#deadstars AU

[machinegrl]

[quiverpaw]

my ideal windclan

[longstarau]

Longstar AU — Chapter Twenty

   “You have bees in your brain, Firestar!” Leopardstar growled, “And so do your warriors. I knew that ThunderClan warriors were always bee brained,” She gazed at Stormfur, nestled in between Graystripe and Brambleclaw. “And now my own warriors seem to be catching it.”

   “Don’t say mouse-dung about my son!” Graystripe growled.

   “Graystripe.” Firestar hissed, narrowing his eyes. “I understand your anger. Trust me, I feel the same,” He cast a glare at Leopardstar. “You're saying you don’t believe this message from StarClan because it goes against what'd you'd like to hear? Sounds as if you're the one with bees in your brain.”

   “There is no reason for RiverClan to leave the forest.” Leopardstar narrowed her eyes. “I have no qualms with the rest of you leaving. RiverClan has the river—we have our fish, we have our protection. We'll be fine here.”

   “If that’s what you wish, Leopardstar.” Deadstar dipped his head, flicking his tail. “It’s not safe for the rest of us. ThunderClan's camp has been destroyed. They're having to stay in our camp.. and who knows how long that will be safe for. ShadowClan has already spotted them in their territory, mowing down trees. And if you think that RiverClan will fare fine.. than okay. Stay. But we'll be leaving for our families and friends safeties.”

   “Than go.” She growled, “Now, is that all? Can we leave and go home to rest, you three?”

   “Yes.” Blackstar grumbled, “You can go, Leopardstar.” 

   And with those last few words, the spotted leader jumped from the rock, leading her clan out of the hollow.

   “So,” Firestar flicked his tail. “When will we be leaving?”

   “Two nights from now.” Deadstar meowed, “If that’s okay with ThunderClan and ShadowClan.”

   “Perfectly fine, I suppose.” Blackstar replied.

   “Yes, great.” Firestar smiled, “ThunderClan.” The tom rose his voice to the rest of his clan, leaping off the rock. Deadstar followed quickly behind, Longtail padding after the pair beside Mudclaw.

   “So you have kits, hm?” Mudclaw glanced at him, “I’ve seen them running around camp.”

   “Yeah. Why?” Longtail flattened his ears, “Don’t go anywhere near them—“

   “Do you think I would hurt kits, Longtail? You think that highly of me, huh?” Mudclaw rolled his eyes, “I wouldn’t hurt them. Or your mate, for that matter. I was only asking me.”

   “I don’t think very highly of you, you're correct.” Longtail hissed, “You have a disdain for kittypets, or anyone who is simply different. I did once, but I’ve gotten over that and grown up. You can’t seem to, can you?”

   “Mm.” Mudclaw flattened his ears, narrowing his eyes, “I'd keep your ears pricked, Longtail.” He growled, striding away. Longtail sighed, skipping over to his mate.

   “Oh, hi.” Blizzardspots smiled, pressing against his side, “Everything okay?” She mewed softly, a gentle purr rumbling from her chest.

   “Yes.” He cast a glare at Mudclaw across the way, “Mudclaw is just ticking me off. How Deadstar could pick him as deputy confuses me.”

   “Oh,” Blizzardspots shrugged. “He’s been nothing but sweet to me and the kits. And he’s a great warrior ready to protect his clan at any turn,” She took a deep breath. “I don’t see the problem.”

   “We’ve always had issues, ever since we were apprentices.” Longtail meowed, “I didn’t like the way he treated a lot of my friends at the time, and me, honestly. All his bullying pushed me toward Tigerstar. One of the worst decisions of my life.”

   “Don’t let that get to you, Longtail,” Blizzardspots mewed, pressing her head against his shoulder. “No matter what happened with Tigerstar.. your a good cat now. Your the cat I love.” She purred, “Now, c'mon, the kits are going to want to see you.”

   “Papa!” Sandkit rushed up to him, brushing against his legs. Her tail was beating against his paws, “Can you believe we’re gonna be apprentices tomorrow?!”

   “I really can’t.” Longtail purred, rasping his tongue over her head. “You're going to be one of the best apprentices I’ve ever seen.”

   Her tail thrashed back and forth, “Really?” 

   “Really. And your brothers, too.” Longtail dragged his paw over his ear.

   “Sandkit!” Silverkit rushed up to his sister, “C'mon, Dustkit and I are gonna play mossball!” His tail thrashed back and forth.

   “Go on.” Longtail gently nudged the she-cat toward her brother.

   “You'll visit us before bed, right?” Sandkit questioned.

   “Like always,” Longtail flicked his tail. Sandkit smiled, brushing up against his legs before pelting off after her brother. His ears flattened, watching as the three kits tenderly played mossball. He really didn’t know if he was ready for them to grow up.

   “They're sweet, y'know,” Deadstar's tail flicked across his back. “Just like their wonderful mother. And they'll make great warriors, just like their father.”

   “I know, I just..” Longtail murmured.

   “You're worried about Dustkit, I get it.” Deadstar sighed, “He’s blind. He has a disability. But that doesn’t matter. I have one, as well, so do you—so does Cinderpath, so does Brightheart, so does Swiftflame. We are all still strong. We are all still warriors at heart.” He meowed, resting his tail comfortingly on Longtail's shoulder, “You have no need to worry about him. Or any of them.”

   “In my head I know that. And I’m really, really not—I just—don’t want any of them to get hurt. They're my kits, they're my kin.” Longtail sighed heavily.

