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🌼 Warrior Cats Flower Asks 🌼

Anemone: Who’s your favorite character? Why?

Aster: Who’s your least favorite character? Why?

Bee Balm: What is your favorite Super Edition or novella?

Begonia: Which book cover is your favorite?

Bluebell: Do you ship any rare-pairs?

Chrysanthemum: If you were a cat, what would your clan and rank be?

Daffodil: When did you first start reading the series?

Dahlia: Has any death scene actually made you cry? What was it?

Daisy: Who is your favorite queen?

Gardenia: Do you think you’ll ever leave the fandom?

Hydrangea: Who is your favorite villain?

Iris: Name your top three favorite ships and your top three least favorite ships.

Laurel: If you could write the books, what changes would you make?

Lilac: What is the craziest ship you’ve seen in fanfictions or art?

Lily: If your five favorite characters were foods, what would they be?

Marigold: Do you have any OT3s?

Morning Glory: Do you ever look at or are part of BlogClan (Kate Cary’s blog)?

Orchid: What do you think was the biggest mistake in the series?

Petunia: Which arc is your favorite? Which is your least favorite?

Poppy: What’s one of your biggest headcanons for the series?

Rose: Do you prefer “traditional naming” or creative naming?

Snapdragon: Make up a romance plot for (insert ship).

Sunflower: What’s a popular headcanon that you don’t agree with?

Tulip: What color do you think Dovewing’s eyes are?

Violet: What do you think is the worst trope in the series?

Wisteria: Are you looking forward to the Warriors movie?

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What did you use for the "All about the _ Order" screenshot post? Is it an app?

It's the built-in notes app on my phone, 'Samsung Notes'. :]

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HIIIIIIII TIS THE SAME PERSON THAT DREW ABOUT THE PAWS, I DID AN UPDATE AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY

EXCELLENT UPDATE

Initial thoughts, previous iteration

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I really like the au idea of Sparkpelt and Alderheart being FireSand kittens.

Like Sandstorm finding out she’s pregnant after the great battle.

Her reflecting on the bitter irony, she wanted more kittens with her mate, but not like this.

Squirrelflight and Leafpool basically kinda hover over their mother cuz she’s old and just like them still in grief. Daisy is great help.

Add more pressure on Sparkpelt’s shoulders :)

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Warrior Bites: Dietary Needs

[ID: A fish carcass, bird carcass, and mouse carcass on a stone slab.]

Are you wondering how much prey a Clan needs a day? What they should eat to stay healthy? Why food processing is useful at all? All the answers to these questions and more, contained within a general guide to dietary needs for your Warrior Cats!

As an obligate carnivore, a cat's entire diet revolves around processing meat. More specifically, the ideal diet should be 55% protein, 45% fats, about 1% to 3% carbs, with the remainder being various micro-nutrients. You can expect the average 10-pound warrior to need 350 calories per day, about 3.5 mice on average.

I've also included a section talking about obesity, which dives into how canon's depiction of it is both harmful fatphobia and wouldn't make sense from a cat perspective. It also discusses obesity in realistic cats; and how you're free to choose the realism on that aspect.

Below the cut;

Caloric Intake

Nutrition

Food Processing

On Obesity

Caloric Intake

The general rule for how much a cat needs to eat is that an active, non-neutered tom will need about 35 calories per pound of their own body weight, per day, just to remain the weight they are.

That means that the average warrior, assuming they are 10 pounds, will need 350 calories a day.

Kittens, pregnant and nursing cats, and large warriors will need to eat more than average. Neutered cats, elders, and clerics/medcats will eat less. There are calculators online for determining how much an individual will need, but you can estimate how much an entire Clan will need just by taking 350 and multiplying it by population!

Assuming the average population is about 30 cats, that's 10,500 calories to feed a Clan for a day! To put that in perspective, that many calories would feed 7 large humans. If you felt like fighting a group of angry cats to steal their day's worth of mice, I mean.

Generally speaking, land prey will have a caloric value around 5 calories per gram. Aquatic prey is significantly lower, around 4 calories per gram. Birds will be just below 6 calories per gram. To find out how many cats a piece of prey will feed, or how many pieces a cat will need that day, take the category and multiply by the prey's weight in grams.

So for example, the average house mouse is 20 grams and it is land prey, meaning its caloric value is around 100 calories! A warrior will need 3 and a half mice a day to stay healthy, and a Clan will need 105 mice daily to support 30 cats.

