misty-leaf

[misty-leaf]

^ an accurate depiction of meadowmoon's life from the moment she learned how to speak

hi i havent posted here in a while but buy the stars by marina is such a meadowmoon song . in this essay i will-

[misty-leaf]

as i was saying,

the song is just so . so meadowmoon. like

"all my life ive been so lonely, all in the name of being holy" (+"still, you'd like to think you know me, you keep buying stars")

its just such a . her song!!!!!! aoahgh

like. if im going with the canon storyline i wanna go with, that is starclan being gone when cedarstar dies several years before the events of these stories, then like. meadowkit is born and she's the only cat who has a connection to starclan. she's taken in by windclan, the most religious clan, and put under immense pressure to talk to her warrior ancestors bc she's their only way of contacting them.

because of this she's. lonely. she's used. no one wants to be her friend or really get to know her or talk to her outside of. "can you talk to starclan for me? can you talk to my dead starclan parents? etc etc."

her two other friends besides spottedcloud, midnightsky and cloudfur, were only pulled in by their parents. they arent related but pebbleblaze, cloudfur's father, was desperately using meadowpaw to try to contact his father. and rainshade, midnightsky's mother (and also actually pebbleblaze's mother too) was . doing the same, trying so hard to contact her mate, pebble's father, who had disappeared and had been gone for moons and no one knew if he was dead or not. ofc i just made this all up just now so its a bit messy but oh well SJKDKJG

anyways midnight and cloud are eventualy lke hey back off this kid is, like, 10. (as in like 10 human years old, so like, 7 moons in wc age) and so they jus kinda protect meadowpaw n do eventually become better friends with her but it does rly start out as them and their parents being like please help :(((

as for spottedcloud and meadowmoon's relationship .......... spottedcloud rly just. wanted to be her friend. she saw a lonely and scared meadowkit suddenly being tasked with becoming the medicine cat apprentice (which she DID wanna be a med cat and didnt have any iunterest in fighting but it was also pushed onto her bc "med cats are special and they can talk to starclan !!!" yk) and so spottedkit was like hey !!! wnanna be friends :) nd so they. becam friends :)

i like to think though that spottedcloud's parents were also like. using meadowpaw for their own gain. to contact starclan, to talk to deceased family members, etc.

also actually here's something that can tie in to all these cats trying to reach their dead family mebmers : just before meadowkit was born there was a huge fire and earthquake and storm that teared the clans apart and they were forced 2 move to a whole new territory . the storm wiped out a pretty good number of cats from every clan bc no one was expecting it so no one rly had time to prepare or Leave before things got bad. some inhaled smoke from the fire and died, some were trapped In The Fire, some were injured by falling trees or attemped to cross the flooding rushing river and drowned, etc etc.

so now a small windclan, who lost several of its warriors, are like. we need to know if our families and relatives are dead or not but we cant talk to starclan. n then meadowkit comes along... and is able to talk to starclan... so everyones like "oh my god is so-and-so there??? what about (x)???????" and meadowkit is just like please im a newborn child im 8 days old and can barely speak

anyways anyways back on topic to the song . its just such a song that Screams meadowmoon vibes 2 me . like. basically a song that goes "i am sad because i was pushed into religion at a very very young age and no one around me protected me from The Horrors so now im fucked up and traumatized and every time i try to express that i dont like This Religion i get shut down because supposedly what im doing is to the benefit of everyone else and im not supposed to care about my own feelings because its bad, and no matter how hard i try or what i do i will always be known as the Religious Guy and i will never be rid of this trauma or this lifestyle and it has forever ruined my life". does that make sense

hi i havent posted here in a while but buy the stars by marina is such a meadowmoon song . in this essay i will-

[misty-leaf]

hi i havent posted here in a while but buy the stars by marina is such a meadowmoon song . in this essay i will-

[misty-leaf]

SO i wsa playing as a white cat with orange stripes on their legs and an orange and darkr orange tail and like. darkr orange freckles. also they r supposed to have one orange eye and one blue eye but for some reason u cant have different colored eyes in wcue so they just have amber eyse for now

when i joined the game there was a Bigger cat named raven who was like black and white and gray with green eyes . and we kinda ran around a bit n were jus fuckin around with the animations n Walking In Circles but . they Suddenly Left after typing X( in the chat (which was Presumably . a Sad Face) and i was genuinely sad aftr they left KJLAJKLSBLJKG

but then i was jus walkin around n wandernig the territory n found another cat by the barn near windclan territory that had several othr cats in it and . one cat just so happened to look Very similar to my character - white with orange markings and a few darker brown/black markings too. i couldnt see them very well bc i was keeping my distance but they looked similar to my character so i was like >_>,,,,

anyways! here's what ive come up with :

my oc is a cat named. piper! shes young (about, eh, 7 moons old) and very. Curious, about the forest specifically. her best friend is a hyper, energetic slightly older she-cat (shes maybe 9 moons old) named raven, and piper's mother is a reserved, passive aggresive she-cat named bailey. bailey and piper didnt get along very well at all, bailey was very distant with piper and preferred to stay indoors at the twolegplace where they lived while piper and raven played together outside. piper didn't know about the clans in the forest and raven would often tell her about the Ancient Leader firestar and all about thunderclan, and would tell her about shadowclan and tigerstar and how the Great and Powerful Firestar defeated the evil awful tigerstar in a big huge battle.

bailey, though, hated it when raven would tell piper these stories. constantly telling her, "don't lie to her like that. you know the clans aren't real, there's no such thing as a "thunderclan" or "shadowclan"." and raven kinda played it off by being like "well yeah, uh, OBVIOUSLY they aren't real, haha... but... what if they were?" and raven and piper would continue to joke about creating their own clans when they were old enough to leave the twolegplace.

good times.

