I went on a fairytale binge and decided to make my very loose interpretations everyone else's problem
The Nightingale and the Rose, Sleeping Beauty, Princess and the Frog, The Wonderful Musician
Saki is cursed to be sick due to being the heir's younger sister, which causes Ichika to feel bad. In an act of true love, she decides to sing until she dies to bring Saki back to life. Meanwhile Shiho is ran off from learning from a musician and encounters Honami who accepts her for who she is. Ichika, now as a spirit, sticks by Saki's side until they find Mafuyu who can speak to her. They'll also come across Honami and Shiho, but only Honami wants to help her due to Shiho smelling death on her
Thumbelina, Beauty and the Beast, The Ugly Duckling, Strega Nona
Haruka and Airi become friends when Airi is bullied for being to boyish. The two come across Minori who had been kidnapped by a toad and eventually the three make it to Shizuku's magic shop when Minori becomes her apprentice to learn. With Shizuku being so well versed in magic, she is one of Tsukasa's first stops when he decides to start wandering around. It would be much easier to ask the two magic users for help if the town weren't under constant threat of being suffocated with noodles whenever Minori's magic gets out of hand
Cinderella, The Little Prince, Aladdin, Little Red Riding Hood
Touya gets to the point where he decides to run away without informing Tsukasa, who starts searching for him with the stuff he left behind. He comes across An who dreams of becoming a bigger singer. Akito had met Touya before and decided that he was going to go searching for him, where he eventually comes across Kohane who's kind of just visiting family, but she knows the area and wants to help him out
Little Mermaid, Alice in Wonderland, Princess Mononoke, Peter Pan
Rui's town has been destroyed and a cursed has been placed on him, so now he's wandering in an attempt to find a way to break it. Nene joins him as she knew the people in the town and is also using the chance to look for the fairy she had once saved from drowning. Emu's the one to figure out that the curse on Saki can be broken so Tsukasa decides that he can spare some time from being the King of Wonderland (he leaves some plushies in charge) to look for Touya and a way to break to break the curse on Saki (he doesn't know it's already been broken). Tsukasa ends up adding Rui to his list of people to help out when they meet because he's such a benevolent king, but Rui and Nene don't know that part
Rapunzel, Snow White, The Magic Paintbrush, The Brave Little Tailor
Kanade's hair grows due to the amount of love she feels for everyone but she locks herself away when she determines that there must be a curse placed on her for the horrible things that keep happening around her. Ena is on the run after killing the person who stole her paintbrush for fear of being found out, and comes across Mafuyu on the run from her mother. Mizuki's tall tales have made people afraid of them and they use they all take advantage of the reputation to keep people away from Kanade's tower that they use as a hideout
Turns out, the tower is an old place for the royal family which is where Saki will eventually end up
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guys... question. I had a dream tonight about putting exposition into footnotes. like, a new concept is introduced, but instead of explaining it in the narration, you put it into footnotes (on certain occasions when the explanation is not terribly revelant to the plot). in the dream it seemed like a fantastic idea and ngl I think it'd be kinda funny and silly. but would it be TOO silly....
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It always irks me a bit how people try to pretend that Slime isn’t a bad guy, because to me that’s what makes him the most interesting. He’s not a good person, he’s messed up, he’ll hurt people without thinking, who Slime is as a character is this messed up ball of goop that can’t seem to stick right. He tried to hurt kids, he very intentionally tried to kill kids, he was neglectful and just wasn’t a good dad to Flippa. When Flippa died he pulled Mariana down with him, because when he’s hurting he lashes out brutually and he won’t backdown till he’s a sobbing pile on the floor. The thing that’s the most interesting about it is, that you feel for him, you feel bad, or just know why he’s like this, you understand how he got there, he’s a bad person but one easy to sympathizes with. (Semi-Context after this) It’s not mischaracterization for another character to point out worry about him hurting an egg, because they went through his messed up pile of spite, he’s not the evil but he really isn’t close to good. Charlie the cc is very intentional making characters because he has so much experience, Slime is not meant to be a good guy, but he is meant to be interesting.
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Thoughts on Wasp? I like the idea of cats joining that turn out that the Clans aren’t great… but also it feels… weird? Like it seems like another “lazy cat bad” on some levels. I don’t mind him not joining the Clans but these “outsider learns they’re not fit for the Clans” things always give me a pause from the Erins. Also interested in how you would handle him!
Moonkitti's video on him is really well worded, if you haven't seen it yet. I do think he's different from the way that other books tend to portray outsiders in that they are saying that he was driven away by the xenophobia of the Clans... but.
They still make him extremely disinterested in Clan life while he's in ThunderClan. I think that was a massive blunder to write, if the thing they're trying to say is "XENOPHOBIA PREVENTS OTHERWISE ENTHUSIASTIC MIGRATION"
It would have hit harder if it was Wafflepaw who tried to run to RiverClan, got assaulted, and then didn't want to be a Clan cat anymore.
Wafflepaw WANTS to be a warrior. Wasp did not. It reads more like Wasp getting hate crime'd was a "last straw" more than THE reason why he won't stay.
That's where you're getting that vibe they're saying "lazy cat bad," imo. It's a bit different from usual, but it still seems like the narrative is saying that Wasp really didn't belong here anyway.
(no, Nightheart's moment where he looks at the camera and says "he could have been fine!" doesn't change that they showed, in their text, with the actions they wrote, that Wasp was not enjoying being part of the Clans anyway. If that was their intended thesis, their writing was sloppy.)
It feels especially weird that Bee didn't go with Frostpaw. Bee was the character with a lot more setup and that strange dream. A lot of people were confusing Bee and Wasp when the book first came out and I don't blame them.
Most importantly, you can't talk about Wasp without also mentioning one of THE worst lines I think has ever been written into a Warrior Cats book. The part where tigerHeartstar says, "Those cats who just committed a hate crime were perfectly good people before the evil dictator took over. If we kill the evil dictator, I'm sure they'll CHANGE BACK"
I'm still REELING. Fuck you MEAAAN "CHANGE BACK????" CHANGE BACK? LIKE BEING A BIGOT IS UNCOMFORTABLE SHOES???
CHANGE BACK... me bringing my evil dollars up to the villain store and exchanging it for racism coins... change back...
So when I get around to it, I'm going to evaluate if Wasp is even actually necessary in the form he's in. BB is already about xenophobia and bigotry and the harm it does. Frostpaw has no shortage of examples to witness what Thistle Law is, and what it does to those excluded from Clan Culture.
When I first made my Family Tree for RiverClan, I actually ended up making Splashstar's MOM, Havenpelt, an ex-rogue. I think seeing him order a hate crime against his own mother would be a LOT more impactful here, actually.
What Frostpaw DOES need is allies and friends. I'm already starting by expanding her little "DND Party," a word I'm using to affectionately refer to some cats who will be following her home from her pilgrimage to the Park. 99% chance that Nightheart is going to become a permanent member of this party, joining RiverClan at the end of ASC. Waffle will be another. She'll probably also pick up a Tribe cat.
Wasp will be on this party, but I won't decide what happens to them until I see what that last book has in store. Who knows, he might come back (though I hope not, run as far away from these ghouls as possible Wasp!!)
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