105 mice may seem like a lot, but remember that a wild rabbit is 1,800 grams on average which means 9,000 calories. 2 big pieces of prey will feed the whole Clan, with leftovers.

Those estimates include every part of the animal. Cats eat organs, small bones, and even skin. Skeletal muscle, or "fillets" in reference to fish, is so low in calories that it's typically somewhere between 1 kcal to 1.5 kcal per gram. That's what you're buying in the supermarket; but wild animals don't usually cut their food into choice strips.

(unless you're writing a clan that does food processing of course!)

QUICK FACTS

Average warrior will need 35 calories per pound of weight

10 pound warrior needs 350 calories a day

350 x 30 cats = 10,500 calories to feed a Clan for a single day

Birds provide the most calories per gram, land prey the middlemost, and aquatic prey the least.

Calculate calories in prey by taking the weight, converting to grams, and multiply by 4, 5, or 6 depending on broad category.

If you're having trouble feeding a Clan on small animals, look at bigger prey like rabbits and trout.

Muscle fillets are inferior to organ meats and have a much lower caloric value.

Nutrition

Not all food is the same. The more important thing to consider about any particular meal is NOT its calorie count, but its nutritional value. This is especially important to cats because protein is not stored as fat. If the body has no immediate use for it, it's flushed out.

Since cats should not eat more than 3% carbs, ALL of their fat stores will need to come from fat.

The ideal piece of meat would be at least 55% protein and 45% fat. Every individual species will have a different ratio, and more importantly, individual cuts will have a different ratio.

Skeletal muscle has a higher ratio of protein to fat. Organ meat, also sometimes called "offal," will have a more balanced ratio. That said, nearly all meat skews towards protein. PURE fat is very hard to find on the sorts of animals Clan cats hunt, and must be carefully divided, collected, or processed to make sure all warriors are getting proper nutrition.

I'll be going more in-depth with dietary fat at some other time, as this guide is meant to just be an overview! Just know that some Clans will need to eat MORE food to stay healthy because of this.

Cats need more than the "macronutrients" to stay healthy. They can't JUST rely on the juiciest cuts of meat to keep their health intact, they also need several vitamins and minerals to support their body functions, and avoid getting a deficiency.

Here's some of the important micronutrients, where to get them, and what happens they don't get enough;

Vitamin A: Livers, mealworms, eggs This is one of the most important micronutrients in a cat's body, used for practically everything. Without this, their coats will grow dull, and their joints stiff, and they'll start to go night-blind. In a severe state, they'll start to lose the ability to heal skin lacerations and die. Pregnant cats and kittens need more of this than usual, but it IS also possible to get vitamin A poisoning from getting too concentrated of a dose.

Calcium: Bones, eggs With a calcium deficiency, the warrior will feel stiff and sore, and experience painful muscle spasms. Most cats will simply crunch the bones of small prey and never have to worry about this, but if your cats cook or scavenge, they have to be told to NEVER eat the bones of a roasted bird. Because bird bones are hollow and cooking makes them brittle, they can splinter and cause fatal internal bleeding.

Thiamine: Trout, boar meat, mealworms, eggs Called a Fish Seizure because raw carp and raw bream contains thiaminase, which will destroy thiamine in the body. Lack of thiamine will cause neurological issues, such as the aforementioned seizures, general confusion, memory loss, and muscle weakness. This can be counterracted by eating trout, which is so high in thiamine that there's a theory that carp evolved it specifically to eat salmonids better.

Potassium: Trout, boar meat, mealworms, eggs As cats get older, they begin needing a lot more potassium for their bodies. It's a very common micronutrient found in most meat, but elders should get the first bite of special snacks "out of respect" which helps keep their potassium level up. Without it, they become very weak.

i feel like that evil struthiomimus from land before time with how many times i typed eggs

QUICK FACTS

The ideal ratio of a cut of meat is 55% protein 45% fat

Organ meat > Muscle meat

Micronutrients are important

But micronutrients can also cause poisoning if, somehow, they're too concentrated (very hard to come across concentrated micronutrients without the science of chemistry tho. Like if a cat swallowed a vitamin gummy.)

Food Processing

"Food Processing" is when you do something to your food before you eat it. Just a little bit of care is going to go a LONG WAY when it comes to health of the warrior.

Cats that eat raw meat the way canon warriors do are almost guaranteed to get worms. Roundworms, hookworms, and tapeworms are all passed through the infected tissue of rodent prey, and in fish, roundworms, tapeworms, and flukes can pass through raw meat.