...ofc those fantasies of running away from the twolegplace and exploring the forest, creating their own clans or, perhaps, even joining the real clans, became more than just a fantasy. as piper and raven grew older, raven desperately wanted to escape and to explore the great unknown. who knows what lied out there? she'd talk about how she wanted to see the clans for herself, or at least venture out to see if they do exist. piper, though, while wanting to go explore the forest, didn't fully want to. leave everything behind. especially not her mother. raven understood that, but still desperately wanted to leave. being locked up in a house all day and only having a small area to run around outside wasn't enough for her. she needed to get out and explore what lies outside of the small twolegplace.

one night, raven and piper laid outside and talked about the clans, raven shared stories of clan life and ancient clan leaders and their rules and lore. raven explained that all of the stars in the sky were the souls of dead cats, all starclan warriors watching over them. they both went quiet.

raven asked piper, "if i left, would you come with me?"

piper, unsure of how to respond, said nothing for a moment, before turning and asking, "well, if i stayed here, would you stay with me?" because deep down, she didn't want to leave her home. she knew the clans didn't respond well to outsiders, so even if there were clans out there, why would they let two weak kittypets join? they could be killed, whether it be by cats or by other predators like badgers or foxes. she was scared, didn't want to leave her mother or the comfort of her home.

thankfully, raven agreed to stay with her, though not without a flash of sadness in her eyes. but that brought piper to peace.

until the next morning. where she sat patiently outside of raven's twoleg's house, waiting for her to come outside. she never did. after several hours of waiting (piper is a VERY patient kitty cat), raven's twolegs came out of the house, specifically one of the twoleg kits. the twoleg adults were standing in the doorway, just staring at the kit as it walked outside and walked aorund the backyard, continually meowing the same word over and over again. thoguh piper couldnt understand what it was saying, her heart sank.

raven left. she must be missing. if she was outside, she would have come out to happily greet her twolegs by now. or she would have been inside of the house and come outside to see them. but... she wasn't there. she wasn't anywhere.

but piper still had hope. perhaps she had gone out to explore the forest like she wanted, and she would be back later that night.

she never showed up. piper still had hope, though, and patiently waited for her to come home. very quickly, days turned to weeks, and raven never came back home. bailey would consistently tell her she wouldn't be coming back, and piper refused to believe her.

piper and bailey's relationship quickly got. Worse, because of this. which then lead to an argument where bailey told piper, "if she really cared about you, she wouldn't have left you behind. i told you she was a bad influence. she's run off without you! she's not your friend, and if she truly was, she wouldn't have left you." but of course, piper didn't want to believe that, and insisted that she follow after raven to go and find her. she didn't care if she ran off, she just wanted to make sure her friend was okay. so bailey told her, "fine. you wanna chase after someone who couldn't care less about you? go ahead. i don't care."

and. well. bailey straight up telling her, "i dont care if you leave", really just. broke her. so piper ran off into the forest after her friend. she left everything behind, besides a single cat toy, which she took with her. a cat toy that used to be raven's, that she gifted to piper when she was younger. a toy she carried around everywhere, and took with her when she left home.

shout out to two random people i saw on that warrior cats roleplay game on roblox that inspired me to create a whole new story <3

[misty-leaf]

Character solidifying!

1. How does your character think of their father? What do they hate and love about him? What influence - literal or imagined - did the father have? 2. Their mother? How do they think of her? What do they hate? Love? What influence - literal or imagined - did the mother have? 3. Brothers, sisters? Who do they like? Why? What do they despise about their siblings? 4. What type of discipline was your character subjected to at home? Strict? Lenient? 5. Were they overprotected as a child? Sheltered? 6. Did they feel rejection or affection as a child? 7. What was the economic status of their family? 8. How does your character feel about religion? 9. What about political beliefs? 10. Is your character street-smart, book-smart, intelligent, intellectual, slow-witted? 11. How do they see themselves: as smart, as intelligent, uneducated? 12. How does their education and intelligence – or lack thereof - reflect in their speech pattern, vocabulary, and pronunciations? 13. Did they like school? Teachers? Schoolmates? 14. Were they involved at school? Sports? Clubs? Debate? Were they unconnected? 15. Did they graduate? High-School? College? Do they have a PHD? A GED? 16. What does your character do for a living? How do they see their profession? What do they like about it? Dislike? 17. Did they travel? Where? Why? When? 18. What did they find abroad, and what did they remember? 19. What were your character’s deepest disillusions? In life? What are they now? 20. What were the most deeply impressive political or social, national or international, events that they experienced? 21. What are your character’s manners like? What is their type of hero? Whom do they hate? 22. Who are their friends? Lovers? ‘Type’ or ‘ideal’ partner? 23. What do they want from a partner? What do they think and feel of sex? 24. What social groups and activities does your character attend? What role do they like to play? What role do they actually play, usually? 25. What are their hobbies and interests? 26. What does your character’s home look like? Personal taste? Clothing? Hair? Appearance? 27. How do they relate to their appearance? How do they wear their clothing? Style? Quality? 28. Who is your character’s mate? How do they relate to him or her? How did they make their choice? 29. What is your character’s weaknesses? Hubris? Pride? Controlling? 30. Are they holding on to something in the past? Can he or she forgive? 31. Does your character have children? How do they feel about their parental role? About the children? How do the children relate? 32. How does your character react to stress situations? Defensively? Aggressively? Evasively? 33. Do they drink? Take drugs? What about their health?  34. Does your character feel self-righteous? Revengeful? Contemptuous? 35. Do they always rationalize errors? How do they accept disasters and failures? 36. Do they like to suffer? Like to see other people suffering? 37. How is your character’s imagination? Daydreaming a lot? Worried most of the time? Living in memories? 38. Are they basically negative when facing new things? Suspicious? Hostile? Scared? Enthusiastic? 39. What do they like to ridicule? What do they find stupid? 40. How is their sense of humor? Do they have one? 41. Is your character aware of who they are? Strengths? Weaknesses? Idiosyncrasies? Capable of self-irony? 42. What does your character want most? What do they need really badly, compulsively? What are they willing to do, to sacrifice, to obtain? 43. Does your character have any secrets? If so, are they holding them back? 44. How badly do they want to obtain their life objectives? How do they pursue them? 45. Is your character pragmatic? Think first? Responsible? All action? A visionary? Passionate? Quixotic? 46. Is your character tall? Short? What about size? Weight? Posture? How do they feel about their physical body? 47. Do they want to project an image of a younger, older, more important person? Does they want to be visible or invisible? 48. How are your character’s gestures? Vigorous? Weak? Controlled? Compulsive? Energetic? Sluggish? 49. What about voice? Pitch? Strength? Tempo and rhythm of speech? Pronunciation? Accent? 50. What are the prevailing facial expressions? Sour? Cheerful? Dominating?

