#if she doesn't tawnypelt probably will

[amethyst-halo]

actually nightheart moving to shadowclan could be interesting bc we saw in both avos and tbc they just straight up start fights over shit in shadowclan and by god nightheart is good at stirring the pot

[the-owl-tree]

changing skies predictions but im overdramatic and mean about them:

avos rehash of the ugh kids these days dont respect anything plotline but even worse, now with tawnypelt instead of her cringe husband

this will be the only allusion to avos. twigbranch and violetshine will sink deeper into background character hell. sorry avos protagonist enjoyers, the authors genuinely dont seem to gaf about them

the authors getting really mad that people like tigerheartstar so theyre going to make him an unreasonable antagonistic figure again.

probably squirrelstar too because she is now being subjected to the Leaders Curse

shadowsight is going to be alluded to but despite having such clear parallels to the main character he probably won't play a main part apart from someone calling him a dumb fuck for being manipulated

someone dies from being caught in the dynamite explosion that will hopefully blow up the moonpool forever. this cool death should go to some character that is old and that i like. however, i wish death upon those i dont like

leafstar going blind and it tying into her clan questioning her capacity to lead........is anyone else kind of bracing themselves for the worst here?

man. is this a tbc rehash but worse? guys tbc was great, you fixed the ashfur problem! you don't have anyone else to do that with unless you're about to do some bizarre retconning.

tbc but with moonpaw and uh mapleshade because we need fifty more mapleshade appearances before we even consider making another prominent female villain that doesn't die immediately

honestly. something really catholic is probably gonna happen considering how asc is going.

[bonefall]

Have you thought about in-universe explanations for why Crowfeather (infected king!) was the only member of the Sundrown patrol to receive an Honor Title? Especially Tawnypelt, because I recall you mentioning she was leading the patrol at one point! In a perfect world I imagine they'd probably all get one, but I figure you can't just go around changing major character's names willy nilly like that.

In a perfect world the names would all become Honor Titles but yeah I try to avoid renames. I COULD be convinced to giving Tawnypelt an Honor Title though.

If I gave her an honor title it would be something like Tawnytreader, Sunsetchaser, or Sunsetter. It's in reference to how she eventually leads the Great Journey west through the mountain, towards the setting sun INSTEAD of directly North to the Lake, so that the Clans could meet with and get supplies from the Tribe of Rushing Water. Her leadership of the Sundrown Patrol and leading the Clans during the Great Journey makes her an immediate hero.

Brambleclaw probably gave up his Honor Title purposefully. He hesitated when Firestar was in the snare, and Mothwing leapt out of a bush to free the dying leader. He's ashamed of his inaction, so I think it's actually very poignant of him to say;

"I understand why you're taking away my deputyship... may I also ask for you to take this title from me?"

"But why, Northheart? You want to become Brambleclaw again?"

"...I was happy to have broken from his legacy, at first. But now I don't think I ever will. I think I need to be reminded of where I came from, or else I'll put it too far behind me."

Like, really drive home that what I'm doing here with Bramble is a tragedy. Everyone WANTS him to get better, to be good at self-reflecting and make good choices. They want so badly for him to break free of his father's association and be a positive representation of his powerful bloodline. Be he never does.

It doesn't bring him joy to be the way he is. And there's times he's so, so close to realizing that he should stay away from power. But time and time again, GIVING him that power is a mistake, and on his end, he always takes it.

"Northheart" isn't as punchy as it could be though. I have to think about it...

(Especially since I like how in canon, the "bramble claws protect the camp" prophecy could have applied to Thornclaw just as well. Maybe I'll change it so it could have applied to Brackenfur somehow)

Small recap: after their deaths, every member of the patrol is exalted and will become Directional Patrons. The two tagalongs also get associations.

Tawnypelt: West, towards the Ocean

Crowfeather: East, towards the Wilderness

Brambleclaw: North, towards the Lake

Feathertail: South, towards the Tribe

Stormfur: Patron of those who Leave (he is not joining StarClan though, these prayers go, symbolically, unanswered.)

Squirrelflight: Patron of Missions, most often invoked for Salt Patrols.

Stormfur didn't get a title because the leader at the time was Leopardstar. She wasn't very reverant of the mission to begin with, and Stormfur never returns to RiverClan after she let him be exiled by the False Sign.

Squilf actually does have an Honor Title-esque name in Clanmew! It's Pishkafsheek; "Red Squirrel Soars (like a bird of prey)." "Sheek" isn't regularly used to describe prey movements.

[snailchasers-den]

What about Tigerclaw x Spottedleaf has made you like the ship so much? I don't dislike it but I don't quite understand it either.

Well, the thing that kicked off my initial interest was the scene they had together in the first book, which I read as some type of flirty banter as a kid, and it later on snowballed from there the more I thought about it nowadays, I think LMAO Since then it's been like, my all time biggest ship in warriors, and I think about them all the time, even if I can't post about them a ton, I check the tag regularly and kinda just rotate them in my brain LMAO

It's customary at this point to mention I'm writing this while extremely tired, as I do most of my asks, so fair warning if any of this is kinda clunky. Other people have explained it WAY more eloquently than me, so if you're curious, I recommend looking in the SpottedTiger tag, cause others explain it in way more concise and understandable ways. I write most shit like I'm a madman at a whiteboard, but if that's your jam, you've asked the perfect person.

It's really a mixed bag why I started liking it-? A whole lot of things added up and got me hooked.

The difference in demeanors is fun, with Tigerclaw being threatening and ambitious and dramatic, while Spottedleaf is sweet and compassionate, yet extremely sassy, I feel like they'd play off of eachother nicely even in just comedic, non-romantic scenes.

Depending on how you want things to play out, you can basically sway how they effect eachother in however many different ways you want- Want an evil Spottedleaf AU? Tiger manages to convince her to join his side and we have a fun evil medicine cat. Want a however good Tigerclaw and a fluffier AU? Spotted is what he needs to soften him up just enough to not go feral and try taking over the clans. Want to tear them apart and have it be super tragic and kinda fucked up? Tiger still gets Clawface to kill her because he knows he can't bring himself to do it and knows she's his weak point. Something more canon-compliant? They were had a secret relationship before she died, and he sees her in Tawnypelt (I have a fic based on that idea, I love it. Obsessed with Tawnypelt resembling Spottedleaf by coincidence.) They're super flexible in that you can basically tweak and twist their story in so many different ways depending on how much you adjust the scenarios or their actions.

Make them mushy and sweet! Make them a badass medic/leader villain couple! Make them divorce eachother 3 different times and be bitter exes who throw snark and cold one liners! Make them be a tragic failed love story! Make them somehow make it work? Make them gay toms! Make them lesbians! Make them polyamorous with a cat of your choice! They're so versatile, and I love seeing anything people do with them.

I also like to throw a lot of religious/Starclan related things into the mix personally, because in different ways they both have connections with it in ways a lot of cats don't, and it can be both a good connecting point, and make it have an extra air of tragedy which I play VERY hard into in my False Prophecy AU. LMAO Spoilers for the AU that aren't really spoilers since I've drawn it before, but Tigerclaw doesn't actually commit a lot of his atrocities in that AU (Hence why I don't call him Tigerstar) and still goes to the Dark forest primarily due to literally lying about Starclan's word when they already wanted him dead from the moment he was born and 'corrupting a medicine cat', (And whatever else they could get him on, probably him being a bad mentor or having bad thoughts. They just wanted him in hell.) meanwhile, Spottedleaf, the golden girl of Starclan, despite being the one who ACTUALLY directly lied about their word and broke the code, is given a second chance and let in because 'She only loved too much'. (Because if they're going to say that line for someone like ASHFUR, I can twist it and use it for my AU in a more sinister manner, since Starclan is morally questionable here.) The ending of the AU's story also heavily relies on the afterlives, and though I won't go into it here since that's not what this ask is about and I genuinely do want to write it someday, I think it's a really fun way to twist things for them. It has such a poignant, vivid energy it carries with it, and I don't think it would feel the same with really any other pairing.

They're closer in age than most ships with them seperately, which is super nice, and makes it really fun to imagine them interacting as apprentices and their feelings building from those times into adulthood-

If you want to consider Spottedleaf's Heart, that could actually add to it too, seeing as they were both victims of Thistleclaw, likely even around the same time, and could seek solace in eachother over it- They're the only ones that truly understand, and that could drive them to want to protect eachother from other threats because they know they've been hurt in similar ways and don't want that to happen again.

