#perchpaw mv

[almondrootwc]

"AAAAAAAAAAAAA"

[rozalie-e]

Nahhhh they should’ve let me write mv. I would’ve cooked so harddd

I have an idea for a rewrite but brooooo I dunno. I might end up writing it one day who knows :p

(You can use ms design w credit :3 I think she’s a pretty gal)

Yapping abt my ideas

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Okay so, in the book there is no true consistency which I kind of like because Mapleshade is the protag and narrator, but like. She doesn’t even stay true to herself. And it’s not even in an “I’ve grown way” she didn’t change at all until suddenly she’s just like “oh I’m in hell? Sick I’ll take revenge on everyone ):3” what. Bro no.

My laid out ideas (that might change but this is just what I have)

The only character “growth” she has is she goes from kind, misguided mother who is spoiled by the clan and thinks she is next in line leader & starclan loves her every step, into an enraged, obsessively starclan devoted psycho who believes starclan is guiding her to murder

The kits are actually there, but by the time they do truly appear (begging her not to kill these cats) she isn’t listening. She can’t truly hear or see them correctly and instead thinks their pleas to stop are pleas to only go harder.

Mapleshade and Ad were together, that’s clear, at first Ad’s relationship with Rs isnt but at the scene where she is exiled it is. And that only makes it worse because she knows for sure they are together, and she can already see a slight roundness in Rs’ belly.

The whole thing lasts for ~a month? Maybe a bit less. The first few days, she’s trying to recover, trying to process everything but she can’t wrap her head around it. Questioning her loyalty to starclan, if they are loyal to her. Then, one of her kits (lk)takes pity and tries to subtly guide her to take care of herself. Guides a young apprentice to bring her some herbs to gain her strength. But she isn’t well and takes this as a sign starclan is still with her, and will approve of her next decision.

The kits one by one appear to her, begging her to stop. She thinks they are telling her to keep going, her devotion to starclan warping everything around her until she believes she herself is a holy thing, guided by her kits to do what’s right. Until finally, she is struck down.

She never went for apple dusk, after rs gives her a smug look at her second exile she believes the cat is trying to steal her lover, trying to replace her. Her world is melted, the rain on her fur makes her glow and every claw she lays over Perchpaw as holy as starclan as she holds him down. The final act, she uses him as ransom, waiting for rs to come closer but apple dusk does instead. She attempts to get rs anyways, but appledusk blocks her and in turn her attacks to. They both cut each other, apple dusks injury being too deep he struggles for a bit with his lover and apprentice by his side while mapleshades was only a slight nick on her nose.

Mapleshade is stunned. Her world view crashing around her, she just killed the love of her life. Her angel paws tainted, and her final kit screaming incomprehensibly at her with words between “mama what have you done” and “good job mama :)” all of it slurring together. The world begins to fade as the weight on her is lifted, she glances over to find perchpaw crying beside her, her blood on his jaws. She stumbles back, running away from her sins and finds herself in a barn.

A cat she’s seen earlier, barely talked to, comes by, trying to speak to her but she doesn’t care and tries to hide from starclans gaze. The cat stops trying, shaking his head before leaving her alone. She feels so light, as if she were about to join her kits up in starclan. Her hopes rise, maybe they will forgive her, it was one sin against three good deeds. Surely, when she passes she will be the most beloved warrior and mother in starclan-

now Mapleshade is lying on a dry, hard ground. Dead grass surrounds her and pain is all around her. Her neck hurts to move, yet she glances around anyways. Her left eye stings, and the nick on her nose feels like thorns digging in deep. This isn’t starclan. Mapleshade frantically moves, the pain in her neck only getting worse and when she tries to check why with a paw the stinging of an injury greets her. Starclan was with her all this time, they loved her, and now over one mistake they cast her away. Who will care for her poor kits? Who will care for her? She needs to get there. She must atone for her sins.

Rambling of my ideas :3 pls don’t steal! Will write it out maybe soon. Hopefully. I need to truly get things together in place tho.

