.

More ideally, everyone who killed/rejected her apologize deeply. Maybe she accepts, maybe she doesn't, she's just glad to have the pain mostly gone, because she spent too long suffering and making others suffer because of it, and she just wants to move on.

And together, they send a message to the Clans to not neglect help from anyone who may need it, regardless of where they come from, and to think twice before rejecting someone based solely on where they come from. -- At least then they could admit the whole xenophobia problem in Warriors and try to fix it.

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This is still very wonky, especially that ending part. My brain is still fried to blackened ash from final exams, but I thought of this and wanted to get it out there.

I think Bumble would be more interesting of a character if she was, you know, a character and not a prop, written only to be abused, neglected, killed, and forgotten. And I think it would be interesting if the Clans' xenophobia was called out and dealt with instead of something that's treated as perfectly okay and normal.

[theanoninyourinbox]

Didn't Grey wing also not think highly of Bumble? Would the story change to have different versions, mayne one where Grey wing tried sending Bee away, or another where he didn't want Bee at first due to conflicts, but later defended her?

So things are quite a bit different in the AU (plus I haven’t read those particular books in a while) so let me explain…

Grey Wing knows Clear Sky very well. He’s power hungry and yearns to be in control of everything. But Grey Wing is loyal to a fault, and thinks he can keep his brother from becoming a monster. And Clear Sky THINKS he knows Grey Wing. Someone in the way of his goals. So when the group begins forming the Proto-Clans, and Grey Wing speaks out on Clear Sky’s treatment of Jagged Peak, the tom chases his brother out of the forest, two obstacles gone. And Turtle Tail is left behind, small and terrified.

But not quite.

Grey Wing finally saw that his brother wasn’t going to listen to him, and confided in his dear friend Turtle Tail. She was horrified, and unsure of what to do…but she was also a great actress and stealthy as the night. When Grey Wing and Jagged Peak were cast out, she played the part of a subservient victim, to the point that Clear Sky claimed that they were mates. He told her everything - every grab at territory, each want for power, all his desires…and she fed them to Grey Wing every time she could manage.

She’d had just about enough when she heard about Storm dying, and Clear Sky scoffing about useless wastes of resources. Then Bumble ran into a patrol, and Turtle Tail hit her limit. Hearing Clear Sky threaten a queen? And demanding the kits, even though Bumble, all scarred and afraid, couldn’t get to them? So Turtle Tail stepped in, and as soon as she had a moment alone with Bumble, vowed to get her and her kits to Grey Wing and his growing Clowder.

The next morning, the mollies set out, and when the pair reached Tom, Turtle Tail let out all of her frustrations. As soon as the kits and Bumble were out of sight. Tom stood no chance. The mollies and their precious cargo made a (ha) beeline for Grey Wing’s camp, and arrived to the joy of Thunder and Grey Wing.

A few Gatherings later, after hiding for as long as she could, Turtle Tail, Grey Wing, Tall Shadow, Wind Runner, and a conflicted River Ripple faced down Clear Sky’s Clowder. The only thing that saved the power-hungry tom was the first appearance of Starclan. They foresaw five Clans, and would make it happen.

From that day onward, Clear Sky, then Skystar, was a Leader to watch. He wasn’t the bravest or cleverest or fastest, but he seemed determined to do right…it had nothing to do with Fluttering Bird floating on the edges of his vision. Or her words at that gated Gathering…Power is like sand, brother, hold it too tightly and lose it all. How will those you care for judge you, brother, when you are judged? Will you walk the stars with me? Or be the ruler of a starless land?

(He never stopped wanting more, never stopped believing he DESERVED more. His spirit would often sit at the base of Fivetrees’ Skyclan tree, seething. His hate grew into the roots, and poisoned it. His refusal to change doomed his Clan to scatter, and only reform from the Kittypets and Loners and other Clans he despised so.)

[ails-of-ardor-au]

Since you’re trying to focus on DOTC first (which actually makes a ton of sense instead of working backwards I cannot believe I’ve never done it that way lol)-

How would Riverstar change? I know canon wise he comes from a completely different group of cats but fanon wise he’s very often depicted as the most chill, accepting cats of the founders. So with the changes to how the clans vs kittypets are I’m curious.

Just thought about this too but if you decide the leaders don’t get nine lives how would they’re changing of suffix go about? Like they get this sorta protection thing but I don’t know if they’d of at that period had figured out Starclan itself and changed to take on the star suffix

I haven’t quite tackled River Ripple just yet… But I have some thoughts on him that I’ll keep tucked away just for now.

