sparkfur-the-writer

[sparkfur-the-writer]

Guess who's still alive? Me.

Been working on making the characters for my fan clan project thingy. Currently working on making RuffleClan's cats(excluding their leader since her character sheet already exists). So far, I've finished the Med Cats, Mediators, and Elders.

So... Issue, I ended up with an Elder who's name was Redmist(Redscar now). If any of you are Project Moon fans, you understand my dilemma. Generally because, yeah, that's her name alright. That's going to take some time to figure out what Redscar will be like(no, I'm not taking any intentional inspiration from the Project Moon series, it just kinda happened). Anyways, yeah... that's what I've been up to.

[sparkfur-the-writer]

False Prophet AU's Chapter 4

It's a bit shorter than I thought, but here it is. Chapter 4, or Chapter 5 if you have the prologue as Chapter 1. Sorry that it IS shorter, but long story short, Rusty gets told he's stuck learning from Spotted and a Warrior that I have yet to choose/reveal.

[sparkfur-the-writer]

My Rewrite's Second Chapter, I guess.

Many words, usually said. Smudge argues briefly about StarClan being magic, Graypaw questions if Lionheart can fight a hound, and it ends on the note of getting to ThunderClan's Camp. That's all I'll tell you.

[sparkfur-the-writer]

Dumb Ideas from a sleep deprived Sparkfur

So, this is a pair of ideas that popped up together, the second because of the first.

Ok, have y'all heard of Cassette Beasts? If you haven't, check it out. If so, no explanation needed. I've been playing it a bit.

Now, for the first of the pair of ideas that led to the second. So, while I was playing the game and running around Barkley, I had a brief dumb thought of how Rusty would react to New Wirral. Which then became a whole "imagine the Clans on New Wirral, how would they react to something like a Kittelly?" and then just the idea of Rusty and/or Smudge with a cassette player. Which is now more of a "Hey, I kinda really like the setup place of what New Wirral got going on, and like the idea of just dropping the Clans in a place like that, and I like the ascetic of how you record the Monsters.

By the way I like the idea that Rusty would have a Thwackalope tape as his starting one if he were to be in a situation with a where he'd have a cassette player, and if it were a bootleg, I'd say Plant or Beast.

I was thinking about this after midnight by the way. Unrelated to that, I updated two of my things on AO3 and completely forgot to post them here, which I will soon correct.

[sparkfur-the-writer]

Sparkfur's Original Clans Thingy

Don't worry, I'm still alive. Working on all of the other Warrior Cats AUs of mine too(at the same time as each other). But I decided to write more about my five FanClans and other details(like the leaders).

Let's start with MistClan's Leader. Stonestar. While she hates being the Leader of the Clan, she has a difficult time refusing responsibility. She may have plotted an uprising at some point, not to take over MistClan, mind you. But a whole rebellion with a group that weren't cats. Mostly because she disliked how most MistClan cats treated the species of animal in question. Hates her family and has disowned them, especially because her best friend(since childhood) is now a ghost that sticks around her.

VetchClan's own Weaselstar, a fluffy gray she-cat who's both given some of her own lives to save some other cats in her clan before, but also is actively hunting her own parents(who are effectively nameless) down for their crimes. Her mother is a ghost, and yet somehow is still trying to build up resources to try again(and doing well beyond the grave). Her father is a failure at this, despite thinking he was actually the one who had any charisma between her parents. Weaselstar is bi, Stonestar and Stone's best friend are responsible for Weaselstar realizing this, while Stone and her friend were fighting. Weaselstar didn't recognize Stonestar at the time, and thinks she has four different crushes, when it's just on two individuals.

Sagestar leads AshClan, a bit quiet, and one of the two youngest leaders. She has to put up with a group of cats that calls itself a clan trying to start stuff with the other four clans to get to them. This other group calls itself MarshClan, and they're only trying to get the caves because they hear that AshClan has access to the best catnip and other similar items.

Next up, WingClan's Rowanstar. Wanted to be a Medicine Cat, but couldn't at the time because they already had about four of them. She's covered in a number of scars, mainly because she was bad at tending to her own injuries, because she was clumsy and accident prone as an Apprentice. But for some reason, cats assume she's good at fighting. Ended up taking the Deputy position as the old deputy basically went on and on praising her for how much she's helped and saved everyone when they were retiring. And now she's stuck as Leader. The eight previous Leaders' ghosts at least make sure to help her with what she doesn't know.

And so, we FINALLY have RuffleClan, and their Leader is Mintstar. Former Kittypet, possibly a honey badger if you ask other honey badgers, utter menace. Why is she leader? She just is. What's her favorite food? Either leftover fries she steals from Twolegs, or frogs. Warrior Code? Only when it matches her morals. If it's wrong, she will ignore it without a second thought. The second of the two youngest leader. Sagestar and Mintstar are dating. Sage, Mint, and Stone all have eaten French Fries. Mint and Stone connect a lot over their affinities with other animals.