All parasites do something a little different, but most digestive worms aren't fatal unless the cat is sick or a kitten. However, nearly ALL of them screw around with digestion, making the cat need to eat more just to stay healthy, or causing stomach irritation. Some of them can even pass in milk, infecting a suckler's nursing kits.

The easiest way to reduce this kind of infection is simply to slice the prey open from mouth-to-butt, Tigerstar-style, and hook and lift out the GI tract before eating. There's nothing in that worth eating raw anyway. It can just be discarded, or cleaned out and used to case tiny sausages! But it's only a reduction; there's still a risk of catching worms from raw meat.

There's also always the possibility of getting salmonella poisoning.

Many believe that cats are immune to this, but that's not true! Carnivores just have a shorter GI tract than omnivores and herbivores, so salmonella spends less time in their gut and ergo has less chance of causing an infection. It still happens, ESPECIALLY when cats hunt songbirds.

Nothing can be done about salmonella in raw meat, besides eating it as quickly as possible. It's innate to the bodies of birds and reptiles, and usually found on raw eggs too.

Some animals are small enough to be dried and carried around as rations, such as minnows or grasshoppers. Others could be sliced up into strips, and marinated in spices like valerian or catmint for an extra boost of energy. It could also be worthwhile to cut the pelt off a particularly soft animal, like a mole, to dry and keep as bedding material.

All of the above examples of food processing are possible without fire, but if your cats DO have fire, they will have a DRASTIC increase to the quality of their health.

Such as;

Cooking will almost completely eliminate those foodborne parasites. Their eggs don't survive extreme heat.

No more salmonella poisoning! GONE! Cooking is the only way to eliminate this!

It can increase caloric absorption from anywhere between 20% to 50%. Our example warrior who needed 3.5 mice a day could suddenly need one less mouse; and even a meager 20% drop in how much the entire Clan needs saves 2,400 calories a day. 24 whole mice!

I HAVE TO STRESS HOW BIG THAT IS. You save anywhere from 2/10 to 5/10 successful kills.

Thiaminase is destroyed by cooking, making bream and carp healthier and reducing "fish seizures."

It allows for fats to be processed and stored as tallow, lard, and oil, so it can be added to other dishes to make them both healthier and tastier.

Most food preservation requires fire in some way; by heating, jellying, boiling, etc. The only other two ways to reliably store food is by having access to a ton of salt, which is hard for most non-coastal clans to acquire, or vinegar, which is so acidic it's a notorious cat-repellent.

While cooking can also destroy some micronutrients, its benefits FAR outweigh any potential "strengths" of raw food. Destroying micronutrients is also not always a bad thing; as TOO MANY micronutrients can cause poisoning. Fire-using Clans will be more likely to "seek" micronutrients than non-fire Clans as a result, though they probably won't recognize the science behind a hankering!

QUICK FACTS

Worms. Basically unavoidable if your cat's eating like a canon warrior.

Some parasites can spread through milk.

Slicing and lifting out the GI tract can significantly reduce the chance of catching worms.

Salmonella can only be eliminated with cooking

Cooking will drastically increase the quality of a Clan's health, if your cats are advanced enough to figure out fire.

Warriors need to hunt a LOT less prey, and can store that prey, if they have fire.

Fire-using Clans will intentionally try to put more types of food in their diets and get 'cravings.'

On Obesity

Warrior Cats is not a realistic series. The boundary that any particular writer draws between humans and warrior cats is completely arbitrary. The series itself follows no sense of realistic genetics, regularly shows the cats using herbs that would poison them, and gives the characters human-centric morals like monogamy and paternal involvement.

So when it comes to being fatness in your project, please keep that in mind. You do not need too follow realistic cat weight distribution, if that's not what your project about. That said, let me tell you about humans vs cats in this department!

Humans have a massive diversity of weight distribution, with varied genetic predispositions to gaining and losing weight. The shame, bullying, and medical discrimination that comes with fatphobia is a LOT more harmful than being fat itself, and the causes of the "obesity crisis" are ridiculously more complicated than "ppl r snorking 2 much food".

Realistic cats aren't the same way.

When REAL cats are fat, that's VERY bad. It's a sign they are being fed the wrong things by humans, or live somewhere that they are able to eat what they shouldn't. They just don't have that same diversity in fat distribution that humans do. Because of how adipose tissue secretes certain hormones, feline obesity is like a chronic inflammatory disease which can cause arthritis, bladder stones, hepatic lipidosis, and more.