   “Every father wants their kits to be safe. Every cat wants their kin to be safe. But they must fall down to learn. They must fall down to become warriors—because they must learn to get back up. They're get hurt, they'll—they'll leave—but they'll always come back to where they call home. They'll always get back up.” Deadstar took in a sharp breath, “I'll leave you be. Make sure you rest, Longtail. You need to calm your mind. See our medicine cat if you need.” He flicked his tail again, slipping off to his den.

   Longtail let out a heavy sigh, padding off toward the nursery, his slow tired paws carrying him there. He peeked inside, Blizzardspots lying with Sandkit and Silverkit nestled in the crook of her stomach. Though, there was Dustkit, sitting up straight, his blind blue eyes wide.

   “Papa?” Dustkit slowly trotted toward him, “Is that you?”

   “It’s me, Dustkit.” Longtail murmured softly. “Why aren’t you asleep?”

   “I’m worried, papa,” Dustkit coiled his tail around his paws. “I’m not going to be a normal apprentice like my siblings, a-are I?”

   “Of course you are.” Longtail flattened his ears, gazing at the kit with sadness in his green eyes. “Why wouldn’t you be?”

   “Because I’m blind.” Dustkit mumbled, “They're all going to coddle me like I’m a kit still, even when I’m a warrior. Or a medicine cat, that might be better—“

   “No.” Longtail hissed, “If you want to be a medicine cat, Dustkit, than you'll be a medicine cat. But if you want to be a warrior, you're going to be a warrior. No-one is going to stop you. I'll make sure if it.”

   “A-are you sure?“ Dustkit stammered, “How can you know I’ll even be any good at it?”

   “It’s in your blood, Dustkit,” Longtail leaned down to nuzzle his son. “Now, come on, let’s get you to bed. It’s late and you have an apprentice ceremony to get to tomorrow.”

   Longtail settled down in the empty nest across from Blizzardspots, patting the ground with his paw, signaling for Dustkit to follow. With a gentle purr, the brown tom trotted over, curling himself up in between Longtail's paws.

[theanoninyourinbox]

Different Lives AU - Shadow

Back on this nonsense~

Rusty goes out into the woods, and is chased by an enormous brown tabby. He ends up literally running into Yellowfang and Brokenstar, and Brokenstar folds him into Shadowclan. Firepaw KNOWS in his bones something is horribly wrong, but it takes him seeing Brokenstar go after kits that makes him snap. He attacks Brokenstar unseen from behind, taking a life, and brings the kits back. Blackpaw, his only confidant other than Yellowfang, covers for him - must have been a rogue or very lucky trespasser. The trio plot, and eventually take down Brokenstar with some older warriors, at the cost pf Yellowfang's eyes and Nightpelt - their hopeful future leader - dying to take the cruel leader's last life. Blackstep is chosen by Starclan to his honest confusion, and Firemurmur becomes his deputy.

Leafpaw studies under Yellowfang and Runningnose, while Frogpaw begs older warrior Boulder for stories of how the clan helped take down the terrible Brokenstar and Tigerclaw, the traitor of Thunderclan. Frogpaw gets visions of a Quest, and joins the Questers - Crowpaw and Deadfoot of Windclan, Feathertail and Stonefur of Riverclan, and Brambleclaw and Tawnypelt of Thunderclan - and drags along Leafpaw because every Quest needs a healer!!! She, Crowpaw, and Tawnypelt become close, and Leafpaw saves Deadfoot and Feathertail from their wounds from killing Longest Claw. On their return, Frogflight and Tawnypelt become secret mates, and Crowfeather agrees to be their donor. But is goes wrong when Tawnypelt is promoted to deputy, and chooses her clan over romance.

Hollykit knows her birth father is Crowfeather, but calls him Uncrow, and her grandfather Deadstar. She falls in love with quiet and steady Owlclaw, and Hollyfang knows she is loved. She doesn't understand why her clan despises Tawnystar, and befriends her kits Lionsong and Jaytail, but comes to understand eventually - when Lionsong reveals that Tawnystar had an affair with a Riverclan warrior, and Frogflight has a near-brawl with two old friends. Lionsong flees into the night, and Jaytail hides with his friend, taking solace in her new kits and Shadowclan's understanding...

[yb-cringe]

For the streamer au, do you think that chat would be more or less terrified for chayanne’s life when former canibal and mass murder cellbit walks into the room than they were seeing antoine and bad for the first time?

Thats not even mentioning their reaction when they fund out he now has a husband and kids

i love the idea of some kind of like. true crime podcast covering chayannes streams and pointing out that the literal cannibal of brazil is in his goddamn streams. but its such a bizzare idea that everyones like noo. they just look alike. dont be an idiot.

and then when chay and him are talking, probably about the allegations, cellbit just deadstares the camera to freak everyone out. someone get that man brown contacts

[wc-confessions]

Longstar, Deadstar, Nightpeltstar AU

Idk who for riverclan i dont care about the. Like Heavystep or Loudbelly maybe

[sophswritingthings]

Longstar AU — Chapter Nineteen

   “ThunderClan.” A voice growled, black fur peeking out from behind the grass. “What are you doing here?”

   “We’ve come to speak with Deadfoot,” Firestar dipped his head to the smaller she-cat.

   “Deadstar, you mean?” The she-cat slipped from behind the grasses, “He’s my mentor, I would know.”

   “Ah, yes…” Firestar murmured, adverting his gaze from her blazing orange one. “Nightpaw, than?”

   “Yes.” Her eyes narrowed, “I can guide you to camp, if it’s so urgent you must speak with him.”

   “That would be nice,” Longtail meowed, the she-cat glancing at him. Nightpaw rolled her eyes, beginning to lead the deputy and leader pair toward the WindClan camp.