This might be an unpopular opinion, actually, but I always found it a little weird that half of the Clans weren’t founded by the mountain cats?? If somebody wants to try their hand at swaying my opinion on that, I am all ears! I want to try to stick to major canon elements as close as possible, but… I’d definitely like to see y’all’s thoughts ^^

The suffix for leaders arises from their connection with StarClan. That doesn’t change. They are thought to be the only ones to communicate directly to the spirits safe in the stars, which sets them apart from their Clanmates pretty heavily. Their name is solely a status thing, something to further separate themselves as “special” or “other”, and they are called “-star” when they return home to their Clan as their proper leader.

[omen-of-the-stars]

after many months of procrastinating, it's done! the refs for my warriors fic!

listed in allegiance order: Furled Bracken, Running Horse, Cloudy Sun, Whispering Breeze, Dawn River, Broken Shadow, Falling Rain, Falcon Swoop, Stone Song, Chasing Clouds, Dark Whiskers, Jagged Lightning, Shy Fawn, Rising Moon, Owl Feather, Fish Leap, Fallen Leaves, Dove's Wing (renamed Dove Flight), Jay Wing, Half Moon and Rushing Water, who you can probably guess who will become.

[cryptidclaw]

Rise of Change Lore; The Ancient Orders 

-The clans have been renamed to Orders-

The Order cats are descendants of the cats who lost their homes during the Great Sickness, and they were founded not long after the apocalypse. 

The Order’s original home was the Lake territory, it is where they were founded, and where Thunder Order, Shadow Order, Wind Order, River Order and Sky Order all lived for several generations. However eventually a community of humans came and soon the Orders would be driven out. 

Sky Order’s territory had been within a portion of an abandoned human town, their name coming from how they liked to climb to the tops of the buildings, and spent much of their time on roofs. When the humans came back to Lake Territory, they first took over the abandoned town, resulting in Sky Order being driven out. 

Sky Order warned the other Orders that soon the humans would come for them too, they told them they should come with them on a journey over the mountains to find a new home, but the other four Orders were stubborn and refused. Sky Order traveled alone over the mountains, many stayed there, becoming the Mountain Colony, while the rest traveled farther to the abandoned city on the other side of the mountains. There on the side of the city farthest from what would eventually become the Forest Territories, the last of the Sky Order settled.

The remaining Sky Order cats eventually split apart, many joining other loner groups within their piece of the city, and slowly much of Sky Order’s descendants forgot about their history. 

Sky Order had been right though, the humans began encroaching on the other Order’s territory, taking prey and inhabiting more and more of the area. The Orders before this point were at peace with one another, they lived mostly without battle, and the border lines were more of a suggestion. Cats in different Orders were friends, family, mates even, but after the humans began taking what was vital to the Orders, cats began to become more protective. 

Eventually the other four Orders had to make their way across the mountains, but this time, despite their fighting, they did it together. Some cats stayed in the Mountain Colony, but most found their way to the Forest Territory. In their new home, their rivalry did not cease and the Orders fought heavily amongst themselves for their parts of the territory. In the Forest Territory the Orders took up a more battle centric and divided way of life, and this would become their way of life, with the rivalries they formed lasting for generations. 

[nonbinary-weirdo]

AU of DOTC When a loner she cat runs into Bumble after Tom has been abusing her.

She takes her to River Ripples camp.

River Ripple hears how Gray Wing and Tall Shadow told her 'kittypets cant survive in the wild' nonsense and even while shes in trouble with Tom. Even Turtle Tails turned on the poor thing.

River Ripples more determined to NOT be like either Clear Sky or any mountain cat whose as cruel as that. (He had a gay crush on Gray Wing up til now)

He accepts Bumble, tends to her wounds and even tells her 'I think you're beautiful' after looking at her.

She becomes his deputy after driving One Eye onto the Thunderpath right at the exact moment an army van crushes him (takes place during WW1) all part of her stradegy.

Bumbles earned her clanmates respect and friendship.

[flipseed]

The Rewritten Timeline

Period One

- Ancients: LionClan, TigerClan, LeopardClan rule the forest, told through dramatic epics of lions getting their manes, tigers their stripes, and leopards their spots.