But with that in mind, fatness should be perceived very differently even in the most realistic settings. In comparison to humans;

It is harder for a wild cat to put on weight. Most of what they're eating is raw protein, actively trying to fill the 45% of daily fat intake they need to stay healthy. Protein isn't stored as fat, it's immediately discarded by the body if there is no use for it. A cat would need to be taking an INSANE amount of prey to start becoming dangerously overweight. Housecats are often fed human food, which has carbohydrates. Low-quality cat food will also use carbs as filler. High carb food is VERY bad for them, since they're only supposed to have 3% carbs at most. This is one of the reasons why it's easy for pet cats to become overweight.

Realistic cats don't look start looking overweight until they are significantly obese. Most of their fat is stored around their ribs and internally, unlike humans with our thick hips and round bellies, and they are covered in a naturally sagging pelt of fur. It's not as obvious with them. Visually, weight will be noticed best from a bird's eye perspective, unlike humans where it's apparent at every angle.

Putting on the fat that CAN be acquired is ridiculously important 3.5 raw, whole mice a day, per cat, are needed to fill their basic dietary requirements. There are going to be days or months especially during winter where they might be below that number, and that stored fat is going to be lifesaving. Bulking up is actually a big deal!

So not only is how canon treats overweight characters full of malice, it's full of lazy malice. It makes no sense from a realistic standpoint for wild cats to develop an association between fatness and greed or laziness. It's important, hard work for them to acquire it!

Though the Clans are notoriously xenophobic and kittypets are more likely to be overweight, it still doesn't make sense from a realistic cat perspective to be fatphobic in the same way as canon. It's more likely they'd see fat housecats as having "unearned" weight given to them by humans, like they're cheating, or they might be disdainful of how much junk food they eat, or pitiable because it's a sign of a bad twoleg... or just "sour grapes" variety jealousy ☕.

Bottom line is that there's a LOT you can do here which is better than canon's vicious bullying. The writers just lifted British cultural disdain for fat people and put it into the books. They simply did not think it through.

So please do what they didn't, and just put a little extra thought into how your project is going to view fatness! Consider if fatphobia is even a theme you need in your text.

As stated, you do not even have to write weight in your cats as being realistic in this way! I encourage you to pick and choose what's most fun and fitting for your own work. I personally give my characters a more human weight distribution, simply because I want to spite canon and be more body-positive. I am a fat people and you can take Bumble's big chunky bod from my cold, dead hands.

You can choose to make your work however you'd like, and now with this guide, you can have an easy reference for what your cats should eat! Thank you, StarClan, for this prey <3

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Oh? What's this on the horizon?

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The Prophecies Begin

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Forest of Secrets

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The Darkest Hour

The New Prophecy

Midnight

Moonrise

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Twilight

Sunset

Power of Three

The Sight

Dark River

Outcast

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Long Shadows

Sunrise

Omen of the Stars

The Fourth Apprentice

Fading Echoes

Night Whispers

Sign of the Moon

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A Forest Divided

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Ravenpaw’s Farewell

Legends of the Clans

Manga

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Graystripe’s Adventure: Warrior’s Refuge

Graystripe’s Adventure: Warrior’s Return

The Rise of Scourge

Ravenpaw’s Path: Shattered Peace

Ravenpaw’s Path: A Clan in Need

Ravenpaw’s Path: The Heart of a Warrior

SkyClan and the Stranger: The Rescue

SkyClan and the Stranger: Beyond the Code

SkyClan and the Stranger: After the Flood

Tigerstar and Sasha: Escape from the Forest

Tigerstar and Sasha: Return to the Clans

Guides

Secrets of the Clans

Cats of the Clans

Code of the Clans

Battles of the Clans

The Ultimate Guide

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Very excited to see what you come up with! What are some things you hope to add with this rewrite, character and narrative wise?

(signed, another person with a warriors rewrite)

Hi, hello! I'm so sorry this took so long, I honestly wasn't sure how to answer this because I haven't really worked on that part yet?

At first, I wanted to work on the family tree since I wanted to make a full family tree, like, from Dawn of the Clans all the way to A Starless Clan.

I realized that it was a bad idea to start off with the family tree. I'm currently working on Dawn of The Clans, which is one of the only arcs I've never read, so I've been trying to go to the public library near me but I haven't had time too or they were closed, so unfortunately I don't have much to tell you.