   “Nightpaw, you can’t just leave before your warrior ceremony—!” Onewhisker hissed, his eyes narrowed. “Oh! Firestar.” The brown tabby tom dipped his head, “What are you doing here?”

   “We’ve come to speak with Deadstar.” Firestar mewed, “It’s urgent.”

   “I’m sure it is,” Deadstar padded up behind Onewhisker, nodding to the tom. He and his apprentice padded back into camp. “Especially if you're coming yourself.”

   “Yes, it really is,” Firestar nodded. “Twolegs.. they’re..—they’re taking their monsters into our part of the forest. They're destroying it, and it seems they’re headed for our camp.”

   “.. I see.” Deadstar murmured.

   “We’ve come to ask for shelter in your camp,” Longtail spoke up, Firestar flattening his ears.

   “I’m sure we can offer you shelter until this is figured out.” Deadstar dipped his head. “Myself and my warriors will have no problem with it.”

   “Are you sure about this, Deadstar?” Mudclaw popped up behind him, eyeing the ThunderClan leader and deputy. “Do we have enough resources for that?” 

   “I’m sure we do, Mudclaw. Our moor is always plentiful, and so are our herbs. Barkface and Kestrelpaw will be fine welcoming your medicine cats, as well.” Deadstar twitched his whiskers.

   “Yes, and welcoming another leader and deputy won’t cause any problems,” Mudclaw hissed.

   “.. So you’ve been named deputy, than?” Firestar mewed.

   “Yes. Is that so unbelievable, Firestar?” He growled.

   “I didn’t mean it like that, I—“ Firestar paused, taking a few steps backward.

   “He didn’t, Mudclaw, back down.” Deadstar growled, casting a glare at his deputy. “Go and gather your clan, Firestar. We'll be waiting to greet you when you arrive.”

   “Thank you, Deadstar,” Firestar dipped his head, turning back toward ThunderClan territory. Longtail and his leader traipsed through the territory, arriving back at Sunningrocks.

   “Prepare yourselves. We’re going to WindClan camp.” Longtail rose his voice to the whole clan, his green eyes narrowed. “Kits, elders, medicine cats—make sure everything is prepared.” 

   “It already is,” Cinderpath twitched her whiskers. “Leafpaw and I'll start our way over there after everyone else. I just need to get what’s left of the herbs in our camp.” The gray color-point she-cat nodded to her apprentice, turning back toward the camp.

   “The rest of you follow Longtail, than,” Firestar meowed. “Myself, Sandstorm and Graystripe will get elders and queens.”

   Longtail nodded, resting his gaze on Blizzardspots. The she-cat gave him a gentle nod and a smile, the tom quickly returning it. He turned back toward WindClan territory, the warriors and apprentices of the clan following close behind. They weaved through trees, hopped across small rivers, and jumped over rocks. And soon they arrived at WindClan camp.

   “Longtail.” Deadstar greeted once more, “Right in here, everyone.” The black tom flicked his tail, turning into his camp. The group of ThunderClan cats followed.

   “I really have to thank you, Deadstar,” Longtail dipped his head. “Our other option was Leopardstar… and, well, you know how that would go.”

   His whiskers twitched, “I do,” Deadstar smiled softly. “And it wouldn’t be well. We’re happy to host you while things aren’t safe in the forest,” He meowed, hopping atop of the Wind Rock. “Cats of WindClan! ThunderClan will be staying in our camp until further notice. I expect my cats treat them as guests, and with respect. Understand?”

   Though meows of discontent and discomfort could be heard, most cats didn’t seem to have a real issue with it. Some greeted the ThunderClan cats with friendly meows, some not. But it didn’t seem to bother most.

   A familiar scent flooded his nose, whipping his head around to the WindClan camp entrance.

   Brambleclaw, Squirrelpaw!

   He rushed toward the two cats, Firestar sliding in behind them. As well as smaller black tom which he knew as Crowpaw.

   “Crowpaw!” Deadstar rushed up behind them, nuzzling his son, “What happened? Where have you been?”

   “D-dad!” Crowpaw hissed. “Knock it off..”

   “Okay, okay,” Deadstar purred. “Now, explain.” He hissed, his eyes narrowing.

   “We went to the Sun-Drown place.” Brambleclaw responded, “To meet a badger, named Midnight. She gave us some.. information.” The tom's ears flattened, adverting his gaze from the WindClan leaders.

   “What kind of information?” Deadstar growled, flattening his ears.

   “The badger said something bad was going to happen to the forest.” Crowpaw flattened his large ears to his head, “That something was destroying it.”

   “The twolegs,” Firestar murmured.

   “Yes.” Brambleclaw sighed, “And.. and she said we had to leave.”

   “Leave the forest?” Longtail growled, “How can we possibly do that? Where do we even go?”

   “She said to head for the mountains.” Brambleclaw replied, “Are.. are we going to go?”

   “Well, I’m not sure,” Firestar mumbled. “I’m not even sure the other clans would believe you. Or the other clans. Though, we'll speak to them at tomorrows gathering.” 

   “.. Do you believe us, Dad?” Squirrelpaw mewed, her gaze slowly shifting to Longtail, “Longtail?”

   “Of course I believe you.” Firestar gently nuzzled his daughter, “And I’m sure Longtail does as well. I myself have had my run-ins with StarClan, prophecies, missions, what have you. I have no reason to think you're lying.” He shook his head, “I’m not sure the other clans will believe you, though, like I’ve said.”

   “Yes.” Deadstar narrowed his eyes slightly, “I believe you, as well. And if the time comes we will follow you out of the forest. But, I’m not sure RiverClan and ShadowClan will be so proud to do so.”