[thrushppelt]

todays warmup is. the main cast of mv

maples able to make her blood look more like water/general murk

kits always sputtering afterwards

no apple tree stick or leaf after death, deep scar on apple on chest

general rot/gooey fur after death, flies and feathers from scavengers always in fur

birch and flower always seemed like. faceless to me despite the fact theyre kinda. the result of. all this. while theyre constantly brought up in why maple shouldnt have chosen apple, everyone is too wrapped in anger to really like. remember them

[bonefall]

Mapleshade Discourse O'Clock

It's that time again!!! SO I just kinda want to jot down all of my various thoughts about it as a story and just generally weigh in about Mapleshade.

I like the idea of Mapleshade more than the actual Mapleshade that is used throughout the books.

She has a really good gimmick-- to haunt Applekin though the generations. I don't like how they turn her into a generic "cat satan" for Tigerclaw's Fury and keep making her appear as a vain lackey demon.

I like her characterization in Mapleshade's Vengeance the most, of all her appearances.

But, I don't think my reading of the character depicted in MV is what the author intended.

See, I like MV as a story with no hero. The only blameless characters are the kittens who drowned and Perchpaw, while everyone else is some flavor of selfish, cruel, or vengeful. Everyone thinks they're in the right, but no one truly wins in the end.

Nothing about it was noble. Every tragedy that happened was utterly avoidable. In the end, everyone bears some responsibility for the pain and suffering that happened the day those children drowned.

BUT I'm pretty certain that the intended reading was that Mapleshade would be the one clearly in the wrong the whole time, as she justifies her own actions like a villain does.

Especially knowing how poorly the writers thought of similar female characters like Squilf and Leafp lying about the three, or Nightcloud being jealous her crummy husband is acting strange around another woman.

I feel justified in assuming that when Mapleshade is not happy she's being cheated on, or when she refuses to correct Frecklewish's record knowing it's unsafe if her kits are revealed as half clan, the writer really does think you're not supposed to take her side.

Because women should just not have emotions about being cheated on or something, and lying is unspeakably bad even if the truth puts you and your children in danger.

But. Y'know. We can all use the braincell for a moment and see that this is fucking stupid

SO when the book goes on to have Mapleshade ignore all the warnings about the swollen river, show both ThunderClan and RiverClan being obscenely cruel to her, and then walk across that bridge while insisting in her head that the deaths weren't her fault, I think the implication is obvious AND SHITTY.

Ergo I reject it completely. I can see what the book wants to say, and I think it says something trashy.

In spite of how badly the writer wants it to be Mapleshade's fault the kittens died, I say it was the asshole who threw a bunch of kittens out into the rain for being mixed race, actually.

Oakstar had the power here. Ravenwing had some power as well, but he makes it clear it wasn't his suggestion to throw the babies out into the woods.

And when it comes to Bridge Discourse, it was at least the afternoon, raining heavily, and Mapleshade was trying to get to RiverClan Camp. A straight shot across the stepping stones.

I think it is ridiculous to imagine an extremely emotional parent managing three very scared children, attempting to get out of the rain and dangerous wilderness before nightfall, would be rational enough to realize a large detour would be safer.

MAYBE the distance from ThunderClan Camp to the Bridge is equal to the distance to the Stones. But the distance between the bridge and RIVERCLAN Camp is longer.

I hope this goes without saying; but Frecklewish didn't deserve the Dark Forest.

Even in Banana World logic where she was sitting on the bank watching those kids doggy-paddle. Do not fucking jump in to save drowning people if you are not trained to do that.

I'm dead serious, this is the first thing you learn in any kind of water safety course. They WILL panic, you WILL get dragged down, you WILL become another liability someone else has to save instead of helping your initial target.

And that isn't even mentioning this being a flooded river. That's POOL safety.

In spite of how I think Mapleshade was right to lie, I do think Frecklewish being that upset and angry was understandable.

You're entitled to your feelings, but not how you treat people. She still attacked Mapleshade and called the kittens a slur.

That's what makes her interesting, though.

I don't think she deserves the Dark Forest, but Frecklewish's anger is an interesting trait. I don't like how a lot of defensive interpretations of her character end up downplaying how she acted at the exile

why does a woman being rightfully angry suddenly strike people as "unsympathetic." Girls can also say things in fury they don't fully mean. OR girls can rationalize their unjustified, ballistic response post-hoc out of pride.