I tend to imagine Tigerclaw to be a big ass Maine Coon while Spottedleaf is fairly small, and that just adds to it for me, since I think it makes the fluff between them 10 times better. My favorite warriors ship dynamic is when one of them is very, very fluffy and the other can basically just. Sink into their fur like a pillow. Hence why I also like MothCrow. I'm both unpredictable and incredibly predictable.

I also just don't really like a lot of Spottedleaf ships? She's one of my favorite characters, but I don't like basically any of the other pairings I've ever seen for her. Definitely don't like SpottedFire and never did, I see Mousefur as very very aromantic and relate to that, so SpottedMouse is very much not my jam- Anything else tends to be a rarepair or just something I don't really vibe with- She's not shipped with as many people as you'd expect. SpottedTiger was like striking gold for me- (Though Spottedleaf/Runningnose is also a nice one I think about from time to time, and is where I got Snailchaser as a character from LMAO)

Tigerclaw has always stood out to me and registered in my mind as being a romantic in a way too? It's a unique trait for a villain, especially in warriors, so I love emphasizing it, since god knows the Erins don't and won't. I know a lot of people like to joke about him kinda sleeping around or being a womanizer with him having two mates, but I love taking his multiple mates and interpreting it in more of a romantic sense- (And also I headcanon him as Polyamorous, but that's just me) He wasn't a good partner at all in canon, but something about imagining if he was makes him 10 times more compelling to me. He's a romantic! He's a family man! And he's a sadistic wanna-be dictator with the ambition needed to wreak havok and take over Shadowclan! Those traits 100% clash and that's the point. Putting him with Spottedleaf further complicates that by pairing him with a compassionate medic who does not at all share his lust for power. (Or might deep down, who knows! It's up to the writer!) I think it'd be fun to see internal battles and how the actual good traits he has fuck with his plans.

Though, if you know me at all, I'm also just really weird and love rarepairs and crack ships for Warriors. Hell, I basically made up the MothCrow tag on here by cautiously posting about Mothwing x Crowfeather- Even if my stuff's not completely canon accurate, I write in much more 'what if' scenarios and heavy AU usage. It's more fun and interesting to me to write in a more speculative "I love the version of this character that exists only in my brain" way, and out comes the stuff I make.

[cryptidclaw]

Is your Tawnypelt(star) a mate of FeatherTail or still with RowanStar? What was his/her life like?👀

Tawnyclaw is mates with Rowantooth (claw)! They r butch 4 butch lesbians with Rowan being a trans masc he/him lesbian!!

Main plot changes for them: Rowan treats his wife well (idk if he does in cannon but knowing how the erins write relationships... he probably doesn't LOL); i like the idea of Rowan being cringe fail just his whole life,, like he is badass but just so bad at leadership and NOBODY knows why his dad (Blackstar is his dad) made him his successor lmao; Rowan makes Tawny his Second and she becomes leader after he stepps down, tawny was basically leader even before this bec she needed to make up for her wife's terrible leadership skills... she still loves him tho adfggh

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Also speaking of Feathertail, she also has a wife!!

Willowfeather (Feathertail) is mates with Brook from the Mountain Colony (the tribe), she kinda takes her brother's place in the story!

[cherryishl]

my very own human!warriors headcanons based on my very own human!modern!warriors AU

alright yall i've been on tumblr for like ten or more years and that sounds crazy but i've never had like sort of blog there. i was only reading and looking for sum stuff but never actually wrote smth. in tiktok they said 2024 is the new 2014 so i gotta try having a nice tumblr blog about warrior cats lol 1. you remember that moment in the books when pinestar left his clan because he was scared of some difficulties in his clan life, right? and oh i know he had to kill tigerkit cuz he received a prophecy about him he had this he had that and he couldn't handle all this but let's stop for a minute and think of what: what if pinestar had some sort of mental illness such as schizophrenia and the voices in his head made him leaving the clan? so that makes this illness some family issue. u know schizophrenia can be easily inherited. so, in human!modern!AU pinestar left his family and the country because of some voices in his head or he could've even gone crazy for the same reason. tigerstar could've probably had this too. and pinestar's greatgranddaughter dawnpelt could too. flametail's death had affected her so much as we remember from the books and this could've worsen her mental illnesses. my mentally unstable queen

2. sandstorm has a 'lady' title, actually. not only because her husband is firestar which makes her a 'first lady'. sandy has both 'lady' and 'first lady'. she was born into wealthy aristocratic family. her father, redtail, comes from well-known family too, and he was also some sort of trustee or even a vice president for bluestar. her mother's (brindleface) ancestors were first people on a new land and oh well she comes from a wealthy family too. daumn sandy is THAT girl & knows her worth p.s. i know right it allegedly states that brindleface and redtail are not her parents and it's unofficial info but then who? so let that headcanon be lol 3. comes from a second one. sandstorm, as a lady herself, was raised in a lady-like way. perfect posture, elegant clothes, good manners... she's a royalty and she can't behave other way (her sharp tongue doesn't suit with this fact but let it be) and ofc she tried to raise her daughters the same way. and while leaf is modest and obedient enough, squirrel... isn't the definition of 'roalty'. you get it right, she IS a troublemaker. she lives for 4am parties at clubs, cigs, half-naked outfits and promiscuity sort of things. at younger age she had that 'kate moss in the 90s' lifestyle FOR SURE 4. despite that wild lifestyle that makes sand & fire grey hairs grow intensively, squirrel is sandy's favorite daughter. theyr're actually so much alike (sand isn't a saint virgin mary herself, she has manners and aristocratic origin but oh she was a wild thing at young age). you know, squirrel is mommy's daughter and leaf is daddy's daughter. squirrel is also the youngest in the family 5. tawnypelt is TALL. around 6'1 + wearing heels regularly. ofc cuz she has tall as hell parents (both of them tho). tawny is also way taller than her husband rowanstar. who also lives for the 'tall tawnypelt' headcanon? let me know hehe!

that's all for today xoxo

[warrior-cats-rewritten]

I really like Moonpaw’s design! And I’m hoping she is secretly a NightSun kit, with like a callback to the Three, which I think would be really cool. Probably not, but she is in my heart.

I quite like it as well! I actually have multiple au versions of her because nothing is even set in clay yet, let alone stone.

I personally love the versions of her where her absorbed twin is the "scary evil voice" (or just a bit more... "Mean", not afraid to call someone a dumbass), but also the version where she is the reincarnation of Bristlefrost. Sadly, that doesn't work with WCR...

I have the Meta Commentary/Cosmic Horror/Fandom heavy version of her as a NightSun baby, at the cost of Sunbeam's life. She wants to do lots of different things, and gets more into crafting than anything, but... She wants her dad to back off. Then the Moonpool gets involved... (This version is more canon compliant, no Bramble Strike happened and Crowfeather is closer to canon, that is to say a jackass) Meta Arc 9 AU

I've got the Continuation of ASC version of her as a FringeSpire baby, coming off the heels of the Skyclan Split and Gray Wing War. She's got a lot of pressure on her, and wants to one day be Leader. She has a fascination with the Moonpool when Waspstar takes her there. (She would be protags with Brightheart, who is oraganizing a way to fight the encroaching Twolegs with Cranberrynose and Skybranch) (this one is even funnier because I already had kits planned for them named Moonkit and Poolkit, born at the Moonpool) Moon + Bright Arc 9 AU

I've got the other version of that where she's a ShellFern baby. It's much more simple, where her big desire is to be a Mediator. (She is protag with Tawnypelt, but also with Breezepelt struggling with his chronic pain and new role) ShellFern Arc 9 AU

I've got a StormCherry version, where there's pressure from being Daisykin, which has been developing quite the legacy. She's a little Poppyfrost clone! She would be the little sister of Silverspots, Flywhisker and Snaptooth, and they are already CherryStorm babies. The other protags are Leafkit, daughter of Featherpelt and Toadstep, who is hard of hearing, and Daisy, who is determined to get to the bottom of why Twolegs have begun to get closer, leading to a very... Strange discovery. Daisykin Arc 9 AU.

And then, I think my favorite little version of her, is the most WCR compliant. A WhistleFrost child found at the Moonpool the day after it was purified. The voice she hears in her head is her Nana Curlfeather arguing with other Dark Forest spirits. Is this Moonpaw going to be a hero? Maybe, maybe not. Multi-Med Cat Arc 9 AU.

Any more canon compliance and I'd make her a corrupted Ashfur/Bristlefrost fusion through Thriftear calling Queen's Rights after her journey during Thriftear's Heart. The Bristlefrost reincarnation absorbed the Ashfur reincarnation to create Moonpaw! She would carry pieces of their memories/personalities inside her, struggling with that, and with her deep connection to the Moonpool that she is growing more and more obsessed with... Reincarnation Arc 9 AU

But... All in all, I'm glad we have such a unique looking Protagonist. I still don't trust the writers, but I'm gonna give them a single point for going absolutely BONKERS with her design in ways that would make 2011 fans whine and scream. Keep going, give these kitties weird features!