[the-owl-tree]

Ngl, I think deadfoot as leader would be such interesting au potential

Deadstar is a pretty cool leader name ngl but personally i think i love the canon civil war too much to really be invested in a leader au for him. I'm always open to hearing potential ideas about it though!

[hows-my-handwriting]

as someone who was watching pac rim literally every single day at one point i'm obligated to tell you how insane i am about your au <3 one thing about jaeger names is that they sound a lil cooler when they consist of 2 two-or-three syllable words paired together like striker eureka or crimson typhoon, so maybe thinking about it like that will help your process!! keep 'prowler' but try substituting volt for something like voltage, electron/ica, vanguard, banshee, deadstar, stampede, intercept, sierra, etc. and switching the order of words around^^

(oh and i truly hope this doesn't come across as pushy or condescending bc that isn't my intention at *all*, i just thought i'd share some suggestions for this great au!)

FUCK YEAH. dude i love those movies with undying passion.

i am definitely renaming the prowler and i will definitely keep the two syllable thing in mind >:3

im glad someone enjoys the crazy brainworms swimming around in my brain

[machinegrl]

some behind the scenes lol she loves to mess w her lil angry gf

[horrornights55]

Forgot to post this but My welcome home OC Moonlight Deadstar, is finally done ^^, I actually finished her last week, I’ve just t gotten caught up in other things but now she’s here. I unfortunately don’t have many drawings of them as of brown but I will make a few drawings of them interacting with the other characters along with some Oc’s in the future, along with Moonlight elbowing apart of my AU

(legit forgot to draw her house, so I’ll get on that soon TvT)

So to get to know Moonlight a little better, I will tell you a few fun facts about her

Fact 1: They’re about 3 feet tall (around Julie and Sallies height but is a tiny bit shorter then them, she’s a little taller then Wally), Moonlight also uses She/They pronouns

Fact 2: Moonlight is blind in their left eye and has a big scar on it from an accident back when they were younger, she never disclosed what it was and barley ever shows her eye, though sometimes, you can see the scar if they tilt their head in a certain way

Fact 3: Moonlight has a little podcast she holds every night, she usually talks about drawing tips and sometimes gives out tips on how to deal with anxiety or insomnia (it explains why she is always so tired all the time cause she’s up late mostly every night-they don’t regret it though)

Fact 4: Whenever Moonlight is happy,embarrassed or flustered, her hair starts glowing a little and becomes more fluffy looking (her skin also glows in the dark at night since she’s related to the moon in a way)

Fact 5: Has a habit of pulling spooky yet harmless pranks on the other neighbors every October, it’s practically become a tradition for everyone in the neighborhood to host a Halloween prank war every October up until Halloween

(They know something might be going on in the neighborhood, they believe that maybe it’s just their anxiety playing tricks on them or just psyching theirself out)

(Also a announcement about the undead AU: I have changed the name of it to the Spiral AU, the lore has changed a bit and so have the character designs (once I start them) but I have NOT abandoned the AU, just changed it’s name and lore, and so, I will try to start on the spiral AU’s characters designs in the coming future)

Hope you enjoy the little fun facts about Moonlight and have seen the announcement about the spiral AU’s new name, I might make a little video exposing all the fun facts I have for Moonlight and even make a Fun facts video regarding the Spiral AU, until next time, Seeya ^^

Edit: This is REALLY outdated now, Moonlight is gonna get a re-design so some of this old facts are no longer canon to the character (The only facts that are still canon are Moonlights scarred eye, Pronouns & Height)

[blorboclaw]

Just catching up on firefrost but that au with stonestar as leader of riverclan and deadstar allying with tigerstar is 👀.

Yeah honestly I just put things out there but if I had to imagine something, we'd get to this situation by Tigerstar murdering Tallstar instead of Gorsepaw to force Windclan to join them, Deadfoot deciding to join because he wants to protect his clan, and becoming Deadstar but having basically no political power. As for Stonestar basically he was chosen instead of Leopardfur by Crookedstar, but since she became deputy on the day Rusty came to the forest I'm not sure what exactly I could have done to change that. Except having her die or step down from deputyship at some point... Or maybe it was that one time Starclan tried to send him back in time to before his arrival in the clan and he came around a moon earlier and changed stuff?

[goldenflowerceo]

i do agree that hopkit is an adorable name. but have you guys forgotten that. y'know. deadfoot was only named that bc of his twisted paw? you do realize that he was reduced to nothing but his disability since he was born... right? right?

[longstarau]

Longstar AU — Chapter Twenty-One

   “Cats of ThunderClan and WindClan. These three kits are ready to be apprenticed,” Firestar began, gazing at the three kits sitting below the Wind Rock. Sandkit and Silverkit were practically bouncing up and down, meanwhile Dustkit sat completely still, his ears even flattened a bit. “Sandkit, Silverkit and Dustkit, until you have earned your warrior names, you will be known as Sandpaw, Silverpaw and Dustpaw.”

   “Sandpaw! Silverpaw! Dustpaw!”

   “I and my deputy have chosen wonderful mentors for the each of you. Sandpaw, you will be mentored by Sorreltail. Though you are a newer warrior, Sorreltail, I trust you with an apprentice. You went through so much just to get where you are, and I’m sure you'll teach Sandpaw the importance of perseverance and patience.” Firestar smiled, the mentor and apprentice duo padded into the crowd, “Silverpaw, you'll be mentored by Swiftflame. You also have gone through so much trial and error to become a warrior, and yet here you are—strong as ever.” Swiftflame dipped his head to the ginger-tabby tom, touching noses with his apprentice and padded into the crowd. “And last but not least, Dustpaw.”