[misty-leaf]

my ocs make me so ufckging sad somteisms . looks directly at shadeheart

like idk just . shadeheart specifically makes me sad. i was thinkgin about her the other day and i was thinking about what happens when she dies and i got EMOTIONAL. i got SAD !!!!!!! I CRIED A LITTLE BIT!!!!!!!!! shes a fictional cat ccharacter she doesnt exist irl but god damn if her story doesnt make me sad

like think about it. she became mates with the clan leader's son, then one night the clan leader dies and he left for shadowclan. but they kept being mates and everntually he asked for kits and she said no because she never wanted to be a mother. then all of a sudden several clan members die including her own parents and her best friend's mate and kits. he confesses to her about how he was the one who killed them, then they broke up, then got back together again, then broke up for real, and then suddenly one night she's just . pregnant with his kits (well not rly suddenly but lets say she and him went out for a walk and they ended up spending a night together and then shadeheart decided nah yk what fuck this and then like a couple days later after getting an injury in her leg shes sent to the medicine den whos like "hey ur leg is broken but also um. ur uh. pregnant" and shes like D:) and so her best friend, who lost her kits recently, decides to take in her kits once theyre born bc. she doesnt want them.

so she has the kits, her best friend takes them, and all is well. then the two of them start raising the kits together and she starts getting closer to the kits. then her mate demands she bring the kits to him, she says no obviously, then he threatens her and they agree that he will take one kit, the one with the most resemblance to him : darkkit.

but it all goes wrong when she goes to take the kit to him, she decides last minute she's going to book it to the twolegplace and run away from everyone forever. darkstar (the mate) catches up to her, attacks her (brutally) and after slashing her throat and essentially cutting her open, he tosses her into the gorge and takes darkkit with him back to shadowclan. like. like it all just makes me SAD

she could have lived a peaceful life. with her kits and her best friend and they could be happy together. hell, her and alderstar couldve even become mates.

but alas . i love making my ocs suffer <333333333333333333333

[misty-leaf]

people moving to tumblr from twitter please fucking reblog art likes literally dont do anything except make the artist upset bc they have 2 reblogs and 55 likes

[misty-leaf]

woo icon time :)

AWNYAYS HI HI HI i have ideas

so. so. hear me out. what if perhaps spottedcloud n meadowmoon both being the ppl who bring back the dark forest n starclan respectively is . switched up a little bit. lemme explain :

what if meadowmoon spends this whole time talking to cats she believes are starclan cats. she learns a lot from them. she trusts them! she doesnt quetsion why some of them have forever bleeding scars or why some of them dont have stars in their pelt. they're starclan cats! and clearly meadowmoon is in starclan when she visits them. they even gave her the name meadowmoon to connect her further to starclan!

meanwhile spottedcloud wholeheartedly thinks that..... something isnt right with these dark forest cats. they're too. hmm. civil. they're too nice to be dark forest cats. but she shrugs it off - perhaps starclan's judgement failed and these cats were sent to the dark forest wrongly. but spottedcloud definitely notices something . Fishy!

and then maybe its revealed to the both of them. perhaps in a freak accident, something happens which results in them both being hurt and fatally injured. perhaps they endup in the same gray area together and starclan cats appear to give judgement to them, perhaps meadowmoon doesnt recognize these cats as starclan cats.

but spottedcloud does.

and thus the reveal starts. these cats tell meadowmoon that this whole time she's been in the dark forest that was twisted and warped by the dark forest cats to make it look like starclan. meadowmoon is. well. shocked is an understatement, she's devastated. her whole life, her beliefs, her religion has crumbled to pieces in front of her.

spottedcloud's reveal that she's been training in starclan the whole time isn't shocking to her but the true starclan cats reactions to her being so willing to go against starclan to train in the dark forest, even if it was fake, was something the starclan cats disagreed with. it was a test for them to see where spottedcloud's loyalties truly lied.

and clearly, her loyalties didn't lie with starclan.

which was a problem.

clearly they're mad at meadowmoon too, for being so naive and stupid enoguh to think that the dark forest cats were starclan cats.

so because starclan thinks they're both in the wrong, they're given a choice.

one of them will stay alive and will live a normal life. when they die they will go to starclan regardless.

the other will die and be sent to the dark forest for all eternity.

but this is where im stuck because truly i dont want either of them to DIE but . yknow. they're in starclan. their SOULS are in starclan - when they first arrived their souls were barely visible as they were still alive but over time they get more and more visible as their bodies in the real world are dying. fast.

thats it thoguh thats all ur getting make up the ending for me because i dont know where else to go with this JKLKLJABSKLJBKJG

[misty-leaf]

blackpaw and rainpaw as well as the other apprentices didn't witness the killing of kits very often, as kits being born and matching minty's description weren't fairly common, but the rules were still put in place just in case that scenario did happen. when they were kits themselves they were told about what happened to kits of those descriptions, though blackpaw and wavepaw both agreed that that seemed... harsh. very harsh. but they didn't dare speak those thoughts out loud.