[blimbo-buddy]

If you had your way with arcs: who would you have as the single pov character for them?

See, I think that some arcs could benefit from bigger casts, such as TNP. But that's only if they actually stuck with the idea of multiple povs from different clans and wrote it actually good. Though I can still give my own choices of protagonists from each arc, if I was given the chance to.

These are just rough ideas so not everything is gonna stick, y'know. Dunno if this will all be apart of a rewrite so don't take this as a solid idea of my rewrite

The Prophecies Begin

Main pov: FireStar

This one has the least amount of changes done to it. I feel like FireStar being the main pov, the main protagonist is what works best for this arc. I'd really go into detail about how alone he feels in this new world he chose for himself, make it seem like that everything and everyone is working against him because of his heritage. All building up to his victory in the battle against Bloodclan, where he loses all of his freedom, his humanity, and finally becomes the leader of Thunderclan. It's horrible, tragic, beautiful.

The New Prophecy

Main pov(s): BrambleClaw, SquirrelFlight, CrowFeather, TawnyPelt, FeatherTail, StormFur, LeafPool

I'd probably go the first arc of Wings of Fire route for TNP, each book is from the pov of a different protagonist. As much as we've all dread the idea of CrowFeather having a book, we still got a super edition of him (Which, in this version would go to BreezePelt). I don't know which books would be about which characters though, but BrambleClaw and SquirrelFlight will probably share the Thunderclan book together, or I might switch that to SquirrelFlight and LeafPool sharing the Thunderclan book. HawkFrost and MothWing would fill the roles as the major supporting cast for sure.

The Power of Three

Main pov(s): LionBlaze, HollyLeaf, JayFeather

Also generally stays the same, it's called the power of three. Characters like CinderHeart, FlameTail (Who is far, far younger in this version), HeatherTail and BreezePelt would have more of a presence in the books, filling in the role of major supporting characters. Not much to say here honestly.

Omen of the Stars

Main pov(s): LionBlaze, JayFeather, DoveWing, IvyPool

Excluding HollyLeaf from the main cast because she would show up generally around the same time as she does in the books (Maybe earlier though). She does, however, fill the role as a major supporting character. Some of the other major supporting characters: TigerHeart, HollowFlight, CinderHeart, BreezePelt, HeatherTail

Dawn of the Clans

Main pov(s): GreyWing, TurtleTail, Thunder, TallShadow, probably some other cats

Okay this is where it's becoming obvious that I'm making this up from the top of my head. I got no real explanation for my choices I hope these characters all die (Except TurtleTail, Thunder, and TallShadow)

A Vision of Shadows

Main pov(s): SparkPelt, TwigBranch, VioletShine, someone else I dunno

So here's the thing: I want AlderHeart and NeedleTail to still be super involved with the plot, so they might become major supporting characters. But I'm struggling with the choices of making them povs or major supporting characters. But AlderHeart and NeedleTail would fall into different roles, especially AlderHeart, who would become apart of The Kin. That's all I got though I really don't care for this arc, just some of the characters, can you guys tell I want to get to TBC already.

The Broken Code

Main pov: ShadowSight

Yep, BristleFrost and RootSpring have now been slapped down to the major supporting character rank, joining this rank with NeedleClaw. Same thought process with FireStar being the only pov, I want to make ShadowSight seem alone, even if he has the support of his family, he doesn't even have the trust of his Clan, even his mentor flinches whenever he moves a little too fast or aggressively. Although I really want BristleFrost and RootSpring to be povs, I really do and I have no idea what route I want to go for. But I feel like if I had the choice, making ShadowSight the only pov really adds onto the hopelessness of the situation that he himself had caused because of heavy manipulation by an angel.

A Starless Clan

Main pov: FrostPaw

Double whammy with these singular pov characters. I explain my thought process with both her and ShadowSight better in this post, but basically I want her situation of all her support slowly fading away to really have an impact. You read the first book and think "Wow I'm so glad FrostPaw has all of her support from her family, mentor, and Clan!", until the end of the first book and beginning of the second book comes around, and it just hits you in the face like a brick that FrostPaw is going to be in for the worst time of her life

In the supporting cast department, we got: SunBeam, WhistlePaw, ShadowSight, LightLeap, FinchLight, SparkPelt, NightHeart, TigerHeartStar, and DoveWing

[mapleleafsunset]

warrior cats lgbt headcanons

I'm bored so here's my lgbt headcanons of every warrior cats protagonist!! also some other cats who i think are important in the first arc bc of how few protags we get

Prophecies Begin

Firestar : pansexual, he/they, cis Greystripe : bisexual (strong female pref), he/him, cis Ravenpaw : Gay, he/him but tries out bug/bugs, unlabelled gender

New Prophecy

Squirrelflight : queer, she/he, might be a trans man if she thought about it long enough Brambleclaw : the only one that i think is cishet. uncertain whether he is cishetallo or not though, he might be asexual spectrum Tawnypelt : t4t queer, she/it, intersex and transfem Feathertail : asexual lithoromantic lesbian, she/ae/bright, girlflux Stormfur : unlabelled, any pronouns (he/him pref), cis man Crowfeather : Trixic, they/them, nonbinary Leafpool : Bisexual, she/her, cis Power of Three

Lionblaze : cishetallo Hollyleaf : asexual greyromantic lesbian, she/they, demi-girl Jayfeather : oriented aroace gay, star/they/he, doesn't care to think about his gender but uses moonguardian, moonboy and starryghostic.

Omen of the Stars

Dovewing : Omnisexual (male pref) and probably aroace spectrum but she is scared of acknowledging that, she/her, cis Ivypool : Sapphic demiromantic, she/it/claw, nonbinary girl Flametail (he counts <3) : Aroace, he/him, trans man Vision of Shadows

Alderheart : Pansexual, he/him, cis Needletail : Heterosexual? aromantic, she/her, transmasc nonbinary girl Twigbranch : Asexual unlabelled, they/she, gender questioning Violetshine : Lesbian, she/ze, trans girl

The Broken Code Shadowsight : Asexual nebularomantic gay, he/it/they/xe, agender Rootspring : Asexual heteroromantic, he/him, unlabelled Bristlefrost : Bisexual (no pref), any pronouns, intersex A Starless Clan Nightheart : Lesbian, she/her, trans girl Sunbeam : Lesbian, he/they, butch (only comes out after leaving ShadowClan) Frostpaw : Lesbian with the worst case of comphet you've ever seen (do you notice a theme with this arc.), they/she but probably only keeping the she/her to make others happy, genderqueer

Dawn of the Clans Grey Wing : Asexual aromantic, he/they, cis Clear Sky : Heterosexual, he/him, trans man but he's probably the sort of trans man who tells other trans people that they aren't valid because they present differently Thunder : I wish I cared about thunder enough to have thoughts on him but he is the beigest character i have ever read about maybe only second to lionblaze i dont care about him his girlfriend fucked his dad why did she do that he creates the most boring clan ever and does literally nothing grey wing and clear sky are so interesting then you have to read a whole book about this man and i actually can't remember anything except from his girlfriend who deserves so much better than him why is he here he's so boring River Ripple (he's a protag to me) : Aromantic asexual, any pronouns, either genderfluid or agender

Other random characters i want to share my headcanons for because I feel particularly strongly about them

Rowanstar : Queer, he/him, trans man (obviously) Puddleshine : Demisexual homoromantic, xe/xem but they/them is okay, nonbinary Tall Shadow : Lesbian, he/she, views lesbian as her gender identity in a lot of ways Mousefur : Aromantic asexual, she/her, dont know about her gender Runningwind : Aromantic asexual, they/he, demiboy Redtail : Gay, he/him, trans man Sol : Queer, any pronouns, trans masc pangender Fallen Leaves : Sapphic, he/him, demigender Sleekwhisker : Lesbian, she/her, trans and she won't clarify in what way Mothwing : Lesbian, she/her, trans woman Cinderheart : Bisexual, she/they, girl to the left Cinderpelt : Bisexual, they/she, girl to the right Snowfur : Gay, he/him, trans man. PLEASE someone appreciate trans man snowfur he's so important to me Blackstar : Gay (bear), he/him, cis Fernsong : Going through every single gender and sexuality crisis everyday. Ended up settling on abrosexual, pronoun fluid and genderfluid but even then that might not stick. Ivypool somehow always knows what pronouns to use even if Fernsong hasn't told her yet Tallstar : Gay, he/wind, cis Jake : Pansexual, he/him and SO many neopronouns, cis Barley : Gay, he/him, trans man Darkstripe : the most toxic gay man you have ever met Hawkfrost : the second most toxic gay man you have ever met

this is SO many oh my god. i was planning to do a short list and now there's so many anyway i could go on for longer

[thedo0zyslider]

A place i've been before (I think I died there) - 1k Words

Squirrelflight returns to the Sundrown Place. Two cats follow her there.