- Dawn: DOTC except they do not come from the Tribe of Rushing Water or the ancient cats from the lake. they are descendants of tigers and lions and leopards, with the five clans taking traits from the three big ones and dividing the forest amongst them to share in peace and harmony. there's the in between the AE and DOTC, with the Tale of Two Brothers (Gray Wing & Clear Sky), One Eye's Demise which created the Dark Forest, the Bloodiest Battle and the creation of StarClan, and Moth Flight's Vision which led to the Moonstone and creation of medicine cats. Thunderstar and Skystar are not father/son in this au. All Clan founders are the same age in this au 👍

- Might of Justice/Code Era: the warrior code is established in a series of events that have since become fables. The tradition of the Gathering on the full moon is also established by Birchstar of SkyClan after the events of Cloudberry's Lament. Half-moon meeting for medicine cats is also established in this era by Swiftfoot of WindClan during the events of The Medicine Cats Decide

- Skyfall Era: SkyClan gets driven out. The name initially puts blame on SkyClan, but this era is eventually referred to as StarClan's Failing or The Four's Secret in modern versions of the stories

Period Two

- Golden Era: After SkyClan was forced out of their home, the four remaining Clans seemed to prosper, proving to those who sympathized with SkyClan that they were better off without them and the four Clans were righteous. Peace and harmony were restored for a brief period, until Ripplestar's attack

- Bloodstained Era: The Clans quickly fell into old habits of killing and plundering one another, still relatively lawless in regards to battles and borders. Four new rules were added during this era in order to prevent the copius amount of bloodshed that had happened without rules to guide the Clan cats. The Clans realized that in order to distinguish themselves from rogues, they had to maintain some semblance of dignity and honor as well as respect for each other

Period Three

- Secrecy Era: The Clans stopped relying on each other and Gatherings became short due to each Clan trying to prevent inter-Clan romances after Mapleshade's death. Oakstar is also conducting his raids on Twolegplace during this time in order to appease StarClan and make sure none of his warriors betray him again

- Thunder's Beginning Era: Goosefeather's birth marks the beginning of this era. His prophecies changed ThunderClan, and by extension all five Clans, forever. Pinestar's Secret was added to the code during this era and an interpretation of the code began to gain traction: where loyalty is stressed, might = right, and some rules are deemed not as important or are tossed completely. This era ends with Brokenstar succeeding Raggedstar

- Fire Alone Era: Rusty is brought into ThunderClan and eventually becomes Firestar. This era covers the events of the first series and ends with Scourge's demise. This era also establishes the banning of cruel renaming in the code. Also Longtail is made deputy instead of Graystripe at the end 👍. After Longtail loses his vision, he steps down as deputy and then Graystripe is chosen 😊.

Period Four

- Midnight Era: This era covers the events of Brambleclaw and crew leaving to the Clans making it to the lake

- Sunset Era: Begins with Tallstar making Onestar leader instead of Mudclaw and basically the second half of TNP. Ends with Firestar choosing Brambleclaw as his deputy in replacement of the missing Graystripe

Period Five

Some cats argue if Period Five and Four are actually separate, since all the events that happened are so close together time-wise, but others argue they are distinct and separate due to the different prophecies that ruled both periods

- Beyond Stars Era: Covers basically all of PoT, with changes to who knows about the Three and Sol's influence and Firestar dying in the fire scene. Hollyleaf's Gathering outburst is what officially adds the medicine cats can't have kits rule to the code

- Omens/Apocalypse Era: Covers all of OotS, with Bramblestar taking over ThunderClan and Rowanstar taking over ShadowClan. The Clans are uneasy with Hollyleaf's disappearance, since they all thought she was part of the Three. Dovewing's discovery of her own powers puts most cats' minds at ease. There are small groups of cats in each Clan that fear the Three and their power and believe they are going to bring the worst and destroy the Clans with their power. This era ends with the Great Battle

- Recovery Era: Dovewing's Silence & Bramblestar's Storm take place during this time, where the Clans are trying to decide how to deal with the DF trainees and the loss of a good chunk of their Clanmates. Two new rules are added to the code during this time. One for dealing with DF trainees and Bramblestar's rule about helping the Clans

Period Six

- Return of SkyClan Era: covers all of AVoS, Hawkwing's Journey, and Tigerheart's Shadow. The Kin stays for longer this time, Onestar and Darktail still die together but at the end instead, and Tree's mediator position is added to the code

- Longest Night/Cruel Season/Ashfur's Reign Era: begins with the long leaf-bare and ends with Bristlefrost's double death and the restructuring of the code

[hupla222]

Second Round even better than the first. Two batches coming your way. Finished up the designs for both the Pearl Clan and the Galaxy Team/Volo so I'm dumping them both into one post. I really like how the Pearl Clan came, or maybe that's just because there is less blue this time (seriously why is there so much blue in character's designs in this game). First off Pearl Clan:

Next up Galaxy Team + Volo in the bottom right:

[loulou3010]

Heyyyy .Whats up .As you may know i love thunder from dotc(dawn of the clans).He is just amazing.Well alomost amazing, i would like to change some things in his story 😁.Would you like a thunder au .Tell me in the comments