but aside from all of that, blackpaw and ravenpaw and cootpaw's apprenticeships went well. but... rosestorm and cinderfall were still arguing. and as always blackpaw was right in the center of it all. what hapepned this time though, during this particular argument, was much worse than any other beforehand. it gradually went from passive aggressive comments, to yelling, to screaming, and then rosestorm said something to blackpaw that just... made her feel nauseous. rosestorm asked blackpaw to choose between rosestorm and cinderfall. to tell her which parent she liked more. because blackpaw couldnt decide, ravenpaw and cootpaw got involved and of course, ravenpaw chose rosestorm and cootpaw chose cinderfall. blackpaw didn't want her parents to separate and pleaded with them both to try n work things out but instead, rosestorm launched herself at cinderfall and began to attack him. though this scuffle only lasted a few moments as she was quickly pulled off of him. she announced she would be taking her sons, ravenpaw and cootpaw, and leaving mintclan. cinderfall tried to tell her it was a bad idea and cootpaw tried to say he wouldn't leave but. after rosestorm said she would never come back to the clans and thus would never see him again, cootpaw reluctantly agreed to go. so she left mintclan with ravenpaw and cootpaw following beside her, leaving blackpaw all alone with cinderfall. blackpaw hoped this would be the end of the fighting but... cinderfall was less than happy about all of this.

he would tell blackpaw that because of her, he would never see his sons again. when blackpaw would tell him, "well, i'm still here," he would get angry. yes, she was still there, but she isnt what cinderfall wanted. he wanted his sons back, he couldn't care less about rosestorm, but he desperately wanted his sons back. and through his eyes, blackpaw caused all of this. if it wasn't for her being born a she-kit, her mother wouldn't have left with their sons. of course cinderfall still cared for blackpaw but he couldn't look at her the same way ever again.

time quickly passed, blackpaw and rainpaw became close, close friends, and eventually after a few moons, they each recieved their warrior names. wavepaw became wavespring, rainpaw became rainpuddle, and blackpaw became blackblaze. rainpuddle became a messenger for the clans (which was basically a group of younger, healthier cats who were willing to traverse the land to reach the other clans and share news and herbs or prey if needed.), specifically a newleaf messenger, so she wasnt set to leave until newleaf alongside a handful of other warriors. but aside from all that, things were going well. cinderfall was now a senior warrior and was most likely going to join the elder's den soon. there was no sign of rosestorm or ravenpaw or cootpaw though and as leaffall turned to leaf-bare, cinderfall became. kind of worried. and so did blackblaze. had they ran off to become kittypets? did they find a makeshift den to stay in for shelter? were they safe? still alive?

though one morning, ravenpaw, who now went by just raven, showed up in mintclan's camp and explained that rosestorm was ill alongside cootpaw (now called coot) because of the harsh winter storms. the medicine cat, shadowstone, alongside cinderfall, blackblaze, and a handful of other warriors followed raven back to where rosestorm and coot were. rosestorm was instantly noted to have hypothermia, while coot was on the verge of it. rosestorm needed medical attention right away, still out in the cold, but coot needed to get back to camp and be warmed up quickly. so cinderfall had to make a decision. do we save rosestorm and risk killing coot, or do we take coot back to camp and make sure that he doesnt get hypothermia, but risk killing rosestorm in the process by not giving her the emergency care she needs?

cinderfall is unable to respond.

blackblaze says she'll take coot back to mintclan and at least get him to a warmer area. she, coot, and raven all go back to mintclan and put him in the medicine den, with raven wrapped around him. blackblaze goes back to fetch cinderfall and shadowstone, the med cat, and to see if rosestorm is okay, but... shadowstone is still attempting to revive her. and its not working. cinderfall is losing composure and shadowstone is frantically attempting to do cpr, but its all too late.

rosestorm is dead.

the death of a parent's kit is an experience that no cat should ever endure. regardless of age. but the younger the kit is, the harsher it is on the parent. if a young, 5 moon old kit dies, it shakes the whole clan. the kit never would be able to become an apprentice, or a warrior or medicine cat. they wouldn't be able to experience the joys of being a clan cat, the thrill of killing prey, none of that.

but things happen. complications happen during birth and perhaps the kit is unhealthy or ill. perhaps they were born too soon and were weak and not expected to live very long. or perhaps even worse, they die before they're born. such things happen in life, but there's no doubt that the weight of a kit's death hangs in the air for years and years after it happens.

for blackblaze, an old mintclan queen, the death of her kits was something that shook her to her very core and changed her life forever. but let's start from the very beginning.

blackblaze was born to rosestorm and cinderfall, mother and father respectively, alongside her brothers ravennose and cootflower. to rosestorm, blackkit was unwanted and unnecessary and unexpected. rosestorm had hoped for all toms, and because ravenkit and cootkit were born first she hoped that her final kit would be a tom like them. but because she wasn't, rosestorm wasn't very happy. cinderfall had tried to reason with her and told her that she's just as capable as ravenkit and cootkit but rosestorm didn't listen, instead only making things worse between her and cinderfall. blackkit was in the middle of everything whenever her parents fought; ravenkit would usually take his mother's side while cootkit would take cinderfall's. sometimes they would switch and cootkit would agree that blackkit was only dragging them down, while ravenkit and cinderfall would say otherwise. what would happen is rosestorm and cinderfall would argue, they'd stop talkking for a few days, then apologize and make up. then something would happen and they would argue again, stop talking again, and the cycle would continue. for years.

rosestorm often pushed blackkit away, both figuratively and literally, and only really nursed ravenkit and cootkit when they were kits. blackkit would sneak out of the nursery to eat scraps of left over prey so that she at least had something to eat so she wasn't completely starving, but... as a young kit, it was hard for her to eat prey at all, she was only about 2 moons old and though she'd be having to start to eat prey anyways as the kits were getting older, because her mother wasnt feeding her she was forced to start early. cinderfall had no idea about this and neither did rosestorm or ravenkit or cootikt, until one night when blackkit began to choke on prey and caused a scene in the clearing where the medicine cat, shadowstone, who was still awake at the time, rushed out and saved her life. the commotion stirred rosestorm awake as well as the kits and cinderfall, which caused yet another argument between the two, which... caused them to wake more cats up... as it was the middle of the night. this wasn't rosestorm's and cinderfall's breaking ponts, however, but blackkit did spend more time with cinderfall than she did with rosestorm after this.