One day, Squirrelflight is going to the Sundrown Place again. She doesn't know why, just that something is calling her there, and that she needs to go. Squirrelflight doesn't really tell anyone that she's going either, setting off by herself one afternoon without saying much to anyone. Other than a cryptic I need to go somewhere to Sparkpelt, anyways.

She barley gets off Clan territory before two cats have joined her in her journey. Squirrelflight isn't very suprised, either. She had a feeling one of them, at the very least, would be tagging along sooner or later.

The first is Crowfeather, older than he was on their first journey, but even crankier than he had been back then. More jaded. A more unpleasant tom, not that he had exactly been a pleasant one before.

The second is Tawnypelt. She has changed much since their journey too, but in different ways to Crowfeather. Better ways, even. She's faced more hardships, gotten more experience. The tortoiseshell is much more responsible than she was all those seasons ago. Squirrelflight is, too. She knows that that, at least, is for the best.

Tawnypelt falls into a de-facto leader role of sorts, though her companions don't need it. They are the only three cats who know this path, they know it and all it's dangers like the back of their paws. Tawnypelt leads them anyways, like it's only natural for her to do so. Squirrelflight thinks she should've been leader instead of Bramblestar. She wonders why she wasn't.

As they journey, Squirrelflight realizes how much she missed them. Er, well, how much she missed Tawnypelt. There wasn't much conversation, but the little there was ended up being fun. Enjoyable. It was nice getting away from the hustle and bustle of Clan life, of being deputy, and simply traveling with two cats she knows well.

Her conversations with Crowfeather are either as pleasant as her ones with Tawnypelt, or more sour. They stopped talking to him much, after a few days of unpleasant words being exchanged. It's when Squirrelflight realizes why she doesn't miss him all that much, and starts to wonder why she even did in the first place.

She has never missed Crowfeather, always Crowpaw. Always missed the cat he used to be. Squirrelflight doesn't even like the cat he is now, for so many reasons. All of them taste like bile on her tounge.

She thinks Nightcloud and Breezepelt deserved better. She thinks Feathertail deserved to fall for a better tom. Even if her living might’ve stopped him from being so terrible. She hopes her sikver friend hss moved on. She thinks Leafpool deserved the world, and then a so much more than that. She knows Crowfeather could never have given that to her, no matter how hard he tried.

He hadn’t tried very hard at all.

She still likes this version of Tawnypelt, at least, even if they don't talk as often as they probably should. Or as they might like. The tortoiseshell is her sister in law after all, though her and Bramblestar's relationship is so strained it barley feels like that anymore. She wonders if Tawnypelt feels the same about her own relationship with her brother.

Squirrelflight sighs, pushes the those thoughts away, and keeps on walking. Her paws feel heavier, older, than they ever had before. She pushes that away too, and keeps walking towards the Sundrown Place.

They pass the place where they first met Purdy, so many moons ago. The three of them stop to grieve, and hold silent vigil for a cat long passed. Squirrelflight feels like there will be a lot more of that happening on this trip, especially the more they backtrack. Not everyone had survived the Great Journey, after all, and not everyone had come with.

They pass the Tribe on their way up the mountains, as well. He didn't even stop to visit her grave, rather surprisingly. Crowfeather just keeps walking. Maybe it hurts to much. He asks her about his sons instead. She retorts that her sons are doing just fine. That her and Bramblestar and Leafpool's sons are doing just fine. Crowfeather doesn't say anything to that, and simply moves to the front of the group. Tawnypelt let's him take the lead without any comment.

The three of them arrive soon after that, and Squirrelflight feels like she's nine moons old again. She feels like her actual age, one full of too many season cycles to count, a moment later. The sights still as breathtaking as it was all those moons ago, when she first saw it; waves lapping over the shore and the sun drowning behind them. It's majestic. Squirrelflight never wants to look away. She wished she hadn't the first time.

Tawnypelt sits next to her, tail curled over her paws neatly. She stares out at the ocean, her green eyes hollow. But Squirrelflight knows there's emtions swirling under them, just like they're swirling inside her as well. Tawnypelt's lived through too much, even more than her, to not be getting emotional right now.

"It's beautiful." Is all the Shadowclan she-cat says, her gaze watching the waves. The receed from the shore, leaving wet sand and shells in their wake. Squirrelflight kneads the stone cliff, imaging the feeling of said wet sand beneath her paws once more.

"It's always been beautiful." She mutters back, and glances at Tawnypelt. Her friend does not look back at her, green eyes still casted towards the sea. Squirrelflight can't help but wonder what's going on behind them.

Crowfeather sits on her other side, looking at the sea more despondently than his companions do. He says nothing. There is nothing for him to say. Not anymore. He has said everything he possibly could moons ago

There isn't much speaking done, after that. A lot if sitting and watching the sun drown was done instead. It was such a beautiful sight. So beautiful, in fact, that Squirrelflight got emotional just watching it. And over what she had lost to get to that point, and where her thoughts wandered too in the silence.

Squirrelflight thinks of her kits. She wishes they could've seen this, all of them. There is no point in bringing her surviving ones now. Not when three were already stolen from her. Hollyleaf would've loved it. Juniperkit and Dandelionkit would've been so amazed. She misses them all more every day. The lump grief in her throat is almost enough to choke her.

She wonders if Crowfeather and Tawnypelt would bring their living kits here, or if they feel just the same as she does. Squirrelflight feels more inclined towards them agreeing with the latter option.

She thinks of Feathertail, who has been buried for far too long. Who had died far too young. She thinks of Stormfur. They do not know if he's alive. But they did not smell his scent anywhere near the Tribe's borders. He and his sister were the oldest of all of them. Chances are he's probably gone to join her. She wonders how Brook is doing.

Squirrelflight thinks of Bramblestar. There is no sadness when she does. She expects there to be, but there is not. She thinks of the cat she had fallen in love with, and wonders where he had vanished too and when he had left. She wondered if there had been anyway to keep him, or maybe bring him back.

Something tells her there wasn't, and that it was always going to end this way. Squirrelflight wishes it didn't have too.

She thinks of memories. Of the first time they arrived there. Of how happy all six of them, of how much fun they had all had back. She thinks of laughter and friends that aren't real anymore. She thinks of being nine moons old again.

Squirrelflight closes her eyes for a moment, as she remembers, and wishes she could be back in that moment more than she's ever wished for anything before.

Squirrelpaw runs through the shallow waves, water lapping around her paws. It tastes gross, but she can barely care about that when Feathertail splashes her, getting some in her mouth. All she cares about to splashing the Riverclan she-cat back, laughing as she does so. It's the most fun Squirrelpaw's had in moons. She never wants it to end.

Crowpaw complains about how loud it is here, and then Tawnypelt pushes him into the water. She laughs, and tells him to lighten up a bit. Stormfur joins her in teasing the Windclan apprentice, giggling when his fur fluffs up. He's absolutely soaked. Tawnypelt says he looks like a drowned rat from the Carrion Place. Crowpaw just hisses, no malice behind it, and tries to make them both look like drowned rats as well.

Feathertail splashes Squirrelpaw again, and then drags Brambleclaw into their playfighting. He's caught off gaurd, but quickly retaliates. Especially when Squirrelpaw tries to knock him over, and soak him in the salty water. Her clanmmate just taunts her, and says she'll be easy to drown. Squirrelpaw sticks her tounge out at him, and dares him to try. Feathertail laughs behind them.

Birds they've never seen before fly over head, calling out to each other as the cats below them play. Tawnypelt gets Squirrelpaw to gang up on her brother with her, something that doesn't take much effort at all. Stormfur and Crowpaw keep trying to one up each other, their games getting increasingly ridiculous. Feathertail is doing her best to sneak attack everyone with water, laughing and running through the waves. She says she finally feels at home again. It's the last time she will ever feel that way.

They play until the sun sets, and then watch for a second time as it drowns in the very water they'd been having fun in. Brambleclaw finds them somewhere to sleep, and all six cats collapse into a soaking wet pile. Squirrelpaw finds herself snug against Crowpaw, the warriors surrounding the both of younger cats, just as they always do when they sleep in possibly dangerous places. The protection is sweet, and makes affection swell inside her. Even if Squirrelpaw is fairly certain she could protect herself.....

