#juust some thots 😳😳

[sorrelstream]

rambling abt the ancients in my rewrite au ok ok ok

Theyre not ancients here! Theyre living cats who refer to their group as The Colony (seeing as colony is the term for a group if cats yeehaw!); they live spread out across the lake territories and dont clump up together to avoid rousing suspicion from the local clan cats

They usually either live on their own or with groups consisting up to 3 (any bigger is pushing it), which is usually close family members, friends, or mates.

Mates who live together raise their kits together and when their kits are old enough (about a year old - equivalent of when apprentices become warriors), one parent goes and travels with the kits across the territories to find a nice area for their now adult kits to live at (if theres another parent they stay at the og home to essentially guard it). Doing this part together allows parents to kno where their kits settled down at si they can easily travel and visit each other

When a cat is too sick or too old to care for themselves, a family typical stays over at their home to take care of them. However, if the sick or elderly cat doesnt have any family members left, they can go up to the barn (where smoky+floss live) and live there; Elder's Aids (also referred to as "assistants") are members of the Colony who choose to live at the barn and help take care of elderly and sick cats (smoky and floss dont mind sharing since theres only ever like, two or three cats). Currently there is only one elder's aid and thats Half Moon, and the only elder left without family is Rock, so she takes care of him.

Rock used to live in the tunnels before Fallen Leaves moved in, but he left and gifted the tunnels to Fallen Leaves bc he realized he was too old to fend for himself anymore (half moon happily volunteered to become an assistant then)

Also while they can be active at any times of the day, theyre usually active during the night bc thats when the clan cats are least active. After Hollyleaf becomes ThunderClan's leader she makes a rule to not interfere or attack any Colony cats if seen and the other clans agree bc the colony a. Took care of hollyleaf when she was in need (mainly fallen leaves) as well as b. They followed Hollyleaf into battle against the Dark Forest and provided back up for the clans so after that law the colony cats become a bit more active during the day

They have what they call "reunions"! The leader of the colony will organize when a reunion will be held (typically every few weeks or so at least) and then go around informing the colony members. They meet up at the barn and its basically just a family reunion where everyone mingles and catches up