Idk let girls be mad. Admit they were wrong without deserving HELL. I don't like the woobification impulse.

It's not really a hot take anymore I think, but Frecklewish is definitely only in the DF because the writing team judges women characters more harshly. Oakstar threw babies out in the rain in fury, and Ravenwing didn't stop it. But somehow only Frecklewish, a normal warrior, gets DF'd.

But what really rattles around in my head about the whole story is the way that the in-universe culture is able to suddenly value ethics like peace, forgiveness, and tolerance when MAPLESHADE is ready to throw those things out, but BEFORE then, it's well established that Clan culture is violent, vengeful, and intolerant.

One of our earliest scenes is Rainfall snarling at Mapleshade that he loves the way Birchface and Flowerpaw drowned. He's threatening that he'll kill even more ThunderClan warriors.

Over in ThunderClan, everyone is itching for revenge against Appledusk for those deaths, even though it seems to have been an accident. Oakstar even hates RiverClan well into sequel books for this.

But then later on, everyone acts Shocked Pikachu that Mapleshade actually went and GOT revenge.

And like, let's be real. This is a battle culture. Yes, by OUR standards Revenge Is Bad.

But in these books, so full of war and clan conflict...?

What I'm saying is that I wish the books let Mapleshade be a little more "controversial" in-universe. Like some cats actually frame the story very differently, and you can learn a lot about a person by who they think the hero is.

And how RiverClan responds to the drowned kids bugs me a lot tbh

We just established over in ThunderClan that there are people who think the babies were born filthy for being HalfClan.

We know everyone there stood by and watched as Oakstar threw them out into the rain-- only Ravenwing even seemed uncomfortable.

AND we know very well that in a few generations, TigerClan will rise. Which openly executed a HalfClan cat and wanted to kill 2 apprentices.

We KNOW the bigotry in Clan culture is deadly and unfair.

But then they go over to RiverClan and Darkstar is sad these three kids are dead? And RC is furious with Mapleshade for that?

Again, YES, you and me with OUR morals know that this bigotry is insane and spiteful. What I'm getting at is that IN-UNIVERSE half clan kittens and their parents face extreme discrimination. Even within this book.

It's odd to me that Darkstar refuses to let Mapleshade bury their bodies, sends her away for the death of the kids while saying it's "not the season for losing warriors" to Appledusk, and it's meant to come across as delusional that Maple thinks her babies were buried dishonorably

I wish more women in WC got so pissed off at the absolute injustice of it all that they went on a girl rampage. Perhaps it's my own taste, but I like it a lot more when the villain isn't entirely wrong and there's several angles you can read the story from. If she didn't do what she did, she would have been the only one who saw any consequences for anything that happened.

Anyway in conclusion uhhh idk murder is wrong. But Mapleshade's allowed to do it because she's a silly billy. Her greatest crime was not killing Oakstar also

[disgruntleddemon]

i like to think about what happened to Reedshine post Mapple incident. in my mind, she was always very interested in Apple, even if he often felt distant. so she threw herself into the relationship trying to make it work.

after Maple shows up, and there's the big reveal, Reedshine doesn't know what to do, she's devoted so much of herself to Appledusk. she rejects Mapleshade and pretends like she never existed. Appledusk, wanting to prove his clan loyalty, starts being more attentive to her, and in her mind it proves she made the right decision

after Appledusk is killed, it only further solidifies her aggrandized view of him. she bonds with Perchpaw afterwards, since they were already close via apple, and the shared trauma of his death

Perchpaw is super excited to act as an older brother to her kits, but it's around this time Reedshine starts to process how messed up the whole situation was. she devoted so much of herself to a guy who betrayed her. she had kits with him, named one after him, and in the end, even if he saved her, what does she truly think of him? she even starts to sympathize with maple a little bit, and he becomes much less of a hero to her. Perchpaw on the other hand, was not directly affected by the cheating, and only idolizes him more as time goes on.

this gradual change in views causes the two of them to drift further and further apart. neither of them knowing how to address it, and even if they see eachother like family, their relationship will never really be the same

idk!! i just get tired of fan stuff that woobifies Appledusk and acts like he was the perfect mate! i want Reedshine to get a chance to understand he was shitty to her, even if he saved her. she wouldn't be in that situation to begin with if it wasn't for his actions.