Squirrelflight catches sight of where they'd sheltered that night, where he had cuddled next to cats now long gone and an apprentice she now loathed. It still looks like there's six sets of paw prints there, forever frozen in time. Just like Squirrelflight wishes she was.

She wonders where all the times gone.

[bramblewhisker]

ships: fireheart/mistyfoot, thornclaw/blossomfall, blackstar/tawnypelt

Ooh some unconventional ones!

FireMisty: Don't ship it

Why don’t you ship it? Never really thought about it, for the most part (and I tend to pair Firestar with toms, but that doesn't preclude straight Firestar ships). Could make for an interesting political marriage situation in a slightly different setting though.

What would have made you like it? If Mistyfoot spent more time with ThunderClan/just had more interaction with Fireheart in general.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it? I think there's a lot to work with there, since they both had quite complicated relationships with Bluestar. Sure seems like a ship with a lot of fanfic potential, especially if you have events near the end of TPB take slightly different paths. Definitely plenty of room for chemistry between them!

ThornBlossom: It's canon but I wouldn't say that I "ship" it.

Why don’t you ship it? This is a perfect example of how I think of warrior cats pairing up for kit-making without it being a romantic relationship. I think of the ThornBlossom relationship being much more this sort of functional "we'd make some strong kits for the clan, wouldn't we?" thing than a romantic situation. We all know that Thornclaw's one true love is patrols.

What would have made you like it? Perhaps I missed some signal, but I don't feel like POV characters ever note Thornclaw and Blossomfall spending a noteworthy amount of time together or acting a particular way toward each other? Otherwise they're just background characters I don't think much about (aside from making Thornclaw loves patrols jokes). A bit of romantic background subplot would give me something more to work with.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it? Certainly an interesting pairing if you want to make it romantic. He's much older than her and expresses very traditional/conservative attitudes about a lot of things. Whereas she's lake-born and her mother wasn't even a clan cat originally, so there's plenty of good "opposites attract" potential here. Blossomfall has some "mean girl" energy so maybe the two of them like to shit-talk together? Also the ship name is two different flower parts, which could definitely be fun to play with.

TawnyBlack: Don't ship it (but I think it's very funny)

Why don’t you ship it? Because Blackstar is so, so gay. I could see him making an exception for Tigerstar's kin to make this work, but nah, he's so gay.

What would have made you like it? I don't dislike it on principle. Sort of a political "hold this shit together" marriage between a weak leader and a strong, respected warrior. Basically what Tawny/Rowan is (in my opinion) a better version of.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it? I do love a pathetic gay man and a tough lady. I think there's plenty that could be done in a fanfic way to have them be in a politically-motivated relationship. Tawnypelt would probably have to drive it, and I imagine there could be some fun drama with her having to find someone else to sire kits for "them" because, as noted, Blackstar is way too gay to make that happen himself.

[troutfur]

How do you think OOTS could work out if Dovewing and Ivypool if they were Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw’s kits?

HMMMMM! Hmmmmmm!

I'm pondering this and I have to say I love the thought of putting Bramblesquirrel drama front and center in the arc in a way that makes it all more cohesive! My main beef with OotS has always been that while I like it on its own I always felt judging it as a continuation of Po3 it just doesn't make sense. Making them more cohesive in that way could certainly help.

I have two routes I could take this through:

Bramble doesn't disinherit his sons edition

...but he does his daughters.

An idea I really enjoy with Dovewing and her OotS plotline is the idea of having her childhood stripped from her for a responsibility that should have never fallen on his shoulder. There's the prophecy sure, but in this version it's also the idea of being the reconciler. While Jay and Lion are out there taking Bramble's side and being seduced by the dark influences of that side of their family like Hawkfrost and Tigerstar, StarClan takes it upon themselves to harrass Dovepaw into trying to heal the rift in hopes it brings the three all to their side.

In this way she takes on the burden of healing her family and ends up swimming against the current. Not even her littermate is on her side, too preoccupied with her own drama and jealousy that brings her into the DF's clutches in another way. In the end of course she can bring her parents to reconcile and her brothers to once again see their mom in a positive light, but at what cost?

She'll get her happy ending eventually. Perhaps not as Tigerheart's mate, perhaps it's through a positive bond Tawnypelt strove to create with her and she's welcomed as her niece, perhaps it's with a forbidden love in WindClan or RiverClan, perhaps it's as a kittypet. But whatever it is, I do think she has to step back from ThunderClan in the end, come to accept the environment she grew up in was toxic as hell and move on.

Now for a more wholesome option...

Brambleclaw DOES disinherit his sons edition

I know, I know, it doesn't sound better but hear me out.

In the version I'm imagining, Jay and Lion are snapped out of their tunnel-vision anti-Squilf sentiment by seeing just how much this whole debacle seems to flip a switch in Bramble's mind immediately. Not only is their mom pregnant, but ends up vindicated in her fears about the social repercusions of the secret coming out on Jay and Lion. They really can't argue with that and realize pretty quickly their initial betrayal at the secret being kept from them is small potatoes compared to all they stood to lose if anyone got loose lips.

So, in this version Jay and Lion are much more involved in helping their mom raise lil' Dovekit and Ivykit and I can even imagine them being granted them as apprentices. Dove and Jay and Ivy and Lion sound like potentially interesting pairs! But of course, the prophecy comes in knocking, it always comes in knocking to rock the boat with them.

Torn between their happy little family and this looming threat, Jay and Lion have to maneuver between doing what's best for their baby sisters and ensuring the Clans survive. Do they succeed? It probably ultimately ends a failure of some degree on the family side. But on the bright side I do see them settling into a more amenable status quo than canon once the dust settles. Mistakes were made, some irreparrable, but Jay and Lion will always be Dove and Ivy's big brothers and mentors and they can at least strive to fill the role better.

[the-owl-tree]

any fun ideas or facts about your #new generation au?

:D!!!!!! for anyone new it's basically just a fun slice of life vibes au in which the clans attempt to erase the borders and laws separating them after oots....and struggle, a lot. some other changes include:

Squirrelflight leaves ThunderClan after Po3 and lives with Sol nearby.

Ash and Bramble actually had a tumultuous relationship that resulted in two kids.

Bramble flees during OotS and Hollyleaf steps up. I'm still iffy on the deputy, I'm thinking maybe Brightheart? She'd want a senior warrior to advise her.

I'd probably change up the other Clan leaders too?? mainly because AVOS doesn't really happen here and i don't like Rowanstar, probably make Tawnypelt the deputy and give her a promotion.

Leopardstar, Blackstar, and Mistystar would all be dead after this to just give some fresh blood a time to shine :D

and some more general ideas:

the family tree continues to be the bane of my existence <3

Hollystar and Leafpool still have a tense relationship, despite near death apologies. While Leafpool is an incredibly loving grandma and always loves to be with her grandbabies, Holly has a lot of anxiety over the idea that one day Leafpool will tell her son everything and he'll never look at her the same way again.

She does briefly try to keep the two separate when that anxiety starts to eat at her but Pool is downright miserable and Cinderheart has to coax her to stop it.

Speaking of Leafpool, she and Mothwing finally get together in this as older, weathered down cats. She spends her early retirement walking along the lakeside with her.

Jayfeather and Berrynose's brief relationship was unknown to a majority of the Clan until Ryekit suddenly popped up. Even Lionblaze, Berry's actual husband, was caught off guard.

Jay and Berry are both pretty good dads, I'm not keeping Jay's AVoS personality of being nasty to children. While they snark and take jabs one another in private, they're amicable for their daughter and spoil her rotten.

Lionblaze only wanted to help sire kits for Poppyfrost, Sunflare's interest in her biodad's legacy caught them both off guard.

Sunflare used to be very close with her mom but stories of the Firekin and their legacy pushed her into dedicating herself to becoming special. Poppyfrost tries to steer her away from such high expectations of herself...but Sunflare is intent on proving she's just as special as the rest of her bloodline.

Sasha's nickname for her and Scourge's daughter is Pancake :)

Speaking of Panny, if she ever met Mothwing and Hawkfrost....I don't think it would go very well. The two have some issues with how their mom left and Pandora is quick to anger.

Them meeting Timber would go even worse.

The three do not get along with their half-siblings Foxtail and Oakcloud. Jay finds them annoying at best, Holly is still reeling from Squilf leaving and then having *gasp* more not full-blooded ThunderClan cats (don't worry Holly goes through an arc of letting the code go), and Lionblaze is the one who tends to get suckered into their schemes.

