#there were legit five deaths in Russetpaw and Pixie

[transhetanybodys]

I just got hit with a flash of inspiration for another story involving Jay, an AU of my already existing AU where Russetpaw doesn't die and instead grows up to experience the same amount of hardship and adversity for her belief in bringing groups together and working against xenophobia but instead of that all eventually culminating in her snapping and becoming really mean and narcissistic and no longer believing in extending an olive branch to other cultures like what happened to Jay she simply becomes wiser about how she's going to accomplish her goals and what exact form they'll take, no longer having this truly out there and not even really good to accomplish goal of actually bringing Shadowclan and the cats of the Twolegplace into one united society with one blended culture instead of two but rather wanting them to be allies instead of being at war. She and Jay have some juicy mother daughter conflict a la the Baroness and Cruella. Jay thought that her daughter would either keep being someone she sees as a hopeless romantic idiot forever or eventually snap and become a second her and then rise to become a truly formidable leader of the Twolegplace cats' rival group Shadowclan. She didn't foresee this third option of Russetpaw maturing into a more intelligent revolutionary and she kind of resents her even more now. Now she's not just a mirror of her younger self who she sees as way too naive, she's a better path that she herself could have taken, but she can't face that because she thinks she's the best the way she is already.