( EDIT: I FORGOT THAT I DO HAVE SOME IDEAS FOR THE PROPHECIES BEGIN-

I want to give BloodClan more build up and history, I also want to make mentions of the shrinking territories. I want it to be hinted at that the clans territories have been getting smaller and smaller over the years to create some build-up to The Great Journey! Im also adding more ranks, which is what I'll be working on next! I do have a few other ideas here and there, but for now, that's all! )

What I can give you, however, is the Arc list that I made! It's under the cut, sorry I couldn't really answer your question.

(ALSO! I've seen your work before! From what I can remember, it was very interesting! You're doing great! :D )

This list is prone to change, but this is what it is for now, I will probably have to go reread all these books, though.

Arc 1

Dawn of the Clans

1. The Sun Trail

2. Thunder Rising

3. The First Battle

4. The Forest Divided(?) (A Blazing Star & A Forest Divided)

5. Path of Stars

Arc 2

The Prophecies Begin

1. Into The Wild (Into the Wild & Fire & Ice)

2. Forest of Secrets

3. Rising Storm

4. A Dangerous Path

5. The Darkest Hour

Arc 3

Where the Sun Drowns

1. Moonrise (Events of Midnight)

2. Midnight (Events of Moonrise and Dawn)

3. Starlight

4. Twilight

5. Sunset (Sunset & the brith of the three]

Arc 4

Power Beyond The Stars

1. Shadows in The River (The Sight, Dark River & Eclipse)

2. Shaded Veil (Long Shadows, Sunrise,

& The Fourth Apprentice)

3. Fading Whispers (Fading Echos & Night Whispers)

4. Sign of The Forgotten (Sign of The Moon & The Forgotten Warrior)

5. The Last Hope

Arc 5

Specters From The Haze

1. ?? (Apprentice's Quest, Thunder & Shadow)

2. The Scorched Sky (Shattered Sky, Darkest Night, River of Fire)

3. The Silent Stars(?) (The Raging Storm, Lost Stars & Silent Thaw)

4. The Place of No Stars (Veil of Shadows, Darkness Within & former half 'The Place of No Stars')

5. The Light in The Mist (The Place of No Stars & A Light in the Mist )

Arc 7

A Starless Clan /Need to read this arc still/

1. River

2. Shadow (Events of both Sky & Shadow)

3. Sky (Events of Thunder)

4. Thunder (Events of Wind)

5. Wind (Events of the 6th book, probably Star)

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WELCOME TO NEON'S WC REWRITE!

Hello, Hello there! Welcome to my page, My name is Neon, a very tired enby who is obsessed with the battle-cats series.

(Pss, Here's my main) @neon-lights-stuff

This is a Warrior Cats Rewrite, or reimagination? Both work. Any-who, this Rewrite is inspired by a handful of other rewrites made by lovely people!

@bonefall

@cryptidclaw

@notwarriorswiki

@fatal-rewrites-warriors

They are all very cool, so check them out if you haven't before! :D

Updates will probably be slow since I have school and have random spikes of energy and motivation, but I'll try my best to update!

This rewrite is mostly for fun but also aims to 'fix', for lack of a better word, many aspects of the worldbuilding and storytelling of warriors as a whole.

The following is a list of things that I plan on reworking(sorry for any bad grammar or explanations);

1. Clan Culture & Individualism

The clans don't really have much going for them culture wise, and in Canon there are barely any differences between the clans, so I aim to add more to the culture of the clans and make each clan more unique.

2. Realism

We know that the clans territory is vaguely based on England, but it's not very clear, so I aim to make the territories more realistic to England. I also plan to make the cats more genetically realistic (with some creative design liberties).

3. Growth & Interactions

I plan to make the clans much bigger, in Canon the clans are pretty small, at least, to me they are, so I plan to add more characters to fill in the clan and to give the characters actual friend groups and relations with all the other cats in their clan and outside their clan.

4. Family Trees

The Canon family Trees are a tangled mess where no matter what you do pretty much every character is related to each other, there's countless dead family lines and so so much inbreeding, plus I want to make full Family Trees from the dawn of the clans all the way to current day clans. On top of this, I also need to put the new characters into the Family Trees.

5. Continuity

Make things make sense, give every character, including background characters, set personalities that evolve with the story in a way that makes sense. Make sure that the story continues on in not only a way that makes sense

6. Rules of Cool

Keeping it fun! I want to keep all the things that make this series fun and cool. So realism will sometimes be overruled by the rule of cool.

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Family Trees!; WIP

MASTERPOSTS

Culture!; WIP

Plants!; WIP

Herb guide!; WIP

Animals!; WIP

History Era's!; WIP

Arc Overviews!; WIP

More to be added(Probably)!