To be fair it's more Foxtail they're not crazy about, Oakcloud is pretty chill and doesn't try to sucker them into hunting for them. Foxtail does win some points with the kits of ThunderClan after bringing some cat toys that had been thrown out.

aannnndd those are off the top of my head :D ty for asking!!!

[bonefall]

Okay I voted for Hollylark because I’ve been following for a while and I’m used to xer name at this point, the runner up being LarkTuft because I have… a question. why would cinder and Fallen choose to name their child Hollykit. Is it like a reclamation of Fallen’s previous life? Is it because Hollyleaf was the cat who brought them together even if Fallen doesn’t associate with that name anymore? Is it a challenge like with tawnypelt and Tigerkit? Why that prefix after all they’ve been through?

On the flip, LarkTuft is such a cute name since Lark’s have those little Mohawks. And all I’m imagining is Fallen/Cinder’s child with a perpetual tuft of hair sticking up.

I figured Hollylark would be popular, simply because most of the regulars got used to it at this point, but I figured I'd check to make sure y'know?

Like, last chance to get me to change it

Also just to qualm any concerns about Larktuft being a weird name too, here is a picture of the Skylark which Clan cats see when they hear the word "lark;"

[ID: Photo of a Skylark taken from their profile on the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) website. It has a tuft on its head.]

If the prefix "Holly" wins out, then it's because Fallen doesn't have resentment towards it! She went through a lot under Holly Leaves, then Folly Leaves, but she chose "Fallenleaf" because she misremembered what her old name was. It feels like her name now, a signifier of the person she has changed into.

Cinderheart LOVES that name, though. She missed Holly every day, and the kitten looks just like she did when they were little. It felt perfect, to use the old name for the kitten, a happy reminder of those simple days.

If Lark wins out though, it'll probably be for a little tuft of fur on xeir head, just like a lark.

[boilingrain]

Rain Draws Squirrelflight, Leafpool & Bramblestar a Few Times

Since these three won my poll on which protagonists I should draw, here they are!

They don't get as much art per character as Ashfur did, because that was one character and this is three. Trust me, this was faster and more do-able

So anyways, first up is the Squirrel herself!

I draw Squirrelpaw generally softer & bouncier looking than I draw Squirrelflight, because at this point in time she's just a kid. She has not yet witnessed the Horrors(tm)

Even when I was reading The New Prophecy for the first time as a kid, I always imagined Squirrelpaw/Squirrelflight as having little round ears. Maybe it was just the "Squirrel" prefix, but that trait has always stuck with me and I've always drawn her with small ears.

This isn't a trait unique to Squirrelflight with my designs though! In her family alone, Cloudtail, Alderheart, Lionblaze and Nutmeg also have small, rounded ears (Princess might also have them, but I haven't decided yet. I also haven't decided if any of Cloudtail or Lionblaze's kits have the rounded ears, but at least one probably does)

I wish that she had kept her telepathy thing with her sister, I honestly thought it was interesting. It's a shame that the Erins quickly ran out of uses for it and decided to pretend it never existed. This may or may not be why in my rewrite of Warriors that exists in my head (like many others in this fandom), the telepathy thing didn't stop existing as soon as it wasn't super useful the plot anymore.

Admittedly, she's always been my favorite of the cats who journeyed to the sun-drown place (though tbf, most of them didn't really get any proper development, and the other one was Brambleclaw. I do have a soft spot for Stormfur and Tawnypelt, though).

Also I... forgot to color Squirrelkit's mouth. Whoops

The lady with a somehow worse taste in men than her sister, Squirrelflight!

Please Squirrelflight, you could've done so much better than Bramblestar. You deserve so much better than Bramblestar.

That aside, Squirrelflight has been one of my favorites for a long time. I just think she's a fun and interesting character

I think I said basically all of the things I was going to say when I was talking about Squirrelpaw, tbh. Also, much like a lot of the fandom for some reason, I don't really remember much of what happened during OotS? I don't think Squilf was particularly relevant during that arc, but it's possible she was and I just genuinely do not remember.

Why is Omen of the Stars basically just a void in everyone's memory. What's going on there.

Anyways, those aren't the final designs for Lionkit, Hollykit & Jaykit in that little doodle. Those are just kind of rough concept designs for them, and when I eventually draw them they'll probably look different. Also this is tortie Hollyleaf propaganda

If Lionblaze can be golden (though I typically draw him as cream) when both of his parents are functionally black (brown = black when it comes to cats. Also Leafpool shouldn't be a brown tabby anyways, because her dad is red and her mom is cream, which is a dilute version of red. I should stop talking now, before I get too deep into rambling about cat genetics), then Hollyleaf can be a tortie. (Jayfeather's fine btw. Gray is a dilute version of black, and both of his parents carry dilute. Crowfeather from Ashfoot & Leafpool from Sandstorm)

Okay, I'll finally shut up about cat genetics now

If Squirrelstar doesn't happen, I will eat my hat. I will eat several hats.

I actually don't even know how old Squirrelflight is currently in the books. It doesn't help that the Erins are weird with ages and don't seem to know how cats work.

For my purposes, I choose to believe that the Clans have been at the lake for at least a decade, making Squilf at least 10 1/2 - 11 years old, depending on how old she was when the Clans left the forest territories. And putting her around that age would, in fact, make her a senior (for a house cat, at least. Real feral cats don't typically live that long, but tbf the clans have medicine and stuff, so their life expectancy might be longer than regular feral cats. But cats are considered seniors once they hit 10 years old)

Also all things considered, she's probably been stressed as hell for a while and experiencing the Horrors(tm). So she gets some gray on her muzzle from a combination of age and stress.

Honestly she deserves to go on a nice, relaxing vacation where she doesn't have to deal with the Erin's less than good writing choices and shitty treatment of female characters.

Anyways Squirrelstar's leader mark is her nose spot becoming star shaped, because I love it when leaders are depicted with some sort of star shaped marking. I eat it up every time.

I'll talk more about leader marks and how I do them at a later time, though.

Leafpaw! My sweet baby Leafpaw!

My version of Leafpool is big and very fluffy, and you can't stop me from drawing her that way

Right off the bat, you'll probably notice that her design has changed a bit from the original concept design that I posted, as she's now a tortie instead of a regular brown tabby. Admittedly, a big part of why she's a tortie now is that I just love torties & calicos haha

If anything, her name makes even more sense now, because the combination of brown and orange makes her look more like leaves during fall! :)

Why's Leaf a tortie but Squirrel isn't? Maybe Squirrelflight is a secret tortie, or maybe she's trans, who knows? (The actual answer is that I had already finished all the Squilf art when I randomly decided to have Leaf be a tortie, but I didn't want to go back and change Squilf's design because I love it)

I hope it's obvious that I love Leafpool a whole lot

Once again, Holly, Lion & Jay's designs in this are not their final designs and when I eventually get around to actually drawing them, they'll definitely have at least a few design changes.

Also it's really hard to draw tiny little newborn kittens on a small scale like this.

Anyways I've never actually read Leafpool's Wish, so I don't know if it proves or disproves what I'm about to say, but I think that with how much Leafpool loved her kits, I believe that she would've raised them herself if she had the ability to.

I also personally believe that if Squirrelflight hadn't decided to take in the kits, or if Leafpool had decided that she wanted to raise her kits instead of her sister doing it, Thunderclan wouldn't have done shit about it. I mean, she definitely wouldn't be as trusted as she was before, but I don't think she'd lose her job (at least at first) or be exiled. She was their only medicine cat, they literally couldn't do shit about it. Additionally, she's Firestar's daughter and also related to Sandstorm and Squirrelflight, who are both individually forces to be reckoned with.

She'd probably have to train an apprentice as soon as possible and then have to step down from her role as medicine cat, but I definitely don't think she'd be exiled or anything.

Leafpool but she sparkles

For anyone who didn't see my Ashfur post, some of the rules I have for Starclan designs is that Starclan cats are lighter in color and have sharper & more star shaped markings compared to when they were alive. They also have their appearances change over time in a way connected to their names, which is why Leafpool is starting to grow leaves out of her neck fluff.

Additionally, Starclan cats will typically have a sharper shape, to go with their sharper markings. You'll notice that while she has the sharper markings, Leafpool's fur is still soft and rounded.

I feel like Leafpool's whole thing with her trial would affect her Starclan appearance, but that's not really something that results from a trial, so her not becoming sharper in shape is the exception rather than the rule.