   Dustpaw lowered his muzzle to the ground, taking a few small paw-steps forward. The small brown tom gently bumped into the Wind Rock, slowly backing up.

   With a gentle twitch of his whiskers, Firestar continued, “Though you may have a disability, Dustpaw, your clan has no doubt in you. Your own father is able to make it on his own, despite being partially blind. And though it’s a bit different, I have no doubt,” He paused for a moment. “Your mentor will be Brightheart. I trust that you will teach him everything you know.”

   “I promise I will, Firestar,” Brightheart dipped her head, curling her tail around the small brown tom. She slowly bent down, murmuring something to Dustpaw before touching her nose to his. The apprentices whiskers twitched, padding back into the group of cats.

   “May StarClan guide us all.” Firestar dipped his head, slipping off the Wind Rock, Deadstar in toe.

   “You seriously think he’s going to be a warrior?” 

   A voice growled from behind Longtail, making his ears perk up. He slow,y turned over his shoulder, a enraged expression across his face as he saw where the voice was coming from.  Mudclaw, talking to a apprentice like that! Let alone his very own son. And he dare talk to one of ThunderClan's warriors that way!

   “Of course he will.” Brightheart growled back, her teeth bared at the older WindClan warrior. “There is no reason he shouldn’t be, Mudclaw. He is the same as you and I.”

   Longtail backed off for a second. Brightheart was Dustpaw's mentor, and a warrior who could hold her own. She didn’t need his help. But that was his son—and Mudclaw.

   “You aren’t a warrior like myself, though,” Mudclaw flicked his tail, an air of.. self-imposed importance, flowing off the WindClan tom. “I am a deputy of my clan. A leader, one day. You are simply a young warrior who can barley see.”

   “Don’t you talk to my warriors that way.” Longtail snarled, “Brightheart is a better and more compassionate warrior than you'll ever be. And just because your deputy now,” He looked him up and down. “Doesn’t mean you'll be in the near future.”

   “Is that a threat, Longtail?” Mudclaw hissed.

   “If that’s how you're taking it,” Longtail took a few pawsteps backward. “Leave my warriors and my son, alone.”

   Mudclaw let out a low growl, turning away from the three ThunderClan cats.

   “Why don’t you two go out for a little,” Longtail suggested, nudging Dustpaw toward Brightheart.

   “I agree,” Brightheart mewed softly, licking Dustpaw’s ear, “Just follow my scent, okay?”

   Longtail watched as Dustpaw slowly followed after Brightheart. She’d be a good teacher for him; and a good friend, too. He knew it.

  “He really is a foxheart,” Blizzardspots growled, “Talking to our son like that!”

  Longtail snarled, “He’s insane, is what he is,” He sighed, flicking his tail over his mates back. “But Brightheart will care for Dustpaw. He will never be thought of as different, as long as he has her. And us.”

   She pressed into his side, “I know she will. She’ll be good for him.”

   “She will,” He purred softly, nuzzling his muzzle against Blizzardspots’ head.

   “Brightheart?” Dustpaw flattened his ears.

   “I’m still here,” She murmured. “Is something wrong?”

   “Sort of,” He shrugged. “Was Mudclaw right?”

   Brightheart seemed a bit stunned; though she looked like she half-expected that question. 

   “No,” She tapped her tail on the ground, signaling for him to sit. He slowly sat down, her tail curling around him. Brightheart sighed, gazing up at the stars twinkling in the night sky, “If he was right, Dustpaw, then why did Firestar make you a warriors apprentice?”

   Dustpaw shrugged, again. “Because my dad is the deputy. He’s taking pity on me.”

   Brightheart shook her head, “No. Because he knows you can do everything a warrior with two eyes can do,” She hissed, her tone firmer than before. “Just because your father is the deputy of our clan doesn’t mean anything. Everything is left up to Firestar, in the end. And Firestar believes you can do it. I do. Your parents do.. even your siblings do.”

   Dustpaw sighed, “But what if I screw it up, Brightheart?”

   “We all make our mistakes, Dustpaw.” She nudged him gently, “I’ve made my fair share, and so has your father. You can’t compare yourself to your father. You are.. similar, yet not the same. You were born without your sight, your father lost it. You face different issues than he does.”

   Dustpaw took in a sharp breath, “Then how do we know I can be any good? He was a warrior for moons before he lost his eyesight.”

   “You will be good,” Brightheart rose to her paws, nudging him to do the same, “You have the backing of your clan behind you. You will be a warrior, if that’s what you want. And you will be strong warrior. Is that understood, Dustpaw?”

   Dustpaw slowly nodded, “I understand,” He murmured. “Thank you, Brightheart.”

   “Of course,” She lent down, licking the top of his head. “Let’s head back to camp.”

   As they reentered camp, Longtail’s fixed his eyes on them. He could only make out Dustpaw’s dark fur and Brightheart’s soft expression, but he knew it was them. He sighed, heaving himself to his paws.

   “I’m sorry he said all that, Dustpaw,” Longtail nudged Dustpaw, licking the young tom’s cheek.

   “It’s okay,” Dustpaw let’s a smile cross his muzzle, “Brightheart helped.”

   Longtail lifted his head and fixed his gaze on Brightheart, giving the younger she-cat a dip of his head. A sign of deep respect, especially coming from her deputy.

   “Oh, it was nothing, Longtail…” Brightheart laughs, nudging Dustpaw with her tail, “He’s my apprentice.“

   “That he is,” Longtail hums, “You’ll take could care him, I know you will.”

   “I’ll do everything in my power.” Brightheart mewed confidently, her head held high.

