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Clangen Ask Game V2

I had some questions I wanted to edit, some I wanted to add, so here’s round 2 of the Clangen Ask Game! Most are phrased in reference to clangen comics or fan writing, but this can apply to whatever clangen/clangen-adjacent media you create!

For the cats, please include a cat you’d like to answer

🎨 Favorite Hobbies?

🌙 Heavy or light sleeper, what are their dreams like?

🐀 Favorite Prey?

🌿 Favorite herb?

🎉 Favorite Holiday/Seasonal Event?

👯 Wild circle of friends, or a few close ones? Who’s their best friend?

🌳 What does their family tree look like?

⚡️Special powers or abilities?

🌷Quirks or other mannerisms?

🎯 What do their life goals look like? Deputy, Leader, Medcat, a family?

🏠 Would they ever consider becoming a kittypet?

🐾 What do they think of nearby clans/groups?

🪲What do they value the most?

🌲Favorite location on the territory?

🌧️ Favorite weather?

🧹 Favorite and least favorite clan task/chore/patrol?

🙀What do they fear the most?

✨ What is their relationship with StarClan like?

🍀Secret they’re hiding?

For the clan

🏞️ How did your clan start?

📜 How does your clan’s warrior code differ from other clans?

🎭 Does your clan have any specific traditions, rituals, or holidays?

🌌 Does your clan believe in StarClan, or another sort of afterlife?

💥 What’s the most dramatic event in your clan’s history?

🗿 Does your clan have any important or physical artifacts they keep?

🗣️ Which cat is the biggest gossip in the clan?

👑 Your leader and deputy disappear into thin air, who takes over?

⚔️ Who is the best and worst fighter in the clan?

🐾 Best and worst hunter?

🌟 Which cat has the strongest StarClan/Dark Forest connections?

🔮 Which cat is the most superstitious?

⚰️ What are your clan’s death rituals?

🛡How does your clan choose new deputies?

🌠 Are there any cats in your clan who don’t believe in StarClan?

🐱 Who are some of the cats outside the clan, and what is the clan’s relationship with them?

💔 Which cats have the most complicated relationship with each other?/make you go feral?

🎆What do omens/messages from StarClan look like to your cats?

For the World

🗺️ What does the territory look like? Any unique landmarks?

🐇 What are typical prey you’d find in the territory? Rare or unusual prey?

🐺Typical predators?

🦌 Are there animals that the clan can’t or won’t hunt?

🏘️ What is the twoleg activity like?

⚠️ Are there any dangerous areas cats have to avoid?

🏵Areas that are considered cursed or sacred? Your clan’s equivalent to Moonstone/Moonpool?

🌋 What sort of natural disasters happen here, any that have significantly changed the landscape?

❄️ What is the most challenging season for your clan?

🪴What herbs are most important to your med cats? Rare or magical herbs unique to your world?

🪵 What natural resources does your clan collect for tools, rituals, decoration, etc.?

For the Author

✍️ What inspired you to make your clangen comic/ other media?

⏩ How far ahead do you play in clangen? How far ahead do you draw/write?

📝 What do your notes look like?

⏳ What sort of deadlines or rituals do you follow to keep yourself on schedule?

⛔️How long are you planning on making your comic? For as long as you feel like it, or is there a set end?

🎲 How close to “canon” clangen RNG do you follow?

🔄Do you let clangen fully control names, or do you interfere? Where do you get inspiration for names for warriors and kittypets?

❔Do you have any suggestions for people looking to start their own clangen blogs?

💘 Any cats you ship? Any non-canon/crackship/oddball pairs?

™️Who is your saddest little guy?

😻Which cat would you steal to be your kittypet irl?

🐈 Are there any characters currently based on your irl pets?

🌀Out of context spoilers/WIP?

🏔Lore you’ve been wanting to share but haven’t gotten a chance to?

✏️Who’s your favorite character to draw/write?

❤️ Which character does the audience seem to love that you weren’t expecting?

🌍 What are some of your irl inspirations for the lore/worldbuilding of your comic?

💭 Fan theories or headcanons you love? How much does audience interaction change the events of the comic?

🤝 If you could collab with any other clangen creator (or just want to shout out your favorites), who would it be?

This also might just be me, but be sure to give your favorite creators time to draw or write their responses! Don’t be discouraged if it takes a minute

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Moon 6 · Leaf-fall

Clan

Bluepaw rounds up the Clan, and says that they are going to clean up the camp today. There's fallen leaves everywhere, and she doesn't want to have wet, moldy leaves covering their home come newleaf! Alderpaw points out a good place for a leaf-pile, so that he can use it as growing soil in the future. Everyone works hard getting everything clean... Which is why Squirrelpaw and Slatepaw encourage everyone to join them in leaping into the pile at the end of the day!

Patrols

Bluepaw takes Squirrelpaw out hunting. He's learning quickly, and the Clan is well fed.