during this time, when blackkit was about 3 moons old, there was another queen in the nursery who just so happened to have a litter of younger kits, a loner who would have stayed a loner if not for her having a one-night stand with a kittypet which ended up with her having kits. she joined mintclan as it was the closest clan she could get to and decided to have and raise her kits there, where they'd be safer. this she-cat was named river, later named riverstream, and she gave birth to two kits : wavekit and rainkit. blackkit became good friends with rainkit instantly, and though she was also friends with wavekit, wavekit was much more shy and reserved than rainkit was. but they made good friends nonetheless.

when blackkit along with ravenkit and cootkit became apprentices, they went on with life as normal. rosestorm and cinderfall seemed to have a very very strained relationship, and so did blackpaw and ravenpaw n cootpaw. they weren't super close. but through their apprenticeship they did train alongside each other a lot of the time and would try to spend time with each other more outside of camp. eventually rainpaw and wavepaw became apprentices as well and blackpaw n rainpaw spent even more time togther. blackpaw and rainpaw were kids, they'd often say silly things like "when im older im gonna be mates with you!" or "when we grow up we're going to be together forever and im going to be mintclan's leader and ill make you my deputy!!!" simple things.

but what wasn't simple about living in mintclan was... what they did to kits with certain pelt colors and eye colors. specificaly a white kit with gray speckles and green eyes.

let me explain,

[misty-leaf]

mintclan was created by a cat named minty, a former kittypet turned clan leader because of starclan's wishes. they were, by all means, a horrible leader. they wanted nothing more than power, they wanted to rule the forest and drive the other clans out. they were determined to do whatever they could to make the other clans bow down to them.

they would sneak into the camps of other cats and secretly poison their queens or kits. they stuck death berries into the dead carcasses of prey in hopes that the cats would eat them and die. they took the bodies of the dead cats and used it to lure animals and prey straight to them for easy catching. they would frequently even poison a clan's herb supply by sprinkling the juices of death berries onto various herbs and leaves, typically the most used herbs.

all minty wanted to do was make the other clans weak. to kill them off. the less cats there were, the easier they'd be to drive out. and its not like they weren't doing the same for their own clan too - minty's clan had strict rules. no queens or elders or kits were allowed, when cats go hunting minty is the one they must feed first before feeding themselves, medicine cats were not allowed to heal gravely wounded clanmates no matter how high their chance of survival would have been if they did so. if a cat is injured and is losing blood fast and could easily be saved by patching up the wound, minty would not let them if they thought the cat would bring the clan down.

and people just accepted it. minty told them they were chosen by starclan to be a leader, that everyone needed to bow down to them. they were special, starclan told them so. and people believed them.

the other clans, of course, (berryclan, shiveringclan, and gustclan, who were all lead by minty's siblings) were not as accepting of minty's reign. once they caught onto what minty was doing, poisoning their prey and herbs, they attempted time and time again to do the same. but minty was always one pawstep ahead of them. always.

but minty's reign came to an end when pepper, leader of shiveringclan and minty's almost identical twin, attempted to and successfully killed minty. however it resulted in his own death as well. mintclan was in shambles and those who stayed true to minty's word would leave the clan to start a new life. some stayed behind and those who did decided to make up their own rules. their own laws.

from that point onward, any kit that matched minty's appearance (white cat with gray speckles and green eyes) would be killed. they were scared that each cat born as such would mean that minty was coming back to haunt them, like they were being reincarnated as these kits. and after a while, once these cats realized what minty did to the other clans and to mintclan itself was horrible, they saw nothing wrong with wanting to murder kits who matched minty's appearance. reincarnation was possible and so who knows which one of those kits could just be minty reincarnated?

the process would go as follows : if a kit is born with white fur and gray speckles, the clan would keep an eye on them until their true eye color formed. if the kit had blue or amber or brown or hazel eyes, any color other than green, they were watched carefully and possibly treated differently than other cats, but were not killed. those who had green eyes would be murdered by the cat who birthed them, usually done through simply feeding them death berries or any herb that would make them sick and kill them rather quickly. the parents of the kits were almost always willing to do this, because as far as they know, killing those kits would be equal to saving the clan.

though there were a few cases where a parent didn't want to kill their kit, but... we'll get to that later.

moving on,

the death of a parent's kit is an experience that no cat should ever endure. regardless of age. but the younger the kit is, the harsher it is on the parent. if a young, 5 moon old kit dies, it shakes the whole clan. the kit never would be able to become an apprentice, or a warrior or medicine cat. they wouldn't be able to experience the joys of being a clan cat, the thrill of killing prey, none of that.

but things happen. complications happen during birth and perhaps the kit is unhealthy or ill. perhaps they were born too soon and were weak and not expected to live very long. or perhaps even worse, they die before they're born. such things happen in life, but there's no doubt that the weight of a kit's death hangs in the air for years and years after it happens.

for blackblaze, an old mintclan queen, the death of her kits was something that shook her to her very core and changed her life forever. but let's start from the very beginning.

blackblaze was born to rosestorm and cinderfall, mother and father respectively, alongside her brothers ravennose and cootflower. to rosestorm, blackkit was unwanted and unnecessary and unexpected. rosestorm had hoped for all toms, and because ravenkit and cootkit were born first she hoped that her final kit would be a tom like them. but because she wasn't, rosestorm wasn't very happy. cinderfall had tried to reason with her and told her that she's just as capable as ravenkit and cootkit but rosestorm didn't listen, instead only making things worse between her and cinderfall. blackkit was in the middle of everything whenever her parents fought; ravenkit would usually take his mother's side while cootkit would take cinderfall's. sometimes they would switch and cootkit would agree that blackkit was only dragging them down, while ravenkit and cinderfall would say otherwise. what would happen is rosestorm and cinderfall would argue, they'd stop talkking for a few days, then apologize and make up. then something would happen and they would argue again, stop talking again, and the cycle would continue. for years.