   “I would expect nothing less,” He chuckles, “Now get to bed, you two. Go meet the other apprentices, Dustpaw.”

   “Okay, papa,” Dustpaw reached up to lick his fathers cheek, before heading toward the apprentice den. Brightheart dipped her head to Longtail, heading to the warriors den.

   His son was going to be okay. 

[morningmask27]

warrior cat au:

deadstar (deadfoot as leader) au

tallstar died when windclan was chased out so deadfoot was left picking the pieces of the destroyed windclan. he couldn't go get his 9 lives directly because of the shadowclan threat. but he appointed (why are there NO known windclan cats between the birth of tallstar's half-siblings and wrenflight's canonical kits (as far as I'm concerned ashfoot and morningflower aren't related to onewhisker and tallstar) yeah eh (scours the minor character pages for tpb) lizardtooth! (the unnamed tabby warrior that accompanied morningflower to windclan's camp after windclan came back home)

(lizardtooth is also the father of runningbrook, tawnyfur, and robinwing wc larchsong. they are littermates despite what the canon allegiances made you think). anyways when fireheart and graystipe went to bring back windclan deadfoot did a little detour by the moonstone to get his 9 lives. he came back and assured his position against the other clans very strongly. he wasn't going to let anyone bully windclan anymore. when his son, eaglekit became an apprentice, eaglepaw he was very proud. one time he went out with eagle and eagle's mentor when brokenstar's rogues (not broken himself) attacked the trio, leaving eagle's mentor dead, eagle badly wounded and deadstar having lost a life.

later when it was discovered that these were brokenstar's rogues and that bluestar/thunderclan were keeping the old war criminal as a prisoner in their camp deadstar was furious and demanded that bluestar kill broken. when she refused he planned with shadowclan to get rid of brokenstar for all the clans’ wellbeing. the attack happened, but this time brokenstar was killed and bluestar died. tigerclaw became thunderclan’s leader as he’s always wanted and made darkstripe his deputy. he was always suspicious of graystripe being disloyal so he banished him. gray went to riverclan (this was before silverstream had her kits so they are born safely in riverclan and she lives) fireheart also had to leave because tigerstar still didn’t like fireheart at all he went to deadstar asking for somewhere to stay. deadstar accepted fireheart in windclan. 

to prove his loyalty he’s given gorsepaw as his apprentice. deadstar was obviously going to keep an eye on fireheart, but he wanted the young fire to prove himself worthy to the rest of the clan (also tallstar may have told deadstar that fireheat was his son-in-law so he better be nice to fireheart). fire lives a pretty okay life in windclan. lizardtooth doesn’t fully trust him at first but they warm up to each other (especially after runningpaw took a liking to fireheart). eaglepaw gets his warrior name eventually, eagleswoop. everyone is very proud of him. especially ashfoot and deadstar. gorse, running, tawny and larch are also proud of their friend and train even harder to become warriors aswell. 

one day at the end of leaf fall windclan is attacked by the combined forces of thunderclan, led by tigerstar and riverclan, led by leopardstar. eagle is sent to shadowclan to plead for help. cinderstar(cinderfur) relunctantly agrees and the two clans work together to fend off the attack. during the fight lizardtooth is killed by tigerstar, who in revenge gets dogpiled by runningpaw, tawnypaw, larchpaw, gorsepaw, eaglestorm and fireheart. tigerstar is now dead and darkstripe is thunderclan’s leader. everyone is very sad about the death and deadstar makes fireheart his deputy. gorsepaw is also made a warrior; gorserunner. leopardstar used the weak darkstar to take over thunderclan and combing river and thunder into leopardclan. 

leopardstar is very petty and tries multiple times to take over shadowclan and windclan, but in one pretty banal fight she loses her final life to a very tired deadstar and now blackclaw is riverclan’s leader. darkstar uses this to become leopardclan’s leader by killing blackclaw. and he attacks the two clans more viciously before a real final confrontation against windclan and shadowclan where he dies, dustpelt becomes leader of thunderclan, and riverclan is now led by stonefur. 

then there’s a little break of a two years and a half or smt and it’s tnp time! fireheart’s kits with ravenpaw. squirrelflight and slateleaf(leaf) are windclan’s chosen (slate is a medicine cat). runningbrook and ferncloud’s kits spiderleg and shrewbite are thunderclan’s, reedwhisker and hawkfrost go for riverclan and quietwhisper goes for shadowclan (quiet is still mute in this) they go to the sundrown place and meet midnight. on their journey hawk and slate become “close” and all admire quitewhisper for quins natural leading abilities.  they lead the clans to the lake. when they arrive cinderstar dies. his deputy had died on the way to the lake and he didn’t name another deputy so now shadowclan has a power vacuum with only the old runningnose and littlecloud to deal with the chaos.

duststar tries to use this mess to poke at shadowclan’s borders and take land from them, but he’s defeated multiple times by cats led by quietwhisper, who eventually is chosen to become shadowclan’s new leader; quietstar. duststar becomes more rude and stops ferncloud and runningbrook, who he had allowed to meet “in secret” but where on very thin ice, from meeting up. he also becomes way more strict than before, ready to fight anyone who poses a threat to the warrior code and thunderclan. at one point he even starts banishing cats who broke the code; goldenflower (for having been mates with tigerstar in the past) bramblethorn and tawnyfang for being tigerstar’s kits, ferncloud and her kits for halfclan reasons; etc. in the end there were just a pawful of thunderclan warriors left because every infraction was a reason to banish a cat for duststar (look he’s not possesed, he’s just very, very traditionalist and became tired with how the code wasn’t respected enough and finally he snapped and banished cats for any infraction, no matter how small)

many cats joined one of the other clans after being banished. ferncloud went to windclan with her kits where she lives very happily, golden and her kits joined riverclan... eventually the other leaders were kinda tired of duststar’s nonsense so they teamed up to attack thunderclan and stripped duststar of his remaining lives and eyed ashfur(his deputy) very suspiciously before he became too fearful and decided to make another cat deputy and drop off the leader role. so now brindleface is brindlestar, thunderclan’s leader!

