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Called it.

Icewing is going to be the new leader of RiverClan.

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reblog only if you’ve received less than 1000 boops! we can all get each other to “max”

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Icewing is going to be the new leader of RiverClan.

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man I wanna write an au of warriors where the prophesy about kin of your kin rival the stars etc etc and people just fucking freak out. Thunderclan has to fight off all the other clans just to *survive*. They all interpreted it as firestar's kin are gonna be so strong they're gonna destroy Starclan. So they have to destroy every Firestar relative Now or Else.

In one of these Many Many Battles, Leafpool is tending to Crowfeather in secret cuz he got hurt Extremely Bad and was gonna die if she didn't do anything because Windclan had left him behind. He's like wow women do love me huh. Leafpool ends up bringing him to Thunderclan and they Hesitantly accept this guy cuz well Leafpool said he was cool and was kicked out for being pro-Thunderclan and they REALLY REALLY need the warriors.

Leafpool and Squirrelflight still eventually have to leave, and the clan is genuinely fucking devestated. They all assume Crowfeather lured them into a trap, so he gets Executed. They can't spare the time to feed him, man. They just can't. They have to train the apprentices and hunt and patrol borders... He's a liability.

Though, of course, Leafpool and Squirrelflight come back with kits. Four, four kits. Lionkit, Jaykit, Hollykit, and Breezekit. Breezekit looks suspiciously like a certain suddenly dead tomcat, but no one thinks too hard because thank Starclan these two are alive. Squirrelflight says theyre hers, she just left and had them in secret with Leafpool at her side just in case clan camp was attacked. So sorry for the worry. No One Cares they're just so glad a capable warrior and Leafpool are *back*.

Leaf asks where Crowfeather is. Everyone else looks at each other weirdly. Firestar, haggard and losing a life every other moon, is the one who tells her. Leafpool is *appalled*. They... they would just ***kill him***? Without even waiting? She knows times aren't good, but he was an innocent cat. He was her... friend. She saved his life and her father took it away. Leafpool is so utterly destroyed by this, two days later she takes Breezekit and Hollykit and runs off to Windclan. Sure, Windclan may be rallying against her father, but she's a medicine cat. And these kits look like Crowfeather. She can pass them off as Crowfeather's kits with a loner. Or something. Her excuses don't matter because Windclan accepts her. Not... not easily, but Onestar isn't so far gone down the Thunderclan hate train that he won't allow a medicine cat (notably celibate) return two Windclan kits to Windclan. And stay, to heal more Windclan cats. This is fine.

Proper all-clan gatherings stopped happening the moon the war on Thunderclan began. The clans are so caught up in destroying Thunderclan that they can't even leave their territory without being viciously attacked. The three other clans do meet, though, just while keeping Thunderclan in their place, stagnating and hopefully dying. Leafpool ends up being asked to join one of these gatherings, and ends up getting pestered by everyone. What happened to Crowfeather, what did Thunderclan do to him and you that even you, their medicine cat, left? How far have they fallen?

Leafpool, still upset, doesn't help her kin. She speaks clearly and openly, and lies out of her teeth to protect her young. Crowfeather was captured at the end of a battle between Thunder and Wind, and Leafpool was tasked with healing him. Eventually she broke him out however, and helped him flee Thunderclan. In the wilderness, he met and befriended... Pond, an orange she-cat who kept him safe and happy. He and her had... four kits. She says his other two kits, Jay and Lion, are still in Thunderclan. Because they tracked Crowfeather down, killed him and Pond, and took his kits, intending to train them to destroy their father's clan. Leafpool hated this, and hated patching up murderers, so she took as many kits as she could carry--only two, sadly--and fled. She now stands as a medicine cat, who took a vow of chastity by the way she may be Firestar's kin but she doesn't have any powers and she's never had kits because she's a medicine cat ahhahahaha, rebelling against Thunderclan. And the other three clans are like oh hell yeah we're justified. And Leafpool is like wait. I don't want my dad and family destroyed. Oh fuck and shit I made a mistake in my post-Crowfeather Being Murdered Anger. Oh No.

it'd be this harrowing story of Lion and Jay having to come into their powers much sooner to even keep Thunderclan *alive*, and of Holly and Breeze (I just like him), *also* developing powers and being like hm. What does this say about me as a cat. maybe someone is lying. While Leafpool is subtly sabotaging the effort to kill her family and trying to keep secrets and mourning the life she could have had if she hadn't been so stupid and reckless.

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Cherith's ShadowClan cat (Hollowspring): We really shouldn't inconvenience them. No, we won't question why they won't let us into the camp--at least our Clanmate is helped!

Kate's ShadowClan cat (Scorchfur): If RiverClan won't let us in the camp, we'll invade! Even if they promised to send a medicine cat, if they refuse, then there's something wrong with them!

Me: Okay, I understand why they're both writing the series. Otherwise, we wouldn't have these wildly different Clan cats and their radically different takes on how to ask for shit from other Clans.