there' a lot of interesting potential with mv characters, but tbh, i think people go with the most boring, and often misogynistic routes with them hjkjhjk

[petalkitshadow]

Random Cats!

fun fact about this AU fic, there are NO original characters in it! :-) all the named characters are canon warrior cats characters! (some have name changes though, to fit their current role)

Duskwater, Birdsong, Tanglepaw, and Troutpaw are the elders Duskwater, Birdsong, Tanglewhisker, and Troutclaw from Crookedstar's promise

Voleflight, Cloudpaw and Echosnout are leader Volestar and medicine cats Cloudberry and Echosnout from Goosefeather's curse

Milkfur, Eeltail, Splashfoot, Spiketail, and Rainfall are all RiverClan warriors from Mapleshade's Vengeance

The RiverClan elders Icewhisker, Sloefur, and Blackbee are a bit more obscure. Icewhisker and Sloefur are medicine cat and deputy of riverclan respectively in Cloudstar's Journey, and Blackbee is from code of the clans. Blackbee still being alive is a stretch at best, but I like her name a lot, and the chronology of her story from Cotc isn't set in stone, so I figure she's just aaaancient, and was a veeery young warrior in that story.

Petalkit also mentions Snakestar and Marshpaw while telling Perchpaw a story. Snakestar is Snaketail, the deputy of Shadowclan in Cloudstar's Journey, and Marshpaw is mentioned by Shadowclan elders in a gathering at the start of MV, saying that he was bitten by an adder on his first patrol. Petalkit spins this into a story where he trespasses on ShC territory and Snakestar eats him.

And it'll be mentioned in upcoming chapters, but the leader of WindClan is Milkstar, who is Milkfur, the WC deputy in Cloudstar's journey. Fun fact! There are THREE Milkfurs who all lived very close together! Milkfur from RC has a daughter, Milkfur II, who is the RiverClan medicine cat in Yellowfang's Secret.

and of course, most of the others (Reedshine, Appledusk, etc) were major characters in MV so there's no question of where they came from haha :-)

[rookflower]

perchpaw! (MV)

[faeriekougraz]

Hello I am interested in your Mapleshade Maplestar AU please elaborate, particularly the history and deviations from canon that lead up to this AU and, but I want to know everything

EEEE okay so im hoping to make it a like. Big AU of all the things i wanna change in canon (however because ive never read the books past like a few o audio books of the one offs (MV, GC, PC etc) and the mangas i…… am a bit slower on knowing diff things)

For the maple part of the AU she manages to stay in thunderclan and falls in love with frecklewish. She still gets almost exiled but frecklewish steps in at the last minute defending her. Because Oakstar can’t bare the thought of hurting his daughter he leaves the issue alone and dismisses the clan. This means patchkid, petalkit and larchkit live! Ravenwing kinda hates mapleshade for the first bit of this au after finding out the truth since he’s made she doesn’t get punished, however on an outing that she, freckle and the kits take freckle gets bit by a snake and maple and raven manage to save her. After that raven respects her a bit more. At a gathering riverclan is confronted about their warrior appledusk having had a cross clan relationship which causes a bit of a stir. Because of this he loses a lot of respect from his clanmates and he grows pretty bitter about it. His apprentice doesn’t seem to respect him as much and his mate, reedshine, doesn’t trust him. He develops the idea that he’ll attack maple during a battle to try and get revenge on her however as time grows and as he see her living (in his eyes) with 0 consequences he decides to take the idea further and wanted to kill her all together. He eventually tries to however perchpaw ends up being the one to save her after he also tries to attack one of her kits (larchpaw). Appledusk is exiled for his reckless behaviour and because he “hasn’t shown sighs of improving his behaviour” and so he goes after maple once more however he’s ultimately killed (still havent figured out how yet).

After this, later on, larchpaw starts talking to perchpaw at gatherings and they end up developing a friendship (and later a relationship). Meanwhile, patchpaw develops a relationship with nettlepaw! And finally petalpaw, far into the future, possibly becomes a kittypet (i havent decided if she stays one). I might have her replace crystal actually and instead be the mother of jake, and his siblings. Alternatively i could make her the mother of firestar but im not sure the ages between jake and her at that point… i gotta do some digging.