I didn't design a Dark Forest Leafpool, but I imagine that the changes she'd get there (because my DF cats have their appearances change based on their crimes) would be that she would still grow leaves out of her body, but she'd also grow feathers and would have particularly long and sharp claws that she wouldn't be able to sheath. Each of these things is representative of the "crime" that she was sentenced for (even though Spottedleaf, a Starclan cat, literally encouraged her to do that)

The leaves would specifically be holly leaves (representing, well... Hollyleaf), the feathers would be a mix of jay and crow (representing Jayfeather & Crowfeather) and the claws would represent Lionblaze (though for this one I went with something meant to represent his power instead of his name. With Leafpool being a medicine cat, I think it fits)

If Leafpool doesn't give Squirrelstar a life we riot

The bramble man

Honestly even as a kid Brambleclaw wasn't exactly my favorite character. I wasn't really old enough to really process how he sucks, honestly I just kind of remember thinking that he was boring. Maybe that's just the fact that I've always liked Squirrelflight & Leafpool way more than him, but I just didn't really care for his POV chapters during The New Prophecy

I did love the Hawkfrost scene, though. Because I wasn't on any warrior cats forums or anything as a kid, I didn't get spoiled about stuff like Hawkfrost's death or the Fire Scene (along with many other important scenes), so I think those scenes hit way harder for me.

When I was a kid reading Po3 for the first time, I genuinely didn't even suspect that Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw weren't Hollyleaf, Lionblaze & Jayfeather's biological parents. So you can probably imagine how shocked little elementary school me was

But anyways, yeah. While I didn't hate Brambleclaw as a kid, I just didn't really care about him.

On another note, my Brambleclaw/star design is pretty similar in shape to my Lionheart design (just with extra toes and not as big of a mane). Since Lionheart was Goldenflower's brother, I thought it would be interesting if while everyone else just saw Tigerclawstar in Bramble's appearance, Goldenflower didn't.

My Tawnypelt design has a more similar shape to Tigerclawstar, though.

Bramblestar!

Leader marks are usually an already existing marking that becomes star shaped (like how I made Squirrelstar's nose spot star shaped), but sometimes a new marking entirely will appear as the leader mark.

While I easily could've made one of the spots on the backs of his ears into a star shaped for his leader mark, I have plans relating to Bramblefake/The Imposter and Bramblestar's mark.

You'll see said plans in a moment, but what I will mention about it is that my Ashfur design has a broken heart shaped marking on his chest.

On an unrelated note, Bramblestar should have someone else name warriors for him because great Starclan is he bad at names.

There's totally nothing wrong with Bramblestar, what possibly could've made you think that

Anyways, a combination of the whole being possessed thing & Ashfur's broken heart marking have caused Bramblestar's leader mark to "break". It actually doesn't get fixed after he's no longer possessed, his leader mark stays that way.

The Imposter's fur is darker and droopier than regular Brambkestar. I don't have a real reason for the darker color (other than that it looks cool), but the fur is Ashfur's doing.

Another thing that is Ashfur's doing is the blue pupils. Bramblestar is supposed to have red pupils (due to him training in the Dark Forest in TNP), but being possessed kind of overrides that and so The Imposter's pupils are blue. They do turn red again after Bramblestar is no longer possessed, though.

Honestly, I still kind of wish that the theory that Bramblestar had rabies was canon. The possession was interesting, but I don't think rabies has even been mentioned in the series. Which is a bit surprising considering that it's basically a soap opera with cats, but then again the Erins sure do love taking the opportunity to ignore possible interesting new plots. Why do anything interesting when we could instead have a billion more badly written romances

But I will admit, it was interesting to have Ashfur come back to be awful again. I'm still mad that he got let into Starclan after trying to kill at least 4 people because he "loved too much" and that gave him more of an opportunity to pull this shit. They absolutely butchered Yellowfang after she died. Not really even recognizable as the same character as her living self.

I'm not doing more art for this post. I'm tired and I'm going to go get some sleep. Tomorrow I will get back to work on hypokit requests, but for now it is time to put away my art supplies and lay in bed.

[lolasucksmints89]

Moonrise Warriors Human au

Book 2: New Prophecy 2. Same applies. This one is less detailed then Midnight because this one is less clear in my head.

The point of view characters are Feathertail and Stormfur.

Stormfur is been taken through the air, over mountains and sea. First he fears for his life as he starts to struggle but he realised that he could get out of the grip holding him hundreds of miles above the ground he thinks is probably for the best that he isn't dropped. His captors comment he is not struggling any more. He doesn't respond them.

Feathertail cries out for her brother but the rest of the group quietly watches. Tawnypelt asks what do we do now. They have a moment of silence. Before Midnight tells them to go back to the clans she says that saving them from that dark fate is more important than one warrior the matter how special he might be.

They ask her if the great earthquake has happened in the territories are no more. She tells them that she doesn't know she could only see the past and future clearly but not the present. Feathertail says she is going to go get her brother back and if she is gone and so is her piece of the map. They could come with her and go home or do neither.

Bramble agrees with her, Crowpaw does as well he promises to stay by Feather's side. Squirrel takes a second to reflect before she agrees to go so. Tawnypelt asks Midnight if she could send a message for them. Midnight urges them to go back that it would be complete shame to lose all that history and lives would be a shame.

Tawnypelt decides to go with them as well.

Purdy stays with Midnight.

Stormfur is dropped into a river, he swims through quite easily the suddenly taken under by a strong current. He is dragged under the water until he is taken into an underground cave. A huge man is waiting for him and he controls the water so Stormfur is lifted up and presented before him. He drops storm and runs out of the cave. Storm recovers and runs through the cave. He runs until he finds an exit to the cave that is in. He sees lights and walks to the suddenly Dragon blocks his path. He reaps to the cave wall but the dragon just walks past him.

Stormfur slips out when he is greeted with the sight of the tribe of rushing water. Huge group of people that live in harmony with dragons, they have a whole city tucked away behind a giant waterfall. People work side-by-side with dragons talking with them and riding around on their backs. He sees people hanging up wet clothes, children playing. Suddenly a guard catches him and he is dragged away.

Feathertail and the others run across the bridge keeping good time that they reached the mountains by mid-afternoon. They are trying to figure out what way the dragon would have taken Stormfur. And suddenly the big dragon that had attacked Crag and Brook flies over and tries to pick up them. They run and get split up by this dragon Feather is with crow while Squirrel, Tawny and Bramble run the other way.

Crow suggests they try to go further into the cave to see if there is another way out.

Feathertail reflects on her time growing up in a Riverclan. She tried to be as nice as she could, in the back of her head she knew it was because she was trying to make her clanmates like her as much as possible. So if Tigerclan ever happened again then she would actually have people on her side.

Stormfur was very popular when they were apprentices after Riverclan was rebuilt. He was able to get a girlfriend and was respected by the senior warriors. However she would hear gossip about how other people thought that she was trying too hard. That all of her was fake.

Stromfur told her once that he also heard people talking about him behind his back. How he was disloyal because of his still close relationship with his father that was just pretending to be nice so he could reveal RC secrets. He just ignores it. He tries to think that would happen to them when they were younger ever happens again and they always have a home in Thunderclan and Riverclan while he would miss it would be fun while it lasted.

Feathertail doesn't think she could have survived without him.

Crow acts very strange with her. She assumes he is just an awkward snappy kid and dismisses his flustered nature around her.

They managed to find a way out right on to the dragon's nest. They find what is left of Crag's dragon, (strange explosive weapons) just as the red dragon comes back to its nest carrying Squirrelpaw.

They act quickly and attack, forcing the dragon back out of the nest and as is clinging onto the cliff side. Feather distracts it while Crow drops bombs onto its wing. The wing gets destroyed and the dragon falls to his death. Feather is almost pulled with him but Crowpaw manages to grab her just in time.

They reunite again just as the sun sets, the bridge is still there and they realise that they still have time. And the skin the mountains for any sort of light that would show them a camp. They spot some lights over the mountains and know that is where Stormfur is.

Stormfur is taken by the guards to a room, large lavish room with soft pillows and lighting. Storm collapses on the soft pillows while he thoroughly enjoys them yesterday sort through all of the things that have just happened to today. That however pleasant the cushions are he is been held hostage against as his will.

He doesn't know how but he falls asleep. He was woken up by guards bursting into his room and curses the comforts of a good bed. They change him into strange clothes and he has taken on dragon down to the foot of the waterfall. There is music and lights he is taken to a big feast and put on a stage.

There he meets the leader of the city, the Honourable Stoneteller. He introduces Stormfur as the Silver Poison that will finally take out the Great Dragon Killer. As he says this puppet descends over Storm and fake eats him. Stormfur pushes the puppet off of him, the person controlling the public makes it thrashed around and falls over. He asks Stone. Who apparently to him and partly to the crowd gives a obviously summarised version of the Sharp toothed dragon a massive dragon that is extremely territorial and goes after the dragon riders and their cattle when they take them out of the mountains and into the fields. If sent many warriors to fight them. But there is a prophecy that a strong and mighty silver warrior would slay the beast.