rosestorm often pushed blackkit away, both figuratively and literally, and only really nursed ravenkit and cootkit when they were kits. blackkit would sneak out of the nursery to eat scraps of left over prey so that she at least had something to eat so she wasn't completely starving, but... as a young kit, it was hard for her to eat prey at all, she was only about 2 moons old and though she'd be having to start to eat prey anyways as the kits were getting older, because her mother wasnt feeding her she was forced to start early. cinderfall had no idea about this and neither did rosestorm or ravenkit or cootikt, until one night when blackkit began to choke on prey and caused a scene in the clearing where the medicine cat, shadowstone, who was still awake at the time, rushed out and saved her life. the commotion stirred rosestorm awake as well as the kits and cinderfall, which caused yet another argument between the two, which... caused them to wake more cats up... as it was the middle of the night. this wasn't rosestorm's and cinderfall's breaking ponts, however, but blackkit did spend more time with cinderfall than she did with rosestorm after this.

during this time, when blackkit was about 3 moons old, there was another queen in the nursery who just so happened to have a litter of younger kits, a loner who would have stayed a loner if not for her having a one-night stand with a kittypet which ended up with her having kits. she joined mintclan as it was the closest clan she could get to and decided to have and raise her kits there, where they'd be safer. this she-cat was named river, later named riverstream, and she gave birth to two kits : wavekit and rainkit. blackkit became good friends with rainkit instantly, and though she was also friends with wavekit, wavekit was much more shy and reserved than rainkit was. but they made good friends nonetheless.

when blackkit along with ravenkit and cootkit became apprentices, they went on with life as normal. rosestorm and cinderfall seemed to have a very very strained relationship, and so did blackpaw and ravenpaw n cootpaw. they weren't super close. but through their apprenticeship they did train alongside each other a lot of the time and would try to spend time with each other more outside of camp. eventually rainpaw and wavepaw became apprentices as well and blackpaw n rainpaw spent even more time togther. blackpaw and rainpaw were kids, they'd often say silly things like "when im older im gonna be mates with you!" or "when we grow up we're going to be together forever and im going to be mintclan's leader and ill make you my deputy!!!" simple things.

but what wasn't simple about living in mintclan was... what they did to kits with certain pelt colors and eye colors. specificaly a white kit with gray speckles and green eyes.

let me explain,

[misty-leaf]

the death of a parent's kit is an experience that no cat should ever endure. regardless of age. but the younger the kit is, the harsher it is on the parent. if a young, 5 moon old kit dies, it shakes the whole clan. the kit never would be able to become an apprentice, or a warrior or medicine cat. they wouldn't be able to experience the joys of being a clan cat, the thrill of killing prey, none of that.

but things happen. complications happen during birth and perhaps the kit is unhealthy or ill. perhaps they were born too soon and were weak and not expected to live very long. or perhaps even worse, they die before they're born. such things happen in life, but there's no doubt that the weight of a kit's death hangs in the air for years and years after it happens.

for blackblaze, an old mintclan queen, the death of her kits was something that shook her to her very core and changed her life forever. but let's start from the very beginning.

blackblaze was born to rosestorm and cinderfall, mother and father respectively, alongside her brothers ravennose and cootflower. to rosestorm, blackkit was unwanted and unnecessary and unexpected. rosestorm had hoped for all toms, and because ravenkit and cootkit were born first she hoped that her final kit would be a tom like them. but because she wasn't, rosestorm wasn't very happy. cinderfall had tried to reason with her and told her that she's just as capable as ravenkit and cootkit but rosestorm didn't listen, instead only making things worse between her and cinderfall. blackkit was in the middle of everything whenever her parents fought; ravenkit would usually take his mother's side while cootkit would take cinderfall's. sometimes they would switch and cootkit would agree that blackkit was only dragging them down, while ravenkit and cinderfall would say otherwise. what would happen is rosestorm and cinderfall would argue, they'd stop talkking for a few days, then apologize and make up. then something would happen and they would argue again, stop talking again, and the cycle would continue. for years.

rosestorm often pushed blackkit away, both figuratively and literally, and only really nursed ravenkit and cootkit when they were kits. blackkit would sneak out of the nursery to eat scraps of left over prey so that she at least had something to eat so she wasn't completely starving, but... as a young kit, it was hard for her to eat prey at all, she was only about 2 moons old and though she'd be having to start to eat prey anyways as the kits were getting older, because her mother wasnt feeding her she was forced to start early. cinderfall had no idea about this and neither did rosestorm or ravenkit or cootikt, until one night when blackkit began to choke on prey and caused a scene in the clearing where the medicine cat, shadowstone, who was still awake at the time, rushed out and saved her life. the commotion stirred rosestorm awake as well as the kits and cinderfall, which caused yet another argument between the two, which... caused them to wake more cats up... as it was the middle of the night. this wasn't rosestorm's and cinderfall's breaking ponts, however, but blackkit did spend more time with cinderfall than she did with rosestorm after this.

during this time, when blackkit was about 3 moons old, there was another queen in the nursery who just so happened to have a litter of younger kits, a loner who would have stayed a loner if not for her having a one-night stand with a kittypet which ended up with her having kits. she joined mintclan as it was the closest clan she could get to and decided to have and raise her kits there, where they'd be safer. this she-cat was named river, later named riverstream, and she gave birth to two kits : wavekit and rainkit. blackkit became good friends with rainkit instantly, and though she was also friends with wavekit, wavekit was much more shy and reserved than rainkit was. but they made good friends nonetheless.