Oakstar also offers mapleshade the position of deputy rather than doefeather. She basically replaces doestar as leader and appledusk replaces her in the villain roll in later stories maybe. Still figuring it out.

Other than that, things i also wanna change are:

- Hawkfrost X leafpool…. Maybe… perhaps

- snowkit survives

-cinderpelt is handled differently

-fading is stupid and doesnt happen (i have a diff idea for starclan and stuff)

-im not sure if i’ll merge my maplestar and featherstar aus but if i do then featherstar happens and leopardstar dies lol

-uhhh…. I forgot all my other ideas lol

[menacetomany]

come to the realization i adore literally every mapleshade’s vengeance character. (yes, even appledusk. he’s an itty bitty shitty kitty but he’s very interesting 2 me... he has 2 counts of manslaughter. he sacrifices himself to protect reedshine from the consequences of his actions. he implied his dead children were mistakes while their bodies were still warm. what the fuck is going on in his head??) all of them were assholes (save maybe reedshine even if telling the woman with freshly dead children to gtfo was kinda outta pocket but she was Going Thru It. also perchpaw and nettlepaw) but they all had Reasons for their assholishness and the story’s just such a massive clusterfuck its fascinating one of these days im gonna rank every MV character by their cringefail energy (mapleshade would be at the top obvs)

[quaelgeist333]

I'm just gonna say it, realistically, mapleshade would kill her kits in a heartbeat. She literally suggested murdering children at the start of the great battle AND SUCEEDED, as we know at least one kit died in the battle from a dark forest warrior killing them, and with her repeatedly grooming cats into terrorism and to kill other children, this would not happen in any way.

Even in mv, she kidnaps perchpaw and that's her demise, I'm fucking sure at least at the time of the great battle she would be delighted to kill them

[wolvebonez]

For the wrapped playlist requests

46 and my son-boi Perchpaw (Appledusk’s apprentice in MV)

46: Counting Cars / Mandatory Evac - The Oh Hellos Ever wonder how it must've felt to explain what happened to Darkstar?

[almondrootwc]

Perchpaw doodle page

my boy murdered someone

He'll be the last cat drawn from mv! Then goosefeather's curse!

[featherdawn]

as much as mapleshade's vengeance is well written (within warrior cats standards, it still has GLARING flaws), it feels so. disconnected from mapleshade in crookedstars promise

like. mv paints her as such a sympathetic villain, and (likely unintentionally) almost morally gray with the whole psychosis thing. her actions in the book make sense considering her trauma, and her victims being people who harmed her (or she sees as having harmed her, in the case of reedshine). I don't see how torturing crookedstar specifically ties into this. like, he's related to appledusk sure but she doesn't seem to haunt oakstars bloodline in the same way. it feels more like the "haunting bloodlines" was tacked on at the end, when it should've been a much more prominent theme in the book

what if mapleshade was obsessed with bloodlines and decendents. what if her anger was less about the death of her kits (still an important part, just not the only one) and more about her bloodline being destroyed. once she dies she's gone. so she kills frecklewish not bc of anything she's done (take out the "seeing them swept away" thing in this au bc it becomes useless info to the plot) but bc she's oakstars last living child and killing him wouldn't hurt him in the same way he hurt her. she targets reedshine specifically for the same reason, instead if going back and forth on wanting to kill appledusk

when she kills appledusk by accident, she considers leaving reedshine alive so they can't be together in starclan before deciding he's not going to starclan and if reedshine lives he will live on in their kits. after perchpaw wounds her he helps reedshine escape and mapleshade screams about how she hasn't lost yet, and if appledusk gets the right to live on then every one of his relatives will suffer just as she has

like idk. I have many thoughts on mv and like. just wish living mapleshade and dead mapleshade weren't so serarate in my mind

[rowantheshittydogowo]

*holds him gently*

[bonefall]

Bonefall RiverClan Family Tree: Draft 1.2

Subtitle: The whole hog. It's EVERYTHING folks. I did it all the way back up to Darkstar's Commandment. Nearly 8 generations of cats. This has taken several days and meticulous work and I DID IT.