Slatepaw and Cloudpaw go out to patrol the borders. They find a CliffClan scent in their territory, and follow it all of the way to a pair of cheerful kits stomping through CirqueClan territory. The two apprentices work together to get the kits back to their home safely.

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Moon 5 · Greenleaf

Clan

Alderpaw enjoys tending to his garden, but the most tedious part is watering all of the plants. He takes moss to the nearby stream, and carefully soaks it, then carries it back to the garden. Unfortunately, it takes a few trips, so Alderpaw lets his mind wander. He expects this is why he doesn't notice the slippery rock in front of him, and slips off, twisting his paw. He glumly limps his way back to camp, preparing for the lecture Slatepaw will give him for being careless.

Finally! Squirrelpaw bounces his way to the top of the tall, flat rock in camp. He yowls loudly, not only summoning everyone to hear him speak, but waking them up. As the sun creeps above the horizon, Squirrelpaw announces that his warrior training begins today! (bullying → sneaky)

Patrols

Bluepaw takes Squirrelpaw out to teach him the basics of the hunting crouch. He's a quick learner, and is able to sneak up on her by the end of the lesson!

Slatepaw takes Cloudpaw out to patrol the RidgeClan border. Cloudpaw tells him a story about a large bear, and a small elk, and three cats. It meanders, and seems as though he is making it up as he goes along, but it's entertaining nonetheless.

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Moon 4 · Greenleaf

Clan

Cloudpaw is excited to finally be allowed to leave Alderpaw's den, although he will miss spendign so much time with the other apprentice. Squirrelkit is delighted that his friend is finally allowed to play with him again!

Alderpaw recovers from his heat exhaustion shortly after Cloudpaw does. He promises Slatepaw he will be more careful in the future, rolling his eyes as he does.

Patrols

Alderpaw and Cloudpaw continue working on Alderpaw's garden. Cloudpaw has fun getting his paws dirty transplanting flowers, although Alderpaw is a bit worried he will crush the delicate roots and stems in his excitement.

Bluepaw and Slatepaw mark the RidgeClan border. They see a group of mountain goats scaling the ridge, and stay a while on the border to watch them climb. Slatepaw wonders if they'd be able to copy the goats' movements to better climb the rocky slopes within their own territory.

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Moon 3 · Greenleaf

Clan

Alderpaw spends the warm days of greenleaf searching relentlessly for herbs. Without a mentor to remind him to eat and take breaks, and a long, thick coat, he gets heat exhaustion and must remain in camp.

With so few Clan members, Bluepaw sends Cloudpaw to mark all the borders on his own. Even though Slatepaw reminds him to eat, and Alderpaw tiredly tells him what the signs of heat exhaustion are, Cloudpaw returns to camp confused and weak.

Patrols

Bluepaw and Slatepaw go on a border patrol. They debate if bird or fish is better, and have fun arguing the details with each other. Bluepaw realizes she will need to pick a deputy one day, and wonders if Slatepaw would be a good choice.

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Moon 2 · Newleaf

Clan

Once the new camp has been set up, Cloudpaw climbs a large flat rock, and announces his apprenticeship. His optimistic outlook keeps everyone going. He is unfailingly cheerful on patrols and in camp. (noisy → confident)

Squirrelkit has recovered from the shock of the Clan's loss. He mourns Ptarmiganpaw, but with Slatepaw's gentle guidance and Cloudpaw's cheerful encouragement, he is acting more like himself. Unfortunately, he is now a bit spoiled, and used to getting his way.

Bluepaw decides the Clan will focus on resting and recovering over the next few moons. She orders her Clanmates to focus on staying safe and healthy, and not taking any risks. She will not lose another Clanmate to recklessness.

Patrols

Alderpaw wants to get a better idea of what herbs are available nearby. He directs Bluepaw, Slatepaw, and Cloudpaw to do a sweep of the area near camp, and makes a mental log of what plants are nearby. Afterwards, he directs them to help him clear an area for a small garden plot near camp. Squirrelkit wakes from his nap to watch them work.

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Moon 1 · Newleaf

Clan

It wasn't supposed to go like this. Lynxbite had promised him an apprenticeship full of trials and challenges, but he had been prepared for that when he thought he'd have a mentor. He didn't know the trials and challenges would be like this. Alderpaw chooses to become a healer anyway. He is determined to do his best to learn how to heal and guide the Clan on his own... even though he doesn't really think he can. (know-it-all → insecure)

He'd been looking forward to starting his warrior training for moons now. Slatepaw had always thought there would be an official ceremony, that he'd be apprenticed to Shalespirit and would learn to be the best warrior in the Clan. Instead, he sat with Squirrelkit and watched the moon rise, and realized he was six moons old that day. He followed Alderpaw's lead, and simply announced the next morning that he was Slatepaw, training to be a warrior. He would just have to teach himself how to be the best. (quiet → righteous)

Squirrelkit is shaken by recent events. He is terrified of even the smallest of puddles, and often just quietly follows the older kits around. Alderpaw gives him herbs to help him sleep; Slatepaw stays in the nursery to comfort him when he has nightmares.