when blackkit along with ravenkit and cootkit became apprentices, they went on with life as normal. rosestorm and cinderfall seemed to have a very very strained relationship, and so did blackpaw and ravenpaw n cootpaw. they weren't super close. but through their apprenticeship they did train alongside each other a lot of the time and would try to spend time with each other more outside of camp. eventually rainpaw and wavepaw became apprentices as well and blackpaw n rainpaw spent even more time togther. blackpaw and rainpaw were kids, they'd often say silly things like "when im older im gonna be mates with you!" or "when we grow up we're going to be together forever and im going to be mintclan's leader and ill make you my deputy!!!" simple things.

but what wasn't simple about living in mintclan was... what they did to kits with certain pelt colors and eye colors. specificaly a white kit with gray speckles and green eyes.

let me explain,

[misty-leaf]

warrior cats clan generators my beloved ...

anyways! heres eggpaw (left) and fruitpaw! (right). born to cherry, a kittypet, and fogwood, a gustclan warrior. they had a one night stand and after fogwood broke off the relationship he took the kits back to gustclan where they were raised by him and honeypetal, the medicine cat assistant :]

[misty-leaf]

writing ask meme <3

give short descriptions of all your current WIPs.

give short descriptions of all the main characters for [WIP].

what makes you love writing?

what does it take for you to be proud of something you’ve written?

what do you think is the most important part of writing?

are your projects driven more by character or plot?

what books have shaped the way you think about writing the most? why?

which of your own projects have shaped your writing the most? in what way?

what are you best and worst at when writing?

which patterns keep popping up in your projects/characters?

give three songs or images that fit [WIP].

give three songs or images that fit [character].

describe your writing style.

what is your speed when writing?

what do drafting and revision look like for you?

to what extent do you research for your writing?

how do you determine what mood each project has?

how do what you look for in your own writing vs someone else’s coincide? how does your writing influence your reading?

do you plan out your projects? if yes, to what level? how well do you stick to your plans?

where do you begin a WIP? ex: a mood, a scene, a certain character dynamic, etc. does this differ per project?

what are the most important facets of creating a character, to you?

how much of your own self/experiences do you believe pours into your projects? if this differs per project, which projects have the most and least of you?

what do you do to engage with your projects which isn’t actually writing? ex: playlists, pinterest boards, etc. how much do they play a role in the development of your work?

[misty-leaf]

pinekit was born to two warriors named leopardstep and birchwhisper who, despite being a bit old to be having kits when pinekit was born, were still intent on having kits with each other. birchwhisper, his mother, wasn't around much as she was the clan's deputy. leopardstep didn't spend much time in the nursery either as he was a senior warrior and seemed to constantly be busy with patrols. pinekit was nursed and practically raised by an older she-cat named petalclaw. birchwhisper never moved to the nursery to raise pinekit, and leopardstep very rarely interacted with him. pinekit began to desperately want his parents' attention, but it was never given to him.

pinekit, then pinepaw, was apprenticed to a cat named flarepelt, who was a young and frankly inexperienced she-cat. she'd only been made a warrior a few moons ago and clearly didn't have the patience to deal with a new apprentice. this urged pinepaw to begin to train in the dark forest, the only place he'd get actual good training from.

though he did begin a short friendship with a she-cat who was around his age named tansypaw. pinepaw would often go to her to rant and she would politely listen, letting pinepaw take his anger out in a healthy way by venting to her. though aside from that pinepaw really did like the apprentice, and began to like her more than a friend.

eventually, though, despite his difficult apprenticeship he did make it through and became a warriro by the name pinethistle. tansypaw became one alongside him by the name tansydust. pinethistle's own parents said very little to him during his warrior ceremony while tansydust's mother showered her with attention and love and care, making pinethistle all the more resentful of his own parents. every night he'd dream of being in the dark forest and would wake up with scars and marks from training. few would ask about the scars and pinethistle would explain he had been out the night before and was just scratched by brambles and thorns. no big deal.

one day though, the clan leader, mudstar, declared that birchwhisper would be retiring. pinethistle thought nothing of this until mudstar suddenly said she would be heading to the nursery as she was pregnant, once more, with leopardstep's kit. pinethistle was outraged by this and confronted her, asking why she was willing to become a queen when she has her new kit but refused to become one when he was a kit, and she simply responded with the fact that she's older now than she was when he was a kit, and that she needed to be deputy. "you chose to be deputy over caring for your own kit?" pinethistle asked. and birchwhisper simply responded, "who else would have been deputy if i wasn't around? there were no capable warriors at the time besides me and leopardstep. if we had had no deputy, shadowclan would have been in shambles." mudstar then announces that the new deputy of shadowclan is violetgaze.

pinethistle, enraged by birchwhisper, heads to talk to tansydust about it. tansydust tells him it's okay to be angry. they're his parents, they should have payed more attention to him when he was a kit. pinethistle is still angry but he calms down a bit after tansydust says, "they're still you're parents, and they always will be. i'm sure they still care about you. what reason would they have not to?" pinethistle agrees and after a little while he and birchwhipser make up. same with leopardstep. they each have a bit of a rocky relationship but it seems to be getting bettter.

but then... oakkit, birchwhisper and leopardstep's second son, is born. far too early, which not only causes complications for oakkit but for birchwhisper as well. when he's born he's incredibly small and weak and the medicine cats say he may not survive, while birchwhisper is injured and is suffering from sudden anxiety. everyone is worried that oakkit might not make it as he wasn't born at the right time.

but after a while it seemed that oakkit was beginning to get better. not as healthy and strong as he should be for a 3 moon old kit. but he was talking and walking and seeming to be normal now, which was wonderful. one night pinethistle and birchwhisper had a short talk and birch agreed that he could take oakkit out to go explore shadowclan territory, since he'd been begging for days. so he and oakkit set out on their own to search the territory and everything seemed. nice! they were bonding and it was pleasant. though at one point oakkit spotted a piece of prey, a mouse, scuttering underneath a bush out of the corner of his eye. pinethistle wasn't paying attention so oakkit sneaked away to go and quickly catch the prey. as a surprise for his father. and he did!