And finally, that hinted at friend of Stonestar's, Lucky. What are they? That would be spoilers, but they sure aren't a cat or badger. Unfortunately for Stony, Lucky's impulse control was his siblings, and he's not at all serious despite being a ghost. He's my favorite so far.

[sparkfur-the-writer]

Sparkfur's Original Fan Clans Writing Project

So, there's five Clans in my thingy, that's just the roll of fate. So I'm going to briefly go over the remaining four of them(and details about them before I go into each one at a time later when I go over potential main characters for their Clan).

RuffleClan, they have an okay-ish connection with this area's collective group of Clan's StarClan, which I'm going to still call StarClan. While they do listen to their StarClan's advice, they aren't blind followers and gladly accept outsiders(after some tests to make sure they're willing and able to handle being in RuffleClan).

WingClan, all of them are taught basic medicine at a young age, each of them usually have one of their clan's past members generally sticking by their sides through life and giving advice when needed. While it's rare for an outsider to join, it's not impossible, but the process is annoying and tends to involve a trial of sorts to convince past WingClan members to give their approval.

AshClan, they usually get called CaveClan or ChasmClan because they live almost entirely underground. They all sleep at different times and have very few fights with the other four clans. Sometimes they trade herbs to the other four that can only be found underground for other things they want. They're really good at seeing in the dark, for reasons that can easily be guessed. No one ever finds them in either afterlife, but they believe that they get reincarnated almost immediately.

And finally, VetchClan, you know, since I already gave a basic summary for MistClan, this is the final one I'm giving a basic description for. They tend to climb and grab birds and squirrels from below, set up small pits to trap prey and foe alike, and refuse to speak the names of evil cats after their crimes are discovered, even if they're alive. They have a strong connection with BurstClan(which as a reminder, replaces the Dark Forest in my stuff and serves as a counterpart to StarClan in my stuff).

MistClan, for frame of reference, have connections to both BurstClan and StarClan and listens to both sides and their traditions equally.

[sparkfur-the-writer]

I'm finally coming to some decisions.

Several things, parts of it being a general update on some names and what I'm calling certain things. You know that FogClan/MistClan thing I keep doing. Yeah, I finally decided on which of those two I'm using for RiverClan's Sibling Clan, it's FogClan. And when it comes to StarClan and the sort of Place of No Stars but not really the Dark Forest, I've finally decided on what I'm calling it in my AUs and rewrite. So, StarClan and BurstClan.

Why BurstClan of all things? In reference to sunburst and starburst. The first because I was thinking about when sunlight briefly peeks through the clouds, and the second is because starbursts(not the candy because I entirely forgot the candy was named that) can refer to a star forming a lot faster and sometimes more intensely than others.

I AM going to be using MistClan as a name for a Clan though, for that more original project I'm going to work on... slowly. It'll take some time to set that all up and everything. And then I'm going to show off the potential cats in the cast that I could follow narratively in each of the Clans(and maybe extra if I feel like I find a cat that I want to follow that at least starts outside of the clans).

I'll... get back to y'all when I determine how many and what the Clans beyond MistClan will be called. Also, kinda realizing I may have been a mistake to put a poll in a read more section. I was very sleep deprived when I did.

[sparkfur-the-writer]

A midday reblog because I posted this at roughly midnight, also, there's a poll underneath that read more segment. I also I moved the read more segment to the correct place.

Sometimes, just sometimes, I wonder why I do something like this to myself.

I know a lot of people like to read and do a thing where they basically make a comic or art based off their own fun or interesting fan clans(including but not limited to a save of ClanGen). And while I haven't made any fan-made clans that are completely and utterly seperate from the canon ones I use in my AUs and Rewrite.

Basically TLDR and long story short, and all that.

Would any of you be interested in seeing me finally attempt and make my own set of fan clans entirely separated from the original structures of canon and divergences from it? Like, clans that have no connection to Thunder, Shadow, River, Wind, Sky, Storm, and Blood(even though that one is more-so a gang) at all?

Pretty much, the idea is that I would make some number of Clans, cats and all that too. And I pretty much planned on telling some separate narrative disconnected from the canon cats from time to time. As something I could use as a kind of break from the frustration of all the time I delve into the cause and effect of changes, the behaviors and personality of the cats in question, and the family trees.

Of course, I would plan to show perspectives from a cat from all of those groups' perspectives. Explore and tamper with ranks, rules, and the afterlife ideas. All that fun stuff. While using a version of the Warrior Cats Adventure Game someone made.

[sparkfur-the-writer]

Sometimes, just sometimes, I wonder why I do something like this to myself.