Cloudkit spends his days getting the new camp set up, chattering to Squirrelkit all the while. He sets aside feathers for everyone to pad their nests with. Alderpaw's crow feathers often get stuck in his long fur, and he has given up on taking them all out each morning. (Alderpaw gains an accessory.)

Ptarmiganpaw wakes up with a stomachache, but ignores it in order to focus on leading the Clan.

Patrols

Alderpaw and Bluepaw venture out into the territory to gather cobwebs. They walk in companionable silence, though Bluepaw seems to take her job of guarding the younger apprentice very seriously.

Ptarmiganpaw takes Slatepaw out on a border patrol. While they are walking along the stream that separates their territory from CliffClan's, she spots a fish swimming against the fast-moving current. Knowing that they have mouths to feed back at camp, she delicately balances on the shore and reaches out to catch it in her claws. Slatepaw watches in horror and she catches it, only for the fish to pull her into the water with it. He is frozen in horror as she disappears beneath the waves. He follows her screams downstream until they grow quiet.

Slatepaw brings Ptarmiganpaw's body back to camp. They leave offerings for the spirits, but Ptarmiganpaw remains cold and still. After burying her, Bluepaw reluctantly agrees to lead the Clan. She secretly worries that she will meet the same fate.

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Allegiances · Moon 0

APPRENTICES

Ptarmiganpaw - white and silver tabby molly. insecure. adolescent (9 moons).

Bluepaw - long-furred pale gray and white molly. charismatic. adolescent (8 moons).

KITS

Alderkit - white and brown tabby tom. know-it-all. young (5 moons).

Slatekit - unusually spotted black tom. quiet. young (5 moons).

Cloudkit - white and brown tabby tom. noisy. young (4 moons).

Squirrelkit - ginger tabby tom. bullying. young (1 moon).

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Moon 0 · Newleaf

Clan

Ptarmiganpaw wakes up to find her nest crumbling underneath her as water begins entering the cave that the apprentices sleep in. She screeches, waking up her Clanmates, and bursts out of the den to find the camp flooding.

Bluepaw wakes up alone in the healer's den, pelt covered in a poultice to help her thorn-scratches heal. The poultice sloughs off as she scrambles out of the flooding den. She enters the camp clearing to find chaos.

Astermask shoves the kits and queens out of the nursery, ignoring the kits' wails of protest. The FjordClan deputy holds Squirrelkit in her jaws, who she deposits at the paws of her apprentice Bluepaw. She tells her to take the kit and run.

Shalespirit's old bones scream in protest as she tells her grandson Slatekit to leave the camp as quick as he can. His eyes are full of fear, and she snarls at him, startling him into action. His mother, her youngest daughter, had died in childbirth. She couldn't bear to lose him too. Once he's scrambled over the top of the fjord, she joins her deputy in trying to save what she can of her Clan.

Lynxbite watches his herb stores float away on the quick-rising water. He sees Ptarmiganpaw trying to coax the elders out of their den, her eyes wide with terror. Cloudkit is balanced precariously on his back, and Alderkit is trembling between his paws. He puts himself between the apprentice and the den entrance. He tells her to take the kits and leave - he will follow with the elders as soon as he can. She nods, and guides the two kits out of camp.

FjordClan is swept away by a flood. Two apprentices and four kits remain, and when the water recedes, they bury what dead remain. After this loss, they decide to set up camp at the edge of a cirque deeper into their territory, where floodwater can't reach them.

Patrols

Ptarmiganpaw marks the borders, pausing for too long by sunny daisy patch where Shalespirit rests. She had left many offerings to the spirits, but Shalespirit had lost the spirits’ favor, and she did not rise. So Ptarmiganpaw steels herself to lead what remains of FjordClan. In order to show respect to the spirits that flooded the camp, she decides the group will now be known as CirqueClan, so that they will not meet the same fate.

Bluepaw hunts, aware that every piece of prey she does not catch is a meal she will not get to eat. She wishes she had received more than two moons of training. At least she’s not in Ptarmiganpaw’s position.

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clangen blog run by @jus-a-lil-mouse! i go by mouse, they/he pronouns

cirqueclan is played on classic mode. after a devastating flood, two apprentices and four kits are all that are left of their clan, and must do their best to rebuild their clan.

all living cats and the op (me) are available for questions :3

Navigation:

#cirquemoons for moon updates - start reading here!

#cirqueallegiances for allegiance updates - the most recent allegiances list is available here!

More CirqueClan lore below!

CirqueClan's territory is based on Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska. They share borders with RidgeClan and CliffClan.

Instead of StarClan, CirqueClan cats believe in a variety of nature spirits, which much be respected and occasionally appeased. Leaders receive lives from the spirits, gaining them the -spirit suffix. When a cat passes, their spirit will wander the land and take form as parts of the natural world. Eventually, these cats will also become nature spirits.