Cherith's Sunbeam: My Clanmate is injured, we have to ask RiverClan for help--yes, this is medicine cat business! No, it doesn't matter if we aren't medicine cats--we can totally cross the border to ask a patrol!

Kate's Sunbeam: My Clanmate is sick, we have to ask RiverClan for help--yes, this is medicine cat business! But we're not medicine cats, so we can't cross the border and ask a patrol!

Me: The editor needs to be fired.

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Cherith's Sunbeam: My Clanmate is injured, we have to ask RiverClan for help--yes, this is medicine cat business! No, it doesn't matter if we aren't medicine cats--we can totally cross the border to ask a patrol!

Kate's Sunbeam: My Clanmate is sick, we have to ask RiverClan for help--yes, this is medicine cat business! But we're not medicine cats, so we can't cross the border and ask a patrol!

Me: The editor needs to be fired.

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Tigerstar really does prioritized his own kin about everyone and everything else, doesn't he?

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Even Frostpaw has this treatment.

Kate Cary's write any cat without turning them spiteful and bipolar challenge failed.

Cherith Baldry and Kate Cary need to share better character notes.

Sunbeam and Flamepaw in Sky are jarringly different from Sunbeam and Nightheart in River.

That's my only real criticism. I really like these plotlines.

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The idea that a deputy cannot receive their nine lives because they have no faith in StarClan is actually cool.

In this essay, I will--

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I would love if the line of succession was leader -> deputy -> medicine cat. Sure, medicine cats becoming leader should be rare, but it makes sense and harkens back to the Tribe, so at least the Clans learned something from their experience visiting other cultures.

Mothwing's just an issue because she can't see StarClan in her dreams and a leader is required to have that power (and therefore some faith in StarClan's guidance) if they are to receive nine lives. So RiverClan can't pick Mothwing to be leader still, but elsewhere--

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sunbeam)

hm.. sunbeam from me. 😜

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I'm just now realizing Sunbeam is a chocolate-and-white cat. Which is strange, because I imagine her as more of an apricot-and-white color.

It's so frustrating to see cats named for yellow-eyes when they are born with blue-eyes. It takes 3 months before the color comes in, Erins, please don't do this to me.

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Can you do Sunbeam?

i need to finish reading shadow please help

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I really wish it was easier to switch between my main and my secondary accounts on this accursed website.

Clearly, I want to reblog for one and post for another. Why aren't these treated separately?

Le sigh. I've been too spoiled.

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Because I can't drop this, here are some examples of what have happened since Book 1 to Book 2.

Cherith Baldry's Nightheart: A show-off during assessments, Flamepaw loves his Clan and desperately wants to prove himself as a warrior. He fully believes he is capable and that the assessments have been unfair (for good reason!), and is frustrated when his Clanmates try to help him with things he already knows. No one accepts his accomplishments as merely his--contributing his greatness to Firestar instead.

Kate Cary's Nightheart: Introducing a warrior who acts like an apprentice, failing to listen to instructions, but who is eager to finally be a warrior, though his Clanmates act like he should have stayed an apprentice.

Cherith Baldry's Sunbeam: A sunny, friendly she-cat who is well-liked by her Clanmates and who has an especially warm relationship with Blazefire. She is sensitive to other cat's perspectives and emotions, and constantly trying to help her Clanmates when they have personal trouble--such as when her best friend, Lightleap, who is desperate to prove her bravery after chickening out of going to the Dark Forest, constantly does reckless things that gets Sunbeam and Blazefire injured. Her Clanmates begin to realize that Blazefire and Lightleap are hanging out a lot, which causes them to be a lot nicer to Sunbeam because they understand she likes Blazefire a lot, which Sunbeam quickly picks up on. Sunbeam is heart-broken when Blazefire tells her he doesn't think they would be great mates, but forgives him before the end of the book.

Kate Cary's Sunbeam: Introducing a she-cat who hasn't gotten over her mate scorning her, leading to her being petty and uncharacteristically furious, and who finds constant compliments frustrating from her Clanmates, who seem to be trying to cheer her up because of the breakup.

The fact that I'm able to understand Cherith Baldry's characters so well but Kate Cary isn't is a testament to how bad the notes between these two writers are. They need better communication.

Cherith Baldry and Kate Cary need to share better character notes.

Sunbeam and Flamepaw in Sky are jarringly different from Sunbeam and Nightheart in River.

That's my only real criticism. I really like these plotlines.

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Cherith Baldry and Kate Cary need to share better character notes.

Sunbeam and Flamepaw in Sky are jarringly different from Sunbeam and Nightheart in River.

That's my only real criticism. I really like these plotlines.

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So, there's no way in hell that Darktail is Onewhisker's and Smoke's kit.

Neither have white patches in their coat, and neither of Onewhisker's parents have white patches.

It's physically impossible for Darktail to be 50%+ white and also be Onewhisker's baby.