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bonefall · 3 months

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You could play with the dirty part of the canon description by having Slash and his people roll in mud to hide their scent.

Parts of the Code labelling using weapons/traps as dishonorable could have started as agreements made that Slash's people wouldn't keep using their old tactics, maybe forced on Thunder's Clan to keep them from becoming too powerful, if they DID fuse.

I'm more liable to just remove the "dirty" thing entirely honestly; I just think it's so shitty I'd like to nuke it from orbit, you get me? Every single time they want you to hate someone, they make them fat and/or stinky. I'd rather just put that kind of rhetoric in the mouths of cats like Clear Sky and The Wind Runner, a lie to demonize their enemies, not really based on truth.

I think I might take the trap stuff though; that actually fits in nicely with how ThunderClan's the only one that uses spears. I won't have it be code yet, though, that's going to come a lot later. First two commandments of the code are Borders + Mercy, followed by Law 3 when Riverstar dies in some decades.

Also gonna need a name for Slash's new group. Hey, maybe THESE guys can be called Warriors, actually. Warriors of the Forest, like what the first arc used to be called before it was renamed TPB.

#I'm imagining a scene where Thundy's still in his dad's group ''studying'' under him #And while they're in the woods one of their patroller's legs gets caught in a tree snare #And they're dangling and yowling angrily and it's the first 'experience' Thundy has with the WOTF #''Fearsome guerilla warfare techniques'' (that's just how they catch dinner)#Maybe it was Thunder Storm actually and when he recounts this story to them after they're allies the Warriors are deeply amused by it #like ''they're VERY obvious traps actually. How did you fall for it. Are you a Squirrel''#And boom that's the basis of the Gray Squirrel/Red Squirrel story #Man it would be such a dick move for Thunder Storm to get lifted up in the trap like that and Clear scares the shit out of him #With how they're going to come and kill him with all the racket he's making #if he can't get him down quickly #Like just terrifying him while he's up in the trap with lies about how horrible Slash's cats are #letting him dangle for a while and taking his time #ugh that's so clear actually I have to write that now. That's something he'd do #better bones au #BB!DOTC #BB!Slash

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