The feast begins and the people of the city give him any gifts. Mostly food. Stormfur is troubled.

When he is taken back to his room the Honourable Stoneteller joins him and asks how he created the bridge across the mountains. He explains that he has been on a journey to the mountains.

Stormfur is honest he says that his sister was the one who summoned the bridge he was just there to protect her.

H Stoneteller takes this information in and tells Stormfur that he will begin training in the morning.

Fetahertail is hunting with Brambleclaw and Crowpaw. Crowpaw manages to catch a weasel but its mouth they find a baby raven. Injured but still alive.

They take it back to camp. Squirrelpaw wants to cook it but Crowpaw is very against that. Feathertail helps him clean up the baby bird.

Feathertail and the others are making their way through the mountains it is morning now when suddenly a familiar dragon attacks then a dragon with a rider from the tribe (it's not Brook). It attacks again this time they have nowhere to run. They don't see what happens to the dragon they only hear it a large shadow and then that dragon and cat is gone. They run as fast as they can.

Feathertail once they get to a cave is worried that they fed Stormfur to a dragon. They all tried to comfort her- Squirrelpaw says that there are worse things to be eaten by then a dragon. The group collectively flinches but Feathertail feels comforted by that.

She thinks back to how she was abandoned by Riverclan. She wished her clan mates had been loyal to her the same way that she was loyal to Riverclan. Because she wonders what would happen if she had to return to RC without Stormfur. She would have her clan and what else. Mistyfoot was betrayed in the same ways she fit right back into clan. It was if her brother and her mentor were had been speaking a different language than her. How they found it so easy to fit back into clan life.

As they are sleeping in a cave, Feathertail is wrestles with her thoughts and sits at the mouth of the cave. Crowpaw joins her, he reveals that the bird is still alive and he admits that he going to keep it. She says its cute that his name is Crow and he has a baby crow. He corrects her that it is a Raven. After they come up with a name Crowpaw then hugs her. They stay there for a while Feathertail is glad to have a friend comforting her in this trying time.

Storm is woken up early. He gets taken to training room where he meets his original kidnappers Brook and Crag. They are going to train and Stone teller is going to watch them. He confronts the both of them before anything really starts- but the two appear ambivalent to the clans suffering.

Brook and Crag put up a very good fight, but Stormfur has had a good night sleep and he knows he is great at fighting other people.

Stoneteller is impressed by this as is Brook. The next he is to fight Brook's dragon. Stormfur isn't as good as with animals. As in this fight that he discovers that dragons can talk and he makes fun of Stormfur for the losing so badly.

After training Brook volunteers her time to show Stromfur around. She takes on to see their cattle- a calf nursey. The city's cows are not doing good after the Great Dragon Killer's attacks. They have to be brought in grass and food instead of the cows being taken out the pastures. This is causing sickness to spread between the cows. They have many chicken like animals that they keep in dragon proof cages. And she takes them to the fishing caves.

Feathertail and the group are running away from something they fear it's the dragon they are sure it’s the dragon that took out the dragon rider and to escape him by jumping into a rushing river. They are saved from that river by people on dragons. They are taking so my hostage by the other group of people. There are older people with dragons that have many scars, they also all have silver hair. The people are Talon, Bird and Rock.

Bramble explains their situation, and Feathertail demands to know how they can get her brother back.

The group reveals that there an exiled group from the tribe of rushing water that is not allowed back into society unless they kill the Great Dragon Killer. There used to be about 10 of them all silver-haired warriors.

Squirrel demands this new group of people help them rescue their friend and let them ride on their dragons. Brambleclaw also wants this. The leader agrees only if they do the chores around camp then that night he will take them for a ride but he will not help them rescue Stormfur. But after some negotiation- the five of them reluctantly promise to do three days of camp chores, washing the clothes, cleaning the tents and taking of the dragons  and Talon will take them to the city under the waterfall but he will do no more.

Crowpaw tells them about his baby raven, Rock reveals that he used be a farmer/ vet before he had to train as warrior (because his silver hair but he doesn't tell them that). The baby raven is a bit sick because of the river but Rock promises to save the bird.

While they are doing chores that night Tawnypelt ask Feathertail how she is doing. Feathertail puts on brave face but Tawny can see through it. They joke about Purdy living with Midnight. And Tawny admits that she is going to miss having her friends and her brother. Tawnypelt talks about her experience, she is incredibly happy in the clan that she is in but every day she misses her brother and mom. Feathertail realises that she never wanted to leave RC because of her brother. If she moved to TC with her father there would be a lot of things that she would miss. She loves fishing and she loves RC clothes and building houses there. Its not the same at TC.

Bramble and Squirrel make friends with the dragons and Bird takes them on a dragon ride. Tawnypelt she wants a turn after.

Tawnypelt suggest that if she loves fishing so much that she should teach Crow how to fish.

For three days Storm is woken up trained and then Brook takes around the city to see her favourite sights. One of these days Brook introduces him to Star a nurse?? who is an assistant to the many Stonetellers but not in interpretations signs but in the healing aspect. She takes them to a bakery (it's a place that uses dragon fire to make pastries/ bread) The baker tells Storm that Great Dragon Killer also stops them from getting to their many wheat fields down the mountain. The baker's family risk their lives every time they go out and they are excited for Storm to kill the Killer Dragon.

Every night ends with a huge feast, but they are letting Stormfur eat most of the food.

One day Stormfur questions the honourable Stoneteller. And he reveals that Stromfur is supposed to kill The Great Dragon Killer. But he is supposed to be poison- he is meant to be eaten by the dragon.

Brook visits him that night and Stromfur confronts her.

Talon and his crew fly down to waterfall city. They tell them to get their silver friends off the mountain as soon as possible. Feathertail doesn't need to be told twice. However there is a storm that is rapidly getting worse. Because of this dragons scouts are flying around to see Feathertail and the others however this means they also can't see a gaint dragon.

The crew take advantage of the chaos to sneak into the city to save Stormfur. People and dragons alike are being devoured. Brook runs into Feathertail and she flies them to Stormfur. They get out of the cave but as they're escaping Stormfur sees Star being carried off by The Great Dragon Killer.

They meet back up with the silver group, who have prepared a celebration feast for successfully rescuing Stromfur. Stormfur does not want to eat. The silvers get a bit drunk and beg the clan cats to stay but are turned down. Feathertail offers Crow a fishing lesson. They travel to a nearby river and have fun.

Feathertail relaxes with Squirrel and Tawny because her brother is back and they are heading home. When Stormfur interupts them. He says that he had a vision of thier mother in the rain and he wants to go back to help the tribe take down the dragon.

Talon and his group refuse to help. Feathertail asks them why tell don't want to go back and Talon refuses. He doesn't want to go back to a tride that would easily feed his to a dragon. Feathertail knows how he feels. But still the send the whole night planning.

That morning Crowpaw confesses his feelings to Feathertail. Feather curses herself for seeing the signs. She says that she sees Crowpaw as a friend. He accepts this.

They going to the tribe carrying the still semi fresh body of the red dragon. The silver crew set up the red dragon in the city to attract The Great Drgon Killer but they are going to poison the corpse. H Stoneteller has the city leave and go farther into the caves for proetction.

Stormfur and the others are going to lead the charge against The Killer onces its poisoned.

The like Moonrise doesn't work. The dragon just start eating people. Feathertail hears the voices of the past just like her dream. Crowpaw almost get eaten by the creature.

Feathertail ask for Talon, Bird, Rock and Brook to help destroy the celling. 

She runs with Storm up the city wall and says goodbye to him and jumps. She sticks her axe into the nearest stalactite. The celling collapses on the dragon killer. His wings get broken but he is still alive.He grabs Feathertail and attempts swallow her but she uses her axe to crave up his mouth. The dragons in the city swarm The Dragon Killer.

The Killer is slain. The dragons fly Feathertail back to the five clan cats. Feathertail has been burnt by The Dragon Killer's mouth and stabbed by its teeth.

Feathertail dies.

Stormfur is lost with grief. Crowpaw cries.

Because her sacrifice the tribe offers up any of it dragons to them. To get back to their home territories. But it's the group of Silvers that volunteer to take the clan cats back and since The Dragon Killer is dead the Silvers are offered a place, Bird and Rock acceptt but Talon doesn't. 

As they flying back to Midnight they notice that the bridge is sinking under the waves and they realise with Feather gone if the bridge goes they won't be able to bring it back again.