[Update 1.2: Swapped the birthing parent between Sedgecreek and Greenflower to Sedgecreek with the honor sire being Duckfur, made a note of Harelight being an honor title.]

Caveats as usual:

Check out my Info for Family Tree Reworks, including my 3 Strict Rules and general guidelines.

This tree is still subject to change, especially for modern RiverClan.

I made some doodles this time lmao I hope you enjoy them

If you want to check out my diagnosis and see the canon family tree, it's over here!

Under the cut: Renamings, removals, and changelog

RENAMINGS: Format: Old Name (Origin) -> New Name (Reason)

Molewhisker (CotC) -> Moletooth (conflict)

Snaketooth (CotC) -> Snakestream (conflict)

Oatpaw (CotC) -> Oatbelly (save)

Sloefur (FQ) -> Sloefall (conflict)

Perchpaw (MV) -> Perchshine (save)

Magpie (CP) -> Magpiesky (repurposed)

Swankit (TPB) -> Swansong (save)

Copperpaw (Po3) -> Copperwing (save)

Wavepaw (AVoS) -> Waveshine (save)

Shimmerpelt (BS) -> Shimmerbright (conflict)

Shadepelt (AVoS) -> Shademuzzle (conflict)

Mintfur (Po3) -> Mintflower (conflict)

Rushtail (OotS) -> Rushfish (conflict)

Carpkit (Missing Kits) -> Carpwhisker (save)

Bluefur (the one and only) -> Bluemoon (better)

Emberdawn (LH) -> Emberdusk (conflict)

Duckkit (Missing Kits) -> Duckfur (save)

Dragonflykit (Missing Kits) -> Dragonclaw (save)

Heronwing (AVoS) -> Heronflight (conflict)

REMOVALS: These may be shuffled to another litter at a later time, but for now, are effectively cut.

Grasspelt, because I would like Grasswhisker to be an old lady who was friends with Briarlight.

Nightsky and Breezeheart are currently dead as kits to further torment Icewing about losing Beetlewhisker in the Dark Forest. Like StarClan's mad at her.

Robinwing had a conflict name anyway so I just killed them as an apprentice because I want more young deaths.

Lizardtail. Being effectively replaced by Hollowflight, but may have been Hollow's original name before earning an honor title. (the honor title is for betraying the dark forest and running a marathon across the lake to fetch help during the Great Battle-- the name would become Hallowflight.)

The drowned kits of Mosspelt and Frogleap, Robinkit and Woodkit, are gone. I may use them at some point.

Pikepaw from Battles of the Clans. Holding onto them in case they're needed.

Gorseclaw. It is more tragic for Harelight to be the only surviving sibling, plus there was a name conflict anyway.

I completely missed the following cats and it's the only reason they weren't used, and I'm making a note of them here for my own reference should I ever need them;

COTC: Brindleclaw, Graywing, Foxwhisker, Foxclaw, Hayberry and kits Minnowkit and Wildkit, Sunspots, Fernleaf, Blackbee, Kinktail

Lightningpaw and Lilyflower gave Crookedstar a life

THERE WILL PROBABLY BE MORE.

CHANGELOG: I tell you why I did the things

Code and the Clans and Darkstar's Commandment

There's a lot of weird quirks around Code of the Clans, namely that there are two Darkstars associated with two different commandments in two different Clans. If that weren't weird enough, one of those Darkstars is very similar to the MAPLESHADE'S VENGEANCE Darkstar, but these are canonically three different people???

In my rewrite, no lol there's Darkstar of RiverClan, known for Darkstar's Commandment/The Queen's Rights, and Dalestar who created the "don't question your leader" commandment in response to Ripplestar's Rot.

I also snatched a bunch of the cats out of the CotC story to explain the confusion!

Aspentail (the magic spirit who assists the battle) was Darkstar's sister, and Perchpaw's mother. She is going to have a small but emotionally important role as part of StarClan in Darkstar's Commandment.

Splashheart was Perchpaw's father, and Splashfoot was named after him.

Moletooth, Nettlepad, Lightningpelt, Oatberry, and Meadowpelt are all repurposed from another CotC story, conflict-renamed when necessary.