I know a lot of people like to read and do a thing where they basically make a comic or art based off their own fun or interesting fan clans(including but not limited to a save of ClanGen). And while I haven't made any fan-made clans that are completely and utterly seperate from the canon ones I use in my AUs and Rewrite.

Basically TLDR and long story short, and all that.

Would any of you be interested in seeing me finally attempt and make my own set of fan clans entirely separated from the original structures of canon and divergences from it? Like, clans that have no connection to Thunder, Shadow, River, Wind, Sky, Storm, and Blood(even though that one is more-so a gang) at all?

Pretty much, the idea is that I would make some number of Clans, cats and all that too. And I pretty much planned on telling some separate narrative disconnected from the canon cats from time to time. As something I could use as a kind of break from the frustration of all the time I delve into the cause and effect of changes, the behaviors and personality of the cats in question, and the family trees.

Of course, I would plan to show perspectives from a cat from all of those groups' perspectives. Explore and tamper with ranks, rules, and the afterlife ideas. All that fun stuff. While using a version of the Warrior Cats Adventure Game someone made.

[sparkfur-the-writer]

Siblings Clans news, I'm just incorporating all of that into all of my other stuff, the Sibling Clans AU tag will kinda be old and dead from now on, but I'll leave those posts tagged as the Siblings Clans AU so you can view all of that in case you want to read in on all of those related things.

Some alterations to StormClan of the Sibling Clans AU though, I like the thing the actual StormClan have going on with their ancestors and all that. Mine still care about advancing the medical knowledge for the Medicine Cats/Healers. They're one of the Clans(not the only) that don't really regard the StarClan stuff, they'll acknowledge it, but that's about it, they have their own ancestors they'll talk or interact with. StormClan leaders don't get the nine lives, obviously, but do they really need to have nine lives? The spirit guide thing for all of them and just actual wild cat blood kinda just makes it feel like they don't really need it?

I was also thinking that FogClan/MistClan should still stick to the Dark Forest(whatever I'm going to call them as a counterpart for StarClan) traditions.

As per the usual stuff explained in my previous Sibling Clans stuff, for the cats that normally would be in the Dark Forest, yeah, no. Their punishment is different and they don't get to go to either of those locations, they get a purgatory of wandering as ghosts with no afterlife to wander.

[sparkfur-the-writer]

So... Who was going to tell me about StormClan becoming an actual thing? That's cool, it's clearly a thing now.

Maybe I'll eventually get given a name to use for FogClan/MistClan! One can hope... I can hope. This provides me some more things... and makes me incredibly tempted to just combine my Siblings Clans into my AUs wholesale(Am I using that right? Don't care right now, we have a sixth official Clan, along with BloodClan and WarriorClan being a thing, we're seeing even more of other Clans that have potential to be really interesting for future stuff).

[sparkfur-the-writer]

My AU stuff(and a general description of how I go about writing my other Rusty's)

While this particular part doesn't apply to Sorcery and Circuits, I imagine that if/when RoboRusty realizes that A. StarClan is just a thing that actually exists and isn't some religious thing and B. that not all cats end up in ANY afterlife, he might feel both overwhelmed and questioning on what parts of all those different kitty cat religious stuff is actually true or not, AND on some deeper level terrified to figure out if he'd even be able to join those he cares about in any type of afterlife.

On a lighter note, Princess and Nutmeg are notably stronger than any of the clan cats usually would expect. This is because of having to push or pick up the heavy, difficult to move, metal kitty cat that is RoboRusty.

Onto stuff that's not specifically related to just RoboRusty. I might have Siverstream pick up some of Moss' bad habits of just ignoring the ThunderClan/RiverClan borders(we can guess why). Most likely emboldened even further by the fact that her mom is Bluestar in my AUs, and that Moss already passes that border whenever she feels like.

The Magic Kittypet AU Rusty's(Rusti?) all have their own unique opinions of certain cats compared to the rest, but generally speaking, I feel like all of my Rusty's(Would I use Rusti? Still not sure.) wouldn't be friends with Graystripe. Sorry to all of you fans of Graystripe, but seriously he could easily be a better friend to Rusty. Like, sure, mine might be more defined in my own ways as I write him, but maybe other cats deserve the opportunity more than someone who's kinda a selfish, self-centered jerk to him(and his own clan) way too easily in canon.

Maybe I'll warm up to the idea of the Rusty in each of my AUs being friends with their respective versions of Graypaw/Graystripe, but that really depends on how he shapes up as a character in each of them.

However, I already feel comfortable with Magic Kittypet Rusty and Ravenpaw being friends with Rusty while he explains things like what different groups of plants tend to talk about or details about how Kittypet Magic works, and things like that.

