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[bonefall]

Warrior Bites: Dried Minnows

Requested by @troutfur!

A series for those who would like their Warriors to have some more advanced culinary abilities.

The art here was provided by my partner!! (thank you for engaging in my research journeys boo <;3)

Dried Minnows

Clan of Origin: RiverClan Occasion: Travel ration, food storage

"StarClan forbid a RiverClan cat go 2 hours without eating," says the other, very jealous Clans.

One of the most common meals prepared by RiverClan warriors, dried minnows are easy to prepare, can be stored for weeks, and are easily kept in bunches with a small string of peeled willowbark.

One minnow on its own won't feed more than a small kit; but they’re easily captured in whole schools and processed in bulk to make lots of food. Marinated in rosemary for taste and valerian for a boost of energy, these are usually carried around as travel rations.

[Image ID: Three common minnows strung together through the gills with willowbark twine. They are lightly dusted with spice.]

There's two ways RiverClan cats would dry fish; a Greenleaf method, and a Leafbare method.

In Greenleaf, when it's hot and humid, the fish will be sun-dried. Starting on a clear morning, the fish will be laid out on a rock and left sitting in direct sunlight. This method requires a watchcat, else foxes may steal the food.

[Image ID: Grasswhisker, a brown tabby RiverClan warrior cat, crouches in a ‘loaf’ position on a large rock. She is watching minnows dry.]

In Leafbare, the fish will be strung together and threaded through the gills with willowbark strips, the same as they were being carried. They’re brought to a high branch and left there, the wind drying them out naturally over a few hours.

[Image ID: Two batches of minnows are hanging up in a tree that has a single leaf in the middle of winter. The landscape is snowy and the lake in the distance appears frozen. The meeting island is visible in the corner.]

Because of the easy nature of dried minnows, they’re faaar from considered a delicacy. Apprentices going through their first leafbare are tempted to complain about eating these night after night, only for their elders to launch off into long-winded lectures about the nutritional value of minnows, appreciation of the food StarClan gives them, and how there’s starving kits in ShadowClan who would kill for a good meal right now.

Is there any truth to that last part? Well, the valerian spices ARE quite tempting, to be fair. It has a similar effect to dried catnip.

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A GRASSWHISKER

[lemnnshark]

"Grasswhisker is a brown tabby she-cat."

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Grasswhisker of Riverclan

(+animation friendly version)

She has the same scales as her mom's earrings in her tail </3 aww

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BRANCHSNAP [Grasswhisker] - RiverClan Hunter

(gender swapped Grasswhisker)

He/Him

Name Significance: named for his tail, which looks like a branch, and his strong bite

Ranks: Hunter

Mentor: Frogleap

Apprentice: tbd

Parents: Sunfish, Beetlenose

Siblings: Vixenleap

Mate: Frondfeather

Kits: Splashclaw, Ivytail

Other Kin: Perchscale, Heronwing, Shimmersong, Robinsong, Poplarfur, Otterheart (all his grandkits); Foxnose, Shadecloud (great grandkits)

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thinking about Grasswhisker and Spottedleaf's relationship in Reflamed.... oh the self-victim blaming and the realizations and the horror

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grasswhisker

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grasswhisker headcanon icons

lesbian // trans // trans woman

art by @/lemnnshark

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Grasswhisker

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RiverClan-R2-Y6-NL

Podlight and Curlfeather become warriors.

Reedtail retires.

Mudfur and Petalkit die.

Shadepelt and Reedwhisker have another kit; Nettlekit.

Sedgecreek also has a kit, with an unknown father, Copperkit. Pouncepaw is reapprenticed to Otterheart.

Robinkit is born to Grasswhisker and Clawface.

[bonefall]

Grasswhisker or Vixenleap. Give either of them some personality

Grasswhisker is one of the random warriors that I'm just fond of, for some odd reason. I've actually been planning to make Grasswhisker important genetically so that Sunfish's bloodline doesn't die out, and sort of pepper her into RiverClan-related food things.

If the Bonefall Rewrite incorporates aspects of my Clan Culture series, Grassy's going to be on 'kitchen patrol.'

As for Vixen though I was planning to keep her as a body, one of the deaths in TNP either during a pointless Sunningrocks battle or at some other point in the destruction. Something that would make Leopardstar have a brief change of heart, realizing her actions caused the death of another Sunfish child

So don't worry, they won't be Reed's mentors but I do have plans for them

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Grasswhisker

April 7th, 2023

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