or... at least... attempted to.

the prey ran off and instead of oakkit giving up chase he ran full speed at the prey, determined to catch it. when pinethistle noticed oakkit was missing he panicked and ran a different way through the forest to attempt to find him. when he couldn't spot the kit pinethistle ran back to shadowclan and organized a quick patrol to search the area for the kit while birchwhisper was frantic. "you lost him!" birchwhisper had yelled. "you lost him! you lost our son! how could you? how could you?!"

violetgaze, the deputy, organized several patrols in search of the kit, to no avail. for several days the kit was missing and gone, birchwhisper was frantic and leopardstep was anxious. pinethistle, during a patrol that took place on the 4th day of oakkit being gone, decided to patrol riverclan's territories one last time, as he felt they had not been thoroughly searched. and they found oakkit, scared and alone and huddled in an abandoned fox den where he had been staying for days. he explained that he saw a piece of prey and wanted to surprise pinethistle by catching it while he wasnt looking, but it ended up running off and he chased it all the way into thunderclan territory, where he got lost and ran towards riverclan and found an abandoned fox's den and slept in it in hopes that a riverclan patrol or anyone would find him. pinethistle said it was good of him to stay in one place and not try to find shadowclan by himself. they took the kit back to shadowclan where birchwhisper held and hugged her kit and. this is where the Problems started.

birchwhisper was happy to have her kit back, yes, but this began the beginning of her protectiveness and paranoia over her kit. if her own son could have been so foolish to lose him and have him be lost in an empty open forest for several days then she didn't trust for him to be around anyone without her or withotu leopardstep. she would not let oakkit out of her sight. confined to the nursery is where he would stay.

pinethistle and birchwhisper's relationship quickly went sour and birchwhisper didn't let him come anywhere near oakkit, not even to give prey or just say hello. so he starts ranting to tansydust again, who's still his friend, but he hasn't felt the need to rant to her often so it comes as a surprise to tansydust. tansydust advised he talk to leopardstep about it but leopardstep was just th same as birchwhisper, feeling guilty for letting his own son go missing as if it was his own fault. and of course birchwhisper didnt help, saying it wasn't hisf ault, but was pinethistle's instead. leopardstep's own paranoia about losing oakkit again caused him and birchwhisper to isolate themselves from everyone, including pinethistle. so when oakkit became an apprentice, his mentor was... birchwhisper. mudstar insisted that leopardstep be his mentor and though birchwhisper allowed leopardstep to be a co-mentor to him, she insisted she herself train oakpaw.

this made pinethistle extremely jealous. when pinethistle became an apprentice his mentor was a lousy young warrior who knew nothing about training an apprentice. but oakpaw, because he was stupid enough to think he could catch a mouse by himself, gets both birchwhisper and technically leopardstep as his mentor(s).

unebelievable.

but this, however, didn't come without its consequences.

[misty-leaf]

i think it rly fnuny when im doing one of those wc oc generator things n it ends up generating a random name that just so happens to be like the name of an oc i have. im doing the clan generator thing wher i generate jus a random clan with random cats n draw them n one of tghe name it made up was heatherheart n iw as like :] omg thas my oc :]

[misty-leaf]

writing ask meme <3

give short descriptions of all your current WIPs.

give short descriptions of all the main characters for [WIP].

what makes you love writing?

what does it take for you to be proud of something you’ve written?

what do you think is the most important part of writing?

are your projects driven more by character or plot?

what books have shaped the way you think about writing the most? why?

which of your own projects have shaped your writing the most? in what way?

what are you best and worst at when writing?

which patterns keep popping up in your projects/characters?

give three songs or images that fit [WIP].

give three songs or images that fit [character].

describe your writing style.

what is your speed when writing?

what do drafting and revision look like for you?

to what extent do you research for your writing?

how do you determine what mood each project has?

how do what you look for in your own writing vs someone else’s coincide? how does your writing influence your reading?

do you plan out your projects? if yes, to what level? how well do you stick to your plans?

where do you begin a WIP? ex: a mood, a scene, a certain character dynamic, etc. does this differ per project?

what are the most important facets of creating a character, to you?

how much of your own self/experiences do you believe pours into your projects? if this differs per project, which projects have the most and least of you?

what do you do to engage with your projects which isn’t actually writing? ex: playlists, pinterest boards, etc. how much do they play a role in the development of your work?

[misty-leaf]

more oc asks

dream: does your OC have a driving dream or goal? what is it? how far would they go to achieve it?

no: how does your OC respond to being refused, rebuffed, or ignored? are they willing to accept ‘no’ as an answer?

danger: what’s one thing that makes your OC angry? what’s their temper like? how do they respond to people who make them mad?

need: has your OC ever experienced desperation? how has it affected them? what do they do when something they need is out of their reach?

run: what’s one relationship or experience your OC has mixed feelings about? are they good at finding joy in sad things, or vice versa?

fire: what’s one thing they’d destroy if they could, and why? would that destruction bring them any satisfaction or catharsis?

blood: what would your OC would sacrifice everything for? what does “everything” entail—their life, or something else? how far would they go?

spring: what does your OC miss most? will they ever be reunited? how would they feel about that?

dna: does your OC believe in fate or destiny? what about soulmates? is this all a coincidence?

fake: has your OC ever been lied to? what was the lie? how has it affected them?

idol: has your OC been in a position where a lot of people were looking down on (or up to) them? how do they handle the pressure of fame? of criticism?

on: what’s the greatest challenge your OC has overcome? how do they feel about it?

mic drop: what accomplishment is your OC proudest of? do they brag about it, or are they more quiet?

proof: what is your OC looking forward to? what best moments in their life are yet to come?