Burning Falsehoods Rusty has issues trying to subconsciously distancing himself and shutting himself away from others, subconsciously afraid that if someone gets too close, that they'll only get hurt or worse. Ravenpaw doesn't seem like the type of cat who can help push him past that issue.

Sorcery and Circuits Rusty is significantly different from both any variant other variant of Magic Kittypet or RoboRusty. He feels like he's not a normal cat anymore, that he's been altered irreversibly on a whim by Twolegs. He wants to give others a chance, but is afraid that he'll somehow mess up being a cat so badly that it would be unsettling.

False Prophet Rusty is afraid of letting others down, including himself. He dislikes the idea of others who are just better than others just because they were born differently. Prefers to interact with a cat who's more down to earth.

[sparkfur-the-writer]

For frame of reference, Cinderpelt is a warrior because she wanted to be one, AND because I think a particular cat would love to learn from Yellowfang and would DEFINITELY advocate for all medicine cats to at least know how to properly defend themselves(and more). The other cat in question is Thornclaw, maybe a weird choice to some. But yes, Yellowfang and the raid on ShadowClan to rescue the kits(Thorns included) certainly is the main reason, I mean, she's the first one to have went out to act, she made the plan, she did a really cool thing and of course he's going to hear about it.

This IS applicable beyond just the Kittypet Dustpaw/Dustpelt au, but since that idea originated from this particular set, I thought that the current tags would work out just fine.

So... this may be a dumb question, but seriously, when was DARKSTRIPE apprenticed?! Like I'm trying to figure out if he'd be apprenticed to Tigerclaw his whole time as an apprentice, partially trained under Tigerclaw before their exile, or trained by a different cat entirely.

[sparkfur-the-writer]

Sparks and Circuits AU

That fox idea, turns out I could actually probably give him a fox friend that COULD stick around for a reasonable amount of chapters, and by chapters, I mean like several books. They could probably be friends for the entirety of RoboRusty and the Clans' time at the Forest Territories.

Of course, unrelated to that, Princess and RoboRusty have a somewhat morbid or dark sense of humor, they developed this because of the MANY failures that the science twolegs had made when it came to making something to contain the questionable substances and their research.

Sandpaw and Silverpaw definitely get used to RoboRusty's sense of humor some point AFTER they become Warriors, but they're definitely planning to add him to the gossip squad regardless. And if I do give Rusty a fox pal, he'll probably TRY to convince them to let the fox join the gossip group, he's obviously outvoted.

[sparkfur-the-writer]

And so, I finally finished the first chapter of the Sorcery and Circuits AU, yeah, so... By the way, Crookedblue. I kind just realized today that all of my AUs(and the rewrite) have it, so I just kinda accepted that fact now.

Also, Sandstorm and Silverstream should've been gossip friends as Apprentices. I'm delivering on my words of that statement.

Hope you all enjoy reading.

[sparkfur-the-writer]

Sorcery and Circuits AU

I'm going to have our magic RoboRusty eat the whole pinecone, at some point. There is no reasoning against this fact, I can say that he wouldn't hesitate to eat an adder or other weird but edible things too.

And while I have mentioned that he some form of random replication of Kittypet Magic, I never mentioned what he actually got. Unfortunately, it's the ability to understand and communicate with foxes. He's either going to NEVER use it, or it won't help out much in the first place, and he was so close to getting plants or ghosts. Like, what kind of cat tries to negotiate with a fox? The real question is how would I ever use it narratively? He's not even going to notice anything's up for so long.

I have to come up with dialogue for foxes if he ever hears one! Actually... it could be pretty funny for him to use terms he learned from a fox, in front of any cats. Just, him briefly talking like a fox. And then I think of Hollyleaf, and we have yet another AU where she'd try to take the fox cub home.

[sparkfur-the-writer]

I have ideas for both the second and third.

Idea one for the second one is using the heat of the sun to charge, or taking a not from polar bear fur.

As for him eating food, he DEFINITELY would try the adder that Ravenpaw caught, and might eat a pinecone or something.

Sorcery and Circuits AU

Guess what, I've already compiled a list of multiple powers the science Twolegs already figured out how to give the RoboCat, tested, and figured out. We've got invisibility based off of bending light around their body, we've got teleportation in multiple ways, fire, ice and wind control already covered too. There's more they never identified, so they might try to test an old solution instead of trying to make a new one.

But I have do have a list of potential ideas for what they would try to make and test too. Personal time dilation bubble, light/darkness kind of magic control, maybe the empathy thing or some kind of healing ability. But they could accidentally instead discover communication with a shrew or fox, or maybe plant growth.

He's built to really think he's a cat in this AU though, so, should I keep the standard solar powered style or grant him the ability to eat because these scientists are dedicated to making a something similar to his weird heart which they use for the mystery solutions that the Science Twolegs make.