while this was happening slate was having an affair with hawkfrost. he tried to use the chaos of the fight against thunderclan to kill stonestar, but was stopped by barbet (who knew of her sister’s affair). slate was expecting hawk’s kits and was starting to panic. she met up with reed(who hawk was also having a relationship with and he proposed to preten the kits were his and hawk’s) so now grousekit(jay), lionkit and minkkit(holly) were being raised in riverclan by reedwhisker, with bramble, tawny and golden’s help since brambs and tawny are the kit’s half auncles. eventyally the 3 become appretices; grousepaw to stonestream(he’s not an elder), hollypaw to mintfur and lionpaw to mistyfoot. 

the dark forest shenanigans still happen with hawkfrost using his status as the kids’ father to convince them to trust him (he train all his kits) and he convinces grousepaw that stonestar is a bad leader, grousepaw fucks around a little and somehow strips one of stonestar’s lives off. mink lears what happened and is shocked. she tries to get grouse to calm down and pretend nothing happened and Stop Killing Stonestar For Starclan’s Sake. grouse calms down and stops meeting up with hawkfrost. but then lionpaw has meeting with slateleaf’s apprentice heatherpaw and they are really close, to minkpaw’s dismay. and mink has to force lionpaw to leave heatherpaw and not see her again. (she does this while fighting her on feelings for willowpaw)

during one gathering reedwhisker is talking to slate and squilf discretely and assfur overhears them talkning about the kits. they are discussing wether or not they should tell the kits that slate is their mother. assfur who had been courting squirrelflight but had been rejected pounces on this as a way to hurt her. he discretely gets in riverclan, while passing trough windclan as a way to attact squilf’s attention, she obviously chases him and he finds grouse, lion and mink, now warriors; grouseclaw, lionblaze and minkflight. he corners them and tells squilf thet he’s going to kill her niblings to hurt her, but mink interupts this by jumping on assfur and demanding an explanation. he smugly tells her that slateleaf is their mother and that reedwhisker isn’t their father at all. 

then he pushes her off and runs away; grouse, lion and mink ask squilf what this meant, it couldn’t possibly be true, but she ahs to admit that assfur was right, but she admits that he’s right. the 3 run away into riverclan and find reedwhisker. they pul him to the side and ask why reed never told them that he wasn’t their father. reed told them everything he knew; reed and hawk were a known couple in riverclan, but he was also seeing slate. when he died, after attacking stonestar slate was expecting his kits. squirrel asked reed if he could do them a solid and pretend slate’s kits were his with hawkfrost. some time before the kits were due slate and squilf went off on a starclan mission and slate gave birth to the kits, they then met up with reed and the 3 named the kits before reed took them back to riverclan. 

so now there are some problems and mink is going nuts. then during the gathering assfur asks his mom brindlestar is he could make an announcement and called out reed, squilf and slate for the 3 illegal kits which was very awkward for everybody and slate was shunned, but squilf did one thing before getting her status destroyed and that was asking ass how he knew about the whole thing, after what she gave a detailed explanation of that bitch eavesdropping to a convo he had no reason listening to, harassing her non stop for not being interested in being his mate (from another clan at that! so he also broke the code!), crossing windclan territory, not following the rule of the 3 foxlenghts and threatening to kill 3 riverclan warriors for the sole reason to hurt her. 

at least now assfur is also in trouble. reed and squilf don’t really get punished, they are somewhat mistrusted by their clanmates but that’s it. slateleaf is demoted from her healer status, leaving heatherbloom as windclan’s sole healer and assfur is banished from thunderclan for the whole list of crimes he commited. he does some annoying shit, but is quickly found dead because that bastard thought he could fight a fox on his own and died. but one day slateleaf was found, heavily wounded and barely alive. she was nursed back to health, but she didn’t know what had happened. minkflight has also dissapeared for some reason and is thought to be dead after being gone for half a moon. 

lion and grouse look for her, but never find her anywhere. in thunderclan ivykit and dovekit are born to whitewing and birchfall. the kits sneak out of camp one night and fall into the lake, but are saved by a dark figure. ivykit doesn’t think much of it, but dovekit wants to meet the figue again and sneaks out again. but this time she gets lost too far and is wounded. the dark figure finds her again adn treats her wounds. she presents herself as storm, a rogue that wa passing by when she was the two kits escape. she was going to leave when she found dovekit outside of camp again. 

dovekit really admires storm and want to come with her, but storm tells her to return to her home, with her family as they would miss her if she left like that. but dovekit sneaks after storm and now it’s too late. a blizzard occurs and storm cannot bring dovekit back to camp as the kit would freeze to death. storm constructs an imporivised camp close to a small body of water and keeps dovekit warm at all cost. she learns dovekit how to fish (she breaks the ice on the water by using heavy stones) and they survive by pure chance honestly. then ove kinda forgot that she had to return home and spent time with storm even after the blizard was done. 