I was going to allow Darkstar's lineage to peter out since Perchshine is going to go live at the barn, but Mudthorn had a mate slot open and I had a stroke of whimsy realizing I could have a kitten join RiverClan from the barn.

Magpiesky is Magpie from Crookedstar's Promise, now a sibling of Fleck and Mitzi instead of a child of Mitzi.

"Magsky" is now the one who brings young Stormpaw to the barn; Domino was her mother but she tries not to talk about her outsider heritage too much because... Clan Culture, y'know.

She was able to join because Volestar was gracious, citing her Darkstar blood.

Appledusk and Reedshine's children, only named in authorial statements, have been broken up and reworked. Willownose and Shyheart belong to other cats and only Applefrost remains; Duskwater has been made into an AppleReed kitten.

I really like how it's two kits, named for both parts of Appledusk.

Duskwater's mate Oatbelly was a victim of Mapleshade.

Rainflower is now the Appledusk descendant, not Shellheart. Her mom was killed in the same storm she gave birth in.

Greenflower

Greenflower's sibling was Duckfur, previously a Missing Kit described as her dead child. Needed more fodder.

I am probably going to make her mother Dragonflykit, the other Missing Kit described as a dead child. I need a good name though. Dragonflyclaw? I kinda want to drop the 'fly' suffix and make the name Dragonclaw because that's cool as hell

MAN what if Clan Culture has a concept of 'dragons' but it's actually a large dragonfly that flies like a hawk, bites like a snake, and swims like a pike...

1.1 UPDATE: Added Dragonclaw as Whitefang's mate and Greenflower's mother.

Greenflower and Sedgecreek were not capable of having biokittens, Duckfur was the honor-sire and Sedgecreek gave birth to the kits.

Greenflower loudly announces this during TigerClan to display their loyalty to the Code, Sedgecreek feels extremely uncomfortable having their personal information aired like that.

Swallowtail fell in love with Rainwhisker on the Great Journey, and became pregnant shortly before his death in the WindClan Rebellion!

The kits are Rainstorm and Rippletail.

Swallow named a son after her forbidden mate. It was BOLD, because Rainstorm is practically Rainwhisker's reflection.

Sedgecreek tries to forgive Greenflower and make amends, but Greenflower turning on their daughter Swallowtail when Ripple and Rain were born was the last straw.

Mudfur and Brightsky

I needed Mudfur's genes because as you can see things get pretty tight, since there's less named characters the further back you go

Say hello to Carpwhisker! She's a sweetheart. Previously a Missing Kit, I picked her over Waterkit or Oatkit.

Voletooth is named after their famous ancestor.

Volestar actually gave the family their spots, and they are all quite large like she was.

Brightsky is not actually dead. She left to become a kittypet, and only Hailstar and Mudfur know this. It was kept secret.

The other two kittens stayed with her.

Sunfish's Bloodline

Frogleap doesn't need kits. Society has progressed past the need for Frogleap kits.

Sunfish's lineage is continued through Grasswhisker. I am fond of Grasswhisker for like no reason. I just think she's Neat.

Her sister Vixenleap actually dies in Mudclaw's Rebellion

Dapplepaw is going to get eaten by a fish in Po3

Grasswhisker can't catch a break and that's how I like it

I made Lakeheart older because I like the idea that she was named after their new home and that effect kinda lessens if she isn't one of the first RiverClan births here.

Harelight and Tragedy

Like I mentioned before, Gorseclaw's getting cut completely. It fits Harelight's story a LOT more for him to tragically lose all of his siblings in TBC.

Denied the ability to mourn his sister Softpelt, being forced to bury Dappletuft like a rogue, Harelight is becoming a Light in the Mist next to Misty. He has a bone to pick with the Impostor.

He's kinda becoming a blorbo ngl.

I imagine he's very polite and a bit silly, but more astute than people give him credit for.

Based on ABSOLUTELY nothing he keeps reminding me of Donnel from Fire Emblem. I have NO idea why I keep thinking of him.

Me trying to reference a greek tragedy about simple mourning rights being the ironic downfall of a tyrant but all I can hear in my head is "YEEEEHAW"

Anyway

I am probably going to cut more warriors, too, to make way for some of the more interesting warriors to stick around. No one cares about Brackenpelt.

