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#(patch is just. very quick to anger and extremely defensive. he ends up being shellheart's dad)
theghostshrimp · 2 months
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i've got a dark mapleshade au (in tags)
#ok to reblog#wc#so in this au the things she told crookedstar that she went through was a complete lie#in this au she wasn't with appledusk for long and really she was nothing but a side chick to him#she grew obsessed with him regardless and this was all while he was with reedshine#reedshine becomes pregnant and appledusk just leaves mapleshade#mapleshade stalks both appledusk and reedshine while her rage just builds until one day she happens to catch reed#alone while visiting a fallen clan member's grave falling into labor#maple corners her and attacks her#dragging her away as she's in labor before giving her a violent c section once she's away from both riverclan and thunderclan camp#she takes the kits while leaving reedshine dead#the clan is in horror when they find her#mapleshade is able to lie and say they're birchface's kits and thunderclan believes her#moons later when all the kits are apprentices appledusk immediately recognizes that the kits awfully look a lot like his and reedshine's#when a riverclan patrol (including darkstar) decides to go to thunderclan camp and confront oakstar about it#oakstar exiles mapleshade while riverclan takes the apprentices#in yet another rage mapleshade screeches while trying to pounce the three apprentices in an attempt to kill them#(in a very 'if i can't have them no one will' sort of mindset)#before she count reach any of them appledusk attacks her when she lands the killing blow on him and while apple dies almost immediately#mapleshade runs off to die just like in canon#not even being far from the forest when she collapses from bloodloss#the 3 kits are all traumatized growing up together in a clan they essentially have no family in#patchpaw (patchdusk) grows up to be a strict and violent cat#petalpaw (petalshine) grows up to be a quiet and insecure cat#larchpaw (larchpelt) grows up to be an ignorant and secretive cat#(he just straight up pretends the whole thing never happened)#(petal is very shy and awkward having no confidence in herself)#(patch is just. very quick to anger and extremely defensive. he ends up being shellheart's dad)
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