ivykit is really sad because everyone thinks dovekit died. she blames herself because she didn’t stop dovekit from going outside again. she becomes an apprentice, her mentor is sorreltail and she trains fairly normally. during a gathering she meets hollowpaw, lionblaze’s apprentice and the two become friends realy fast. they always meet up at gatherings and have good times together. dovekit and storm continued living peacefully, dove had now become dovepaw and storm was “mentoring” her, which dovepaw didn’t spend too much time thinking about honestly. the one day they are wandering and see the lake and dovepaw is struck with immence homesickness for some reason and wants to go to thunderclan again. 

storm tells her to go as she won’t come with dovepaw, but dove pleads and storm agrees to go with her to thunderclan, but then she’d leave. when the two entered thunderclan territory they found ivypaw and hollowpaw meeting up (in secret) and ivy and dove finally reunited. hollowpaw was kinda confused by this and storm explained that she had found dovekit outside and protected her until she came back now. and this is when lionblaze joins the stage. he had followed hollowpaw’s trail because he had been sneaking out for a while and lion saw storm. he recognised minkflight. he was so happy to find her again, but she didn’t feel well meeting her family again. 

lionblaze wanted her to see grouseclaw and reedwhisker again. he was deputy now and mintfur was their leader, mintstar. she reluncantly agreed to come with lion. dovepaw went to thunderclan with ivypaw and hollowpaw followed lion and mink. while crossing windclan territory they met a patrol, led by squirrelflight and accompanied by slateleaf and shrewbite. squirrel and slate greeted lion (they had become kinda close since the reveal, not parent-kit close but something akin to auncle-nibling) and slate greeted mink aswell, but mink was very awkward around slate and hurried away. she enters riverclan camp and is greeted by reed and grouse. she is invited to stay for a while and she accepts. her family is vry happy to have her back (yes even the grumpy grouseclaw)

she spends some days in riverclan until the gathering where she is invited to come, she goes and meets dovepaw again. dovepaw is super happy to see stormminkflight at the gathering and tells her eveyrthing about her return to thunderclan. her parents were so happy to see her again and she was so happy aswell and she finally spent time iwith her sister after all this time and everything is so great now! she’d just wish sto-minkflight was also a part of her life in thunderclan. mink is really happy for her, but feels really uncomfortable on the island, as the last time she’d been here assfur had shared the secret of her parentage and her life had fallen appart. 

some days after the gathering she leaves riverclan. she tries to avoid getting seen by a windclan patrol, but is caught by heatherbloom. she asks what she’s planning to do now. as she recognised her fur on slateleaf. storm answers that it’s none of heatherbloom’s buisness, but heather retorts that attacking a cat from another clan and nearly killing them is against the code and she shoul know better. mink retorts that her whole existnce is against the code and slate is the reason why. heather is very annoyed but lets her go. storm leaves windclan and goes to say goodbye to dovepaw. this time she’s maing sure that the energetic apprentice stays in thunderclan.

dovepaw is sad to see her leave, but she accepts it and says goodbye. grouse and lion are detressed since their sister left once again and ask dovepaw if she knows something. she tells them that storm left the clans again. but they don’t have time to look for her a lot since reedwhisker died mysteriously and now the brothers are mourning their father and stonestream is made deputy. and there’s dark forest drama that has been happenning in the background and now the dark forest is preparing to attack the living. storm had spent a lot of time thinking after her talk with heatherbloom and was returning to the clans hen the dark forest attacked. she saw slateleaf and squirrelflight being attacked by hawkfrost and killed him. she apologised to slateleaf for wanting to kill her that one other time and mother and daughter spend some seconds being close before the battle continues being a mess. 

storm sees dovepaw being attacked by some dark forest warriors and teams up with ivypool to make them flee. eventually the battle is done and storm sees her brothers help each other. they see her and talk with her. she doesn’t want to be a part of riverclan anymore, she is going to be a loner, but if she’s allowed she will visit her family from time to time. she says the same thing to dovepaw and the two say goodbye to each other. dovepaw and ivypaw become warriors after the battle; dovestorm and ivypool. storm visits the clans every so often and starts forming a bond with slateleaf. she also visits reedwhisker’s grave every time she’s close to riverclan. wishing she’d been there to help her father.

notes

darkstar is always present for funny content

leopard is also a fail villan </3

smudge and hattie went to rebuild skyclan. smudge became magpiestar, hattie returned to her twolegs who accidentally moved to where skyclan lives and now she’s a daylight warrior

some of brokenstar’s followers returned to shadowclan and became shadowclan warriors again (plus some extra friends they made along the way) (stumpytail, mowgli/nightwhisper, tangleburr and snow/snowpaw/bird)

fire leaves thunderclan for good, gray never leaves riverclan

RUNNINGFERN!

eagleswoop, gorserunner runningbrook tawnyfur and larchsong are the group in windclan (fireheart is an honorary member of the squad)

for once i streached out to Po3 era bs

assfur chose his mom to be leader (no she isn’t dead)

minnowmouse was also happening in the backgroud, which also enraged minkflight

honestly the riverclan apprentices in Po3 can also form a fun group just like the thunderclan ones. pebble and lion have the jock rivalry

ferncloud stays in windclan after the duststar debacle, but she is very proud of her mother, her kits live in windclan aswell (birchfall isn’t her kit fight me)

heatherbloom/tail is petty and funny, but looks up to slateleaf and is one of the only cats to still respect her fully after the secret is revealed

deadstar died and fireheart became firestar, he made thrushwing his deputy

there are no powers in this, grouse, lion and dove don’t have magical starclan powers. 

firestar lost his final life during the dark forst battle and now eagleswoop is leader

when storm dies she’s going to starclan that’s for sure

lion has his kits, but he has no mate i don’t care

heatherbloom and storm have a talk one day and become sorta friends

[demoniccrows]

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