UPDATE 1.2: Harelight's first name was Harefur! Mistystar likes to 'match' the names of siblings according to a theme; SoftPELT, DappleTUFT, and HareFUR were all hair-related!

Harelight is an honor title because he is now a Light in the Mist, alongside Mistystar herself.

Graymist and Pouncetail, Mallownose and Sneezecloud

In-canon Shadepelt was acting like an elder when she was barely 2 years old. Lol. Lmao, even.

She is the mom of Pouncetail and Graymist now. I think this is a very funny idea. They are very silly as siblings.

Mallow is Pounce's son and Sneeze is Gray's son.

Mallownose and Sneezecloud are no longer siblings; but they are cousins who were really close growing up because they both lost their littermate!

Mallow lost Robin, and Sneeze lost Duck.

I made them more distantly related because I KNOW there's going to be some kind of romantic drama between Frostpaw and Splashtail in-canon and I want that to be less weird.

Sure, they're far enough in-canon to not break my Three Strict Rules, but still, I wanted to fix it really hard in advance.

1.1 UPDATE: Father of Sneeze has been changed from Voletooth to Beechfur. This may change again.

Copperpaw has evolved into Copperwing

He's called Copperwing because I was planning to have him replace Robinwing, and then I ended up using Robinpaw anyway as a kill… but the name remains.

Got hit with sudden inspiration to make him REALLY shiny and I leaned into it. Him and his kits are sparkly even for RiverClan cats, lmao.

Waveshine and Shimmerbright are pretty evocative of that, I hope! I'm glad I was able to use the -bright suffix at least once.

I approached my renamings with Mistystar in mind; I like to think she tries to give cats "thematic" names. For example, Rushfish is named after his dead brother. Heronflight, Perchwing, and Sneezecloud are sky-related. She even gave Lake and Otter the same -heart suffix.

The SwanMoss Family

Swansong, a surviving child of Graypool x Rippleclaw and the adopted brother of Mistyfoot and Stonefur, is replacing Frogleap. SWANSWEEP.

For a LOOONG while I was planning to make Willowshine the oldest child of Dawnflower, but now that I've definitively worked out the specifics of my tree, I can say with confidence that she works best as a Mosspelt kitten.

Because, y'know, unlike canon Mosspelt's mate isn't dead.

I put Troutstream in here because I feel like she looks like Swansong, who looks like Rippleclaw.

I kinda like her as a family outlier, she's a huge jerk... but she is a PRETTY jerk.

I think Mossyfoot was badly influenced, and her death made Trout grow up.

Icewing and Mintflower, Dark Forest 'curse'

Mintfur is now Mintflower because there needs to be more boys with the -flower suffix.

Also he is an ex-tribecat. He had to take refuge in ThunderClan when the Clan got dangerous during Stormfur and Brook's exile, but Mistystar invited him back when she gained power.

I'm killing Icewing and Mintflower's second litter. I think it's a lot more tragic for Icewing to feel like StarClan is punishing her by not letting her have more kittens.

The fact she trained in the Dark Forest and brought her son Beetlewhisker in with her is haunting.

On that note, Petalfur... either needs more to happen with her, or I'm replacing her on the Beaver Quest. Rippletail dies on it, the other RiverClan cat really needs to have some amount of importance in OotS and possibly beyond.

Other things

Havenpelt is an ex-rogue who used to cause problems, but eventually was badly injured and RiverClan took her in for healing.

I am not fond of Lizardtail because he's boring, in spite of having really interesting kids. He is either going to be combined with Hollowflight or axed completely; more DF Trainees need to survive.

If it's an honor title, it's going to become Hallowflight. The title will come because he defects from the Dark Forest Attackers and runs a very long distance to get help/warn the others before collapsing from exhaustion. A sacred marathon of sorts.

Mousewhisker x Minnowtail REAL. Mousewhisker joins RiverClan after TBC, so we'll have to wait for ASC to be completed before I can give any details. But this is set in stone.

[beelas-bees-art]

happy valentines day!

perhaps reedshine and mapleshade shouldve dumped appledusk and been together instead (bonus perchpaw bc i see him being an older brother figure to reedshines kits)