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We know cats keep track of their blood related relatives more than outsiders, such as aunts and uncles and view them as family. Do they also view the mates of those aunts and uncles as family as well? Like would Firestar view Frostfur as an aunt because she was mates with Lionface, or she a clanmate who just happened to be the mate of his late uncle in his eyes?

Interesting question! I think, within the Clans, at least, in-laws are more distant with each other. Frostfur doesn't see Goldenflower as her sister-in-law, she just sees her as the matriarch who happens to be related to Frostfur's mate. Families are present and important, but a Clan cat would tend to consider a "complete" family to be a litter of kits and their parents, with the parents' siblings having their own "complete" families separate from each other. Those two groups are connected by blood, but they aren't required or compelled to have the same closeness that a human would with their cousins and nieces and nephews. They can, of course, they're just usually more friendly with each other in the way Clanmates are than family members.

I will note here that this is not a universal constant. Oakclaw would have been very close to his niece's kits had he lived long enough for them to become apprentices, for example. I think it's largely dependent on how much of the family is left. If you have both parents with their kits, they're a complete unit. But in cases like Ravenwing, where all he has left is his grandfather and uncle, the unit would be comprised of those three (ideally, if Darkstripe wasn't a twerp). This would include in-laws, but more rarely.

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How far back does the matriarch track lineages? Is it just to grandparent or even further? Also, are second or third cousins allowed to have kits together or is it if they share a common ancestor then it's a no-go?

The generation above the elders is about the cutoff point for relevant information to a matriarch's duty. So for modern Thunderclan, the next matriarch would be learning Halftail and Leopardfoot were siblings, but not who their own cousins were. Third cousins would be considered distant enough to have kittens (especially if they can't remember that far back), second cousins would generally be pushing it but might be encouraged in very rare circumstances (but if it happens, the matriarch makes a note to encourage any daughters produced from that litter to find an outsider sire), and the Clans are uniquely knowledgeable of the potential dangers in letting cousins produce litters.

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For half-clan kits, do the matriarchs get together to go over the lineage of the father's family (or the mother's in a rare instance where she gives the kits to the father)? Like, say Bluestar gave her kits to Oakclaw to raise; would Goldenflower then go to RiverClan's matriarch and tell them that there's a history of mental illness in Bluestar's family and so the kits probably shouldn't be paired up with a cat who has a similar history? Or is it a sort of "this is no longer my problem" kind of thing?

Rarely, if ever, does this happen. Given that cats don't really get marked out of the gene pool if the matriarch can help it, and it's poor manners to tell another matriarch what to do with kits that aren't your business (and especially if she's your senior, good god above...), once a kit of any origin enters a Clan, that kit is that Clan's business. Granted, a good matriarch is concerned with every kit, not just the ones in her territory, but RiverClan's kits, halfClan or not, are RiverClan's kits. I think the only time a matriarch would go to another Clan and tell her fellow what to do is if one of the kits is actively disabled, and that would just be to share how the original Clan handled the issue.

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sorry if this is a weird question, but would there be any issues if, say, a matriarch realized they were a jack or a trans tom? they would still be able to bear kits, and be the same cat as before, but would there be some cultural awkwardness for them to deal with?

Trans toms are a weird topic for the nursery. Most of the time, they can squeak by since they still smell like a gestating cat, and the queens won't care too much as long as that scent's there. Occasionally, though, even hearing "he" or having the knowledge of their preferred gender can spike up nervousness, especially in particularly young and already-anxious mollies, and they'll freak out until the trans tom is removed from the nursery, no matter if he's the matriarch or another queen.

Jacks tend to be ambiguously okay, but they can still have some issues here and there. It really depends on how scrambled another queen's mind is that she makes a through-line of "not identifying as a molly -> not a molly, therefore possibly a tom -> potential danger to my kits -> definitely a danger to my kits".

I should note that this does not apply to the rest of the Clans' community. Cats are still respected for their genders and orientations. It's just that, even with the instinct bred out, queens instinctively see every cat that could be considered a tom as someone who will murder their kits since they aren't his. This instinct exists still in many other feline communities, so the fear isn't completely random.

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are all matriarchs named with the flower suffix?

No, but it's extremely common. -flower's definition - "A nurturing, motherly molly who is very skilled with raising kits" - fits the ideal matriarch perfectly, so it's weirder to see one without -flower. Poppytail of ShadowClan is one of those rare matriarchs, and it causes her a lot of internal self-doubt (among other things).

Bear in mind that a -flower doesn't necessarily have to care about other queens, or their kits (though it's very unlikely she won't), or family lines or genetics or matchmaking. Those are things a matriarch deals with. It's not a job for every single queen that goes into the nursery. A -flower can solely be interested in raising her own kits, and bollocks to all the rest of that nonsense. The only things expected of a -flower are that she will one day have kits of her own, and that she will be an excellent mother to them.

Now, before anyone asks: yes, a -flower can keep her name if it's later found out she's infertile. However, a good deal of them don't. The reminder is too painful. Some of them become matriarchs to help ease that sorrow a little, and some of them were matriarchs already. Whatever helps them.

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So I was rereading Burning Hearts (feeling a bit like a tiger pacing in a cage waiting for the next few chapters, lmao), and I realized something. Fireheart mentioned that Goldenflower's mentor called her kits 'honeymouse'. Given that Goldenflower's mentor was Snowflower, does that mean Whitecloud was ThunderClan's previous honeymouse? If so- well first, that's heartmelting- but second, how did he feel hearing Goldenflower start calling Fireheart that? I'd imagine it'd be odd, at least?

"Honeymouse" is ThunderClan's verbal heirloom passed down through the generations of matriarchs, who learn it from their mentors and teach it to their apprentices. God knows how old it is. The point is that it's been a thing for forever, so it doesn't surprise anyone when someone else is given the title of "honeymouse", even if the listener was called it first. It's expected that a ThunderClan matriarch will use it eventually, whether on her own kits or the litters she's taking care of.

That is to say, yes, Whitecloud was the previous "honeymouse", but he didn't trip up at all hearing Goldenflower call Fireheart that. She unofficially took him in pretty quickly when he came to ThunderClan; she was bound to use it on him. It's just funny how quickly that came about.