#don't talk to rasputin or his son or his son ever again

[blorboclaw]

Third way is Lionblaze/Cinderheart which is not crackship... unless you obviously tweak it around just a bit and end up with Hollyleaf/Berrynose or Hollyleaf/Mousewhisker, or Jayfeather/Poppyfrost, or Jayfeather/Hazeltail, which is totally a possibility, or any other combo. Will refer to Hollyleaf or Lionblaze or Jayfeather as Anya and to the other as Dmitri to make things easier instead of writing all the names all the time. Just pick whoever you want from the group of apprentices of the time but at least one must be Lionblaze or Hollyleaf or Jayfeather.

Fire Scene. Ashfur kills Squirrelflight but the Three can escape thanks to one of the other apprentices (well young warrior at the time but they were all apprentices at the same time). Thinking Ashfur is running after them, the two "surviving" Three run back to Thunderclan but the other two (Anya and Dmitri) just run away in different directions without goal until Anya just faints out of exhaustion and wakes up with trauma having made them amnesiac.

Good time to headcannon that Cat!Dmitri, whoever this is, Berrynose, Hazeltail, Honeyfern, Cinderheart... is faceblind and only works with smells to get by in their everyday life. Obviously, the fire scene made them unable to smell much, and so they ended up living as a loner until they hear about how Firestar is looking for his third grandkit. Dmitri thinks it's an occasion to go back to the clan (which again, they couldn't find without a sense of smell) and just picks the first blind gray cat/tall and black molly/bulky golden tom they find to play Anya.

They spend their time teaching them about life in the clan. The "I don't believe I told her that" moment is when Dmitri is like "and you were nursed by Ferncloud" and "Anya" answers "and I recall Sorreltail's son" which "Dmitri" didn't tell them about because a denmate dying, it's still fresh to them and they don't want to talk about it, and also because no one ever talks about him anymore.

Again, the "how did you escape" scene, "an apprentice opened the wall" (kinda). The peppermint one has probably to do with the dark forest. Rasputin is Brokentail if Anya is Jayfeather, Tigerstar if Anya is Lionblaze, and did Hollyleaf interact with the dark forest at all??

WC Anastasia AU. I don't know how. Too many different ways of doing it. The best part is that all of them have the craziest crackships.

(also to understand the following you've got to understand first that I never really considered Barley/Ravenpaw as a romance but more as a "found family/old, grim loner adopts shy rookie/whatever is going on with the batfamily")

First way, the Ravenpaw/Leafpool way: Leafpaw is kidnapped by the twolegs but can't escape right away. The Great Journey happens without her. She's amnesiac, roaming next to the Highstones, when Ravenpaw and Barley find her.

They know Firestar is still looking for his (they're convinced: dead) daughter and think she looks enough like Leafpaw to hold the illusion and maybe Firestar will be able to grieve if "Leafpaw" comes to him and then choses not to be part of the clan. Worse scenario, she wants to stay and she finds a whole family ready to welcome her, so win-win.

They spend the journey telling her facts about the first arc/the history of her family, the herbs (what they know of it at least) and her family and early life. (on the tune of "you can learn to do it" -> "You were born in a den made of bracken... / A den made of bracken? Could it be... / You knew catmint's uses when you were only three (moons old) / Catmint uses, me? / And the catmint... / Looks like that! *ravenpaw puts catmint under her nose* / You made faces and all the elders laughed!" etc etc). the "I don't believe we told her that??" moment is when they are like "Cinderpelt's the medicine cat" and she answers "And I recall her twisted paw" or something, which even Ravenpaw didn't necessarily remember right away since he only met Cinderpelt once, for the battle against bloodclan.

The Tribe is Paris. They meet Stormfur, who's Sophie in this version. He says she looks just like Squirrelpaw and he will help them bring her to Firestar.

They arrive around the lake. Floss just leaves the camp with her youngest kitten, who's vaguely ginger. They're interrogated by Daisy, for plot reasons since she's the only one in the camp who's old enough to play the part but new enough not to remember Leafpaw or anything before the Great Journey. She asks how Leafpaw escaped the Twolegs and Ravenpaw and Barley flinch because hey they didn't know that one either... And Leafpaw just says "there was this tom... a gray tabby... he opened the cages..." basically, speaking about Graystripe. Daisy goes inside Firestar's den and all they hear is Firestar saying ""nice to see you again but "I can't take it anymore all the rogues and loners around just bring me ginger or brown cats in hopes to get in the good graces of a clan leader, I'm not seeing anyone else now OK?" and Daisy tries to protest but hey it's a leader and she's shy so she can't.

She then says they should bring Leafpaw to meet Firestar at the opera at the gathering, and they reunite when she smells Squirrelflight's scent on him and she's like "wait is that my sister's scent??" (since cats can't really replicate the scent without the cat or part of the cat, he knows she can't have been taught it).

Then Leafpaw goes after Ravenpaw who's already leaving, dejected, after some clan cat told him off for leaving the clans but still coming to the gathering (probably Ashfur ngl) and they're both ambushed by ghost!Tigerstar on the bridge to leave the gathering island. She manages to remember Starclan (which the loners Barley and Ravenpaw didn't even think to tell her about), which allows Yellowfang and Spottedleaf and everyone to come to her help.

Then Leafpaw and Ravenpaw elope or whatever I don't really remember how the movie ends.

[ourladylennon]

NOO HE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE GEO!! I mean, his hair does look like George's hair, and maybe the cheekbones too? But he also reminds me of Ringo 👀

it's the dark long hair and facial hair and cheek bones!!! like he doesn't look look like him, but like....he does? I see what you mean by ringo too! The sunken in eyes omg, tf!

when i say geo looks like a hot rasputin i mean:

+ his body type + clothing (at this point in rasputin’s life) 

but now that you say that about ringo i am SHOOK:

WHAT IS GOING ON WHY DO THEY BOTH LOOK LIKE HIM

George + Ringo = Grigori Rasputin.....??? 👀👀👀